Auckland

About Auckland
Auckland is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about 1,547,200. It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of 1,816,000 as of June 2025. It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth-most populous city in Oceania.
On the show — 15 mentions total
This week coming to you live from Auckland.
from No Such Thing As Bob Dylan on Mars, 2025-01-16 at 00:00:02 · read transcript
Other times Auckland came up
The longest novel in the Penguin classics and modern classics is In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. It is six volumes, 3616 pages. In the time I would take you to read it, you could fly from London to Auckland and back again and then to Barbados. Only if you have to not take any breaks to read one page a minute for that entire time.
507: No Such Thing As Fangtooth Boxing, 2023-11-30 · listen
He certainly did. Because he lives in Hawaii. He lives in Hawaii. He flew from Samoa to Auckland to Los Angeles and then back to Hawaii, and he had to cross the international date line in one very narrow window. There was a one-hour period where the two time signs he was crossing were in the same day, if you see what I mean. Oh, yeah. He had to cross in that one-hour window, and he made it by one minute and five seconds.
No Such Thing As A Royal Seal, 2022-06-03 · listen
If you tracked him late at night, and you didn't know that was happening, it's like, oh my god, someone's, oh no, cancel it, never mind. He's going back up. He must have changed his mind. Didn't when we stayed in New Zealand on our first fish tour, there was... the hotel was having a special charity thing. That big tower in Auckland, whatever it's called. Yeah. I don't remember this. They do bungee off there as well.
548: No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 · listen
He collected through other journalists things that they've been told not to ask celebrities. For example, when Meatloaf went to Auckland, all people were told not to ask him what he wouldn't do for love is an obvious one, right? When David Ike, the big conspiracy theorist, went to New Zealand, Dom Harvey interviewed him, and he was told no questions about his failed predictions, especially the one where he predicted New Zealand would completely disappear in the late 90s.
265: No Such Thing As A Hole In The Bowl, 2019-04-19 · listen
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