3.17: Stirred (with Eli Attie and Fmr Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we're joined by Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44), who served as the White House Cabinet Secretary during the first term of the Obama administration and the Deputy Secretary of Labor during the second term. He gives us some real-world insight into Presidential Proclamations. Plus, we use the special West Wing Weekly Hotline to call Eli Attie (@EliAttie) to get the inside scoop on the writing of this episode.

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0:00.0	We back. You're listening to the West. No, no, no. Look, you start as either do what you will or you just start.
0:10.0	Okay. Continue. Here's the vanilla version.
0:19.0	You're listening to the West Wing weekly. I'm Joshua Molina. And I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:24.0	Today we're talking about the episode stirred, episode 17 from season three.
0:28.0	This episode first aired on April 3, 2002. The teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin and Eli Addy.
0:35.0	Big friend of the podcast. Story is by D.D. Myers and the episode was directed by Jeremy Kagan.
0:42.0	Joining us later will be Chris Liu, who's a former deputy secretary of labor as well as former White House cabinet secretary.
0:48.0	Here is a brief summary of what happens in this episode. Donna wants a proclamation in honor of her favorite teacher.
0:54.0	A truck carrying spent uranium fuel rods crashes in Idaho. Toby, CJ, Ed Larry, and eventually the rest of the gang consider replacing horns on the ticket for the president's re-election.
1:06.0	And Sam works with horns to try and save a bill that the vice president's champion for a long time.
1:11.0	But the only path to victory requires horns to remove himself as an author and take no credit for it.
1:16.0	The president files Charlie's tax returns only to discover there's an $1,100 discrepancy between what they'd calculated and what comes back due to a tax rebate from the previous year.
1:25.0	And the vice president also reveals to the president that he's an alcoholic. That's a lot. And I just want to read to you the synopsis from TV guide because this is a good one too.
1:35.0	The vice president makes a surprise announcement and might be in for a surprise except that he's not surprised when he hears it.
1:40.0	Meanwhile, a truck carrying depleted uranium fuel rods crashes in Idaho and terrorism isn't ruled out.
1:47.0	Donna wants Josh to see about a presidential pardon for her favorite high school teacher and Bartlett helps Charlie with his tax return.
1:53.0	Yeah, this is a different episode where Donna's looking for a presidential pardon for her favorite teacher.
1:59.0	What the hell? What the hell? Is that that's not the Warner Brothers one again, is it?
2:05.0	No, that was TV guide.
2:07.0	So there's something just generally out there that leads people astray when they're trying to write a synopsis for this show.
2:14.0	I don't know. You know, this episode is particularly rife with mistakes.
2:19.0	I mean, factual errors in the West Wing episode itself.
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