Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

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Once upon a time, the Sopranos (James Gandolfini and Edie Falco) made a video to try to get Lebron James to come to the New York Knicks. Roundball Rock podcast host Sean Keane alerted us to this fact years ago, but until recently, almost no one outside of Lebron had actually seen the video. Well now it has finally surfaced and we get to listen to it. Other topics include the producer who doesn't think Sydney Sweeney is attractive or talented, the Netflix true crime documentary that used AI to make fake pictures, and the Hollywood people who claim they can't sell Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.

?It feels like the moment when David Simon?s twitter persona finally gained the upperhand on David Simon the TV writer.? -David J. Roth

Well, we did it. We podded ourselves the whole Wire. The closer, Defector.com founder, and natural po-dcaster David J. Roth joins Matt & Vince to talk (at great length!) about The Wire?s finale, season five episode ten ?-30-?

Was it the best season of The Wire? Universally from guests and hosts alike, no, it was not the best season. Was it a good season? Sort of depends on who you ask. Matt & Vince are noted season five defenders. They love reporting, shoe leather, shoe leather reporting, and corpse penis shots, and this season delivers on all those fronts, so that?s not surprising. David has a higher opinion than episode eight guest Dave from Dopey, but agrees with many past guests that it can?t live up to the heights of seasons three and four. 

The finale has some satisfying moments. Scott Templeton?s weaselry is finally called out by Gus and Jimmy, though he is rewarded for his fabrications with what we think is a Pulitzer. Do any of our listeners know what a Pulitzer looks like? Lol of course not. Our listeners are more likely to know what delinquent child support summons looks like than a Pulitzer (no offense). 

We also get Jimmy?s funeral. Don?t worry, you didn?t miss anything, he doesn?t die, but Officer McNulty sort of does, and he gets a proper copper funeral scene that, according to Dominic West, the actors were all legitimately drunk to film. So method. Really committed to the craft.

Stick around to find out what show we do next (Alf). We haven?t decided yet (it?s going to be Alf or I stg I will b*mb a federal building ? just kidding please don?t call the cops), so tell us what show we should do next in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Did you guys know that there's an entire shadow sperm market that exists outside of regular sperm banks, largely connecting donors and recipients on an ad-hoc basis through a series of Facebook groups? This is the world chronicled in Spermworld, Lance Oppenheim's latest documentary, currently out on FX/Hulu. It's a fascinating, sometimes excruciatingly awkward portrait largely centered on three sperm donors: Ari, a Jewish guy with upwards of 130 children and a disapproving mother who views his life like a screwball comedy. Tyree, a mechanic and ex-con who has immersed himself in the sperm-donating game even as he and his partner, Atasha, are themselves having trouble conceiving. And Steve, a fit, 60-year-old divorcee from Tennessee who has struck up an unlikely... friendship? with Rachel, a 27-year-old lung-transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis. One question hovers above all the donors. What's driving them?

Lance has a knack for shooting desperate oddballs, as he previously showed in Some Kind of Heaven, a hilarious, sometimes tragic documentary about the Villages retirement community which premiered at Sundance in 2020 and went on to make my own best-of list (in which I only very rarely include docs, even though I love them). That one was produced by Darren Aronofsky.

Later this year, Lance has ?Ren Faire,? produced by Elara Pictures and HBO, a three-part docuseries about the epic succession battle at America?s largest renaissance festival. That one is produced by the Safdie Brothers and recently debuted at SXSW. Nathan Fielder hosted a recent screening. Of course, Lance is also just a fun hang, and more than game to be grilled about his work. Which also provided Matt ample opportunity to talk about his favorite subject, cum. We all had thick ropes of fun, at least 10 to 15 milliliters worth.

?I never cracked the clock code.? -Brent Flyberg

The gang?s all here for the penultimate edition of Pod Yourself The Wire. Comedian, producer of the pod, writer of these descriptions, and world-class-stud, Brent Flyberg joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Wire season five episode nine, ?Late Editions.?

If you have learned nothing else from this podcast, I trust that you have learned that we like when the guys on the show are friends. Right up to the end, Michael and Snoop are friends. He reassures her that her hair looks good right before he blows her brains out, because the game is the game, but friends are forever. It would have been funny if she had asked ?does my hair look good?? and Michael responded with a Snoop-style ?yerrrr!? and then shot her in the face, but I guess Pelecanos wasn?t going for a laugh in that scene.

