Phineas T. Barnum
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!
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You thought of an W140 Mercedes.
The mexica had no stellae, they had non-binary genders, they were not maya... They did have mayors though. My sis fell off a stepped pyramid (maya) once, she was okay. I don't get why she climbed it with a broken leg, in the rain. Nova becoming mayor of The City of London would be a hoot.
Important DC esoterica: they DO have the equivalent of a state House of Representatives. They are called advisory neighborhood commissioners. You represent about 1800 registered voters. So yes, in DC, you can sign your ass up to represent 3-5 avenues. Signed, anc of 3-5 avenues.
My mom is on one of those ANCs and it’s full of the worst NIMBY’s ever. Amazing episode fodder. They spent 10 years fighting an apartment complex that was being built on a closed supermarket. Unlimited uncritical support for Urbanism Stalin
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NYC rats: the only case of lysenkoism. We need to stop making tougher bins, lest we cause the rats to grow too powerful
Re Ford, you know his widow basically accused the conservative mayor of Toronto of having Ford killed to bring in communism? https://crier.co/rob-fords-widow-says-elitest-john-tory-killed-rob-with-cancer-and-his-time-is-coming-lolz-2/
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Boston mentioned
He isn't a Steppe Warlord, he's the Warlord who Stepped up.
Help me, steppe-warlord, I'm trapped in this clothesline.
No Gods, No Tlatoani
Mess ‘O’ America would be so sick tho
Happy to hear my personal enemy Joe Ganim brought up, cannot wait for the future episode on him.
You guys do finally do a podcast about Mesoamerican history but it becomes increasingly derailed by obscure medieval China riffs
Robb Ford lies dead on the mortician's slab, the once-unstoppable dynamo finally at rest. The coroner makes the first incision and is immediately cut to ribbons by the deluge of business cards escaping the mayoral corpse.
PT Barnum: AMAB. Assigned Mayor At Birth
Surely next you need to cover the mayor of Flavortown: Guy Fieri Also, check this out A-MAYOR-ica
it's me, your cousin! Mik Smikilas from Mykinos!
Little Boston is just like one bridge in NYC that's low enough to Storrow trucks
MesoAmerican Ball Game content is the best content.
for a minute I thought it was adams’ friend monserrate who once threatened to throw a NY1 reporter off a balcony, but it was a ny state rep from staten island. It would have dovetailed nicely
🎶 I thought I saw Lauren Bacall I thought I saw Lauren Bacall I swear! Hey fellas! Hey fellas! Lauren Bacall! In a car jam! 🎶
Riley, Girl Anthropologist 😍
Gals, how am I supposed to explain the mess of america intro to the mayor pod when I recommend it to people
How about the mayor of the first city states in Mycenaean Greece? Did Gobekle Tepe have a mayor? Y'all should get Patrick Wyman or Eleanor Janega on to talk about these such things.
Commodore Nutt. Tbf the peanut shell he sails as his flagship is massive.
For the love of god, if you transed the gender of every decent man you met there'd be no decent men at all and the terfs would be retroactively correct
Steaming hot, bad faith take (saying it as a cis man): all the "decent men" are just eggs waiting to hatch.