Hello, it's Kelsey McKinney. If you're a longtime listener of Radiotopia, you may know that we had a

podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020, discussing every episode of the show The West Wing.

I am so excited to tell you the West Wing Weekly is

back. Joshua Valina, who started the West Wing as Will Bailey and Riesche Kesh

Hereway, creator and host of Song Exploder, have reunited this election season for the West Wing Weekly political film fest

because watching and discussing art about politics can be a way to get perspective

on what's happening in the world right now

and sometimes you just have to turn off the news and turn to fiction,

while sharpening your mind on the wetstone of political conversation.

Each week Josh and Rishi talk about a different political film

with the same mix of

analysis and humor that made the West Wing Weekly a hit. The slate

ranges from classics to modern day masterpieces like Dr Strangelove,

Network, and Judas and the Black Messiah.

They're starting with the American President, the film written by Aaron Sorkin that would eventually

lead to the creation of the West Wing.

Join the conversation and the Political Film Fest by subscribing to the West Wing Weekly wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello and welcome to episode of this podcast we're going to bring you an anonymous

morsel of gossip from the real world. I am thrilled to welcome back to the podcast my friend

Danielle Henderson. Danielle is a television writer, author of the memoir The Ugly Cry and

creator of Feminist Ryan Gosling. You can find her on

orgasms and revenge her weekly sub-stack newsletter and you may remember her

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