3.19: Enemies Foreign and Domestic

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A correction: Eli Attie's teacher, Mrs Morello, is alive. A reminder: Paxton Whitehead, who played Bernard, is also alive. Josh and Hrishi discuss Russians being played by non-Russians, Tom Lehrer, and the Sorkinism of having nothing to do. Plus, to accompany the story of the letter that gets sent to the President, we're thrilled to present one of our favorite episodes of 99% Invisible, “Ten Letters to the President.” It’s a perfect companion for this episode of The West Wing. Big thanks to Roman Mars (@romanmars) and the folks at Slate’s Working podcast for letting us share it with you.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina, the co-host of this podcast.
0:12.0	And I'm Michik A. Sherway. Wait, what was that?
0:15.2	You obviously didn't watch the previously on The West Wing.
0:18.4	Oh, right. It was one of the, I don't know, every, I don't know how they decide. Every
0:23.8	25 episodes, let's cut together a real where every single member of the cast of characters
0:29.0	announces what his or her job is.
0:31.0	I'm real McGarry, White House, Chief of Staff.
0:33.3	Oh, personally to the President. And I'm a speech writer. I'm the Deputy Chief of Staff.
0:37.7	Which I guess makes me Deputy Deputy Chief of Staff.
0:40.6	I am the...
0:41.3	Right, sorry. Okay. And I'm Michik A. Sherway, Deputy Deputy co-host of this podcast.
0:46.6	There you did watch it, didn't you? I actually wrote down Josh's favorite kind of cold open.
0:52.9	It plays a little bit like a comedy. I mean, it's cut together so quickly, and it's so obvious
0:58.5	what the expository needs are that are being met, that it makes me laugh.
1:03.7	As I said before, many of my favorite episodes on The West Wing began with these kinds of
1:10.0	generic introduction of the characters for the cold open because it means that
1:16.6	it's more likely to be a standalone episode.
1:19.8	That's a very good point. I wish other shows would do that though.
1:25.4	I'm Kalise. My kids are dragons.
1:29.2	Just as I did. Every single person introducing themselves.
1:33.5	Yep. I'm Tyrion. Deputy Deputy Kalise.
1:38.0	Today we're talking about the episode, Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
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