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🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Sitting here in the darkness
I’ve gotta post the show
Somebody’s joining us this episode
Somebody named Rob Lowe
We found somebody to explain free trade
Cuz there is so muuuch we don’t knowwww
And we asked Aaron about the song…
It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)
Aaron wrote us baaack!
It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)
How f*$%ing cool is that?
It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)
All the maps are wack
It’s the West Wing Weekly
We're joined by Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) to discuss this episode, which earned him an Emmy nomination. And we welcome back Ben Casselman (@bencasselman), chief economics writer for FiveThirtyEight, to give us some modern context for Toby's line, "Free trade stops wars."
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0:00.0 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Sherway. |
0:09.0 | And I'm Joshua Molina. |
0:10.0 | Today, we're talking about somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. |
0:14.8 | It's episode 16 from season 2. |
0:16.9 | It was written by Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin, and it was directed by Jessica U. It first |
0:21.9 | aired in the second month of the year on the 28th day in the year 2001. |
0:28.3 | During a later, we have a very special guest joining us. |
0:30.7 | Rob Lowe. |
0:31.7 | Oh, yeah. Finally, we've been saving this episode up for him. |
0:35.3 | That's right. It's a Rob Centric episode. |
0:37.7 | This is a very Rob Centric episode. In fact, for this episode, Rob Lowe was nominated |
0:41.6 | for an Emmy. |
0:43.0 | Well deserved. Here's the synopsis. |
0:45.2 | Can we do a little tech talk before we even jump into the episode? I wanted to give a shout |
0:49.5 | out to our mixer and editor, Zach McNeese, for realizing that I, on occasion, was speaking |
0:58.2 | into the wrong side of the microphone. |
1:02.5 | From where I'm sitting, I couldn't tell because the logo on the mic, which indicates whether |
1:07.7 | it's front or back, is covered. So I couldn't actually see. |
1:11.2 | And from where I'm sitting, who the f*** knew that microphones had a front in the back? |
1:17.8 | That's so endearing. |
1:19.7 | Secondary shout out to somebody on Twitter who notices that I have an unfortunate habit |
1:26.5 | of what do you call this thing that a pop filter? |
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