1.13: Take Out the Trash Day (with Senator Bob Casey and Liza Weil)
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This episode of the West Wing deals with hate crimes, and our discussion comes close on the heels of the massacre in Orlando. So, we asked Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) about the current state of hate crime legislation. We also talk to Liza Weil (@liza_weil) about her role as Karen Larson, as well as the Executive Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation (matthewshepard.org).
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to hold hearings into the two of you being stupid. |
| 0:09.3 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Rishi Kei Shereway. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Joshua Molina. |
| 0:13.9 | Today we're talking about season one, episode 13. |
| 0:17.2 | Take out the trash day written by Aaron Sorkin, |
| 0:20.0 | directed by Ken Olin, whom we know from his role as Michael Steadman on 30-something. |
| 0:25.8 | Coming up later, we're going to talk to Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania about hate crimes. |
| 0:30.2 | A big topic in this episode. |
| 0:31.9 | Because Senator Casey just introduced the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, |
| 0:35.3 | a piece of legislation that addresses gun ownership and hate crimes, |
| 0:38.7 | which was spurred forward by the recent mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. |
| 0:43.4 | And in a special two-fer, we'll have another guest and we'll talk to the fabulous |
| 0:47.7 | Liza Wile, whom you know from her roles as Amanda Tanner on Scandal, |
| 0:51.6 | Paris Geller on the Gilmore Girls. |
| 0:53.6 | Currently, she plays Bonnie Winter Bottom on How to Get Away with Murder. |
| 0:57.3 | And we'll talk to her about her role as Karen Larson on this very episode. |
| 1:02.4 | Let me read the NBC Synopsis of the episode. |
| 1:05.7 | While President Bartlett and his staff debate the appropriate response to a controversial |
| 1:09.5 | new sex education study, there are fears that the parents of a murdered gay teenager |
| 1:13.7 | should be excused from attending the signing of a hate crimes bill because of the father's |
| 1:17.5 | embarrassment about his son's homosexuality. Josh and Sam meet with an appropriation subcommittee, |
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