Mel Lastman

I've listened to this episode multiple times at this point (for falling asleep to podcasts reasons) and Mattie yelling at Riley about the illegal Eva's never fails to make me giggle uncontrollably

Ok, I've been making my way through the whole backlog for a while since I subbed, and I've got to admit "Johnny Percentile" had me crying laughing so hard that I think I pulled a muscle. I've been loving the show but god *damn* did that kill me

Can't you still get $2 bills if you ask for them at a bank? They're certainly not common but they're legal tender

I think it’s entirely possible Riley knew this would happen but as soon as Mr Dressup & the Pizzaz Committee were introduced he lost control of the narrative

I am indeed dutch let me know if you want my discord id

Illegal copy of Eva... next thing you know, R(h)iley is joining Lions Led By Robots for Eva Season, then reveals he's gotten every ending for SIGNALIS and has an odd desire for cybernetics and loves rereading the Dorely Sisters...

In relation to Mr. Dressup, please do not mention the Tickle Trunk to Nova or Mattie. We will never hear the end of it.

Canadian Forces developing pizzazz as an updated dazzle camouflage.

His main opponent in 2000 was an environmental activist named Tooker Gomberg (name alert) who had been a city councillor in Edmonton, AB - and my neighbour, growing up. Tooker was endorsed by Jane Jacobs, and Lastman took some of Tooker’s policies (and won with 80%).

do not come for mr dressup, I will fuck you all up

WHY IS THIS GUY LITERALLY MAYOR JIM LAHEY?… well i guess he’s a fellow Jew so maybe Jim Lévy? lol

semi deep-cut Ace Attorney reference here, Amalgamated Neo-Olde Tokyo.

poor poor Prynce Blayne, never to ascend the Bar Mitzvah throne… it drove him to crime, and not the cool type like Pyotr’ Kropotkin… crimes of the *shudders* furniture selling variety…

“Making chocolate in the basement” must be a euphemism, but alas what for?

You’re-a-peein’

I recently found multiple paper Canadian $2 bills while cleaning out some old boxes of stuff in our basement. Realized I’d been carrying those around for 25-ish years, and inadvertently moved them across the US no less than four times.

The Mel Lastman Square part surprisingly recontextualised the Nancy Pelosi Blvd I noticed in SF when I was there in fuckin 2017

look all I’m sayin is if someone pulled up outside my house with a truck full of AKs and Molotoffs, they ain’t gotta kidnap me I’m coming with them just to ogle the weapons

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder what Mattie would think/scream about Joe Kassabian’s illegal EVAs and enjoyment of InuYasha (I don’t even remember if he has a story about bootleg Evangelion I’m just assuming he would absolutely have done something like that lol)

PLEASE MONTREAL OR BOSTON LIVE SHOW… actually better idea, the silliest, most pleasantly freaky, most mayoral city in the union (because it’s a shitload of jurisdictions slammed together)… Albany NY

Riley living the life of a Hazel video essay tangent in the eraly 2000's and then wondering how is that a trans thing is so funny my god

Lowlands dune checks out made this comment somewhere else before but baron van harlaan be like: de spice moet vlow

I am no longer Richie Colorwheel, i am now Johnnie Percentages

this really plays into Dan Boeckner's take that Canada is divided into the Oafs and the Oaf Overseers; Mel is an Oaf and Barbara Hall is an Oaf Overseer. the Merger was a critical strategic victory for the Oaf side in the war against Overseers

riley saying "most illegal evas in canada" activated a sort of pre-rendered takedown animation on my cerebellum

I genuinely appreciate that Nova has a cursed Swedish accent in her bag instead of the usual bad German accent people attempt

You jest but I've recently been reading a cyberpunk story with "Consolidated Virginia" (aliens invaded and they eat all biomass so they put all of Virginia in one city)

OK, I got out my big comedy d100 and rolled a 62, what's that on the encounter table?

It's municipal roundup and I love the subject matter and the name!

