No Gods No Mayors

Cory Doctorow makes his triumphant return to talk about the strange coincidence that is Clint Eastwood becoming the mayor of "Clintville," aka Carmel California. This guy, it turns out, stinks!

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This week, after an Albania report, a segment we're calling "I'm NOT With (Mayor) Her," and a contractually obligated talking-about of a clout farming mayor, Riley gives us the second installation of his Dallas Trilogy (ed. note: See episode 87, "William Cabell." Excelsior!). Get in your strangely roofless car and buckle up! It's a bumpy one.

Also, preorder Mattie's band's new record why don't you!

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Ahoy! This week on the bonus, we're sailing the seas of municipal news. We bring you tales from the world over! A lonely mayor! An incredible newspaper! A tale of French graphic design! and more!

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Goedemorgen! It's time to go Dutch Mode. This week, mayor Mattie rounds out our olde-timey second anniversary spectacular with Mayor Petrus himself, the final director-general of the New Amsteram colony. This guy was a real peg-legged piece of work.

thank you to actual, factual mayor Dorothy McCabe, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario and listener Clover for the bumper!

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This week, we have our first-ever returning champion – friend of the show and medievalist Dr. Eleanor Janega from We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval – to talk about the Münster Rebellion and one of its weirdest little guys, Bernhard Knipperdoling. How dry is YOUR baby?Well, it better be the right amount of it. We'll be measuring.

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We know that Nova says it's a bonus up top but it's not! We got it backwards. Sorry.

Anyway, this week, November starts our SECOND ANNIVERSARY OLDE TIMEY MAYOR TRILOGY with The City of London's Samuel Starling, a man who hates Quakers SO much. Do NOT doff your hat while listening.

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thank you to actual, factual mayor Paavo ”GCM” Arhinmäki, the graffiti mayor of Helsinki, and intrepid listener Ilman Paineet

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Who's your mayorsona? Who would win in the hot new deckbuilder Battlemayors? Once more, you Q'd...We A'd! Sorry if there's some weird interference early on, it's possible that reality was being made and unmade. Impossible to know.

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This week, mayor Mattie takes us to Von Ormy, Texas to talk about the "Liberty City" movement. It's the story of four (?) mayors.

The story of a town.

The story....of Us.

Thanks to Victoria from Tran Girlismo for Victoria's Car Corner.

Welcome to another episode of "No Dogs, No Mayor" (?) Where mayor Riley takes us to Madrid, to watch an evil man eat shit on a trampoline.

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Also, are you in the DC metro area? Come see Mattie at the Small Press Expo in September! Table G12!

thank you to actual, factual mayor Wayne Brown, mayor of Auckland New Zealand? (and friend of the show Simone)

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This week, Mayor November gets us all killed. Just kidding! We all have a lot to live for and are very confident drivers. She does however cover our first mayor that's been sanctioned by the US government: Kherson, Ukraine's Vladimir Saldo. Grab a meditation drum and kick back.

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After a thrilling voyage across the seven seas of municipal news, we head to the main event: Mayor Mattie brings a town in Texas where the cranks and the freaks have been squaring off since time immemorial (like 2008 or so). And hey, new aesthetic precept!

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WELCOME to No Gods No Mayors Season 2! What does the changeover mean? Not much. Well, we debut the brand-new, rebranded news segment Municipal Broadsides! Anyway, this week, Riley rustles up the most municipally-brained man on Earth, in Honduras. We ask the important question: Is Latin America the true inheritor of the classical world?

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In our third and final London live show from April, Mayor November takes us to...where we are! Well, just on the other side of a bridge from it. You see, "the city of London" is TECHNICALLY... you know what? There's a lot to learn. Just head on over to The Patreon to listen to the whole thing.

We're joined this week by Boris and Rey from The Empire Never Ended to talk about Aleksandar Šapić, the fabulist, extremely buff, former water polo celebrity mayor of Belgrade. Who's ready for a homophobic Rammstein performance?

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This week on the bonus feed, Mayor Riley takes us to the Mato Grosso, and the self-proclaimed "o prefeito mais louco do Brasil," or "the craziest Mayor of Brazil." It gets more normal from there!

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Mayor Mattie is your Cryptkeeker (?) this week, and brings you tales of municipal maladies! Buckle up, boys and ghouls! We hope you like CATHOLICISM.

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This week, Mayor Riley breaks down the Pandora's box the former Denver mayor opened up with his stupid brewpub. Do you live in a second-tier city? Well, this guy ruined it. Sorry!

We are joined by very special guest, co-host of the Iron Weeds podcast and author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America David A. Banks!

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Crank the crank crank...We've got a crank! Mayor November takes us to Canada for a guy that we have to reveal his weird thing first because it's too weird.

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This week, Mayor Mattie dips back into the 19th century New York City well to tell us about Tammany Hall's first mayor, Fernando Wood. Both hot and tall enough to be portrayed by Lee Pace in the film Lincoln, and enough of an asshole to be arguing with Abraham Lincoln about slavery in the film Lincoln.

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Before you listen! Here are the unlocked eps:

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67 Joe Carollo

This week, mayor Riley completes his Miami Trilogy. Make sure you're wearing your best robe and slippers. Are those helicopters?

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After a quick visit in London Kentucky, Mayor November takes us to the suburbs of Manila for a tangled tale of familial folly. Faildaughters, successdaughters, stolen hospital equipment, and a train to nowhere!

