4.08: Process Stories (with Joanna Gleason)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Stock up on Cheetos, because Joanna Gleason (@TheRealJGleason) is our guest and she’s got a drinking game - sorry, an eating game - for anyone who loves to pick apart Bradley Whitford’s acting technique. Needless to say, Josh is on board. It’s a probable impossibility that by the end of this episode we’ll all understand what an improbable possibility is, and why Sam is so down on it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Hereway.
0:10.1	And mine is Joshua Molina. And the name of this episode is Processed Stories. It's Season
0:16.0	4 Episode 8.
0:17.7	It aired first on November 13th, 2002. The Teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin, The Story by
0:24.9	Paul U and Lauren Schmidt. Lauren, a name that will be revisited in the series. And this
0:31.8	episode was directed by Christopher Missyana.
0:34.6	Processed Stories follows directly after the previous episode, Election Night. In this
0:38.5	episode, we see Jack Reese moving into his office in the White House. And we learn that Andy
0:43.1	Wyatt is actually hoping for a fight over her pregnancy with conservative factions of
0:47.2	the country. Plus, there's a coup in Venezuela. And Sam Seaborne decides what he's going to do
0:52.2	in the race for the California 47th. Later on in this episode, we'll be joined by the
0:56.6	delightful Joanna Gleason, who played Jordan Kendall. This is her last episode as Jordan
1:01.8	Kendall.
1:02.8	She's the best. I'm very sorry to see her character go. Yeah.
1:06.2	But do you think you like this episode? I do like this episode. I really love episodes
1:10.4	that work like this where they follow directly on the heels of the last episode where one
1:15.2	episode ends. The next episode starts and it's just continuous.
1:18.9	I like that too, especially today and the day in the in the era of Netflix when you
1:23.6	can just watch it as essentially one episode. Right. And I love the way that they introduce
1:28.2	that seamlessly by having the end of the previously on segment. There's a round of applause
1:35.2	and it actually carries over as a frontal. Yeah.
1:38.0	Yeah. It's right into the title card. So we begin the show with a frontal that's actually
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