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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 112: Cleaning Up, with Ben Fowlkes of Co-Main Event Nov 17, 2022

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“I once dated a woman who compared me, not entirely unfavorably, to McNulty, and you know what? It was kind of a wake up call.” -Ben Fowlkes

Making his debut on the podcast is writer and podcaster from Co-Main Event, Ben Fowlkes joins Vince and Brent (still filling in for Matt even though his kid is like four-weeks-old which is old enough to get a job damn cut the cord already, Matt) to talk about The Wire season 1 episode 12, “Cleaning Up.”

Featuring one of The Wire’s most memorable scenes, what you might not remember about this episode, if you’ve already watched the series, is that Lester really walks a fine line between smooth older man and total creep taking advantage of a terrified young confidential informant. If learning how a beautiful woman likes her coffee and then reminding her of your military service were a crime, Lester would still not be in jail because cops look out for each other.

What you probably remember is the end of young Michael B. Jordan’s character Wallace. He wasn’t cut out for the game. His heart did pump Kool-aid after all. RIP Wallace and RIP the uneaten hot dogs Poot Bodie and Wallace leave on the table just before the murder. Neither Wallace nor the dogs got to reach their full potential, but the game is the game.

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 111: The Hunt, with Comedian Ben Flores Nov 10, 2022

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“Over the last 20 years, the goalposts for what is copaganda have moved.” –Ben Flores

As many of you know, our beloved piggy wrangling, bum lumming host is a father now, and the recording of this episode of the pod took place in the days immediately following the birth of Matt’s first child. Filling in as co-host is Pod Yourself The Wire producer, comedian, and writer of these descriptions, Brent Flyberg. Joining Matt & Brent is writer and humorist from the Please Save Me podcast, Ben Flores to talk about The Wire season 1 episode 11, “The Hunt.”

In the aftermath of the buy-bust gone wrong that left Kima leaking from some bullet holes, The Barksdales look to clean up their mess while the Baltimore Police Department looks sort of competent for once. Considering the episode revolves around the uncertain future of one of the series’s more likable characters, it’s a surprisingly funny episode. Even Wee Bey is so charming you have to remind yourself that he’s a bad man even by the standards of The Wire. He makes the meme face we all love!

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 110: The Cost, with Matt Christman of "Chapo Trap House" Nov 03, 2022

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“We have to turn our taste into politics to delude ourselves into thinking our consumption can change the direction of the ship of state.” -Matt Christman

This week on the pod, Matt and Vince invite the return of writer, podcaster, and self-proclaimed Bunk head, Matt Christman from The Chapo Trap House podcast (on tour now!) to talk about The Wire season 1 episode 10, “The Cost.”

This is a mid-aughts HBO prestige crime drama, so the crime guys have to have a strip club to use as a clubhouse. Fitting that The Sopranos’ dumbest character, Georgie, was running the Bada Bing, because The Wire’s dumbest character, Orlando, is running this show’s Balta Bing. As Vince points out, everyone in the aughts was trying to ball a little, and Orlando, tired of being the steady, nondescript hand behind the front, gets flipped by the detail after trying to buy heroin from a cop.

Things don’t end well for Orlando, or anyone else related to the Barksdale crew who tries to cooperate with the detail (poor Wallace). Don’t talk to the cops! Especially not the lovable, scampy, irish f*ckboy TV cops.

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 109: Game Day, with Cullen Crawford Oct 27, 2022

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“A show about the Eastside would be boring because Prop Joe is running it well.” -Cullen Crawford.

On the latest edition of the pod, Matt and Vince invite writer, podcaster, and host of the Football Friends Who Are Gambling podcast, Cullen Crawford to be a basketball friend who is not gambling, but rather, discussing The Wire season 1 episode 9, “Game Day.”

Every day is game day for Avon, Stringer, and Prop Joe, but especially today, because the boys have hoop dreams. The annual East vs. West basketball game has everyone coming together. Prop Joe is there with a fake clipboard and Avon in a very aughts visor. Herc & Carv are in the stands chopping it up with Poot & Bodie, watching a 37-year-old JuCo baller cross up a collection of normal guys from the Eastside. Even Lt. Daniels stops by to try to get his peepers on the head of the Barksdale syndicate. Daniels gets the peek he wants, but is met with a Mutumbo-esque finger wag from Avon. That reference was for the real sport heads.

Herc asks a very important question while watching a payphone from a roof, how do the pebbles get up there? Let us know your theories in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 108: Lessons, with author Leah Carroll Oct 20, 2022

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“Can someone please make a Stringer Bell profile on LinkedIn?” -Leah Carroll

With each pod we get closer to landing David Simon. Today’s guest is not only a casual acquaintance of Baltimore’s preeminent erudite curse word factory, she’s also the author of Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder. Leah Carroll returns to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season 1 episode 8, “Lessons.”

