London

Described as a global financial capital attracting foreign capital and residents.

“But I don't, I don't live in London. I don't know anything about it. But I do know that from, from, from what I see, the money here is on a different level. It is the financial capital that's halfway between New York and Asia. And you have a lot of young peopl…”

Tim Dillon describes London as a world-class, beautiful, and extremely wealthy city, contrasting it with negative stereotypes about crime and immigration.

“Folks, I love this mug. You see how British it is? Everything here is very muted and green. And by the way, you come here and they go, "Oh, it's been taken over by hordes of roving barbarians." That's what they say. But you come here, it's actually really nice…”

Tim Dillon is currently visiting London for a trip.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Tim Dillon Show. We are in London, a last minute trip to the UK. Um,”

The host mentions visiting London and observing tourism trends from the Middle East.

“Doesn't matter. It doesn't really matter. One thing I wanna talk about here, because I think our next episode will have more about the British... What's going on here, because frankly, I got here last night, I don't know. I'm unaware. Supposedly there are larg…”

The location the speaker visited to observe current events and meet friends.

“So it's one of the reasons I came to London to, to, to figure out what's going on here, to just, to, to see some friends and chat and get an understanding of, of what's going on, um, and what's happening. I think,”

The city where Handel established his reputation as an opera composer.

“London since around 1714. What should we know about his life and reputation in London?”

The city where Handel regularly performed and wrote works like Samson.

“And what's really odd about it is it's a very mobile work because it's just strings, trumpets, and drums. The normal cues for oboes to take part, the larger thing, you don't need a, a separate stave for oboes. The normal thing that he does in operas and orator…”

Predicted to experience an economic boom due to capital shifts from the Gulf.

“Yeah, my thesis is thatLondon is gonna boom, um, over the next three years, and not for, not for the right reasons. But my thesis is that there's been this enormous transfer of human and financial capital out of London into the Gulf. Even if you talk to kids w…”

The location near which new data centers are being proposed, raising concerns about urban sprawl.

“A lot of people say we need data centers, but why do they have to be built so close to London in the southeast of England, which is already very heavily populated and heavily built on?”

The city where John Dee was born and raised.

“Before he was a prisoner, John Dee was a prodigy. He was born in London in fifteen twenty-seven, where his father was a wealthy cloth merchant and courtier. Roland Dee gave his son the best education that money could buy. And at school, the boy's appetite for …”

The site of the Great Smog of 1952 and historical power cuts.

“It's 'cause the air used to be so filthy in London, and there were these increasingly severe smogs over the '40s and '50s.”

Donna Langley moved here with her best friend after sixth form college.

“You went to sixth form college in Kent, where your grandparents lived, and then after that you moved to London with your best friend Tanya. Did the two of you have jobs? What was the plan? What were you getting up to?”

Donna Langley was born in London in 1968.

“Abba and Thank You for the Music. Donna Langley, you were born in London in 1968, and your family moved to the Isle of Wight when you were about seven. You say about your mother, Anne, that she was creative. She also had a political conscience. What do you rem…”

Sting discusses moving to London to pursue his music career because there was no template for his goals in his hometown.

“Um, go, go back to, um, going to London for the first time when you were be- you were a teacher, and then I'm always fascinated with, like, how did you... Had you visited London? You saw the big city, and it inspired you? Like, how did you, what drove you to t…”

Sting lived in a basement flat in Bayswater, London, while struggling to start his music career.

“I was living in Bayswater in a basement flat, not a terribly salubrious, uh, part of London.”

Sting recalls his decision to move to London early in his career.

“But, uh, I, I decided, no, I would go to London. So I had one phone number. I was also a dad. Uh, I just recently had a, a kid.”

Will Arnett recalls flying back from London with the other hosts.

“JB, although I do remember... Do you remember years ago, you, me, Tony Hale, Eli, and somebody else, maybe Cara or somebody from your team, we flew-”

Identified as a power center that acts as a hub for human energy and attention.

“Um, at power centers. I mean, there's a lot of power centers. London is, London is a power center. Hollywood's a power center. New York's a power center. I mean, every city is like a hub because how much energy gets, uh, you know. How do you say? Like there's …”

British soldiers named their trenches after famous streets and junctions in London, such as Oxford Street and Hyde Park Corner.

