San Francisco

Compared to New York City regarding cleanliness.

“Yes. I, I mean, this is just like when we went to San Francisco. W- San Francisco, I'm, I have the internet, you know? Okay?”

The city where the couple lived and where the murder took place.

“This is part two of the audio podcast for the case of the Google software engineers. If you haven't listened to part one, please go listen. Part one, we covered a lot of ground. There are two Google software engineers, Tony and Ivy. They're a married couple. T…”

The location where the defendant's attorney is based.

“No, they tried so hard. I think eventually they were able to, but they had to spend so much money trying to jump through hoops, getting attorneys involved, just to try to come to the U.S. to attend these trials. Tony's parents had no problem. They came to the …”

Noted for its real estate recovery and enduring appeal as a beautiful place to live.

“Also, hate to say it, but beautiful. Beautiful places. You know, the same thing, Alina, is happening. There's just more statistics out of San Francisco in terms of the recovery and everything else, which is interesting. And, um, you know, just in, just in real…”

Mentioned as a location considering a tax on second homes.

“It's unlikely to... It'll be watered down, but if it goes through as Mamdani has proposed it, it would be an incremental $100,000 a year tax on me personally. I'm not fond of that. It's a form of a wealth tax because all that really does is take a, say, a cond…”

Location where Suzuki Roshi established the Zen Center.

“Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And, uh, uh, well, that's where sense of humor [laughs] comes in, and, and ability to like, uh, be okay with paradox and ambiguity and things not always being so neat and tidy, uh, like that. Because if you know the ba…”

Pema Chödrön uses this city as an example of a destination where one might arrive with a shifted anxiety level after practicing mindfulness.

“... let me just propose if you, what you did was say, "Okay, I'm going to be gently, uh, note or aware of my breath going out and coming in. And, uh, my intention here is to just, as much as possible, stay fully present with the breath going out and the breath…”

The geographic area where the hosts are based and where AI obsession is common.

“Um, I wanna ask you about the geographic divide when it comes to AI. So you live here in the New York area. We're out in San Francisco. Out by us, it's like very common to run into people who are obsessed with AI. Everyone's constantly talking about it. It's t…”

Mentioned in the context of past Google projects and Scott's residence.

“That's sweet. Uh, just last thing, Google, speaking of, Google is in talks with SpaceX for a rocket launch deal to put orbital data centers in space. The deal is based on currently unproven technology that Elon said is the next frontier for his rocket company.…”

A key retail market where Room & Board expanded.

“So, okay, so here's, here... I'm curious, 'cause I, you know, now we're, we're getting into the, you know, uh, into the 2000s, right? You're... The '90s, you're growing steadily, and in, I think by, I don't know, 2004 or something, I think that year, maybe 200…”

Mentioned as an example of an expensive city where a $70,000 income would not be sufficient for homeownership.

“And so, um, that, that's expensive real estate. You're probably also not gonna buy in San Francisco, San Diego, or, uh, Manhattan-”

Suggested as a potential location for hosting their intimate event.

“We do one in New York, we do one in San Francisco, we do one in wherever else. And we take our family, we hang, and you know, it's, it's like a curated event. But that becomes r- the, the trick is the live event is a experience, but really it's the content you…”

Mentioned as the location of the Moscone Center where business conferences take place.

“Yeah. Oh, 100. Like, I see this man right here that's sitting next to you, Andy. He's just walking out of the Moscone Center from whatever, like, big company thing that's happening in downtown San Francisco, and it's all about synergizing the brand-”

The location near where an Army base was bombed.

“Yeah, 15 days later, they attacked New York City police headquarters, the headquarters of the NYPD. They smuggled a dynamite bomb into the headquarters, put it in an empty bathroom, and that night, they called in a warning, and then the bomb exploded. That was…”

Theo Von compares Bobby Lee's appearance to a fireman from this city.

“You look like a fireman, like, in San Francisco, kind of like a little bit, you know?”

City with forty thousand permitted units that are not being built due to high costs.

“Well, let me say this. There is a reason they failed, and there's a reason that most startups fail as well, which is they don't have revenues, and they don't have orders. And so the question is, A, does the technology work? B, does it drive down costs? And C, …”

The location where the Internet Archive is based.

“Trouble is, you usually do not know whether an obsession is a great quest or a great folly until it's over. [upbeat country music] Shortly after this episode first aired in 2019, Stacia shared a version of her father's encyclopedia with the Internet Archive in…”

Mentioned as a hub for technology where the sentiment toward AI differs from the general populace.

“There's this crazy stat about AI, just the generic concept, being less popular than Congress amongst, like, the general populace, and it's, like, kind of funny when you first hear it. But when you really think about it, you're like, "This is kind of fucked. We…”

Jamil Zaki discusses how virtual reality simulations helped increase support for affordable housing policies in the Bay Area.

“What we wanted to do is use technology to bring people, not just to, to sort of observe the experiences of a homeless individual, but observe them from the inside. So we had a simulation where people went through a series of scenes, these are sort of virtual r…”