Rewired Podcast

Craig and Brad Schlesinger celebrate 20 years of The Wire with ReWired Podcast. Special cameo from Tray Chaney, check out his tribute video now available on YouTube! Follow them on Twitter: @PSYCCorp @PsychedelicCraig

Angel Graham joins Bailey and Kelly to discuss the role of women in The Wire, as well as how Angel's advanced degree in forensic science changed her perception of the show.  Follow Angel on Twitter: @successfulangel

This week we're joined by Craig Schlesinger, superfan of The Wire. We discuss political easter eggs, the Sopranos nexus, and why this show gets better and better with repeat viewings.  Find Craig on Twitter: @psychedelicraig Visit his website: www.psychedelicspotlight.com    (And apologies for the editing everyone! Bailey is the expert and Kelly is still learning.)

What if I told you John Wick is a near-future continuation of The Wire, taking the various themes of the HBO series to their logical extremes? Kelly discusses her fan theory.    With quotes from the John Wick wiki

Bailey is back! She and Kelly discuss The Wire as a piece of Southern Gothic literature, specifically as it compares to John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."   References: What counts as the "South" in the US? Southern Gothic tropes City of Baltimore restoration project

Melvin Jackson Jr. joins Rewired Podcast to talk about his experience playing Bernard, how he delivered one of the show's iconic lines, what he's working on now, and more. Follow Melvin on social media @melvinjacksonjr or visit his website www.melvinjacksonjr.com. 

Jill Redding, known as Delores on The Wire, describes how she got cast, what her experience filming was like, her favourite character and season, and much more! 

We revisit some of the best Omar scenes in honour of Michael K. Williams. If you would like to donate to the non-profit organization that Michael K. Williams started to combat gun violence amongst kids, you can do so right here (h/t @gods_save podcast): http://makingkidswin.com/donate.html 

We analyze David Simon's "Generation Kill" miniseries in the context of The Wire. Joined by the hosts of The Gods Will Not Save You podcast, William Romano-Pugh and Jacob Van der Wilk.  Follow TGWNSY podcast on Twitter @gods_save and listen to their episodes through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts and beyond!

Eric Jones, superfan of The Wire, joins Rewired Podcast for a deep dive into S03E11 "Middle Ground." We discuss Marxism, playing games, and the incomparable Stringer Bell! Follow Eric Jones on Twitter @deacon05oc.

Rewired welcomes John Orlando of PVDCast! We discuss Bill Rawls as a company man, why he's a source of comic relief, and the mystery of Rawls in the gay bar. Follow John Orlando on Twitter @PVDMVP and vote for PVDCast in the Columbus Podcast Awards! columbuspodcastawards.com/nominations

Dan Metcalfe, artist and fan of The Wire, sits down with Kelly. Follow Dan on Instagram @thehigherups and visit his website: www.danmetcalfedesign.com

In this episode, Kelly explains how Game Theory manifests in The Wire, with a focus on Tommy Carcetti.    Works Cited: “Game theory is a theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players. In some respects, game theory is the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting.” - Investopedia   “Some literary work can correctly (and non-metaphorically) be denominated a game if a) it is a game which the reader plays, or b) it is a game which the reader views.” - The Detective Story: A Case Study of Games in Literature   Game Theory and Literature by Steven J. Brams   “All situations in which at least one agent can only act to maximize his utility through anticipating (either consciously, or just implicitly in his behavior) the responses to his actions by one or more other agents is called a game. Agents involved in games are referred to as players.” - Stanford Encyclopedia “Communication is pointless in constant-sum games because there is no possibility of mutual gain from cooperating. In variable-sum games, on the other hand, the ability to communicate, the degree of communication, and even the order in which players communicate can have a profound influence on the outcome.” - Investopedia

In this episode, Kelly chats with Jonathan Buckingham about The Wire and Moby Dick, plus all the best scenes in The Wire.    Follow us on social: @RewiredPodcast on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @AnalogSyndicate 

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey chat with Julito McCallum, who played Namond Brice in The Wire.    Watch Julito's new project, "God Bless You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCH_RfeE28   Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @IamJulito. You can find info for the watch parties on Zoom on his socials.    Follow us on Twitter at @RewiredPodcast!    Theme music by Flö Flørg.   

