Memphis
About Memphis
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 28th-most populous in the US. Memphis is the largest city proper on the Mississippi River and anchors the Memphis area that includes parts of Arkansas and Mississippi, the 45th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. with 1.34 million residents.
On the show — 11 mentions total
In 1993, there was a big scare in Memphis, because there was a lot of faxes going around about gangs who would drive around with the lights off in their cars, and if anyone flashed them to tell them their lights were off, then they would chase them, stop them, and kill.
from 508: No Such Thing As A Dragon Walk, 2023-12-07 at 00:26:39 · read transcript
Other times Memphis came up
No, I do see that, but I would have thought that the world record would be just a little bit more than I could possibly imagine, but this is a lot more than I could possibly imagine. Everything clowns. Have you guys heard of the Great Corncob Fire of 1958? Oh, the 1950s. Oh, yeah, of course. This was in Memphis, Tennessee. The Quakers, Quaker Oats, the firm, they used corn cobs at the time to get a particular chemical. They had a stockpile at their plant of 70,000 tons of corn cobs. Okay. Imagine the size of that.
No Such Thing As The iSausage, 2020-06-22 · listen
Right do you keep it on a string? Because you're sounding a bit like Theodore Albrecht. They got big in Germany because they started looking at the models of what was happening in America with grocery stores and so there was a Memphis grocer that was called Pigley Wiggly. It was Pigley Wiggly, Hogley Wogley and Handy Andy was the last one. These were all of the like the things going on in America at the time and yeah so they became Pigley Wiggly was famously the first place that would let you take things off the shelves and put them in your trolley and then pay for them afterwards.
479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-19 · listen
What? That's just extra TV in case you were bored of the film, I guess. That's amazing. There was one in Memphis where you could get your laundry done when you went to the drive-in. You'd turn up with your laundry, hand it in and then they'd clean it for you and as you left, you'd pick it up. That's so good. It's almost like the films just weren't the main attraction.
334: No Such Thing As A Babysitter's Trade Union, 2020-08-14 · listen
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508: No Such Thing As A Dragon Walk put 2 places on the map.
- Abney Park · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 35.1461, -90.0519