Places/place
San Francisco
2017-03-21, 1 mention2018-04-25, 1 mention2018-11-16, 1 mention2019-05-19, 1 mention2020-03-01, 1 mention2020-06-14, 1 mention2021-04-11, 1 mention2021-06-13, 1 mention2021-11-30, 1 mention2021-12-15, 1 mention2022-01-04, 1 mention2022-06-12, 4 mentions2022-07-31, 1 mention2022-08-07, 1 mention2023-03-18, 1 mention2023-04-30, 2 mentions2023-05-07, 1 mention2023-06-18, 5 mentions2023-09-02, 2 mentions2023-09-09, 2 mentions2023-11-25, 1 mention2023-12-09, 1 mention2024-03-09, 1 mention2024-08-24, 1 mention2025-05-10, 1 mention2025-06-28, 1 mention2025-10-22, 1 mention2025-11-15, 2 mentions2025-12-06, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats San Francisco as proof that ideology overrode basic function, blaming the Chesa Boudin recall and the city's harm-reduction drug policy for fentanyl deaths he calls a designed failure rather than an accident 13:49 23:59. He lists the retail exodus — Nordstrom, Gap, H&M, Crate and Barrel — and a Whole Foods overrun by violence and defecation as evidence, calling the city a hellscape that's "not a right-wing media narrative" but simply true 29:05 26:58 23:57 5:28 0:09.
Even so he keeps praising El Farolito's steak quesadilla as the best in the country, describing eating it while watching public defecation on the sidewalk outside as part of the same experience 14:17 23:59. He's proud of decent ticket sales there despite the decline, and elsewhere uses the city mainly as shorthand for a decaying tech hub or just "somewhere else" entirely 0:09 52:14 4:10 59:20.
Every Reference (40)
"you know No fucking Deer Park. I'm telling you, everyone in San Francisco, I was in Austin, Texas and Austin's a real cool city, but"
Matthew David Graham, Lux, and the Darkest Corners of the Dark Web — We're Gonna Get Ours+158s into the segment"go yeah Goben and his Memorial Day clusterfest in June in San Francisco come on out dates Tim no comedy calm go fucker review the podcast"
"and I have friends, I spoke to a friend of mine who lived in San Francisco, and he goes, because I said, I'm like, nobody's gonna be living"
Gentrification, Immigrant Businesses, and the Death of Queens' Character — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+99s into the segment"Louisiana in the backwoods of Louisiana then go to San Francisco go to Portland go to Rhode Island nice but why would this be"
No Shared National Identity Left — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+4s into the segment"unless you go to that place the Deen Del Rey told me about in San Francisco in the Mission District I forget the name of it El Farolito"
Ordering Cheesecake Factory Quesadillas — #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show+43s into the segment"San Francisco today the mayor of San Francisco and announced some some police reform some reforms to the police department that could actually have an impact on police brutality"
Defund the Police, Slogans, and the Andrew Yang 'Guardians' Tweet — #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show+192s into the segment"] you know it's like there's two what is it one tech hub it's like sunnyvale san fran and now austin's gonna be and the rest of them"
American Cities Are Museums, Asian Cities Are the Future — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+6s into the segment"parts that get nice it's the marin county thing here they let san francisco go to [ __ ] and the surrounding area went skyrocketing that's"
The Fat Bachelorette Gets Shot on Sixth Street — #256 - The Announcement | The Tim Dillon Show+13s into the segment"a mass smash and grab hit luxury stores in union square in san francisco and the next night in nordstrom in walnut creek in the east"
Smash and Grabs at Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton, and the Grove — #279 - Flashmob Omicron Morning Star Bear | The Tim Dillon Show+143s into the segment"more dates left Sacramento Late Show grab tickets to that San Francisco a few tickets left Garden City Idaho cancel The Late Show nobody"
"Austin. I'm going to do it in Kansas City. I'm going to do it in San Francisco and move. uh walk away. Yeah. Cool guys don't look back at"
Renting vs. Owning, and Whether Everyone Loves Something — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+208s into the segment"drug problem the fentanyl problem uh it's becoming so bad in san francisco right now um because there are no republicans that live there"
Chesa Boudin Recall and San Francisco's Drug Crisis — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+52s into the segment"don't know what i would do i don't because i don't really like san francisco i don't mind it it's it's foggy and cold i like sea lions when"
Designating a 'Get F***ed Up' Zone for Addicts — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+19s into the segment"looked up the most homeless people are in santa cruz outside san francisco and i think my theory is they must just bust them down there"
The Homeless 'Pot' Solution and Dissolving People — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+34s into the segment"know uh her wife nellie bowles wrote a a good thing about the san francisco homeless it was about how san francisco became she wrote something"
Caruso's 'Go To The Pot' Slogan and Family History — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+68s into the segment"works in a tech job that is remote. She was tired of living in San Francisco where every conversation began with {quote} "What do you do?""
