{"id":812,"date":"2020-11-16T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=812"},"modified":"2020-11-16T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:20:17","slug":"crimetown-ep-2-the-wiseguys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2020\/11\/16\/crimetown-ep-2-the-wiseguys\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimetown Ep. 2 – The Wiseguys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The podcast Crimetown<\/em> creates a consistent identity despite covering and following tangential stories through repeated stylistic decisions. Starting with the soundtrack, the podcast employs stylistically similar and even the same songs across different episodes. Crimetown<\/em> features a theme song called \u201cRun to Your Mama\u201d by Goat. It\u2019s a bit difficult to articulate through text, but the song has an atmosphere that reminds me of the intro to an 80\u2019s crime movie. In addition to this main theme, it has several other minor tracks for both background music and transitions that set the mood for the next scene. This ranges from somber, to energetic, to even a little bit mysterious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two hosts often play off of each other and the interviewed, finishing each other\u2019s sentences and providing context for what the primary sources are saying. One might play the role of a more \u201comniscient\u201d narrator while the other is the one actually asking the interview questions. Zac says at one point \u201cIt starts all the way back when Bobby was a little kid growing up in Oakland Beach, a seedy shore town just south of Providence.\u201d to which Marc, the other host follows up with \u201cWhat was your first memory of your dad?\u201d targeted towards the person they are interviewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The structure of the interviews in the podcast also features a common pattern, with usually the interviewed giving a remarkable, shocking, or intriguing response and then being properly introduced by the hosts. For instance, in the intro the host Zac says, \u201cMorning\u201d and \u201cHow you doing?\u201d which is curtly responded to by Bobby, a former Wiseguy <\/em>with just \u201cterrible.\u201d Then Zac goes on to introduce Bobby and explain why his day was considered terrible. In the introduction of the people being interviewed, the hosts often give a quick physical description that helps the listener form their own image about the person and the scene in general. For instance with Bobby he describes him as being \u201cbuilt like a pit bull: short, wide, and muscular.\u201d The hosts do this for the other people being interviewed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrative structure of the podcast usually follows a non-chronological route, often starting with where the subjects of the story are now and then going into their past. This creates a question for the listeners who want to figure out how these former or current mob members ended up where they are now. In the introduction the host Zac reads out \u201cBut like Bobby, Jerry has a past very different than the life he leads today. See, for many, many years, Bobby and Jerry were both enforcers in Raymond Patriarca\u2019s vast empire of crime.\u201d The listener then wants to know how these people went from mob enforcers to D&D dungeon masters and owners of a moving company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The structure of the story across Crimetown episodes often weaves multiple storylines and perspectives together, showing how they cross. Marc describes that both Bobby and Jerry were, \u201cboth at the ACI. And it\u2019s here that they meet the man who will change their lives forever.\u201d This creates a cohesion both between the different parts of the episodes and the different episodes themselves. This is the moment when all the moving pieces click together and the picture is seen. Bobby and Jerry both meet Raymond Patriarca, the mob boss who ties all these disparate stories together. At the conclusion of the story they bring it back to Buddy Cianci, the subject of the previous episode, making it full circle.
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