“I think by now, so we're in May 1915, there probably is an awareness that this is, this is why they're working so hard on the trenches, that they're going to be here for a little bit longer. So the, the way the trenches work, you've got these kind of barricade…”

A location where David allegedly traveled with the victim.

“Which seems very convenient. And if there was any grace for David, it seems like it ends here, because court documents read, "Despite being informed by law enforcement the victim was only 13, defendant continued to pursue her." So this is like, the grace would…”

Phil Wang mentions having a specific experience with exact change at a supermarket in London.

“I once did that at a supermarket in London, and the, the checkout lady, very confusingly, gave me £2 back.”

Mentioned as the location where pizza boxes often feature a chef's hat design.

“There's like an Italian one, isn't there? What's the, what's the guy wearing on those pizza boxes you get in London?”

The location of the first recorded case of desensitization for egg allergy in 1908.

“So this is a paradigm shift really in the way that we manage food allergies, and it's not a new concept. In fact, the first recorded case, 1908 in London, where a child withAnaphylaxis to egg was given small but increasing amounts of egg to make them less sens…”

Used as a reference point for historical travel times.

“It's an interesting question, 'cause I'm not sure I learned anything new about investing, but I think I learned new about technologies, right? So the engineer in me wants to try to make things realistic where possible. I'm not, like, fully committed to, like, …”

Mentioned as an example of an overwhelming urban environment.

“and it was getting outside of what millions of people would call normal. Just living in a city is no longer for me. It was the highlight of my life when I was younger. It is no longer for me. And sometimes you find yourself in these routines or this way of liv…”

Steven Bartlett mentions driving to London after work.

“... drove down to London-”

Stephen J. Shaw mentions flying between Los Angeles and London with his children.

“And unless we start having conversations with all respect, truly, I mean, the travel question is, you know, as a dad who, divorced dad traveling with three kids around the world and, uh... You, you, I'll, can I tell you a little story? I was flying between LA …”

Simone Collins suggests bringing back the matchmaking scene reminiscent of London.

“We can talk about broken dating markets, but like what are we... We can't, we can't fix it. I mean, what... My, my husband and I literally have an index of other parents with kids close to our age, and we're gonna intermarry our children. My new way of skeezin…”

Mentioned as a primate city that remains thriving despite England's low fertility rates.

“Yeah, exactly. And so you get... It's actually... And you can see this everywhere. It's not J- Jap-... It's not just Japan. I mean, in Bulgaria, Sofia is doing fine. Um, I mean, in England, London does okay. [laughs] Um, around the world, once you see it, you …”

The location where Conor Benn confronted the guest at an awards show.

“Well, I mean, he's been talking for some time. It hasn't even just been recently. You know, it's been maybe a year, two years. He actually pulled up on me in London and, you know, tried to fight me, started some trouble at an awards show. So ever since then, h…”

Christian Mueller-Glissmann joins the discussion from London.

“[upbeat music] Today I'm speaking with Christian Mueller-Glissmann, head of asset allocation in Goldman Sachs Research, and Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, global co-head of multi-asset solutions in Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Alexandra is here in our New York …”

The city where a surgeon is pursuing Kelly for fraud.

“Dee's isolation was a badge of honour, proof of his cosmic significance. Trouble reared its head again. Kelly told Dee that a London surgeon was hounding him over some fraudulent scheme. His wife Joanna had been forced into hiding. Dee wasn't too concerned. Mo…”

The city where John Dee lived out his final years.

“As for John Dee, he returned to London and lived into his 80s, buried by manuscripts, white-haired, penniless. He worked with scryers until his very last days, ever convinced that the universe would give up its deepest secrets if he only knew how to ask.”

Brandi Carlile notes that her wife is from London.

“My wife is from London. So we got married in a little church called The Church of the Good Shepherd in Wareham, Massachusetts.”

The city where Zach grew up, characterized by ostentatious displays of wealth.

“... talking about the idea that Zach, growing up in certain parts of London, you know, it's super cars on the street everywhere, it's this kind of blingy, ostentatious, sort of over the top displays of wealth. There's a sense of a kind of roguish wealth, a kin…”