

No Gods No Mayors
The Office of the Mayor
Municipal government: a trap that catches those too incompetent, too corrupt, too incompetent even for national politics. And the greatest of these, the mayor - the highest political office one can hope to reach with a truly oppositional personality or a crack addiction. Mattie Lubchansky, Riley Quinn and November Kelly are teaming up to make a podcast investigating these mayors. From petty Bonapartes to flagrant mafiosi, these are their stories.Every other week, we'll have an episode on the free feed. For more Mayoral goodness, check out the bonus episodes on our Patreon.
Episodes
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Oct 2, 2025 • 1h 13min
Mel Lastman
HOMETOWN HEROES continues! Riley takes us back to Toronto for the proto-Rob Ford and literal bad boy of furniture sales: Mel Lastman!Join the Patreon for double the mayors!Get mattie's book!

Sep 25, 2025 • 11min
PREVIEW: Bill de Blasio
Happy belated one year birthday to No Gods No Mayors! We're doing another round of Hometown Heroes, and Mattie is starting us off with New York City's hated slash beloved oaf and former FSLN guy (?) Warren Wilhelm Junior aka Bill de Blasio!This is a bonus episode! Head on over to the Patreon to get the whole thing.

Sep 18, 2025 • 1h 9min
Salvatore Lima
Alright everyone, time to put on your "podcast listener" uniform and get to work! This week's episode is brought to you by The Italian Rat Council. Riley's got a mobbed-up mayor of Palermo.Municipal meeting minutes include: Trip Crumpto, Cement Library Card, Speaking mafiosely, Italian Serpico, Load-bearing snitches, "Organized" crime?, and illegally kissing the homies.subscribe to The Patreon and get double the mayors!

Sep 11, 2025 • 11min
PREVIEW: Patrick Balkany
This week, November tells us about the inventor of the balcony. You’re not going to believe this but this right-wing french politician is a misogynist! This is a premium episode! Head on over to nogodsnomayors.com to listen to the whole thing.

Sep 4, 2025 • 1h 19min
E.H. "Boss" Crump
Agony! Misery! Mattie takes us on a ride with the first leatherman mayor, Memphis Tennessee's Edward Hull "Boss" Crump.Municipal meeting minutes include: Items thermindor, Don’t left click on me dude, Eric Items, Wet bads, Consider the Gimp’s Foot, Sim City 1930, and The Tennessee Leather Authority.Here's that clip of Jordan Coleman's zombie movie.Get on the Patreon for double the mayors!Buy mattie's book!

Aug 28, 2025 • 10min
PREVIEW: Kenny Kunene, with Benjamin Fogel
This episode, we are joined by scholar Benjamin Fogel to talk about a matched set of mayors from Johannesburg, South Africa, along with a guy that watched the city for a weekend. Municipal meeting minutes include: No dome! A visit from Coughin’ Jimmy, Final Mayorstanation, coffin flop, congratulations on being a woman, and Mayor are they Now?Listen to the whole episode on the Mayoral Benevolent Feed!Get Mattie's book Simplicity!

Aug 21, 2025 • 1h 6min
Ehud Olmert
This week, Nova brings us one of the worst guys to ever do it, in both senses: evil AND unskilled!Municipal meeting minutes include: Beep beep I am not a pervert, Born to kill/Birthed to murder, So much for the institutional left, Israeli henry hill, Quid no quo, and Psychic-client privilege. Hop on the No Gods No Mayors patreon to get double the mayors!Pick up Mattie's book! Or come to her event in Washington, DC!

Aug 14, 2025 • 11min
PREVIEW: Larry Langford
Freak your nuts off, you slags! Here he is: The perfect patsy, a man equally horrifying and funny, Birmingham's Larry Langford.Municipal meeting minutes include: The ballad of wesley dingus, rockin’ the sublurbs, Christian Martini Magic, wearing all my blazers at once, don’t get your bikino in a twist, the Hubris Parade, the Quinquangle, and Oh right! The Bribes.Get on the Patreon to hear the whole thing.Hey, buy Mattie's book!

Aug 7, 2025 • 1h 12min
Isaltino Morais
This week, Riley brings us the man who wrote the book on being the mayor in Portugal, the municipal Peronist himself, Isaltino Morais.Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams Radmilk, Minot Grigio, Things The Hosts Know About Portugal, No Traumatic Stress At All, jostled tiles, legal tiki-taka, vast and trunkless leg day, and DaughterHelp.Join our Patreon to get DOUBLE THE MAYORS.Stay tuned to the end to hear Municipal Rodeo from ME REX! Check them out on tour in Bristol, London, and Nottingham this September! https://linktr.ee/merexband(buy mattie's new book or come see her on book tour in Philadelphia (tonight! 6pm at Partners & Son Comics) or August 20th in NYC.)

Jul 31, 2025 • 11min
PREVIEW: Robert Briscoe
This week, Nova’s the mayor and we’re talking about Robert Briscoe, the Forrest Gump of 20th century Ireland and most easily radicalized man in the history of the world.Municipal meeting minutes include: Getting handed a shamrock from a Cossack, Irish Serious Man, scamming Mr. Woolworth, Costume Party Theme: Today's Newspaper, staring at a cop's belt, solidarity (derogatory), and Don't Read the Last 20% of This Book.Subscribe to The Patreon to listen to the whole thing! We'll be back with a free episode next week.Get Mattie's book! Come see her on Tour!