No Gods No Mayors Podcast

Jimmy Griffin (with Hesse Deni)

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:00:08 +0000

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 Bottlemen now with Riley! The Bottlemen is back! It's called "Trouble in River City" now! (Link is FIXED)

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Also here's "Bughead," as promised:

Glant Havenar

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:00:14 +0000

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!

She REALLY loves to text.

Frank Melton

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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.

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Holiday Q&A Special!

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:00:14 +0000

It's the holiday week so we are ~~slacking off~~ A'ing your Q's!!!! Learn what kind of mayors we'd be, who our favorite mayors are, and more!

Ralph Klein

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:00:11 +0000

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.

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Paulo Maluf (with Gregk Foley)

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:00:07 +0000

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. Listen to Blood Work! Listen to Blood Work!

T. Dan Smith

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:00:06 +0000

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!

Looking for a holiday gift? Why not pick up Mattie's new book.

Here's Pavarotti:

Here are those renderings, by the way:

Jesús Gil y Gil

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:00:09 +0000

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.

Thank you to friend of the show Rax King for the beautiful London Kentucky Update stinger. Buy her book even!

If you're in Boston? Come see Mattie this weekend at MICE, free to the public!

LaToya Cantrell

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:00:10 +0000

This week, Mayor Mattie takes us to New Orleans to talk about a 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!

Hiram Gill

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:00:07 +0000

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. Also we get weirdly nostalgic about the never-attempted 1917 American Communist Revolution. What is WAPPY? You'll have to listen to find out.

Higino Carneiro

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:00:17 +0000

For this week's free episode, after a brief visit to Butte, Idaho, and a quick New York Minute (did you know there was a mayoral election there?), Riley once again takes us back to the Mundo Lusófono, with Angola's Hignio Carneiro. How much corruption can one man get away with? We don't know, but you can at least build a hunting lodge out of a bunch of MRI machines.

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OH RIGHT:::: November's email is hi@novemberkel.ly

Joe Carollo

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:14 +0000

This week it's part TWO of Riley's unofficial "Miami Trilogy," crazy Joe Carollo! We try talking about one of history's most unpleasant men but then get pretty sidetracked by building out Everglades Dune.

Oh, also:

Ken Sim (with Dan Boeckner)

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:00:05 +0000

This week we're joined by Wolf Parade and The Bottlemen's own Dan Boeckner! After a quick "amayorse bouche" in rural British Columbia with some disgusting whipped cream, we head to the big show, Vancouver to talk about Lululemon's Renfield, Ken Sim. There's a whole lot to hate.

Check out Dan's Patreon here!

Sal Bonaccorso

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:00:08 +0000

Your honor, is this happening? Grab a New Jersey-style Porto and Tonic! After a bunch of check-ins with some old friends, Mattie is the mayor and takes us on a journey into the heart of a very, very, very, very very, very racist man. And of course, his enemy, a man we are simply calling: Serpica

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:00:07 +0000

Alright, citizens! You've flipped your card at the municipal Churrasco to "green," indicating you'd like some mayors! Well, mayor November is here and she's got some hokum bullshit for us. That's right, it's high plains Gump himself, Soapy Smith.

Tony Wu

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:00:08 +0000

This week's Mayoral Benevolent Feed episode is a mega muni roundup! We have some fun with an extremely embattled mayor in California, and hit a bunch of other Items! that we had lying around.

Mel Lastman

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:00:05 +0000

HOMETOWN HEROES continues! Riley takes us back to Toronto for the proto-Rob Ford and literal bad boy of furniture sales: Mel Lastman!

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Bill de Blasio

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:00:05 +0000

Happy belated one year birthday to No Gods No Mayors! We're doing another round of Hometown Heroes, and Mattie is starting us off with New York City's hated slash beloved oaf and former FSLN guy (?) Warren Wilhelm Junior aka Bill de Blasio!

Salvatore Lima

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:00:07 +0000

Alright everyone, time to put on your "podcast listener" uniform and get to work! This week's episode is brought to you by The Italian Rat Council. Riley's got a mobbed-up mayor of Palermo.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Trip Crumpto, Cement Library Card, Speaking mafiosely, Italian Serpico, Load-bearing snitches, "Organized" crime?, and illegally kissing the homies.

Pick up a copy of Mattie's book why not!

