No Gods No Mayors

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. Listen to the whole thing over on the https://nogodsnomayors.com ! Just five bucks a month gets you double the mayors. https://nogodsnomayors.com.

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. Get on the Patreon to get double the mayors! ------ thank you to actual, factual mayor Paavo ”GCM” Arhinmäki, the graffiti mayor of Helsinki, and intrepid listener Ilman Paineet --- Bumper audio credits: radio band.wav by Paper Jam -- https://freesound.org/s/78391/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Fm Radio Static Brown Noise by IcedPhoenix49 -- https://freesound.org/s/732437/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 LASRGun_Retro Laser Zap Synth_Funky Audio_Sonic Spices by Funky_Audio -- https://freesound.org/s/729389/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Metal Hop Loop.wav by BaDoink -- https://freesound.org/s/535233/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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. Listen to the whole ep over on the Municipal Benevolent Feed at nogodsnomayors dot com!

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. This is a BONUS episode –- head on over to the Patreon to listen to the whole thing. Just five bucks a month for double the mayors! 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) --- Bumper audio credits: FM radio tuning by MrAuralization -- https://freesound.org/s/269702/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Digital Radio Rack Unit Power Button 1_1 by Joao_Janz -- https://freesound.org/s/477618/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Fm Radio Static Brown Noise by IcedPhoenix49 -- https://freesound.org/s/732437/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 LASRGun_Retro Laser Zap Synth_Funky Audio_Sonic Spices by Funky_Audio -- https://freesound.org/s/729389/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Dirty 1970s American Garage Rock Guitar Riff by artemditkovsky -- https://freesound.org/s/860935/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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. You can head on over to the Patreon – which you can join by the way for just five bucks a month! - to see the various visuals we mentioned in the episode.

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! This is a BONUS episode. Hop on the Patreon to hear the whole thing.

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? Head on over to The Patreon to get double the mayors!

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? Subscribe to TENE here! This is a FREE episode. Sign up for OUR Patreon at nogodsnomayors.com to get double the mayors for just five bucks a month.

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! Listen to the whole thing over on the Patreon! Just five bucks a month. https://nogodsnomayors.com!

Mayor Mattie is your Cryptkeeker (?) this week, and brings you tales of municipal maladies! Buckle up, boys and ghouls! We hope you like CATHOLICISM. This is a FREE episode. Just five bucks a month at nogodsnomayors.com gets you DOUBLE the embattlements.

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! This is a BONUS episode so head on over to the Patreon to hear the whole thing.

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. This is a free episode! Get double the mayors for just 5 bucks a month at https://nogodsnomayors.com

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. Listen to the whole thing over on the Patreon!

Before you listen! Here are the unlocked eps: 36 Francis Suarez 67 Joe Carollo This week, mayor Riley completes his Miami Trilogy. Make sure you're wearing your best robe and slippers. Are those helicopters? We've unlocked two episodes from the NGNM Patreon, which you should consider subscribing to! Just 5 bucks a month, for two extra episodes a month!

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! Listen to the whole thing over on The Patreon.

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. This is a free episode of NGNM, for double the mayors why not head over to our Patreon at nogodsnomayors.com and sign up for the Municipal Benevolent Feed? Just five bucks a month for double the mayortaculus!

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? Sign up for the Patreon today and get twice as many mayors!

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? This is a FREE episode. Why not get on the Patreon and get double the mayors? Just a thought. nogodsnomayors.com

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." This is a free episode! Join us on the Patreon and the Municipal Benevolent Feed for double the mayors!

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. This is a BONUS episode, you can hear the whole thing over on the Municipal Benevolent Feed at nogodsnomayors.com for just five bucks a month. Back on the free episode next week!

LIVE SHOW ALERT: head to live.nogodsnomayors.com to get your live show tickets, now including Sunday 2-packs and LIVESTREAM tickets! 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. This is a free biweekly episode, Join the Municipal Benevolent Feed for double the mayors, why don't you? Lots of audio credits this week for the drivetime radio bumper: thank you to actual, factual mayor Leeman Kessler of Gambier, Ohio for sending that in and, we guess, listening to this show??? FM radio tuning by MrAuralization -- https://freesound.org/s/269702/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Digital Radio Rack Unit Power Button 1_1 by Joao_Janz -- https://freesound.org/s/477618/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Fm Radio Static Brown Noise by IcedPhoenix49 -- https://freesound.org/s/732437/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 trombone stretching 15 by PhonosUPF -- https://freesound.org/s/501278/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Rock guitar riff at 130bpm by RockerPlate -- https://freesound.org/s/817766/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

🚨SHOW ALERT🚨 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. This is a bonus Patreon ep – Listen to the whole thing on the Municipal Benevolent Feed!

