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The West Wing Weekly

4.17: Red Haven’s on Fire (with Senator Tammy Duckworth and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The Laurens make good! West Wing writer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich joins us to recap Red Haven's on Fire and share stories of the real world Lauren confusion behind this episode. And Senator Tammy Duckworth tells us what to expect when you're a senator who's expecting.

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0:00.0

You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway.

0:09.4

And I'm Joshua Molina.

0:11.2

And today we're talking about Red Havens on Fire. It's episode 17 of season 4.

0:16.4

The Teller Play is by Aaron Sorkin, the story by Mark Goughman and Deborah Conn. This episode

0:21.8

was directed by Alex Graves and it first aired on the 26th day of the second month of the

0:27.8

year 2003.

0:28.8

And Josh doesn't like to say February for everyone who's wondering why.

0:32.1

I thought that I don't like to say it. I don't think I'm great at it. And I'd rather

0:35.2

just publicly.

0:36.2

I just...

0:37.2

I do.

0:38.2

...and just...

0:39.2

Exactly.

0:40.2

I try to do things I'm better at publicly.

0:41.6

Today we're joined by a special guest, Lauren Schmidt-Historyk. You may remember Lauren's

0:46.5

name from our last episode. She had the story by Co-Credit on the California 47th, the

0:53.0

Part 1 with Red Havens on Fire being the Part 2. I had asked Lauren when we should speak

0:58.5

to her whether it should be for Part 1 for Part 2. And we agreed that Part 2 would make

1:02.0

more sense because then we could talk about everything that happens in the arc. Thank

1:06.2

you so much for joining us.

1:07.2

Thanks for having me, guys. I'm so excited.

1:09.0

Hooray.

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