Patrick Balkany

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:00:13 +0000

This week, November tells us about the inventor of the balcony. You’re not going to believe this but this right-wing french politician is a misogynist!

Meeting minutes include: Hiah!, The 9/11 Survivorcast, Ratpolitik, Swaggy Arabia, A firm tongue, Lick the boot that brung ya, The municipal ski chalet, Pattern-seeking judge, and “The I Don’t Want To” defense.

E.H. "Boss" Crump

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:00:06 +0000

Agony! Misery! Mattie takes us on a ride with the first leatherman mayor, Memphis Tennessee's Edward Hull "Boss" Crump.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Items thermindor, Don’t left click on me dude, Eric Items, Wet bads, Consider the Gimp’s Foot, Sim City 1930, and The Tennessee Leather Authority.

Here's that clip of Jordan Coleman's zombie movie.

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Buy mattie's book!

Kenny Kunene, with Benjamin Fogel

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:00:08 +0000

This episode, we are joined by scholar Benjamin Fogel to talk about a matched set of mayors from Johannesburg, South Africa, along with a guy that watched the city for a weekend.

Municipal meeting minutes include: No dome! A visit from Coughin’ Jimmy, Final Mayorstanation, coffin flop, congratulations on being a woman, and Mayor are they Now?

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Ehud Olmert

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This week, Nova brings us one of the worst guys to ever do it, in both senses: evil AND unskilled!

Municipal meeting minutes include: Beep beep I am not a pervert, Born to kill/Birthed to murder, So much for the institutional left, Israeli henry hill, Quid no quo, and Psychic-client privilege.

Pick up Mattie's book! Or come to her event in Washington, DC!

Larry Langford

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:00:08 +0000

Freak your nuts off, you slags! Here he is: The perfect patsy, a man equally horrifying and funny, Birmingham's Larry Langford.

Municipal meeting minutes include: The ballad of wesley dingus, rockin’ the sublurbs, Christian Martini Magic, wearing all my blazers at once, don’t get your bikino in a twist, the Hubris Parade, the Quinquangle, and Oh right! The Bribes.

Hey, buy Mattie's book!

Oh, here's that smoke hood:

Isaltino Morais

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This week, Riley brings us the man who wrote the book on being the mayor in Portugal, the municipal Peronist himself, Isaltino Morais.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams Radmilk, Minot Grigio, Things The Hosts Know About Portugal, No Traumatic Stress At All, jostled tiles, legal tiki-taka, vast and trunkless leg day, and DaughterHelp.

Stay tuned to the end to hear Municipal Rodeo from ME REX! Check them out on tour in Bristol, London, and Nottingham this September! https://linktr.ee/merexband

(buy mattie's new book or come see her on book tour in Philadelphia (tonight! 6pm at Partners & Son Comics) or August 20th in NYC.)

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Robert Briscoe

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This week, Nova’s the mayor and we’re talking about Robert Briscoe, the Forrest Gump of 20th century Ireland and most easily radicalized man in the history of the world.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Getting handed a shamrock from a Cossack, Irish Serious Man, scamming Mr. Woolworth, Costume Party Theme: Today's Newspaper, staring at a cop's belt, solidarity (derogatory), and Don't Read the Last 20% of This Book.

Get Mattie's book! Come see her on Tour!

November Draws a Clock

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:03:01 +0000

Without her gas, she's nothing. A little peek behind the kimono for patrons.

Byron Brown

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This week, we've got a NEWS PEG! Wow. Mattie brings the crew Buffalo's longest-ever-serving mayor, Byron Brown.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Nova’s gas corner, the boy mayor of LEGO “Castle”, finding out that you’re 5’9” (hoops again), Fallout: Niagara, In This House We Believe?, OK Campaign, and The Center-Left IMF.

Pre-order Mattie's book or see her on tour, this coming week!

Rob Ford Part III ?

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:00:07 +0000

This week, we're covering the Netflix documentary "Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem," their Rob Ford documentary. Did you know this guy Rob Ford invented lying and demonizing the media? Crazy.

Municipal meeting minutes include: No Popeye at pride, Mayoral Compulsive Disorder, Ratpocalypse Now, A list of radio stations, I hope nobody reenacts this, press secretary Dracula, and the Real Ford Nation.

Stay tuned to the end for the absolutely incredible song "Last Mayor Standing, Or: The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Mayor," by listener Vik Melter.

