6.08: In the Room (with Penn & Teller)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Join us in the room to discuss "In the Room," in which the President’s need to be 'in the room' in China is the central topic of discussion in the room—President Room—the Oval Office. We’re joined by magicians Penn & Teller, who light a flag on fire in the (East) Room in this episode. Or did they? (They didn’t.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly, I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.4	And I'm Rishi Kei Shereway.
0:12.1	Today we're talking about, in the room, its episode 8 from season 6.
0:16.4	It was written by Lawrence O'Donnell Jr.
0:18.9	It was directed by Alex Graves, at first aired on December 8, 2004.
0:24.5	In this episode, at Zoey's birthday party, the magician's pen and teller perform a trick
0:28.5	that looks like they burned the American flag in the White House.
0:31.7	The president, CJ, and a lot of people who aren't Josh Lyman get ready for the China
0:35.6	Summit.
0:36.6	Josh instead has to deal with Will and the vice president's presidential campaign dreams.
0:41.5	But while on board Air Force 1, the president's MS symptoms get worse than ever before.
0:46.0	Its crisis not just of his health, but of publicity and international diplomacy.
0:50.0	Man, that sounds good.
0:51.3	I think it was pretty good.
0:52.6	I did too.
0:53.6	I really, really liked this episode.
0:56.0	And coming up later in our episode, we're going to be joined by two special guests,
0:59.8	Pen and Teller.
1:00.8	Very exciting.
1:02.4	And they start this episode.
1:04.2	In the teaser, they're performing for Zoey's birthday, and they do this flag burning trick.
1:09.6	We can take a, some tinder in a very eccentric magic wand, and we can do this.
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