PREVIEW: Bill de Blasio

It's harder to do without the camera.

I know.

I'm going to do that every single time because I think it's really funny.

Yeah, I'm sorry we don't have the camera.

I have to emphasize, I have moved house due to my landlord evicting me.

And so I am now in.

You did everything right and they invicted you.

And they invicted me.

And I'm now in a much smaller room with much worse internet.

And

it is boiling in here.

So you are going to get the podcasting experience of me as a kind of like stoker on a steamship.

I got my shirt off.

I'm like sweating.

I got like a big moustache, you know, rippling muscles.

They should have called, they should have called it Bram Stoker's Steam Shipula.

That's true.

They should have called, they, they should have called that.

Hello, and welcome to this bonus episode of No Gods, No Mayors.

Thank you for paying into the Mayoral Benevolent Fund.

I am your mayor for this episode, Maddie Levchansky, and I'm joined as ever by my deputy mayor's November Kelly, and of course, Riley Quinn, who is a man, by the way.

Uh-huh.

I'll tell you, for God's honest truth, I almost said, hey.

Riley, trying not to.

I mean, obviously not that you can tell the difference, but I have been doing voice training for the first time in in a bit.

So Riley, if you'd like any tips, please.

You know, I'm happy to share the like worksheets with you.

I'm all, yeah.

Heat from fire, fire from heat.

That lady talks too much about technicalities.

All right.

About technical, technical terms.

You want to do a vibes-based one?

Okay.

So I was going to forego the municipal roundup because we got a lot of the items rodeo I thought was not coming to town, but I've just been informed by Riley that it is.

So we are going to present to you

the speed roundup.

Sam, give us the speed roundup music sam could you please play the normal municipal roundup music but really fast

okay

last friday mayor randall weddell was impeached as the mayor of london kentucky i can't believe this happened

rip to a room

this world is fucking sucks i don't believe it don't talk to me so we just can't have nice things real kentucky patriots we're going to london city hall tomorrow that's right we we just have to persist persist in this doomed world we've created, you're telling me.

Like, the thing is, right?

If you're of like our sort of rough aing range, then you do not see many elections covered in the media that go your way.

It's true.

This is absolutely one of them.

Yeah.

So, sorry, that was the speed roundup.

Yeah, this was one of the ones that like gave me hope.

And yeah, no, now it's gone.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, Randall Weddell is why I decided to start supporting Zach Polanski and get involved in electoral politics in Britain again.

I mean,

the way things are going with the Labour Party, I think if Zach Polanski announced a kind of anti-Chomo parade, he might do quite well off of that one.

Easy now, TF.

We got to save it for TF, or we will have to have saved it for TF.

That's right.

Thank you for those

beautiful items.

Everyone would have wanted us to talk about it no matter what.

Of course.

Yeah.

No, I needed to have my day ruined with that piece of news.

Okay.

Sorry.

I'm sorry for.

No, no, no, no, no.

Don't be sorry.

You're friend.

Or Or sorry.

So anyways, thank you for that.

Yeah.

So the first order of business.

So the first order of business on the episode is we actually missed talking about it, but we just, we just passed one year of this here podcast.

Whoa.

So I want to raise our Oscar Goodman.

It feels like only yesterday.

And now

I want to raise our Oscar Goodman-sized martinis up as a toast to you, the listener.

Those things are huge.

So remember to lift with your knees.

What you want to do is lift with like a jerking, twisting motion and like really unbalanced as well.

You're going to try and get like one foot off the ground and then just like yank, you know?

And you got to twirl the glass over your head so you can drink it.

And then as it gets lighter, it gets easier.

Yeah, though, be careful while you're twirling the drink so the olive that's the size of a basketball doesn't hit anybody important to you.

Sincerely, though, thank you so much.

The podcast is one of the true joys of my life, and I want to thank my beautiful co-hosts for the honor of doing this.

There's lots of pleasure.

It's an absolute pleasure.

I'm just appreciate it.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you to the listener.

Thank you to my co-hosts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If we're, if we're doing Sincerity Corner for a moment,

this is

a

this is certainly one of the bright spots of my of my life.

I look forward to it literally every week.

Yeah.

Sometimes I get so excited about a mayor that I'll plan

them three weeks in advance.

Yeah.

It's because I'm so excited to share some doofus.

It's really funny being a podcaster and being like, don't tell the other podcasts that I have favorites, but you're my favorite.

Don't tell the other listeners of podcasts that there are favorites, but you, the listeners, are you

compartmentalize that information from the part of yourself that listens to Trash Future or There's Your Problem or Kill James Bond.

