Hi Ho, you're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina, and I'm Rishikesh

Hereway. Today we're talking about Angel Maintenance, it's episode 19 from season 4.

The stories by Eli Addy and Kevin Falls are dear dear friends. The teleplays by Eli

Addy and Aaron Sorkin. This episode was directed by Jessica U, Oscar winner, and it first aired

on April 2nd, 2003. It's the return of Jessica U who also directed

somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. That's right. In this episode,

the president's on his way home from Manila, a board Air Force 1, along with some of the

staff and the White House press corps, went a light for the landing gear fails to go off,

which could mean that the light doesn't work, or it could mean something worse. And C.J.

has to keep the reporters in the dark so they don't create a national security risk by reporting it.

Back in the White House, Josh is working on a bill to clean up the Chesapeake with a

moderate Republican Congressman, and Congressman Mark Richardson returns, and Toby has to deal

with him because a congressional black caucus is threatening to vote against a conduit peacekeeping bill.

No mention in that synopsis of Manila as being an anagram for Molina. Thank you. You're on it.

As his animal. I want to be your spirit, Molina. People. There's an episode of this American

life where David Sidaris reads his essay, The Youth in Asia, where he talks about all about pets,

and he talks about his parents having a dog named Molina. Really? Do you know that essay?

It's in Meetup, pretty one day. I'll look for it. I'll send you the link.

Coming up, we're going to be joined by Eric Fanning. He's going to make his return to the podcast

when Eric was first a guest back when we were on season two. He was a secretary of the Army

under President Obama. Before he held that post, he served as the undersecretary of the Air Force,

as well as the Air Force's chief management officer before becoming its acting secretary.

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