Preorder Mattie's new book and catch her on book tour!

Vít Jedlička (with Eleanor Janega)

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:00:10 +0000

This week, Riley goes Mattie mode and profiles a guy that is technically a mayor but kind of not really, Liberland's Vít Jedlička. And we're joined by Medievalist but more importantly Czechia expert, our pal Dr. Eleanor Janega!

Municipal meeting minutes include: What if something good happened?, Fascist Nonna, Fungal Trump, Are women bourgeoise?, Consolation Island, Outer Tax Heaven, Secretary of the Interior (of the hut), Suicide by boar, and The Floating Man.

Check out Eleanor on We're Not So Different and her new show, Welcome to the Crusades!

Check out Mattie on book tour, and pre-order Simplicity, or else!

Grafton, New Hampshire

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:00:05 +0000

This week we've got another one of Mattie's flights of fancy: Is this utopian community "a mayor"? (Yes.) Anyway, huddle up for a cautionary tale...it's statist to not listen!

Municipal meeting minutes include: Experiencing Courtlessness, what if there was no mayor at all, was the 19th century grink there, libertarian outreach, chompers at dawn, donkey of the week, good gulch, and bear patrol but real.

East coast and midwest USA, catch Mattie on book tour! Or preorder Simplicity.

Carolyn Goodman

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:00:07 +0000

Would you care for a normal olive? This week, we’re covering Oscar Goodman’s Ptolemy II, his wife Carolyn.

Mayoral Information Corner: Precious Bumpkins, Indianapolin vs fire, unhalled comrade, elected wife, Bucket of Gin O’Clock, startling Riley, rating the mantis, miniature iron dome, boy this lady stinks, 1-800-COP-FFS, and the best interview ever recorded.

Get more mayors over on our Patreon!

Catch Mattie on Book Tour!

fyi i think riley meant something else when he said "obergefell." fyi

Larry Hand

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:00:07 +0000

This week, after a few Items(!) we watch the 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks (free to watch here if you're Australian or can convince a computer that you are in Australia!) about the Leichhardt Council mayoral elections in Sydney Australia's suburbs. It's Uncut Gems but for one fitted-out Aussie politician.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Back on the son beat, schrödinger’s boat, volcel Sy Abelman, bud wine, commiserations counselor!, and loading a man up with brill cream.

Oscar Goodman

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:00:07 +0000

This week, we're talking about the universe's happiest mayor, Oscar Goodman! Take this one personally. For real, look upon this guy, ye mighty:

Municipal meeting minutes include: Indicted in battle. Walkin’ on the Son, A new immortal precept, B’nai brith for Las Vegas, d=Doing the hora with Lefty Rosenthal, Spaghetti mission, The strip is a Line, Another hooping mayor, Dry martinis and wet cigars, and No Nose’s Mob Meatballs.

Point of order: Mattie rewatched Casino today and "the new strip" was extant in 1995 so the year was a little off when she said that. Sorry!

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Taron Margaryan with Sam Martirosyan

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:07 +0000

This week we've got Producer Sam on the other side of the microphone! We're talking about former Yerevan mayor and lover of the number 7, Taron Margaryan.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Gotham matriculates tonight Batman!, like taking land from a baby, putting the pope in a glass cube, a TTE (Time to Embattlement) Record, suing for my kickback, ILLGTTNCAR, a hot dog is a kind of column, and Gender Trouble.

follow Sam on twitter or bsky!

William Lantigua

Thu, 29 May 2025 07:00:06 +0000

This week, we cover possibly our most embattled and empaneled mayor, Willy Lantigua. Municipal meeting minutes include: Coconut water poisoning, dkdkflflfiffnfkrdjheb, Time to Embattlement (TTE), Deputy Neelix, The (International) Garbage Truck Conspiracy, the mayor that marries you, and a real smoothed-out town.

Preorder Mattie's book!

Mega Muni Roundup

Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:05 +0000

Turn on your mayor conditioners - the Mayortaculus is down this week for scheduled maintenance. Join us for a mega municipal roundup. Hyah!

Meeting minutes include: Turkish kaiju, MayAOr3, the Sadiq Khan of myth and legend, the Montreal kippah, high high popes, love bombing Randle Weddle, Gays for Live Más, forward operating McDonald’s, and Saudi Irradia.

Hey preorder Mattie's book why not!

