[The Wire] 312: Mission Accomplished, with Jack O'Brien of The Daily Zeitgeist

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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“If they had just run Carcetti, we wouldn’t be in this mess, as a country.” - Jack O’Brien

For the season finale, Matt and Vince invite host of The Daily Zeitgeist and Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties podcasts, Jack O’Brien, to talk about season three episode 12 of The Wire, “Mission Accomplished”

Jimmy sad. He never got to gloat to Stringer about catching Stringer on THE WIRE. You would think the show called The Wire would prominently feature said wire, but even when the wire finally pays off, it doesn’t matter because some guys with a big gun and a small gun were all like KA-CHOW and BLAT BLAT BLAT. It’s probably some kind of Iraq war metaphor. This show loves that shit.

There’s a much more obvious Iraq war metaphor later when Slim Charles insists that Avon has to fight a war with Marlo even if it’s based on a lie because you can’t just stop being at war. Slim Charles is Cheney? Avon is Bush? That would make Stringer… the Twin Towers? Heroin is definitely oil. You know what? You do the metaphor math if you want. The season’s over. It’s basically summer vacation for me. I’m done with math, metaphors, art, Rock & Roll McDonaldses, and Baltimore accents for a while. See you next season, you filthy little sucklings.

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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.
1:42.7	Thank you so much once again for listening to the world's only the wire podcast, the wire show about how sometimes you police, you know, work really hard and then I didn't come up with one in time.
1:59.7	Fuck, fuck, fuck. It's only the season finale.
2:02.7	Fuck, I did everything else though. God, did I work hard for this one? And then I saw that and I forgot the wire a show about police sometimes.
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2:25.7	People have been leaving all sorts of nice comments, mostly about don't believe you.
2:30.7	Okay. Well, it's some of them are nice. Some of them are this continuing joke where they say I only talk about children's feet on this podcast.
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2:51.7	And that's I mean, that's got to stop right?
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3:13.7	And so it's like you can't even jokingly do it. You you have to put emojis put an emoji in between each one.
3:21.7	Yeah, a winky big winky face. But you know, it's still I appreciate the review.
3:26.7	And if you have to do it, yeah, there we go. That's what they just just just do it. I don't care.
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3:38.7	Who's our guest today?
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