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Calgary

Calgary
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About Calgary

Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making Calgary the third-largest city and the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.

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Christopher Nolan spent £100,000 finding a location in Calgary, in Canada, which was next to a mountain range, and they grew the cornfields from scratch for the movie.

from No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer, 2020-05-15 at 00:11:18 · read transcript

Other times Calgary came up

  1. In the Disney film as well, by the way, they use a species of lemming that you don't find where they were filming it. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada. It was in Calgary, but they presented that it was being filmed in Lapland. The lemmings that they got for the filming, which they got North and the Arctic, you don't find them in Lapland. It's just a completely wrong species anyway in the film.

    452: No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen

  2. It's just a completely wrong species anyway in the film. And the species they show, they don't migrate or anything like that, do they? That's right. It's completely implausible. Yeah. Calgary's nowhere near the Arctic Circle case you're wondering. Oh, really? Well, it's near in global terms. It's in the north in the hemisphere. It's certainly quite far north. Yeah, you would not find them.

    No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen

  3. It feels like it's just going to remain doing it if it's battery ports at both places there. Yeah, but it is a big step forward if that technology becomes available to new ships. Because, yeah, the ships are extremely dirty. Calgary ships especially. Apparently, ships burn the dirtiest oil that you can get. It's called bunker oil and you scrape it from the bottom of the refinery and it's all gunky and stuff like that.

    No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly, 2020-01-24 · listen

  4. She started smoking at the age of nine and then at the age of like 14 or 15, she was like, I need money for cigarettes. Let me write a masterpiece. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that's where Bret the Hitman Hard is from, as you would know if you had the WWE wrestling game. Oh, you would also know that if you spent any time with Dan over the last 20 years.

    519: No Such Thing As A Noice Computer, 2024-02-22 · listen

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