The Wire Stripped

Dave, Kobi and their special guests recount how they first got into "The Wire" in the first place and tips for people who want to get into the show for the first time.Leave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658This episode contains the voices of: -Lance Reddick (Daniels)-Frankie Faison (Burrell)-Gabriela Jones (The Guardian Podcasts)-Jonathan Abrams (Author: All The Pieces Matter, The True Story of The Wire)-Joe Kiely (Shitegiest Podcast)-Andrew Johnstone (Maryland Native and Academic)-Iszi Lawrence (BBC Radio 4 Host, Podcaster and Comedian)Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStripped See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The excellent Sam Pay and Martin Austwick from the sublime "Song by Song" Podcast (follow them on twitter @SongBySongPod ‏) recorded the sweet version of "Way Down in the Hole" that plays on every episode of "The Wire: Stripped".We sat with Martin and Sam to talk about all of the versions of "Way Down in the Hole" across all the seasons of "The Wire" and then discuss their arrangement.We all love Song By Song Podcast and if you have enjoyed this episode please take a moment to follow them and listen to their award winning show!Follow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStripped See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Spoilers for all 5 seasons of The Wire - proceed with caution**We were lucky enough to speak with Wendell Pierce aka "The Bunk" about his time before, during and after The Wire. We chat about how he first got the part of Bunk Moreland, his favourite scenes and season and what he initially thought of the show after watching the first episodes!Wendell talks candidly about his relationship with Dominic West and how they bounced off each other from the start through to, his regrets and the moment that he nearly quit the show.You can follow Wendell Pierce on Twitter (Tell him we sent you!)@WendellPierceFollow Us OnlineWebsite: www.TheWireStripped.comTwitter: @TheWireStrippedFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheWireStrippedInstagram: @TheWireStripped See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The king stay the king." - D'AngeloLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658This episode contains the voices of: -Lance Reddick (Daniels)-Frankie Faison (Burrell)-Jonathan Abrams (Author: All The Pieces Matter, The True Story of The Wire)-Joe Kiely (Shitegiest Podcast)-Andrew Johnstone (Maryland Native and Academic)-Iszi Lawrence (BBC Radio 4 Host, Podcaster and Comedian)Storyline 1: A Picture of BarksdaleMcNulty asks Polk and Mahone to get off their fat arses and do something. Go down to the City Housing Department and get a picture of Barksdale. They bring back a picture of a middle-aged white guy. “Maybe he’s white” Kima says, and she and McNulty laugh.She lists off what they have on Barksdale - just a DOB and that he’s clean and once made “Golden Gloves”. Freeman’s ears pick up at this, and he starts digging around. Then does that total badass thing with the poster.Storyline 2: Daniels and the PoliticsDaniels attends a meeting with the Commissioner following the fallout from Prez being an idiot. We first meet Valchek - his father-in-law, a complete slime. The Deputy Commissioner describes him as “a necessary evil”Daniels decides to play ball, reluctantly.Storyline 3: The BustDaniels is forced into doing a bust on the low-rises, despite McNulty’s protests. They find absolutely nothing, because the stash-house has been moved. Mahone gets punched by Bodie and Herc, Carver and Kima go to town on him. Storyline 4: Omar Comin’We see Omar and his crew scoping out the joint. They then raid the low-rises during the re-up, and D’Angelo is chewed out by Weebay for being out getting sandwiches when it happened. 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

