
Ramin Setoodeh is the author of The New York Times Bestseller, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of “The View”. Ramin joins The Short Stacks to discuss this iconic TV show, how the 2016 election impacted the writing of this book, and which co-hosts make his “The View” Mount Rushmore.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Ladies Who Punch by Ramin Setoodeh
- Ramin Setoodeh at Variety
- Ramin Setoodeh at Newsweek
- Ramin Setoodeh at The Daily Beast
- The View (ABC)
- “Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa” (The Stacks)
- Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
- Barbara Walters
- Rosie O’Donnell
- Whoopi Goldberg
- “Can Paris Hilton get Serious?” (Ramin Setoodeh, Newsweek)
- The Simple Life (E!)
- Meredith Vieira

- Jenny McCarthy
- Star Jones
- Hilary Rodham Clinton
- Donald Trump
- Meghan McCain
- Joy Behar
- American Idol (ABC, FOX)
- The Talk (CBS)
- “How ‘The View’ Became the Most Important Political TV Show in America”(Amanda FitzSimons, The New York Times Magazine)
- Lisa Ling
- Debbie Matenopoulos
- Elizabeth Hasselbeck
- Nicolle Wallace
- Kate Aurthur at Daily Beast
- Audition by Barbara Walters
- Find Me by Rosie O’Donnell
- Celebrity Detox by Rosie O’Donnell
- Shine by Star Jones
- Top of the Morning by Brian Stelter
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tobias Wolff
- Rosie O’Donnell Show (NBC Studios)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (ABC)
- Rosie O’Donnell vs. Elizabeth Hasselbeck (The View, May 23, 2007)
- Ladies Who Punch by Ramin Setoodeh (Audiobook)
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