This episode also features the famous Marlo ?My name is my name? scene, which you might remember hearing sampled all over Pusha T?s Wrath of Caine mixtape. That?s right, I?m a middle-aged white guy who loves rap music. It?s embarrassing to admit because we are this generation?s white guys who love jazz and those guys suck. I?m going to steer into the skid. Any day now you?ll see me in a Kangol hat calling people cats. 

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?10-year-old Kennard would have bullied 25-year-old me.? -Dave 

Dave from the Dopey Podcast returns to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season five episode eight, ?Clarifications.?

Dave hates season five. If you, like Vince, are a season five defender who loves the newsroom stuff, you might find yourself yelling at your phone during this one. He hates Gus. GUS ? the last beacon of integrity at the fictionalized Baltimore Sun. He even hates Kennard, the pint-sized, foul-mouthed giant slayer.

Regardless of how you feel about season five, you probably love Omar, and this is a tough episode. We say goodbye to one of TV's most memorable characters in unceremonious fashion. He?s gunned down at the corner store picking up a soft pack of Newports by a literal child, and while he was a legend on the streets, his death doesn?t even make the paper. RIP Omar. We?ll pour out some Honey Nut Cheerios in your honor. 

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The first installment of our new miniseries on college football movies takes on Necessary Roughness (1991)! Vince and Brendan are joined by Spencer Hall, from Channel 6/the Shutdown Fullcast. This series was of course the brainchild of Brendan, our resident ex-college football player and former NFL superstar (*practice squad and NFL Europe). We all thought a miniseries on college football movies was a great idea, but it also could just be that Brendan is really big and might have CTE so we didn't want to make him angry.

For our first episode, we're discussing 1991's Necessary Roughness, starring Hector Elizondo and Robert Loggia as the coaches of the Texas State Fighting Armadillos, and their 34-year-old freshman quarterback, Paul Blake, played by Scott Bakula. Does it still hold up? Is it basically the same movie as Major League? All your questions answered, and more.

?This episode should have been called ?Spite.?? - Brendan Sexton III

For the first time in the history of this pod, we have a guest who auditioned for a role on The Wire. In 2007 he nearly played Frog (one of the many people who rip Ziggy off), but this week actor Brendan Sexton III joins Matt and Vince to talk about season five episode seven, ?Took.?

As our guest points out, this episode, like many, could have been called ?Spite.? It?s what?s motivating the actions of our two favorite Baltimore murder poe-lees. Jimmy, out of spite for the bosses, and the whole damn system, is using his fake serial killer to single-handedly ensure funding for any cop who needs it and knows where to find him. In the process, he learns that you either die the cool philandering drunk detective, or live long enough to become one of the bosses. 

Bunk, meanwhile, is pounding the pavement, chasing old leads, and generally doing a lot of shoe-leather detective work ? likely the best work he?s done in years, just out of spite for Jimmy and his outright fraudulent behavior. The police can not be reformed or re-trained. Instead, to fix America?s policing problem, we need to have a handful of cops who are so off the rails that their peers have no choice but to actually do their jobs out of spite for their own co-workers. 

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?Maybe it?s a badge of honor that I don?t have a badge of honor.? -Nora Barrows-Friedman

Matt and Vince welcome Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada and Pod Yourself a Gun listener Nora Barrows-Friedman to talk about season five episode six of The Wire, ?The Dickensian Aspect.?

If David Simon used the same episode naming conventions as Friends, this episode would be titled ?The One Where Jimmy Kidnaps an Unhoused Guy.? His fake serial isn?t going to strike fear into the hearts of Baltimore without a little collateral damage. 

A hobbled Omar is in the streets calling Marlo a bitch, but no one will tell Marlo what he?s saying because they?re afraid it will hurt his feelings or something? Speaking of hurting feelings, Nicky Sobotka is back and sorry to Pablo Schrieber, but no one on the pod finds his yelling at Krawczyck believable. 

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?If you thought dookie was gonna make it?? -Ashley Ray

Another week, another returning guest, and another big lie from Scott Templeton. This week on the pod, comedian, and host of the TV, I Say podcast, Ashley Ray talks to Matt & Vince about The Wire season five episode five, ?React Quotes.?