John Fetterman

Thu, 15 May 2025 07:00:06 +0000

Greetings, municipality fans! This one starts out funny but ends up sad – much like the career of our guy here. Behold: The Oaf's Lament.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Riley’s face sand table, oaf credentials, why is this pamphlet chained up?, the dusty pediment at the Kennedy School, the mayor has two bodies, the jeans runner, accidental discharge, and the municipal soul.

Francis Suarez

Thu, 08 May 2025 07:00:05 +0000

Greetings, citizens! Hope you slotted exactly 1 MiamiCoin into the podcast machine in order to receive this episode. Municipal Meeting minutes include: The way of the Mayor Hand, ethnically a mayor, a cousin-involved drinking, the gig economy mayoralty, the Miami political compass, in the womb for 90 months, Orc DeSantis, and Nova’s failed presidential campaign.

Here's Gor Vardanyan, by the way:

Hey, come see Mattie at the Bell House in Brooklyn tomorrow!

Randall Weddle

Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:06 +0000

Greeting quadropods! This week on the free episode, we talk about TWO medium large mayors: The “WhatsApp Mayor” of Bom Jardin Brazil, Lidiane Leite da Silva, and the long-promised London Kentucky’s Randall Weddle (Mr. Pedophile Parade Himself) biography.

Municipal meeting minutes include: A Minneapolis Hello, Apostolic Roundup, The subsidized Girlboss and the cucked landlord, the Heptapod Mayor, The Sash of Lórien, and Quit hogging the four top or I’ll call the goons!

Come see Mattie at The Bell House on May 9!

(thank you bsky user persephone for the episode art)

Fiorello La Guardia (with Calvin Kasulke)

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:00:07 +0000

This week, we cover possibly the best mayor the podcast, nay, the world has ever seen? Municipal meeting minutes include: Choose your Columbo, a bowling ball I hate, Hepatitis B(eef), Selling Teddy Roosevelt some boots with your shirt off, stroking a firefighter’s cheekbone, Ominous Noises, mAyOr3, and municipal Itchy and Scratchy.

Come see Mattie (and Calvin!) on tour in Chicago (tonight!) Minneapolis (tomorrow!) and Brooklyn (May 9!)

Carter Harrison III

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:05 +0000

This week on the free feed: A guy who loves to have his wives die, and also to go to Europe. Municipal meeting minutes include: Bakingmore Cookieland, The Uncle’s Price, Eric Adams: Unhobbled, getting sucked off by a Rockefeller, Go Chasers!, My two-year election beard, My wife may be dead but it's Herring season, The big hole where all the Guiteaus crawl out of, and “Ambassador to France Achieved”

Minneapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn: Come see Mattie on tour!

Oh, here's Hammfist D. Metafiore from Fuck City:

Nayib Bukele

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:00:05 +0000

This week we’re talking about Salvadoran Pete Campbell and also [no spoilers for Nova’s theory], Nayib Bukele, who you might know from the news as being Comprador Hitler. Municipal meeting minutes include: We talk about the popcorn man finally, a less funny coup as well, EldestSon_finalFINAL.docx, I ❤️ N, my brother Grima Wormtongue, and an end to the nephew killing.

Come see Mattie on tour in Brooklyn, Chicago, or Minneapolis!

Here's the photo of him from the end of the episode, btw:

William Armacost (with Julian Feeld)

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:00:07 +0000

Alright, citizens! Grab a fresh bushel of lavender and take a big sniff. We go Sequimming with QAA’s Julien Feeld! Municipal meeting minutes include: chomo parade update, mayorotic asphyxiation, the 128th annual Miss Irrigation, save our squim, portlandia for being a fascist, coughing with the mayor, the year of kindness, Mike Pence II, RT for mole children awareness, and Maoist standard Grandpa. Get in, we’re libbing out!

Come see Mattie on tour in Chicago and Minneapolis!

Kwame Kilpatrick with Joe Kassabian

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:00:58 +0000

Greetings, local residents! We’re joined this week by Lions Lead by Donkeys' and Detroiter Joe Kassabian, to talk about actual mayor and area man Kwame Kilpatrick. Municipal meeting minutes include: Nepo moms, The Boy Mayor Tracker, Hiring every person you know, we love the sludge, Michael Corleone in a Tigers Fitted, cartoon pimp in a streimel, sexy death squads, Molly Bloom-ass-mayor, and GTA Mayor City.

