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The West Wing Weekly

5.01: 7A WF 83429 (Live with Bradley Whitford and Ronald Klain)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Josh and Hrishi take a deep breath and dive headfirst into the post-Sorkin years. They're joined by guests Bradley Whitford and Ronald Klain to discuss the suspense of the Season 5 premiere — a fateful moment for the characters, and the show itself. Recorded live at Georgetown University.

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0:00.0

Live from Georgetown University, it's the West doing weekly.

0:09.0

I'm Rishi Keish here, Wayne.

0:14.0

And I'm Josh from Amalena.

0:15.5

And today we're talking about the season premiere of season five.

0:18.8

The episode is called 7-8-WF-8-3-4-29.

0:23.2

Delighted to be here at Georgetown in a building named after my second favorite Disney character,

0:29.8

Weston Hall.

0:31.8

I don't know if there's an Elsa house that would have been even better.

0:36.8

I want to thank the woman who gave me this West Wing weekly button.

0:40.4

Thank you that you had made.

0:42.5

I choose to view it not as intellectual property theft, but as a tribute to the show.

0:49.7

Thanks so much to Hannah for becoming my friend at the correspondence dinner breakfast last

0:55.8

year and making this whole thing possible.

0:57.7

Thanks, Hannah.

0:58.7

Yay!

1:00.7

Okay, 7-8-WF-8-3-4-29.

1:03.7

Written by John Wells, directed by Alex Graves, and at first aired on September 24th in the year

1:11.7

2003.

1:12.7

We're post-sorken people.

1:15.7

Oh, it's going to get real very quickly.

1:18.7

Here's a little synopsis.

1:20.7

The season five premiere picks up right where season four ended.

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