Podcasts by The Worst Wing
An episode-by-episode breakdown of Aaron Sorkin's seminal work from a modern leftist perspective.
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S6E6 - In The Room from 2022-02-20T21:53:19
When are they gonna get to the DIPLOMACY FACTORY??
Super guest star power drives this episode home: we have the introduction of Arnold Vinick, soon-to-be primary challenger. We have Zoey's...
S6E5 - A Change Is Gonna Come from 2022-02-06T21:29:16
When reached for comment, white house communications director Toby Ziegler, recently in hot water for his collar-tuggingly awkward press room flops, just sorta racistly rattled off the following st...
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S6E4 - The Dover Test from 2022-01-30T23:18:35
Is Delaware even a thing? Has anyone... been to Delaware? Who is Senator Chris "C**ns" Coons? Why are there now TWO government grandpas from there? How??
The reference Stu makes out the ga...
S6E3 - The Hubbert Peak from 2022-01-17T21:37:42
It's Josh Versus The Internet Round Two: FIGHT
A bit of a scattershot episode today that completely enwrongulates the concept of fossil fuel reliance in a globalized marketplace. Tropes ab...
S6E2 Liftoff from 2021-12-20T03:56:28
Greetings from the plaguelands.
We're back and it's fuckin time for CJ to get her DUE because she's been working her ass off get it girl hashtag werk hashtag girlboss!!
anyway thi...
S6E1 - Peace In The Middle East from 2021-11-14T22:56:31
Welcome to Season 6, wow we're really screamin now. We'll eventually pare it back down to one episode per session but the first THREE eps of this season are a complete arc culminating in, surprise,...
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S5E16 - Gaza and Finale from 2021-11-05T01:39:20
We're bringing season five to a close (finally!) with a bang (literally!).
A huge mess of orthodox Israel/Palestine takes, with a great guest appearance by Jason Isaacs, hubba hubba woof ...
S5E15 - Talking Exit from 2021-10-03T03:50:43
We're back to our S5 format: two episodes of... well one episode of utterly puerile naivete regarding the economic orthodoxy that's literally killing your constituency, and one episode of tense as ...
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S5E14 - ACCESSSSSSSSS from 2021-09-26T01:53:42
the ultimate
masturbatory
narcissistic
episode
Of this fucking show. You should 100% not watch this garbage, it's insanely bad.
you SHOULD watch and cackle crack-ping...
S5E13 - The Supremes feat. Emma DT from 2021-08-23T19:09:51
We made it! After literally almost exactly 3 years (we first published on August 18, 2018) we have arrived at Emma's favorite episode. And true to her promise then, she joined us to chat about the ...
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S5E12 - Full Si Muove from 2021-07-28T13:37:23
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
It's time to be a racist!
It's time to hem and haw.
It's time to cram the show full of the neoliberals' flaws
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S5E11 - Genghis KhAn Khe from 2021-07-12T16:04:11
A tremendously JPod-tainted international incident threatens the world stage with a NEW nuclear power! Made up buzzwords like "NuDet" (lmao) sell the drama alongside heavy-handed racist stereotypes...
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S5E10 Benign News Day from 2021-07-02T21:34:58
Blazing through this season like a wildfire through British Columbia, we're tackling another two episodes in quick succession. Gabby Union makes a spectacular guest appearance not as an East Compto...
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S5E9 - Abu el Stormy from 2021-06-13T16:33:52
Now we're really cranking through this shit: another twofer today because there just isn't really enough to talk about in any particular episode any more. Even though there is a LOT of content? In ...
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S5E7-8 - Shutdown from 2021-05-22T17:17:38
Ooh a cliffhanger! Know what communicates that to the audience? Overwrought horribly campy sound effects!
We have a ginned up crisis created out of whole cloth by Republican intransigence ...
S5E6 - Disaster Relief from 2021-05-14T18:31:28
The only Disaster that needs Relieving is the script and acting and filming of this episode!
It's bad folks, I dunno there's a tornado, and a Greek/Albanian conflict. Also you've got Locke...
A Constituency of One from 2021-05-03T23:03:39
Life imitates art in this episode as we have Tom Skerritt playing an Arlen Specter-alike except switching parties the Bad Way, presaging Specter's move by almost 5 years! A discussion ensues of the...
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S5E5 - A Constituency of One from 2021-05-03T21:03:39
Life imitates art in this episode as we have Tom Skerritt playing an Arlen Specter-alike except switching parties the Bad Way, presaging Specter's move by almost 5 years! A discussion ensues of the...
