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The View: Behind the Table

Whoopi Goldberg & ‘The View’ Executive Producer Brian Teta

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Whoopi Goldberg and ‘The View’ Executive Producer Brian Teta look back over the last nine episodes of our podcast series where co-hosts have been reflecting on their time on ‘The View’ and celebrating its 25th season. Goldberg discusses some of the misconceptions of being a co-host and gives some insight on what happens in the co-hosts’ morning Hot Topics meeting. With Meghan McCain’s departure from the show last season, Goldberg and Teta discuss filling the fifth seat at the table and the importance of having different views at the table. Listen to "The View" weekdays on your favorite podcast app! Just search for "The View" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. For more: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, it's whoop. For the last nine weeks on this podcast,

0:36.8

we've been looking back on 25 years of the view with the women who made the show what it is today.

0:42.5

The co-host that had a seat at the hot topics table from Sherry Shepherd to my friend Nicole Wallace,

0:49.9

even Meredith Vieira, and more. So today I get to sit down with the views executive producer

0:55.6

Brian Tetta to talk about the evolution of the show of the last 25 years and the misconceptions

1:01.9

about the show. And we discuss filling that fifth seat at the table. Here's our conversation.

1:09.2

All right, well, this is an idea that we would kind of catch up on how the season's going and how

1:14.5

the podcast are going. You've been doing this now for 14 years. Did I ask you to give me that

1:18.8

information? No, I know. I hate when you bring it up. I know. And every time I bring it up,

1:23.6

I feel like you're planning on being here one year or less. But I think you and I have worked

1:28.9

together for six years. And I might be wrong about this. You tell me, but it seems like you're having

1:33.4

more fun of late than you did when I first got here in the first couple of years. Well, I have

1:39.5

tried to have a good time the whole time. And you know, my attitude has always been I don't have

1:45.8

to agree with you, but I will listen. And other people feel differently. They feel I should

1:51.9

agree with them when I don't. And so it got a little choppy for a while. And listen, everybody's

2:00.7

entitled to their opinion. It's everybody, you know, we get a little heated. But at the end of the

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