1.01: Pilot
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Josh and Hrishi discuss the West Wing’s pilot episode, in the pilot episode of this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly, an episode by Episode Look at the award-winning |
| 0:10.1 | show created by Aaron Sorkin. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Rishi Keishirui. |
| 0:13.6 | And my name is Joshua Molina. |
| 0:15.4 | And now we should go on to our, I think, our West Wing qualifications and then we should |
| 0:18.1 | get to it. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:20.1 | My main qualification is just that I got you to do this podcast with me. |
| 0:23.8 | Uh, then that I just, I love the show and I've memorized probably every line of dialogue |
| 0:28.3 | in the first four seasons. |
| 0:29.6 | See, this is going to be, I think, an interesting dynamic, which is that I was on the show and |
| 0:36.3 | I think I've seen probably every episode of it because I was a big fan of the show before |
| 0:40.0 | I got on it. |
| 0:41.2 | But I saw all the episodes essentially, I think, when they aired and never again. |
| 0:47.0 | So now I'm doing a rewatch for the purposes of the podcast and I'm enjoying it all over |
| 0:52.0 | again and it's all sort of new to me. |
| 0:55.1 | And I, is that what do we want from our listeners? |
| 0:57.7 | We would like them to rewatch with this. |
| 0:59.3 | We're going to assume that any episode we're discussing has been seen by the listener |
| 1:03.7 | because there will be some spoilers, although that's, that's not our main aim to ruin anything |
| 1:07.9 | for anyone, but we're going to assume people watched it and maybe before listening to an |
| 1:11.8 | episode, they may even rewatch it. |
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