Watch-along VOD: The West Wing s5e21 "Gaza"
why don't they just get over it?
2025-04-16 00:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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[GOING LIVE NOW!] Watch-Along: West Wing s5e21 "Gaza"
Hey everyone!
I'm going to do a livestream watch-along of The West Wing episode "Gaza" from the end of season 5. It's terrible, but a very important episode to look at to understand how we ar...
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I'm going to start doing some livestream watch-alongs of West Wing episodes to revisit them and also go into more depth on them specifically than I'll be able to in any video. F...
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I called her up to talk about The West Wing, to help me contextualize it in the broader TV ecosystem of the late...
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Corey Robin is a political science professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY, as well as the author of The Reactionary Mind, which you might remember from the end of my most recent Jon Stewart video.<...
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2025-02-10 22:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 2025 Mailbag
Hey everybody!
Another month, another mailbag! Ask me anything!
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December 2024 Mailbag
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Hey everybody!
Here are some of the pieces of media that have been suggested for the next watch-along livestream, let me know what pops out to you!
Here are the 3 options,...
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2024-10-21 19:00:54 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2024 Mailbag
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Another month, another mailbag! Ask me anything! This is the first mailbag since the To Catch a Predator video so please feel free to ask any followup questions about th...
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Hey everyone!
I've been radio silent since publishing my video on To Catch a Predator because I was on vacation in Europe (first time!). But I'm back now and diving back into things. Here's m...
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