Keep that mayoral OpSec tight!

If you're in Chicago or Minneapolis, come see Mattie on tour!

Tiffany Henyard

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:00:08 +0000

Many of you wrote in about this mayor, named the worst in America, and she definitely needed her own episode. How lucky that she was next in the order!

Municipal meeting minutes include: We talk about the Coens again, the order sings its song, a moistened town, the fungal mayor, the cop king rolling at me very slowly, illegal truck parties, Eurotripzcarraldo, the magical musical, Rick Owens charity bike ride, the soul of a podcaster, and seeing without seeing.

Hey do you live in the American midwest (Chicago or Minneapolis)? Come see Mattie on tour!

Mega Municipal Roundup

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:00:04 +0000

HYAH! For the bonus episode this week, we check in with a bunch of past guests and also a very drunken Floridian.

City hall meeting minutes include: Getting uncle-chopped in Fiume, “reading an indictment” voice, No mailbox formed against me shall prosper, the medium is weird for the message, graphing all Italians, New York City & the City, @funeralHijacker, No Gods No Mayors Some Contempt of Court Act, What if an imaginary piano fell on Gavin Newsom (also imaginary)

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Gabriele D'Annunzio

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:00:07 +0000

Join us this week for a particularly blasphemous episode, just in time for lent! Mayor November takes us on a historical tour of the little fascist statelet that wasn't, R̶i̶j̶e̶k̶a̶ Fiume C̶r̶o̶a̶t̶i̶a̶ Italy and its very normal guy leader, Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Municipal meeting minutes include: The tragedy of mayorship, Posting (forum), Pathologically shirtless killing machines, Eating a little cake on a toilet, Italian master chief (tummy hort), Some sensational way out of the situation, The city that keeps running out of flowers, Reformation III, Inventing a new kind of Egypt, and L’uomo della Musica.

Oh, and here's that guy from the municipal roundup:

Marvin Rees

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:00:02 +0000

We're joined by the People Just Do Something podcast and The Bristol Cable's Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins to talk about the mayor so thin-skinned and bad at it that nobody was ever allowed to be mayor again.

Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams in Magneto prison, Borgiawatch dot blogspot dot com, structural forces day, mayors love slides, some libel, the Birdman of Bristol, the West of England Wing, fitting a horse through the eye of a needle, the Premier Inn operator, If mayors ruled the world, You can’t abolish me, I quit!

Etienne Cabet

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:00:06 +0000

First as France, and then again as France. For some reason in this one Mayor Mattie takes us to 19th-century France and then also Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and California. That's right, we've plunged into one of her special interests!

Municipal meeting minutes include: learning how to drive barefoot from a guy with a soulpatch, Croatian Goodfellas, scheming mayors chat, headlight fluid clinics, posting is praxis, dogs of remarkable size and strength, the chore wheel at New Jerusalem, the most prepared group of people in human history, and the wrongest breakfast ever served.

If you like zany separatists why not pre-order Mattie's new book!

Leonis C. Malburg

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:00:02 +0000

November's in the mayor's seat for this one, a tragic tale of one Basque gentleman founding a beautiful utopia under a freeway and on top of a rail yard, where any business could dispose as many animal corpses and batteries as they wanted. Until the world decided that the beautiful Malburg family was too pure for this Earth.

Seriously though, here is Vernon, CA.

We lose our minds a little bit this one and also Zencastr broke and also Mattie's microphone broke during recording so sorry for any audio issues!

Rodrigo Borgia (with Patrick Wyman)

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 08:00:11 +0000

Our favorite historian and host of The Tides of History podcast joins us to ask and answer a question that's been on our minds since we started the show: Are popes mayors? The answer is: Kind of!

To do so, we talk through the Pope's very mayor-like role during specifically the Renaissance, and the most mayor-like pope of them all, Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI. Now pull out your sword, and get to stabbin'!

Also, if you're on the west coast of America, why not catch Mattie on tour next week!

Stephen R. Reed

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:00:12 +0000

We head to the capital of PA for our boy-est Boy Mayor yet, Harrisburg's Stephen R. Reed.

