The Dung Faces of Washington (with David Mandel)
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Director, writer and producer David Mandel (Veep, Seinfeld) sits down with Tim to discuss his new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers and his fascination with the behind the scenes of Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there everyone this is JVL on the Sunday episode of the next level this week we spoke with David Mandel who was |
| 0:16.1 | executive producer and director of Curbier Enthusiasm and did his stint on Seinfeld |
| 0:21.4 | He was showrunner for the last three seasons of Veeep and he is currently the director of White House Plumbers, which is going to air a new episode on Monday night. It's a fantastic episode. We talked a lot about politics talk a little bit about Nixon a little bit about Jonah from Ve |
| 0:36.6 | A little bit about Seinfeld in the backwards episode and even a little bit about the Writers Guild strike out in Hollywood is going on right now. |
| 0:44.6 | Enjoy. All right, hey Dave, welcome to the Bullworks Next Level Podcast. How you doing, man? |
| 1:07.0 | Hey, I am good. Thank you guys for having me. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm so excited for this. |
| 1:12.0 | JVL, where's your excitement quotient to be, you know, in the presence of a |
| 1:15.9 | Seinfeld man? My excitement level, like a 14. A 14 out of 10? Out of 83. No, no, I'm at 110 10 among all the other things wrote what is to my mind |
| 1:25.9 | maybe the most perfect half hour of television ever made. We'll just tease that and |
| 1:31.5 | we'll talk about that later on. |
| 1:32.6 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:33.6 | Dave now is the director showrunner, everything, |
| 1:36.9 | Emminence Greece for White House Plumbers, |
| 1:39.4 | which is airing on HBO. |
| 1:41.2 | We'll get to that here in a little bit. I want to do a little |
| 1:43.4 | of politics as we always do. Dave, you're kind of as I listen to some of your |
| 1:47.9 | other interviews and went through your record, you're kind of like the |
| 1:49.9 | politics guy. I mean I'm interested to hear how that happened. You started on |
| 1:53.0 | Indecision 92. Yes. Comedy Central. I'm old enough to remember that barely and |
| 1:57.8 | then VEep and S&L and Al Franken stuff and so how did that happen? |
| 2:03.0 | Were you a closet weekly standard reader or where did your politics? |
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