James Michael Curley
Added 2024-11-28 08:00:06 +0000 UTC
Mattie is back in the mayors seat and presents the crew with Boston's own James Michael Curley. From his humble beginnings working his way through the city's nascent Tammany-esque political machine all the way through FOUR nonconsecutive terms as mayor over the course of 30+ years. Hold onto your shillelagh-proof hat: we've found a guy.
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Imitation_Vanilla
2025-03-25 13:01:44 +0000 UTCI'm so Disco Elysium pilled my brain instantly when to a very different P-Jacket.
WankerPants
2025-01-07 16:56:39 +0000 UTCSeason 13?!
Gilded Dragon
2025-01-04 04:52:18 +0000 UTCI looked up a Corsa, and that just looks like a sensible car? A bit ostentatious if anything?
SixArmedSweater
2024-12-20 08:56:49 +0000 UTCJames Michael Curley may be the only mayor in history to have inspired a ska song (The Rascal King by Mighty Mighty Bosstones), at least until I finish penning my brassy, upbeat elegy for Rob Ford.
BarFly
2024-12-11 21:21:45 +0000 UTCExactly the same? November is like a river, constantly in motion and ever changing. You never podcast with the same November twice
Jon W
2024-12-10 22:57:32 +0000 UTCI think 2 part episodes are fine tbh, but maybe I'm biased being a patron
Robert de Niro in heat and I’m not apologising
2024-12-08 23:21:11 +0000 UTCStar Faithful is the 1910s Boston version of Wow Platinum
Nick
2024-12-08 03:18:26 +0000 UTCStancil’s whole theory of politics really is just chart-based Mugwump Tammany lmao. That kind of coherence is why it’s so effective
Nick
2024-12-07 08:13:31 +0000 UTCOh hell yes the most Boston man to ever Boston
BarFly
2024-12-05 13:10:32 +0000 UTCHey I hope you guys have heard about the mayor who got hunted down (and killed) by his own police force recently. Excerpt from an article about it: “The pursuit was not related to any laws being broken. The pursuit was taking place in an effort to protect the well-being of Mr. Garner,” the coroner said, adding that more information will be released in the coming days. //end of excerpt// Coincidentally this happened days after the entire police force resigned over 'harassment from a town council member'. probably completely unrelated!! /s
Juliette Murphy (@unknownlinguist)
2024-12-04 23:31:45 +0000 UTCalso, really fun episode, love peering into the kaleidoscope of weird guys in every city
Griffon
2024-12-03 18:40:35 +0000 UTCpinkpill the motherfucker
Griffon
2024-12-03 18:38:52 +0000 UTCAs someone who's never heard of a shillelagh, I had a great time hearing that word and searching for "chelele" and "shalayly" to have any idea what the fuck the joke was lmao
Visphendant
2024-12-03 07:07:38 +0000 UTCAustralian No Gods No Mayors feat. a transitioned Riley, Mattie the Mayor of Geelong, and November who’s exactly the same.
Ryan
2024-12-02 02:05:25 +0000 UTCNYC Italian American version of this would be a gang of transfems run by Arianna "the Boymoder" De Luca
Bee Bimbo
2024-12-01 16:31:18 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the live show which will end up being a Riley forcefemming
PrismShank
2024-12-01 01:19:04 +0000 UTCthe joke of a "second rico act where they reinstall the mafia but it's run by the federal government" honestly just sounds like the next decade of US politics lol
Just the Worst
2024-11-30 02:17:20 +0000 UTCIt could be fun to make an episode about Olaf Scholz, he was, before becoming German chancellor, the mayor of Hamburg, but because Hamburg is city state that means that he thereby was also the head of one of the 16 german states. He did some police and financial stuff that can be talked about quite a lot
Anggg
2024-11-29 17:06:13 +0000 UTCMy wife refuses to admit you as Real Mayoralologists until you discuss the Chicago Daleys... She has book recs if you need them, lol.
Kate
2024-11-29 16:04:36 +0000 UTC"Much like a cookie, I predict the next episode will be on mayor Tom Menino, and the results will be delicious for No Gods No Mayors fans."
Slugnoid
2024-11-29 09:52:55 +0000 UTChow many mayors do we think have ska songs about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NxMlG3M40k
A.E. Ross
2024-11-29 07:08:32 +0000 UTCThe AOH are *the* Irish org in the US. They had been responsible for the NY st Patrick’s day parade organization until the controversy behind them banning the Irish Lesbians and Gays from marching in 1991- (and prevented them from doing so until 2014). This saga will be a big part of the **David Dinkins** episode, who marched with ILGO in 91 and boycotted the parade in 92
Rowan J.
2024-11-29 06:30:14 +0000 UTCYeah Boston baybeeee we got the best mayors the best awful transport wooooo
Jess
2024-11-28 17:49:11 +0000 UTCnickleson nodding for ever more esoteric mayors
Tristan Ryan
2024-11-28 16:10:25 +0000 UTCOh and speaking of Hynes being “sashed” I really hope there’s an ep coming on good ol’ “I was about to quit politics” Dianne Feinstein
Shivvy
2024-11-28 14:52:42 +0000 UTCFinal thoughts on an amazing ep: 1. What a beautiful way to learn who Hynes Convention Center was named after 2. When hearing Curly’s funeral set a size record it reminded me Teddy Kennedy’s Funeral Mass was in Boston so that’s saying something 3. I have to ask my Boston Irish cousins if anyone’s seen the #5 plate bc I personally have not!
Shivvy
2024-11-28 14:51:56 +0000 UTCI keep envisioning this character dressed as a bottle of Duff beer and saying, “Curly only looks out for one guy: Curly”
Shivvy
2024-11-28 14:33:37 +0000 UTCLillith Itou, and this tag-along named Esther or Ellen or something
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-11-28 14:09:17 +0000 UTCmayor mcpie day episode
Shivvy
2024-11-28 13:35:28 +0000 UTCtruly the mayor-est to ever mayor it
Nemo
2024-11-28 13:02:54 +0000 UTCInfamous Irish trans woman street gang made up exclusively of Liliths: Lilith the Hat, Small Lilith, Lilith the Cat-Ears...
Jack Fennell
2024-11-28 12:58:41 +0000 UTCit must be killing riley to sit through all this mafia talk without saying ‘duhhh… gah bah gool’
MI
2024-11-28 11:36:04 +0000 UTC
