Hello and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. This week the Ringer is launching a new podcast feed called BoomBust.

It's a new hub for narrative podcasts that documenting the rise and fall of companies, celebrities and trends.

Season 1, hosted by our own Alyssa Breznak, takes you through this spectacular journey of HQ trivia.

The one's $100 million industry altering company turned disaster.

Alyssa interviewed dozens of former employees, investors, journalists and fans bringing you the behind-the-scenes story of how HQ crumbled from within.

Subscribe to BoomBust HQ trivia and check out the first two episodes out now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

You fucking brought this on yourself man. You boys. You brought this on yourself. You gotta be like this.

You niggas man B.C. remember that? Come on.

Wait in your fucking pants. Like you a little boy, be a man. Stand up like a motherfucker man.

You said you was a fucking man, stand up straight.

Where's us man? Do it, Goddammit if you're going to-

You are finally here at this episode and you know, band is no matter how many times that I watch this particular episode, which is episode 12 called Cleaning Up from Season 1.

It still affects me like I saw it the first time. Now everybody knows who have seen the episode and especially the wire veterans that the most significant thing and probably the time thing will spend the whole time.

The most thing talking about is the death of Wallace.

Because it's still I think the most memorable death of this entire series. There are some others that certainly deserve to be in the conversation.

But I think this is the one that everybody comes back to and we'll take a deep dive into who Wallace is.

Again, we've talked about him before in previous episodes of this podcast, but we'll really get even deeper into his character and deeper into what his death meant.

But even though there's a lot of other things that kind of happen, I mean this episode kind of begins and ends with what happens with Wallace.

Yeah, I mean, I think one reason why the death of Wallace is so striking to people and it affects people fans of the show.

In such a real way, even when you rewatch no matter how many times you rewatch is because Wallace might be of the semi main characters or main characters of the wire.

The only true innocent that ever really dies.

Now, when you say that he's an innocent, you know, obviously he was participating in the drug operation and he was a drug dealer.

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