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This is Rebecca Lo or Rebecca Loa if you listen to suboptimal radio and you are listening to Men in Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

Welcome to a Men in Blazers pod special.

Our guest today is the acclaimed writer and creator of some of the most indelible television series of the last two decades.

Show me a hero, generation kill and a show, the wire, that transcended and transformed television.

But his story begins long before he was canonized as one of the patron saints of TV's Golden Age.

Prior to show running and show writing, he was a proper journalist who cut his teeth first at the tatler,

a high school newspaper of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in suburban Maryland,

come on you mighty barons and eventually as a police reporter at the Baltimore Sun.

His new series co-created with longtime collaborator George Pelicanos is The Juice.

Chronicleing the rise of the porn industry in Times Square in the 1970s.

Yes, that spot was once home to something more than just Guy Fieri restaurants America.

And this series tells that story starring James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal and a slew of remarkable talents Gary Carr.

Wow, just wow. It premieres this Sunday September 10th, 9pm Eastern.

On HBO, we welcome back a man who proudly calls himself the PBS of HBO,

Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, or Bodymore, Maryland, either way.

It's not a Liverpool of America. The one and only. Mr David Simon.

That's the best intro I've had in two days, three days. That's excellent.

My work here is done. We're having a Guinness, not quite up to David's liking because he's just come back from Ireland.

No, you've done pretty well here. I'm not sure I can get this out of a can in its America, so I'm very happy.

We sit here on the eve of the release of your later series, which we'll talk about in a second.

But when you've already made the wire, the television show that's been compared to a great Victorian novel,

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