3.08: The Women of Qumar (with Allison Janney, Fmr UN Ambassador Sarah Mendelson, and Tim Ballard)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week's episode gets a bit dark, as does our discussion of it. We're honored to have three amazing guests. We learn more about the realities of trafficking with former UN Ambassador Sarah Mendelson (@SarahMendelson) as well as with Tim Ballard (@TimBBallard), the founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad (@OURRescue). And the brilliant but elusive Allison Janney (@AllisonBJanney) finally — finally! — makes her West Wing Weekly debut. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/308.

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0:00.0	Before we get started, we just wanted to give a heads up to any parents out there who may
0:03.6	listen to our podcast with their children.
0:05.4	Our discussion of the women of Kumar gets deeper into the subject of human trafficking
0:08.7	and prostitution, and at times it gets very serious and very dark, because the realities
0:12.9	are very serious and very dark.
0:14.9	So you may want to listen to this one on your own first to determine if your children
0:18.0	are ready for the entire conversation.
0:19.7	Thanks.
0:20.7	Hi friends.
0:27.4	We're listening to The West Wing Weekly.
0:29.2	I'm Joshua Molina.
0:31.0	And I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:32.7	And today we're talking about the women of Kumar.
0:35.0	It's from season three, episode eight.
0:37.4	It aired originally on November 28th, 2001.
0:41.3	The Tello Play is by Aaron Sorkin, and the story is by Felicia Wilson, Laura Glasser,
0:47.8	and Julia Dahl.
0:49.1	The episode was directed by Alex Graves.
0:51.9	So story by three women, because this is the women's issue episode.
0:57.3	Got to stack the roster.
0:59.0	Seems like it.
1:00.3	This episode deals with CJ taking on the rest of the staff over an arms deal to Kumar, a
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