Episode #1459: "The Wire" creator David Simon. Part Two.
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
David Simon, the man behind "The Wire" and "Treme", talks about staying true to the story and avoiding big money influence in the media.
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| 0:00.0 | I drive all the way down the Liberty Road at two in the damn morning. |
| 0:04.4 | On the midnight shift, I got two murders and a police shooting going down to do what? |
| 0:08.6 | Get a goddamn mouse out of my wife's bedroom closet. |
| 0:11.2 | Can you imagine that shit? |
| 0:13.9 | What did you do? |
| 0:16.8 | What the fuck you think? I got the mouse out of the fests. I could throw back at work. |
| 0:21.2 | Didn't do nothing else. |
| 0:24.2 | I mean, now did you catch the mouse? Catch it. My litus ends up. |
| 0:30.8 | You shot the mouse? |
| 0:32.0 | Mm-hmm. If you're a nine? |
| 0:34.8 | First shot killed my wife's dress, you. |
| 0:37.5 | Got him with the second. |
| 0:41.4 | What? |
| 0:44.0 | You shot a mouse with your service weapon? |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | What did you do with the carcass? |
| 0:50.4 | I cleaned it up. Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:52.8 | What about leaving that little motherfucker there? |
| 0:54.6 | He's warning to the others, you know? |
| 0:57.1 | Ha-ha-ha. |
| 0:58.7 | T-B-T-L. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, it is about that time. |
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