Stringer Bell
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Sep 18, 2026
Don SchaffnerHOST
And let me just see.
Ben ChapmanHOST
Are you taking notes, Stringer Bell?
Don SchaffnerHOST
Yeah, Stringer Bell.
Don SchaffnerHOST
And what does he say? Find it here.
Ben ChapmanHOST
It is, "Is you taking notes on a criminal effing conspiracy?" [laughs]
Ben ChapmanHOST
Oh
Don SchaffnerHOST
... and I was suddenly in a meeting with, um-
Ben ChapmanHOST
With Stringer Bell?
Bern PockesyHOST
Good, but not great.
Bern PockesyHOST
It's stringer bell.
Bern PockesyHOST
Whoa.
Liam ReeseHOST
Crazy.
Bern PockesyHOST
He loses
Matt LavelleHOST
all the money because he gets fooled by fucking Chia, Clay Davis, right? And he ends up ratting on Avon.
Bern PockesyHOST
and finds himself in a hallway with Brother Muzon and Omar, someone said to Stringer, are you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy? Stringer Bell is Icarus, right? He flew too close to the sun.
Bern PockesyHOST
He thought he had the fucking equation to get this done.
Charles AustinHOST
It's a mess.
Charles AustinHOST
Yeah, it's the Stringer Bell thing.
Alex NicholsHOST
Yeah,
Charles AustinHOST
yeah.
Jeff LippmanHOST
Yeah.
Jeff LippmanHOST
So, yeah, so that, you know, those are sort of two of the guns, but I think The Wire also, like, with Stringer Bell, like, you know, what he was trying to do and how complex he was, but also Avon, who we didn't really look at as being so complex, but he was, he was complex.
Jeff LippmanHOST
Yeah, but but he at the same time he was simple he had there was a street code and and he respected the street He wasn't trying to change the game.
Jeff LippmanHOST
He was he knew the game had rules He wanted to win but but he wasn't you know, but there was a code Anyway, everyone should watch all three of those shows and probably some others as well.
Shane ColemanHOST
And I had to think, just remember what he's like on screen, because I think on screen he has a norm.
Shane ColemanHOST
And I thought that's in Stringer Bell, do you know what I mean, back in The Wire.
Shane ColemanHOST
I thought huge presence on screen, huge ability to hold an audience, huge charisma.
Shane ColemanHOST
And then I thought he was a bit of a, really, a bit of an eejit when I spoke to him.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I've been around on some blocks where they came and, you know, robbed some guys, but...
Johnny MitchellHOST
Unlike in The Wire, which portrayed drug operations in Baltimore as vertically integrated, so for example, kingpins like Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale owned corners throughout the city, which they also supplied with their own product, paid their workers a salary, and operated like a real mafia, that seems to no longer be the case.
Johnny MitchellHOST
In real life, it's a little more relaxed, a little less militant.
Johnny MitchellHOST
Corner crews like this one on the south side are comprised of kids from the neighborhood who organize themselves organically and are maybe managed by someone who's a little older than them.
Megan GaileyHOST
And we were like the only four people in the bar.
Sarah TianaHOST
You're like, "It's Stringer Bell."
Rachel BonnettaHOST
If there was anybody that could have gone, any duo, I'm sure he would've loved to chat with you two.
Sarah TianaHOST
I wonder if Idris Elba knows-
Demetria L. LucasHOST
Do none of you people watch Lioness or, or House of Cards or, or, or Boosie, Boosie, The Wire? Because this is a scam straight out of season three.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
This is Stringer Bell and Clay Davis over the real estate deals.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
Boosie is a street nigga who made good money.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
You wanted to scam the system.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
It's alleged that Elon Musk spent 290 million USD on the 2024 election in order to buy favor with the president and then get government contracts.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
In the grand scheme, when the president is playing around with the world's only trillionaire and a bunch of billionaires, your 600,000 is like McDonald's money, babe.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
In The Wire, season three, Stringer Bell, neighborhood drug dealer who wants to be more than the game.
Demetria L. LucasHOST
Aspirational, kinda like Ghost.
Matthew CampbellGUEST
And you-- But you do get the sense ...
Matthew CampbellGUEST
You know, look, I've read several thousand of Latchford's emails, and looking at those and looking at his emails with, for example, Emma Bunker, this, this art historian he collaborated with, I am reminded again and again of the great Stringer Bell line from The Wire, you know, "Are you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?" Because it's all there.
Matthew CampbellGUEST
I mean, and in this kind of boomery -- he wasn't a boomer, but, but in this sort of almost charming boomer way, they're, like, putting everything in email, you know, and, and writing like, "Well, yeah, so we'll, we'll forge the documents, right?" [laughs] Like, a-and, um-
Lachlan PetersHOST
Some of the little-
ErinHOST
People cannot conceive that he's not from Baltimore.
KevinHOST
He said literally like gangsters would come up to him in Baltimore and try to talk to him like he's Stringer Bell and then he'd speak in his normal accent and they'd just be crestfallen.
KevinHOST
Walking away.
ErinHOST
Actors.
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