John Purroy Mitchel
That's right, folks. ONE L. Perfect for an L-bone steak. Don't ask us why. After a London Breed update and a trip to a Georgia town that fired every policeman, Mayor Mattie takes us back to the long 19th century for another made-up-sounding guy, the Boy Mayor of New York City himself! We implore you: don't read this guy's Wikipedia page ahead of time.
This is a free episode of NGNM, for double the mayors why not sign up for the Municipal Benevolent Feed? Just five bucks a month for double the mayortaculus!
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Aussie here, eternally baffled every time you refer to something as „the American Dreamtime.“ Especially when it‘s only like 150/200yrs ago
James is Jimmy, and if your name is Jimmy, you gotta get a stage name anyway, like Jimmy McGill or Jimmy Donaldson.
"I'm a police officer because my hogwarts letter didn't come" is a spectacularly cursed sentence, thank you Nova. 😵
Hey y’all, I found a mayor of Albany named Erastus Conroy and his grandkid Erastus Conroy 2nd. The original Erastus founded the New York Central and he could be a fun entry into the nineteenth century American insanity episodes. unfortunately he didn’t do anything as glorious as falling out of a fucking plane cause he didn’t put on a seatbelt. alas!
My dad, retired forensic pathologist, has the “die strangely” as a t-shirt. Can confirm it’s very popular with colleagues.
Phaeton!
Clearly the third host here is RAËL. Ascend James beyond gods beyond mayors & partake of extraterrestrialianity
$5 and you get a second mayor? What a savings!
Re: Riley’s name, to my Irish ears, “Riley (or in this case, I suppose it would be ‘Reilly’) Quinn” sounds like a large Irish law firm. Especially if you stuck “and Associates” at the end
Okay. The start of the episode is directed right at me. My name is James, I’m a francophone, and I’m from San Francisco. I don’t appreciate being singled out like this.
Hey R-Bone, speaking as a Quinn, how about you try Quinn?
Having spent a few months of my life hooking up with a very annoying georgist I love the georgist hate. At one point she was complaining about other queer ppl giving her shit for her politics and I was like “well you could just not be a georgist” lol
"The entire police department has been laid off" is basically a Simpsons episode premise.
🔥🔥SAN DIEGO MENTIONED🔥🔥
The Boy Mayor Who Died
I wonder if he would’ve survived if he’d been wearing the pointy pointy kroutenhelmet
"Silent Charlie" sounds like the fancy version of "Shut Chuck"
The bit about walking into Bloomberg with a socket wrench made me think of yesterday's WTYP episode. You go in, drop the socket and crash the economy. The you have to go to the Fed chair and say sadly "I dropped the socket"
Just imagining Nova in a hard hat and hi-vis vest, confidently walking into Bloomberg and fumbling a socket.
the concept of the land taking revenge on a Georgist is a very entertaining one to me
november's description of early scottish nationalists *also* applies to a lot of present day scottish nationalists tbf
"Corrupt elected goth-girl coroner" = transition goals.
Catching strays here name wise 🥲
“New York is like Gormenghast” what, I go there in my dreams every other night despite having never been there?
Ok, I’m NOT getting on a social media for this. I shall simply put this off topic shit here and hope others agree/this comes to your attention: 1) university presidents are mayors, and so: 2) episode on michael crow Come on. Michael fucking Crow. He startiupified and innovationified higher ed in the us, he’s consistently divisive and embattled, he took good ideas (make education accessible) to wild and dystopian extremes, he’s a publicity machine and a horror. He has spawned little versions of him that have spread far and wide.
He sounds like a candidate for a “Behind the Bastards” series if he is deemed out of scope for NGNM
We are all Charlie Kirk, including my wife and if you talk bad about her on Facebook I will have you all FIRED!!!
source tells me Gaynor is stable. please god
You're awesome, Sam.
Extremely disappointed that Purroy is not, in fact, the first Cat mayor.
