John Fetterman
Greetings, municipality fans! This one starts out funny but ends up sad – much like the career of our guy here. Behold: The Oaf's Lament.
Municipal meeting minutes include: Riley’s face sand table, oaf credentials, why is this pamphlet chained up?, the dusty pediment at the Kennedy School, the mayor has two bodies, the jeans runner, accidental discharge, and the municipal soul.
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I love the idea of No Governors No Mayor's because it implies that the aspect of this podcast that gets replaced is not the mayor's but the gods. So it'd still be about mayor's, but instead of the occasional Pope episode it's some sort of gubernatorial emissary on Earth.
Fetterman signalling his colonizer heel turn years in advance by leading the charge to gentrify the town should've set off more alarm bells
I had to really find the strength to listen to this one. I completely fell for this guy’s schtick when he was mayor of Braddock, and I’m honestly pretty embarrassed by that. When someone’s power is limited to the mayoralty, it’s a lot easier to miss key information about their global politics, because it rarely comes up. You just see their actions on the ground. And in this case, it was easy to see his actions as genuinely helping and standing up for his constituents. Then if that mayor escapes city hall and runs for a higher office, their proven actions may still overshadow their stated ideology. Let this be a warning: a political candidate’s actions speak louder than their words, but always seek out their words, too.
PETE BUTTIGIEG EPISODE PROMISED
what was the name of the book mentioned in the episode about the weird bar reimagining of industrial spaces in america? trying to remember where in the episode it was mentioned and failing.
City Authentic
"No major endorsements?!" C'mon Nova, don't sell your other projects short
Keep it up, you're doing amazing! 💪🌟
This example of absolute power corrupting is at uncomfortable odds with our need for Climate Stalin
Tony Buba is a cool guy. The Michael and Us guys interviewed him not too long along
Idea for the trans flag: different shape. Maybe some triangles like Nepal
"Prick Inhibitor" is one of the police-issue retention cages
Smoke issuing non-stop from the chimney at the weed conclave
Safariland holsters have thumb controls for the retention system. November is thinking of the Blackhawk SERPA holster which requires that you press a button, located on the outside of the holster (over the trigger) using your trigger finger, in such a way that people commonly end up also pressing the trigger while drawing the gun. The DEA agent in front of the kids didn’t even have the gun holstered, they just had it out and pressed the trigger while manipulating it (specifically while saying that they were the only one in the room qualified to handle a loaded weapon)
Doktor, disable my prick inhibitors!
If I had a nickel for every time this podcast riffed on a university, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
The cops service cage is called the Prick Inhibitor
Riley actively refusing to steal oaf valour
I was waiting for you to talk about Latoya Ruby Frazier! Her art is fucking awesome. She is a force!
Tbf I would also post “I had a seizure lol” but I think most people in my life would find it annoying or alarming instead of funny
I am a local hater of this man. If this man has only 1 hater, it’s me. If he has 0 haters, it means I’m dead. Anyways very happy to see you cover this goon bc I have felt personally victimized and betrayed by this man’s career
Mayor Spirit is an excellent King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song tbf
I would like to note that fetterman has been officially disinvited from the Big Galoot Society of America’s annual convention in Buffalo (Nov. 2-5)
48:39 This is crazy, but you CAN bike from Braddock to Washington DC. I've done it. The Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal Towpath almost continuously run from Pittsburgh to DC.
i would like to go on record to say I appreciated November's Safariland joke
If fetterman does a school shooting in the senate, who is the Hogg in that situation?
I know Maddie says there are “Kidnapped” posters everywhere, and maybe I just frequent different parts of the city than she does, but the last time I saw one here in NYC was when I walked down Madison Avenue from my psychiatrist on 86th Street to the Tod’s store on 60th last fall, and I saw precisely one cluster of “Kidnapped” posters, and they were extremely weathered. Also I live in Crown Heights, and despite the presence of Chabad I don’t think I’ve ever seen any “Kidnapped” posters near my apartment. This is to say that it seems like the response to the genocide in Gaza in some of the most Jewish places on earth here in NYC has been to act like Oct 7th never happened, that there is no war, and that consequently there are no hostages. On an unrelated note, my attitude towards Israel is that Israel does not exist.
Oh I welcome you to come to the upper west side which was ground zero of a very literal posting war - every streetlamp, every garbage can, most of the street scaffolding, entire blocks, etc not just the kidnapped poster but home-brew ones that edge just into Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism - it’s like Facebook manifested in real life - they used to go back up the instant they got ripped down which led to some angry street fights and now they’re mostly left to fade away but there where so many there’s relics of them EVERYWHERE
This was so dark
solemnly reciting the penis creed while disassembling and cleaning my service penis
That’s what I call my strap on now
Firing the “im an idiot who needs context” flare gun for what the Kennedy school of government is and why it’s bad.
