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E.H. "Boss" Crump
Season 1 Episode 53
Agony! Misery! Mattie takes us on a ride with the first leatherman mayor, Memphis Tennessee's Edward Hull "Boss" Crump.
Municipal meeting minutes incl…
11 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW: Kenny Kunene, with Benjamin Fogel
Season 1 Episode 52
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 wa…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ehud Olmert
Season 1 Episode 51
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 n…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
PREVIEW: Larry Langford
Season 1 Episode 50
Freak your nuts off, you slags! Here he is: The perfect patsy, a man equally horrifying and funny, Birmingham's Larry Langford.
Municipal meeting minu…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Isaltino Morais
Season 1 Episode 49
This week, Riley brings us the man who wrote the book on being the mayor in Portugal, the municipal Peronist himself, Isaltino Morais.
Municipal meeti…
1 year ago
PREVIEW: Robert Briscoe
Season 1 Episode 48
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 h…
1 year ago
Byron Brown
Season 1 Episode 47
This week, we've got a NEWS PEG! Wow. Mattie brings the crew Buffalo's longest-ever-serving mayor, Byron Brown.
Municipal meeting minutes include: Nov…
1 year ago
PREVIEW: Rob Ford, Part III ?
Season 1 Episode 46
This week, we're covering the Netflix documentary "Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem," their Rob Ford documentary. Did you know this guy Rob Ford invented …
1 year ago
Vít Jedlička (with Eleanor Janega)
Season 1 Episode 45
This week, Riley goes Mattie mode and profiles a guy that is technically a mayor but kind of not really, Liberland's Vít Jedlička. And we're joined b…
1 year, 1 month ago
PREVIEW: Grafton New Hampshire
Season 1 Episode 44
This week we've got another one of Mattie's flights of fancy: Is this utopian community "a mayor"? (Yes.) Anyway, huddle up for a cautionary tale...i…
1 year, 1 month ago