Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg, with Cory Doctorow

End of Geography Bit reminding me of the „Angkor Wat over Paris“ line from The Great Spy Chase

explaining the biden administration to an american: imagine a pizzaburger

Francis Fukuyama failed to kill history, but SOMEBODY is killing geography and I have my suspicions as to who it is...

You won't be able to restore geography until you destroy the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

I am working through the backlog here and while as a Chicago resident I deeply resent that my entire city hasn't gotten a multipart deep dive, my personal recommendation in US mayors is Luke Ravenstahl, the boy mayor of Pittsburgh. His notable accomplishments included taking a Homeland Security-funded SUV to a concert in Harrisburg and getting hammered in the New Orleans French Quarter while Pittsburgh got buried in snow. Also, right before he decided not to run for reelection he went on a tremendous rant on Facebook snarling about all of his enemies.

You guys heard of buddy cianci. Really funny mayor

Francis Fukuyama's lesser known but more accurate book: The End of Geography

I'm sure it's been said but AFGHANISTAN DOESN'T SPEAK FUCKING ARABIC

1:00:15 I REALLY fucking relate to that. I had a mom who apart from being extremely abusive, pushed me to be a prodigy at everything I'd get into leading to numerous times I had an in on something I was passionate about but not wealthy enough for as well as going to "elite" places I hated only to end up burnt out and with a main character syndrome I had to go to therapy to address

Conceptual slag new username

Whipping out the synthesizer for a Miami item: *perfectly plays the sound of a sad fading-green carpeted room with wood paneling*

THEY DON'T EVEN SPEAK ARABIC IN THE PART OF AFGHANISTAN HE WAS IN. 1% of the Afghan population speak Arabic, and they generally live at least 150 miles west of where he was. If he was learning languages to help him on his deployment, he'd have learned Dari or Pashto.

Add "I ran a pub in Belfast during the troubles" to the implausible deep state back story catalogue

Sorry, odd question from someone with occasional audio processing issues, what not-Smiler option is Mattie referring to at about 22:19?

FRANCIS SUAREZ MENTION

Appropriate for Nova to quote Skull Face from Metal Gear Solid V, as Pete "Mayor" Buttegeig is the Revolver " Shalasaska " Ocelot of American liberalism ( mostly for backstabbing every ostensibly progressive project he's signed onto, party for the gay thing )

peep boopybege

I still think about Mayor Pete’s “I saw the clock in Harvard Square and stood in awe” and it drives me crazy because the one he’s talking about is a digital clock

1:26:00 Detroit Renaissance center mentioned! another iconic furcon location. the last Motor City for a con I went to was a clusterfuck cuz they double booked us with a Freemason event and a children's volleyball tournament. and to top it all off the elevators which have a maximum capacity of six move at like indoor vomit Comet speeds

The costume store bit made me lose my shit

Josh Shapiro has also been trotted out to do the Obama seance

is this the podcast's first "gifted kid trauma" mayor?

Ah, so he was one of the fellow Gifted And Talented twerps.

I was not expecting to hear mention of Eric Flint creator of the 1632verse here. I'm obsessed with that series.

There is a strange feeling to hear a profile of a terrible person who is that way because of flaws you once had. There but for the grace of Gd go I, I suppose.

I don't like that there's a world where wes streeting and Pete "mayor" buttigieg have a "PM meets president" picture

that's not a Boston Brahmin accent!

Cory doctorow is a crazy pull, used to love his "Little Brother" books

The episode art just reinforced my belief that the military needs to go back to the button-down shirt with necktie tucked-in look.

I'm so stoked that y'all are doing live stream tickets! I'll be recovering from top surgery, and what better way to recover than by listening to my three favorite trans women commune with the Mayortaculus 🏳️‍⚧️

42:50 "He studies PPE at Oxford" My dumb blue collar ass: "why the hell can you study personal protective equipment at Oxford?"

I found this podcast via Cory Doctorow , so it's great to have him as a guest. His statement at the end really captures why this is my favourite podcast as well.

Wait… speaking Arabic “because Afganistán” doesn’t make any sense. Basically no one speaks Arabic in Afghanistan.

Unless he was also a licensed amateur radio operator I'm pretty sure it would've been illegal for Pete to listen to a police scanner in a vehicle

Damn it Nova get your hand off the lathe!! Vance v Buttigieg is such a rancid vibe 🤮

Can't believe you didn't mention his involvement in the infamous caucus app that ratfucked Bernie in the 2016 dem primary

1:30:00 should have said "let me be queer" smh 😔

My favorite bit of anti-geography was the Swiss satellite campus of my Alma matter, Virginia Tech. https://stegercenter.vt.edu/ Insanity

My two Pete stories. First, he ran for Chair of the DNC not to actually win, but to promote his name within the Party. He came in third on a ballot behind Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, and "gracefully bowed out". Unfortunately, no one told his devoted campaign volunteers that he was doing this as a PR move, and you could hear the devastation in their voices as he cashed in all their hard work for his reputation. Much later, I encountered him in a hotel lobby and tried to strike up a conversation. He pretended I didn't exist, literally refusing to look at me until one of his staffers took it upon themselves to respond to me on his behalf.