If you like to see the smirk of a drunk Irish rascal with a naughty little secret, this is the episode for you. Jimmy learns he?s getting help fabricating a serial killer from slimy little newsboy Scott and can barely contain his glee. By the look on his face, you?d think McNutty just found out monogamy is illegal. 

Vince shares a fascinating backstory about Omar?s Superman-like flight from a sixth floor balcony ? it might seem crazy that he would survive such a fall, but reportedly the character Omar was based on jumped from an even higher height and survived. So the next time you have to clean out the gutters, don?t be a weenie. If you fall you?ll probably be fine. You might have to hobble around with a shotgun as a cane, but you?ll live.

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?Everyone get your prostates checked, and then, look out for Marlo.? -Katrina Davis

One-time Pod Yourself A Gunner, and now two-time Pod Yourself The Wirer, fan favorite, and comedian Katrina Davis returns to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season five episode four, ?Transitions.?

We say goodbye to another character this week, so if you haven?t seen the episode, stop reading this (also, why are you reading this?). A proposition for you: wish that Proposition Joe may rip in peace. His stinky nephew Cheese sold him out in exchange for one Hungry Joe. His own family just for a guy who pees sitting down. Smdh. 

The episode of course features detailed intellectual analysis of Cheese?s treachery, Scott?s weaselly-ass-little-bitchness, Jimmy?s invented serial killer, and more, but there is also a spirited debate about peeing standing up vs. peeing sitting down. On this podcast we want you to eat your vegetables, but also you get a little piss as a treat. 

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Alison Stevenson, comedian and Thick Strip impresario (comediENNE and impresARIA??) joins the podcast this week to talk about Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" being suddenly cool again, and we mourn the death of Toby Keith, and along with him the George W Bush era, which was maybe an even crappier era than the current one. Holy crap, I just realized George W. Bush was president when I started blogging, I'm circling the freakin' drain over here. We also discuss Peter Thiel financing the "Enhanced Olympics," an Olympics for steroid users which compares PED users to historically oppressed classes. It's a great show! 

?It feels like watching one of those movies where World War I is over a everyone says, ?Well let?s not do that again.?? -Dave Weigel

Much like a totalitarian regime, we are rounding up all the journalists. This week, returning guest and politics reporter for Semafor, Dave Weigel, joins Matt & Vince to discuss The Wire season five episode three, ?Not For Attribution?

Lester is on board with Jimmy?s fake serial killer and pitches a salacious pervert angle to get more attention, as long as he can get resources to take down Marlo. One of the knocks on season five is that after developing into a more honest character, Jimmy is backsliding in a way that doesn?t make sense, but go watch the scene in this episode where He?s having sex on the hood of a car and ask yourself, is that not the Jimmy we know and love?

Meanwhile at The Balmer Sun, Alma does the hard work to write a good story, only to see it bumped off the front page, while season five?s other little lying weasel, Scott Templeton collects attaboys for an invented react quote. Let that be a lesson to you. Never work hard. Lie to your bosses. Hump on car hoods. Neither you, nor these characters, will ever face consequences (I assume ? haven?t finished the show yet).

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?I can?t tell you how many times I?ve stood at the loading dock of my big local journalism outlet at a mid-size post-industrial city? -Daniel Marans

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! This week on the pod we have another journalist on the pod! Huffington Post Senior Politics reporter Daniel Marans joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season five, episode two, ?Unconfirmed Reports.? 

Jimmy and Scott are making stuff up and getting rewarded for it. Maybe we should just lie on the podcast more. Hey, if you sign up for the Patreon, not only will you get a street name, but so far everyone who has signed up for the Patreon also got a text from their crush within the next week. No bs. I know I just said we were going to start lying but that?s true.

A recurring theme on this pod is liking when the guys are friends, and this episode it?s Marlo and Avon who are warming heart cackles by bonding over their hatred of East Baltimore?s drug game players. The game is the game, but more importantly, the guys who are from the same place are friends.

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?We have guns and oil ? don?t even trip.? -Mike Isaac

Kicking off the final season of Pod Yourself The Wire, Matt & Vince welcome a returning Pod Yourself favorite, tech reporter for the NYT, and author of Super Pumped, Mike Isaac to discuss the premiere of season five of The Wire, ?More With Less.?

A fitting guest for The Wire?s press-focused season, Mike is here to tell us the news hole is still shrinking, and our new friends at the Baltimore Sun have no idea how good they had it. Buyouts? People were getting paid to stop being reporters? Sounds sick. 

