1.02: "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc"
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K 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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