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