You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Josh Wilmilina. And I'm Rishi Kei Shereway.

Today we're talking about the California 47th, its episode 16 of season 4.

The Teleplay is by Aaron Serkin, the story by Lauren Schmidt and Paula Yu. It was directed

by Vincent Misiano, and it first aired in the year 2003 on the 19th day of Salmonath,

which of course is the second month according to the Anglo-Saxon Heathen calendar,

as described by the venerable bead in his 8th century classic,

De Temporum Ratione. By the way, my own mom's birthday is the 19th of Salmonath.

Happy birthday, happy birthday Fran. It's a frantic. We're synced up with the series right now because

today we're recording this in February. Toby mentions that the weather is 74 degrees in California,

and it is 72 degrees as we speak. That is the daily weather report on local news.

It's sunny in 72. Here's a little synopsis. This episode really takes place in three different

locations, although we only see two of them on screen. Equatorial Kundu, Washington DC,

and Orange County. As from the situation room, Leo and the president monitor the situation in

Batanga, and in Orange County, the president travels with his retinue to go help out Sam.

Hopefully help out Sam on his campaign trail. Yes. This is really, again, another two-parter.

It isn't called out so specifically in the titles, but the California 47th and the next episode,

Red Havens on Fire, really are a match to set. Yeah, for sure. By the way, before we even get into

this episode, there was something just the previously on sent me off into a thoughtful spin when we get

a replay of President Bartlett's quote,

mothers are standing in front of tanks. Resonated with me because I just recently saw, you know,

the famous tank man who stood in front of that row of tanks that I think I guess I think the

morning after the massacre at Chaninman Square in 1989, such an iconic image and photograph.

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