7.17: Election Day, Part 2 (with Jimmy Smits)
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
As we finish the long arc of the Presidential campaign with this momentous West Wing episode, Jimmy Smits joins us to tell us about his experience playing Matt Santos. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/717.
Right now, Radiotopia is holding its annual fundraiser. Help us keep The West Wing Weekly available and free forever by supporting the network. Make your mark. Go to radiotopia.fm to donate today.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi K. Shereway. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Joshua Molina. |
| 0:10.6 | And today we're talking about episode 17 from season 7. It's Election Day Part 2, but |
| 0:15.6 | before we even get into Part 2, we have an addendum to Part 1. Indeed we do. |
| 0:22.1 | This comes to us from Bradley Whitford. We've had it in our pocket for a while and it was |
| 0:27.1 | definitely not a mistake that we didn't include it in the last episode. |
| 0:30.4 | No, no. |
| 0:31.2 | In fact, it was intentional. |
| 0:33.0 | You're right, of course. |
| 0:33.7 | It would have been too obvious to include material that relates to last episode, in |
| 0:37.3 | last episode. |
| 0:38.3 | No, no. We wanted to save it and see what kind of response that episode got without us |
| 0:42.8 | mentioning it. |
| 0:43.8 | That's right. |
| 0:44.8 | And now we played for you here. Take a listen. |
| 0:48.9 | I just want to point out that we finished shooting and I'm in bed with her without a shirt |
| 0:55.2 | on. And then we finished shooting and I said, I ran up, I think it was Missyano. |
| 1:00.9 | And I said, I got shot in the chest a couple of years ago. |
| 1:04.4 | Oh, haha. |
| 1:05.7 | Good point. |
| 1:07.5 | We didn't have time to do anything and with everybody's fetishistic obsession with the |
| 1:15.1 | show, it always cracks me up that nobody has ever brought it up. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1952 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.