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The West Wing Thing

Season 5 wrap up W/Special Guest Prof. Richard D. Wolff

The West Wing Thing

David Anthony

News, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Politics, Westwing

4.4681 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

We felt bad abandoning you for a week, so it's an extra special one for you.

We asked the great economist Professor Richard D. Wolff to check our homework on Talking Points, the dreaded NAFTA episode we covered a few weeks ago.

We also got the real deal from our good friend Pete D'Alessandro, who was on the ground in Ohio for Nina Turner.

Plus, a particularly annoying Psaki Bomb. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, yeah, you want to, you know, I've been away for a while.

0:03.6

Remember how to introduce the show, Dave?

0:06.1

You're listening to the West Wing thing with Josh and Dave.

0:29.6

Josh! Counting all wagons, we're on a season five. How did we make it this long?

0:34.6

I can't believe we're still alive

0:38.3

So turn your TV on and your HBO backs

0:43.3

John Wells something something something

0:46.3

I don't know

0:47.3

West Wing thing

0:49.3

It's a West Wing thing

0:52.3

With Josh and Dave.

0:54.5

We're a swing thing.

0:56.1

Josh made me go on Twitter this morning to look at a argument he was having with an assistant professor or graduate student, I assume, from Yale?

1:06.6

Yale.

1:07.3

Yeah, gentlemen from Yale.

1:10.4

Boy, it never, it never ceases to amaze me how out of touch with reality they are

1:19.6

and how much they think they can write or put down statistics to prove to you that they're right. And they keep

1:30.6

trying to tell you an apple is a banana. Well, so do you want to give our listeners context or do you

1:35.3

just want to have a conversation with me that no one will understand? Well, yeah. So it was about

1:40.4

the election that just happened. Ohio 11, Nina Turner being defeated, which is very

1:46.1

obvious what just occurred. I mean, it's not, it doesn't take rockets. This shit happens in broad

1:51.6

fucking daylight. Yeah. And as a Yale professor who's maintaining that the sudden influx of both endorsements from,

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