As the title of the episode suggests, Baltimore?s paper of record is not the only crumbling vestige of the city?s civil services. The cops are waiting on backpay that may never arrive and literally fighting mad about it. The original Slippin? Jimmy (McNulty) is back to his boozing, whoring ways and thank god. Sweet Beadie might not deserve all the bullsh*t new old Jimmy is shoveling her way, but as the audience, we?re loving it. Drunk bastard McNulty is the closest this show gets to a face melting guitar solo and Jimmy is already shredding. Can?t wait to see how noodly this guy can get. 

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Future Hall of Famer Brendan is back on the pod with a very very special episode where we get very real. Truly a must listen. 

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Daniel Maté is back with his long lost sibling Matt Lieb to talk about zionist comedians and musical theater being used for evil.

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This week podcaster Shereen Lani Younes of Ethnically Ambiguous joins Bad Hasbara to talk about Israel and whatnot.

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?It is okay to be several types of guy, the problem is when you?re one type of guy.? -Murder Bryan Quinby

As another season of Pod Yourself The Wire comes to a close, Matt & Vince welcome the host of the Guys podcast, Murder Bryan Quinby, to talk about The Wire?s season four finale, ?Final Grades.?

We?ve got some final grades of our own to hand out. Vince?s synopsis of the episode gets a A+ for accuracy and brevity: The cops have all learned to care but the system makes it so it doesn?t matter.

Herc and Carver get Fs for fucking up Randy?s life. Bodie gets an A for being friends with McNulty (we like when they friends) and for standing tall. He also gets two bullets in the head for those very same reasons, which brings us to Michael, who gets a B. His gunmanship is undeniable but points were docked for killing one of the friends (we like when they friends but how can be friend when dead?). Namond gets a B. It stands for bitch. He?s a lil bitch, but he should listen to Vince Staple?s advice and learn to be okay with that.

The season gets a B+, and if you have to ask why, are you even listening to the pod? The listeners all get an A-. Why the minus? Not enough five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. 

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Welcome to the first episode of bad hasbara. Matt is joined his old Jewbook homie social worker and antizionist Jew Ben Ziggy (@evelkneidel), for a conversation about the IRL billboard poster JewBelong.

Hey everyone, here's the first episode (or like partial episode) of Bad Hasbara, a new podcast about Israel and propaganda. I was trying to only record a small trailer but I got lazy and decided to post the whole thing as is. Most episodes won't just be me talking at you, I promise. You can subscribe wherever you get them podcasts.

This week we talk to Everett Rummage of the podcast "Age of Napoleon" about the new Napoleon movie.

?Solve the murders first, then find all the bodies.? -Kristi Yamagucciamane

Coming straight out of Wilmywood, this week?s guest, a co-host of the JortsCenter podcast, and man of many online names, Kristy Yamaguccimane AKA Will, joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Wire season four episode twelve, ?That?s Got His Own.?

Vince?s synopsis of the episode: Lester freeman is fighting with the brass over whether he can open an almost literal can of worms, Mayor Carcetti is trying to figure out how much of his reform agenda will be doomed by a massive school budget debt, Bunny Colvin tries to save his program, Namond accepts once and for all that he?ll never be a gangster,Bubbles comes up with a great plan to escape a predator, and Omar commits arguably his greatest act of war yet.

They talk about the episode, of course, but they also take a moment to appreciate the actor who plays Norman, Reg E. Cathey, who you may not remember from the movie Airheads. He?s the guy who says ?Back off man, you?re stepping on my dick!? 

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?If you were the person who put out a movie directed by Fred Durst, you would have put out a movie directed by Fred Durst.? - Charles ?Sen. Lemon GoGurt? Star

In an effort to find the true reason David Simon blocked Matt on Twitter, Matt and Vince welcome writer and co-host of the City Saint Country Saint podcast, Charles Star, to talk about The Wire season four episode eleven, ?New Day.?

To quote Vince?s synopsis of the episode: ?The school children at Edward Tilghman Middle are all abuzz with news of a snitch, Officer Walker is about to get his, and Omar has just learned about a co-op.

Sadly, it is our friend Randy Wagstaff who has been stained with the ?snitch? label, because the schools, the police, and especially Herc, failed him at every turn, which you can see or hear in the supercut Matt made of all the various bunglings of Lex murder case. 