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of the final season of The Wire by looking at the literary themes of duplicity and the dialectic model.   Works Cited:  Theme of duplicity:“The idea of doubleness is at the core of duplicity. Duplicity comes from a Latin word meaning "double" or "twofold," and its original meaning in English has to do with a kind of deception in which you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions. If you are being duplicitous there are two yous: the one you're showing and the one you're hiding. And—key to the idea of duplicity—you're hiding that you in order to make people believe something that's not true.”  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplicitous “Apollo is representative of principle and calm reason.  Dionysus is the representative of mad inspiration, an inability to discern the boundaries between appearance and reality.  Apollo represents the state of "measured restraint," in which one remains separate from and thus mastery over the emotions; Dionysus represents a surrendering of self- where “self” is conceived of in roughly Platonic terms, as the rational ego. Thus, Dionysus is associated with drunkenness, the state in which one enters into an “inspiration,” an ecstatic unity, an identification (perhaps with a higher entity or community).”  - Source   “Nietzsche emphasizes that in real tragic art, the elements of Dionysus and Apollo were inextricably entwined.” - SparkNotes Frankenstein notes: https://the-motif-of-the-double.webnode.it/news/the-double-in-literature/ The Wild Man's Revenge: https://books.google.ca/books?id=27Av0zEmlqkC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=apollonian+vs+dionysian+frankenstein&source=bl&ots=YDlc296SDB&sig=ACfU3U3zKstizkVvG_TUNbgPj9ALDZpFBw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK8cLN2tToAhWUKM0KHetTBp0Q6AEwGHoECAgQNA#v=onepage&q=apollonian%20vs%20dionysian%20frankenstein&f=false    

  Works Cited:  https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/   https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/the-state-of-zombie-literature-an-autopsy.html   https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/31/13440402/zombie-political-history   Find us on social: @rewiredpodcast or podcast.rewired@gmail.com    Our theme music is by Flø Flørg on Soundcloud. 

Works Cited:  The False Protagonist:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_protagonist http://www.artandpopularculture.com/False_protagonist Theory of Affect: https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-105 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/affect-theory-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety   Find us on social: @rewiredpodcast or podcast.rewired@gmail.com    Our theme music is by Flø Flørg on Soundcloud.   

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly talk to Matthew from Entertainment Talk and continue the Breaking Bad vs. The Wire debate!    Follow us on social: @rewiredpodcast  @ETalkUK

Enjoy this next instalment of our Five Series as we discuss Season 3, Episode 5 "Straight and True". In this podcast, we have a special guest speaker, Al Maulding, and we discuss the themes of good vs. evil in this episode of The Wire.    Find Al on Twitter: @MrMaulding Follow us on Twitter: @RewiredPodcast Send us an email: podcast.rewired@gmail.com 

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss to concept of "palimpsest" in The Wire's Season 2, ep 5.    Works cited: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/palimpsest/  https://books.google.ca/books?id=jmxFl-fbmlwC&pg=PR14&lpg=PR14&dq=palimpsest+literary+metaphor&source=bl&ots=47u3ElyM9S&sig=ACfU3U3sNMxcIcTkfsooCJO3XFFj1cHq2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE363g9uLkAhXFo54KHVryCZY4ChDoATACegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=palimpsest%20literary%20metaphor&f=false https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544486.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199544486-e-45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity

In this special series, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of each season. In this episode, we discuss Season 1, Episode 5, "The Pager," as relating to the theme of games, play, and childhood. 

