[Pod Yourself The Wire] 204: Hard Cases, with Shereen Lani Younes

“I’m bummed that my episode didn’t feature more Omar.” -Shereen Lani YounesThe band continues to get back together and Matt & Vince welcome writer, filmmaker, co-host of the Ethnically Ambiguous podcast, and fellow Idris Elba appreciator, Shereen Lani Younes breakdown The Wire season two episode four, “Hard Cases.” This episode is sort of like that scene in T2, after they shatter the T-1000 and all the blobs start wiggling back together, but instead of little liquid metal orbs globbing into one big orb, it’s Jimmy blackmailing Bubbles to get a line on Omar, Herc and Prezbo reuniting out in an offsite, and Kima & Daniels telling their wives they’re going back to a detail. In a show of unified anger, the wives light angry dinner candles. Jimmy is doing his darndest to try to convince his wife he’s worth sticking with, playing the part of a good little Irish boy who will sign any custody agreement she wants. As Shereen points out, the little scamp thinks he’s playing his wife, when really she’s playing him. He managed to piss off everyone from season one so bad that no one wants him in their band or their liquid metal blob. His options are to quit or drown, and Irish men like him will literally drown before they quit or go to therapy. On the docks, Ziggy invents the unsolicited dick pic, and, in the HBO crossover event of the century, buys the same leather jacket Richie Aprille tried to give to Tony Soprano.If you have any shoplifting tips, leave them in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.Subscribe to Pod Yourself A Gun on Apple Podcasts.Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a corner nickname on the podcast like this week’s newest members: The Yoat, Die Hard, Quadruple U, Too Huang Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar.-Description by Brent FlybergAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy