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Shelbyville

Shelbyville, Tennessee
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About Shelbyville

Shelbyville is a city in and the seat of government of Bedford County, Tennessee. The city was laid out in 1810 and incorporated in 1819. As of the 2020 census, Shelbyville had a population of 23,557. The city is a hub of the Tennessee Walking Horse industry and has been nicknamed "The Walking Horse Capital of the World".

On the show โ€” 6 mentions total

In the home that she was in, which was in Shelbyville, Indiana, she was there at the same time as Edna Parker, who was the world's oldest living human at the time. You could go to this retirement home place and see the world's tallest woman and the world's oldest person at the same time if you wanted.

from No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 at 00:53:00 ยท read transcript

Other times Shelbyville came up

  1. He sent the paddle steamer over to Sweden. By the time it got there, the war had already finished. This is like Grandpa Simpson's story in The Simpsons. Does he go to Shelbyville with an onion in his pocket? It was the fashion at the time, Andy. OK. They got this pointless paddle steamer, but he was really happy, Gustav, and so he sent Patrick Miller a gold snuff box and a painting of the paddle steamer and a Swedish flag and a painting of the paddle steamer, and a Swedish flag, and a Swede.

    562: No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 ยท listen

  2. So Miller went to Sweden and said, do you want a paddle steamer? and they said, yes, great, we love paddle steamers. He sent the paddle steamer over to Sweden, and by the time it got there, the war had already finished. This is like Grandpa Simpson's story in the Simpsons. Does he go to Shelbyville with an onion in his pocket? It was the fashion at the time, Andy. Okay.

    No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 ยท listen

  3. I think they don't adhere to roads and fields and boundaries in general. I think they just go where they want. It's true. I met recently in America, someone in Shelbyville who was talking about training to become a storm chaser. She does it for a living now and she was going to be one of these people who were going to look for them and it happened. Her interest was sparked after her entire house was destroyed.

    176: No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 35.4889, -86.4522

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