2.17: The Stackhouse Filibuster (Live with Bradley Whitford)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Hrishi are joined by Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) for the first-ever live taping of a West Wing Weekly episode, recorded at the Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco at the SF Sketchfest Comedy Festival. We also hear from Dee Perkins and Marc Bernardin, parents of autistic children, about the impact "The Stackhouse Filibuster" had on them.

Check out photos from the taping at thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/217.

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0:00.0	Live from Sketchfest in San Francisco, you're listening to the West Wing Weekly, presented
0:10.6	by Audible.
0:11.6	I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:12.6	And I'm Joshua Molina.
0:14.0	Today we're talking about episode 17 of season 2.
0:23.1	It's called the Stack House Philobuster.
0:25.1	The Teller Play is by Aaron Sorkin.
0:27.6	He's very good.
0:29.5	The story is by Pete McCabe, old friend of mine, for 30 years.
0:33.7	Pete McCabe applause.
0:36.2	Pete was a staff writer on Sports Night.
0:38.2	He was not a staff writer on the West Wing, yes.
0:41.4	But he explained to us on the phone yesterday that there was a WGA, writer's guild rule
0:47.4	that you have to have two scripts a season written by someone who's not on the writing
0:51.4	staff.
0:52.4	So he was brought in by Aaron after Sports Night was canceled and he pitched the idea
0:56.6	of a Philobuster episode.
0:58.9	Pete cleverly realizing that there was just baked in conflict in a Philobuster.
1:04.1	Aaron took the idea and ran with it.
1:06.1	And we're also going to discuss with our guest how he had influence on the story.
1:10.8	This episode was directed by Brian Gordon.
1:14.3	It first aired on March 14th in the year 2001.
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