PREVIEW - #628 - The Ballad of Willie Pete (Newsroom Part 13)

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Luke Savage and Will Sloan

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4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Will and Luke hash out their differences w/r/t appreciating Aaron Sorkin as they tackle Season 2 Episode 3 of THE NEWSROOM ("Willie Pete"), which offers a surprisingly cogent critique of "the boys on the bus" as well as a lot more of Sorkin's peculiar gender politics. PLUS: We check in on our favourite Who's Line is it Anyway cast member. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/628-ballad-of-13-130688755

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0:00.0	Well, this episode starts off strong. We have a classic Will McAvoy monologue. Starts off strong,
0:04.9	continues strong, ends strong, you know, it's great. I mean, as usual, I'm less enthusiastic than
0:10.7	Luke. This was the cards on the table. This is the best one. No, look, it sucks. It sucks.
0:14.6	You got to just, you just, you're not irony poisoned enough. Like, like, you've got to adopt my level of irony poisoning when it comes to stuff.
0:24.2	Otherwise, we're never going to get through.
0:25.4	No, no.
0:26.3	The problem with you is, you actually like this shit.
0:30.1	Like, you're the kind of guy.
0:31.1	This goes back to our, like when we did that Breck and Meyer movie years ago, fucking, what was
0:35.8	that movie called?
0:36.5	Oh, I love that movie with Breck and Meyer movie years ago. Fucking, what was the movie called? Oh, I love that movie. With Breck and Meyer.
0:37.9	Yeah.
0:37.9	Yeah.
0:38.8	Breck and Meyer with Danana Pacquine.
0:39.5	Blue state.
0:39.9	So good.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.2	Okay.
0:41.5	You like that because you just like this stuff on some level.
0:44.7	Because you're a politics guy.
0:46.3	No, no.
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