Short Stuff: Mesas: Flat
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Mesas, buttes and plateaus are all very similar. We'll break down the differences in each one just to be sure.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nikki Lynnette, the host of About a Girl, here to tell you about our new season. |
| 0:05.2 | Every episode of About a Girl digs deep to explore the real stories of women who were there, |
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| 0:35.4 | Hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Dave's here again, which makes this a special edition of short stuff. |
| 0:39.9 | Third you feel special? I do. Chuck does. It's short stuff. Let's go. |
| 0:44.7 | So this had a recent inspiration as well as the last one that we just recorded about washerwomen. |
| 0:51.7 | This one was Emily and I for her birthday every year we go to a new place that we've never been for a weekend. |
| 0:57.9 | Oh yeah nice. |
| 0:58.7 | Some places not you know obviously super far because it's like a long weekend and we look at a map and just say like this looks interesting. |
| 1:05.7 | And this year it was Santa Fe in New Mexico. Awesome. |
| 1:08.9 | Highly recommend. You ever been there? I don't think so. I may have driven through but it's possible it's a different part in New Mexico. |
| 1:17.7 | I'm not sure. Great town. Didn't know it but it's like one of the art capitals of the world. |
| 1:23.6 | There's a road called Canyon Road where there's literally a hundred plus galleries and you just start at one end and start walking. |
| 1:30.8 | Great food to the best meals I've ever had my life but on the drive from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. |
| 1:36.7 | Emily looked over at the expanse and said well is that big flat mountain over there and there's like a few of them. |
| 1:45.0 | And I went I don't know and then I went wait a minute and this is a kid from the south and his wife from the Midwest. |
| 1:52.9 | You know because it sounds like we're dummies that we didn't know what this was but I went you know what? |
| 1:56.5 | I said I think that's a mesa. I said I think a mesa is like a flat topped thing and it is and now we're going to talk about it. |
| 2:04.2 | Yep all those road runner cartoons paid off finally. |
| 2:07.9 | Those were maces I guess. |
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