0.02: Live with FiveThirtyEight

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Hrishi team up with the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast to discuss how polling is used in The West Wing, by looking at a few scenes from the show. This episode was recorded live at the Crest Theatre in Los Angeles. We talk about scenes from seasons 1–4, so there are spoilers throughout.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the West Wing Weekly, my name is Joshua Molina.
0:09.8	And I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:11.3	Today we're bringing you a recording of a live event that we did with our friends at the
0:14.4	538 Elections Podcast.
0:16.4	If you're not already familiar with the team at 538, they use statistical analysis to break
0:20.3	down and understand politics, sports, and culture.
0:23.5	You may remember in Mr. Willis of Ohio, we talked to Ben Castleman about the census.
0:27.9	He's the chief economics writer at 538.
0:30.6	So on the 538 Elections Podcast, they have a regular feature called Good Use of Pulling
0:34.8	or Bad Use of Pulling.
0:36.3	And on a recent trip, they took to Los Angeles, they had a live event where they invited
0:39.8	me and Josh to help apply that kind of analysis to a few moments from the West Wing.
0:44.2	And we got to bring back West Wing writer and producer Eli Addy.
0:47.5	He joined us on stage for part of the discussion.
0:50.0	The whole thing was a really fun way to bring the West Wing out into the real world in
0:53.6	a new way.
0:54.8	So before we get to that one word of caution, coming up, we're going to be talking about
0:58.0	scenes from a few different seasons, not just season one.
1:01.8	So if you've been watching the West Wing for the very first time along with the podcast,
1:05.8	that's awesome, but I would wait to listen to this because there are some major spoilers
1:09.6	coming up.
1:10.6	Okay, here we go.
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