5.12: Slow News Day (with Eli Attie and Nancy Altman)

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Sleep in! We'll wake up the President for you to tell him about our great idea to record a podcast about the Slow News Day episode of the West Wing. Joining us in this historic endeavor is returning guest Eli Attie, who shares his memories about real and fictional West Wing attempts to build a legacy. Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, also drops by to tell us just how Toby's efforts compare to the real history of Social Security reform. PS: we had a data glitch while recording and lost Josh's mic audio, so his side of the conversation is not up to our usual standards. Sorry about that!

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footnotes —
Social Security Works
Nancy Altman's book: The Truth about Social Security: The Founders' Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings
The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation
Al Gore on the The West Wing set for SNL
My First Ghost, co-written by our own Margaret Miller! 
Rena's theme song

5.11: The Benign Prerogative (with Janel Moloney)

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This week, we discuss "The Benign Prerogative," and the not so benign aspects of Presidential pardons. We're joined once again by Janel Moloney to talk about Donna's moving storyline in this episode. Plus, Lin-Manuel Miranda makes a little cameo (#Hameo) to help us with Hamilton's original text from which this episode takes its name.

Hrishikesh, Janel, and Joshy discussing this episode.

5.10: The Stormy Present (with Bellamy Young)

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It's the 100th episode of The West Wing! Our guest this week is Bellamy Young, who made her first appearance in a TV White House here, some years before joining Josh on Scandal as PRESIDENT Mellie Grant.

footnotes —
Akhil Amar - America's Constitution
Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic
A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh
Akhil Reed Amar - Sterling Professor of Law