Larry Vaughn (with DEVON)

took me until they killed the goddamn shark with casualties

this took me an embarrassingly long time to

The phaaaaaaantom of the cafeteriaaaaaa

Me, who has never seen the film Jaws: Boy this sounds a lot like the film Jaws, I wonder if it was based on a real story

Well, I'm happy to know I wasn't the only one who took an embarrassingly long time to catch on. It took me until the second shark attack. Before that I was like "damn I was sure Jaws was based on a fiction book, but apparently it was based on this, whaddaya know".

i hope furfest and labor notes are at the same time this year b/c i dont think my union will also subsidize my furfest tix

ahaha fuck. Took me 45 minutes. The first shark attack happened and I was like, "ahh yes, this must be the thing that Jaws was based on. Weird, I thought that happened in New Jersey and like fifty years earlier. Well, Riley and Mattie would know, surely!" Bravo, ladies.

I have also been to Rosemont many a time. It's where Anime Central was held when I was in high school and college, also went to a yarn and fiber festival there.

Looking forward to KJB shark season

"This isn't Jaws, is it? This can't just be Jaws?" *Looks up Jaws, sees the name of the mayor from Jaws* "SON OF A BITCH!"

eine kleine mirthmusik

I will be there for a live Rosemont show, revolting as it is to actually exist in that "town." I'll at least have an excuse to use the most depressing CTA station

I really thought "damn I didn't know JAWS was based off a real mayor"

For my friends, everything; for sharks, the law

i wish my landlord was a vampire so he wouldn't come over uninvited

Only clocked it at minute 44

Hello Maddie, Nova and Riley, this is Kyle. I'll be honest, I'd never heard of Mayor Vaughn before, so this was an amazingly entertaining episode! In a similar vein of small-town mayors who were thrust into a sudden natural crisis, I would like to introduce you to Rachel Wando. Miss Wando was the mayor of the small resort town of Dante's Peak, Washington during the mid 90s. I don't want to do too far into her mayoral run, but she is briefly romantically involved with a volcanologist who has taken a keen interest in her sleepy little town. In many ways, the situation became suddenly volatile and even explosive! I realize that the Mayortaculus works in mysterious ways, but if you could cover Mayor Wando, say, next year, that would be greatly appreciated! Lol

i'm so glad i subscribe to the patreon so i can be in community with everyone who got 43 minutes in before realizing

Idk if he's an actual landlord but he evicted a little bird from his gutter

Oh shit, I knew Joe Ferris when he completed in speech and debate at Seton Hall - we were in the same region so I saw him all the time. Had no idea he moved to Hudson. He was a perfectly pleasant person to be around, although I do remember at a Halloween party once he unironically dressed as a "young George Stephanapolous." May be the biggest indicator of his political beliefs than any campaign speech he's ever given.

fucking didn’t realize til 43:54 and a shark was mentioned, well fucking played

My stupid ass was like "Isn't this the plot of JAWS?" not remembering the mayor from JAWS' name or that it was april fools.

I had this on while cleaning the house, and the whole time I was thinking how much like Jaws this story was. God damn you

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to get the bit

I'm very upset that I was twenty minutes in before my brain clicked and I realized this was a joke

It’s insane how in this episode they talked about the vampiric mayor of small town Illinois and that wasn’t the April fools joke

I didn't look at the episode art and got 36 minutes in and I'm so mad at myself

It took me until she said "guys with dynamite or whatever" to realize the bit. Fantastically done, yall. Enjoy, I am the fool.

The way I hear Amity Island and went oh that’s from… and it was only when I heard “the shark” that I realised what the hell was happening

the movie where the shark learns about consent is Finding Nemo

Committing to The Bit is the greatest art form

"No Gods November" what an absolute Instant banger Devon holy shit

It took me way too long….

"I don't watch many movies where anything upsetting happens" Riley, honeyboo, Sicario is one of your comfort movies

https://open.spotify.com/track/71RF37oZgfWKTTKuD3IJMm?si=xOP4-FgySxG3j4OTVKcLfw%0A I'm just gonna leave this here

speaking of the landlord who says "unhoused": recently i saw one of those garbage trucks the city uses to steal the stuff of people living on the street, and the branding on the side of the truck said: "Rapid Response Biowaste Cleanup. specialties: houseless encampments, RV destruction" and two other otherwise-normal specialties. it's crazy to live in as lib a place as i do, where the fascists destroying people's belongings use the woke word for it

I was assuming the episode got moved up a day as an April Fools thing, but no, completely normal. There wasn't even a funny name for Municipal Roundup.

i didn’t realize until i tried to find it on a map OMG this is the only acceptable april fools day prank.

