6.13: King Corn (with Karis Campbell, Evan Arnold, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, and Michael Grunwald)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We have so many great guests for our discussion of “King Corn” that you’re going to look at this podcast episode the way Will Bailey looks at an ice cream sandwich. We talk Ned & Ronna with Evan Arnold & Karis Campbell, we talk Turkey with West Wing writer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, and Politico senior writer Michael Grunwald walks us through the political maize of supporting ethanol.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome, you're listening to The West Wing Weekly.
0:09.1	I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.6	And I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:12.2	Today, we're talking about King Corn.
0:14.7	It's episode 13 from season 6.
0:16.8	It was written by John Wells.
0:18.4	It was directed by Alex Graves.
0:20.4	It first aired on January 26th, 2005.
0:24.6	This episode takes place entirely in Iowa.
0:27.2	We get to see one day from the perspective of three different campaigns.
0:31.2	And joining us later will be two of the actors who portrayed two of the campaign workers,
0:35.3	Karris Campbell and Evan Arnold, who played Rana and Ned from the Santos campaign respectively,
0:40.6	will be joining us to talk about their experiences on the West Wing and with this episode specifically.
0:44.9	Haza!
0:45.9	That'll be fun.
0:46.9	Josh, I'm going to start off by saying this.
0:48.8	I think this is my favorite John Wells episode.
0:51.6	Favorite episode written by him?
0:53.3	Favorite episode written by John Wells, yeah.
0:55.3	Because usually the John Wells episodes are the season openers or finales and they have more of a cliffhanger-y kind of flavor to them.
1:06.3	Right.
1:07.3	And as you know, I like the sort of slice of life episodes a little bit more.
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