[Pod Yourself The Wire] 108: Lessons, with author Leah Carroll
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
“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 It’s not just fictional characters learning lessons, Matt learns that he’s using an outdated and and disrespectful term for sex workers.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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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, Matt Leib here. Before we get started on today's episode, I just need to let all of our San Francisco Bay Area listeners know that on October 17th at 8 p.m. |
| 0:12.1 | My wife, my wife, Francesca, if you aren't teeny and I are going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. Once again, that is Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. |
| 0:24.7 | We're going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be myself, Francesca, if you aren't teeny, who is also a voice of my wife, and a few other comics. It's going to be great. |
| 0:40.7 | You should come. At the very least, you know, you'll get to see Francesca and I kiss on stage. It's a sex show. |
| 0:48.7 | Anyways, please buy your tickets immediately. The link will be in the show notes or you can go to www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. Once again, that is www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. It's Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. Punchline San Francisco. Come see me. Come see my wife. Come see some guests. |
| 1:17.7 | Get your tickets now. Okay, on with the show. Hey, everyone, Matt Leib here. Before we get started on today's episode, I just need to let all of our San Francisco Bay Area listeners know that on October 17th at 8 p.m., my wife, my wife, Francesca, if you aren't teeny and I are going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. |
| 1:42.7 | Once again, that is Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. We're going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be myself, Francesca, if you aren't teeny, who is also voice my wife. And a few other comics. It's going to be great. You should come. At the very least, you know, you'll get to see Francesca and I kiss on stage. |
| 2:10.7 | It's a sex show. Anyways, please buy your tickets immediately. The link will be in the show notes or you can go to www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. Once again, that is www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. It's Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. Punchline San Francisco. Come see me. Come see my wife. Come see some guests. |
| 2:39.7 | Get your tickets now. Okay. On with the show. Hi, I'm Matt Leave. And I'm Vince Mancini. And this is Pod Yourself The Wire. |
| 2:54.7 | A The Wire Podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Wire and talk about it. |
| 3:03.7 | Thank you so much. Once again for tuning into the world's only The Wire Podcast where we talk about HBO's The Wire. A show about how proximity to deviant Irish behavior can infect even the most righteous of men. |
| 3:17.7 | Just a reminder to please give us five stars in review on all of the platforms that allow for stars and reviews. Some just do stars. Some just do reviews. |
| 3:29.7 | If you can do both. Hell yeah dog. You know I'm saying Vince. Good on you. That's what I say. Absolutely. Okay. Let's get into it today. |
| 3:41.7 | We're going to be talking about from season one of The Wire episode eight lessons and our guest today is a journalist. She wrote a fantastic memoir called Down City. |
| 3:52.7 | A daughter's story of love, memory and murder. Ladies and gentlemen are guests today is Leah Carroll. |
| 4:00.7 | Hello. Hi. How are you doing? Welcome back. I gave a lot in that intro and I just got a. Hey, you know, I give and I give. |
| 4:12.7 | Whatever. I'm here. Wow. |
| 4:16.7 | Yeah, I hear you talk about the wire. Now we had you on our sopranos podcast and that was one of my favorite episodes that we recorded. |
| 4:23.7 | We got to meet your children at one point, which I say more of that. I'm always for having children on the podcast. |
| 4:30.7 | And I say that knowing perfectly well that at some point I will have a baby on this podcast occasionally. |
| 4:37.7 | Yes. So are you. You're a fan of the sopranos, but are you a fan of the wire? |
| 4:45.7 | I am foremost a fan of the wire. I was a fan of the wire before I was ever a fan of the sopranos. |
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