The unamonger

I had a full 90 seconds where I was like: “wait is Amity Island a real place off the Cape? I thought… “ and then I remembered what day it is. (to be fair, I only just learned yesterday that Robyn isn’t a lesbian, so I was open to upending my personal assumptions)

It took me until you named the fucking police chief you bastards! 🤣

44:39 into this episode before I figured out what was going on 🫠

I am so fucking glad that the bit from the Donald Stevens episode about it being where mff is held made it into this episode let's fucking go

I'm sick to hell with flu and I was not ready to be GASLIT today whilst dying of fever. I'm shivering, sweating, dying, thinking to myself thinking "damn its crazy that a shark attacked that town"

So...I never seen Jaws. I suspected this one was an april fools episode. But I completely forgot about it during the roundup. So I just believed it until the end. THE FUCK

But wait, there's not a sketch of "where in the world is November Kelly" ala Carmen san diago?

you motherfuckers.

Me as Riley started the main story: man this must be what they based Jaws on! thoughtaboutkillinmyself dot wav

allow me to suggest the phrase “licking with their teeth” to describe a cat giving playful nibbles

rosemont has soft power due to all the plush faux fur

I love that Abigail is the time keeper for KJB and Riley's stomach is NGNM's. 😂

I can’t believe they overlooked Seattle’s importance to the furries - yes Philadelphia is an important military hub but Seattle’s Slightly Furry cider company produces nearly 60% of the hard cider that is paid to sailors working on Furry Federated Communes Ships, and in particular supplies the cider rations for the critically important FFCS Foxtrot.

i’ve seen some really interesting commentary from reporter carl gottlieb that larry vaughn’s behavior during this scandal is extremely reminiscent of — like it feels almost inspired by — a norwegian case in the 1800s where a mayor led a cover-up against his OWN BROTHER bc the brother had discovered a bunch of industrial pollution that would supposedly sink the town. there’s a great written account of it called “an enemy of the people”. really fascinating!! (oh also INSANE thing: there’s an edition of this report — again, about a case where political leaders spread scientific misinformation specifically to protect industry that was causing terrible ecological harm — from 2021 that features an introduction by RFK FUCKING JR. wtf)

Dev, theyre trialing loki as the new David attenborough.

Had I bothered to look at the episode art I would have gotten the joke right off the bat. Also, Amity is off the coast of Long Island. Nice red herring saying it's in Massachusetts.

Took me until 35 minutes in to realize what this was, I guess I'm the donkey of the week

No gods, no bones

Look it up on NIST. It's on ISO. Find it on ANSI. It's literally on ANSI.

Cry "Furry" and let slip the puppygirls of war.

I'm not sure if the concept of determining the show policy on mayors on-air with November absent was a bit or not, but either way, it got me. Well played.

You added the MFF errata, but didn't mention the chlorine gas attack that happened there in 2014?

Mwff mentioned AND a licentious lusophone, fuck yeah!!!!

oh god no please don't have a mayor on it'll be the kind of horrifying awkwardness that i simply cannot abide

'landlord that says unhoused' is going to fucking jokerify me the ultimate culmination of politics-as-aesthetics

this is the best kind of april fools thing where it's "this is a silly version of the thing we usually do and it's just kind of neat" rather than a stupid prank

fooled?? and on the day of April?!

i appreciate that even in the prank episode we get a full length completely normal municipal roundup

I don't care what day it is, doing Larry Vaughn opens the door to doing the mayor of Pribrezhny, Vadim Sergeyevich Shelevyat, from the film Leviathan... 🙏

Additional fact about the kids who did the shark fin prank: the cops did almost shoot them, like fully surrounded them with guns.

47min into working while listening to this - fuck you. You gaggle of hucksters and baffoons I bet your wiggling your feet under your podcasting desks and giggling like loons I hope your pleased with yourselves

Listened to this for an embarrassing time before realising.

De.von......De.von......De.Von.De.Von......De..Von.De.Von.De.Von.De.Von......

Making the brothel a welcome center seems appropriate. What’s a brothel if not a welcome center?

You almost had me with this but for the line "we don't know the exact date he became mayor." That is just too insane of an idea that I figured out what was happening

This episode deserves a nice slow golf clap.

forty minutes in before i realized.

i hate you

It took me until 1:01:06 before I realised “ooooooh, it’s April 1st”… I’m a dumbass 🫤

is there a link for streaming the atheist amayoral stream

Ooh, Wednesday mayor?

Let it be said that the waiting music during the Roundup was particularly tasteful. The Muse was certainly zak'd.

It only looks like and island from the air! Or from a very high point on a very small island.

I hope Be Gay Solve Crimes will cover George from the Famous Five.

Very good

Labor Notes is held at the hotel next to the convention center.

Hey, wait a minute...

DEVON ‼️

Oh boy early mayor!

Happy TDOV to Devon and the Girlies!!!