Marvin Rees
Added 2025-02-27 08:00:02 +0000 UTC
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!
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you know how in rollercoaster tycoon, the slide is one of the cheapest and smallest rides you can plop down so its at the front of the list? i think it might be similarly prominent in the Mayoral HUD
Commander Freddy
2025-10-09 13:29:33 +0000 UTCIs the correct pronunciation of "dove cote" actually "du-cut" (as per November) and not "dove-coat" as I have being reading it in my head?
Alice Armstrong
2025-10-05 13:02:26 +0000 UTCi grew up in the town that the Bethel School is in and i promise it's way crazier than anyone is thinking. they're a lot closer to branch davidians than mainstream evangelical beliefs.
nozoqueer
2025-09-10 17:13:50 +0000 UTCTangentially mayor related, but I'm reminded of another person who did their job so bad the position was abolished. Newark mayor Ras Baraka's father was New Jerseys second and last poet laureate. After he wrote a poem which blamed jews for 9/11, the state realized they could not strip him of the title so they abolished the position of poet laureate.
titus virginia
2025-07-09 01:37:08 +0000 UTCArriving here very late, but: as an example regarding mayor's love of inclines, the perennially disgraced mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, has more than once set up zip lines across the Mississippi River as a part of questionable municipal holidays (most notably Aquatennial, a celebration, I guess, of the city of lakes, that was mostly established as a way to distract people from the anniversary of the deadly 1934 labor strike in which cops killed striking union truck drivers)
James Slegers
2025-05-20 06:05:16 +0000 UTCI'm afraid Riley and the other mayors got a bit confused in the historical mayor book quote. That quote is from around 1400-1420, Rodrigo Borgia was mayor-pope from 1492-1503...
Christine Pizan
2025-03-15 14:05:06 +0000 UTCWas that "he really managed to turn an L into a Dub (W)" or "he really managed to turn an L into a Dove," in reference to his dad?
-Kris-
2025-03-02 20:09:31 +0000 UTC"Hardcore Revivalist" sounds like something very interesting if you don't put "Evangelical" in front of it
-Kris-
2025-03-02 19:44:47 +0000 UTCWere the princes of the Holy Roman Empire mayors? (At least some of them?) Honestly this does seem like a good way to describe what mayors are like in general (and why they’re bad). Is Democratic Confederalism like an anarchist Weimar, then? Is Eric Adams Habsburg-coded? (EDIT: it’s probably more Robert Moses who’s Habsburg-coded, tearing down Manhattan’s defensive fortifications and replacing them with the Ringstraße. God I wish the FDR was the Ringstraße.)
Elsie Hupp
2025-02-28 13:38:09 +0000 UTCConsidering Dubai has an indoor ski slope… are the Emirs of the UAE mayors? (And who is the mayor of the American Dream Mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands?!?)
Elsie Hupp
2025-02-28 05:56:27 +0000 UTCAlternate proposal: deport/exile Eric Adams to Turkey. Istanbul is the New York of West Asia!
Elsie Hupp
2025-02-28 05:43:58 +0000 UTCA white Evangelical lib, yeah that would be weird, but a black evangelical lib isn’t out of the ordinary.
Matthew
2025-02-27 17:59:34 +0000 UTCjust wanted to share it's been a challenging few weeks as a transsexual biomedical scientist in america. so i've been off all my political podcasts. but i caught up on no gods no mayors today, and it reaffirmed that this is a 'no-skip' podcast. yall always know how to make me smile and laugh in the darkest times. gratias vobis ago
duckyaisha
2025-02-27 17:00:15 +0000 UTCTony Campolo and Jim Wallace are very much the "progressive" wing of evangelicalism, from an era where it seemed like that might be a viable lane.
the blurst of times
2025-02-27 16:01:24 +0000 UTCAll the talk of doves, and no John Wu reference?
james
2025-02-27 12:54:12 +0000 UTCI remember "the man in the arena" being trotted out at the funeral of former Taoiseach and Bond villain Charlie Haughey, by former Taoiseach and political escapologist Bertie Ahern.
Jack Fennell
2025-02-27 12:42:09 +0000 UTCOperation Black Vote was the longest-range polling operation in history, in which the RAF delivered ballots to Port Stanley Airport in the Falklands directly from Ascension Island.
BarFly
2025-02-27 12:40:22 +0000 UTCYou take your lilo to the lido, it's a great day out
Andrew Cumming
2025-02-27 11:57:04 +0000 UTCIf we're in Britain can I suggest Lutfur Rahman? Difficult to separate out what's going on with him from the UK press being insanely racist, but this guy is 100% batshit.
DylanCH
2025-02-27 11:10:01 +0000 UTCOther prisoners don’t deserve to be around Eric Adams though…
Helena Maki
2025-02-27 11:07:02 +0000 UTCA good name for The World Mayor Prize would be Oscar Mayor
Boniek
2025-02-27 11:01:15 +0000 UTCI distinctly remember being at Bristol pride when the Eurovision announcement came on, what a cursed moment
Erin Taylor
2025-02-27 09:10:10 +0000 UTCDirectly elected mayors are very Blairite in 2 directions. 1. Pro devolution (good). 2. Empowering a single visionary leader who can rise over the dead traditions of his party and provide the necessary 'leadership' (bad). I hate to be fair to Blair, because I hate them, but one contributory factor to the profileration of mayors was the rejection of devolved assemblies in England, bar London
Michael Kelliher
2025-02-27 08:35:27 +0000 UTCIf Bristol actually said No Gods, No Mayors, is it the capital of the podcast?
hpntncls
2025-02-27 08:10:06 +0000 UTCHumble request for Rajneeshpuram, OR. Definitely some crazy municipal shenanigans to go into. 🫡
Miguel Claxton
2025-02-27 08:05:20 +0000 UTC
