Gene Sperling
speaker
342 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Feb
Gene Sperling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me I want to I want to dispense with one thing about West Wing.
I have been, people always assume I love the show.
And I always say, you know what?
I've never watched a full season.
And let me tell you why, Gene.
And you can tell me why I'm wrong.
Because I know you're going to be a defender.
And I mean this.
It's not as if I've seen quite a few episodes.
And they're really good.
And they're really interesting.
Don't get me wrong.
But I always found them more unrealistic than realistic.
And I what I always hated was when people say, why can't it be done like it was on West Wing?
And I'm like, because West Wing was never, you know, and I've had this argument.
I've actually I got arguments, a wrong word, a strong word, a debate with Mr. Sorkin.
Because he did it with Newsroom, too, where he's creating a utopia of what could be if you had a year to prepare for every news cycle, for instance, in Newsroom, or you had five years of historical context to then figure out how to have done it.
And perhaps I'm like too jaded because I'm old hotline guy, right?
I understand that.
Tell me, make the best case for somebody today of why West Wing actually is emblematic of how governing works.
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