Randall Weddle

I'm going to Minneapolis this Friday.

Are you going to see Amy Klobuchar?

I'm hoping to get attacked by her.

Yeah, aren't we all?

This is why I got the shirt.

Yeah.

When the Pink Panther enters his apartment and Kato is there.

I imagine when you get off the plane, Amy Klobuchar is just waiting.

Not now, Amy.

What to like whip a clock at you?

Not today, Klobuchar.

Yeah, you can't walk anywhere in Minneapolis without worrying that like you're going to get just whipped with a stapler from an open window.

She's like a sniper.

How does she do that?

I'm waking up with a fork in my hair, but no one was in my room last night.

She sent you a Minneapolis message.

The Klobfather.

Sorry.

The problem here is that November is wearing a Klobuchar shirt.

A Klobuchar 2020.

That looks so unofficial.

It looks like such a knockoff.

Yes.

It's so beautiful.

And I cannot, I'm hyper-focusing on it.

I'm so glad we're hyper-focusing on my shirt because it's the first of about 20 different things I have to talk about today.

Yes, this is a bootleg Amy Klobuchar shirt because due to like campaign finance laws or some shit like that, American political campaigns stores will not ship internationally.

And so when it came out that Amy Klobuchar had been like, I found the one finance law that's still real.

Yeah, yeah.

And so when it came out, it's the same reason why I couldn't get the official Hillary Clinton like drink koozie, right?

But like

to be chilling and see the rapids with.

That's right.

But so when it came out that Amy Klobuchar had been like femme doming her staffers, that appealed to me politically.

And so I wanted to support her.

And obviously, you know, I can't donate.

I can't sort of like fund.

I can't get like any of the, you know, official merch, but I can show my support.

And I think I might be the sort of chairperson of Britain's for Amy Klobuchar.

Amy Klobuchar for UK ambassador.

Yeah, yeah.

The thing is, I truly believe in my heart that she is an absolute freak.

Brackets, positive, brackets, I think.

Like

the time when she did the rebuttal to the State of the Union and just posted feet for free, along with like a weird thing about her shoes.

I think, yeah, no, I'm like, this woman should be president.

I'm pretty certain.

Yeah.

Imagine her and Liz Trust meeting.

It could have been so beautiful.

I mean, I'm pretty certain they have just not

like a political context.

You know, like some kind of a you think they soiled a couple of bathrobes.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I'm going to the political play party.

Um,

oh, god, I know those are real.

Yeah, it's called the Conservative Party, am I right?

Um, okay, look, we have some, I have two

like big, media, like large, medium-sized mayors

to deal with.

Yeah, I love, I hate this inclusive sizing shit where it's like large, medium, and I'm like, what is that?

Just do two sizes.

Yeah.

You know, what's a, what's a, what's an XL versus a one XL?

I don't understand it.

Like, I know I'm one of them.

These are two Euro large, like this, like a European size large mayor.

It's a 40.

They're a size 40.

This is this is related to one of my woes, actually, because what I've brought, you've brought the two large media mayors, and what I've brought is a kind of like package of some of my bullshit.

I've brought very little that's like explicitly mayor-related.

That's cardinals.

Yeah, I've got some cardinal stuff if you want me to do some cardinal stuff, but I've also got like just some various woes, some things that are happening to me.

I got a bit about like sandals that I can do at any time, drop for hat.

So large, medium.

So look, I have two large medium mayors,

one of whom is Randall Weddell.

Yes.

Because there's so much more to him.

The long promised Weddell update.

The thing is, once we've done America's an episode, we can't ever do them again.

That's a new precept.

We're not going back to the well.

So if anything subsequently happens with Randall Weddell, we can't go back to the Weddell well.

Well, I'd say we can treat him like Eric Adams.

Yeah.

Right.

Where it's like, we will never do a biographical piece on Weddell again.

But if, look, if he holds the parade, well, of course, yes, then that's going to be like Eric Adams.

Is he the first mayor to graduate from up from the from the roundup to the episode proper?

He may be.

And if so, should we give Randall a round of applause for his accomplishments?

A randle of applause.

Yeah.

So we'll just hold for the listener to clap wherever they are.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Just on a train, sort of like in a hub.

Yeah, and then for them to just lean over to your neighbor that's looking at you in public, saying, and you say to them, it's for Randall Weddell for graduating from municipal roundup, and they'll know, of course, what you're talking about.

Of course, of course.

If you see someone else clapping, they're probably also listening to this.

All right, so here's my question for you two because I'm going to let you, you two, decide, and everyone else can vote as well.

So if you're listening at home, vote by concentrating really hard on the answer: do you want to talk about the 25-year-old WhatsApp mayor of Bomjardim in Brazil

first or Randall Weddell first?

I feel like

I want to get the WhatsApp mayor done first, but I also want to do a brief segment of mayoral roundup because we have some mayoral roundups to round up.

Point of order.

It's called municipal roundup.

Well,

in this case, the bit that I'd like to do is called apostolic roundup, and I'd like to replace the traditional hya with some like Gregorian chanting with one hya and a whipcrack mixed in.

So that's not too much.

Let's see what Sam does with this.

We gotta pick a new pope on account of Rest in Power, previous pope, no longer alive.

So you've seen the movie Conclave, perhaps?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm an expert.

I'm pretty much an expert on Conclaves.

Yeah, you've either seen the movie Conclave or you've listened to the forthcoming Kill James Bond bonus episode about the movie Conclave.

I've actually only been in a papal conclave, I've never watched anything about it, but I participated in it.

From that time, you were a cardinal, yeah.

From that time, I was a cardinal in the 90s.

It's like I don't watch sports, but I do like playing sports.

I love voting for the pope.

I go to the park and I do a pickup conclave with some people in the neighborhood.

Shirts, V-Skins, Conclave.

Dunked on by an 80-year-old cardinal at the YMCA.

He's shouting out the names of cardinals you've never even heard of.

You've got to go home and go to the bottom.

The and one conclave videos are so impressive, though.

So,

as is also a precept of the podcast, popes as mayors, right?

Shrimps as bugs, popes as mayors.

And

trees are prince.

And so consequently, we have to take an interest in who the pope might be as a podcast rather than just as people.

so i thought i would i would offer you some of the options as to who the next pope might be um it's a pretty broad field could be anybody um the guy i want it to be is is cardinal tagle who is sometimes racistly called the asian francis right

yeah he's he's he's woke filipino pope or would be woke filipino pope he is less homophobic and transphobic than average, which makes him a sort of like liberalizing reformer and seems personally nice.