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S5E4 - Han from 2021-04-11T20:23:46
Turning some racism dials with the least likely character to indulge in it, the writers bring a bit of Orientalist flair back to the West Wing as they deal with a "crisis" involving a North Korean ...
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S5E3 - Jefferson Lives from 2021-03-31T18:30:59
This is a scattered entry in the show's canon that's sort of transitional, even more so than the wrap-up of the cliffhanger from last season. We are introduced to the nominal New Villain, Jeff Haff...
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S5E2 - Dogs of War from 2021-03-23T16:18:11
Already noting a precipitous decline in quality, the crew is really putting in work to get the show back to at least a baseline of "Sorkin didn't dump this steamy loaf in our lap out of spite". Wra...
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S5E1 - 7A WTF 42069 from 2021-03-13T15:39:49
Launching season five, it's the post-Sorkin years! Off to a blazing start as the Evil Bad Red Team takes the driver's seat of the presidency, profaning our sacred Decorum with things like "being ho...
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S4 Finale feat. Emma DT from 2021-03-05T17:08:25
Content warning: date rape, sexual violence
We come back to you now... at the turn of the tide.
And it's a banger of a two-part finale for Season 4. Emma joins us from the New Yo...
S4E19 - Life On Mars (Not Bowie) from 2021-01-20T23:05:53
A strange inversion of our "bottle episode" gripes on today's ep, because the writers have realized they are approaching a denouement that requires certain conditions to be met... which are not!! I...
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S4E18 - Evidence of Things Unseen from 2021-01-09T01:37:17
It's convenient to the incredible amount of content spewing forth from the trickster god playground known as our reality that this week's episode of the West Wing is REALLY boring, so we spend the ...
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S4E17 - Angel Maintenance feat. Jaya Sundaresh from 2020-12-18T21:36:22
Bumbling at you from the frozen north, this week we are joined by Jaya Sundaresh, editor at large for Albany Proper and contributing writer to various left publications. It's unfortunate that we di...
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S4E16 - Privateers from 2020-12-11T17:01:15
It's ladies' night at the plutocrat... club! An approaching-good episode of the show tots up a whole lot of shit into the relationship between Amy, Abby, and the administration's disdain for women'...
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S4E15 - Red Haven's On Fire from 2020-12-05T20:16:15
We're back from Thanksgiving break and heading straight into the maw of the COVID mines, with another cringeworthy episode chockablock with casual Sorkin Sexism and other woke garbage.
Pre...
S4E14 - The California 47th from 2020-11-18T17:10:27
Checking in from the road it's a trip to California that in classic fashion results in "a complete wash"!
Kundu has landed squarely in The Cool Zone and we're outchea landing troops and M...
S4E13 - Inauguration Part Two from 2020-11-08T02:43:28
Another soporific entry in the stumbling post-first-episode fourth season. More bible-finding, more inexplicable character trait reassignment, and we promise only about 4 minutes of ELECTION TALK b...
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S4E12 - Inauguration Part One from 2020-10-22T16:39:30
Hello my name is Talmidge Cregg, I'm a definitely-real person whose daughter has ascended the ranks of American Deathmatch to press secretary, and I have Alzheimer's Disease.
Anyway that's...
S4E11 - Guns Not Butter from 2020-10-11T17:04:56
Apologies for Dave's cold this week, seasons are a-changing and we don't all have access to our fat wet president's miracle drugs. The good news is there's almost nothing interesting to talk about ...
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S4E10 - Holy Night from 2020-10-03T03:37:24
O FRABJOUS DAY
What news on yon twitter feed breaks? It is the 'roni, and Donlad Trunglk is the sufferer!
Posting this nonsense mainly because this week's episode was actually cer...
S4E9 - Arctic Radar from 2020-09-28T01:49:44
Another meandering episode capped off with what Aaron Sorkin probably thinks of some sort of deep, meaningful self-critique contained within his art, but that comes across as navelgazing and basele...
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S4E8 - Swiss Diplomacy from 2020-09-08T20:37:40
In lieu of the 150ish words of quotidian, florid bitching about this show I usually shit out into this space, I'd like to instead say that I've had really excellent experiences with Persian/Iranian...
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S4E7 - Process Stories from 2020-08-31T18:24:30
They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and they also say that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Well, in the West Wing only the last part is apparently true because holy s...
