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The West Wing Weekly

6.05: The Hubbert Peak

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, a little chess, to test cognitive ability. First move: SUV to Prius. What's the opposite of checkmate?

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0:00.0

You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway.

0:08.9

And I'm Joshua Molina.

0:10.3

And today we're talking about episode 5 from season 6. It's called The Hubbard Peak.

0:15.7

Welcome to a new year of The West Wing Weekly.

0:19.4

This episode was written by Peter Noah. It was directed by Julie Abert and at first aired on November 17th, 2004.

0:28.3

Here is my synopsis.

0:30.3

In this episode, Josh learns about, quote,

0:32.8

web logs after crashing an enormous SUV into a Prius.

0:37.4

Annebeth, like a wingman at a bar with a single friend, tries to help Toby up his briefing game.

0:42.8

Charlie is forced out of his prestigious White House job by his ex-girlfriend,

0:46.4

but it's actually an act of kindness, possibly.

0:48.9

Leo's removed from the action but exerts some power and love from his hotel room as he insists

0:53.8

that CJ play chess with the president to keep an eye on his executive brain function.

0:58.0

This is your work, right? Yes. That was exquisite.

1:01.2

I see. So we're going to try in 2019. I wish you had warned me.

1:05.6

I'm, you know, at least for the first week before it all peeders out.

1:10.0

Coming in strong. Yeah.

1:11.2

Hashtag start strong.

1:13.5

Hashtag sputter out quickly. That's right.

1:16.8

Web log. Web log. He's so nerdy.

1:22.8

Well, as you mentioned, this is November 2004 in fairness.

1:26.2

So I give latitude to the show for doing a little explaining as to what a blog is.

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