[The Wire] 501: More With Less, with Mike Isaac of the New York Times

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Come see Matt Lieb and his wife Francesca Fiorentini co-headline the Punch Line Sacramento in Sacramento, CA on March 17th, 7pm. BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!

“We have guns and oil – don’t even trip.” -Mike Isaac

Kicking off the final season of Pod Yourself The Wire, Matt & Vince welcome a returning Pod Yourself favorite, tech reporter for the NYT, and author of Super Pumped, Mike Isaac to discuss the premiere of season five of The Wire, “More With Less.”

A fitting guest for The Wire’s press-focused season, Mike is here to tell us the news hole is still shrinking, and our new friends at the Baltimore Sun have no idea how good they had it. Buyouts? People were getting paid to stop being reporters? Sounds sick.

As the title of the episode suggests, Baltimore’s paper of record is not the only crumbling vestige of the city’s civil services. The cops are waiting on backpay that may never arrive and literally fighting mad about it. The original Slippin’ Jimmy (McNulty) is back to his boozing, whoring ways and thank god. Sweet Beadie might not deserve all the bullsh*t new old Jimmy is shoveling her way, but as the audience, we’re loving it. Drunk bastard McNulty is the closest this show gets to a face melting guitar solo and Jimmy is already shredding. Can’t wait to see how noodly this guy can get.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Matt Leib here with an annoying mid-roll ad that I'm going to be playing until March 17th.
0:07.0	Why March 17th, you ask? Well, because I'm going to be co-headlining the Sacramento Punch Line on Sunday March 17th at 7 p.m.
0:15.8	with my wife Francesca Fiorentini.
0:18.3	I would love it if you all bought your
0:22.8	help us sell out when we co-headlined the San Francisco punch line and now I'm asking
0:30.1	for you to do it again.
0:32.5	That's right, if you're in the Sacramento area
0:34.9	or somewhere nearby, come to the Sacramento punchline.
0:39.8	Sunday, March 17th, 7 PM.
0:42.4	It's gonna be so much fun. I'm going to be there.
0:44.7	Francesca's going to be there. Someone else is going to open for us. I'll know who. But someone
0:50.2	probably pretty funny. You're going to have a great time and you can get your
0:53.2	tickets right now by either clicking the link that's in the show notes or going to
0:58.8	punchline sack.com and buying your tickets do it and if you can't go hey maybe you have friends who are in the area and you know you can tell them like hey you like comedy
1:10.8	Come see this guy who does a podcast and his wife who also does a
1:14.4	podcast. It'll be great. So yes, please come Sacramento Punchline March
1:19.0	17th. That's a Sunday at 7 p.m. Come enjoy laugh love all right. Bye
1:29.5	Hi. I'm Matt Lee and I'm Vince Mancini and this is pod yourself the wire a the wire
1:39.1	a the wire podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Wire and talk about it.
1:48.0	Thank you so much once again for listening to The World's Only The Wire Podcast, the Wire, a show about hating your boss and a show about how that media industry
2:00.0	poof sure is falling apart.
2:03.0	Yeah.
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