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S4E6 - Election Night from 2020-08-17T19:28:01
Well hey when this goes down mid-season you already know what America Decides heh heh
Spoiler alerts the prez wins reelection, Sam's promise is called in, and we continue to just waste opp...
S4E5 - Game On from 2020-08-05T22:07:57
The big day has finally arrived and maybe just maybe, the Administration Protagonists, are going to... WIN??
Plenty of antiquated notions about international relations, tainted by the pres...
S4E4 - Debate Camp from 2020-07-21T20:23:45
I feel like I'm reaping some sort of karmic reward for praising Sorkin's talent in the first episode of this season, because everything since then has just been downhill. This is another episode wh...
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S4E3 - The Red Mass from 2020-07-14T22:13:27
Greetings from the most boring episode in a LONG time.
I dunno there's some stuff that happens, Josh is a petulant weirdo about his relationship and Amy is great, they do... a speech? in a...
S4E2 - College Kids from 2020-07-03T03:57:22
This episode is like the polar opposite of the last one: no character drama save for the VERY end (and it's tired and trite), no real compelling political fights and in fact an embodiment of the sh...
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S4E1 - 20 Hours In America from 2020-06-22T03:52:08
A banger of a two-part episode to kick off season four, wherein very little politicking of import happens, but a WHOOOOLE lot of betraying certain prejudices and weird hangups does. It's actually r...
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S3E21 - Posse Comitatus from 2020-06-11T16:29:21
Well it's been a long road to get here: we can finally just merk a diplomat because we feel like it. Great job Bartlet Administration, definitely progressive and humanitarian of you!
A lot...
S3E20 - We Killed Yamamoto from 2020-05-23T20:44:51
What's that, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? It's hard to discern wartime from peacetime? Wow, couldn't imagine why!
Anyway today's episode is the second to last of season 3, wherein the adm...
S3E19 - The Black Vera Wang from 2020-05-15T23:09:04
A bevy of guest stars round out a pretty jam-packed episode here where the workers in the White House are COMPLETELY beaten down by the bosses to the point that they agree to organize... on the bos...
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S3E18 - Enemies Foreign and Domestic from 2020-04-25T20:57:59
Following on the non-canonical "interview episode" full of ACTUAL domestic enemies, we have a relatively politically-tame show this week, mainly by dint of the fact that Aaron Sorkin probably reali...
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S3E17 - Stirred from 2020-04-11T21:22:16
Greetings from the novel incarnation of hellworld we all now inhabit! Instead of focusing on the evolving upheaval of society that will likely end human civilization as we know it, today we're goin...
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S3E16 - The US Poet Laureate from 2020-03-17T22:12:51
It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?? YOU STUPID MONKEY!
Creating content is helping us stay sane on this, the Christman-prophesied stupidest day in American History. Lau...
S3E15 - Dead Irish Writers from 2020-03-01T06:11:57
The show's appeal is revived after a three episode doldrums by the brilliant contribution of Stockard Channing and Mary-Louise Parker to the cast. We get Lord John Marbury back being his colonialis...
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S3E14 - Hartsfield's Landing from 2020-02-22T05:10:11
More like... Dick's Will NOT.
More like... Dick Swill CROTCH lmao
Anyway this is another eerily well-timed episode, centered around almost nothing happening. The fictional town of...
S3E13 - Night Five from 2020-02-16T02:11:57
We're back on the horse! Fresh episode on board here with a couple of very typical issues to digest. The gorgon of straw-feminism rears its ugly head as Sam struggles with workplace harassment. The...
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FUNdamentally Antidemocratic from 2020-02-08T05:01:37
Stu's back from his odyssey to the heartland. Note that in spite of the negative tone of the criticism of the PROCESS and the CIRCUMSTANCES of the Iowa Caucuses in 2020, I had a really spectacular ...
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S3E12 - The Two Bartlets from 2020-01-17T02:19:28
One of the best episodes we've ever recorded, maybe because Stu was sober? But we go ham all over the sheer ridiculous and audacious privilege of Toby and CJ talmbout affirmative action, get some f...
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S3E11 - 100,000 Airplanes from 2020-01-03T02:10:56
On the eve of things getting real spicy in the Middle East we have returned from a long holiday! To deliver our hot, sizzlin' takes on an extremely bland episode of the West Wing!
For some...
S3E10 - H CON 172 from 2019-12-07T17:24:25
We're back after Thanksgiving, I hope your various Facebook Uncles and Red-hat In-Laws were thoroughly owned by facts and logic.
