Politics On TV: West Wing's Joshua Malina And Madam Secretary Creator Barbara Hall
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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First, we obsess over The West Wing with Joshua Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway, hosts of the recap podcast The West Wing Weekly. We discuss the musicality of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue, the importance of W.G. Snuffy Walden’s scoring, and exchange serious trivia. Then, Tricia talks with the creator of Madam Secretary Barbara Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:17.0 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Tricia Bobita and this week it's all about political TV here on |
| 0:24.8 | Nurdett. We're gonna talk a little later in the show with Barbara Hall. She's the |
| 0:27.9 | showrunner of the CBS show Madam Secretary. And we discuss the staying power of the West Wing with two crazy |
| 0:35.0 | dudes who are recapping a 17 year old TV show. But first let's talk about the |
| 0:39.9 | psychology behind this thing that many of us nerdy humans do, rewatch our favorite TV shows, movies, |
| 0:46.4 | reread books, music over and over and over again. |
| 0:50.3 | Derek, can you introduce yourself? |
| 0:51.9 | Sure, I am Derek Thompson. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine |
| 0:56.6 | where I write about economics and work in the US |
| 1:00.6 | and abroad and also about the entertainment business and the sort of the psychology of. in the |
| 1:04.0 | psychology of entertainment business and the sort of the psychology of |
| 1:05.1 | entertainment and audiences. |
| 1:06.9 | Derek he wrote a really great article called on repeat why people watch movies and |
| 1:11.2 | shows over and over. Tricia and I are obviously both very |
| 1:14.9 | guilty of this but for super different shows. For me it's arrested development and |
| 1:20.4 | yeah Derek you mentioned another one in this article that I feel like we should probably just get out in the open too. |
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