Sarah Lupton the Life Coach in Mexico City — The Life Coach | The Tim Dillon Show #309+288s into the segment"right yeah right this is poverty this is homelessness i was in san francisco there are guys with like devil horns on all fours you were"
San Francisco Homelessness, the Sore in Tim's Mouth — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+813s into the segment"little more now than I did but just it's a perfect example in San Francisco see San Francisco it's not even fun San Francisco's already"
Tech's Coming Rust Belt Fate (Austin, San Francisco, Kodak Factory) — Please Behave | The Tim Dillon Show #338+357s into the segment"the Masonic in San Francisco we have some seats left and it's because people are very scared about parking their car and walking to the theater in San Francisco because they recently just had to call in the National Guard to deal with the um fentanyl uh and uh homeless epidemic in San Francisco"
Cold Open: Dubai Tax Purposes and Tour Plug — The New Braveheart | The Tim Dillon Show #344+36s into the segment"be someone might be a couple someone walking to my show in San Francisco is gonna get it but it's so rare that it would be you to not"
Walking to the San Francisco Show and the Casino Near San Diego — The New Braveheart | The Tim Dillon Show #344+48s into the segment"this because Whole Foods is having a real problem here in San Francisco. Tech workers have stayed home. This is in the New York Times."
Whole Foods Chaos in San Francisco and Cannon Fodder for Writers — The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345+1s into the segment"not it is not it is not a right-wing media narrative that San Francisco is bad it is truly bad it is mouth the gape you like the bear"
Studio Revamp, Movie Role, and San Francisco Ticket Sales — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+54s into the segment"San Fran is going to be the next city to be completely abandoned which is sad the food is amazing we went to a Chinese restaurant picked it at random and we went right after the show some of the best Chinese food you'll ever have"
"fentanyl or uh crocodile or whatever the hell is going on in San Francisco tranq dope or whatever the new things are you can't even keep"
Gawking at the Homeless Helps Them (and a Woman in a Wheelchair) — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+176s into the segment"when I tell you this is one of the better looking people in San Francisco right now now listen they go by and they Zip by you and and"
The Real Causes of San Francisco's Homeless Crisis — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+43s into the segment"we know wrapping up these shows has been a little difficult San Francisco the Masonic and the Chicago Theater are two of my favorite"
Reflecting on Tour Stops and Marketing Philosophy — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+4s into the segment"what happened in San Francisco oh so everybody that works in the store and then the store's basically going to go we are not going to St here just like they did in San Francisco"
San Francisco's Retail Exodus and Disaster Capitalism Theories — A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359+14s into the segment"what do you think drove all those stores out of San Francisco this [ __ ] inequality and then by the way if there's no stores people don't want to live in San Francisco"
Tent Cities, Optics Over Reality, and George Gascón's Response — A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359+58s into the segment"you solve the housing issue you know one of the reasons in San Francisco that they have this terrible problem is because they have zoning"
RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines on Living in California — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+199s into the segment"like one or two there's one or two Republicans but they're San Francisco apartments right yeah so there's no way so people are saying"
BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Corporate Buyout of American Homes — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+43s into the segment"largest central business district in the world, New York. Wow. San Francisco, I mean, forget it. The vacancy rate in San Francisco is I"
WeWork's Collapse and the Death of the Office — The Chinese D’Amelios | The Tim Dillon Show #371+394s into the segment"they it doesn't seem to be working in San Fran doesn't it's not really working in La more home invasions now than there have been go"
Trump-Released Drug Dealer's Family Pistol-Whipping and Criminal Justice Reform — The Sugar Algorithm | The Tim Dillon Show #373+547s into the segment"eating ice cream in America you know to be a homeless guy in San Francisco eating ice cream there's something really fun about that it's"
Homeless Ice Cream Theft at Salt and Straw — Biden's SOTU & The Lazarus Drug | The Tim Dillon Show #383+29s into the segment"get up San Francisco right now don't let Google show you the [ __ ] uh sailboat or whatever let's see the reality of what it is let's see the actual reality of San Francisco"
San Francisco and California: The Real "Joy" — The DNC Chick & Sunken Superyachts | The Tim Dillon Show #406+25s into the segment"to be a musical about him and um it's going to premiere in San Francisco, which makes a lot of sense. And uh Luigi the musical opens"
Luigi Mangione: The Musical — India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443+29s into the segment"if we look at San Francisco and a few of these other cities, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, the Democrats who've run these cities"
Getting Pulled Over on Long Island and Distrust of Cops — Zohran Mamdani, Political Rage, & The Hunt | The Tim Dillon Show #450+63s into the segment"once vibrant city centers of places like Portland or San Francisco, although San Francisco is getting a little better now because of AI companies moving in"
Crime, Homelessness, and Mamdani's Policing Approach — Bernie Sanders | The Tim Dillon Show #467+51s into the segment"Ronda's Market where Here's what's interesting about this. San Francisco for the last decade has had people on fentanyl [ __ ] and ["
Kit Kat the Cat Killed by a Waymo — Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470+49s into the segment"This is a pathology I'd never encountered it until I was in LA or actually in San Francisco to the West Coast, Portland and Seattle, where people actually fetishize uh uh sick people dying on the street."
White Guilt and the Fetishization of Homeless Junkies — Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470+80s into the segment"the only agreement we have in our country right now is in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Menllo Park. These are the only people that have"
Holidays, Formality, and the Death of Dressing Up — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+12s into the segment