Hey, that's that's my hope.

I'm hoping for Filipino Pope.

On the other hand, we have a large Italian contingent.

It has been half a century since we had an Italian Pope.

And, you know, like Francis kind of got in because he was, you know, Argentinian Italian and that was Italian enough for the Italians.

But now they want an Italian.

So.

It's a slippery slope.

You're letting a half an Italian Nick for going to have an Italian Italian, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I think I've seen at one point the front runner I've seen described as, which I don't know,

is Pietro Parolin, who is the like Secretary of State.

And he's like the deep state Vatican guy.

He's like establishment cardinal.

He's not woke.

He's not woke.

No,

he's like managerial.

He's bureaucratic.

I don't know.

He's the way that Joe Biden campaigned without the senility, despite being 90 years old or whatever.

How's his court vision?

Is he like a 3 and kind of guy?

He's like a fundamentals guy, is the same thing.

That's the way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nothing flashy, you know.

No crossovers.

No,

he's a lunch pail po, absolutely.

Absolutely.

There's what he would be with the big gunthic hat.

Yeah.

Of course.

It could also be, we could also get Pope Pizza Baller.

So I should have shaved the basketball joke for the time where that guy is called Bala.

It's Pizzaballa.

It's a pizza that plays basketball.

Yeah,

who's

currently the like,

oh, God, I forget the word for he's he's in charge in Jerusalem, right?

Which makes him in charge of also Gaza.

And this has made him moderately woke.

Cool goatee.

Read some of his homilies.

Pretty cool.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

That's a pretty good name.

That goes pretty hard.

Pretty good.

My preferred Italian here is Cardinal Zuppi, partly because of the name.

I mean

soup.

Yeah, exactly Cardinal Soup.

You're not going in against the

Pizza Valla guy necessarily just on name funniness with Zuppi, but it's something, right?

And he's also the guy who's wokest on LGBT stuff.

Not sure why, but weirdly he is.

Conversely, in Europe, you have this guy, Vim Eyk, Dutch Pope.

Horrible idea.

Never do a Dutch Pope.

I don't want that name.

That's what the Habsburgs were fighting to stop.

Okay.

Yeah.

So Vim Eyck is kind of the inverse.

He's the inverse Zoopie.

He's the anti-zupi.

He's the opposite of soup.

Sort of a salad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because he's the guy who is kind of broadly establishment conservative, but has a real hard on for hating trans people specifically, and nobody knows why.

So it's cool, but basically, like, and then the conservative thing is split between like any number of African cardinals, all of whose religious views are anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, social issues, turbo hitler or uh raymond burke who is pro-capitalist pro-colonialist social views turbo hitler so that's that's the brilliant american guy right yeah yeah yeah that's the guy who looks like a walking stake it's incredible yeah he's awful one of the funniest things francis ever did was kick him out of his apartment in vasconicity just because he felt like it and he didn't want him hanging around so yeah

these are the these are the candidates more or less could be somebody completely unexpected uh but whoever it is, is going to get to become the new mayor and also some other things of Vatican City.

Yeah.

Maybe they'll do something about those wild dogs that have taken over parts of Rome.

It's constant trebuchet battles between different conditieri.

I was going to say,

I'm hoping they'll do something about the people all over the Italian peninsula making handmade guns and shooting each other all the time.

If you listen to our Pope episode, you should listen to our Pope.

That's the only way any of the jokes will make sense.

Otherwise, this is just a straight recounting of like who the guys who might be pope are, which I've just imposed on the podcast because I thought it would be funny.

Yeah.

And you know what?

You were right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And you want us, and if you want to know, hey, why do they think popes are mayors?

We pretty much, we go through more or less the entire argument with Patrick Wyman a couple months ago.

Yeah, or you could get the sort of, you could get at it from the logical corollary of shrimps as bugs.

If you understand why that's so

shrimp as bugs.

I'm actually putting that in the precepts right now, real quick.

What, shrimps as bugs?

Shrimps as bugs, comma, popes as mayors.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

Let's edit the precept that a pope is a mayor to include that shrimps is bugs.

Yeah, I'm just, I'm just going to go through the precepts real quick one more time, just so we get them on the record on a free episode because it's been a while.

Number one, respect for the nation of Albania.

Two, explode the SS Richard Montgomery to see what happens.

Three, Frank Ney was okay as far as we know.

Four, Sarah Palin, no soups.

Five, uh, believe drunken women, six, shrimps is bugs, comma, popes as mares.

We're up to six precepts already.

That's so many precepts.

Yeah.

You see how the Catholics got at it, you know?

Look,

we're here.

We're collecting sayings, and then those sayings can be interpreted by later scholars.

I wonder, maybe a war will begin over shrimps as bugs, popes as mares.

What does they mean by this?

Time to kill each other about it.

That was pontifical roundup.

Thank you for your time.

Also, I'm realizing that I called it two different things.

Like each separate.

I can't get the name of the thing right when I decide the name of the thing.

Well, look, I assume people like that.

I hope so.

Write in.

Don't write in.

Don't write in.

Write in to the Vatican.

Yeah.

Just write to the Vatican.

Hey, there's this cool podcast that gave you guys a shout-out.

You know, maybe you as like an up and coming.

Go to the Vatican.

Yeah.

So where can people follow you?

At Vatican

at Pontiff.

Yeah, I'm actually turning to all the popes,

the hopeful popes, the popefuls

that are all guests of the show right now.

They're all just, they're obviously they're here with us.

They're not speaking.

So I'm telling them to get the Vatican to follow us back on Twitter.

Yeah.

In Blue Sky, it's not happening.

I would love the papal follow back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's cool.

Robert Sarah from Guinea is just doing like warm-ups.

Mario Grech from Malta is stretching.

I was going to say that the trainer's got the big rubber band out for him.

I didn't even mention after these guys.

So

the Hungarian one is just doing sprints tied to a big tire.

Pope training camp.

Seeing Mateo Zuffy with the big battle ropes, you know.

Yeah, the papal combine is really a wonderful time of year.

All right, all right.

You want to talk about some mayors?

I want to talk about some mayors.

I got some mayors.

I got two.

Okay, so we're going to do Lydian Lighted de Silva first, and then we're going to do Randall Weddell.

Okay, perfect.

Great.

We culminate in a Weddell.

Yeah, so these are both, I would say, medium arcana.

Right?

They are inventing a whole new thing that completely fucks the tarot just as part of a metaphor.

