No Gods No Mayors
Municipal government: a trap that catches those too incompetent, too corrupt, too incompetent even for national politics. And the greatest of these, the mayor - the highest political office one can hope to reach with a truly oppositional personality or a crack addiction. Mattie Lubchansky, Riley Quinn and November Kelly are teaming up to make a podcast investigating these mayors. From petty Bonapartes to flagrant mafiosi, these are their stories.
Every other week, we'll have an episode on the free feed. For more Mayoral goodness, check out the bonus episodes on our Patreon.
Episodes (52)
PREVIEW: Patrick Balkany
This week, November tells us about the inventor of the balcony. You’re not going to believe this but this right-wing french politician is a misogynist! This is a premium episode! Head on over to...
E.H. "Boss" Crump
Agony! Misery! Mattie takes us on a ride with the first leatherman mayor, Memphis Tennessee's Edward Hull "Boss" Crump.Municipal meeting minutes include: Items thermindor, Don’t left click on me dude,...
PREVIEW: Kenny Kunene, with Benjamin Fogel
This episode, we are joined by scholar Benjamin Fogel to talk about a matched set of mayors from Johannesburg, South Africa, along with a guy that watched the city for a weekend. Municipal meeting...
Ehud Olmert
This week, Nova brings us one of the worst guys to ever do it, in both senses: evil AND unskilled!Municipal meeting minutes include: Beep beep I am not a pervert, Born to kill/Birthed to murder, So...
PREVIEW: Larry Langford
Freak your nuts off, you slags! Here he is: The perfect patsy, a man equally horrifying and funny, Birmingham's Larry Langford.Municipal meeting minutes include: The ballad of wesley dingus, rockin’...
Isaltino Morais
This week, Riley brings us the man who wrote the book on being the mayor in Portugal, the municipal Peronist himself, Isaltino Morais.Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams Radmilk, Minot...
PREVIEW: Robert Briscoe
This week, Nova’s the mayor and we’re talking about Robert Briscoe, the Forrest Gump of 20th century Ireland and most easily radicalized man in the history of the world.Municipal meeting minutes...
Byron Brown
This week, we've got a NEWS PEG! Wow. Mattie brings the crew Buffalo's longest-ever-serving mayor, Byron Brown.Municipal meeting minutes include: Nova’s gas corner, the boy mayor of LEGO “Castle”,...
PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part III ?
This week, we're covering the Netflix documentary "Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem," their Rob Ford documentary. Did you know this guy Rob Ford invented lying and demonizing the media? Crazy.Head on over...
Vít Jedlička (with Eleanor Janega)
This week, Riley goes Mattie mode and profiles a guy that is technically a mayor but kind of not really, Liberland's Vít Jedlička. And we're joined by Medievalist but more importantly Czechia expert,...
PREVIEW: Grafton New Hampshire
This week we've got another one of Mattie's flights of fancy: Is this utopian community "a mayor"? (Yes.) Anyway, huddle up for a cautionary tale...it's statist to not listen!Municipal meeting minutes...
Carolyn Goodman
Would you care for a normal olive? This week, we’re covering Oscar Goodman’s Ptolemy II, his wife Carolyn. Mayoral Information Corner: Precious Bumpkins, Indianapolin vs fire, unhalled comrade,...
PREVIEW: Larry Hand
This week on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed: After a few Items(!) we watch the 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks about the Leichhardt Council mayoral elections in Sydney Australia's suburbs. It's Uncut...
Oscar Goodman
This week, we're talking about the universe's happiest mayor, Oscar Goodman! Take this one personally. Municipal meeting minutes include: Indicted in battle. Walkin’ on the Son, A new immortal...
PREVIEW: Taron Margaryan with Sam Martirosyan
This week on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed we've got Producer Sam on the other side of the microphone! We're talking about former Yerevan mayor and lover of the number 7, Taron Margaryan.Municipal...
William Lantigua
This week, we cover possibly our most embattled and empaneled mayor, Willy Lantigua. Municipal meeting minutes include: Coconut water poisoning, dkdkflflfiffnfkrdjheb, Time to Embattlement (TTE),...