Very disappointed at the lack of Weddellonian/Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth jokes
I’m crudely paraphrasing Radio War Nerd’s Civil War series but Irish Confederates/pro-slavery Irish Immigrants/Republicans/Nationalists were shockingly common. The Confederate elite had a disproportionate number of Catholic (so lots of Irish) and Jewish members who were incredibly pro-slavery. You can actually link that to your Spoons Butler episode because Maryland was super close to seceding into Confederacy and it was the first major Catholic state in America. It’s all complex and lives within American Dreamtime so it’s very confusing, but Irish immigrants were more concentrated in the east and they were mostly poorer traumatized laborers, so they felt threatened by abolition since they were closer to it in the invisible caste system of the era. Surprisingly, German immigrants were concentrated in the “west” (at the time that means like St Louis lol), they had more upward mobility and education, so they were less threatened by abolition and they felt slightly higher on the invisible caste system than Irish immigrants. Also many of those German immigrants had fled after the 1848 revolution in Prussia/Germany, meaning many were well-educated yet their degrees were invalidated within Germany. Many of them were Marxist/socialist, and they were incredibly disproportionately represented in the Union military. Some notable figures like Nathanial Lyons arguably saved the Union by essentially mutinying against the more conservative union generals who were also pro-slavery. Which is extremely weird bc German Americans were rad as fuck in the 19th century, and most of that history has been suppressed by anti-German sentiment following WW1 and WW2. And obviously the sentiment was understandable after WW2 because the 20th century German nationals+immigrants were, I’d say not chill yeah. But pre-1900 they were chill as hell. TLDR: Irish immigrants tended to be surprisingly sympathetic towards slavery and the Confederacy before+during+after the Civil War. Meanwhile, German immigrants were probably the second-most aggressively abolitionist community after the Massachusetts abolitionists. And they played a key role in beating the Confederate army. And honorable mention to the very abolitionist mormons of the Civil War era, who were also surprisingly vocal about prison abolition.
Also worth mentioning that all immigrants, Irish or German, who found themselves living in the South would have generally been denied education+literacy because while the North had public schooling and a middle class, the South absolutely did not- the entire Southern school system was based on private academies and so only the Confederate elite could read+write. So Irish immigrants to their credit were more pro-slavery in the South, but they were also generally poor, so they were nearly wholly uneducated. Meanwhile German immigrants had settled more into northern states so there were public schools teaching them how to read/write.
"There's one big cub and your not in it." -Me, at the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois.
I think you mean Ilinois
will be pivoting from identifying as to lesbian to describing myself as "wife-oriented"
"James" is the timeline where Riley doesn't start(?) Trashfuture and becomes a business man, instead of getting to hang out with awesome transsexuals
I don't know if Riley has played the Rogue Trader CRPG (I know he's a Warhammer 40k fan), but at the end of the game you have to fight a heretical and fanatically imperial (at least if you play as an iconoclast (closest to good guy possible). But frevently iconoclast just means dead in 40k, so I have no idea what happens if you are heretical or dogmatic) alt versions of yourself. Someday Riley is gonna get trapped in warp sorcery and is gonna have to fight James and Riley the actually transitioned.
Actually wrote my last uni essay on the 1917 New York mayoral election. The mayortaculous certainly works in mysterious ways.
"If the police wanted to keep their jobs, they should've married the mayor." The police-cule?
A french girl who is a rabid fan: la fille fanatique.
The February revolution should be called the women's day revolution cause it happened March 8
I was born in 1997, which makes me 29 years old!
I'm so excited that you got to John Purroy Mitchel! I've been quietly hoping you would ever since the Gavin Newsom episode, because noted Gavin Newsom cousin, Joanna Newsom, name-drops JPM in her song Sapokanikan, which is named for the land which would later become Greenwich Village.
Finding out right now they’re related, why am I constantly surprised when I find out a new bizarre man that incredible woman is connected to!
R-Bone (if I’m hearing that right) I know a woman called James and she’s hot as hell. Just sayin 🫡
Two guys without covered eyes in the image, thus both must be mayor... the mayor has two bodies...
I know they were joking about the MRAP, but if you look on Google street view for Cohutta Police they literally have a stripped down Humvee in the driveway emblazoned with "Colhutta Police" that HAS to be from ex-military stock
Paranoia Trilogy mentioned !!