Gérald Tremblay
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!
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New here, but couldn’t pass by without mentioning the existence of the Montreal municipal corruption themed board game: Construction & Corruption. I own a copy, si jamais! https://abyssgamestore.ca/products/construction-et-corruption-multi-langue
I think maybe Accursed Tony was Satan doing a bit part as part of a Canadian holiday, lol.
I'm instantly adopting "crashing through the windshield of my unicycle" as a vocal stim.
I love the oblivious autistic Frenchman.
1) one dips the biscotti in the vin santi, the boozy madeleine is apt. 2) yes a catholic Hercules is in fact just a Jesus. There are several parallels such as their mysterious pre-existence (to the orphics Hercules was the daimon that mates with Ananke to create the world egg). They are both children of the storm god; they are soterific & teleuteric; they are generally chill but struck with fits of rage. Both go down to hell & fuck shit up.
At the same time, there was a completely unrelated scandal also happening in Montreal in which the executives of the company that produced Arthur, the kids’ tv show, were convicted of massive securities fraud
I remember back when this was breaking my aunt who lived in Montreal was complaining about her stupid cousin who got caught in the middle of this....i googled him annnnnnd...... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/michel-arsenault-ex-ftq-president-testifies-at-corruption-inquiry-1.2512259 apparently they spend some summer vacations together, back when they were kids!
2 tanic 2 turious
Please cover Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago!!
As a Quebecois Italian-American I'm very excited for this episode, and also your inevitable episode on Buddy Cianci, whose limo almost killed my father.
MUZZY MENTIONED
im so mad that Milo's totally wrong quebec accent infected everyone including Riley who should know better lol
Hello from Montréal, and my wife and I are desperate for a Jean Drapeau episode as well. PS. My wife grew up near Applebaum and he was a complete asshole and one time almost hit her with his car.
I have a good consortium for you. I used to work at a community college that was part of a library consortium. It lets you borrow books/articles/materials from most colleges in the state.
Mister President a second penis has struck the mogul.
You gotta do Boss Crump. A man who was mayor for 4 years and for the next 40 plus he and his machine dominated Tennessee politics
Enbyly avoiding skiing not because it’s cold, dangereuse or expensive but purely out of solidarity with my banned trans sisters
Montreal is mobbed up because until the FLQ crisis scared all the anglos to Toronto, it was the capital of business and money in Canada.
Please please please cover Ray Nagin, the Katrina mayor of New Orleans who gave an odd speech declaring New Orleans " Chocolate City" and left office with 21 Federal bribery charges.
I don’t know how much material is there but the first African-American mayor of New Orleans was named Earnest N. Moral
Anyway it’s cool how Montreal is basically a one to one civic equilvent to Revachol
Thinking about the time I saw the church in Montreal’s largely Italian neighborhood that has a painting of Mussolini on the interior dome
Damn, this guy has a significant chance of selling both Applebottom Jeans AND Boots With the Fur.
Are you ladies aware of titty money? It’s just what it sounds like, you put your cash in your bra for safekeeping. Clerks hate to see sweaty titty money come out though.
Former bartender tactic I still occasionally deploy
I feel very targeted on this episode as a French Canadian Autistic person living in Providence Rhode Island
Growing up in the south shore /Montérégie région, one of our neighbours, an accountant who lived in a suspiciously large mansion, was killed in a Mafia hit circa 2010-ish. Small town, middle of apple orchard country. Also special shoutout for that time I almost got crushed by a piece of crumbling overpass. Vive le Québec et son incroyable infrastructure, etc
Requesting a Canadology on mafia wars in Quebec.
Looking up Michael Applebaum led me to the book "Mayors gone Bad" by Philip Slayton which is 288 pages of pure Mayorism. The Amazon page for it includes the pull quote "western triangle of mayoral goodness", which I think is a quote of all time.
Ah, French Canadians. The people whom the French are quick to disown.
Since the slogan “no gods no masters” comes from the french “ni dieu ni maître,” you can directly translate the podcast title to “Ni Dieu Ni Maire” for Official Languages Act compliance
Okay last one: vos Hateurs deviennent vos serveurs à la Table du Succès
Ski Dude is the English name for Bonhomme, the official representative of the Québec Winter Carnival.
Mattie I must let you know that I also have a core memory of the Muzzy commercial living in my adult brain, specifically where the toddler goes "molto bene!"
Hearing November's accent do an American football joke seems wrong. Also why does November know enough about the NFL to target the Jags?
She hangs out with Rocz and Liam a lot, who definitely do sporpsbol
45 seconds in, the Plains of Abraham are mentioned & I hear no The Band? Bush league productions mayors, bush league production, tsk tsk.
The one time I visited Montreal I went into a hat shop and the proprietor spoke in such a stereotypical over-the-top Sopranos Italian accent that I assumed he was goofing on this American but after hearing this, I wonder...
when I was a teen for a while this was extremely on the news, hyped to get into it
TU ES WOKE, TOI! TU ES UN WOKE, LEFT. C'EST QUOI TES PRONOMS?? MAY/OR
reilly sounds like my wasp brother in law trying to do sopranos lines, it’s so awkward and embarrassing to listen to. watch a different show already
Instead of the French novel l‘homme qui rit, Canada gets l‘homme qui peed by a diseased and brain damaged fur trapper, who forgot the French word for pee.
A mayor of the great city where I will be traveling to to get top surgery because it's fully covered at the clinic there and only partially covered at like all the places offering top surgery in ontario
Hell yeah late night mayors
Saputo mozz, potentially worth all the corruption