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Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

[Pod Yourself The Wire] 201: Ebb Tide, with comedian Billy Wayne Davis

Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

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After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

“You feel cold just watching it.” -Billy Wayne Davis


Avast, ye piggies! Pod Yourself The Wire returns for season two. Matt and Vince welcome writer and comedian (see his new special Testify now), Billy Wayne Davis aboard to talk about The Wire season two, episode one, “Ebb Tide.”


Season two starts with a portside turn, leaving the terraces, towers, and low-rises behind to explore the ports of Balmer. A lot is different: Jimmy Mcnulty is a little man in a boat, there’s a family of Polish longshoremen instead of the Barskdale crew, and Holly from The Office is floating around, but as Billy points out, not even thirty seconds pass before we see McNulty accept a bribe, so not too much has changed. 


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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 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. 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 Matt Lee, and I'm Vince Mancini. And this is pod yourself the wire, a the wire podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of the wire and talk about it.

1:43.7

Thank you so much for joining us for season two of pod yourself the wire. First some a note up top. If you are listening to this podcast on a feed called pod yourself the wire, guess what?

1:59.7

You're listening on the wrong feed. You see, we decided to make a separate feed. Yeah, I fucked it up. We decided to make a separate feed. Yeah, this is my fault. We were like, hey, well, you know, it's a different show. So let's do a different feed instead of pod yourself a gun, which was our original about the sopranos. I decided, you know, let fuck that. Please subscribe to pod yourself a gun. You will get all the pod yourself a wire episodes on pod yourself a guns feed.

2:26.7

So just so do that for us because separating the feeds just fucks everything up. It makes everything harder. And it's just not it's not pleasant. So do us the huge favor of looking up pod yourself a gun subscribing to that and just forget the other feed exists. Just don't just, you know, and if you're already on the pod yourself a gun feed.

2:50.7

Congrats. You did awesome. You stayed and you were right. And I was wrong. So sorry about that. Also, pod yourself a gun will be live at sketch fest January 28th at 10 p.m. at the piano fight theater by your tickets now. SF sketch fest calm. Are you excited for that show Vince?

3:13.7

I'm so excited. You know what? I'm also excited about it's what it's dungeon is crab season in the bay. I want to I can't wait to eat me some crab and talk about the sopranos. It's our first ever live show last year. They had to cancel sketch rest because of COVID. And we are very excited.

3:31.7

Not our first ever live show just our first ever live podcast like we've talked into microphones on stage before you're not going to see we're not like workshop or shit for you. You know, I mean our first ever pod yourself a gun rewatch.

3:46.7

And we're going to be talking about the many saints of Newark, the sopranos movie. And it's going to be great. So please buy your tickets now before they sell out or worse if they don't sell out then

3:59.7

we'll be mad at you and we'll look like fools. And then I'll kill myself. How's that? Yeah. Sounds like it's a big time threat. My life is in your hands. Okay. Now that we've got all that out of the way five stars in review, you know what to do today.

4:16.7

We're going to be talking about from season two of the wire episode one eb tied and our guest today is a hilarious comedian a dear homie.

4:28.7

He has a wonderful new special called testify. It's available on YouTube for free, but also you should go buy it. So you know, find a place where you can buy stuff and buy testify.

4:41.7

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone else our guest today is Billy Wayne Davis. Hey guys. I'm glad you you guys worked that feed thing out. Yeah. Yeah.

4:53.7

It's interesting stuff. I'm sure that you know, it's a riveting. Can I ask a question just from and I think this you guys will appreciate I see how your brains work. Oh, yeah.

5:05.7

The pod yourself the wire. There was that you guys are like we're just kind of it's less it's less confusing to make it kind of confusing. Yeah. Well, in a way, I mean, so I love that kind of stuff where it's like, hey, that's weird. And you're like, no, not if you've been here since the start. It's not. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, we had thought about obviously pod yourself a gun was that got yourself a gun intro, you know, theme songs.

5:34.7

I told you about that. Yeah. Yeah. And then what are we going to do if you pod through the garden? Like what? I mean, we could originally that was what we're going to call it. Um, and then or, you know, something like way down in a pod or pod down in a hole. And there's all these things. And then we're like, you know, be funny.

5:56.1

Having a not make any sense to like it. That's why I do like it. See, you understand good jokes. And that's why we had you on, you know, the greatest, the wire, the podcast that ever exists. The only wire podcast that exists actually. I don't know if you know that. That's not true. Because even in the in introduction to watching this episode on HBO. They promote a 20th anniversary.

6:24.7

Yeah, but that's not our podcast. There's not really no method man. It's not really a podcast. I was I tried listening to that. It was that sound when you used to send a fax or connect to the internet.

6:37.7

And it was it. It was just a lot of that. And you know, method man is not wonderful in every way. No, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I get why it's probably they were like, let's just.

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