[Pod Yourself The Wire] 205: Undertow, with Big Wos from The Ringer
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
“Dillon Brooks is definitely the Cheese of the NBA” -Big Wos
Writer and NBA analyst from The Ringer, Wosny “Big Wos” Lambry, takes some time out of his definitely busy day (we recorded the day after the NBA trade deadline) to talk to Matt and Vince about season two episode five of The Wire, “Under Tow.”
A conversation about an episode from 2003 and its showdown between Ziggy and Cheese, the drug dealer played by the Wu Tang Clan’s finest actor – Method Man, might not seem relevant to the current zeitgeist, but as Wos points out, they’re both nepo babies. Ziggy is, of course, the son of Frank Sobotka, the treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores, and we learn in this episode that Cheese is East Baltimore drug kingpin Prop Joe’s nephew. Further proof that when not in our own butts, our fingers are firmly on the pulse. Their powerful relatives explain why Ziggy continues to get opportunities despite showing complete incompetence in whatever he does, and why Cheese has a leadership position despite making poor business decisions like burning Ziggy’s car instead of selling it. More nepo babies should fight for our entertainment. Imagine if Jack Quaid burned Ben Platt’s car. That would be sick as hell.
Meanwhile the police crew from the original detail continues to reassemble because this is the same show that made you wait five episodes for the titular wire. They start looking into Baltimore’s whitest drug dealers, leading Wos to introduce the term “White Mikes” to the pod.
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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. 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. |
| 1:22.7 | Hi, I'm Matt Lee, and I'm Vince Mancini. |
| 1:25.7 | And this is Pod Yourself The Wire. |
| 1:31.7 | A The Wire Podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Wire and talk about it. |
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| 1:58.7 | Can you give stars on Stitcher? I don't know, but if you can, do it. And also, feel free. This is a new thing I'm asking to do Vince. |
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| 2:26.7 | Yeah, we're trying to cultivate like really tech savvy listeners by just fucking with you guys this whole time. |
| 2:31.7 | So I know I keep asking them to switch feeds and I'm so sorry, but listen, you know, I'm learning we're learning as we're going and the idea of making a new feed for every show is killing me. |
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| 2:50.7 | Today Vince and I and a guest are going to be talking about from season two of the Wire episode five undertow and our guest today is our guest Matt. |
| 3:01.7 | Oh, I'll tell you he is an analyst NBA analyst at the ringer. He is he does podcasts. He does the young Turks. He's friends with my wife, Francesca. |
| 3:14.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, everyone else are guests today is big was Lambray. |
| 3:19.7 | What's up? What's up? What's up, fellas? Very happy to be on with your brothers today. Super excited to talk about the wire. |
| 3:26.7 | Yeah, some jokes tell a couple of dick jokes in between all there's nothing but dick jokes, especially the season. |
| 3:32.7 | It's coming. Let's see what I did there. Hey, that was good. That was sexual Vince. Yeah, good job. |
| 3:40.7 | So big was tell me, are you a fan of the wire? Do you like it? Have you seen it? |
| 3:47.7 | I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with the product that the company that I worked for the ringer puts out, but like it's almost like a prerequisite for the job that you have to be into the wire. |
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