There's no question in terms of when the poo characters Toby is ear is literally no one in the world that I don't hate right now

Hi, you're listening to the West Wing weekly my name is Josh Waulina and I'm Rishi Keish here way

Today we're talking about episode four of season one of the West Wing

It's called five votes down the Netflix andopsis is the staff has 72 hours to rescue a gun control bill that needs five more votes in Congress to pass

We start off in this ballroom where President Bartlett's giving a speech about gun control and we come in on him telling a story about

President Harry Truman and one night he went in set the briefcase down and he said best

Why do you suppose it is only sons of bitches know how to lick a stamp?

And the foreground Leo is taking a call

They're five votes down on a bill. They're trying to get passed and we're getting even though it's in the background our first glimpse of Bartlett

His public persona. He's giving a rousing speech and he's kind of killing it and we're getting little snippets kids are dead

I got a neighbor whose friend is dead whose husband is dead whose mother is dead kids are dead

It's a high stakes

But I think it's sort of later on that massive and epic walk-and-talk that we actually discover

Specifically that it's a gun control bill. Although maybe we've surmised that earlier

I guess it depends on how closely you're paying attention to his speech through the parts that are coming through the screen while Leo and Toby are talking

It's worth noting here as an older gentleman. I watch the West Wing always with the closed captioning on

So I was able to read the sort of snippets of the speech that's going on in the background

He's standing in front of a banner that reads practical idealism

Which would have made a good title for the episode because it really does inform the subsequent

plot and what the

Administration is willing to do or sacrifice by way of idealism in order to practically get something accomplished and

Any event the scene from the ballroom leads into the mother of all walk-and-talks epic

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