You know, I love all my children equally.

That's right.

Apart from Bart.

Or Temporal Culture War.

I love all my children equally, but let's just say

the college fund for No Gods No Mares is bigger.

Anyways,

I love all my children equally, but No God's No Mares is the one that's going to get this family out of middle classdom and into like real wealth.

No God's No Mares is, here's a great segue.

No Gods No Mares is the only podcast that I have that'll get me out of poverty because it can hoop.

Anyways, because he's tall enough because we're getting Popey Blasio today.

Anyways, we talk, we talk.

What a segue.

We talk about New York on this show a lot.

But because it has been a year, we are kicking off another couple of weeks of Hometown Heroes.

And my pick is the first mayor i believe we are covering as a podcast where one of the three of us voted for the guy

that's right we are talking about new york city's most lovable and most hatable oaf of all bill deblasio i've heard of this guy

department of corrections department of corrections

I voted for Rob Ford,

but that was on accident.

It was a joke.

It was a joke.

I put quotation marks around my ballot.

Under woke socialist Zaran Mamdani, what the New York City Department of Corrections will do is correct errors in podcasts by inserting a slight, like, you know, addendum.

New York City's bravest baby.

I wrote in Rob Ford in the mayor of London elections a couple of years ago.

No, I'm joking.

I didn't vote for Rob Ford.

Maddie.

Well,

we did Boris Johnson, not Ken Livingston.

We just talked about Ken Livingston a lot.

So I didn't vote for Boris.

I voted for Ken.

So almost.

Yeah, I'm saying almost.

So first of all, I want to do some context here, which is I'd like to explain to everybody what New York City is.

If you've heard of it,

it's a small island nation in the Atlantic Ocean.

Is it like York in England?

Very similar, but imagine it newer.

So that's

Minster.

I understand it to be kind of like mother base from the Metal Gear Solid games.

That's also true.

Everything you think about New York is true.

It's true that sometimes people will have their, will be like uprooted from their entire lives and then deposited in new york i could give the most annoying one of these uh maddie would you say that new york is like uh a mayor in this story in its own regard

yes so thank you okay so let's let's start at the as we often do with the beginning of this this oaf's life the oaf's beginning um so bill deblasio was born uh warren wilhelm jr in 1961.

whoa whoa whoa hold on you're telling me that like bill deblasio is a stage name

It is a gnome de mer,

but it is.

We'll get into it.

It is an actual.

You can't just

name Bill de Blasio like that.

There's not even a Bill in there.

Yeah.

My dead name has absolutely no resemblance either.

You don't have to stick to Riley Quinn if you don't want to.

It's true.

Yeah, not everybody does the stupid thing I did.

So I will will say

you could make an argument, Your Honor, that Bill is short for Wilhelm.

Oh.

Like Bilhelm.

Bilhelm de Blasio.

Yeah.

New York City's first German mayor.

Oh, God.

Okay.

Also, I'm sorry.

I don't mean to keep interrupting you, but it is also my connection is very bad.

And so there is a lag between.

No, here's the thing.

I mean to keep interrupting you in a less obnoxious way than I am due to the fact that there's several seconds of lag.

Yeah, it's no good.

Great.

I was just going to say, Bill de Blasio, as Bilhelm de Blasio is the first mayor who represents Sud Tyrol in New York.

Thank you.

Doing an anti-German scare campaign against him where it's like, you wouldn't trust him with the neutral nation of Belgium.

Would you trust him with your kids' education?

So his family at the time lives in Norwalk, Connecticut, which is like a bedroom community, but he's born in New York City, Go Nicks.

His parents are Maria, an author and the daughter of Italian immigrants.

And his father, Warren Sr., is a World War II vet and budget analyst for the federal government.

They meet while working at Time magazine in the 1930s.

But during the worst...

This is interesting because I'm not hearing anything about where Bill got his love of like bombing cities with zeppelins from.

Yeah, there's very little about that.

So during the worst of the Red Scare, both Maria and Wilhelm, or Warren Sr.

rather, are accused of ties to communism and booted out of the government, basically, because Warren had studied the Soviet economy while at Harvard, and Maria was a very active unionist.

They moved to Connecticut, where Warren works at Texaco as an economist, and Maria worked for the Italian consulate.

It's very funny.

Very funny to get like kicked out of the federal government for being a communist and go to work for Texaco.

You know, communist sympathizers that they are.

Yeah, I'll show you who's a communist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Getting a job with United Fruit in the like machine gunning division.

What do you mean, Zapata Petroleum doesn't employ people with my background?