3.14: Hartsfield’s Landing

This week, our discussion ranges from chess and poker games, to code switching, to West Wing Weekly themed fart machines. All this, plus Josh, the master prankster, ranks the pranks in CJ and Charlie’s prank war.

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Brinkmanship
Slack
Nate Silver Article
Fart Machine
Game of Thrones 
Tuvan Throat Singing

The socks that Hrishi gave to Josh —

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3.13: Night Five

To get some real-world insight into the Sam/Ainsley/Celia scene in Night Five, we invited three West Wing Weekly listeners – Amy Carlson, Jamie Lynn Crofts, and Debora Verdier, employment attorneys in three different states, representing both plaintiffs and defendants – to give us their perspective in a panel discussion. It's our episode, it's about to become your episode, and we sleep…ehh, ok, not that well.

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Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship
The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Bushlet Administration: Terrorism and War on The West Wing
Clockwatchers
The Daytrippers

3.12: The Two Bartlets (with Blanche Sindelar)

President Bartlet and his father; CJ and her father; Bob Engler and his father…this episode is the Dada of Dada issues. And Josh and Hrishi talk to Blanche Sindelar, the property master for all seven seasons of The West Wing — the keeper of Gail’s fishbowl.

Exciting news. On August 26th, we’ll be recording our discussion of the Season 3 finale live, with special guest AARON SORKIN. Posse Comitatus. San Francisco. Get your tickets now: bit.ly/twww-aaron

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Amy Gardner’s WLC banner: bad design, bad typography
Smart Quotes for Smart People
Peggy Noonan on The West Wing and Aaron's politics [WSJ: paywall]
Trouble in Tahiti
Dungeons & Dragons
An Ideal Husband
Evil Dead 2 

3.11: 100,000 Airplanes (With Dr. Leo Mascarenhas)

This week, we’re joined by Dr. Leo Mascarenhas, the Deputy Director of the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases and the Section Head of Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, to discuss the cancer crusade that President Bartlet wanted for the State of the Union. Hey, Toby, how many words are in this description? (56.)