Ralph Klein

Listening to the weddle theme tune jaw absolutely dropping realising it’s the same tune as The Brownie Song from the girl guides brownie division. And after the boy scouts found a skull too

I did indeed listen to this while high on Christmas. In Edmonton at that!

I almost crashed my car cheering at the prospect of base boosted stan rogers

The first mayor whose dad was made to scream in pain twisted by Stu Hart in his dungeon at Stampede wrestling

couple calgary notes: - my mom says he once left a fundraiser in a hurry having pissed himself in a grey suit - Ralph Klein's old east village stomping grounds got fully redeveloped and gentrified in 2008-2012, which the fully conservativitized Klein supported by then - Calgary cops are for sure dark energy and will teach you creative new racial slurs, but are also very disney soy replica lightsaber owning type motherfuckers - Blackfoot like everyone have class hierarchies and blue bloods, Klein's relationship there is a bit more like him getting in with a bourgeoisie than invited to the cookout

being left in Alberta is half agreeing we deserve all the derision and half hearing the derision and being like "hey >:T cmon it's nice here"

Bayport Minnesota is home to the inaccurately named Minnesota Correctional Facility Stillwater. So non-zero chance the Mayor of Bayport will be able to see her skull stealing husband's new home from her window.

Raise your hand if you were personally attacked by November’s line about every trans woman wearing Calvin Klein underwear🙋🏻‍♀️

It is 8 days after Yeshuamas It is the bris! That's why they uncork champagne

Jaqueszdfjeja Cretin is aptly named

I really love Mattie wondering about the racial component of a Calgarian calling Eastern Canadians scum fucks; you have to picture in your mind that this guy was actually for real believing that the boys from Trailer Park Boys were emigrating en masse to scheme, steal and finagle Albertan's hard-earned monies it's kind of a core Alberta belief that everyone else from canada is aways trying to take their shit for themselves

My sisters in civics: PR is just being a carny busker in a suit

Nomiki is pronounced No-me-key. I only know this because she was a regular on The Majority Report before had some scandal and she got too lib. There was a running joke about Sam's pronunciation

Riley doesn't even react to being straight-up she/her'd, amazing

November pronouncing St. Croix County far too accurately for anyone actually anywhere near St. Croix County

I know I’ve listened to too many episodes of NGNM because during this one I had the thought “yeah I could probably be mayor”

Because of woke you can no longer ponder human skull. The woke mob would go mad gone are the days you can spend hours talking to a human skull you manage to steal what has the world come to

RALPH

So my cousin knows the Bayport skull guy. Small world.

I feel like I remember Klein being behind the scheme where could just buy a driver’s licence without a test for a while

My dad was a pediatric oncologist in Calgary, and Ralph Klein took part (several times) in a cancer charity even where he would shave the heads of volunteers for cancer. My dad was one of them. There is a photo of a drunk Ralph Klein shaving my father's head and that's glorious. Sadly I don't have access to those photos anymore so it's just a fond memory in my head.

A king like from Shrek?! A *KING?!*

Maddie: "I've been raised by birds" gold, perfect, podcast oscar

Fun fact: when I lived in Calgary, you had to pay for a library membership. Who needs public services amirite?

I wish id had time, I would have listened on xmas day

69th episode, it's a Christmas miracle

The ultimate American “King” was King George Coulam, 42 year mayor of Todd Mission, Texas, former owner of the Texas Renaissance Festival and someone y’all really need to check out!

My god, his waiter became his hater!

As a southern Albertan who just took his post family “walk” feeling fat and sassy after fondue this is the perfect Christmas present.

Merry Christmas, the Sam!

i think you meant to say rat lines

I need someone to write the forcefem erotica about Georgian Enciro Fermi luring Totally-not-an-expy-of-Riley-Quinn into his evil lair under the Olympic football stadium in Tibliski to do evil kink shit to. Honestly a porn protagonist with similar quirks to Riley would be an interesting read, as the genre favors blank slate protagonists. So one who has strong opinions on wine and cleanliness indepdent on whatever brainwashing is occuring would be a good read

100% listening to this on Christmas day

Wow, I remember Klein. And yes, this is a perfectly fine xmas thing to do in my family.

Klein probably reminds like half of Albertans of their dads though I'm probably projecting here. He's a very archetypal Albertan guy in so many ways. My dad, an eastern bum, met him once as Klein stumbled into a hotel lobby elevator in Calgary in the 80s. He always seemed to have a bit of respect for Klein, being a fellow bar hopper who drank with motorcycle gangs, always had a smile on and kept coming up with drunken schemes for cash. Miss him.

There is a wonderful photo of Ralph Klein in one of my favourite Chinese restaurants in my home city; it shows the proprietor next to a clearly snockered hugely smiling Ralph, whose face is the colour of a well-boiled lobster. I always stop to enjoy the photo when I go in for excellent dim sum.

SNATCH PURPOSE

As a born and raised Albertan, can I say fuck yeah let’s go Merry Christmas

Listening to this on Christmas day in Alberta. Merry Kleinmas everyone!

The ravines owned by the handsome man from the Caucasus region who believed in the single tax movement and was named after a Greek king murdered in 1913? Gorgeous Georgist Georgian George's gorges. Merry Xmas everybody!

Bwahahaha, listening as I go on said "Christmas Walk"

the sweat lodge stuff sounds like it might've provoked the amazing Clearcut_(1992)

Listened while making Christmas dinner, happy Christmas to my 3 favourite trans women and Sam

Listened to this during my Christmas Eve/Christmas day night shift! Getting that sweet time and a half pay so I can save up for my third tattoo

I don’t know any mayors from Medina Washington (3000 person city where Jeff Bezos bill gates and all the other rly rly rich ppl live) but I do feel like this Vernon, CA except for billionaires instead of rendering plants has to have some interesting mayoral history and that this towns existence is always so strange

'"I don't know anything about my wife holding hands with Bill Di Blasio," the married woman's befuddled husband said.' [Cue the flute solo from Warren Zevon's "The Hula Hula Boys"]

pre-cousin mayoral time

“If your cans emit a split pea soup-like substance, seek medical attention. The lumpy yellow liquid is not sexy; if it‘s coming out hot, that‘s worse…“

BOMB FUNK MC FREE STYLER - was also HUGE with Australians - that song is lodged in there forever

Also that Chemical Brothers drop got me good, when I heard it and went... OHHHHH.

We celebrate on Christmas Eve so I can enjoy this while chilling with my morning coffee after hosting Christmas for my family yesterday ❤️

Mayory Christmas everyone

also you guys should look up the best ever alberta beer it’s called AGD or Alberta Genuine Draft and before covid they used to have a pop top like a tuna can. they taste like piss and they’re amazing

by the way an alberta accent is sorta like if the hockey players from letterkenny said “fuckkin rights boys” every 3 seconds

Happy Holidays to my favorite 3 Girlies pod 😘

I think the religion for this show should be Bathist Scientologist

Wuism has reached London, KY. This podcast is going to converge to a grand finale where one mayor does one thing mentioned from every previously covered mayor. - give bankers a new form of cancer - do crack in a basement - get stuck on a zipline - announce a trash revolution - get fake abs etc.

HELLOOO listening on Christmas at 3 in the morning baking. If you’re assigning a listener podcast stereotype for NGNM I volunteer eclectic pagan as tribute

Merry christmas ya filthy animals.

IT'S THE CHRISTMAS ONE

cowtown let's goooooo

a christmas miracle,,,

happy mayormas!