Los Angeles
About Los Angeles
Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.88 million residents within the city limits as of 2024, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind New York City, and the largest city in the Western United States. The city has an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Even as its population shrinks fastest nationwide, Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is still a sprawling metropolis of over 18 million residents.
On the show — 66 mentions total
The lead dog, Balto, he became a celebrity. He was as famous as Rin Tin Tin or Lassie or all these other celebrity dogs of the 1920s. The mayor of Los Angeles awarded Balto a bone shaped key to the city.
from 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 at 00:08:28 · read transcript
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I'll do one. Go for it. Oh all right this is a fact from Simonida Popov. Thank you Simonida for writing in. Terrific fact is that there is an area in Los Angeles which is known as Silver Lake right and it's named after the Silver Lake Reservoir nearby and it is named not after the silver color of its water but after Herman Silver. Oh no. The LA Water.
Little Fish: Jurassic Bark, 2026-04-26 · listen
Andy, you went on a trek on the internet to find as many bandits as you could, didn't you? So you get people nicknamed the such and such bandit because they robbed, you know, a particular kind of place. One example is the coast to coast bandit who only robbed banks in New York and Los Angeles. Yes, and there was, what was there? There was the lunchtime bandit who only robbed banks between noon and 1pm and the bag trick bandit who kept putting his hand in his pocket and pretending to have a gun.
189: No Such Thing As A Meringue-Utan, 2017-11-01 · listen
As if he would get out, paint it, get back in, and then all the cars would go, whoa. I couldn't work out for a long, when you started saying us, I couldn't work out how you would choose road signs to make your commute easier because I thought he was putting up directions for himself, like this way, Derek, or whatever. Which I would love to do. Do you know that's the thing that exists in Los Angeles? Really? Really? thing I read in that book.
No Such Thing As The Big Bad Virginia Woolf, 2021-01-08 · listen
Coordinates: 34.0500, -118.2500