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Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

[The Wire] 406: Margin of Error, with Whack Nicholson

Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

He is like a white Obama, but I don’t mean that as a compliment.” -Whack Nicholson


On this week’s episode, Matt and Vince welcome former public school teacher, podcaster and co-host of the Western Kabuki podcast, Whack Nicholson. To talk about season four episode six of The Wire, “Margin of Error.”


It’s election day in Baltimore, and you know what that means, right? There’s a sale on heroin! Two for one special on redtops. Stock up while you can. Also Carcetti wins the Democratic primary, which essentially hands him the Mayor's office, and it makes him not want to be a fucky guy when his wife isn’t around. He better figure it out, as Herc saw a few episodes ago, Royce’s hog is a big one to fill.


Listen as Whack first learns that some dweeby teacher named Mr. Prezbo used to be a badass Punisher-ass motherfucker who blinded kids and killed cops, then confirms that school administrators are just like cops and only care about their damn clearances.


Tell us your least favorite school admin in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0

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

0:17.8

Thank you so much for joining us for another wonderful episode of the world's only the wire podcast, the wire, a show about the West Wing.

0:28.0

Um, you know, but the West Wing of West Baltimore, I think that's the West Wing, but you know, yeah, there's also a East Wing that prop Joe runs, but the West Wing, that's Marlos place.

0:39.5

Um, anyways, today, uh, we're going to be talking about from season four of the wire, episode six, margin of error, and, uh, we have a fantastic guest today.

0:52.3

We have had on one of his co-hosts before, and today we're having him on from Western Kabuki, it is co-host, whack, Nicholson.

1:04.3

Woo! It's so exciting to be here. I could not be more thrilled to discuss this TV show that I honestly have a deep level of knowledge and expertise in.

1:14.3

Yup. You love it. When, when we were talking online, I said, hey, you ever seen the wire and you were like, I'd love to be on the podcast.

1:22.3

Yeah, answer the question.

1:26.3

Uh, so whack, you, um, you are someone who loves the TV show, the sopranos, is that right?

1:36.3

Yeah, yeah. And so I, I am lucky, lucky for you, one of the guests you don't have to explain the current title of the show to, uh, because I listened to the other iteration of the show where you guys talked about the sopranos.

1:49.3

And, and when I found, uh, so engaging about that is that you didn't really talk about the sopranos, uh, for most of the show.

1:56.3

That's right. That was pretty cool. Yeah, that's actually the draw for it.

2:01.3

Yeah, you know, when you listen to a show about the sopranos, you don't want to hear them talk about the sopranos the whole time, right? Like it would be weird or even really at all.

2:10.3

Yeah, or at all sometimes I want to talk about me. So yeah, first of all, that's why you watch, it's like if you were to watch the show, the sopranos, what if they spent the whole show being like, this is a show about the sopranos.

2:24.3

You'd be like, that's boring. No, I am doing mafia stuff by so much love to do the mafia being soprano, you know, this thing of ours.

2:33.3

This is my daughter. She's singing soprano in the band, you know, I'm just saying that it's like no one wants to listen to a podcast about a TV show period.

2:47.3

And so if for those who do we like to offer this show, I don't know what I'm saying point is I'm so glad that you listen to that show and I'm glad to have you on here because here's the thing.

2:58.3

I don't think that everyone needs to have seen the TV show in order to hang out with a couple of bros and talk about stuff. Is that right?

3:08.3

Yeah, I certainly hope so because I did watch season four episode six in anticipation for this.

3:15.3

And I got to say I didn't feel very invested in pretty much anything that was happening because I didn't know who any of those people were.

3:22.3

Oh, yeah, I did affect my enjoyment, I would say.

3:25.3

Oh, yeah, so I usually find that, you know, going, you know, headfirst into the middle of a show.

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