We've compared The Wire to literature and to other television shows. Now let's see how The Wire reflects or evolves conventions of theatre and drama. The Wire traces the evolution of the traditions of “Theatre of Cruelty” into “Theatre of the Absurd.” This is a useful way of thinking when we look at Season 5 as the bizarre outlier of the series. References:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd  https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/life-meaningless-theatre-absurd/ 

Works cited: Key elements of a “Dickensian” poverty: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16184487 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/04/30/ditching-dickensian/ https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/poor.html https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/charles-dickens-and-crime http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/ Key elements of a Marxist analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/crime-and-deviance/marxism-and-crime/ Marx's theory of alienation http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/ https://andrewjenkin.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/to-what-extent-is-the-wire-a-marxist-television-drama/  

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey review Foucault's theory of post-structuralism, and its relationship to discipline and punishment in The Wire.  Reference text here: https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf  

This episode was brought to us by a listener request, and we discuss how Marlo imapcts the storyline in The Wire.

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss all the women as leads in The Wire and the role they play: virgin or whore? 

In this episode, we discuss how techonology made it so that The Wire was able to exist in one certain time. 

Was Season 5 of The Wire the worst? We discuss. 

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey discuss the theory of Pascal's Wager, and ask, which characters in The Wire choose to believe in something bigger than the systems they're in? Also, it takes Bailey a few minutes to catch on!    Show resources from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager   Follow up on Twitter @rewiredpodcast or send us an email at podcast.rewired@gmail.com. 

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss the sgnificance of Bodie's headcoverings, specifically his durag and his hood.    Show source notes:   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/10/hood-by-alison-kinney-review https://www.shmoop.com/catcher-in-the-rye/holden-red-hunting-hat-symbol.html https://waywewore.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/heisenbergs-hat-breaking-bad-theories-and-history-of-the-pork-pie/ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/john-edmondss-luminous-images-of-men-in-do-rags https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbe5qp/the-hoodie-the-deadly-consequences-of-race-and-dress-456 http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/117987.html

In this episode, we discuss the parallels between fathers in The Wire to fathers in The Bible, as well as archetypes of fatherhood like The Sage, The Authority, and The Proxy.    Follow us on Twitter at @RewiredPodcast or send us an email at podcast.rewired@gmail.com.    Show notes: http://charactertherapist.blogspot.ca/2013/06/archetypes-101-sage.html   https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-jungs-4-major-archetypes-2795439   https://www.thoughtco.com/fathers-in-the-bible-701219   https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-men-bible/Eli   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_and_Esau#Reconciliation   https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/job-bible-story-summary-with-lesson/

In this episode, we talk fan theories about The Wire, including Rawls being gay, and whether Daniels is dirty. 

In this eipsode, we discuss the cultural phenomenon of Serial, and if it would have had the same impact without The Wire. 

In this episode, we discuss the significance of scenes taking place in restaurants in The Wire. 

Follow Mike Scott on Twitter at @ONE9HUNDRED. Sources for today's podcast can be found:  https://imgur.com/a/ATAYe  https://www.color-meanings.com/color-symbolism-in-literature-what-do-colors-mean-in-literature-and-poetry/  http://entertainment.time.com/2012/03/15/the-anniversary-you-cant-refuse-40-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-godfather/slide/whats-with-all-the-oranges/ http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Color  

In this episode, Kelly and Bailey discuss Roland Pryzbylewski's evolution from the Clown Archetype to the Sage. Sources for our episode today can be found at:  http://thewire.wikia.com/wiki/Roland_Pryzbylewski https://stottilien.com/2013/04/03/crazy-wisdom-the-archetype-of-the-fool-the-clown-the-jester-and-the-trickster/ http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus https://www.scribd.com/doc/180656232/The-Clown-An-Archetypal-Self-Journey

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss the goals of the podcast, as well as some of their favourite scenes. 

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly open up the debate: The Wire vs. Breaking Bad. 

In this episode, we discuss how mirroring and reflection are used as literary devices in The Wire. 

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss how the Icarus Paradox is reflected in the characters in The Wire. 

In this episode, we discuss Baltimore County vs. Baltimore City, and the liminal spaces between the two. 

In this episode, we discuss McNulty's journey as compared to the traditional literary experience. 

In this episode, we discuss Stringer, Omar, and Ziggy as Shapeshifter, Trickster, and Fool. 

In this episode, Bailey and Kelly are back to discuss the idea of New Baltimore, versus the ideals of Old Baltimore.    Follow us for more on Twitter! We're at @rewiredpodcast.