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 guy. This is a FREE episode. Hop on the Patreon to get double the mayors.

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. Join us over on the Patreon to hear the whole thing!

NO GODS NO MAYORS LIVE SHOW TICKETS!!!!! live.nogodsnomayors.com 3 shows, April 25 and 26 at Big Belly Comedy Club on the South Bank. The three shows WILL be different. Get your TICKETS! 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. Head on over to the No Gods No Mayors Patreon to listen to the whole thing! 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. Get on the No Gods No Mayors patreon for double the mayors! Listen to November's new podcast Be Gay, Solve Crimes! Grab Mattie's new book why not!

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!!! Head over to the NGNM Patreon to listen to the whole thing. Nogodsnomayors.com !

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. Hey did you know that you can get double the mayors by joining the Municipal Benevolent Feed on our Patreon? nogodsnomayors.com

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. Listen to the whole thing over on the Patreon at nogodsnomayors.com! 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." This is a FREE episode! If you like the show, pitch in 5 bucks a month on the Patreon and get double the mayors! https://nogodsnomayors.com

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. This is a BONUS episode, listen to the whole thing on the Municipal Benevolent Feed at nogodsnomayors.com!

Buffalo: The town that killed Big Bill McKinley. Friend of the show Hesse joins us to talk about mayor and classic drunken guy Jimmy Griffin. Get all your rhyming-named henchman (Boots, Scanoots, et al) and listen up! Hesse is on the Bottleman now with Riley! The Bottlemen is back! It's called "Trouble in River City" now! Also this is a FREE episode – why not join the Mayoral Benevolent Feed for twice the mayors? Are you in London? Take the listener poll about our possible live show!

That's right! It's the name on EVERYONE'S LIPS: Glant! Spiritually our most Epic Millennial mayor so far, Palmer Lake Colorado's Glant Havenar is NOT serving. And she loves to TEXT! Listen to the whole thing on the Patreon at nogodsnomayors.com

Beep Beep Beep Beep, get ready for our most bleeped episode yet? We salute Eric Adams and then talk about CopMayor: The Mayor Who Thinks He's A Cop. This is a free episode. Why not join the Municipal Benevolent Feed and get double the mayors?

It's the holiday week so we are slacking off, we mean, answering your questions!!!! Learn what kind of mayors we'd be, who our favorite mayors are, and more! Hear the whole thing over on the Municipal Benevolent Feed.

Yahoo, Albertans! Climb in. This week, mayor Riley takes us on a whirlwind tour of Calgary's extremely drunken mayor, Ralph Klein. Don't like him? Well, we wouldn't have the saddledome, a big dome shaped like a saddle (kind of) without him. Don't worry, he's got a GREAT idea about where to get ducks and eels. Subscribe to our Patreon to get double the mayors!

This week, we're joined by a special guest mayor, Blood Work's Gregk Foley to talk about São Paolo's own Baron Harkonnen, Paulo Maluf. You're not gonna believe this, but this is another "he steals but he works" kind of mf. Get on the Patreon to listen to the whole thing. This one has slides?

This week, mayor November brings us a very ambitious and very flawed man, Mr. Newcastle himself, T. "The" Dan Smith. A self-described "fool surrounded by a pack of leeches." Will he succeed in turning Newcastle Brutalist? Will we find out why he lives in a mansion? Find out! Join The Patreon to get double the mayors! Wow! Looking for a holiday gift? Why not pick up Mattie's new book.

Is this the worst guy we've ever done? He's not good. He's The Squisher himself, the inventor of Ibericopessimism. Ring ring, we're getting in the hot tub to talk about Jesús Gil y Gil. Listen to the whole thing on our Patreon!

This week, Mayor Mattie takes us to New Orleans to talk about the mayor with her own Dick Domicile, and also a bunch of other corruption things as well! But we support her. Mostly. get on the Patreon for double the mayors! and if you're in Boston, come see Mattie at MICE next weekend!

After a brief jaunt into the exciting world of Mayor4Mayor Power Gap Relationships, Mayor November takes us to early 20th-century Seattle to talk about one of the world's slipperiest men, Hiram Gill. What is WAPPY? You'll have to listen to find out. Also we get weirdly nostalgic about the never-attempted 1917 American Communist Revolution. Listen to the whole thing on the Patreon!