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Hyder is a census-designated place in Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 48 at the 2020 census, down from 87 in 2010. Hyder is accessible by road only from Stewart, British Columbia. It is popular with motorists wishing to visit Alaska without driving the length of the Alaska Highway. Hyder has no direct access to any Alaskan road. It is the southernmost community in the state that can be reached via car. Hyder is Alaska's easternmost community.
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He grew up in Portland, in Oregon. Streets where he grew up included Flanders Street — obviously a Simpsons character. Lovejoy Street, Reverend Lovejoy. There was Burnside Street in Montgomery Park next to each other, which is Montgomery Burns.
from No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 at 00:48:43 · read transcript
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And Dinosaur Train was a more recent one, which my son grew up on. Yeah, so that is a real powerhouse of a family of cartoon connections. He also named a lot of characters in The Simpsons after places he knew about. He grew up in Portland, in Oregon. Streets where he grew up, near where he grew up, included Flanders Street. Obviously a Simpsons character.
No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 · listen
This is that. It was in Oregon. I'm surprised that the hippies agreed to go to it because it was basically because Nixon was going to visit Portland, Oregon in 1970, I believe. This was obviously at a time of extreme anti-war protests and extreme government crackdowns on those protests in America. There was a fear that the hippies would start protesting or the peace protest would start protesting.
451: No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 · listen
Yeah. this is that. It was in Oregon. I'm surprised that the hippies agreed to go to it because it was basically because Nixon was going to visit Portland, Oregon in 1970, I believe. This was obviously at a time of extreme anti-war protests and extreme government crackdowns on those protests in America. There was a fear that the hippies would start protesting, or the peace protest were start protesting.
No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 · listen
Today I think that's a record But it's an amazingly weird place It's cool I've been Yeah I went a lot as a kid It's right at all right from there It's right at the bottom of Malaysia And it's much like Portland In that it's an island, but it's separated by a very narrow strip of water from the rest of the mainland, as it were.
No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 · listen
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