[Pod Yourself The Wire] 112: Cleaning Up, with Ben Fowlkes of Co-Main Event
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
“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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| 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. Hi, I'm Brent Flyberg. And I'm Vince Mancini. And this is your self the wire. |
| 1:32.7 | Thank you for listening to the World's Only The Wire podcast where we talk about HBO's The Wire. The wire. It's a show about how men would rather protect and serve a hot CI who takes their coffee with little cream, then go to therapy. |
| 1:46.7 | That's right. I'm good. How are you, Brent? I mean, I'm so good. I'm battling. I'm coming back from a cold. So I'm going to try and not make my voice sound terrible as much as I can. But it's going to be. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, he sounded like shit. It's going to be a losing battle and I apologize. Yeah. I am once again filling in for Matt who is still trying to get his baby to latch. |
| 2:09.7 | We keep trying to tell him that he's not going to produce any milk, but he's not giving up. And that's why we love him. |
| 2:14.7 | So I'm going to do the thing that Matt does that Vince hates and say, hey, if you like the show, you should go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever and give us five stars and review and sign it for the Patreon. |
| 2:24.7 | Because that helps us. And he needs to feed that kid to all the things. Get that baby to latch. You can just latch on up to a five star review. That'd be great. |
| 2:35.7 | Today, we have got a new guest for you, new to the show from the co-main event podcast, Mr. Ben folks. |
| 2:44.7 | Hey, thanks for having me. I didn't realize I was on the world's only wire podcast. I should have taken this more seriously. |
| 2:49.7 | Yeah. Yeah. It's a feather in your cap. So just be sure to put this in all your decks later. |
| 2:54.7 | Oh, yeah. Don't look it up. Yeah. No. Why would I? I mean, I do feel bad about already going and giving you guys a one star review for over breastfeeding talk. |
| 3:04.7 | Because I find that morally reprehensible. But, uh, you know, you'll live and learn. |
| 3:09.7 | You find breastfeeding in public morally reprehensible or I find in general specifically breastfeeding talk on podcasts. |
| 3:17.7 | Yeah. No, he won't be reprehensible. Only formula and he doesn't even like it when the bottle looks like a nipple. Like that's that's too far. |
| 3:24.7 | That seems unnecessary to me. Yeah. Um, Ben, are you joining us from Montana today? |
| 3:30.7 | Missoula Montana. There we go. That's right. That's great. Um, and, uh, do you like the wire? |
| 3:36.7 | I love the wire. I once, I killed an enormous amount of time once on a flight back from Australia where I went to cover a UFC event and was really dreading the flight home until I got on there and saw they had the TVs with HBO on it. |
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