One of their ongoing jokes is that most of their audience, myself included, have never actually watched The West Wing. Half of the episode is usually just Dave Anthony going further left than he does on The Dollop and then eventually they get to the show. They dissect the episodes enough that I have a good understanding of the content without having to endure the rhetoric, like Knowledge Fight does with Infowars.

I tried when WWT first came out. I couldn't finish the first season of the TV show. The funny thing about the pod is the amount of time they actually talk about the show keeps shrinking. It's barely an afterthought right now.

You don’t need to. I thought I’d have to put just listened to the show anyway, and they say pretty frequently that the majority of the audience doesn’t watch the show. They play a lot of sound clips so you get a good idea of what’s going on. Maybe watch an episode or two to get a feel for the characters but that’s all you need.