Election (1999)

This week Haitch and Jason are joined by the West Coast bureau chief for The Wall St. Journal and author of The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies, Ben Fritz. We cover the movie that defined the Seat 1 mentality for all time, Reese Witherspoon’s indie classic, Election!

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Dune News (00:15:22)
• Election Roundtable Discussion (00:21:43)
• Your Letters (01:21:00)

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Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Ctcher
Transcripts by Sophie Shin
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
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