• [The Wire] 507: Took, with Brendan Sexton III

    “This episode should have been called ‘Spite.’” - Brendan Sexton III


    For the first time in the history of this pod, we have a guest who auditioned for a role on The Wire. In 2007 he nearly played Frog (one of the many people who rip Ziggy off), but this week actor Brendan Sexton III joins Matt and Vince to talk about season five episode seven, “Took.”


    As our guest points out, this episode, like many, could have been called “Spite.” It’s what’s motivating the actions of our two favorite Baltimore murder poe-lees. Jimmy, out of spite for the bosses, and the whole damn system, is using his fake serial killer to single-handedly ensure funding for any cop who needs it and knows where to find him. In the process, he learns that you either die the cool philandering drunk detective, or live long enough to become one of the bosses. 


    Bunk, meanwhile, is pounding the pavement, chasing old leads, and generally doing a lot of shoe-leather detective work – likely the best work he’s done in years, just out of spite for Jimmy and his outright fraudulent behavior. The police can not be reformed or re-trained. Instead, to fix America’s policing problem, we need to have a handful of cops who are so off the rails that their peers have no choice but to actually do their jobs out of spite for their own co-workers. 


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    1h 33m | Mar 21, 2024
  • [UNLOCKED] Frotcast 581 - When It Rains, You Guys

    Hey Matt Lieb here,

    Sorry about there being no frotcast episode last week and also preemptively sorry about Pod Yourself The Wire being late because we weren't able to record last week. We explain why at the end of the episode, and big ole trigger warning for that. But also, we talk about a lot of funny stuff too. Love you guys!



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    1h 41m | Mar 20, 2024
  • [The Wire] 506: The Dickensian Aspect, with Nora Barrows-Friedman of Electronic Intifada

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    “Maybe it’s a badge of honor that I don’t have a badge of honor.” -Nora Barrows-Friedman


    Matt and Vince welcome Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada and Pod Yourself a Gun listener Nora Barrows-Friedman to talk about season five episode six of The Wire, “The Dickensian Aspect.”


    If David Simon used the same episode naming conventions as Friends, this episode would be titled “The One Where Jimmy Kidnaps an Unhoused Guy.” His fake serial isn’t going to strike fear into the hearts of Baltimore without a little collateral damage. 


    A hobbled Omar is in the streets calling Marlo a bitch, but no one will tell Marlo what he’s saying because they’re afraid it will hurt his feelings or something? Speaking of hurting feelings, Nicky Sobotka is back and sorry to Pablo Schrieber, but no one on the pod finds his yelling at Krawczyck believable. 


    Tell us the most Dickensian aspect of life on the streets in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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    1h 35m | Mar 14, 2024
  • [The Wire] 505: React Quotes, with Ashley Ray

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    “If you thought dookie was gonna make it…” -Ashley Ray


    Another week, another returning guest, and another big lie from Scott Templeton. This week on the pod, comedian, and host of the TV, I Say podcast, Ashley Ray talks to Matt & Vince about The Wire season five episode five, “React Quotes.”


    If you like to see the smirk of a drunk Irish rascal with a naughty little secret, this is the episode for you. Jimmy learns he’s getting help fabricating a serial killer from slimy little newsboy Scott and can barely contain his glee. By the look on his face, you’d think McNutty just found out monogamy is illegal. 


    Vince shares a fascinating backstory about Omar’s Superman-like flight from a sixth floor balcony – it might seem crazy that he would survive such a fall, but reportedly the character Omar was based on jumped from an even higher height and survived. So the next time you have to clean out the gutters, don’t be a weenie. If you fall you’ll probably be fine. You might have to hobble around with a shotgun as a cane, but you’ll live.


    Tell us what you think The Joker would find funny in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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    1h 27m | Mar 7, 2024
  • [The Wire] 504: Transitions, with Katrina Davis

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    “Everyone get your prostates checked, and then, look out for Marlo.” -Katrina Davis


    One-time Pod Yourself A Gunner, and now two-time Pod Yourself The Wirer, fan favorite, and comedian Katrina Davis returns to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season five episode four, “Transitions.”


    We say goodbye to another character this week, so if you haven’t seen the episode, stop reading this (also, why are you reading this?). A proposition for you: wish that Proposition Joe may rip in peace. His stinky nephew Cheese sold him out in exchange for one Hungry Joe. His own family just for a guy who pees sitting down. Smdh. 


    The episode of course features detailed intellectual analysis of Cheese’s treachery, Scott’s weaselly-ass-little-bitchness, Jimmy’s invented serial killer, and more, but there is also a spirited debate about peeing standing up vs. peeing sitting down. On this podcast we want you to eat your vegetables, but also you get a little piss as a treat. 


    Sitting or standing? Tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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    1h 34m | Feb 29, 2024
  • [TEASER] Maury Clips And More

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    2m | Feb 28, 2024
  • [UNLOCKED] Frotcast 576: Tracy Keith's I Love This Fast Car & Grill, with Alison Stevenson

    Alison Stevenson, comedian and Thick Strip impresario (comediENNE and impresARIA??) joins the podcast this week to talk about Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" being suddenly cool again, and we mourn the death of Toby Keith, and along with him the George W Bush era, which was maybe an even crappier era than the current one. Holy crap, I just realized George W. Bush was president when I started blogging, I'm circling the freakin' drain over here. We also discuss Peter Thiel financing the "Enhanced Olympics," an Olympics for steroid users which compares PED users to historically oppressed classes. It's a great show! 