PREVIEW: Mega Municipal Roundup
Turn on your mayor conditioners - the Mayortaculus is down this week for scheduled maintenance. Join us on the bonus feed for a mega municipal roundup. Hyah! nogodsnomayors.com
John Fetterman
Greetings, municipality fans! This one starts out funny but ends up sad – much like the career of our guy here. Behold: The Oaf's Lament.Municipal meeting minutes include: Riley’s face sand table, oaf...
PREVIEW: Francis Suarez
Greetings, citizens! This week, we cover Miami's "Bitcoin Mayor," Mr. "How Can I Help?" himself, Francis Suarez.This is a bonus episode! You can slot exactly 1 MiamiCoin into the podcast machine* in...
Randall Weddle
Greeting quadropods! This week on the free episode, we talk about TWO medium large mayors: The “WhatsApp Mayor” of Bom Jardin Brazil, Lidiane Leite da Silva, and the long-promised London Kentucky’s...
PREVIEW: Fiorello La Guardia (with Calvin Kasulke)
This week, we cover possibly the best mayor the podcast, nay, the world has ever seen? Municipal meeting minutes include: Choose your Columbo, a bowling ball I hate, Hepatitis B(eef), Selling Teddy...
Carter Harrison III
This week on the free feed: A guy who loves to have his wives die, and also to go to Europe. Municipal meeting minutes include: Bakingmore Cookieland, The Uncle’s Price, Eric Adams: Unhobbled, ...
PREVIEW: Nayib Bukele
This week we’re talking about Salvadoran Pete Campbell and also [no spoilers for Nova’s theory], Nayib Bukele, who you might know from the news as being Comprador Hitler. Municipal meeting minutes...
William Armacost (with Julian Feeld)
Alright, citizens! Grab a fresh bushel of lavender and take a big sniff. We go Sequimming with QAA’s Julien Feeld! Municipal meeting minutes include: chomo parade update, mayorotic asphyxiation, the...
PREVIEW: Kwame Kilpatrick with Joe Kassabian
Greetings, local residents! We’re joined this week by Lions Lead by Donkeys' and Detroiter Joe Kassabian, to talk about actual mayor and area man Kwame Kilpatrick. Head on over to the Patreon to hear...
Tiffany Henyard
Many of you wrote in about this mayor, named the worst in America, and she definitely needed her own episode. How lucky that she was next in the order! Municipal meeting minutes include: We talk about...
PREVIEW: Mega Municipal Roundup
For the bonus episode this week, we check in with a bunch of past guests and also a very drunken Floridian. Listen to the whole thing over on the mayoral benevolent feed at Nogodsnomayors.com!City...
Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Join us this week for a particularly blasphemous episode, just in time for lent! Mayor November takes us on a historical tour of the little fascist statelet that wasn't, R̶i̶j̶e̶k̶a̶ Fiume...
PREVIEW: Marvin Rees
We're joined by the People Just Do Something podcast and The Bristol Cable's Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins to talk about the mayor so thin-skinned and bad at it that nobody was ever allowed to be mayor...
Etienne Cabet
First as France, and then again as France. For some reason in this one Mayor Mattie takes us to 19th-century France and then also Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and California. That's...
PREVIEW: Leonis C. Malburg
November's in the mayor's seat for this one, a tragic tale of one Basque gentleman founding a beautiful utopia under a freeway and on top of a rail yard, where any business could dispose as many...
Rodrigo Borgia (with Patrick Wyman)
Our favorite historian and host of The Tides of History podcast joins us to ask and answer a question that's been on our minds since we started the show: Are popes mayors? The answer is: Kind of!To do...
PREVIEW: Stephen R. Reed
We head to the capital of PA for our boy-est Boy Mayor yet, Harrisburg's Stephen R. Reed.Office of the Mayor meeting minutes include: Michele Zoo-cault, illegal Megalopolis screening, Municipal...
Pedro Calado
We finally leave the Anglosphere to head to the sunny island of Madeira, where one rally racing and handball-loving Mayor tried to elude an entire plane of lawyers and judges paradropped onto his...
