In the Loop

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're discussing the razor-sharp dialogue and side-splitting comedy of In the Loop (2009), one the greatest political satires. Here are footnotes for some of the stuff outside of the film that came up in the conversation:

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0:00.0	Hi everybody a little word of warning before we get into in the loop as you may know we normally
0:07.7	bleep out swears and other potentially offensive language on our show.
0:13.0	Yeah, we do.
0:14.0	Why do we do that?
0:15.0	We do that for a few different reasons.
0:17.0	One, because we know that families listen to our show
0:20.0	and we just want to make sure that everything's in the clear for anybody who
0:23.8	wants to listen in whatever context. That's right it's good old family fair we put
0:28.2	out. Yeah and the second is at a practical level some podcast apps in some countries will actually block content that's marked explicit.
0:39.0	And we wanted to reach as many people as possible.
0:42.0	We want to also be able to travel the world without
0:43.7	being imprisoned. Right? And the third reason is a lot of the times we think it's
0:48.6	just funnier when a word is bleeped. Yeah and we leave it up to your filthy minds to fill it in. I mean yeah
0:54.8	normally we always bleep it whenever we say things like
0:59.1	fuck or shit or cucker bag I say that often
1:04.7	shit-f-sucker mother-fucker and tis.
1:08.3	Yeah there's one word especially Josh we can never let them hear you say.
1:11.8	Wait what's that?
1:13.0	Oh, fjbury?
1:14.6	Should we leave February?
1:16.8	Yeah, so anyway, all of that is to say, this episode, we're discussing in the loop.
1:24.8	Yeah, there's just no way to fully do the language justice, the poetry of the dialogue justice,
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