You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Keish here way.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

And today we're talking about season one, episode 14. It's called Take This Saboth Day.

It first aired on February 9th, 2000. The teleplays by Aaron Sorkin. The story is by Lorenzo

Donald Jr. and Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin. You know, there's there's ampersand and then

there's the word and so it's Lorenzo Donald Jr. ampersand Paul Redford, meaning they were

working as a team.

I'm pretty sure that all has to do with union rules.

Now from the writer's guild, the ampersand means that the two writers are a team and are

treated as one person for WGA purposes. The other version with the word and spell that indicates

that the writers work to different times. In this case, they're considered separate entities.

Here's the NBC synopsis.

Here we go.

After the Supreme Court refuses to stay the execution of a federal prisoner convicted of killing

two drug kingpins, President Bartlett must decide whether or not to commute his sentence

in less than 48 hours. So he calls upon his segacious childhood priest for guidance. Meanwhile,

even Toby feels the heat over the controversial issue when he hears a sermon on capital punishment

from his rabbi. Elsewhere, a hearing challenged, combative campaign manager demands an audience

with President when our Democratic congressional candidate has been purposefully underfunded

by his party before the upcoming election to unseat an incumbent.

It's funny. I don't remember any of the plot lines mentioned.

The only thing that stuck with me was the ampersand and the word and.

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