Yeah, we got the major arcana, the minor arcana, and the medium arcana.

And the medius arcana, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, like you know, the tower is a major arcana, right?

Or like the

emperor guy flying into the power lines and that air balloon.

We're familiar.

Yeah, this is, this is like the business owner.

You know, the local notable,

the stand-up comedian.

I mean, that's sort of the niche that the podcast is in, right?

That's what we articulate a mayor as, is someone who is neither major nor minor, but just kind of medium

yeah the the medium arcana okay so here is here is lidian lyta de silva the disgraced mayor of bom jardim a city of about 40 000 people in the state of maranao in brazil is the city named nice garden

nice garden shame if something shame if something were to happen to it pretty uh pretty bomb jardine you got here

so bomjardim is a city about 40 000 people in the state of maranao maranao is a relatively low human development index for brazil many Many families rely on like the local school to like feed their kids.

Riley, Riley, I love you.

This is such a graduate scheme way of approaching this.

Okay, I'm going to tell you about this math, the Human Development Index.

So,

let me just try that again.

No, it was beautiful.

Okay.

No, no, no.

It was a compliment.

Kind of.

All right.

Basically, but that's the context here, right?

Is that

a huge amount of money gets distributed to people through like the local school system?

That's how like kids get fed and so on and so on.

The education budget is de facto a lot of the social care budget.

Sounds like an excellent thing to embezzle.

Well, hold on.

So Lydianne Leita de Silva was born on the 9th of Junao, 1990.

So a fellow Gemini, and she brings that energy to the municipal government.

There's two of her?

No, not known.

Not much is known about her life before politics other than that she sold milk outside her front door in Bomjardim for outside her mother's house, and then she worked at a supermarket.

That's resolutely normal.

I'm in my head now thinking of her as the twins from the shining or the twins from that one Australian TV news interview.

Yeah, but then the lift door opens and just milk comes out.

It's going to get in the carpet.

It's gross.

Yeah, that's the real horror of the shining is that the dotel is sort of sour smell.

I played a lot of viscera cleanup detail.

I don't know what to tell you.

I think that is the horror of the shining.

So she sold milk outside her mother's house in Bomjardim, and then she worked at a supermarket.

And at the supermarket, she met a man named Beto Rocha, who was a local rich guy, rancher, landlord, business owner, and general hustler.

Oh, this sounds like the worst guy on earth, or the worst type of guy on earth.

Oh, yeah.

No, he's a piece of shit.

Now, he was running for mayor in 2012, right?

This is when all this sort of kicks off.

However, he fell foul of something called the clean slate law, which says you cannot run for office if you've been done for corruption.

So

what does Lydianne do?

She adopts her boyfriend's surname, calling herself Lydianne Rocha, enters politics, and then like on his ticket.

So like three weeks before the vote happens in Bom Jardim, she's like, vote for me instead of my criminal boyfriend.

So she's like a surrogate candidate.

So like everybody's got the signs that just say Rocha on them and not like her name, you know?

Correct.

So she even changes her name.

So if he like, vote Rocha, they can just keep all that.

In fact, even during her, so she wins, during her inauguration speech, she says, to be clear, I'm representing Betto.

Betto is the one who will be in charge along with you.

I'm just here to do what he says.

I'm not thrilled about that, to be honest.

I like the kind of hurried, along with you, of course, the voter.

He's in charge.

Also, I suppose the people have a say as well.

Not me, though.

My boyfriend, landlord piece of shit you all hate is the one in charge.

And also, I guess, like democracy or whatever.

Yeah, I guess there's going to be some local democracy.

And the thing is, though, you're expecting this to go one way, whereas in fact, it goes another, which is she's elected, she appoints Beto Betto, or his real, his full name is Humberto Dantas dos Santos, uh-huh, to be her secretary of political affairs, run the town.

And then she says, I'm going to go live in Sa Luis, which is like another city.

Did you say checretary?

No, I did not.

Yeah, was the checretary there?

It's like a, like the secretary, but check, you you know?

Yeah.

So she appoints Betto to be like her second in command, quote unquote, her secretary, checretary of political affairs.

And so he was responsible for running the day-to-day like life in the town.

And then she just then moved to Sao Luis and immediately began living a life of quite extreme luxury somehow, even though her salary was only 12,000 reals per month, which is not very much.

So this is, this is interesting then, because now we're thinking about the sort of,

I was going into this thinking, oh, she's going to be like a cat's paw for him.

And then he's going to like run the town through her and he's going to embezzle all the milk out of the schools or whatever the fuck it is.

Right.

But now I'm getting the sense that this guy, this, this piece of shit landlord is maybe like a wife guy type situation, you know?

As it would seem, right?

So it goes some places.

Okay.

So basically she ran away and immediately, the first thing she does is she starts flexing on Instagram relentlessly.

She does not stop posting.

I mean, I'd ask why they all do this, but this seems like part of the point of doing the corruption in the first place is Instagram.

She's very much like doing live, laugh, love corruption.

Like she's posting her Pilates routines, but with like very at expensive studios.

She's posting a lot of like champagne brunches, and she's like posting fat, like, you know, lavender Lamborghinis and stuff.

She's having a great time.

I wouldn't want to do Pilates after a champagne breakfast, I don't think.

Yeah, I would do Pilates before breakfast.

It seems like a good way to like throw up a bunch of champagne, you know?

So basically what she said, that's cool.

So what she does is she never ever goes to Bomb Jardine, to the town she's mayor of.

She's like, yeah, yeah, fuck this shitty town.

It is here to subsidize my lifestyle as a minor influencer.

Yeah, I'm busy dancing like nobody's watching, and I actually am kind of too busy to go there.

I mean, listen, sometimes it takes a whole town.

It takes a village.

to subsidize a girl boss.

It's absolutely right.

I mean, if I could get in on that grift, I absolutely would.

Just reveal a couple of seasons into the show that, by the way, I've been mayor of somewhere the whole time and that like none of your Patreon

donations have ever mattered because I've actually just been using like the town's school budget to pay for everything.

Yeah, how do you think she affords all those Klobuchar shirts?

That's smart.

That's smart.

That's good business.

Yeah.

She's the mayor of a small village in Wales.

It's very far away.

And she's never been.

So she's called the WhatsApp mayor because she never visits the town and she runs everything from whatsapp just by like telling people what to do in a whatsapp group however oh so we're against remote working now i see how it is

if you're a mayor you have to come back to city hall you have to come back and work in the office you know for the fizz of ideas so malrenete grahada says i was lidon's vice mayor but i was often prohibited from attending council meetings it was like a dictatorship via whatsapp

what meetings It's a guy on a phone.