Today's ep is a real snoozer, wherein Leo basically does t...
S3E9 - Barlet for America from 2019-11-24T20:45:32
We're back from an extended scheduling snafu to bring you: a decent episode! Surprise!
A completely irrelevant sideplot wraps up tidily at the formidable... investigative skills of Agent ...
S3E8 - The Women of Qumar feat. Emma DT from 2019-11-01T02:57:30
You're in for a treat this week as we are joined by our very first guest star, a woman who I count as fully half of the inspiration for undertaking this quixotic revisitation of this dumb show in t...
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S3E7 - The Indians in the Lobby from 2019-10-25T22:30:52
A bit of a rocky road this week, as yet another set of minor plotlines tangles itself into something resembling a coherent storyline, centered around "O NO, IT'S THANKSGIVING!" as a motivator of ur...
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S3E6 - Gone Quiet from 2019-10-17T22:53:41
Welcome... to the great Brain Breakening of 2019. Not to be confused with the Timeline Severance of 2015 (known in more common parlance as Escalator Day), or the Doom of 11/9, it's time... for Rich...
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S3E5 - War Crimes from 2019-10-10T16:37:26
Greetings from a late-night recording session where Dave (microphone corrected!) and Stu just go ham on this dumb show for a while. We abandon any pretense of structure. Primarily because of the sh...
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S3E4 - On The Day Before from 2019-09-25T21:55:58
Dave joins me from his bathtub or something (technical difficulties on both ends of the call) today to discuss another miserable, do-nothing episode of the Bartlet MS Diagnosis Files.
Isra...
S3E3 - Ways and Means from 2019-09-14T00:43:43
Time for some uncomfortable and completely deadface Truth Talking, as the administration prepares for the legal shitshow that's about to unfold around their concealment of Bartlet's MS from the pub...
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S3E2 - Manchester Part II from 2019-08-29T18:06:48
The Bartlet Reelection campaign kicks off in the bucolic Americana-festooned small town that President Dad's family of farmers (?? also boarding school headmasters I guess) calls home. We are treat...
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S3E1 - Manchester Part One from 2019-08-23T01:58:44
It's season three time baby! Who knew we'd even get this far, and it's a slog this episode, which is hampered by an intermittent and confusing flashback mechanic. Something happens about RU486 that...
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The Worst Wing However Many Episodes Spectacular! Part Two from 2019-08-16T00:37:26
Over the one years that The Worst Wing has been on the air, we've received dozens of posts from goons who for whatever reason enjoy our content! Thank you for your kind attention and please come jo...
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The Worst Wing However Many Episodes Spectacular! Part One from 2019-08-16T00:31:35
Hello, I'm Stu Davidson Tribbs. You may remember me from such classic podcasts as "Boomy Tunes - The Pirate MMO Game Web Radio", and "An Archived Attempt to Rap As The Final Exam For A 100-Level Mu...
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S2E20 - The Fall's Gonna Kill You from 2019-08-03T03:37:48
Good Saturday to y'all, the release day of this episode, Stu having been editing until late in the Friday evening after certain... intoxicating events!
Further developments as the administ...
S2E19 - Bad Moon Rising from 2019-07-19T19:00:37
A snappy episode for y'all today, a continuation on last week's bombshell revelation that the president's MS diagnosis cannot possibly be kept under wraps and frankly it's a miracle that they've do...
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S2E18 - 17 People from 2019-07-12T21:39:19
Are you ready for some STRAWMEN!
Today's episode is a pivot around which the central conceit / conflict of the entire series turns, and it's, frankly, quite good. Or... at least half of i...
S2E17 - The Stackhouse Filibuster from 2019-06-27T22:46:50
Another episode almost completely bereft of all but the most procedural political maneuvering. We learn about what a filibuster is, children! We also have a completely artificial crisis that is use...
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S2E16 - New York Minute Episode from 2019-06-14T01:14:24
Check the mustache, I grew it out for you, it lets me brush past ladies in a crowded room, fuck a bus pass now we got an Audi dude, grown up but the crew gettin rowdy too. We in the rec room down i...
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S2E15 - Ellie from 2019-06-07T03:05:17
We're BACK! Life... gets in the way. Apologies for the month long absence, we screwed up an attempt to record last week with a guest star that we will SHORTLY reconcile, promise!
Reconnect...
