Stephen R. Reed
Added 2025-01-30 08:00:12 +0000 UTC
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!
Comments
Abe Lincoln's hat box (no hat) literally feels like a Simpsons bit oh my god
Commander Freddy
2025-10-06 18:32:12 +0000 UTCLos Angeles 2 should be called Dos Angeles and nothing else, thank you very much.
Marius
2025-09-16 05:26:00 +0000 UTCI had to rewatch this episode because of a bizarre and tenuous personal connection! I work for a museum in Virginia and we just got a new director; she was previously the director of the State Museum of PA IN HARRISBURG! Somehow i will find out if she is aware of Mayor Reed’s shenanigans
Cegan Hinson
2025-09-03 22:10:06 +0000 UTCeric papenfuse would also become the mayor by defeating linda thompson (the woman who dethroned stephen reed) and he was infamous for censoring local media. another mayor to cover on here! keeping with the trend of harrisburg mayors being defeated in primaries, he was knocked off by city council president wanda williams, who just barely survived a primary herself and is being faced in the general election by one of her primary opponents (a gay democrat running as the write-in republican nominee)
Bethany Morgan
2025-07-27 19:17:39 +0000 UTCalbanian connection: the republican stephen reed defeated for reelection to the pennsylvania state house in the watergate landslide year of 1974 was future congressman george gekas, a greek american whose surname is of arvanite (a population of albanians that have increasingly assimilated into greeks over the past 2 centuries) origin another prominent albanian-diaspora politician in pennsylvania at the time was richard caliguiri, the mayor of pittsburgh, who was of arbëreshë descent (and may be another interesting person to cover on here)
Bethany Morgan
2025-07-27 18:32:33 +0000 UTCfuck i hate the mortal engines except when its about usa being evil
beanis
2025-07-04 20:22:23 +0000 UTClifelong Austinite and we do actually all talk like that
Carter Kriss
2025-05-26 06:38:47 +0000 UTCSince Madison, WI was mentioned I have to bring up the fact that the former mayor Pete Soglin gave the key to the city to Fidel Castro in 1975, and one of his last acts as mayor was getting into a fight about granting a Taco Bell cantina a liquor license
Jeri
2025-04-24 20:31:22 +0000 UTCfuck yes, Borges!
Dr. M.R. Geldof
2025-04-02 19:19:44 +0000 UTCThis guy seems like one of the less evil mayors. Like someone said "Okay now do a silly embezzlement!"
Sarah
2025-02-16 04:42:44 +0000 UTCi have figured it out: the order of mayors covered in this podcast is the 'List of Mayors In Order of Coverage In An Episode of No Gods No Mayors Podcast'
népéta (dyengxuah)
2025-02-13 10:44:22 +0000 UTC"Texas is a landlocked state" Did November forget about the Gulf of Mexico?
StepperOfTheLongEarth
2025-02-09 01:50:19 +0000 UTCMe too, comrade.
Miles Proctor
2025-02-04 22:36:12 +0000 UTCComing back to say the mayor of where I live is an eventual episode because he just dropped his girlboss deputy after she came for his job and she’s been posting through it all. Has a bridge related vendetta. Keeps calling people cunts in text messages it’s very low stakes high school shit.
Miles Proctor
2025-02-04 22:33:02 +0000 UTCMy wife and I are buying a house and we just found out the owner is the mayor of the shitty suburb we’re moving to! (We’re moving 2 miles but we live right on the city limit between the actual town and the white-flight suburbs.)
Sam
2025-02-04 15:48:20 +0000 UTCErie exists that’s how we keep an eye on Canada
Shanti
2025-02-03 21:58:44 +0000 UTCthat's impossible..........
The Office of the Mayor
2025-02-03 21:58:03 +0000 UTCIs the leader of a city state equivalent to a mayor? Is Romulus a Mayor?
Gilded Dragon
2025-02-02 17:50:54 +0000 UTCOh. He & pickles are playing ah... at olivebrining
Gilded Dragon
2025-02-02 17:44:06 +0000 UTCOh shit he's me.
Gilded Dragon
2025-02-02 17:40:39 +0000 UTCNo Pizarro at Pride
Gilded Dragon
2025-02-02 17:38:44 +0000 UTCNo. You don't illegally show Megalopolis. You either a) have Frankfurt Cupula as a fourth host or b) you Beowolf Megopolis.
Gilded Dragon
2025-02-02 16:53:21 +0000 UTCWent to rudy.coffee and the first review on the site was "nice ironic collectable for me." I think that is amazing.