Pete disregarded the idea of phasing out Westinghouse brakes because it's a stupid idea and they're actually good brakes and not the problem whatsoever

You met me at a very Maltese time of my life

Like Nightcrawler!? From NIGHTCRAWLER?1?!?!

I literally re-read Infinite Jest because of the Trump annexing Canada thing, I'm so glad that ONANTA Québec mentioned

It's crazy when you do meet transgenders who were told they had potential in school and are now functioning adults somehow!! They usually got the successful career first then transed their gender, rather than being paralyzed by depression 🤷🏼‍♀️

My take is Pete did not read Dilbert but he did read Doonesbury religiously and kept a detailed notebook of references to look up

Is it not canon we are doing Every Mayor in Turn? Really, no Buddy for Giacomo?

Okay so we've got to do something with these people, right? So maybe we construct an advisory board with a strict hierarchy, a ruthless promotion scheme, a metric crapton of awards and medals and banquets and shit something like the Scientology land navy, isolate it from power other than providing VERY IMPORTANT REPORTS and park them in the.... oh shit I think just described a think tank

ok, pete buttigieg walking into a hospital and being the only one there that can speak arabic? that's just the scene from Meet Joe Black where brad pitt speaks patois with the old jamaican woman. everything gwan be irie

I literally just watched the teacher strike ep of Simpsons LAST NIGHT ✨💫 kismet

Almost two decades of podcast listening has led to me, this morning in my bedroom, wondering why tf the name Leeman Kessler is so familiar to me. (He's a featured character named after a listener in the first season of TAZ, if you're like me and feel the world curling in on itself and don't understand why.)

gieg ✅

My favorite TV show when I was 13 was The West Wing. This is a real there but for the grace of god go I situation

De-Nosed in Abu Dhabi Disneyland is my favourite Mars Volta album

one of the reasons i am no longer a high school teacher is because it became clear to me that the administration’s ultimate desire was for me to help turn all the “pleasures to have in class” into zoomer mayor petes. also South Georgia Island mentioned hell yes

Every pogue took that exact photo of themselves when they were deployed. Taking that photo is the most normal thing mayo Pete has ever done.

Hmm.."alpha wave"... in MIAMI? Surely no connections to JMWAVE..

LETS. GET. THAT. BREAD (it’s very expensive now due to my consultant)

i have also been to the garment district!

"You have a lot of potential"... Sounds like a compliment but for the first couple decades of my life no phrase was more cursed.

omg QUIMBY/KENNEDY IS NOT BOSTON BRAHMIN! The Kennedys are upstart new money. Charles Emerson Winchester, as Dr. Doctrow (I assume he has a doctrate, if not then I'm giving him one now. Congrats.) gently suggests, is a Brahmin accent, which was basically dead by the time the Kennedys got famous.

The story about the kid is very strange bc Arabic isn’t the primary language of Somalia or Afghanistan right?

Oh no, that mf could have been american Macron.

As a former international relations major and product of the Gifted and Talented (and Dilbert) pipeline this is extremely eerie, like if I had become even more addicted to Good Boy Stickers this might have been me.

mayor pete’s-a-burger

I wasn't given Dilbert, I was given Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes. Idk what that says about me.

The Doctor!

GARMENT DISTRICT MENTIONED

So what I'm getting from this is that Pete Buttugieg is liberal Patrick Bateman. An empty vessel, believing in nothing and being nothing, animated by the forces of the establishment and becoming it's psychotic avatar. 43:30 damn, guess I was right

Assigned Dilbert at Birth.

Just skip buddy cianci and go directly to Brett Smiley as soon as we finally get him out of office to sate the peoples desire for a Providence Rhode Island Mayor.

I know these episodes are recorded well in advance, but if I don't get the ladies' take on Albanian Eric Adams soon, I'm going to go feral

The only thing I know about Pete Duttigeig is that Justin Roczniak thinks he's a rat, and that's good enough a judge of character for me.

Leeman ‘Ask Lovecraft’ Kessler is a mayor?!

Thanks ladies. Regret to inform you you’re not ready to learn about Miami University Ohio

"The drug of getting good grades, for which there are *so* many dealers" hit my psyche like flight 11

In a very minor defence of political operators, who certainly don't come out of this episode well, you do need some in politics. The fact that the modern left is almost completely devoid of people who know how to play the game, and has a tendency to cannibalise anyone who shows an ounce of politcal competence, is why everything is currently so shit. Just look at Zohran to see what can be achived with someone with a perfect balance between idealism and shrewdness.

Is it finally time to admit: Montessori makes children TOO confident

Holy shit, the double tap of a real mayor radio bumper and the Miami club Rawhide cover. Sam, you've done it again.

babes, correct me if i’m wrong but women can still do misogyny not you 3 though, you’re angels

VERMONT MENTION!!!!!!!!!! 802 forever baby

The sick little rat faced freak has already listened to this,

To stop November from being sad I think we need to ensure she gets to storm the MI6 building at some point in her life

He looks like such a chud in the picture omg

Dark Souls 3 fucking world geography.

The way I screamed when I heard the bumper lmaaooo

Peter Booty JeJ

Ur getting me through a dentist appointment girls thank u🧎‍♀️