S2E13-14 The War At Home from 2019-05-10T21:10:14
Gettin' imperialist with the Bartlet Administration! We crammed two episodes into one session this time around because the format of both is such that the writers basically split up a single 85 min...
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S2E12 - The Drop In from 2019-05-01T02:35:37
Oh joy it's Lord Crompton Bigglesworth, back from the Inbred Isles, here to titillate us with conversations of pedigree and inebriation! It's motherfuckin John Marbury, being put in service of "com...
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S2E11 - The Leadership Breakfast from 2019-04-25T02:26:20
Strap the fuck in y'all we're going COMPROMISIN'! Our thoughts run long this week becauuuuuse:
Holy shit, this TV. Stu's traditional gift of gab was well and truly stymied in his attempts ...
S2E10 - Noël from 2019-04-19T02:35:45
Bernard... THATCH?
A ride or die Etonian takes on CJ's fashion faux pas and we get to engage in some seriously dramatized and very bootstrappy wrestling with PTSD. A character-dive episod...
S2E9 - Galileo from 2019-04-09T23:58:40
I'm going to guess that everyone who listens to this show, like us, is a tremendous nerd in some fashion, and so will wholly empathize with the cringe-by-proxy feeling of suffering through Presiden...
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S2E8 - Shibboleth from 2019-04-05T18:31:20
In case you're not aware, the Uighurs are Turkic Muslim population living in the remoter parts of China that the Chinese government has ALLEGEDLY gone Full Fash on and is detaining in camps TO RE E...
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S2E7 - The Portland Trip from 2019-03-29T20:32:14
Hey Other Dave,
Look we know you're a busy guy. We'd be busy too if we had adoring legions of fans, comedic talent and timing, friendships with cool people like Gareth and the Chapo crew, ...
S2E6 - The Lame Duck Congress from 2019-03-22T17:38:57
But but but the small businesses!! That somehow are both small and have Executives!
A lot of disconnected issues are thrown together under the umbrella concept of a "lame duck" congress in...
S2E5 - And It's Surely To Their Credit from 2019-03-14T22:42:26
Ainsley Hayes, welcome to DeathCrew!!
Almost nothing of lasting import happens in this episode except for John Larroquette being tall and bristly. Three caricature-level one-offs get owned...
S2E4 - In This White House from 2019-03-08T22:22:43
white people die from AIDS like this *beep bippy boop boo*
black people die from AIDS like THIS *a beepa boop beeboop*
In perhaps the most bizarrely constructed Very Serious Attem...
S2E3 - The Midterms from 2019-03-01T02:33:21
Disingenuous candidacy? CHECK. Fundamental perversion of the electoral system? CHECK. Modern-day relatability? 100% CHECK.
The admin does an extremely rapid treatment of a midterm electio...
Season 2 - In The Shadow of 2 Gunmen from 2019-02-23T00:06:13
MULTI-LANE DRIFTING??
A two-parter to start the second season, we deal with a stark departure from the norm and more action-movie cinematography than the entire first season deployed. Also...
Episode 22 - What Kind of Day Has It Been from 2019-02-07T22:10:35
Avi?
Pull your socks up!!
We made it fam, it's the finale of the first season of the West Wing! In complete faithfulness to form we have The President literally say out loud "It's...
Episode 21 - Lies Damn Lies and Statistics from 2019-02-02T17:27:33
It's free polls! The administration has been letting its novel message osmose through the population for (indeterminate length of time) and it's time to quantify how Good they have Bartletted! If t...
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Episode 20 - Mandatory Minimums from 2019-01-24T04:41:42
Field trip field trip!! Join the administration's top minds on brief, unnecessary excursions to such iconic DC locations as "generic courtyard bistro" and "somewhere on the Tidal Basin". We learn t...
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The Language of Compromise feat. AOC from 2019-01-11T20:15:14
An interstitial episode this week, as Stu suffered a few Brain Genious moments while in full revolutionary embrace of Alexandria OC Thought. We're watching a media narrative break down in real time...
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Episode 19 - Let Bartlet Be Bartlet from 2018-12-27T01:44:52
A crisis of conscience envelopes the administration in a malaise that extends throughout the entire White House. Also the show becomes so close to self-aware that I'm edging hard the entire time bu...
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Episode 18 - Six Meetings Before Lunch from 2018-12-20T23:11:25
There are neither six meetings NOR LUNCH in this episode and I believe we were promised both?? The show throws out a bizarrely spontaneous presentation of possibly one of the most contentious, and ...