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    1h 12m | Feb 22, 2024
  • [The Wire] 503: Not for Attribution, with Dave Weigel

    “It feels like watching one of those movies where World War I is over a everyone says, ‘Well let’s not do that again.‘” -Dave Weigel


    Much like a totalitarian regime, we are rounding up all the journalists. This week, returning guest and politics reporter for SemaforDave Weigel, joins Matt & Vince to discuss The Wire season five episode three, “Not For Attribution”


    Lester is on board with Jimmy’s fake serial killer and pitches a salacious pervert angle to get more attention, as long as he can get resources to take down Marlo. One of the knocks on season five is that after developing into a more honest character, Jimmy is backsliding in a way that doesn’t make sense, but go watch the scene in this episode where He’s having sex on the hood of a car and ask yourself, is that not the Jimmy we know and love?


    Meanwhile at The Balmer Sun, Alma does the hard work to write a good story, only to see it bumped off the front page, while season five’s other little lying weasel, Scott Templeton collects attaboys for an invented react quote. Let that be a lesson to you. Never work hard. Lie to your bosses. Hump on car hoods. Neither you, nor these characters, will ever face consequences (I assume – haven’t finished the show yet).


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    1h 41m | Feb 15, 2024
  • [The Wire] 502: Unconfirmed Reports, with journalist Daniel Marans

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    “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood at the loading dock of my big local journalism outlet at a mid-size post-industrial city” -Daniel Marans


    Extra! Extra! Read all about it! This week on the pod we have another journalist on the pod! Huffington Post Senior Politics reporter Daniel Marans joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season five, episode two, “Unconfirmed Reports.” 


    Jimmy and Scott are making stuff up and getting rewarded for it. Maybe we should just lie on the podcast more. Hey, if you sign up for the Patreon, not only will you get a street name, but so far everyone who has signed up for the Patreon also got a text from their crush within the next week. No bs. I know I just said we were going to start lying but that’s true.


    A recurring theme on this pod is liking when the guys are friends, and this episode it’s Marlo and Avon who are warming heart cackles by bonding over their hatred of East Baltimore’s drug game players. The game is the game, but more importantly, the guys who are from the same place are friends.


    Are you an Incubus person or a Sublime person? Tell us in a five-star review on  Apple Podcasts

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    1h 41m | Feb 8, 2024
  • [The Wire] 501: More With Less, with Mike Isaac of the New York Times

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    “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 PumpedMike 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. 


    Tell us why The Hobbit f*cks in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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    1h 42m | Feb 1, 2024
  • [UNLOCKED] Frotcast 575 - A Very Special Episode of the Frotcast also Saltburn, with Frotcast Brendan

    Future Hall of Famer Brendan is back on the pod with a very very special episode where we get very real. Truly a must listen. 



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    1h 45m | Jan 31, 2024
  • [BONUS] Bawlmer B Stories Season 4 - Music From Pod Yourself The Wire

    Hey everyone, here's all the songs from season 4 of Pod Yourself The Wire!

    Also, 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!!



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    52m | Jan 25, 2024
  • [ANNOUNCEMENT + BAD HASBARA] BH 6 - The Irony Dome with Daniel Maté

    Daniel Maté is back with his long lost sibling Matt Lieb to talk about zionist comedians and musical theater being used for evil.

    Visit Daniel's website here and check out his mental chiropractic service!



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    1h 18m | Jan 18, 2024
  • [TEASER] Good Hang Actors

    Here's a clip from this week's IN PERSON frotcast. You can listen to the full episode on Patreon. Subscribe now.



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    4m | Jan 11, 2024
  • Bad Hasbara 4: Daniel Maté

    HEY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEW PODCAST! IT'S VERY GOOD! The homie Daniel Maté is in studio with Matt Lieb and they vibe.



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    1h 34m | Jan 6, 2024
  • [TEASER] Katt Williams's Getaway Power Wheels

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    4m | Jan 5, 2024
  • [TEASER] Obama's List

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    3m | Jan 4, 2024
  • Bad Hasbara 2: Reverse Gallows Humor with Shereen Younes

    This week podcaster Shereen Lani Younes of Ethnically Ambiguous joins Bad Hasbara to talk about Israel and whatnot.



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    1h 7m | Dec 24, 2023
  • [TEASER] NY Mayor Eric Adams describes 2023

    Here's a teaser of this week's Frotcast, and you can listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon.



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    4m | Dec 22, 2023
  • [The Wire] 413: Final Grades, with Murder Bryan

    “It is okay to be several types of guy, the problem is when you’re one type of guy.” -Murder Bryan Quinby


    As another season of Pod Yourself The Wire comes to a close, Matt & Vince welcome the host of the Guys podcast, Murder Bryan Quinby, to talk about The Wire’s season four finale, “Final Grades.”


    We’ve got some final grades of our own to hand out. Vince’s synopsis of the episode gets a A+ for accuracy and brevity: The cops have all learned to care but the system makes it so it doesn’t matter.


    Herc and Carver get Fs for fucking up Randy’s life. Bodie gets an A for being friends with McNulty (we like when they friends) and for standing tall. He also gets two bullets in the head for those very same reasons, which brings us to Michael, who gets a B. His gunmanship is undeniable but points were docked for killing one of the friends (we like when they friends but how can be friend when dead?). Namond gets a B. It stands for bitch. He’s a lil bitch, but he should listen to Vince Staple’s advice and learn to be okay with that.


    The season gets a B+, and if you have to ask why, are you even listening to the pod? The listeners all get an A-. Why the minus? Not enough five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts

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    1h 52m | Dec 21, 2023
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