Office of the Mayor meeting minutes include: Michele Zoo-cault, illegal Megalopolis screening, Municipal Roundup presented by Rudy dot coffee, the Nightcrawler from NIGHTCRAWLER, the boymoding mayor, Coastal Pennsylvania, Riley gets FFS, Kinds of Kindness but not in the normal way, The American Museum of Hat Accessories, The Return of JFK’s gun, and more!

ok do not click this until the end of the episode, but. here's his house.

catch mattie doing her little jokes and comics on TOUR why not!

Pedro Calado

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:13:41 +0000

We finally leave the Anglosphere to head to the sunny island of Madeira, where one rally racing and handball-loving Mayor tried to elude an entire plane of lawyers and judges paradropped onto his exact location.

The Greatest Showman (2017)

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:00:12 +0000

It was the week between Christmas and New Years so the substitute teacher rolled in the A/V setup and instead of class we watched a movie. That's right! It's time to stand in a circle slam-dancing together, celebrating that freak marriage is finally legal! Former guest P.T. Barnum stars in this rollicking ahistorical romp. Guys, it's so bad.

Hey, do you like COMEDY?! Catch Mattie on tour with Gender Ordeal, in DC, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle this month and next! Get your tickets here.

Sarah Palin

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:00:12 +0000

Did you know that Alaska is more than its admittedly gorgeous train livery? That's right! They have mayors. In the shadow of Mt. POW/MIA (really) lies the town of Wasilla. We delve into what it was like before the national spotlight shone on it, a simple strip mall Deadwood where you could drive as drunk as you'd like while you carted dozens of mattresses in the back of your extended cab pickup, firing your handgun wildly out the window. Then, of course, it all changed.

George Garner

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:17 +0000

We talk (finally) about the mayor that everyone sent in, South Carolina's George Garner, who was killed recently in a police chase, after his entire police force resigned under semi-mysterious circumstances on the Carolingian Steppe (a thing we invent).

We also have a mega municipal round-up featuring a mayoral superbloom event in England, and our old friend Eric Adams's old friend Ingrid Lewis-Martin and her DJ son. Don't worry, we found his soundcloud.

Sam Yorty (with Noah Suarez-Sikes)

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:00:05 +0000

We're joined this week by senior Southern California correspondent Noah (twitter/bsky) to talk about California's Richard Nixon™, Saigon Sam himself, travelin' Sam Yorty. From humble beginnings as a Nebraskan ragamuffin, Sam rose to the ranks of Insanely Racist Guy. Sensually licking this podcast and using our franking privilege to mail it directly...to your ears!

Michael Applebaum

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:00:09 +0000

After the departure of Gérald Tremblay, Montreal had a corruption problem. Who else to call in but the unicycling shriner hypnotist that cannot speak french who by the way is also corrupt? That's right. We've got those Apple BAUM jeans! Uh, bribes (?) with the fur! We also encounter yet another magical Tony and think about how fun it would be to be in the Wizard Mafia. It's the bonus episode!

Gérald Tremblay

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:00:04 +0000

Mayor Riley takes us finally out of the Anglosphere with a mobbed-up mayor of Montreal, QC. That's right, we're talking keeping money in your socks, known Rizutto crime family associate Youppi!, the guy that trepans you, and the most literal bagman of all time. Tony bless us, every one!

This is a free episode. Join us on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed to hear about his successor, the hypnotist shriner who also unicycles.

San Francisco Grab Bag with Shanti Singh

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:00:05 +0000

For this week's bonus, we get Special Deputy Mayor and SF Expert Shanti Singh back in the guest's chair to talk about a triple-decker of mayors in the city by the bay. That's right, we're talkin' Ed Lee, London Breed (we sure hope it do!) and upcoming guy and Jeans Heir Daniel Lurie.

James Michael Curley

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:00:06 +0000

Mattie is back in the mayors seat and presents the crew with Boston's own James Michael Curley. From his humble beginnings working his way through the city's nascent Tammany-esque political machine all the way through FOUR nonconsecutive terms as mayor over the course of 30+ years. Hold onto your shillelagh-proof hat: we've found a guy.

Want more No Gods No Mayors? For just $5/month you can get double the municipal action. See you on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed next week!

Gavin Newsom, with Shanti Singh

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:00:05 +0000

On the Mayoral Benevolent feed this week: Friend of the show @uhshanti joins to talk about GRUESOME GAVIN himself. We bust open Mayor Riley's dusty tome of Great Wine Americans and dig into how the pride of San Francisco('s eight richest families) got his start in local politics. Start mopping that carpet, rich boy.

