Sitting here in the darkness

I’ve gotta post the show

Somebody’s joining us this episode

Somebody named Rob Lowe

We found somebody to explain free trade

Cuz there is so muuuch we don’t knowwww

And we asked Aaron about the song…

It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)

Aaron wrote us baaack!

It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)

How f*$%ing cool is that?

It’s the West Wing Weekly (ooh-oo-oooh)

All the maps are wack

It’s the West Wing Weekly

We're joined by Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) to discuss this episode, which earned him an Emmy nomination. And we welcome back Ben Casselman (@bencasselman), chief economics writer for FiveThirtyEight, to give us some modern context for Toby's line, "Free trade stops wars."

Ooh-oo-oooh!

footnotes—

Larsen & Lund's bags to benefit the Pablove Foundation

Don Henley - New York Minute [video]

The True Size, an interactive map site (inspired by this episode!)

Margaret in the big block of cheese meeting [GIF]

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