The Wire Stripped

"They used to make steel there, no?" – Spiros VondasThis episode features the voices of: Reign (Frog) on rapping with Method Man Alexa Fogel (Casting Director on The Wire) on casting Method Man Jeffrey Pratt Gordon (Johnny Fifty) on Chris Bauer's powerhouse perform Hannah and Jen (Standard Issue Podcast) on Beadie Russell Leo Fitzpatrick (Johnny Weeks) - on never having seen the Wire! Andrew Johnstone (Podcaster and Marylander) on community colleges in Baltimore Thanks to Sonix for helping transcribe all these interviews. Get your 100 free minutes of transcription with Sonix using this link https://sonix.ai/invite/strippedBurnerOur burner message this week is from Cheri her favourite character! If you want to leave us a 60 seconds or less burner message record using your favourite voice recorder app and email it to burner@theWireStripped or Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658Episode SynopsisZiggy's inability to move a package of drugs costs him his Camaro "Princess" and nearly his life as he falls foul of East side dealers Frog and Cheese. Seeing his cousin in danger, Nick attempts to parley with one of the dealers but discovers that they have torched Ziggy's car.Daniels sends Herc, Carver and Kima out for some hand-to-hands as they half-heartedly step up their investigation of the docks. Officer Russell gets information from Maui who indicates that the union computer may be useful in tracking containers. Sobotka's frustration with the Greeks begins to grow as he is once again denied a meeting with their boss, remaining defiant even when his payment for smuggling each container is tripled. Donette visits D'Angelo and tells him that he is being supported; D'Angelo remains cynical.The Barksdale family's drug trade continues to falter because of supply problems.ThankyouTheme tune by Sam and Martin from Song by Song Podcast: www.songbysongpodcast.comSeason 2 Images from Cris Sutera: www.crissutera.co.ukFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comEmail: Burner@TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance." – GreggsThis episode features the voices of: Alexa Fogel (Casting Director on The Wire) on casting Ziggy Melanie Nicholls-King (Cheryl) on the similarities between Cheryl and Kima compared to Daniels and Marla Kelli R Brown (Kimmi) on joining Omar's crew Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka) on Frank's nephew Nicky Michael Kostroff (Maury Levy) on the phrase "you people" Leo Fitzpatrick (Johnny Weeks) - on his character nearly being killed in the first 3 episodes Damond Gordon (Production Assistant on the Wire) on Avon being a smart killer Andrew Johnstone (Podcaster and Marylander) on millenials trying to buy houses in Baltimore Thanks to Sonix for helping transcribe all these interviews. Get your 100 free minutes of transcription with Sonix using this link https://sonix.ai/invite/strippedBurnerOur burner message this week is from Graham from Sydney on ignoring his friend! If you want to leave us a 60 seconds or less burner message record using your favourite voice recorder app and email it to burner@theWireStripped or Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658Episode Synopsis"D" confronts Avon about the Hot Shots and washes his hands of the business. Avon brokers a deal to give up the CO Tilghman for a reduced sentence. Valchek specifically requests Lieutenant Daniels for the Sobotka investigation. Daniels negotiates with Burrell and secures the promise of his own major crimes unit after the Sobotka investigation ends. Sobotka chastises his son and nephew about their unauthorized smuggling deal with the Greeks; he defends his own illicit deals as a means toward regenerating the ailing dockyard. Ziggy continues to enjoy his new-found wealth with a silly jacket and hat combo. McNulty takes a personal interest in the murdered women and is pressured to find Omar for Bunk and we get a sneak peak at Bubbles and Johnny Weeks.ThankyouTheme tune by Sam and Martin from Song by Song Podcast: www.songbysongpodcast.comSeason 2 Images from Cris Sutera: www.crissutera.co.ukFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comEmail: Burner@TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"What they need is a union." – RussellThis episode features the voices of: Isiah Whitlock Jr (Clay Davis) on corruption Gerard Ender (Sam) on being on The Red Carpet Kelli R Brown (Kimmi) on why she was perfect to play Kimmy Deirdre Lovejoy (Rhonda Pearlman) on disenfranchisement in the white community Al Brown (Stan Valcheck) on working with black cops Jill Redding (Delores) on the state of the industry Damond Gordon (Production Assistant on the Wire) on shooting in a prison James Dyer (Empire Magazine and Pilot TV Magazine) on McNulty Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) on Amy Ryan Andrew Johnstone (Podcaster and Marylander) on dredging the Canal Thanks to Sonix for helping transcribe all these interviews. Get