E.H. "Boss" Crump
Added 2025-09-04 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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.
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which is funny because weed eater is also a brand name the actual tool is called a string trimmer
Morgan
2025-09-19 00:31:44 +0000 UTCI believe "weed whacker" is a brand name that's been Kleenex'd so publications still use other terms for the generic item
Marjorie Zeager
2025-09-11 12:37:10 +0000 UTCso now its illegal to share poppers with my friends?
norma1one
2025-09-10 16:33:25 +0000 UTCMinding my own business when I was pancaked by your deep cut username. 10/10. Would banding.
Jon W
2025-09-09 18:33:24 +0000 UTCNo gods no mayors: come for the items, stay for the mayor
Discobolus
2025-09-08 22:07:49 +0000 UTCcan a write in and tell you about my dad who is great actually he's had a big win lately.
Maggie+Al
2025-09-06 23:34:19 +0000 UTCNo God's, No Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor s
James Slegers
2025-09-06 07:11:21 +0000 UTC“Items Thermidor” is beautiful
Nick
2025-09-06 06:19:58 +0000 UTCOk, I'm going to need some disambiguation. Do you mean that Sam is your Paul Shaffer or do you mean he's your Paul Schäfer? There is a stark difference there.
Chibigodzilla
2025-09-06 04:30:14 +0000 UTCgod please do an episode about my bitch dad
Benalish Transexual
2025-09-06 02:36:50 +0000 UTCWhile listening to this ep I had a mental image of a young mayor, confused by the changes happening in his body, small change appearing in his socks, smelly sweat under his sash, feeling the powerful urge to settle into a hall
Garth Hansen
2025-09-05 19:09:18 +0000 UTCFor some reason "puddle" sounds appropriate to me
Garth Hansen
2025-09-05 19:07:53 +0000 UTCdesperately need a good plural noun for gimps. a binding of gimps? a chain of gimps?
lil dove
2025-09-05 18:52:09 +0000 UTCOh no! If you get a Sam on KJB he might get 009'ed. How horrible.
Earl of Pudding
2025-09-05 18:45:14 +0000 UTCAll of this leather talk and no one brought up Buzz Bissinger, a weird old WASP journalist who couldn’t deal with having various overlapping fetishes until it ruined him financially https://www.gq.com/story/buzz-bissinger-shopaholic-gucci-addiction AND is currently engaged in hostile ghostwriter drama with former mayor John Fetterman
John Leavitt
2025-09-05 13:31:11 +0000 UTCwhen I hear about a politician who really likes quiet and cleanliness I immediately slam the big Johnny Gentle from Infinite Jest button
etienne
2025-09-05 12:05:24 +0000 UTCthat moment when i’m indifferent to Crump: eh crump
népéta (dyengxuah)
2025-09-05 06:08:06 +0000 UTCA friend of mine has a leather sash for winning in Leather community and it is HEAVY but not outside the scope of reality
Harrison Sanchez
2025-09-04 22:54:03 +0000 UTCVery jelly, I would love a full suit and a couple of masks/hoods but I have 0 money and too many kinks :(
Harrison Sanchez
2025-09-04 22:51:45 +0000 UTChonestly surprised you guys didnt get into the baby theft stuff
b33nni3
2025-09-04 20:14:16 +0000 UTCMy brain beat Nova to an RTS joke, the estrogen is working :D
Jan
2025-09-04 20:04:48 +0000 UTCSpeaking of the dollop, You three as guests on the dollops newspaper spin off “the past times” would make my decade. They’ve never had any trans guests
Thomas Cain
2025-09-04 19:54:48 +0000 UTCThe gun was jumped on when Randell is being impeached. The vote is Friday. I don't expect a correction on next week's pod, but there better be an update, Riley. Side note. London, KY is home to one of the largest if not the largest truck stops in the US. It also is know as the stolen car parts capitol of the US due to the Dixie Mafia and its proximity to I 75, which is the major north-south highway serving the Midwest and and the eastern edges of Kentucky and Tennesse, along with northwestern Georgia and all the way to Florida.
Doug King
2025-09-04 19:50:31 +0000 UTClisten the way people drive there are worse ways to conceptualize memphis than “swamp mad max”
b33nni3
2025-09-04 19:39:50 +0000 UTCHearing you guys say "weed eater" when people in the south pronounce it "wee-deeter" was fucking with my brain.