PREVIEW: The Greatest Showman (2017)
It was the week between Christmas and New Years so the substitute teacher rolled in the A/V setup and instead of class we watched a movie. That's right! It's time to stand in a circle slam-dancing...
Sarah Palin
Did you know that Alaska is more than its admittedly gorgeous train livery? That's right! They have mayors. In the shadow of Mt. POW/MIA (really) lies the town of Wasilla. We delve into what it was...
PREVIEW: George Garner
We talk (finally) about the mayor that everyone sent in, South Carolina's George Garner, who was killed recently in a police chase, after his entire police force resigned under semi-mysterious...
Sam Yorty (with Noah Suarez-Sikes)
We're joined this week by senior Southern California correspondent Noah (twitter/bsky) to talk about California's Richard Nixon™, Saigon Sam himself, travelin' Sam Yorty. From humble beginnings as a...
PREVIEW: Michael Applebaum
After some disturbing revelations about Riley's wine intake, we delve into Gérald Tremblay's replacement. Montreal had corruption problems. Who else to solve them than THE unicycling, shriner...
Gérald Tremblay
Mayor Riley takes us finally out of the Anglosphere with a mobbed-up mayor of Montreal, QC. That's right, we're talking keeping money in your socks, known Rizutto crime family associate Youppi!, the...
PREVIEW: San Francisco Grab Bag with Shanti Singh
For this week's bonus, we get Special Deputy Mayor and SF Expert Shanti Singh back in the guest's chair to talk about a triple-decker of mayors in the city by the bay. Listen to the whole thing on...
James Michael Curley
Mattie is back in the mayors seat and presents the crew with Boston's own James Michael Curley. From his humble beginnings working his way through the city's nascent Tammany-esque political machine...
PREVIEW: Gavin Newsom, with Shanti Singh
On the Mayoral Benevolent feed this week: Friend of the show @uhshanti joins to talk about GRUESOME GAVIN himself. We bust open Mayor Riley's dusty tome of Great Wine Americans and dig into how the...
Phineas T. Barnum
Yes, THAT PT Barnum! He was the mayor of Bridgeport, CT. Mattie is the mayor of this one, and we discuss the sort of ur-Mayor of America, the greatest showman himself. You might think to yourself:...
PREVIEW: The Boney Island MAYORfish, with Andrew Law
That's right, people. Andrew Law of The Boney Island Whitefish is here, and we're watching Season 1, Episode 18: "The Man With the Bone. We had Andrew, and there's an episode of bones featuring a...
Darryn Lyons, with Andrew Law and Ben McCleay
We are joined by two of the joint mayors of our sister city, Boonta Vista, to talk about Mr. Paparazzi himself: Geelong's Darryn Lyons. The story of one brave man who installed a carapace on himself,...
PREVIEW: Eric Adams Part 2, with Alex Press
We dig into the very bad no good 2024 of Mr. Adams – a simple polyamorous vegan trying to make it big in the city he was born and raised in, taken down by the cruel passengers of the very plane he was...
Eric Adams, Part 1
OKAY: We promised we were going to stop splitting the episodes behind the paywall like this but this is an emergency and then we'll stop doing that.Mayor Mattie sits at the head of the table of...
Boris Johnson, Part 2 (PREVIEW)
Mayor Nova and Deputy Mayors Mattie and Riley dive into Boris's second term as Mayor of London. This episode has everything: bridges that aren't built. Airports that aren't built. Exploding...
Boris Johnson, Part 1
We finish up our Power Trio of hometown heroes with Nova in the Mayoral Seat for Boris Johnson. Get in, loser! We're riding our Boris bikes to the IFS Cloud Cable Car to the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower!...
PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part 2
Riley, Nova, and Mattie stand over what's left of Rob Ford and his mayoralty after "the incident" and also what appears to be several months of him getting chased around Ontario by police holding a...
Rob Ford, Part 1
We continue our tour of maniac executives with The Most Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. In this episode, Mayor Riley guides Mattie and November from Rob's humble beginnings hanging out in suburban...
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