42: The Wire, R.I.P.

We're making Benny, who once again is "manning the knobs" here, truly suffer for implementing the split podcast. You may remember this was to cut down on The Podfather's workload -- wait, "work" load -- and edit our unwieldy (but oh so user-friendly if not actually educational) podcast from 45 minutes into two 'casts of roughly 22 minutes. Yeah, that was the idea. A kind of Tuesday/Thursday double-dip. Well, we only do what we're told, until we don't, so this week we are offering up two 35 minute podcasts. A couple more weeks of this and Benny, now as overworked as one of Ken Burns editors, will give in from exhaustion. Lots of e-mails, lots of calls this week. To join the "fun," you can call our toll-free international hotline, and risk not having your questions answered, or mocked. On the other hand, you never know when the world's angriest Regis impression will pop up (thanks in advance to Joe Garofoli, our Question Boy), or even Daniel Plainview. Enjoy.