Travis Salyer
2025-09-04 19:39:47 +0000 UTCYes Riley, "gimp suits" usually have feet/socks (sometimes attached, sometimes separate), but often yes we usually have boots on too. Also the suits are usually rubber, not leather. Source: gimp.
Leo Curtis
2025-09-04 18:58:42 +0000 UTCBeen reading a lot about Tennessee in this time. Crump's influence didn't start and end at Memphis, because of the sheer quantity of votes he had at his command (Shelby County and the surrounding black rural counties would often vote by big margins for his chosen candidates) he was often able to unilaterally pick statewide Democratic nominees. He had a lot of sway with machines in rural East Tennessee as well, having made personal connections with the Biggses in Polk County and the Cantrells in McMinn County (two of the most infamously fraudulent and violent political rings of the era), and machine candidates would often win Shelby County and the machine provinces in the east. One of the few figures who could really match up to Crump in ambition and political sophistication was Gordon Browning, whom Crump reluctantly supported as governor in 1936 but they had a huge falling-out, partly over Crump refusing to cross Kenneth McKellar. When Browning came back in 1948 for governor, Crump had this to say about him in the local newspaper: "I have said before, and I repeat it now, that in the art galleries of Paris there are twenty-seven pictures of Judas Iscariot--none look alike but all resemble Gordon Browning; that neither his head, heart, nor hand can be trusted; that he would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence; that, of the two hundred and six bones in his body there isn't one that is genuine; that his heart has beaten over two billion times without a single sincere beat." Pretty harsh stuff! No wonder Crump was so determined to get Frank Clement to beat him in 52. Also wanted to mention that Crump supported Strom Thurmond in 1948, and it's very visible in Thurmond winning Shelby County and a nearby black-belt county while eating shit everywhere else
Bethany Morgan
2025-09-04 18:25:25 +0000 UTCOMG I’m so glad it was finally Boss Crump’s turn! I was born and raised in another small Mississippi town just south of Memphis, and I heard about this dude from my dad constantly! Dad never had the good details - I know he would’ve mentioned the gimp suits if he’d known about them! - but he did his best with pre-internet gossip. Worth mentioning: every single gimp pawn yall mentioned has a major street named after him 😅
Funder
2025-09-04 18:20:07 +0000 UTClisten, like any podcast listener, i try to keep the parasocial appreciation in check but every week at least one of you just tells a story that is so endearing it’s really difficult to remain professional. (this week it’s nova and the parcel simulator game).
Nina
2025-09-04 17:52:17 +0000 UTCHow dare you slander the best bioshock game. Delta is the best metal dad and loves all his daughters
Thomas Cain
2025-09-04 16:56:45 +0000 UTCWhen it comes to gimp suits it depends if they have covered the feet or not if it's a leather gimp suit you wouldn't have it going over your feet but you'd probably wear some big boots if it was a latex one sometimes they have socks made out of latex that have individual toes but it really does depend on the gimsuit hope that answers your question
Meryl is not a Vampire
2025-09-04 16:42:31 +0000 UTCwhen you mentioned the wrong house raid in retaliation for stolen property i realized i had heard about this whole situation before but hadn't put it together with Weddle https://youtu.be/Su2Wou1C0aU?si=erMo7ePwnU4TpBWQ
Corey Yanofsky
2025-09-04 15:59:36 +0000 UTCWe all know the first Leatherman was the famous 19th century vagabond. Do some fact checking before making these kind of claims.
Harold Gottfried
2025-09-04 15:53:18 +0000 UTCTHAT ARGENTO?!?!
Ineloquent Reverie
2025-09-04 15:45:59 +0000 UTCI legitmately thought the political cartoon had to be an edited anti-meme where the captions were replaced with literal descriptions. I don't know who the bachelors are, but given the time I'd imagine the baby hospital is a proto-nicu full of the new invention of incubators. Famously the inventor of them funded their operation by showcasing them in shops on midways (also since letting parents see their hospitalized kids wasn't really a thing yet, this also let parents keep an eye on them). Random people pay to see unusually small babies and there was more publicity for promoting like public health funding. I guess Memphis didn't have any midways so they had to use some kind of faternal organizationt to fund it instead.