1) it's the University of Harvard's school of government and 2) it's the University of Harvard's school of government
the Jake Tapper of the Senate
I'm a little sad the rest of WTYP crew didn't join as co-mayors, but their contribution would have probably been a very long censor beep so I understand.
So many actionable threats from Liam. So many.
FAO Nova. At 52 minutes. Not just Safariland but also the Blackhawk RADAR holsters. Lots of holes in tops of boots 🙄
I would say depending on time and place the distinction between Governor and mayor is non existent after all if an emperor is a king of kings is a governor not a mayor or mayors?
Also pretty sure the Kennedy school of government does have something that speaks on brain injuries, like a coat of arms with a concarno round an icepick and a worm
Philadelphia resident confirming I will vote for November for any and all elected positions within pa
Speaking of big guys perhaps better better known for other things, I wonder when the Mayortaculus will get to the mayor of Brooklyn Park, MN, from 1991 to 1995.
Can confirm: having a 19 yr old Boomer dad (or 20 by that time) who’s Black produced a different effect! Never President of a single insurance company
Oh, thank God, a new NGNM! That'll cheer me up! Everything's fine don't worry about it.
It was Walt Whitman’s “America” in the jeans commercial. Or rather, it was the fraudulent wax cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reciting “America.”
Active semen retention system
Hey, Sacramento resident here thank you for slandering our bridge. I can't think of any particularly outlandish mayors of Sacramento, but if you interpret founders as a variation of mayor, John Sutter would be good.
How dare you remind me of the mandatory NorCal childhood trip to his dumb mill.
Bethlehem, PA has made the old Beth Steel mill there into a destination for all kinds of stuff.
Hard disagree. The sort of fumbling of things is a Klutz; an Oaf involves misplacement, incongruous substitutions, & malapropisms. An oaf is not victim to their incompetence but rather woe to them that cause the oaf to sally forth.
My take on the Klutz vs Oaf debate is oafishness is matter of intentionally. People don't set out to klutzes, they just are. A big part of the Oaf persona one decides to lean into oafishness.
Finally some oaf representation
Doktor! Turn off my prick inhibitors!
The first time I heard about this guy was on a tv show about his cool car dealership house.
First I heard of him was on Anthony Bourdain's show. Tony was in Pittsburgh checking out the food and a side trip to profile the Oaf.
My name is Al and I'm an oaf.
Chronclave
This mf said "go browns"
No Gods No Mayors / WTYP crossover episode when?
Oafkeepers
read in “Hey, Tone—“ Sopranos accent
Governor's are just overgrown mayors. In that spirit, please do Paul LePage.
yes!!!!
"Solving the Oaf's Riddle" sounds like a euphemism, but I'm damned if I know for what. Probably because I'm an oaf.
Say it ain't so. I will not go.
The list of approved trans girl names is identical to the list of girl dog names tbh
"Well what do you know, another newcomer. Welcome to Megaton. The names John Fetterman, mayor and town sheriff; when the need arises."
No Gods, No Mayors, No Refunds
Despite lying down in bed, pumped my fist in the air when I saw this. Normal reaction, eh?
Totally normal.
The pickup artists keep failing to pick up cis women so they've adopted a new tactic of negging their friends until they transition
"The prick inhibitor" now THAT'S the chastity cage!
im currently doing the final exams of my masters degree (in maths, god forgive me) and all i can say is, these things are not positively correlated with intelligence
No council rodeo?
Fly Eagles Fly set to the Soviet national anthem
Redesigning an old Soviet era atomic energy flag to be a bear splitting a vial of estrogen
Having discovered WTYP in the last couple of months and playing through most of the episodes in a short time, it was interesting to hear the joyful hope for JF turn into despair so quickly
Teenage me doing the COGIATI equivalent to determine oaf-ness, feeling oddly disheartened by the results, and re-doing it until it tells me that I'm an oaf; proceed to keep it secret for 20+ years.
Oh Jesus fuck this is about to go so fuckin hard im rockin the long gym shorts for this one let's fuckin go
Can confirm, oafishness is about the spirit. Like trying to plug in a usb drive, hitting your head two times under the table and accidentally spilling half a bottle of laundry detergent on your wood floor. Don’t ask me how I know.
Someday I’ll plug in a USB cable correctly the first try. Not today, but someday
Yes! A man I used to look up to (That's a tall joke, incase it went over your head)
Valid criticism of the design aside, I like my pastel flag!! 😞
I like that it looks like a sunset.