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Episode 17 - The White House Pro-Am from 2018-12-13T05:20:27
Today the administration spends an enormous amount of emotional energy and brainpower on what ultimately boils down to a spat of college jealousy of an assuredly big-dicked Federal Reserve Chairman...
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Episode 16 - 20 Hours In Los Angeles from 2018-11-30T04:12:05
Surprisingly fresh if completely unintentional takedown of its own farts, the show goes out of its way to describe the bought-and-sold nature of its political philosophy with a jaunt to the West Co...
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Episode 15 - Celestial Navigation from 2018-11-16T03:40:12
The culmination of a lifetime dedicated to public service: one big wet flopsweat panic moment on camera, triggered by the most banal, orthodox question posed to you, a certified Brain Genious, on y...
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Episode 14 - Take This Sabbath day from 2018-11-08T03:21:06
Sorkin dials it the fuck back in on this episode as we take a very spiritually-inspired tour of the arguments for, but also hugely vastly against, the institutional barbarism that is the death pena...
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Episode 13 - Take Out The Trash Day from 2018-11-03T20:27:58
A series of inopportune moments come together with the longer-running major scandals plaguing the White House, hopefully all to be meticulously wrapped up and swept under the rug. Content warning: ...
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Episode 12 - He Shall From Time to Time from 2018-10-27T21:40:14
A bombshell disclosure rocks the White House! THRILL as the most minor of technicalities in speechwriting language poses ABSOLUTELY NO THREAT to any person involved! CHILL to the spine-tingling hon...
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Episode 11 - Lord John Marbury from 2018-10-25T01:46:31
The legacy of colonialism poisons every aspect of modern society, it is impossible to fully comprehend or grapple with any issue without incorporating a systemic analysis of the brutalizing effects...
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Episode 10 - In Excelsis Deo from 2018-10-19T04:03:28
The type of television that wins Emmy awards in 1999 is starkly different... ah who are we kidding. Anyway, the constitution of the American Liberal is incapable of reconciling ARE TROOPS?? with PO...
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Episode 9 - The Short List from 2018-10-15T01:19:39
I thought we were sparring!
That's why you don't win.
Episode 8 - Enemies from 2018-10-02T00:48:59
Disclaimer - don't watch this episode of the TV show! It's bad! There's a reason this particular podcast clocks in well under our typical 37-45 minutes and that's because nothing happens that matte...
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Episode 7 - The State Dinner from 2018-09-27T03:10:02
Do what you've been trained to do... and CONDESCEND TO THE PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA! Abigail Bartlett's first appearance in the series is a soothing balm plastered over an embarrassing series of egoc...
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Episode 6 - Mr. Willis of Ohio from 2018-09-23T16:24:33
Our terrible excuse for representative governance will never be the same if we allow... THOSE people... any self-determinacy! A distilled ribbon of condescension and paternalism winds itself throug...
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Episode 5 - The Crackpots and These Women from 2018-09-18T02:38:29
In a polemic return to form, Stu & Dave tackle the fifth episode of The West Wing, in which Christopher Lloyd's nephew, and Ron Swanson himself, each petition the government for redress of UFO- and...
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Episode 4 - Five Votes Down from 2018-09-03T02:34:01
A vote looms that will test the legitimacy of the administration's command of the party apparatus, and minor characters assail our protagonists' dogged milquetoastery with ultimately fruitless trut...
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Episode 3 - A Proportional Response from 2018-08-28T03:31:48
Dave and Stu wrestle with a complicated episode of the show, tying multiple plot points together into a difficult melange of tokenism and airstrike-orgasm conflation. A fugue state overcomes our pr...
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The Worst Wing Episode 2 - "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc" from 2018-08-23T18:05:09
The Bartlett Administration's turbulence evolves in Episode 2 of the West Wing. Stu and Dave take on capital-D Dames, the First-ish Estate in modern America, the trope of the Magical Negro and how ...
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The Worst Wing Episode 1 - "Pilot" from 2018-08-18T21:41:23
Stu and Dave tackle the premier of the seminal television show The West Wing, express solidarity with Lisa Edelstein, and ponder the media tropes of D.C. power brokers.
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The Worst Wing Episode 0 - Introduction from 2018-08-18T21:37:41
Stu and Dave introduce their concept and critique of The West Wing. This episode is the kindest we will be to a show beloved by liberals that, while occasionally entertaining and possibly well-craf...
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