

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.
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Mar 20, 2025 • 1h 8min
Tiffany Henyard
Many of you wrote in about this mayor, named the worst in America, and she definitely needed her own episode. How lucky that she was next in the order! Municipal meeting minutes include: We talk about the Coens again, the order sings its song, a moistened town, the fungal mayor, the cop king rolling at me very slowly, illegal truck parties, Eurotripzcarraldo, the magical musical, Rick Owens charity bike ride, the soul of a podcaster, and seeing without seeing.Hey do you live in the American midwest (Chicago or Minneapolis)? Come see Mattie on tour!

Mar 13, 2025 • 10min
PREVIEW: Mega Municipal Roundup
For the bonus episode this week, we check in with a bunch of past guests and also a very drunken Floridian. Listen to the whole thing over on the mayoral benevolent feed at Nogodsnomayors.com!City hall meeting minutes include: Getting uncle-chopped in Fiume, “reading an indictment” voice, No mailbox formed against me shall prosper, the medium is weird for the message, graphing all Italians, New York City & the City, @funeralHijacker, No Gods No Mayors Some Contempt of Court Act, What if an imaginary piano fell on Gavin Newsom (also imaginary)

Mar 6, 2025 • 1h 11min
Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Join us this week for a particularly blasphemous episode, just in time for lent! Mayor November takes us on a historical tour of the little fascist statelet that wasn't, R̶i̶j̶e̶k̶a̶ Fiume C̶r̶o̶a̶t̶i̶a̶ Italy and its very normal guy leader, Gabriele D'Annunzio.Municipal meeting minutes include: The tragedy of mayorship, Posting (forum), Pathologically shirtless killing machines, Eating a little cake on a toilet, Italian master chief (tummy hort), Some sensational way out of the situation, The city that keeps running out of flowers, Reformation III, Inventing a new kind of Egypt, and L’uomo della Musica.Like the show? Head to our Patreon and get double the mayors.

Feb 27, 2025 • 4min
PREVIEW: Marvin Rees
We're joined by the People Just Do Something podcast and The Bristol Cable's Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins to talk about the mayor so thin-skinned and bad at it that nobody was ever allowed to be mayor again.Municipal meeting minutes include: Eric Adams in Magneto prison, Borgiawatch dot blogspot dot com, structural forces day, mayors love slides, some libel, the Birdman of Bristol, the West of England Wing, fitting a horse through the eye of a needle, the Premier Inn operator, If mayors ruled the world, You can’t abolish me, I quit!This is a BONUS EPISODE. Listen to the whole thing, and get double the mayors, on our Patreon!

Feb 20, 2025 • 1h 19min
Etienne Cabet
First as France, and then again as France. For some reason in this one Mayor Mattie takes us to 19th-century France and then also Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and California. That's right, we've plunged into one of her special interests!Municipal meeting minutes include: learning how to drive barefoot from a guy with a soulpatch, Croatian Goodfellas, scheming mayors chat, headlight fluid clinics, posting is praxis, dogs of remarkable size and strength, the chore wheel at New Jerusalem, the most prepared group of people in human history, and the wrongest breakfast ever served.Check out our Patreon for more mayor action! And if you like zany separatists why not pre-order Mattie's new book!

Feb 13, 2025 • 8min
PREVIEW: Leonis C. Malburg
November's in the mayor's seat for this one, a tragic tale of one Basque gentleman founding a beautiful utopia under a freeway and on top of a rail yard, where any business could dispose as many animal corpses and batteries as they wanted. Until the world decided that the beautiful Malburg family was too pure for this Earth.Join us on the Patreon to hear the whole thing, and get double the mayors every month!

Feb 6, 2025 • 1h 25min
Rodrigo Borgia (with Patrick Wyman)
Our favorite historian and host of The Tides of History podcast joins us to ask and answer a question that's been on our minds since we started the show: Are popes mayors? The answer is: Kind of!To do so, we talk through the Pope's very mayor-like role during specifically the Renaissance, and the most mayor-like pope of them all, Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI. Now pull out your sword, and get to stabbin'!If you like NGNM, why not become a Patreon subscriber, and get twice as many mayors per month!Also, if you're on the west coast of America, why not catch Mattie on tour next week!

Jan 30, 2025 • 8min
PREVIEW: Stephen R. Reed
We head to the capital of PA for our boy-est Boy Mayor yet, Harrisburg's Stephen R. Reed.Office of the Mayor meeting minutes include: Michele Zoo-cault, illegal Megalopolis screening, Municipal Roundup presented by Rudy dot coffee, the Nightcrawler from NIGHTCRAWLER, the boymoding mayor, Coastal Pennsylvania, Riley gets FFS, Kinds of Kindness but not in the normal way, The American Museum of Hat Accessories, The Return of JFK’s gun, and more! Head to our Patreon to hear the full episode, and get DOUBLE the mayors! (and why not catch mattie ON TOUR!)

Jan 23, 2025 • 1h 6min
Pedro Calado
We finally leave the Anglosphere to head to the sunny island of Madeira, where one rally racing and handball-loving Mayor tried to elude an entire plane of lawyers and judges paradropped onto his exact location.Like NGNM? Hear all of our biweekly BONUS episodes on our patreon.

Jan 16, 2025 • 10min
PREVIEW: The Greatest Showman (2017)
It was the week between Christmas and New Years so the substitute teacher rolled in the A/V setup and instead of class we watched a movie. That's right! It's time to stand in a circle slam-dancing together, celebrating that freak marriage is finally legal! Former guest P.T. Barnum stars in this rollicking ahistorical romp. Guys, it's so bad.Listen to the whole episode exclusively on our patreon.Hey, do you like COMEDY?! Catch Mattie on tour with Gender Ordeal, in DC, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle this month and next! Get your tickets here.