your 100 free minutes of transcription with Sonix using this link https://sonix.ai/invite/strippedBurnerOur burner message this week is from Ryan on growing to love season 2! If you want to leave us a 60 seconds or less burner message record using your favourite voice recorder app and email it to burner@theWireStripped or Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658Episode SynopsisNick is getting his hair cut and is concerned over how he is to provide for his girlfriend and their daughter. He joins Ziggy and Johnny Fifty to steal containers for Spiros Vondas and The Greek that contains old school digital cameras.Avon chats with Stringer about problems with their drug supply and D'Angelo's growing distance. Frank Sobotka attempts to court political favour in order to fulfill his hopes for the regeneration of the docks. Omar Little signs up some new partners in crime. Wee-Bey asks for help from Avon to deal with an abusive prison officer who also deals drugs.ThankyouTheme tune by Sam and Martin from Song by Song Podcast: www.songbysongpodcast.comSeason 2 Images from Cris Sutera: www.crissutera.co.ukFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comEmail: Burner@TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out." – McNultyThis episode features the voices of: Gerard Ender (Sam) on his famous death in The Wire Al Brown (Stan Valcheck) on his son in law, Prez. Jeffrey Pratt Gordon (Johnny Fifty) - on trying to cheat on Irish breakfasts Antonio D Charity (Prison Offices Tilghman) - on vendettas James Dyer (Empire Magazine and Pilot TV Magazine) on human trafficking Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) on pettiness Andrew Johnstone (Podcaster and Marylander) on the can of "dead girls" Dave Pickering (Podcaster on Getting Better Acquainted and The Family Tree) on stained glass windows Thanks to Sonix for helping transcribe all these interviews. Get your 100 free minutes of transcription with Sonix using this link https://sonix.ai/invite/strippedBurnerOur burner message this week is from Ryan on growing to love season 2! If you want to leave us a 60 seconds or less burner message record using your favourite voice recorder app and email it to burner@theWireStripped or Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658Episode SynopsisOfficer Russell is assigned the murders of the thirteen women discovered in the cargo container. McNulty offers to help and again ensures that the case goes back to Rawls' homicide department. Valchek strikes a deal with Acting Commissioner Burrell—in return for supporting Burrell in his aspirations for promotion, Valchek demands Burrell set up a detail to investigate Sobotka and his union. Sobotka, angry at not being informed of the container's contents, considers cutting his ties with The Greek and demands a meeting. "Horseface" complains of sudden police pressure to Sobotka and the two come up with a plan to further embarrass Valchek. In prison, Avon Barksdale's relationship with his nephew D'Angelo begins to sour. Bodie Broadus finds that the new shipment of drugs for the Barksdale Organization is missing.ThankyouTheme tune by Sam and Martin from Song by Song Podcast: www.songbysongpodcast.comSeason 2 Images from Cris Sutera: www.crissutera.co.ukFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comEmail: Burner@TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Ain't never gonna be what it was." - Little Big RoyThis episode features the voices of: Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka) - on playing Frank and his head to head with Valcheck Al Brown (Stan Valcheck) on Valchek's son in law, Prez John Doman (Major Bill Rawls) - on conflict in the system Jill Redding (Delores) on running a bar on "The Wire" Jeffrey Pratt Gordon (Johnny Fifty) - on Frank Sobotka Damond Gordon (Production Assistant on "The Wire") on coming back for Season 2 James Dyer (Empire Magazine and Pilot TV Magazine) on the transition from season 1 to season 2 Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) on the new theme tune and Tom Waits as Frank Sobotka Joe Kiely (Dave’s co-host on Shitegeist) on this season's new catchphrase Andrew Johnstone (Podcaster and Marylander) on stained glass windows and the fate of the guys on the docks Thanks to Sonix for helping transcribe all these interviews. Get your 100 free minutes of transcription with Sonix using this link https://sonix.ai/invite/strippedBurnerOur burner message this week is from Brendan - who was liberal with the "C-bomb" and unsure about the state of his marriage! If you want to leave us a burner message use Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658Episode SynopsisMcNulty "went where he didn't want to go" aka harbor patrol with Diggsy. He discovers a corpse "floater" in the harbor and pays back Colonel Rawls by proving City Homicide are responsible for the investigation.Major Valchek is pissed off when the boss of a local stevedore union named Frank Sobotka donates