(sidenote we mentioned that more San Franciscans are coming up next week, but that'll be the next bonus ep!)

Phineas T. Barnum

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:00:04 +0000

Yes, THAT PT Barnum! He was the mayor of Bridgeport, CT. Mattie is the mayor of this one, and we discuss the sort of ur-Mayor of America, the greatest showman himself. You might think to yourself: this makes a lot of sense, as he was the circus guy and the government is full of clowns. Also the premiere of Municipal Roundup. Hyah!

The Boney Island MAYORfish, With Andrew Law

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:00:05 +0000

That's right, people. Andrew Law of The Boney Island Whitefish is here, and we're watching Season 1, Episode 18: "The Man With the Bone.

We had Andrew, and there's an episode of bones featuring a weird mayor so the band is back together. So this is really an episode of The Boney Island Whitefish, featuring November and Mattie from No Gods No Mayors.

Why not "dive in" to a classic episode featuring special ops Jedis, pirate treasure, the word "bones" like 700 times, and one singularly beguiling hole in the ground.

Darryn Lyons with Andrew Law and Ben McCleay

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:00:05 +0000

We are joined by two of the joint mayors of our sister city, Boonta Vista, to talk about Mr. Paparazzi himself: Geelong's Darryn Lyons. The story of one brave man who installed a carapace on himself, collected the most beautiful art of naked women known to man, and was finally chased out of the country by a dingo to live as a tax exile in Italy. We salute you, Darryn!

Eric Adams, Part 2

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:07 +0000

We dig into the very bad no good 2024 of Mr. Adams – a simple polyamorous vegan trying to make it big in the city he was born and raised in, taken down by the cruel passengers of the very plane he was trying to fly. We are joined by special acting deputy Mayor and longtime Eric Adams obsessive Alex Press.

You can read the article we talk about here or catch her up to the minute Eric Adams reporting @alexnpress.

(sorry about the audio issues in the last couple minutes –– mattie's microphone was unfortunately indicted on 3 counts of being plugged in weird)

Eric Adams, Part 1

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:03 +0000

WE WEREN'T GOING TO DO IT. NOT FOR A WHILE. But those haters, the fates, have forced our hand.

Mayor Mattie sits at the head of the table of success and takes Riley and November through the career of Eric Adams, from when he was a mere teenager getting hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat through the first half of his high-flying mayoralty, when all the troubles began.

Part 2 about the Crimes right here on the Patreon next week!

Boris Johnson Part 2

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:04:06 +0000

It's the (right file this time) for Boris Part 2! Expect, among other things, the 2012 Olympics, the Garden Bridge, and the slow pupation of Britain's laziest Prime Minister. Many good wishes and salaams!

Boris Johnson, Part 1

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:04 +0000

We finish up our Power Trio of hometown heroes with Nova in the Mayoral Seat for Boris Johnson. Get in, loser! We're riding our Boris bikes to the IFS Cloud Cable Car to the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower! Part 2 next week on the bonus feed.

Rob Ford, Part 2

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:05 +0000

Riley, Nova, and Mattie stand over what's left of Rob Ford and his mayoralty after "the incident" and also what appears to be several months of him getting chased around Ontario by police holding a big net. In a lot of ways, 'twas beauty killed the beast.

Rob Ford, Part 1

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:04 +0000

We continue our tour of maniac executives with The Most Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. In this episode, Mayor Riley guides Mattie and November from Rob's humble beginnings hanging out in suburban Ontario's most cursed basement up through the part of his life where they are tagging him like a wild rhinoceros. Part 2 will be right here on the Patreon, next Thursday.

(FYI the thing Mattie was trying to think of was "The Great Sun" of the Natchez. That was the thing but they read The Dawn of Everything a while ago and it was like 7am. Don't write

Rudy Giuliani, Part 2

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:50:41 +0000

Well, the bigger they are...the harder they fall. For our first bonus feed episode, we dive into Rudy becoming the Mayor of 9/11-town and, well, all the stuff he does afterwards.

Rudy Giuliani, Part 1

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:47:45 +0000

For our very first episode, we cover America's Mayor on his rise to the mayoralty of da big apple. This one's got everything: a baby who manages a bar. A boxer who needs glasses very badly. A wedding of cousins! Who wouldn't love this guy.