Michael goes mask off to get revenge on a paint splattered, de-ringed Walker, inspiring this week?s Balta-B story, Omar holds a big gun while saying cool stuff, and sometimes a corner boy (Bodie) and a copper (McNutty) can be friends and it?s nice, dammit. Why can?t all the cool Baltimore guys be friends? That would be a good show too, right? Imagine Bunk and Slim Charles joining a bowling league and developing a friendly rivalry with Valchek and Snoop. We would watch that show. 

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?Every parent in this is, in their own way, a predator.? -Jeb Lund

On the latest pod, writer and co-host of the It?s Christmastown podcast, Jeb Lund joins Matt and Vince to dissect The Wire season four episode ten, ?Misgivings.?

Alternate title for this episode: ?Misgivings: Bub?s revenge.? Bubbles finally gets Herc back for walking him into a savage beating in the last episode by siccing him like the rabid dog he is on a clergyman who is definitely not a drug mule. It?s a real double whammy for Baltmore?s most industrious junkie, because the priest who gets unnecessarily roughed up by Herc was also sort of a dismissive jerk to Bubs. That?s what you both get for being mean to our little Bubby guy. 

Not to be outdone, Chris Partlow gets revenge on someone who likely did some terrible things to him when he was young when he lays a savage beating on Michael?s implied pedo stepdad. This has to be a Dennis Lehane inspired storyline, right? That guy loves to punish fictional child predators. He should start one of those Youtube channels where amateur pedophile hunters lure sickos to a Jack in the Box to humiliate them on camera. Maybe he can work something out of his system. 

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Comedians Grant Gordon and Sean Keane join Matt and Vince to talk about the CEO of HBO's social media madness. It's incredible.

?Eminem was speaking directly to Roseanne whites.? -Big Wos

On this week?s episode, Blue Bloods watcher and writer from The Ringer, Wosny ?Big Wos? Lambre joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season four episode nine, ?Know Your Place.?

The title of the episode could be a reference to a few of the storylines in this episode. It could be about Kima, who knows her place is in the shit with the other degenerate detectives, and not at the dinner party with her ex and a bunch of stiffs who are capable of passing the bar. Or, it could be about the pilot program kids who Bunny takes to Ruth?s Chris, where they immediately feel out of place, don?t want to give up their jackets, then ask for McDonalds on the way home. Or, maybe it?s a nod to Herc?s dumbass. He?s fucking up multiple lives at once in this episode. Someone should tell him to know that his place is not in a police station His place is in his cousin Vinny Chase?s Entourage. Shout out to Dominic Lombardozzi, who Wos points out is the go-to actor when you need a guy to play a ding dong who is going to fuck up something important in the next scene. 

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This week we are joined by comedians Jessica Sele and James Fritz to talk about the NFT blinding event and more!

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?In a bizarro world, I would watch a Chris and Snoop buddy comedy.? -Roy Wood Jr.

Shake it and jiggle it and listen to the latest episode with actor and comedian Roy Wood Jr. joining Matt and Vince to discuss The Wire season four episode 8, ?Corner Boys.?

The shaking and jiggling is a reference to a Young Leek song that factors into a fun little game Chris and Snoop are playing to figure out which corner boys are from New York so they can shoot them in the face. If you?re on the streets in W. Baltimore and you don?t know Mark Clark and the Big Fat Morning Show, a bullet might shake and jiggle your brain as it rattles around inside your skull. 

If you?ve ever wondered what it would look like if Robert Chew was cast to play Fletch, you get your chance in this episode. He?s on the phone pulling out all his best voicework and silly fake names to track down Herc. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to meet Wendell Pierce, Roy tells us it?s pretty much what you?d expect. He?ll be manning the grill on a rooftop in Atlanta, but instead of talking about lacrosse, he?ll talk about hockey. 

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"I wish I could protect Dukie forever.? -David J. Roth

This week?s guest has filled a lot of roles on this pod. He?s closed seasons with us, started a season with us, and today, he?s sort of a middle reliever. That might sound like a demotion, but this is a high-leverage episode. The analytics say if we don?t have a good episode this week, we?ll all get demoted to the triple-A of podcasting (one of those Tiktok accounts that just rips full episodes of other people?s podcasts from Youtube and reposts them in 90 second increments). If you don?t understand all the sports talk above, you need to subscribe to Defector.com, a site co-founded by our guest, David J. Roth, who joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season four episode seven. ?Unto Others.?

