Phineas T. Barnum
Added 2024-11-14 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
Yes, THAT PT Barnum! He was the mayor of Bridgeport, CT. Mattie is the mayor of this one, and we discuss the sort of ur-Mayor of America, the greatest showman himself. You might think to yourself: this makes a lot of sense, as he was the circus guy and the government is full of clowns. Also the premiere of Municipal Roundup. Hyah!
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I feel like we’ve failed to internalize just how fucking funny Commodore Nutt is as a name
Ineloquent Reverie
2025-01-19 21:12:28 +0000 UTCImplying that he isn’t some kind of immortal fey daemon who could only felled by silver
Ineloquent Reverie
2025-01-04 00:41:35 +0000 UTCIn a previous incarnation he was the dude charging you a tuppence for better seats at the public execution.
Gilded Dragon
2025-01-04 00:40:47 +0000 UTCThe mexica had no stellae, they had non-binary genders, they were not maya... They did have mayors though. My sis fell off a stepped pyramid (maya) once, she was okay. I don't get why she climbed it with a broken leg, in the rain. Nova becoming mayor of The City of London would be a hoot.
Gilded Dragon
2025-01-04 00:38:17 +0000 UTCMy mom is on one of those ANCs and it’s full of the worst NIMBY’s ever. Amazing episode fodder. They spent 10 years fighting an apartment complex that was being built on a closed supermarket. Unlimited uncritical support for Urbanism Stalin
Alex Korman
2024-12-28 18:59:04 +0000 UTCImportant DC esoterica: they DO have the equivalent of a state House of Representatives. They are called advisory neighborhood commissioners. You represent about 1800 registered voters. So yes, in DC, you can sign your ass up to represent 3-5 avenues. Signed, anc of 3-5 avenues.
Philippa
2024-12-01 00:29:56 +0000 UTCSome top hat suggestions https://www.etsy.com/shop/WanoGifts they offer Personalize with a Branding Iron ==================================================== https://dustysoriginals.com/collections/top-hats/products/derby-dreaming This has a lovely large fabric across the hat and they offer Custom gold thread embroidery on the velvet band . ===================================================
pat Ridley
2024-11-22 05:29:56 +0000 UTCNYC rats: the only case of lysenkoism. We need to stop making tougher bins, lest we cause the rats to grow too powerful
-Kris-
2024-11-19 04:56:02 +0000 UTCRe Ford, you know his widow basically accused the conservative mayor of Toronto of having Ford killed to bring in communism? https://crier.co/rob-fords-widow-says-elitest-john-tory-killed-rob-with-cancer-and-his-time-is-coming-lolz-2/
Benjamin Zidar
2024-11-18 23:44:51 +0000 UTCÅreå :D
Minna Ihalainen
2024-11-17 18:22:17 +0000 UTCBoston mentioned
A Gaggle of Geckos
2024-11-16 20:02:32 +0000 UTCMan the fae comparison is really spot on, this man’s morality is entirely alien. I genuinely believe he thinks bad entertainment is worse than homicide
Ineloquent Reverie
2024-11-16 01:24:55 +0000 UTCNova’s Oreo opinions are unconscionable
Ineloquent Reverie
2024-11-16 00:01:12 +0000 UTCHe isn't a Steppe Warlord, he's the Warlord who Stepped up.
chris
2024-11-15 06:19:49 +0000 UTCNo Gods, No Tlatoani
Eric Wolfsberg
2024-11-15 03:35:09 +0000 UTCMess ‘O’ America would be so sick tho
HAUNTER
2024-11-15 00:13:12 +0000 UTCHappy to hear my personal enemy Joe Ganim brought up, cannot wait for the future episode on him.
Hedrigal
2024-11-14 22:31:40 +0000 UTCYou guys do finally do a podcast about Mesoamerican history but it becomes increasingly derailed by obscure medieval China riffs
John Leavitt
2024-11-14 19:14:21 +0000 UTCSee this is a lack of imagination, we just need to trans a gender in the other direction for every one force femmed. I'm doing my part.
miramask
2024-11-14 18:52:49 +0000 UTCRobb Ford lies dead on the mortician's slab, the once-unstoppable dynamo finally at rest. The coroner makes the first incision and is immediately cut to ribbons by the deluge of business cards escaping the mayoral corpse.
PrismShank
2024-11-14 18:44:15 +0000 UTCPT Barnum: AMAB. Assigned Mayor At Birth
Ingrid Havlik
2024-11-14 18:30:34 +0000 UTCThe making US politicians represent a block of DC in addition to their consistency, is like the suburbicarian sees of Rome
Michael Kelliher
2024-11-14 18:12:22 +0000 UTCfor a minute I thought it was adams’ friend monserrate who once threatened to throw a NY1 reporter off a balcony, but it was a ny state rep from staten island. It would have dovetailed nicely
MI
2024-11-14 15:35:51 +0000 UTCSurely next you need to cover the mayor of Flavortown: Guy Fieri Also, check this out A-MAYOR-ica
Jordan Y Clementi
2024-11-14 15:30:20 +0000 UTCSteaming hot, bad faith take (saying it as a cis man): all the "decent men" are just eggs waiting to hatch.
Jordan Y Clementi
2024-11-14 15:29:53 +0000 UTCit's me, your cousin! Mik Smikilas from Mykinos!
Nemo
2024-11-14 14:26:39 +0000 UTCLittle Boston is just like one bridge in NYC that's low enough to Storrow trucks
Braonán
2024-11-14 13:48:50 +0000 UTCMesoAmerican Ball Game content is the best content.
Ben Schwabe
2024-11-14 13:31:07 +0000 UTC🎶 I thought I saw Lauren Bacall I thought I saw Lauren Bacall I swear! Hey fellas! Hey fellas! Lauren Bacall! In a car jam! 🎶
MI
2024-11-14 11:45:18 +0000 UTCfun fact: my grandpa ran for mayor of bridgeport once (did not win). Yes same George Peabody for the Yale and many other museum$
Shivvy
2024-11-14 11:33:53 +0000 UTCCommodore Nutt. Tbf the peanut shell he sails as his flagship is massive.
Jordan Minehan
2024-11-14 10:04:53 +0000 UTCGals, how am I supposed to explain the mess of america intro to the mayor pod when I recommend it to people
Shivvy
2024-11-14 09:41:05 +0000 UTCRiley, Girl Anthropologist 😍
Shivvy
2024-11-14 09:35:41 +0000 UTCHow about the mayor of the first city states in Mycenaean Greece? Did Gobekle Tepe have a mayor? Y'all should get Patrick Wyman or Eleanor Janega on to talk about these such things.
Jordan Minehan
2024-11-14 08:45:30 +0000 UTCFor the love of god, if you transed the gender of every decent man you met there'd be no decent men at all and the terfs would be retroactively correct
Kristaps Porzingis
2024-11-14 08:39:34 +0000 UTC