Yeah.

So it's like, so basically, Betto is there administering contracts, essentially.

She's partying it up in Sao Luis.

This is the most cux landlord in the world as well to be like, yeah,

I got my like hot girlfriend and, you know, I made her run as mayor because I couldn't run as mayor.

And then she just left to go to a cooler city.

And I just, she just posts and tells me what to do.

Yeah, essentially.

I told you it doesn't go the way you expect.

And then everyone else who's supposed to be working there is just receives frequent dictatorial orders from her that are like, you know, everyone into the meeting and then like, you know, show me who's here.

Okay, you get out.

And then she just WhatsApps everyone the instructions.

This is cool.

This is cool.

Yeah.

So this is a, but then the local residents began realizing, hey, there are no schools.

Why are we used to have three schools?

Could have sworn we used to have some of these.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, no, they're gone.

So this is, like, I had to go to a lot of like translated Portuguese newspapers for years.

The town of Turi do Augusto in the municipality of Bomchardim, because it's like a municipality of lots of different little cities dotted around Brazil's northeast.

Turi do Augusto has been promised a new school.

This small village of nearly 60 families lies deep in one of Brazil's poorest regions.

Jonas de Silva unlocks a rough wooden door to a building that currently serves as the school and reveals classrooms that have pothole dirt floors, mud walls crumbling, broken water fountains, saying it's more a place to keep your pigs than to teach children.

During term time, 50 kids study here.

In a community like this one with no running water, many families rely on school to provide meals for their children.

He says, when Lydian was mayor, they never had any food at school.

And it was this absence of school meals in particular across Beaumont Ardeem, as reported by parents, that triggered the investigation into the mayor.

and her associates.

Right.

So the authorities looked at Lidian Leite's social media feeds and they were like, okay, well...

the quickest investigation in history because she's just posted on Instagram, like just starved a bunch of kids.

Hashtag corruption.

She says, before I became mayor, I was poor.

Now I have a Land Rover.

Maybe I should buy a more luxurious car because thank you, God, I have enough money to do it.

I can buy whatever I want.

I'm going to spend money on whatever I want.

I don't care what you say about me.

I feel like the classic sort of thing, I feel like a politician, all they have is what people say about them.

That's a key part of the grift, surely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just love that she was, she was like, well, all this money I've stolen.

I also was like, now I'm rich because I'm mayor.

And they'd be like, don't you only make an official salary of 12,000 reals a month?

And she'd be like, no.

Let your voters become your haters on the Instagram of success.

Well, her Instagram bio says, the best place in the world is inside a hug.

I love God.

I love this type of influencer shit so much, for real.

Yeah, she's like, she is kind of like God's perfect mayor in some ways.

Yeah, just all hype, all vibes, just like starving your children and giving them malnutrition in order to pay for her getting a nicer SUV in a city that is not where you live.

The best place in the world is inside a hug.

Is that a precept?

Can we add that to the

bad precepts?

It's certainly one of the better places in the world.

Listen, I love to be hugged.

That's one of those beautiful sentences that only exist when you translate a romance language into English, right?

Like, you just can't generate that language, that sentence in English naturally.

No.

Yeah.

So in 2014, she's removed from office for the first time, but it doesn't work.

What?

Certainly the clean slate law.

She keeps on getting, he basically, basically, she keeps on successfully getting injunctions against the council for getting rid of her.

So it would be like, oh, we can legally get rid of you if you're out of Bom Jardim for more than 10 days at a stretch.

And so every like 10 days, she would just drive through Bom Jardim and then back to San Louis.

Waving out the window.

No gloved hand.

Yeah.

Bye, everybody.

She always had these injunctions that were saying she's been improperly removed.

She's also facing multiple lawsuits, including for unsurprisingly unilaterally cutting teachers' salaries, failing to comply with the school calendar, and failing to provide school meals.

I'm curious about failing to comply with the school calendar.

I didn't realize that was binding on a mayor.

Well, I think it's that she just would like, well, I'm not going to hire.

Because the other thing to know is that the way that the corruption worked here, part of it was through the usual like no bid contract thing, which we'll get to.

Part of it was also just she transferred money from the city's account to her account.

So she'd be like, this is the teacher payroll.

i'm just going to transfer it to my account then buy a better car and she just did that for years

so another thing to note here right is that lighter and rocha they break up in 2015 most cucks man in the world like yeah she she ditches you for another city and a land rover and then she dumps you

and the thing is the only the only thing is is that once they break up, she wants to keep being corrupt, but she is being even less careful about it.

Because

he was being her like coxigliere, you know, like he was, he was doing all of the actual day-to-day work of like transferring the money out of the teacher's payroll into her bank account.

Yeah, like what, what is, what is less careful than never being in town and

Venmo transferring yourself money from the school?

What's what's less careful than that?

Just like looking at the receipts in the office of the school, just like, apparently we spent like 160 reals reals on

Yves Saint Laurent.

So it's more like Betto is the one who's doing the corruption with the no-bid contracts.

She's doing the, what if I just transferred myself the money corruption?

Okay.

I see.

Yeah.

So that's like when people are making a huge hue and cry about this, he leaves and she's just doing the, I'm just going to transfer myself the money corruption.

The Brazilian federal police, they start to look into this stuff.

God forbid a woman does what a man was already doing.

So when the investigation was launched, the public prosecutor's office of Marignal requested the removal of the mayor, and her immediate response was, I don't care.

I want them to investigate.

I want those responsible to be punished if there is one, and I don't know if there is.

She then the next day went on the run.

Just like a statement delivered while she was running down the steps towards her Land Rover, keys in hand.

You actually want them to investigate so they can find the real criminals.

Yeah.

Anyway, I have to go

to Brunson.

So the funny thing, the funniest thing is, though, while she's a fugitive, because she only knows how to govern the city via WhatsApp group, she just keeps doing that.

And she's like, by the way, don't collaborate with the prosecutors.

I'm still the mayor.

She's a digital nomad.

It's fine.

Moving to Mexico, sissy.

Annoying the shit out of the people.

Yeah, the locals hate her, but you know.

So Operation Eden, as it was called, was this investigation against her,

against also

a couple other people, including Dos Santo, Beta Rocha, as well as Antonio Gomez de Silva.

Like there were lots of people in on it.

And it was Fabio Santos de Olivieira, the state prosecutor.

