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The West Wing Weekly

1.02: "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc"

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.

0:09.8

And I'm Rishi K. Shereway. This is episode two of The West Wing Weekly.

0:13.5

And all the skeptics and the spreaders of Doom said we wouldn't reach this milestone,

0:19.8

but Rishi here we are, episode two. We did it.

0:23.8

I think the only person who was spreading Doom to me was you.

0:26.4

Yeah, nevertheless, despite my cynicism, we made it.

0:30.0

We did. Our pilot got picked up by us.

0:32.9

Exactly. That's what it is. I'm an actor.

0:35.2

So just getting to episode two, oh my God, that rarely happens.

0:39.5

And yet we've done it.

0:40.5

And so to The West Wing, this is their first episode after getting picked up.

0:44.4

It's called Post-Hawk, Ergo Propter Hawk.

0:46.6

Yes, Aaron Sorkin obviously consumed with regret

0:50.3

and having titled The Pilot Pilot

0:54.3

was like, what can I do to grossly overcompensate

0:57.2

for that simple first episode title?

1:00.7

He's like, I know. I'll throw out some lap.

1:03.0

27 lawyers in the room. Anybody know?

1:04.9

Post-Hawk, Ergo Propter Hawk.

1:06.8

Josh, post after, after-hawk, Ergo, therefore,

1:11.5

after-hawk, therefore something else, Hawk.

1:14.5

All the things that we talked about on The Pilot

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