You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Sherway.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

Today we're talking about the season premiere of season 2.

It's called in the Shadow of Two Gunman, part 1.

It first aired on October 4th, 2000. It was written by Aaron Sorkin.

It was directed by Thomas Schlame.

And today, our very special guest is one of the two big dogs behind the West Wing.

His work as director and executive producer played a major role in making this series into the show that we all love.

He's a Texan Jew and so much more.

It's Thomas, Tommy Schlame.

Such a pleasure to be here, guys.

This is major. This is major.

And from this point, it can be Tommy Schlame.

Okay.

But that's interesting. I go by Joshua and credits and nobody calls me that.

And I always had Thomas as credits.

And I think part of that was because my only person who ever called me Thomas was my father.

And so I thought, it's a nice homage to my dad.

He'll think it feels a little bit more adult.

I have the exact same thing as that my parents occasionally call me Joshua.

And that's the name they gave me.

So to honor them, I think I am exactly the same.

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