[The Wire] 506: The Dickensian Aspect, with Nora Barrows-Friedman of Electronic Intifada
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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“Maybe it’s a badge of honor that I don’t have a badge of honor.” -Nora Barrows-Friedman
Matt and Vince welcome Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada and Pod Yourself a Gun listener Nora Barrows-Friedman to talk about season five episode six of The Wire, “The Dickensian Aspect.”
If David Simon used the same episode naming conventions as Friends, this episode would be titled “The One Where Jimmy Kidnaps an Unhoused Guy.” His fake serial isn’t going to strike fear into the hearts of Baltimore without a little collateral damage.
A hobbled Omar is in the streets calling Marlo a bitch, but no one will tell Marlo what he’s saying because they’re afraid it will hurt his feelings or something? Speaking of hurting feelings, Nicky Sobotka is back and sorry to Pablo Schrieber, but no one on the pod finds his yelling at Krawczyck believable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matt Lee. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Vince Mancini. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is Pod Yourself The Wire. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, The Wire Podcast where Vince Manc see me and I go through every single episode of The Wire. |
| 0:17.0 | And talk about it. |
| 0:20.0 | So excited for you guys to join for another wonderful episode of the |
| 0:25.3 | World's Only the Wire Podcast the Wire a show about how sometimes it's okay to steal |
| 0:30.8 | homeless people if it gives cops more money. |
| 0:33.6 | That's what it's about, right? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:37.0 | I think that was the main theme that David Simon was trying to get across. |
| 0:40.8 | Yes, yes, he was. |
| 0:42.0 | And you know what? If there's one thing we can say about |
| 0:44.0 | David Simon is that he will never come on this podcast to dispute that. |
| 0:48.0 | Mm. Prove us wrong. We're out here in the streets. We're calling you a bitch. Yeah, we're calling you a straight bitch. |
| 0:56.0 | He's got to defend his name. He doesn't care. |
| 1:01.0 | Five stars in a review, you know, go on the Apple Podcast app and give us five stars in a review. |
| 1:07.6 | Go on Spotify, leave a comment under the episodes and subscribe to the YouTube channel. |
| 1:13.0 | Although I will say at this point the subscriber base of the YouTube channel is almost exclusively for Bad Hasbarra, |
| 1:19.0 | which is a lot of fun, Vince, because every episode, |
| 1:26.0 | someone goes like, hey, why is this channel |
| 1:30.2 | called Froughtcast? |
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