"You cannot lose if you do not play." - Marla DanielsLeave a Whatsapp voice memo on our burner phone 📞 +447534 831 658This episode contains the voices of: -Wendell Pierce (William "The Bunk" Moreland)-Gabriela Jones (The Guardian)-Iszi Lawrence (BBC Radio 4 Host, Podcaster and Comedian)Storyline 1: The CopsThe team arrive at their new offices - the ringing phone. “It’s for McNulty” We meet Prez - who discharges a firearm into a wall.Kima, Herc and Carver start collating intel with Bubbles and a red hat.McNulty and Bunk pursue the witness’ murder case and put the heat on D’Angelo.The witness’ murder hits the front page - we don’t know who told the journalists, but the judge is quoted.Storyline 2: The DealersD’Angelo gets picked up by McNulty and Bunk and cracks in the interrogation room. We see his softer side. Later, we meet his girlfriend and child, and he gets a gentle talking-to from good ol’ uncle Avon. Storyline 3: Herc, Carver and PrezThese three stupendous idiots get drunk and decide to go to the towers and cause shit. They humiliate some people, Prez pistol-whips a 14-year-old who later goes blind, they get shot at and their car gets burned out. 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

"...when it's not your turn" - McNultyKobi and Dave go back to the pits to rewatch Season 1, Episode 1 of HBO’s The Wire. This episode contains the voices of: -Frankie Faison (Deputy Commissioner Burrell)-Lance Reddick (Lieutenant Daniels)-Wendell Pierce (William "The Bunk" Moreland)-Andrew Johnstone (Academic and Author)-Gabriella Jones (The Guardian)Setting the Scene - (This episode only)David Simon likes to say that the first scene of each season of "The Wire" encapsulates the themes of that season. In the case of Detective Jimmy McNulty investigating the murder of one Omar Isiah Betts, known to friends and family as Snot Boogie, Simon gets to explain what the entire series will be about......The America of "The Wire" is broken, in a fundamental, probably irreparable way. It is an interconnected network of ossified institutions, all of them so committed to perpetuating their own business-as-usual approach, that they keep letting their own equivalents of Snot Boogie into the game, simply because that's how it's always been done. It doesn't matter that it makes no sense. Only a rugged individualist/cocky narcissist like McNulty would even think to suggest that things could and should be run differently.The StreetsAs writer David Simon puts it, “those who are excluded from the legitimate economy make their own world.” This is truly another world. We see young kids out on the stoop unsupervised, just watching the police work as if nothing’s wrong. As if there’s not a bloody body out in the street.The PoliceThese people generally aren’t familiar with the streets. Even when they are, their understanding is juvenile at best. Still, they are forced to interact with this different world, which means they often depend on those who live there. This relationship is examined in-depth throughout this season.The GameThis is what unites the two different worlds. The “game” has many levels, and while it may differ on some levels, the rules are always the same: there are winners and there and losers, and you play the game whether you like it or not.Storyline 1: McNultyMcNulty “snitches” to Judge Phelan, sets a series of events in motion that brings the team together and pisses off a million people in the process. He massively pisses off his boss, Rawles, who wants nothing to do with this case. Daniels in vice gets roped in to put a detail together, pulling in Kima, Herc, Carver and McNulty.Storyline 2: D’Angelo“D” Gets Out, we see Stringer Bell corrupting the trial and the witness. D’Angelo is driven to the Orlando Club - his uncle’s strip joint - by Weebay. We briefly meet Barksdale, and D’Angelo comes across as quite naive. He gets demoted to the low-rises from the towers, and meets his crew, acting the boss. Finally, he sees that the witness “Gant” from his trial has been shot dead. Storyline3: BubblesWe meet Bubbles, who is running a counterfeit money scam with Johnny Weeks - who is “green” and how Bubbles is trying to get “brown”. Johnny gets beat down, and Bubbles becomes a snitch.Discussion Points?- Who are the cops?- Do you understand anything of what is going on here?- Things you missed on first viewingKey Characters- McNulty- D’Angelo Barksdale- BubblesTriviaSergeant Jay Landsman is the name of a real life cop. The real Jay Landsman does come into series later.Both the Snot Boogie murder story and Bunk's tale of shooting a mouse in his kitchen are anecdotes from Simon's time researching his non-fiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991).Simon deliberately used surveillance cameras throughout the show to add to the sense of always being watchedSimon makes the point that the detectives are motivated not by a desire to protect and serve but by the intellectual vanity of believing they are smarter than the criminals they are chasing.The flashback at the end of the episode - David Simon says that HBO urge... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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