Alexander Grey
2025-02-02 15:31:04 +0000 UTCIt's close but I think this might be the most insane mayor yet, Mattie listing all the artifacts broke me
DylanCH
2025-02-02 09:52:39 +0000 UTCThis raises interesting theological questions. Is the Pope the highest sovereign of the Church, or merely the mayor of the Church on Earth, while The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit the true Trinidadian Sovereign of the universe?
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-02-02 01:43:25 +0000 UTCSmallbany.
Ben Schwabe
2025-01-31 22:08:30 +0000 UTCCAPTAIN PICKLES
Ros Ballinger
2025-01-31 21:01:10 +0000 UTCPersonally attacked by the “how are your KPIs Pardner” as someone from austin, with an accent, that has had to defend her contractor role to some Big Tech dinguses by trying to be Folksy and Competent
Victoria C
2025-01-31 19:22:56 +0000 UTCAlso I know I have previously said that the transitioning Riley gag is not my favorite but at this point she is just asking for it
Kristaps Porzingis
2025-01-31 16:08:26 +0000 UTCSpeaking of future episodes mayor of Newark Cory Booker used to do the showing up at fires and emergencies thing and there were memes about him being the local superhero
Kristaps Porzingis
2025-01-31 15:59:23 +0000 UTCI have strong fundamental disagreements with the Pope position. I don't think mayors can possess sovereignty. There needs to be a few layers of authority above a mayor in my view.
Michael Kelliher
2025-01-31 11:44:37 +0000 UTCthe initial date we were supposed to record the Newsom ep I was literally home with my family in Coastal Pennsylvania
Shanti
2025-01-31 07:18:59 +0000 UTCOf course the most hated rifle in American history is a Carcano Model 38. In the words of Tony Soprano, classic anti-Italian Racism.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-01-31 04:29:23 +0000 UTCriley is going to perform a t-spin
dipshit
2025-01-31 01:11:22 +0000 UTCSubscribed to the pod the moment i saw you were doing Reed. as a Harrisburg native, he means a lot to me, at one point my sister and I considered doing a folkpunk concept album about Harrisburg and Reed is important as one of the three notable things to ever happen in Harrisburg, the other two being the suicide of Budd Dwyer and the trial of the Harrisburg 7. a quick point of correction: Dauphin County is not pronounced Frenchly, we don't have that kind of culture in Central PA, we say "Daw-fin". also, not only are americans Catholics but Stephen Reed specifically was Catholic, as i remember the day he died cuz his funeral mass (given by my old priest, Fr Brommer) at St Patrick's Cathedral was airing on TV one time i went to get Natty Daddy's at a local Sheetz. Anyway excellent show
Avichai Brautigam
2025-01-30 23:46:49 +0000 UTCThis guy is giving me real strong “ in my day there was no such thing as Autism! Okay grandpa let’s get you back to your puzzle room” vibes
John Leavitt
2025-01-30 23:23:12 +0000 UTCthe most parasocial i can get has already been achieved by doing loss prevention for Boy's Weekend one time
Lain of the Wired
2025-01-30 22:18:43 +0000 UTCCaptain Dick Pickles Harrisburg police will rattle around in my brain for a while
Colin English
2025-01-30 20:34:25 +0000 UTCAfter a 2-minute google search, I'm finding it crazy that there aren't like, discussions of "misers" as an early representation [and unfortunatley, often a demonization] of OCD. Seems like a big research avenue is just being ignored - the hypothesis that the fear of overspending becoming an obsession, and compulsive and often harmful austerity and self-deprivation is a means to avoid or address that obsession. I'd do that research if I had an MD with a specialty in psychiatry -- but I don't :c
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-01-30 19:57:55 +0000 UTCHe was the Miss Havisham of eclectic artifacts, and I salute him for it.
AngryOldManYaddaYadda
2025-01-30 19:56:20 +0000 UTCR(h)iley out here describing being a miser -- having a hyperfixation on savings go up at the expense of your (and your family's) quality of life.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-01-30 19:47:03 +0000 UTCAs someone in the Harrisburg area it’s been amazing hearing people talk about every place I ever went as a child
JerJin
2025-01-30 19:05:45 +0000 UTCTexas is a landlocked state? Galveston and several hundred miles of coastline would like a word
Mariana Trench
2025-01-30 18:32:00 +0000 UTCWyatt Earp’s family lives near me—they’re close enough relatives that they’ve all still got the last name “Earp,” and his great great grand-cousin (or something) was in my high school class—and while I’d like to believe that the money used to purchase all this Earp-related paraphernalia for the mayor somehow made it way back to the family, given the fact that the Earp boy I went to school with grew up and still lives in a trailer, I’d imagine it didn’t.
hill
2025-01-30 18:17:29 +0000 UTCMy younger brother goes to Dickinson College! Thank you to this podcast, for inspiring him with the knowledge that he, too, can become a felonious mayor of Harrisburg, PA.
