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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Michael Gerber, the editor

and publisher of the American Bystander and All-Star Print Humor Quarterly.

He's also been called the unofficial mayor of Santa Monica, California.

Michael, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Danny. It's really nice to be here. It's so good to have you here. I have, you know,

enjoyed your work immensely, and obviously I have occasionally contributed to the American bystander,

so I know you through that. What I'd like to know is, is there an unofficial chamber of commerce or an

unofficial city counselor? Like, how far down does the unofficial government of Santa Monica go?

Well, you know, what's funny about that is that, so my wife calls me the unofficial mayor

because I love it here so much. And so anybody who comes to visit, I'm like, you got to move here.

It's great. And I take them around to all the little places. But the interesting thing about it is that

it's a rich little town and I think its government is a little bit idiosyncratically put together.

And so as I've lived here for 16 years, and as I've lived here,

I've recognized that it's like there's the government and then there's how the city kind of

really works. You know, the businesses that move in and the real estate people and all that sort of

stuff. So I'm taking your conversation into a rather serious direction, but it's a little,

I'm always kind of interested in how the sausage is getting made in a place like this.

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