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The West Wing Weekly

3.07: The Indians in the Lobby (with W.G. Snuffy Walden)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving! Native Americans! Turkey! Foodborne illness! Hrishi's dad! All this, plus we present the recording of our live interview with Emmy-winning West Wing composer Snuffy Walden (@snuffywalden). For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/307.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Urway and I am an Indian

0:10.8

in the lobby. And my name is Joshua Molina and I'm a shirtless Jew. I'm just taunting

0:17.5

the viewers I've got my shirt on. It's true. I can't lie to you. You're wearing the

0:21.6

signal t-shirt in fact. Yes I am. And your pink headphones. Again, yes. I approve of

0:26.2

the whole ensemble. Thank you. That's stupid for me to say. I'm an Indian in the lobby.

0:31.4

No it isn't. I have another Indian friend and did you bump at all on the fact that they

0:38.0

are not Native Americans or not referred to as Native Americans at any point in this

0:41.8

episode but only as Indians? I did. I did. As did I. At least I thought about it. I did

0:47.4

too. Yeah. I guess it just wouldn't have worked for all the jokes about two Indians

0:52.8

in the lobby beginning of a joke. I guess so. There's two Native Americans in the lobby.

0:57.4

It seems like it's just as crummy linova set up. Actually you're right. Here's a synopsis

1:02.1

from TV Guide. I wanted to read this one because compared to the last TV Guide synopsis

1:06.9

that I read which was quite expressive. Is this a bit more clinical? This one's just

1:12.3

like they barely showed up for work. Here's what they wrote. It's the day before Thanksgiving

1:17.2

and the president is talking turkey to whoever will listen and everyone must in parentheses.

1:22.3

Meanwhile two Native Americans are encamped in the lobby. They've been stood up by the official

1:26.3

who was supposed to meet with them and they aren't about to leave and CJ is told to make

1:30.1

the problem go away. That's it. Uninspired although the salient point I think being of this

1:36.2

synopsis that the writer chose Native Americans in the lobby. That's true. That's true. But

1:42.2

then apparently walked away from their desk partway through the synopsis. That's true. Yeah.

1:47.7

Kind of gave out because there is no mention of Josh dealing with a 13 year old boy who's

1:53.5

been sent to Italy to escape punishment for murdering his teacher. Yes. A not insignificant

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