Azerty
2025-01-30 17:33:48 +0000 UTCGavin Newzom about to fulfill Albert Speer's dream with Lo2 Angele2.
Emilio Porras Vergara
2025-01-30 16:04:13 +0000 UTCholy shit I am so glad to hear Mattie wants to do an episode on Mortal Engines, I loved that book series growing up and I adore the movie even though it is a pretty awful. REALLY looking forward to hearing them talk about Municipal Darwinism and the All-Devouring Goddess (Margaret) Thatcher, some of the dumbest and funniest on the nose political commentary known to man.
Hazel Rafter
2025-01-30 15:21:20 +0000 UTCalbanys a fine city screw you
Eric Wolfsberg
2025-01-30 14:32:41 +0000 UTCwould love to have some rudy coffee, unfortunately that would mean buying rudy coffee.
Archer Morrow
2025-01-30 14:28:19 +0000 UTCSorry kids no need textbooks this year. The mayor is doing firemen annenehrbe
Boniek
2025-01-30 14:08:12 +0000 UTCIt was from "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish". Wonko the Sane, was the only one living outside the asylum which he'd built for the rest of the world. Love that guy. Montpelier is the capitol of Vermont and locals kinda say it mount-peel-yah. Also : The Force Feminization of Riley Quinn as Performed by the Cast of No Gods, No Mayors Under the Direction of Nathan Bradley Bethea.
Ben Schwabe
2025-01-30 14:03:54 +0000 UTCInsane dunk on Jose Canseco out of nowhere
Marjorie Zeager
2025-01-30 13:31:17 +0000 UTCSeconding that we need a megalopolis bonus ep
HAUNTER
2025-01-30 13:22:30 +0000 UTCI love having autism
HAUNTER
2025-01-30 13:19:46 +0000 UTCWater is Important! Is now permanently in my lexicon as a joke no one in my circle but me will understand
HAUNTER
2025-01-30 13:19:36 +0000 UTCYa gotta try and get Liam and roz on if possible for next pa mayor ....sure the episode would be 4 hours long and Liam would be slinging ( actionable threats ) about but it would be a hoot!
bossbear the rock
2025-01-30 12:57:47 +0000 UTCA Pope is automatically a mayor, of Vatican City (or Avignon as appropriate)
Andrew Cumming
2025-01-30 12:52:34 +0000 UTCBass spent a lot of time in Congress working with Ghana on “The Year of the Return” when she was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. It fast-tracked the ability for Black Americans to get citizenship in Ghana. Not sure why the relationship continued into her mayoralty, but here we are…
David Schuller
2025-01-30 12:49:54 +0000 UTCTIL you can see London, Canada from coastal Pennsylvania!
Shivvy
2025-01-30 12:07:53 +0000 UTCThe Major League movies have the (very recently) late great Bob Uecker but not much else to recommend them, Dennis Haysbert's character is fun in a "substantial cultural insensitivity score" sort of way I guess, all comedies extremely of their time.
Gary Alexander
2025-01-30 11:56:01 +0000 UTCcan confirm (3:29 PST)
Shivvy
2025-01-30 11:29:23 +0000 UTCyou know who else destroyed his city buying artefacts? that's right, Lord Mayor of London Magnus Crome
Nemo
2025-01-30 11:14:03 +0000 UTCFucked up that Mattie didn’t get to finish saying what I can only assume was “in tune with the city like municipal Harry Dubois”
Tove
2025-01-30 10:12:27 +0000 UTCMORTAL ENGINES MENTIONED
Nemo
2025-01-30 09:49:37 +0000 UTCNightcrawler from Nightcrawler
Harrison Sanchez
2025-01-30 09:19:46 +0000 UTCplease oh god watch Megalopalis - there is literally a mayor who in almost every scene he's in there's off screen booing at everything he says omg. ENTITLES MEE??!??
Harrison Sanchez
2025-01-30 09:02:33 +0000 UTCThis dulls the pain of insomnia, thanks (it is 3:10 in the morning Eastern Standard Time)
YungCereza
2025-01-30 08:10:51 +0000 UTCMayor time 🥵🥵🥵
Miguel Claxton
2025-01-30 08:01:52 +0000 UTC
