You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Hereway and mine is

Joshua Molina. And today we're talking about season 3 episode 12, the two Bartlets.

It's an episode whose teleplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, Ampersand, Kevin Falls. This

episode was directed by Alex Graves and at first aired on January 30th, 2002. Here's

us going on in this episode. Should the president make a statement in support of affirmative

action, Toby says yes, but the president hedges and CJ reveals she's against affirmative

action for personal reasons. There's a protest against US Navy military testing in

Viekas, Puerto Rico that's led by a friend of Josh's. Sam gets a mini block of cheese

with Bob Angler, UFO conspiracy theorist and Josh and Amy's love story intensifies with,

but almost gets derailed by a spontaneous romantic trip to Tahiti, which was probably recommended

by a Josh's friend, Agent Casper slash Colson. It's a magical place. Huh. Bradley Whitford

was nominated for a best supporting actor, Amy and the series won an Emmy for best drama

based in part on this episode. It's a great episode, I think. I think so too. We're now

past the state of the union and really on to the re-election. Let's start with the

cold open. It's one of my favorite cold opens of the entire series, I think. Sounds good.

What happened in it? I don't remember. It starts with Josh getting woken up by the

intercom at 514 in the morning and he kind of groggly goes from the bed to his like morning

ritual. He turns on two TVs. He's tries to make coffee, turns out he's got empty thing

of coffee grounds in the fridge. Right. He's a Folger's guy. Yeah. Just point. He's also

a trash coffee guy. Yes, he is. That is a very telling moment. No, no, you're not going

to do it. It's a little bit like a horror movie. Yeah. It's a great little brief insight

into his home and personal life. We even get to peek into his refrigerator. He drinks

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