San Francisco
About San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. Among U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income, second by population density, and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. Some 4.6 million residents live in the city's metropolitan statistical area, which is the 13th-largest in the United States. Around 9.2 million live in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest in the United States.
On the show — 94 mentions total
Elon Musk is building a pneumatic ride to get people from San Francisco to L.A. It's going to take half an hour.
from No Such Thing As A Bacon Telescope, 2015-07-31 at 00:03:43 · read transcript
Other times San Francisco came up
And the magistrate said, I'm going to hold, rightly or wrongly, that to expose the upper part of your body is indecent. I think it is highly likely to shock persons of ordinary sensibility. I, in summer in London, I'm actually in a greener. There was speaking of topless, there's a really weird story in 1842, where there was uproar because so this was reported in a Northern newspaper. It was that women who worked down mines were being photographed topless. It was all over the newspapers.
50: No Such Thing As Doing It Dinosaur-Style, 2015-02-28 · listen
Might appreciate this list of things unexpectedly named after people I had heard most of these but definitely not all of them so Google's Page Rank which is the tool for ranking web pages is named after Larry Page Okay Main Street, San Francisco is named after Charles Main I've never heard that Snowflake Arizona is named after two people Mr Snow and Mr. Flake and Taco Bell is named after a guy called Glenn Bell.
Little Fish: Juan Trippe, 2025-12-14 · listen
Actually, Rudyard Kipling is named after the place where his parents either met or conceived him. Rudyard Lake, which is in Staffordshire, I think. Someone recently went through all the censuses from 1790 to 1930, finding all the funny names there, and there were some really good ones. Some of the best ones, so parents, Mr. and Mrs. Day, in 1899, named their son, Time of. 1899. 1899, Time of Day. I didn't think people had that kind of sense of humour back then.
No Such Thing As Doing It Dinosaur-Style, 2015-02-27 · listen
He was full of all these abilities. I've just got one more thing, which is another 1930s Francis Drake-based swindle. This was the story of a young man who went for a hike in San Francisco Bay in 1936 and he found a metal plate on the ground. He didn't think much of it, but his friends pointed out it appeared to say Francis Drake on it. So he said, all right, I'll get it checked out.
380: No Such Thing As The Virgin Mary Toast Reunion Tour, 2021-07-02 · listen
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