2.12: The Drop In (with Kim Webster)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Forget the popcorn, we got Ginger! Kim Webster joins us to talk about the fortuitous path that led her to the role. So affix your signature and seal, baby —

Plus, we're doing our FIRST EVER live taping. It's in San Francisco, on January 15, 2017, at the Sketchfest Comedy Festival. We'll be joined by friend (?) of the show, Bradley Whitford. GET TICKETS.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're listening to The West Wing Weekly, isn't that how we started?
0:09.2	I love when you say hi at the beginning.
0:11.4	I'm Joshua Molina, and I'm Rishi Keishirui.
0:15.3	Today, we're talking about The Drop In.
0:17.7	It's season two, episode 12.
0:20.0	The Teller Play by Juan Aaron Sorkin, the story by Mr. Lawrence of Donald Jr.
0:24.7	The Direction by Lou Antonio.
0:26.6	I looked him up, Lou was an actor in addition to being a director.
0:29.6	He was in cool-hand Luke and gun smoke and a lot of other old classic type things.
0:36.1	A few listeners have written into us recently.
0:39.2	We've talked about this in the past, I think, asking about the difference between story
0:43.6	by and teleplay by.
0:45.5	Okay.
0:46.5	Teleplay by the actual script, dialogue, descriptions, everything written, story, the plotting.
0:54.8	The ideas.
0:55.8	Yes, sure.
0:56.8	Does it ever say written by?
0:58.1	I think somebody's, I say written by rather than teleplay by, but those are identical.
1:01.7	I think in the credits, they say teleplay.
1:04.2	I think the real question is like, what's the difference between story and the writing?
1:09.2	It is really, it's the actual words are written by Aaron, but sometimes he will collect
1:14.6	ideas from different people in the writers room, the people who have contributed most materially
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