This is again a quote from another

Brazilian newspaper.

Shakes his head in disbelief.

More than 10 people are under investigation with money pilfered from every part of the budget, but especially health and education.

In one case, they contracted fake companies to rebuild three schools in Bom Shardim to steal money from the budget.

In the prosecutor's thick stack of vanilla files, there's a photo of a small store, shelves lined with oil, sugar, and household goods.

He asks, how could this shop win a contract of more than £100,000 to rebuild the school?

But that's what happened here.

We're just going to give the, we're going to run the contract through the grocery store.

And also, the police were investigating transfers of tens of thousands of rails, which were made made from the city hall account to Lydian's personal account.

Cool.

In addition to the mayor, secretaries, former secretaries and businessmen are also being investigated due to regularities found in contracts signed with shell companies.

For example, that one company, Zabar Produciaus, received like 1.3 million Rails and Ecolimp received 1.8 million, but neither company was found to exist.

Ecolymp?

You're telling me that EcoLimp was a phantasmic sort of organization?

There was no real Ecolimp?

Yeah, there was no real EcoLimp.

Ecolymp was,

it was not nowhere to be seen.

Bom Dia Brazil found out that none of the 28 schools planned for innovation were ever renovated, and that two of the companies that won bids only exist on paper.

One of the companies received the Bom Dia Brazil team by closing the door.

Well, there's nothing back there.

It's a shell company.

It's just the facade like a Wild West town.

Yeah, I closed the door.

The entire building falls perfectly around the door like Buster Keaton.

It's Brazil's comedy city, the slapstick town.

So, in 2013, the city government signs a contract with farmers to provide school meals in municipal schools, for which each farmer gets 18,000 rails a year.

One person, Dona Zulede name appears as one of the suppliers.

Then Bomdia Brazil goes to talk to her.

When Dona Zulede says, effectively, I am not a farmer.

I have never planted anything or sold any food.

And then Bomdia Brazil says, How do you get into this?

To which she responds, I don't know.

look i was at a pilates class i made some agreements i don't know how i got this

you go to a champagne brunch in in santa luis and the next thing you know you become registered as a farmer

so 39 days after she fled she then turned herself in and then was sentenced to like wear an ankle bracelet to prevent her from returning to pump chartime and living in san luis was there much risk of that given that she seemingly hated it there i don't think so her lawyer stressed that her youth and inexperience led to her mistakes.

Which, I mean, I think you have a pretty decent mitigation here where you're like, Your Honor, this is the like girlfriend of the local landlord, and then things got out of control.

She is deeply stupid.

Yeah, she's behaving in the way that, like, when there's like an intern at your job that doesn't know what they're doing and they shouldn't be there, and just and then you're like, what have you been doing?

And they're like, printing things.

I've been printing contracts and signing them.

Here's the very funny thing, right?

She goes on the run.

And then like eight days later, her tenure as mayor is revoked.

But again, the town does it too soon.

They don't wait the full 10.

And so the court has to overturn that.

And so she becomes mayor for a fourth time on August 9th, 2016.

Our mayor is wearing an ankle tag and cannot, has switched from doesn't go to the town to is legally forbidden from going to the town.

At the time, Lidian Leito was surprised by her return to political life in Bom Jardim, saying, it was a surprise for me.

I was going back to school when I was informed about the decision.

Incredible.

Then August 11th, 2016, two days later, Lidian is removed from office for the fifth and final time at the request of prosecutor Fabio Santos Diolo Villa.

They start doing the like Australia, America thing, but for whether or not this woman is mayor of this town.

So, yeah, they basically needed her to come back as mayor just so they could fire her properly, which the state prosecutor did right away.

Yeah, but she didn't know that at the time.

So on August 9th, she was like, hey, you're mayor again.

And she was like, what?

Really?

Are you sure?

I'm surprised, but all right.

And then two days later, okay, yeah, no, you're not mayor.

All the situation where this woman hates being mayor and the town hates her being mayor and yet they make her mayor so many times.

The six-time mayor of the city.

She's mayor five different times over the course of like three years.

This is going to throw a non-consecutive term in there for seasoning.

And like, she's, she's the most like anomalous statistically mayor we've ever done.

Like,

uh, eventually, the following year, she was convicted, convicted of administrative offenses and like, you know, millions of rails blocked.

All the frauds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

For all the frauds.

And then they keep like, like, um, like Kwame Kilpatrick, they keep on finding more money that she has to pay back.

She's like, I told you, I spent it on brunch and Land Rovers and stuff.

And then in 2019, she was sentenced to six years in something called open prison for her various thefts.

What is open prison?

Well, like a minimum security prison.

Like club-fed, kind of.

Okay.

Beta Rocha went to jail also for the same stuff.

And then he was also convicted of abusing somebody else.

And so then he was sent to jail for way longer.

Yeah, he went to closed prison or real prison.

Yes, he went to real jail.

So

that's the story of Lydian Leita, the party mayor of Bom Jardim, who never went there.

Wow.

This is like a Cohen brothers movie.

I'm a big fan of this one.

Yeah, I love that.

I love her.

I think she should do whatever she wants.

I hope she runs for mayor again.

Gets out of prison, runs for mayor again.

I learned my lessons.

All right.

As a condition of your parole, you have to not run for mayor of Bom Jardim.

Got it.

Checking in with your parole officer who makes you like piss test to see if you've been running for mayor or not.

Hey, Lidian, it looks like you've been released.

And she's like, what?

Early?

And they're like, yeah,

a procedural accident has occurred in your mayor again.

And then they have to put her in prison again two days later.

By being mayor and not mayor, she's doing it so quickly that she's generating free electricity.

I was going to say, it's a quantum superposition.

The city's mayor, go boss Franz Kafka.

So I wanted to take, I want our second course now.

Randall Weddell.

Randall me Weddell.

The long-promised Randall Weddell biography episode.

Now, there's not a lot of new information about him, so we're going into his past.

Doing a deep dive on Weddell.

A deep dive in the Weddell side.

Get me Weddell.

Randall Weddell is a Kentucky businessman in the reverse logistics trade.

So he owns a company called WB Transport, which is a basically what they do, and he owns like six related companies.

And he owns logistics.

Just sounds like a euphemism for like theft.

Like

just like in goodfellas, you know, like after the airport reverse logistics, everybody was eaten.

He's unfathomably like local rich, basically.

From his business in transporting things in reverse.

He's transporting the inverted time containers from Tanet.

He's running the truck's odometers backwards to resell them at a lower mileage than he bought them at.

Does Randall Weddell move through time in the same way that we do?

Because possibly the parade has already occurred.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe the parade is occurring horizontally in time.

Yeah, right?

Yeah,

not back and forth.

It was weird.

I asked Randall Weddell about this and he used his kind of like ink appendage to squirt what is kind of a circle with a number of protrusions that i was trying to work out what that meant from first principles you know yeah the first septopod mare we've covered

it's time america's ready heptapod yeah what heptopod it is crucially time uh so the reverse logistics you buy

the question of when america's first heptapod mare was because they kind of all were simultaneously

So

reverse logistics is you buy stuff that's been returned by customers to retailers, and then you either like rip it apart and sell it for parts or sell it at discount liquidation outlets.

It's the most local business that you have.

It was invented by a World War II veteran named Billy Pilgrim.

It's interesting.

So he's like a functionally, he's like a scrap dealer then.

Okay.

Yeah, but he also owns so many businesses around it.

So he has a 200,000 square foot warehouse for his WB Transport reverse logistic business businesses that's owned by

sits on land owned by a company called JRD London whose sole member is Weddle and then he like rents all of his stuff back and forth between himself the guy is insanely loaded

weirdly one of those things is a Brazilian corner store

and like he he's got like you know nine homes he is a local hustler basically

he's the beta rocha of london kentucky in 2022 he wins this hotly contested mayoral race as a political newcomer.

And the reason it's hotly contested is that the previous mayor, who is, of course, in the mayor Taculus as well, was also accused of a lot of wrongdoing.

He was like a sort of self-funded weirdo.

Oh, I love those.

Who spends, who like, he's just like,

I'm not in anybody's pocket because I just funded my own campaign.

He loaned all of the money to his own campaign.

And he beat out the Democratic rival, a guy called Judd Weaver.

He did this in part by hosting, what I can't believe I'm about to tell you, the No Gods, No Mayors second ever report on a free gas giveaway.

This should be illegal.

What the fuck?

It is illegal.

This should be more illegal.

This is

the Tiffany Henyard special.

Yeah.

It was only for senior citizens.

You had to bring a Medicare card.

All right.

I will feel your card

if you're old.

Yes.

And then, and then it caused so much traffic because another mayoral candidate was also doing a free gas giveaway at the next gas station.

Is the United States, I'm not familiar with this, right?

I've only been to the U.S.

once in my life.

Is it common to drive around and get caught in traffic between different like petrol stations and think, oh, it's mayor season?

There must be two free gas giveaways.

I would say this is, as an American, this is unusual.

So, a story in the local newspaper said thousands flocked to the gas station for 50 bucks in free gas as well as a chili dog.

Was the chili dog also limited to old people?

It doesn't say.

No, but it had been dipped in gasoline.

So that could, but however, a complaint then alleges, like a sort of ethical complaint is made about this that alleges that Weddell provided voters also with limousine rides to the polls with instructions on how to vote for Randall Weddell.

This is cool.

I mean, I love this guy.

He like filled up my car.

He gave me a chili dog.

He put me in a limousine to the polling station.

Yeah.

So

basically, a complaint was made to the elections overseer against him and the other candidate who also tried to do the gas giveaway at a different store.

The other candidate, by the way, was the sixth place winner, a family court judge called Jonathan Jones.

So I don't know if he was going to win in Southern Kentucky.

You're giving away gas to get elected as a judge?

I believe he was doing another promotion at a nearby store.

Excuse me.

However,

I need to tell you this.

The complaint was penned by one Charles Douglas Phelps.

Okay.

That's the guy who he accused of being in a pedo clan later.

And was he in a pedo clan?

Well, so Phelps, because remember, there were the three brothers, one of whom pled guilty to possession of like

explicit material involving children in 2013.

This is the guy.

Yo, so the one guy who complained about the gas up your old people event corruption was the town pedophile

Just like oh, I hate stuff that has to do with old people.

That's the opposite of what I like

So

this is

from the side There's all these disgusting like old people with like crow's feet around

They're blocking my view of the school

Charles Douglas Phelps was this school administrator.

I knew he was a school administrator who pled guilty to possession of child indecent material involving children in 2013.

Cool.

I hope they put him in closed prison.

I also hope they put him in closed prison.

Yes.

So this is, and this is, again, a quote from the local paper.

He was pardoned controversially by former GOP governor Matt Bevin at the end of his tenure.

Was one?

I don't know.

It's like, no, this guy, Matt Bevin, at the end of being a governor, pardoned so many people, but like this kind of guy.

Electing like a creep governor.

He's an abolitionist, but just for creeps.

So when contacted about the complaint, Phelps said Weddell was, quote, behaving like an idiot with a lot of money.

I filed the complaint against Mr.

Weddell in the gas giveaway because I thought it was the right thing to do.

Little did I know that my tip was the proverbial tip of the iceberg, which, as we are now seeing, Weddell responds, this dude has done nothing but talk about me for the last two and a half years.

They can keep writing articles about me so long as they can keep writing about old Charles Manson, I mean, Doug Phelps, men of his character can totally be trusted, Weddell wrote.

I'm distracted reading about Bevan's pardons here.

He just loved pardoning people, but including some pretty horrible people.

But Wikipedia says he pardoned or commuted 428 people in his final month of office, including 336 mostly white drug offenders.

great

yeah

what's up with that i'm sure i'm sure that's a really balanced approach in kentucky yeah uh-huh the rest of them all appear to be creeps

a general creep amnesty

god damn so this is the election itself and again they're because this is so local

so much of this is on like inaccessible facebook groups or stuff that like there are hints of what of what happened right i'm doing the best the thing is we can't send send like a field reporter to London, Kentucky, because then, you know, the Pedo clan might get them.

So we've just got Riley, like Vigo, Mortens, and Lord of the Rings kneeling down and like smelling the ground.

We're doing like OSINT, you know?

Yeah.

A mayor passed by here.

Little traces of sash.

Picking up a little torn piece of sash and crying.

Not idle, not idly idly does the sash of Lorien fall.

So this is an article from 2022, and it's really short because it's like a little local update thing.

I want to read the whole selection because the final line is crazy with what comes before it.

Transparency of city council meetings was a key topic of conversation between Weddell and candidate Judd Weaver.

Judd Weaver said, these meetings should be given, live streamed.

However, it needs to be done to get it at the citizens.

That's first and foremost.

Weddell agreed, we must live stream this stuff.

And then all of us that you elect into office can be accountable for the things that are being said and done inside the council meetings.

Both candidates were successful businessmen saying of downtown, we need to make it easy access for downtown to be vibrant so we can look at the ordinances restricting business owners from doing things downtown.

This is Weddell.

Weaver said, there's a lot of things going on in Main Street and a lot of opportunities and possibilities for businesses that come really fast.

The conversation degenerated when both men accused one another of stalking and hiring private investigators.

I've been able to find nothing more on that.

Just like a pretty, pretty kind of normal municipal conversation.

By the way, each of these men believe the other is having them stalked.

Yeah, both mayors gang stalked.

I'm a gang stalker, honey.

We torment innocent mayors.

How many private investigators can the town of London, Kentucky have?

I assume they're like bussing them in from out of state.

You're just getting a bunch of like Tennessee NPIs coming into town.

There's 7,596 people who live in London, Kentucky.

So like if there's if there's two, that is a significant number of private investigators per capita.

Consider this.

A bunch of different private investigators from all over the south coming to town in a controversial race between two mayors.

That is a late season episode of Justified.

The private investigator conventions in town.

And most of them don't just come for like the two days of the convention.

They actually come for a few days on either end to pick up any extra work there might be yeah yeah yeah ralph stedman did some really cool drawings uh of of those guys

so um also we have one listener in london kentucky uh who i invite please stay safe what was it like when every private investigator in the world was there yeah they've they've actually got 15 per thousand per 10 000 people in london

this is the rare please do write in listener in london kentucky uh to please fill in any gaps that i'm inevitably leaving because the amount of information on this is so scattered.

Not in a way that endangers yourself, though.

Yeah, no, just whatever you know offhand.

However, Weddell's first brush with controversy comes in 2022, between 2022 and 2024.

Because starting in 2021, December, a series of donations linked to Randall Weddell through business or family ties were made to the Kentucky Democratic Party and Andy Bashir's campaign for governor.

So, you know, like the previous GOP governor, it's it's like it's a war between the governors as well, right?

Because the previous guy pardoned Phelps and now, you know, fucking Weddell is funding his opponent.

So about $700,000 in donations to either the Kentucky Democratic Party or Andy Bashir were made by people with either people with ties to Weddell, his family, his lawyers, like everybody who knows Weddell ends up maxing out donations to Bashir.

Maybe they're big like trans rights people.

I don't know.

But however, what happened was, it turns out that to save time, Weddell just kept putting them on his own credit card.

He handed his credit card to every one of those people in perfectly good faith.

And they on their own authority decided to max out their donations to Andy Bashir.

Your honor, they all told me they needed jeans and I was helping them out.

So, yeah, so that basically it was.

The Kentucky Lantern, this

local paper, is like, hey, it seems weird that Bashir is getting like these concentrated donations where is this coming from and they're like what the it's randall weddell the republican mayor of london kentuckies donating like near enough a million dollars to the democratic governor out of spite maybe yeah well there we're there's a little bit of quid pro quo allegedly

yeah so most the the the lantern the um uh lantern rights most of the contributions in late 2020 to attributed reports to his family members and employees were actually made by weddell and his personal credit card uh-huh uh the bashir campaign and party quickly reported

to the election board that Weddell said he had done so by accident and made excess donations on his credit card.

Yeah, I enter into a fugue state and donate a lot of money to Andy Bashir.

This is what I was doing when I got the Clovershaw shirt.

He wasn't even doing, he was trying to do straw donors, but he just was too kind of ofish to do it properly.

So yeah, it was about $202,000 had to be refund that he put on his credit card, had to be refunded to Weddell.

Incredible.

So in 2023, Weddell starts getting

quids pro quo.

For example, like a whole state road building project that benefits his business gets moved up to be constructed ahead of schedule, or Bashir appoints Weddell to a spot on the advisory board of the Kentucky Transportation Center.

On June 10th, 2022, he submits his application

to join the board four days earlier on June 6th, 2022.

The application included only Weddell's name and phone number.

It was otherwise entirely black.

It just said the word wink?

That's also, Weddell

is no stranger to defamation lawsuits.

In early 2024, in February, Weddell files suit against a woman named Sherry Smith, who reportedly said that Weddell would have people's cars vandalized for staying at bars and restaurants for too long.

Do you get like a warning in that situation, or is it just I go outside and find that the mayor's goons have destroyed my car like in Reacher?

So Smith said, one of the ways

you can is say, well, you can't prove or disprove this person's statement, and it's a fact.

But if you can't, then it's an opinion.

And the statement that we have here is, support London.

The mayor and his cronies are marking tires if you spend too much time dining or watching Reed play ball.

In the lawsuit, Weddell claims that Sherry Smith made several posts on Facebook about him between 2023 and 2024.

Why doesn't the mayor want people eating at restaurants?

You need throughput.

You know, that's just good business.

That's the logistics.

You're not even standing outside the restaurant.

You got to turn those tables over.

It's good for the margins.

If you keep hogging that four top, I'm going to let the dare out of your tires.

Shut on the campaign phone.

Maitre D's picking up the red telephone that rings the mayor's office.

We got a party of two that just ordered two dishes and they will not leave.

Yeah.

Oh, there is a there is a six top of ladies that are getting starters as mains.

Oh, my God.

And they do not.

They're splitting one salad.

Plate.

The mayor's goons just slide down a fireman pole and just drive to the start.

They're all coming out of the baseball dugout like in the Warriors.

Yeah.

They're writing on the tires in chalk.

Like they recommend three small plates per person, actually.

Yeah, in London, Kentucky, when they say, have you been here before?

Because it's a bit of a different experience to other restaurants, they mean that shit.

It's more of a warning.

So, anyway, I don't know if this was necessarily true,

but it is.

The mayor appears to have sued someone who believes that

his goons are vandalizing cars for people who stay at restaurants for too long.

So, this brings us to 2024, and Weddell is just fully embattled at this point, right?

We didn't know, like, we didn't know how embattled he was when we first talked about him.

But yeah, he's like, all of this stuff has been dogging him.

So this is December 2024, Doug Harless is shot by the police, which is the inciting incident that causes the Phelps, who all hate him, to start complaining about him a lot at city council.

And then he goes on the true crime podcast and is like, yeah, they're a pedophile family.

Cool.

So that brings us to the present day and the parade that has not yet been.

The pedophile parade.

If you want to recap, just in case people have not listened to all the Weddell alia, do you want to quickly recap what the Pedo, the Pedo Parade is, please?