Appropriate that the name of the name of the episode is “Lessons” because everyone learned something. McNulty learns that his children are too good at the front & follow “game” he taught them after he loses them while they tail Stringer Bell shopping at a farmer’s market. The market’s security guard learns what everyone else knows about Jimmy – he’s not a good dad. We all learn that Stringer Bell drives a sensible maroon Toyota Camry, and from Stringer, the corner boys turn copy boys learn the difference between elastic and inelastic products. It’s not just fictional characters learning lessons, Matt learns that he’s using an outdated and and disrespectful term for sex workers. Crazy because he’s basically a sex worker himself, what with this podcast making all our listeners so damn horny.

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 107: One Arrest, with Dan From The Internet Oct 13, 2022

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“I’m old enough for all of this.” -@Danfromtheinternet

On the latest episode of the pod, Matt & Vince welcome a frustratingly young guest, Dan from the internet, to talk about The Wire season 1 episode 7, “One Arrest.” Dan is a gen z content creator and news commentator. He's a host on Good Morning Bad News on TikTok, as well as his news & culture show Power Report and Audioface where he and his co-host reviews new music almost every week. To keep up with everything Dan does everywhere, follow him on Twitter.

It’s appropriate that Dan introduces the podcast to the concept of ugly bastard hentai, because there is a lot of ugly bastard behavior from the various characters in David Simon’s Baltimore in this episode. Landsman prank’s a desperate Santangelo into enlisting a low-rent psychic to help him clear cases, drunk Bunk implores a woman to “rub ‘em together like that,” and even Judge Phelan is vocalizing his desire to “throw a f*ck” into a peer. ACAUB.

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Bonus Frotcast: Steve-O From Jackass On 'A Hard Kick In The Nuts' Oct 08, 2022

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Hey, what's up, gang. It's Vince here, and boy have we got a treat for you guys on the free feed today! Not that you deserve it. In fact, you should definitely stop listening right and go sign up for the Patreon at Patreon dot com slash frotcast. Are you still listening? God dammit. Oh well. Anyway, this week, I'm talking to Steve-O. You know, from Jackass. You know Steve-O! Steve-O has a book coming out. The Book is called A Hard Kick In THe Nuts, What I've Learned From A Lifetime of Terrible Decisions, and it's available everywhere books are sold. It's about Steve-O's sex addiction, his recovery from sex addiction, his relationships, what he's learned in recovery... All that stuff! Anyway, that's the context of the interview today, and I hope you enjoy it, even if you think you're too damn good to sign up for our Patreon. Do it! Matt's baby just got born! Congrats, matt! Sign up for the Patreon so she doesn't go hungry. Okay, love you all, enjoy.

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 106: The Wire, with comedian/writer Adrian McNair Oct 06, 2022

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“D’angelo would for sure be an Andrew Tate fan.” -Adrian Mcnair

If you’re within five miles of the Koreatown neighborhood in Los Angeles, you may have seen today’s guest on any of the dating apps, but today you can hear comedian and television writer Adrian McNair talk to Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season 1 episode 6, “The Wire.”

Discussing the titular episode of the series, we learn that Vince sometimes fantasizes about being a cop. Not because of the power, status, or license to drive drunk, but because they seem like they’re bros who look out for each other. Imagine showing up to work as bombed as Auggie Polk does. Are your coworkers going to cover your ass like McNulty and Kima do? And you get a gun? At this point no one expects police to do any actual good in the world, so if you do even the bare minimum you would get worshiped like a hero and huh okay maybe this show is copaganda in that it makes joining the force look more and more appealing every episode.

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 105: The Pager, with comedian Katrina Davis Sep 29, 2022

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“Do you know how many people you have to kill for a whistle to catch on?” -Katrina Davis

It’s a great day for grown men named Stinkum, and an even better day for you, because on the latest Pod Yourself The Wire, Matt and Vince welcome the return of comedian and Pod Yourself A Favorite Katrina Davis to discuss The Wire season 1 episode 5, “The Pager.”

It’s important to McNulty that Kima knows that he did not literally call the mother of his children the c-word, but if you read between the lines, he definitely thinks his ex-wife is a c-word. Katrina points out that the way he dances around it makes him sound like if Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote a philandering men’s rights activist cop character. McNulty might be a bad man, but he’s a good cop, unlinke Herc and Carver who are bad men, bad cops, and even worse good cop/ bad cop players. The “good cop” can’t swing on a mope, everybody knows that.

Fellas, is it gay to take the landline out of your girl’s house if you get paranoid like Avon? Let us know in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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[Pod Yourself The Wire] 104: Old Cases, with Dave Schilling of the LA Times Sep 22, 2022

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“Tap tap tap is the sound of Poot’s boner on the window” -Dave Schiling

On this episode of The Wire, the police try to get a desk through a door, but no one knows which direction they’re going (it’s a metaphor), and on this episode of the pod, Matt and Vince invite the host of the Free Validation podcast and writer for the LA Times, Dave Schilling to talk about season 1 episode 4, “Old Cases.”

This is the episode featuring the famous f-word scene. McNulty and Bunk show that they may be alcoholic philanderers with limited vocabularies, but they’re natural po-lice who understand basic bullet physics. Omar wouldn’t like hearing all those dirty words coming out of their pretty mouths, but the rest of us piggies are eating it up yum yum yum.

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