466: Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem

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4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Pull over, Fam, because we're covering a brash politician whose divisive style led him to victory. But wait - in Canada? That's right: Rob Ford would rise to become the mayor of Toronto, but no amount of bravado could prevent his downfall after an infamous video of him was leaked to the press.

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0:00.0	If you don't mind, I would like to speak directly to Canada.
0:03.0	Oh, here we go, sure. Canada, I love you. I think you're beautiful. I think you're a wonderful place to be. I'd like to spend more time there. That's all I'm going to say for now. I cannot be held accountable for anything else that comes out of my mouth about this situation. Well, this guy's a clown. We're not blaming all of Canada. No, it's not. knows. Please don't blame all of us.
0:22.8	No, what?
0:23.4	When there are clowns in the room, if you know what I mean. Canada, let's see. We kind of got to look out for each other here. Oh my God. Hi, Julie, Botswally. Hello, Patrick Hines. I haven't seen you face-to-face in two weeks.
0:39.0	I know.
0:39.7	Welcome back. Thank you so much. I, you know how I say like going on vacation with kids is just sleeping in a different bed? But like your chaos stays the same. That was my life. I was just sleeping in a different bed for two weeks because we needed, we had some stuff done at our apartment. Oh my God. What are you happy to be home?
0:52.7	Beyond.
0:53.2	Yeah.
0:53.6	But it was nice.
0:54.5	We stay with my parents, you know, went to the Cheesecake Factory, went to Costco for the time.
0:57.3	But it was still, it was nice.
0:54.5	We stay with my parents, you know, went to the cheesecake factory, went to Costco for the
0:57.2	time, but it was great. The cheesecake factory is the bread? It's so good. God. Fam, don't forget we've got a Discord. I don't really know anything about it, but Gillian will tell you everything. Oh, it's really fun. We have all these channels, like in the channel. We have all, like, you can discuss the episodes and put in suggestions and, like, leave questions for an AMA. Yeah. I always tell people, like, what we're recording that day? I'm always like, what's up, Discord? Also, fam, we just got our 100,000 subscriber plaque from YouTube. We got a plaque. We got, we have, like, almost 130,000 subscribers to our YouTube channel. It's really absolutely incredible. Thank you everyone so much for checking us out. And thank you, YouTube for our plaque. I got to tell you, I was in there the other day watching one of our recent episodes. We give great YouTube. It's really fun to watch us because, like, we get really into it. It's really fun and animated. Like,'s just a cool thing. If you've never checked out our YouTube, please go check it out,
1:47.0	subscribe. It's a true crime obsessed podcast.
1:49.2	Yep.
1:49.9	What are we talking about today?
1:52.2	Rain wreck, mayor of mayhem. It's on Netflix.
1:57.8	Enough is enough. and I want respect.
2:01.8	From the moment Rob Ford was elected, we all recognized that this was not going to be a boring four years.
2:10.7	The public loved him.
2:13.2	He was like a rock star.
2:15.9	His success made no sense by any normal political standard.
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