4.00: President Bartlet Special (with Martin Sheen)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Martin Sheen joined Josh and Hrishi for a conversation about The West Wing, The American President, Aaron Sorkin, and more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Hereway, and mine is
0:09.9	Joshua Molina. This is a very special episode of Blossom. No, of The West Wing Weekly.
0:15.6	We finally got to sit down with Martin Sheen, and so we decided to celebrate. Let's give
0:19.6	him his own episode. The man deserves it. Rishii and I were planning originally to pair
0:25.2	our talk with Martin with our own conversation about the season opener, 20 hours in America,
0:31.6	but then we decided to make an executive decision and give the president his own episode of the
0:37.6	podcast. We hope you enjoy it and we think you will. Thank you so much for finding time to
0:42.6	speak with us. I'm delighted. We actually have some gifts for you. You do. We do. Every president
0:49.2	has a challenge coin, and so we thought that President Bartlett deserves one too. Oh my.
0:54.1	So thank you. Look at that. Wow. Bartlett's army. Look at you. Do you know someone did a survey on
1:03.3	the show for all of our seven years, and do you know what the most frequent phrase was, hey.
1:12.9	That's how many times that's sorkins legacy. Exactly. How often do you remember saying?
1:16.9	That's funny. Did you ever do an episode where you didn't say, hey, does anybody?
1:20.3	Yeah. There's a lot of hay. We were making hay for seven years. Thank you for that. It's a treasure.
1:25.8	Yeah. And here's another. This is a lapel pin. Oh my. Thank you very much. Thank you. We focus in on
1:32.4	the word okay. I've always noticed how much it's used in different contexts to mean different
1:38.3	things. The versatility that Aaron Sorkin found with the word just the word okay always blows me away.
1:43.2	Yeah. God, we felt under the tutorage of a very, very special writer. Didn't you feel that way?
1:50.1	Absolutely. But so I knew Aaron for a long time before West Wing. I weaseled my way in through
1:55.3	my friendship with him. You must have known him, I guess, prior to this. You did the American
1:59.6	president. American president. Have you spent much time with him during that process?
2:02.7	Yeah. Hardly any at all. And the feeling you'd say that. Yeah. And when he called me for
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