No Gods No Mayors

No Gods No Mayors

The Office of the Mayor
News Politics Comedy
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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 (51)

E.H. "Boss" Crump

E.H. "Boss" Crump

September 04, 2025 1h 19m S1E53
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

PREVIEW: Kenny Kunene, with Benjamin Fogel

August 28, 2025 10m S1E52
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

Ehud Olmert

August 21, 2025 1h 5m S1E51
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

PREVIEW: Larry Langford

August 14, 2025 10m S1E50
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

Isaltino Morais

August 07, 2025 1h 11m S1E49
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

PREVIEW: Robert Briscoe

July 31, 2025 10m S1E48
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

Byron Brown

July 24, 2025 1h 5m S1E47
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 ?

PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part III ?

July 17, 2025 9m S1E46
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)

Vít Jedlička (with Eleanor Janega)

July 10, 2025 1h 20m S1E45
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

PREVIEW: Grafton New Hampshire

July 03, 2025 10m S1E44
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

Carolyn Goodman

June 26, 2025 1h 20m S1E43
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

PREVIEW: Larry Hand

June 19, 2025 10m S1E42
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

Oscar Goodman

June 12, 2025 1h 25m S1E41
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

PREVIEW: Taron Margaryan with Sam Martirosyan

June 05, 2025 10m S1E40
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

William Lantigua

May 29, 2025 1h 4m S1E39
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

PREVIEW: Mega Municipal Roundup

May 22, 2025 10m S1E38
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

John Fetterman

May 15, 2025 1h 19m S1E37
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

PREVIEW: Francis Suarez

May 08, 2025 11m S1E36
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

Randall Weddle

May 01, 2025 1h 2m S1E35
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)

PREVIEW: Fiorello La Guardia (with Calvin Kasulke)

April 24, 2025 10m S1E34
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

Carter Harrison III

April 17, 2025 1h 10m S1E33
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

PREVIEW: Nayib Bukele

April 10, 2025 10m S1E32
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)

William Armacost (with Julian Feeld)

April 03, 2025 1h 24m S1E31
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

PREVIEW: Kwame Kilpatrick with Joe Kassabian

March 27, 2025 10m S1E30
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

Tiffany Henyard

March 20, 2025 1h 7m S1E29
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

PREVIEW: Mega Municipal Roundup

March 13, 2025 9m S1E28
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.

Gabriele D'Annunzio.

March 06, 2025 1h 11m S1E27
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

PREVIEW: Marvin Rees

February 27, 2025 4m S1E26
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

Etienne Cabet

February 20, 2025 1h 18m S1E25
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

PREVIEW: Leonis C. Malburg

February 13, 2025 7m S1E24
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)

Rodrigo Borgia (with Patrick Wyman)

February 06, 2025 1h 24m S1E23
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

PREVIEW: Stephen R. Reed

January 30, 2025 8m S1E22
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

Pedro Calado

January 23, 2025 1h 5m S1E21
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)

PREVIEW: The Greatest Showman (2017)

January 16, 2025 9m S1E20
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

Sarah Palin

January 09, 2025 1h 19m S1E19
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

PREVIEW: George Garner

January 02, 2025 8m S1E18
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)

Sam Yorty (with Noah Suarez-Sikes)

December 26, 2024 1h 28m S1E17
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

PREVIEW: Michael Applebaum

December 19, 2024 6m S1E16
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

Gérald Tremblay

December 12, 2024 1h 30m S1E15
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

PREVIEW: San Francisco Grab Bag with Shanti Singh

December 05, 2024 4m S1E14
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

James Michael Curley

November 28, 2024 1h 13m S1E13
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

PREVIEW: Gavin Newsom, with Shanti Singh

November 21, 2024 6m S1E12
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

Phineas T. Barnum

November 14, 2024 1h 22m S1E11
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

PREVIEW: The Boney Island MAYORfish, with Andrew Law

November 07, 2024 5m S1E10
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

Darryn Lyons, with Andrew Law and Ben McCleay

October 31, 2024 1h 11m S1E9
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

PREVIEW: Eric Adams Part 2, with Alex Press

October 24, 2024 5m S1E8
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

Eric Adams, Part 1

October 17, 2024 1h 12m S1E7
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)

Boris Johnson, Part 2 (PREVIEW)

October 10, 2024 6m S1E6
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

Boris Johnson, Part 1

October 03, 2024 1h 19m S1E5
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

PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part 2

September 26, 2024 4m S1E4
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

Rob Ford, Part 1

September 19, 2024 58m S1E3
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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