1.11: Lord John Marbury (With William Duffy and Peter James Smith)
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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According to Encyclopedia Brittanica, Josh and Hrishi are joined by William Duffy (@WilliamDuffy_) and Peter James Smith (@PJSActor), who played Ed and Larry.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Kei Shereway. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Joshua Molina. And we're here to discuss season one episode 11 of The West Wing |
| 0:14.8 | titled Lord John Marbury. The stories by Patrick Cadel and Lawrence O'Donnell, |
| 0:20.1 | the teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin and Patrick Cadel, and it was directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. |
| 0:26.6 | Here's the NBC Synopsis. The Kashmir border powder keg becomes more explosive when the Indian |
| 0:31.4 | Army invades Pakistani-held territory, making the threat of a nuclear confrontation |
| 0:35.8 | frighteningly real to President Bartlett, who calls in Lord Marbury an eccentric British diplomat |
| 0:40.6 | with ties to both warring nations and a weakness for booze. An angry Josh is subpoenaed to testify |
| 0:45.9 | as the investigation into substance abuse among White House staffers grinds on towards its inevitable |
| 0:50.7 | target, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry. Mandy floats a trial balloon among the staff to test their |
| 0:55.3 | reaction to her notion of representing a liberal Republican. The president is surprised when |
| 0:59.4 | Charlie asks him if he can date his willing daughter, Zoe. I think angry Josh was the incredibly |
| 1:05.6 | unpopular app sequel to Angry Bird. No one bought it. Okay, today we're joined. This is exciting |
| 1:13.2 | by two very special guests, the actors who played Ed and Larry, and do you know which is which? |
| 1:18.8 | I believe I do. William Duffy, which ends with the E sound played Larry, |
| 1:24.0 | and Peter James Smith, which rhymes with Ed, played Ed. That's a great song. Good morning. |
| 1:29.6 | Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. You are clearly fan favorites. A lot of people |
| 1:34.8 | through Twitter and through our website reached out and demanded that we have you. Maybe before we |
| 1:39.7 | dive in, we should unpack the Ed and Larry of it all. Can you guys tell us how you each became |
| 1:46.1 | part of the show? I actually originally auditioned for Sam Seaborn, and I was in the room and I saw |
| 1:52.6 | that Rob was there. He actually, I don't know if he was auditioning, but he had walked out of the room. |
| 1:57.0 | And I'm like, I'm in trouble. I auditioned well. I mean, the room, to this day, I've never seen |
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