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Sep 10, 2026
Travis RoyHOST
But then there's also a lot of complexity with the individual scenes.
Travis RoyHOST
So that's great writing from David Simon and Ed Burns and the rest of the team.
Travis RoyHOST
They're like, there's so much just little stuff where they can find just a way to like, kind of like Sopranos to just plug in this, this moment.
Travis RoyHOST
It's just like, Oh God, that's so fucking life that twist the knife and it makes it for great viewing.
Travis RoyHOST
So if you haven't rewatched the wire in a long time, God damn, that show is still really, really great.
Eric BrandstromHOST
The more I've dug into it, the more I've learned that really Ed Burns is the soul of that project.
Eric BrandstromHOST
David Simon gets a lot of credit, which he should, but really Ed Burns really brought a lot of the things to the show that you, if you start poking around about it, you're like, oh.
Eric BrandstromHOST
His experiences.
Kevin KetchamHOST
But in all honesty, like, the thing is this.
Kevin KetchamHOST
It's like, the manga... wants to be a lot more like the David Simon series, The Wire.
Kevin KetchamHOST
Have you watched The Wire? Some of the best writing.
Kevin KetchamHOST
Oh, of course.
DKHOST
like, like law and order is like the police and the courts, but this is like the government, the police, the detectives, there's like different factions within the police and the criminals themselves, you know, all a part of this collective, you know, season to season.
Kevin KetchamHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Kevin KetchamHOST
And I think in a lot of ways, when I watch Ghost in the Shell, I'm like, okay, it really wants to be like a David Simon show like The Wire.
Kevin KetchamHOST
You know, like it really, really wants to get that... get that edge.
Jon BernthalGUEST
I try to not concern myself with – you know, things like that that I can't control at all.
Jon BernthalGUEST
It's a huge honor to work for David Simon, George Pelicanos, an enormous honor to be sort of included in that Baltimore-based crew that made The Wire.
Jon BernthalGUEST
It's a family there.
Jon BernthalGUEST
Baltimore is an unbelievably beautiful and brutal city, and it's sort of at the tip of the spear of so many issues that are deeply, deeply important to me and that I've had a lot of real-life experience with, and that's issues of race, issues of policing, police corruption, police brutality.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
It's hard to believe the Tiny Canon doesn't have an entry yet from The Wire.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
Perhaps because David Simon and HBO's brilliant account of broken systems in Bodymore Murderland would tend to lend itself more to full episode canon treatments.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
But in any event, I have a whole list of Tiny Canon possibilities from the show.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
Where better to start whittling that down than an entry into the tiny cannon's whistling wing from the legendary Omar Little.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
But it is like, it's the type of career that we don't really seem to be able to support in America.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
I mean, maybe David Simon and Pelecanos were the closest, in that they're like, "We do what we do, and we do it for HBO wh- when we're ready to do it."
Chris RyanHOST
Yeah.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
But hi- his curiosity is, um...
Bobby SheehanHOST
Yeah.
IlyaHOST
Which is, uh, that's where it starts, 'cause, like, David Simon, like, was a journalist.
Bobby SheehanHOST
Mm-hmm.
IlyaHOST
So that's where it gets a little bit, like, self, not self-serving, but, uh, you know.
Bobby SheehanHOST
The, the pr- I guess, do you wanna call it the protagonist of the journalists?
IlyaHOST
Yeah.
Bobby SheehanHOST
Everyone's like, "That, that is David Simon writing his own character-"
IlyaHOST
Yeah
Skyler HanrathHOST
If it was like, that'd be a funny way to like, just reveal that you've created something so important.
Skyler HanrathHOST
Like, do you think like ever, like, like David Simon is like, you know, on the wire, we just would just like casually about like, I made this
Alice WetterlundHOST
show one time called the wire and, um, It would be funny too, I think, if this was a podcast called Star Trek.
Skyler HanrathHOST
That'd be good.
Zach SpeddenHOST
And that's the target.
Zach SpeddenHOST
And one thing I've noticed in David Simon's shows over the years, I think this is especially true for The Wire and Show Me a Hero, a show that he did on HBO years after the fact, that was excellent.
Zach SpeddenHOST
He's not really going to scene set things for you.
Zach SpeddenHOST
You have to kind of catch up on your own with the characters.
GraysonHOST
to to make the point but then they wrap it up with like like yeah this is this is our argument right this is how we've treated the subject this is our treatment of the subject and yeah we leave it kind of in an ambivalent place and you're not gonna like
The ChiefHOST
It was what happened, but it was it was David Simon being mad, like living out some trauma from his journalism time.
The ChiefHOST
And I think it was also the reason people don't like season five of The Wire is that if there is any character in the show that like approaches a protagonist.
The ChiefHOST
It is probably it's McNulty and it's McNulty.
Jesse DukesHOST
I mean, I do feel like he felt like he had kind of cracked this entire social system.
Jesse DukesHOST
It's kind of like David Simon in The Wire really wanted us to understand how, you know, City Hall connected to the drug dealers, connected to the... journalists connected to the police connected to homelessness connected to the docs and of course you know in the wire you get six seasons uh which is probably like six novels um and um but yeah i think i mean i think we have a kind of diagnosis based on that hypothetical conversation
Chris BaggHOST
That was a blast.
Chris BaggHOST
Thank you.
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