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That's right, folks. ONE L. Perfect for an L-bone steak. Don't ask us why. After a London Breed update and a trip to a Georgia town that fired every policeman, Mayor Mattie takes us back to the long 19th century for another made-up-sounding guy, the Boy Mayor of New York City himself! We implore you: don't read this guy's Wikipedia page ahead of time.

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This week on the municipal benevolent feed (nogodsnomayors.com) we've got our second of three recent London live shows. After a Rosemont Illinois update, Mayor Riley takes us, where else, but to Portugal. Your honor, is it illegal to give your FRIENDS a big statue?

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After we all yell at each other about bugs and shrimps, mayor Riley takes us to France for a Gaullist weirdo who also wrote a cookbook?

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Hello! This week on the Municipal Benevolent Feed (nogodsnomayors.com) we've got the first of our three London live shows from a couple weeks ago. We will be parceling the other two as well eventually! So you can sign up for just five bucks a month over there to hear the whole thing.

After a quick visit to the Albanium, Riley takes us to Texas to talk about the closest thing we've got to the polar opposite of Benjamin Butler, the beginning of a trilogy (or two-ology) of Dallas mayors. This guy stinks! Dallas! Like the show "Dallas."

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The LIVE SHOW in LONDON is THIS WEEKEND! Tickets and STREAMING TICKETS available at live.nogodsnomayors.com.

What's up yinz guys? After a quick check-in with our friend Eric Albums, the girls head to Pittsburgh where November tells us about a local crank turned local crank mayor. A real know nothing, if you know what we mean. Whig? Snatched.

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We're joined this week by friend of the show Cory Doctorow to fix some bread prices and talk about ₱€₸€ "Mayor" ฿U₸₸I₲I€₲. We promise that the way that is typed out will make sense. Anyway, you know him, you probably hate him, but: You could hate him more! So join us, in doing that.

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Hello hello hello! SO the three pack of live show tickets for next weekend's Municipal Rodeo are SOLD OUT! So we have released two new things:

Those links again: Saturday Night | Sunday 4PM | Sunday 7PM

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Come to our live show in London at the end of the month!!!!! Tickets!!!!

This week we've basically got a Mega Municipal Roundup for you – we check in on some old friends, and make a couple of new ones, and then we've got a really bad guy Mattie found. Did you see the guy named Hittler? That was pretty funny.

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QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT! If you'd like a discounted 3-pack of tickets to our London live shows, get on that sooner rather than later! live.nogodsnomayors.com. ALSO we are very excited to announce that Myles from Me Rex (and the great "mayoral rodeo") will be joining us as our Paul Shaffer. Come join us!

This week, DEVON (of being Devon and also Kill James Bond) joins us to talk about one mayor who was weirdly not undone by an enemy shark? Weird guy, we really had to do a lot of research at the local library about this...

ALERT ALERT ALERT! NO GODS NO MAYORS LIVE IN LONDON! APRIL 25 and 26! Three shows! https://live.nogodsnomayors.com/

Wer'e joined this week by Charles from Trouble in River City!

Not quite a company town, not just a tax haven. A sort of Spiritual Delaware. The Ireland of the mind. The Grand Cayman of the soul. Mayor Mattie takes us now, to Cook County's most Monegasque locale: Rosemont, Illinois, and the one family with a vice grip on its politics.

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This week, Comrade Mayor Nova takes us through a Romanov failbrother's journey from Twink Commander to First Cosmonaut. Get in your super-elaborate stagecoach, let's go!

This week, we're joined by The Worst of All Possible Worlds' and Ill Conceived's Josh Boerman to talk about Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, and his pet mayor (of Detroit, not Cleveland) Mike Duggan. Get in baby, we're taking a stroll down Gilbert Way.

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PSST! Save the DATES: APRIL 25 and 26 NO GODS NO MAYORS LIVE SHOWS. THREE OF THEM. BIG BELLY COMEDY CLUB. TICKET LINKS SOON!

It's a Mattie special – that's right, a weird guy who sucks extremely! The girls head to Pemberton, NJ, to talk about a guy who just loves getting sued sooooooo much.

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Listen to November's new podcast Be Gay, Solve Crimes!

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Hello, boys and GHOULS!!!!!! This week, mayor NovembAAAARGH takes us to a town that's all SKELETONS and GHOSTS???? San Francisco has a Necropolis called Colma California, and for a while it lived under the iron grip of a casino guy. Spooky!!!

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This week, mayor Riley takes us to the old west, where a French Italian guy buys the most expensive hat in the world and starts a town just to piss everyone else off as much as possible. And then he does....another thing.

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It's our 76th episode spectacular! Time to give away some accolades. WHAT was the best ITEM? WHO was the best mayor (non-lusophone)? All your burning questions answered, and more! Grab your pinstriped suit and your olives the size of soccer balls, It's time to find out who will take home the Golden Martini at the Oscar Goodman memorial FIRST ANNUAL (?) GOODIE AWARDS.

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Awards music by Markus Little: https://www.marlimusiq.com/

This week on No Gods No Mayors, mayor Mattie takes us to the city of Townsville, Australia for an encounter with a man weak of spine and weak of spirit. SAS guy, Cancer survivor, self-described "business man," and Q-Anon if the A an Anon stood for "Australian."

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After a London Fog update with Randall Weddle, mayor Nova takes the rest of the girls to post-Civil-War New Orleans, where one brave and slightly insane man had the right idea for how to do reconstruction, which was: to do it, at all! What a nice story. I hope he didn't enrich himself to a preposterous degree while doing it.

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