AbsolxGuardian
2025-09-04 15:38:57 +0000 UTCOh no, I would HATE if I tumbled endlessly on the sorting lines 👉👈
kiwi
2025-09-04 15:22:15 +0000 UTCbO$$ cRump
kiwi
2025-09-04 15:19:28 +0000 UTCMunicipal 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." Reading this makes me feel like I'm having a stroke, or when you would accidentally land on one of those SEO hijacking sites that were just a massive wall of seemingly random text.
kiwi
2025-09-04 15:18:13 +0000 UTCI’ve always referred to string trimmers as “weed whackers” but I’ve heard people call them “weed eaters” fairly often
Emilie
2025-09-04 14:24:56 +0000 UTCBeing a parcel today would be tough, but being a parcel in, like, 1920 would SUCK. You get stuffed into a canvas mail sack and thrown out the window of a speeding passenger train onto an iron hook.
Casey O. Jones
2025-09-04 13:11:41 +0000 UTC“boss crump” sounds like one of those overwrought nicknames bluesky liberals use for donald trump
Soup Dealer
2025-09-04 12:52:50 +0000 UTCQuick question prompted by me saying out loud "this is the Memphis Augustus" are consuls of the roman republic mayor's?
Alfie Hall
2025-09-04 12:28:31 +0000 UTCCompletely blindsided by the unknown (to me) backstory to Memphis Blues by W.C. Handy
BarFly
2025-09-04 12:03:46 +0000 UTCWeed whacker !
Schuylar Mills
2025-09-04 11:55:22 +0000 UTCA guy called Boss Crump dressed head to toe in leather sounds like a rogue trader era Ork Warboss
Rory Cunningham
2025-09-04 11:49:12 +0000 UTCThat's the most mayor-looking mfer I've ever seen. That is the platonic ideal of a Mayor
Nemo
2025-09-04 11:26:13 +0000 UTCBattle of Athens shot directly into my mind from llbd , IT'S CRUMPIN' TIME
Schuylar Mills
2025-09-04 11:25:31 +0000 UTCHobart Buttery is of course distantly related to the famed architect Alison Postalwaithe-Buttery, inventor of the Buttery Staircase.
Ben Schwabe
2025-09-04 10:49:55 +0000 UTCDarlings, Cory Doctorow is very much On Board... https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act-locally/
pip williams
2025-09-04 10:47:51 +0000 UTCPlack Blague is who you have to elect to get the leather oval office
Cam Martell
2025-09-04 10:34:42 +0000 UTCWow so this guy really did have WC Handy looking down over him.
Gary Alexander
2025-09-04 10:15:05 +0000 UTCI can’t speak for London (Kentucky or England), but in eastern Texas it’s a weed eater.
Kenny Allums
2025-09-04 10:03:53 +0000 UTCPoint of order, Sam cut in three bars and the first three beats of the fourth bar hospital food. This instance of municipal bloat has been noted
Rosie
2025-09-04 09:23:17 +0000 UTCis it just me or does shipping yourself in the mail feel sorta kink-adjacent
Lily Rafton
2025-09-04 09:00:06 +0000 UTCGiven current events, have you considered doing an episode on Joko Widodo - former mayor of Surakarta turned president of Indonesia who was called the "little Suharto" for using the army against protestors?
Various Ailments
2025-09-04 08:53:01 +0000 UTCThe Heeyaah Experience - Are you Experienced *guitar riffs*
Harrison Sanchez
2025-09-04 08:46:59 +0000 UTCI'm still halfway through, have you done 'fine hand stitched leather mayor sash' yet?
chronicles of girldick
2025-09-04 07:59:56 +0000 UTCCRUMP! Tennessee MENTIONED!
ZephanyZephZeph
2025-09-04 07:35:00 +0000 UTCI just started a new job that’s got me up early, and to my delight I get to start the day with NGNM. Who doesn’t love starting their day municipally? Nova injuring herself while playing Parcel Simulator is very Nova coded. Also who doesn’t love Items Thermidor at the Mayoral Information Corner Item Rodeo (HYEAH)?
Ryan
2025-09-04 07:14:29 +0000 UTCYea, crump on it🧎♀️
Eve
2025-09-04 07:14:14 +0000 UTChow exacly was i not meant to immediatey click on the notification containing the name ‘EH Crump’
népéta (dyengxuah)
2025-09-04 07:02:37 +0000 UTC