Remember when Carcetti leveraged the murder of a State?s witness to dunk on Royce and propel himself to the Mayor?s office? Lol yeah that guy didn?t get murdered at all. Roll that beautiful competence porn footage and see Kima discover he was accidentally shot by some presumably Irish guy using bottles in the alley for target practice with a potato silenced gun. The arc of the Baltimore universe is long, but it bends towards giving powerful white men more power.

Obviously there is more conversation about the other storylines (Cutty is sorry he banged your mom, Kenard is a blue-chip swearing prospect, Omar penetrates a guy?s butt in a very not sexy way, the system begins its slow, steady mastication of Randy, etc?), but more importantly, there is a Halloween themed Balta-B story song parody.

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He is like a white Obama, but I don?t mean that as a compliment.? -Whack Nicholson

On this week?s episode, Matt and Vince welcome former public school teacher, podcaster and co-host of the Western Kabuki podcast, Whack Nicholson. To talk about season four episode six of The Wire, ?Margin of Error.?

It?s election day in Baltimore, and you know what that means, right? There?s a sale on heroin! Two for one special on redtops. Stock up while you can. Also Carcetti wins the Democratic primary, which essentially hands him the Mayor's office, and it makes him not want to be a fucky guy when his wife isn?t around. He better figure it out, as Herc saw a few episodes ago, Royce?s hog is a big one to fill. 

Listen as Whack first learns that some dweeby teacher named Mr. Prezbo used to be a badass Punisher-ass motherfucker who blinded kids and killed cops, then confirms that school administrators are just like cops and only care about their damn clearances. 

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As loyal Frotcast listeners may have already known, I interviewed David Grann, author of the best-selling book on which the new Martin Scorsese movie was based, back in 2017. We got deep into what the book meant, the  characters involved, why he wanted to write it, what it means, and how  he reported it. At the very least, it?s a nice little  background/companion piece for the film (which is much different than  the book, even if most of the facts are the same).

Here?s how I described the book in my review that I haven't finished writing: 

Flower Moon the book is a lot of things,  but mostly it?s the story of a genocide told through the structure of a  true crime tale. Grann delivers a barn burner of a murder mystery about a  greedy landowner, his cat?s-paw nephew, his nephew?s Osage wife, and  the FBI agent who uncovers it all, before zooming out to reveal that it  was all part of a larger-scale plan of dispossession and erasure in  which virtually the entire state of Oklahoma was complicit.

Anyway, enjoy the interview, I certainly did. 

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?He [Norman] doesn?t like Carcetti but he?s still got a job to do, which I love.? -Lyall Behrens

You know our guest this week is a true Wire head because his favorite character is Carcett?s deputy campaign manager, Norman. Comedian Lyall Behrens joins Matt & Vince to break down The Wire season four episode five, ?Alliances.?

This is a great episode for any Herc fans. First, we see him making phone calls for Royce?s campaign, because you know what they say, keep your friends close, and your mayors who you walked in while he was getting a blowie in his office closer because he can probably help your career. Then, Herc gets to provision a camera for police duty, which has always worked out really well for him.

This is also a great episode for any cold-blooded murder fans, because we see Chris kill a nice looking delivery woman in an attempt to set up Omar. Wow, men will conspire to commit murder and frame a street rival before they go to therapy. smdh.

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?Are we to believe? Did Bunk and Freeman kill that guy?? -Kevin Kruse

This podcast, in which we splice clips of Wesley Willis? ?Rock and Roll Mcdonalds? into scenes from The Wire, is first and foremost an academic pursuit, so it?s crazy that this is our first time having a professor on the show. Today?s guest is Princeton History professor Kevin Kruse. He takes a break from forcing tomorrow?s future leaders to do gender for long enough to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season four episode four, ?Refugees.?

Kima and Lester are reunited in the Homicide division of BPD, and like you would expect from police detectives who are serious about solving murders, the veteran investigators prank Kima like the older kids at summer camp had access to dead bodies. 

On the other side of the thin blue line, Marlo meets a security guard who wants it to be one way, but it?s the other way. Matt has a lot of fun with this. If you don?t like it, well, that?s because you want it to be one way, but it?s the other way. 

What?s your favorite catch phrase? Snoops ?Yeerrrrrp,? or Clay Davis? ?Sheeeeiiiiit?? Tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.

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