Wyoming
About Wyoming
Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south. With an estimated population of 587,618 as of 2024, Wyoming is the least populous state despite being the tenth-largest by area, and it has the second-lowest population density. The state capital and most populous city is Cheyenne.
On the show — 30 mentions total
There's a lot of butts in that part of the world, isn't there? Because butts like means it's like a raised bit of land or something. There's that B-U-T-E? So in Montana and Wyoming and Dakotas, there's loads of butts. You're not going to believe this. In South Dakota, there is a place which was the original center of North America, which was done by drawing two lines, and it is called Snake butt.
from No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen, 2020-12-31 at 01:28:19 · read transcript
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Wyoming had full women's suffrage from a. 1869. The reason they did that is because they wanted to attract single women to the state. Really? They had a lot of kind of migrant male workers who were working in Wyoming and they thought, well, how can we get more women here? Let's let them vote. They should have done what nightclubs did in Essex on a Friday, which is make it free hooch.
No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad, 2020-08-28 · listen
This trip where he was on the train where he almost got killed by a badger, it was because he'd been to see a total eclipse of the sun. He'd been to Wyoming where this had happened and he wanted to try out an invention called a tazimeter, which would measure small changes in temperature. That experiment failed because the device was too sensitive, but while he was there, he slept out in the open and a man who was there at the time said that Edison told him that when he lay down in the open, he wasn't thinking about resting.
305: No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly, 2020-01-24 · listen
I read his biography, and it had this amazing thing. He was a male carrier. He was a cowboy. He lived in a place called Square Butt. It's pronounced Square Butte. Every time we say the word butt, it's spelled B-U-T-E, get loads of people writing in from Montana and Wyoming saying, it's pronounced butte. I'm like, well, don't spell it like butt then. Yeah. I was looking up the meaning of whoa. Whoa.
No Such Thing As Duck Bill Hickok, 2022-09-15 · listen
That's horrible to decimate a species to extinction. They can still be found despite being extinct in glaciers around there. There's this one place, which is kind of. called the Grasshopper Glacier, and it's in Wyoming, where all of them have sort of just been frozen in time inside there. You can see them when you look into it and people ship them out. Can they come back like Captain America or?
No Such Thing As Jiminy's Cricket Shop, 2021-07-30 · listen
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Coordinates: 43.0000, -107.0000