7.06: The Al Smith Dinner

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

At long last, everyone is ready to unleash their negative ad campaigns. Here's one Hrishi came up with. JOSH MALINA—he's not nearly as mean as he makes himself out to be! He says he "ruined The West Wing," but even Richard Schiff says 'Arctic Radar' is one of the best episodes of the series. What else is Josh hiding? JOSH MALINA—actually pretty nice. (My name is Hrishikesh Hirway, and I approve this message.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.1	And I'm Rishi Keishirwe. And today we're talking about episode 6 from season 7, The
0:14.0	Al Smith Dinner.
0:15.4	It was directed by Leslie Linka Glotter or Leslie Linda Glotter as autocorrect would have
0:21.1	me say. And it was written by Eli Addy or Eli Addick as autocorrect would have me say.
0:29.9	Is this going to be a thing for the rest of the episode?
0:31.8	It's going to be a thing or a thing. We'll see.
0:36.2	In this episode, both candidates are gearing up for the Al Smith Dinner. A real thing that
0:40.6	happens in New York as we'll discuss later. And the entire episode and indeed the dinner
0:45.4	is framed around their respective positions on abortion. There's a negative attack
0:50.9	ad that comes out from an independent committee funded by big Republican donors and it escalates
0:57.5	everything between what has been so far a mostly civil campaign between Santos and
1:03.8	Vinnick. Also, we'll take over Toby's old job.
1:07.1	Hazard.
1:08.1	I really liked this episode.
1:09.4	I liked this episode too.
1:11.2	I really liked the season 6 primary campaigning episodes and I really liked the season 7 campaign
1:16.5	in episodes too.
1:17.5	Yeah. As do I. I think Eli does a very good job in the writing of sort of building a
1:21.8	credible escalation in campaigning in this episode and the back and forth.
1:27.0	Yeah. The back and forth is what I really like. We've talked a little bit about it already
1:31.1	that we're getting into some of the stuff we didn't get to have with the Bartlett campaign.
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