Mattie losing her mind was the best fucking shit ever

You laugh about renaming the square but it was always hilarious to go through the Joseph R Biden train station in Wilmington while he was president like it really does make you realize he was never supposed to have the job. It’s like Quincy Adams being elected to the house or Taft being chief Justice except he just randomly became president after his career was over lmao.

it's insane how big a bullet Montreal dodged with the merger/de-merger. Like yeah sure our regional planning sucks absolute balls but at least we don't have Serge Racisme from Fairview-Pointe-Claire doing every decision

A single word defines this podcast audience, Oafs. We are united in Oafishness.

"the anti-amalgamation rally" is an incredible entry in "phrases that sound like they're from a bad sci-fi about the 2060s"

@mattie the mayor calculus spoke to me the other day and it told me to tell you that early labor organizer Terence v powderly was a mayor

Unfortunately for Mel, Bill Clinton likes to take his revenge slow and long before the offense is given. Mel Lastman's cause of death was quickly listed as Hepatitis from a blood transfusion and cancer. Where did that blood come from? Arkansas. https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/may-15-1999-tainted-plasma-traced-to-arkansas-prison-bill-clintons-blood-trails/

I have never wanted a job as much as I want to be on a Pizzazz Committee.

"Obsessive but pleasant freaks"? You really do understand your audience. Hi

The Final Episode

Immediately adding Johnny Percentages to the one-shot I've been writing about the Fungus of Dalton, IL

"It is important to hold space for the Melvins in your life." - November. So true: https://youtu.be/7Q7Q-KjD600?si=yLP-_dfTivuVRctA

I love how the bit started as Nova and Mattie bullying Riley about being trans and is now entirely just Riley bullying them instead by revealing some new insane egg details about himself every week

So ixnay on the 7' jötun model for matty? & Nova. There is no navy in the altiplano. It's 2km up, desert, & not a single boat. Come to Mexico

It’s going to be hard to beat the first five minutes of this…. Like ever…. In any medium. Mattie’s shrieking “you fuck” over and over killed me 🤌🏻🤌🏻

Mr. Dressup was an understudy of Fred Rogers so I think Riley might win this one

I, too, had a Hong Kong bootleg of NGE in the early 2000's and I, too, did not transition until my 30s.

Never change, Riley.

Bill Clinton may have killed Mel Lastman. If you received tainted blood products in Canada in the 80s there is a high chance it was sourced from an Arkansas prison.

Also before I cracked my egg and didn't know what a trans person really was I said to my bestie who also turned out to be transgender "everyone's straight until proven otherwise"

I think we should clockwork orange the shit out of Riley with like all the most transgender ass concepts too see what happens

its pronounced amalgamated chronno

Is "making chocolates in the basement" a metaphor for pooping?

They’re calling her the most transgender cis boy in the world

I am so litterally prepared to run Municipal DnD. Litterally litterally. I've been working on a campaign based on this show's bits for a minute

Ummmm, how on god's green earth did Riley get away with "subway yine" while Mattie gets constantly roasted for her slip ups? #justiceformattie

ACAB includes Tim Peel specifically

Oh shit, he's the last man?

Can I get an "Obsessive but pleasant freak" t-shirt?

So many spit takes while attempting to brush my teeth over Mattie’s righteous egg anime outrage 😝

This one's extra full of silly juice, big fan. I'm at my night shift job desperately trying not to burst out in howling cackling laughter, making my coworkers think I'm a lunatic

Ah yes, the best podcasts start with unrestrained screaming

I've known more than one DM who would have loved to have a bolt-gun to hand.

Also municipal DND would be something I would love to hear. Just. An entire party trying to counter a tyrannical mayor for differing reasons

what if furniture sales were fucked up and EVIL?!

Riley having her top 4 letterboxed movies be those fucking movies had me fuming, especially because I used to do the transest cis boy routine

YMW Melly

she Mel on my furniture so good I can’t Lastman…