"Moral Midgetry"

'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Jemele Hill and Van Lathan break down Episode 8 of the third season of ‘The Wire’ and the unintended consequences of many characters’ actions (1:30), the fallout between Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell (9:50), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, it takes money to make money, Strang.
0:03.0	Otherwise, he'll every pop would be a king.
0:05.0	I'm ready to run now.
0:07.0	Three years, crawl, walk, and then run.
0:14.0	How could you do it?
0:16.0	What?
0:18.0	Go not stop howling your eggs like that.
0:21.0	It's easy.
0:23.0	Just tell I was on the road working on next tradition.
0:26.0	Lots of extraditions.
0:29.0	I brought back some 500 fugitives in the three-year period, I think.
0:33.0	What if I told you that there's a certain liberation?
0:37.0	Not in command, so in self-control.
0:40.0	What if I saw it in you?
0:42.0	What if it's on who you surrender to?
0:49.0	Vambi, I think, is take away episode eight, moral midgetry,
0:54.0	which I guess kind of made sense.
0:57.0	I think it's like, you know, even though that's not a word,
1:00.0	that's a politically incorrect word now.
1:02.0	I can't say anymore.
1:03.0	Like, actually, I can't tell you that I have in my notes that this is the first time I think,
1:10.0	ever since we've been doing a podcast that on my what age, the worst is actually the title of the episode.
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