7.18: Requiem (with memories of John Spencer from the cast and crew)
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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In this episode, some thoughts on John Spencer, shared by Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, Rob Lowe, Jimmy Smits, Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Del Negro, Emily Procter, Eli Attie, Michael Hissrich, and Josh Malina. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/718
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to The West Wing Weekly. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Joshua Malina. |
| 0:12.0 | For God for a second. |
| 0:14.2 | We had a brief identity crisis. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Rishikesh Irwai. |
| 0:18.6 | And today we're talking about Requiem, it's episode 18 from season 7. |
| 0:22.7 | This one was directed by Steve Schill. |
| 0:24.8 | It was written by Eli Addy and Debra Khan and John Wells. |
| 0:29.1 | And it first aired on television on April 16, 2006. |
| 0:33.6 | This episode deals with the funeral of Leo McGarry as well as the beginnings of the transition |
| 0:38.8 | of the Santos administration. |
| 0:40.7 | As well as the beginnings of the transition into the Santos administration. |
| 0:44.7 | For this episode we're joined by a lot of previous guests who have been on the show. |
| 0:49.6 | We're going to do our own version of a memorial. |
| 0:52.6 | We've got a bunch of stories from a bunch of people who knew John Spencer and worked |
| 0:56.7 | with him. |
| 0:57.7 | And that'll be coming up later on. |
| 0:59.0 | Hopefully it'll be more of a celebration than a memorial. |
| 1:01.9 | Right. |
| 1:04.1 | Just to hop on the platitude train that politicians and ins apparently employ. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | That came from the mind of Eli Addy, one of the three writers on this episode. |
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