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The West Wing Thing
''The West Wing Thing'' is a podcast series created by the screenwriters Dave Anthony and Josh Olson. First uploaded in 2019–22, the series discusses the TV drama ''The West Wing'' (1999–2006) on an episode-by-episode basis, from a left-wing political perspective. Early episodes were recorded in All Things Comedy in Burbank, California prior to the COVID-19 pandemic; later episodes were recorded from the hosts' homes. Heavy metal musician Collyn McCoy ("Diesel Boots") provides the theme tunes, which vary each season, as well as theme tunes for regular sections such as "''West Wing'' Brain," "Misogyny Rundown" and " Psaki Bomb." Guests on the show included David Sirota, John Rogers, Wyatt Cenac, Matt Taibbi, Blaire Erskine, Thomas Frank, Jared Yates Sexton, Abby Martin, Eddie Pepitone, Bilge Ebiri, Lee Camp, Katie Halper, several members of ''Chapo Trap House'', Briahna Joy Gray, Gareth Reynolds, Marianne Williamson, Nathan J. Robinson, Adam McKay, Adolph L. Reed Jr., Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Votes Down
"Five Votes Down" is the fourth episode of '' The West Wing''. The episode aired on October 13, 1999 on NBC. Presidential chief of staff Leo McGarry needs five more House votes to pass a bill restricting the sale of automatic firearms—but the cost might be too high, especially if he has to go to the unpredictable Vice President to help put them over the top. The staff's annual financial disclosure statements prove to be thorny for Toby, whose innocent technology stock purchase last year proved to be wildly profitable, which raises eyebrows due to his association with an expert in the field. In addition, Leo's long hours on the job cause an unforeseen crisis at home, and the President unintentionally mixes up the potent medications he receives for his ailing back. Plot While President Josiah Bartlet delivers a speech priding the inevitable passage of a gun control bill in the House, his staff learns that said passage is in jeopardy. Chief of Staff Leo McGarry calls an emergency m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rogers (writer)
John Rogers is an American screenwriter. He is known as the creator of the television series ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' (2000–2005), ''Leverage'' (2008–2012; 2021-present as '' Leverage: Redemption'' on Freevee), '' The Librarians'' (2014–2018), and '' The Player'' (2015). Rogers co-wrote the films ''American Outlaws'' (2001), ''The Core'' (2003), ''Catwoman'' (2004), and '' Marry Me'' (2022), and co-wrote the story for the film ''Transformers'' (2007). Early life and education Rogers was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. While at McGill, he wrote for the school's comedy magazine ''The Red Herring''. Career Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie ''Transformers'', released in 2007. He wrote an early screenplay for ''Catwoman'' and created the cartoon series ''Jackie Chan Adventures''. He also co-wrote the science fiction adventure film ''The Core''. In 2004 Rogers wrote and executive-produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, spiritual leader, and political activist. She has written 14 books, including four ''New York Times'' number one bestsellers in the "Advice, How To, and Miscellaneous" category. The founder of Project Angel Food, a volunteer food delivery program that serves home-bound people with HIV/AIDS and life-threatening illnesses. She is also the co-founder of the Peace Alliance, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization supporting peacebuilding projects. She has frequently appeared on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show.'' In 2014, Williamson unsuccessfully ran as an independent representing California's 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. On January 9, 2019, she announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election and suspended her campaign on January 10, 2020. She later endorsed Bernie Sanders at a rally in Austin, Texas, on Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Reynolds
Gareth Patrick Reynolds (born November 27, 1979) is an American-British comedian, producer, writer, and podcaster. He is best known for co-hosting '' The Dollop'', a comedy podcast in which his friend and fellow comedian Dave Anthony tells him a particularly shocking or notable story from American history about which Reynolds knows nothing. Early life Gareth Patrick Reynolds was born in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, on November 27, 1979, the son of English immigrants. He has an older brother. Through his parents, he holds dual British and American citizenship. His mother, Pam, is from Birmingham and has since moved back to England. Reynolds attended Emerson College in Boston, where he joined the improv group Swollen Monkeys. Upon graduating in 2003, he moved to Los Angeles to continue his comedy career. Career In 1997, at the age of 18, Reynolds performed his first stand-up show at Comedy Sportz in Milwaukee. In 2005, he worked on the NBC prank/hidden camera series '' The Real Wedding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briahna Joy Gray
Briahna Joy Gray (born August 15, 1985) is an American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant who served as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Gray is a contributing editor for ''Current Affairs'', and was a senior politics editor for ''The Intercept''. She hosts her own podcast, ''Bad Faith'', and co-hosts The Hill's web series '' Rising''. Early life and education Both of her parents were teachers. During her childhood, Gray lived in North Carolina, Kenya, and Saudi Arabia. Gray earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Career After graduating from law school, Gray worked as a corporate litigator in New York City for Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. She was also the host of ''Someone’s Wrong on the Internet,'' a podcast that covers politics and pop culture. Gray was hired by ''The Intercept'' in 2018, and has also written co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Halper
Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast ''The Katie Halper Show'' and co-host of the podcast ''Useful Idiots'' with Matt Taibbi. Early life and education Halper was born in New York City. She grew up on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the Dalton School, and from Wesleyan University in 2003. She is of Jewish Eastern European ancestry and has described herself as a secular Jew. Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist. Career After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida. Halper has also taught history at her ''alma mater'', the Dalton School. Comedy She beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Camp (comedian)
Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator. As a television host he presented the show ''Redacted Tonight'' for several years on the network RT America until the network shut down in March 2022. In July 2022 he started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp with MintPress News. Early life Camp was born in Richmond, Virginia to Laurie Smith Camp who was a federal judge. and lived in Bethesda, Maryland until 1989. His father is a psychoanalyst who served 20 years in the United States military as a doctor, and his mother is a social worker. In 1989, the family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Camp stayed until he went to college at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the University of Virginia, he won a competition to become the humor columnist for the school newspaper ''The Cavalier Daily''. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri (; born 1973) is an English-born American journalist and filmmaker. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled ''New Guy'', was released in 2004. Early life and education Ebiri studied film at Yale University where his thesis film, ''Bad Neighborhood'' won the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film. Career After graduation, Ebiri worked as an assistant director for a Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov on ''The Barber of Siberia''. He both wrote and directed ''New Guy,'' his debut feature. ''Time Out'' called it "broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun." In 2003 he wrote, directed and co-produced the low-budget feature film ''New Guy''. It was released in 2004 and after getting positive reviews in ''The New York Times'' and ''Variety'', had a successful theatrical run in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Pepitone
Edward David Pepitone (born November 5, 1958) is an American character actor and stand-up comedian. Early life Pepitone was born to a Sicilian father and a Jewish mother in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and was raised from the age of nine on Staten Island. Career Described as a "cult favorite", Pepitone is a staple in the Los Angeles comedy scene. He is known for his regular appearances in the early days of the ''WTF with Marc Maron'' podcast and his sketch appearances on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and '' Conan'', often playing his recurring role as the "New York City Heckler" in the audience. He has also had recurring roles on television programs such as ''The Life & Times of Tim'', ''The Sarah Silverman Program'' and ''Nick Swardson's Pretend Time''. His short mockumentary film ''Runyon: Just Above Sunset'', co-written by Karen Simmons and directed by Troy Conrad, won Best in Show (as well as Best Actor in a Mockumentary) at the L.A. Mockfest as well as Best Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Martin
Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American journalist, TV presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website ''Media Roots'' and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored.Huff, Mickey. (2013). ''Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13''. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609804953p. 264 Martin appeared in the documentary film '' Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News'' (2013), and co-directed '' 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film'' (2013). She hosted ''Breaking the Set'' on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015, and then launched ''The Empire Files'' in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary, ''The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom''. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Yates Sexton
Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. Early life Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University in 2008. Career Sexton previously taught Creative Writing at Ball State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Writing. Sexton is the author of three short story collections: ''An End to All Things'' (Atticus Books), ''The Hook and the Haymaker'' (Split Lip Press), and ''I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World'' (Split Lip Press), as well as a crime novel, ''Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman'' (New Pulp Press), written under the pseudonym Rowdy Yates. His work has been published in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frank
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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