Papua
About Papua
Papua, formerly known as West Irian and Irian Jaya, is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west. It roughly follows the borders of the Papuan customary region of Mamta – Saireri and is divided into eight regencies and one city (kota), the latter being the provincial capital of Jayapura.
On the show — 8 mentions total
The Yipno language in Papua is where everything is conceived directionally in terms of uphill and downhill. If you're talking about where the door is, you'll say, oh, it's just uphill, or if I was saying, whereabouts is James now, oh, he's just downhill.
from 278: No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid, 2019-07-19 at 00:21:45 · read transcript
Other times Papua came up
He's a, I really like Will Millard, I realise, of course, for researching this. He's lots of very cool stuff, but yeah, he went to Papua and lived with those people for a few months, I think, but he had an extremely bad time. He seems to have very bad luck and he's actually got PTSD now from being basically doing all these documentaries in these extreme places, but he said, at one of the points in Papua, he said, I made a serious error of judgement that saw me not on an ancient inter-tribal trade route, but trapped deep within a 400-mile square of uninhabited snake infested and extremely hostile forest.
234: No Such Thing As The Lemur Police, 2018-09-14 · listen
He's a... I really like Will Millard, I realised, in the course of researching this. He saw lots of very cool stuff. Yeah, he went to Papua and lived with those people for a few months, I think. He had an extremely bad time. He seems to have very bad luck. He's actually got PTSD now from basically doing all these documentaries in these extreme places.
No Such Thing As The Lemur Police, 2018-09-14 · listen
Just to go on this journalistic expedit. She was like a feminist reporter of a crazy sort of Louis Theroux of her time. But you won't see Louis chopping his dick off to get into this mangrove, will you? I don't know, Louie, if you're listening. I'm in a ladies mangrove in Papua. Hi, I'm Louis, Louise, Louise, Louise. I'm from the BBC. You're okay. It is time for fact number three, and that is Andy.
No Such Thing As A Computer Tower, 2024-01-18 · listen
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278: No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid put 2 places on the map.
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Coordinates: -2.5369, 140.7146