Hi Ho, you're listening to the West Wing Weekly. I'm Josh Womalina. And I'm Rishikesh

your way. Today we're talking about season six, episode 12. It's called 365 days. Or

as I like to call it, I said, let Bartlett be Bartlett. Didn't anyone even hear me?

That's good. That's the synopsis right there. That's a renopsis. It first aired on January

19th, 2005. It was written by Mark Goffman. It was directed by Andrew Bernstein. Andrew

Bernstein, who worked for a long time as an AD on the show and steps up here and directs

an episode. He would later hire me for the episode of Psych, Doole Hill's show that I was

on. And that was very nice of him. Was he directing that episode? Yes. And as the director,

he got to hire you. Well, I guess he was involved. I'm sure knowing Doole and I think

I knew James Radeil ready. I had some friends. I was stacked. I had an inside track. Yeah.

But I always assume, even though it's usually the producers of a show and the casting director

and the people involved in a show that are kind of more important than that episodes director,

that the director usually has some say or casting is run by him. So at least Andrew Bernstein

didn't say he's difficult to work with. I know him from the West Wing. Do not hire this

man. He kept that part to himself. Exactly. Thoughts not words. Let me give you my synopsis.

It's the day after the president's final state of the union address. It was a hit, but

Toby isn't fooled by his own writing. And neither is Leo, who comes back and tries to take

a bird's eye look at what's left to be done with the scant year left in the Bartlett presidency.

But Leo's in an odd spot with other staffers switching between respectful deference towards

him and rushing off to do important pressing work that doesn't involve him. Kate deals with

crisis in Bolivia where the US is seen to be interfering with elections that maybe they

are. And it escalates into a hostage situation. Charlie tries to find a sexy way to talk about

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