a more impressive gift to a local church. Sobotka meets with other union leaders and learns that a crucial pier is still in a state of disrepair. Sobotka instructs his nephew Nick to see The Greek regarding payment for a unknown container that he is smuggling through the port.Later, Port Police Officer "Beadie" Russell stumbles across The Greek's container and discovers the bodies of over a dozen young women inside.ThankyouTheme tune by Sam and Martin from Song by Song Podcast: www.songbysongpodcast.comSeason 2 Images from Cris Sutera: www.crissutera.co.ukFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comEmail: Burner@TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Season 2 of The Wire Stripped! We're starting with a special episode that we are super happy to share with you all. It's the Live Show that we recorded with the amazing Clarke Peters!We recorded this as part of the London Podcast Festival in 2018 in front of a SELL OUT audience. Dave and Kobi chat with Clarke about The Wire helped by questions from the audience.**COMPETITION** To WIN One of the Clarke Peters Signed books "All The Pieces Matter" send a Burner Message using Whatsapp Voice Memo to +447534 831 658.Please do subscribe if you haven't already and tell your friends too!Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wire: Stripped Season 2 is here! Starting Wednesday 19th September with the full audio from our LIVE show with Clarke Peters. Then each week, we'll be watching Season 2 of The Wire, episode by episode, featuring all new exclusive interviews with Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka), Al Brown (Valchek), John Doman (Rawls), Michael Kostroff (Maurice Levy), Alexa Fogel (Casting Director) and many more.We also want you to be part of the show - we're looking for new burner messages. Let us know either what you thought of Season 2 the first time you saw it or what you thought of Ziggy the first time you met him!Leave a Whatsapp voice message on +447534 831658 NOW! Everyone who leaves a Burner Message will be entered into a prize draw to win a copy of the Book “All the Pieces Matter” as signed by Clarke Peters!Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are hard at work on Season 2, but in the meantime, we’re very excited to announce our first LIVE show, as part of the London Podcast Festival.Join Kobi, Dave, producer Tom and special guest Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon) as they talk all things ‘Cool Lester Smooth’, look back at his career, his time on the show and host a live Q&A with the audience.Tickets available now: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/the-wire-stripped-with-special-guest-clarke-peters/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features the voices of: Wendell Pierce ( Bunk) on the "Fat Finger" Lance Reddick (Daniels) Joe Kiely (Podcaster) on D'Angelo Hannah and Jen (The Standard Issue Podcast) on D'Angelo and his mother Luke Moore (Radio Stakhanov and "The Football Ramble") on the montage Jonathan Abrams (Author "All the Pieces Matter") on Kima Greggs Andrew Johnstone (Academic and Podcaster) Storyline 1: The cops start rounding up all of the guys on the streetThey pick up 12 or so people and with D’s help manage to catch Wee Bay in Philly. Wee Bay Storyline 2: The streets try to regroupThe guys are low on supply. D’angelo has flipped and has to deal with his mother.Storyline3: The cops try to take it to the FBIIt's good but doesnt go the way that they want. The feds want to go for the politicians but the detail feel that is not the direction that they wanted to go in.Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is me, yo, right here. - Wallace Tray Chaney (Poot) on killing Wallace and saying goodbye to Michael B Jordan Isiah Whitlock Jr (Senator Clay Davis) on auditioning and not knowing his character arc Lance Reddick (Daniels) on Larry Gilliard Jr Damond Gordon (Production Assistant on "The Wire") on the final scenes with Michael B Jordan Luke Moore (Radio Stakhanov and "The Football Ramble") on Wallace Jonathan Abrams (Author "All the Pieces Matter") on how the creators fought to shoot Wallace "properly" Andrew Johnstone (Academic and Marylandian) on what "Poot" really means Storyline 1: The Streets start cleaning upThe streets are reeling from the main stash being hit. “Any body who could hurt you could be put into play”. They write a list of people and start ticking them off.. including WallaceStoryline 2: The politics people get scaredPolitical candidates start handing back campaign financing as they are scared that it would lead to allegations of corruption. Storyline 3: The police are aware of the clean up They try their best to protect people once they realise that the streets are trying to clean up. They cannot protect Wallace. As the wire is down they look to bug Orlandos.Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStrippedLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices