PREVIEW: San Francisco Grab Bag with Shanti Singh

You're clapping again.

I don't have a beep.

You detransition into a beach.

I don't have a beep.

They took away my beep.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Are you saying that this is the main problem with the move?

Is that you're one of those?

I don't like change.

And Nathan Bethay took away my sensor beep.

He censored my sensor beep.

Nathan Bethay, if you're listening, we will find you.

And we will kill you for this.

I should just do like malicious non-compliance and just reinstall the old mixer.

Things were better then, apart from the audio quality.

And since when has that ever mattered for a podcast?

Never.

Never.

It's beeps.

It's beeps the audience often doesn't hear.

Before I agree or disagree, let me just have a sip of coffee on Mike.

The thing about No Gods No Mares is we're part of a bold new experiment to alienate and denoy the listener as much as possible.

I was thinking, what if we, instead of sinking on a clap, we could sync up on like making like a mouth noise or a sip.

Like a horrible slurp?

Yeah.

What if instead of like the thing that we've conceded now, which is no more two-part episodes, it's all three-pass episodes.

So

if you don't pay us, you miss out the middle bit and nothing else.

Or no, every alternate one, right?

Because it's like if you don't pay us, you never.

It's like muscle confusion.

You learn to get really good at interpreting the other missing parts of stories.

Doing mayor or rashamon

every episode is kind of a mayoral rashamon because it's what I remember from the notes.

That's kind of true.

Yeah, yeah, and plus some really beautiful shot composition as well.

Oh, yeah.

I was thinking we could do more of like um a mayoral yojimbo where it we all sort of fake being really bad at doing the mayor podcast.

Okay, but which of us which which of us is toshiramifune and and mayor or yo jimbo uh i'm the guy i will i'm you're the guy period i i'm the giant guy for now

yeah the giant samurai for now

for now

yeah you could be you could be one of the women that gets like chased around with a sword by her father you know you could be one of the women period yeah

i look i also want to wait isn't it my this isn't my episode i'm not mayor of this episode

you were elected mayor of this episode and then stepped down in disgrace before the episode got going.

Actually,

I had to read Boris Johnson's political memoir, and it's 700 pages long.

A peek behind the kimono as I had to take over.

I'm the interim mayor.

As he racistly titled it.

Much like one of the mayors of San Francisco since Gavin Newsom has left office.

I am an interim mayor stepping in full-time.

Are we doing a mayoral multi-pack?

We're doing a mayoral multi-pack today.

But first, thank you for donating to the mayoral benevolent fund and joining us here on the bonus feed.

I'm the mayor of the episode, Maddie.

I'm with my deputies, Nova and Riley.

We are also joined by our first returning special acting deputy mayor, San Francisco expert, Shanti Singh.

Welcome back, Shanti.

Thank you.

Excited to be back and talk about all of our other shitty mayors.

Yes.

This is kind of like a quick fire round where we run through.

How many mayors total are we talking about?

We have three mayors to talk.

We have two mayors are that are no longer mayor or a mayor on their way out and then one upcoming mayor preview yeah

we have baby mayor so so so what we're saying here is you're no longer allowed to be madness for the two passes because we're kind of like we're repaying that deficit now it's like a bond issue because now we're fitting three mayors into one episode the bill has come due i want to go back to november's number one uh i like the idea so i step down from being mayor but as my punishment i have to be deputy mayor for another mayor That's right.

They should do that more often, I think.

Yeah.

Like ironic roles.

Yeah, Boris Johnson as deputy mayor of London under Sadiq Khan.

Yeah, that would be really funny.

I was like, they should make Eric Adams mayor under our new communist mayor, Zohan Zoran Mamdani next year, in my opinion.

Yeah, I think that would be really cool because then he could do all of the

flag raisings, all Turkish this time, weird.

He'd get to do flag rhythmic gymnastics.

He'd find interesting new ways to raise flags.

Yeah, I think it'd be great.

Is he going to get indicted for like all the other countries?

I thought that there was going to be a set of indictments for each country.

It's like modeling UN Day at the FBI.

They're like, you know, today we're investigating the Turkish corruption allegations.

That's a great segue, everybody, because I have a municipal roundup before we get going.