1.18: Six Meetings Before Lunch
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Good: a conversation about reparations; the Bad: Mandy and pandas; and the Ugly: Josh and Sam dancing (?) to “The Jackal.” Plus, a few words from West Wing music supervisor Anne Kline (@theannkline).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Keishirui. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Joshua Molina. |
| 0:10.5 | Today we're talking about season one, episode 18, six meetings before lunch. |
| 0:15.4 | It aired originally on April 5, 2000. It was written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by |
| 0:21.4 | Clark Johnson. |
| 0:22.4 | All right. Let me give a little synopsis here. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm excited. This is a new Rishi synopsis. |
| 0:28.2 | And be honest, you pre-wrote this or your pre-styling. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm pre-styling right now. |
| 0:32.4 | Wow. Brave. |
| 0:34.0 | In this episode, Zoey goes to a frat party and her friend is arrested for drug use. |
| 0:40.9 | They think he's a drug dealer. |
| 0:42.2 | And CJ has to deal with trying to keep it out of the press. |
| 0:47.0 | The confirmation of Judge Mendoza, now Justice Mendoza, finally comes through. |
| 0:51.9 | And Josh has to talk to a civil rights lawyer about statements he made |
| 0:56.9 | about reparations. Sam has his flirty debate with Mallory about school vouchers. |
| 1:04.6 | And Mandy tries to get Toby to help her get some pandas for the National Zoo. |
| 1:09.8 | That was a remarkable life performance. I applaud you. |
| 1:12.9 | Thank you. Well done. |
| 1:14.8 | So it's called six meetings before lunch. |
| 1:17.8 | What are the six meetings? |
| 1:18.8 | What are the six meetings? |
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