So the greatest parade the world has ever known or will ever know is when Randall Weddell and his lawyer, Jeremy Bryan, after being accused, themselves sued for defamation by the Phelps brothers because he called them all a pedo clan, including two other brothers against whom there's been no indication they ever did anything.

He went on a podcast that's released on YouTube that's been since deleted, unfortunately.

Call says, Well, you know, well, obviously, these guys would hate me.

They're all paedophiles

who has never like popped off slightly too hard in a legally inadvisable way on a podcast cast the first stone.

So the uh, so then they sue him, and then he and his lawyer, who's a little guy, Randall Widdell's a big guy and his lawyer's a little guy.

It's great to see them together.

You got to have that dichotomy.

You have to.

Yeah.

They say...

Character design for your cast.

They say that if these lawsuits aren't dropped by a certain date, they're going to line the streets with their supporters and those who've been injured by like the Phelps family for like a parade of accusation.

This parade has not occurred.

However, there was a parade in support of Doug Harless, the guy who was killed by the police, basically being like, hey, Doug Harless was killed by the police.

We need better oversight.

Someone should like go down for this.

Because Randall Weddell was very like secretive about it.

He was very, he stonewalled and tried to protect the police department after this happened.

And possibly one of the reasons the parade that wasn't is that the documents that Weddell and Brian are waving around in that video, it appears as though they were obtained illegally because those were expunged after Doug Phelps is pardoned by the governor.

Wow.

So pardons again.

Yeah.

Right.

So basically now

he's now being sued by a bunch of people who are mentioned in those documents that they unlawfully retained and distributed expunged legal records relating to like this interview, interviews with people while they were still like minors and stuff.

The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

The craziest thing about the creep amnesty is that it has such legal force that you can't even

whistleblow on the creep amnesty.

Yeah, absolutely.

Cool.

Yeah.

So the whole, that whole element of it stinks to high heaven.

Right.

Like,

I don't know enough, right?

I assume this is some James Elroy type shit going on here.

It's, it's real bad, I, I imagine.

Yeah.

But in addition to all of this crazy shit happening, Weddell is still just running the town as normal.

Stop to do mess stuff, he has to still go and cut ribbons.

So, his most recent act, possibly coming into force on May 5th, depending on how London, Kentucky votes, is to make bullying a class A misdemeanor for children.

Well, he's like, I've been being, I'm, I've, I'm a victim of bullying recently.

Yeah,

and I just, as a bullying survivor, um,

as a survivor of bullying, yeah.

So, this is this is, I think, us brought entirely up to date

by the Randall Weddell story.

Okay.

With our limited perception of time, with our linearity, this is everything that we can yet comprehend of Randall Weddell.

This is a non-heptopod perspective on Randall Weddell.

Yeah, I've only got the two arms and two legs.

Yeah.

I'm a quadrupod.

I'm sort of a quadrupod.

I'm holding up the whiteboard and it just says mayor with a question mark on it.

The heptopod's wearing a little sash.

Abbott is mayor, process.

He's wearing a little top hat.

Oh,

mayor.

So this is Randall Weddell.

If you haven't seen the movie Arrival,

Seed Arrival, it's a good movie.

You're going to get nothing from this segment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, so.

We've now been brought entirely up to date on the goings-on in London, Kentucky.

While I was doing this, I was thinking like, damn, this really is the world's local politics podcast.

It's one of the most useless concepts you can think of.

I'm so proud of us.

Yeah.

Now we're following the London, Kentucky town council.

Like on May 5th, are they going to make bullying a Class A misdemeanor or not?

They're going to know about it if they do or don't.

Yeah, I mean, this is, say what you will about this podcast.

But it's the only one that could both study the local goings-on contemporaneously in London, Kentucky, Kentucky, and esoteric fascists in an outpost of Italy that later got handed back to Croatia.

All right.

So these are my mayors.

If you don't like them, I have others.

But these are the ones I have for you today.

These are beautiful mayors.

I really like them.

Yes.

Yeah.

Thank you for these mayors.

There are two more stars in the sky today, I think.

Two medium-large mayors.

Two medium-lars, both alike in dignity.

But you see what I mean about how there's smedium mayors.

There's like a good...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Neither's enough to carry an episode on their own, but together, together they provide a gestut, you know?

Too big for a municipal roundup, too small for a whole episode themselves, yet together transforming into like Voltron, they are the medium large, the smedium mayor.

The Metaculus has such wisdom to sort of like arrange this for us.

Yeah,

I would say that they are big, but it's the municipal roundups that got small.

Yeah.

Tiny here.

Sash got smaller.

Vision got bigger.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

I think that about does it for us today on No Gods, No Mayors.

But thank you very much for listening to this free

episode.

Free.

Free episode.

And

I think I'm mayor again next week.

I'm sorry to take so long away from me.

No, no, that's quite all right.

November's in sort of what we refer to on the podcast as open prison.

Yeah.

And she's legally barred from, she's driving through the town waving to us,

but is legally barred from being mayor for a couple of weeks.

I'm going to think of who I do as mayor again.

I'm really liking

leaving the sort of English-speaking world.

I especially like Portuguese speaking mayors for some reason.

I was going to say, you're really deep on, you love to Google translate Portuguese news articles.

Yeah, I am, I'm a fully, I'm, I'm lusso-pilled

in terms of, in terms of my mayor.

So I'm going to think of another, possibly non-English-speaking mayor.

And we're going to have a good, we're going to have a good time with that.

If people wanted to listen to the next episode of the show, how would they do that, Riley?

Because this is a free episode.

Well, thank you so much for asking.

You would go onto Patreon.

You could go to no godsnomares.com.

There'll be a link to the Patreon there.

Wow.

Go to nogodsnomayors.com and pay five whatever five American dollars is going to be be worth in two weeks' time.

Whatever that is in two weeks time.

It's a trillion reales.

Yeah.

It's five reals now.

It's not too weak.

Although, at time of recording, President Capitulator has capitulated on everything.

We'll talk about it on Trash Eats.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So, you know, look out for that.

Anyway, okay.

Thanks, everybody, for listening to the mayors.

Oh, wait.

I have a plug.

I have a plug.

Real quick, very quick, very quick.

I have a show at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn on May 9th, genderpodcast.com slash live.

You can come see our variety show.

It is fun and good.

And if you like transsexuals doing capering for you, it is the show for you.

That's the show.

That's the show to attend.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now, bye.

Bye.

Now, bye.

Bye-bye.