You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi Keish here way.

And I'm Josh Wilmelina. And today we're talking about the wake up call from season 6,

its episode 14.

It was written by friend of the podcast Josh Singer. It was directed by possibly Hates

Me, Laura Innis.

True? Well, you know that story.

Remind me?

When she gave me her whole spiel on going into a scene, how she wanted to work, and I responded

with so bottom line, happy face or sad face.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, and she was not amused.

Right, right, right, right.

This episode first aired on February 9th, 2005.

In this episode, an Iranian fighter jet accidentally shoots down a British passenger plane, killing

everyone on board. But CJ is reluctant to wake up the president because he is dealing

with his MS. And he needs a lot of sleep. And he stayed up really late the night before

talking to Christopher Lloyd playing real life law professor Lawrence Lessig.

Yes, that synopsis, even I think points to one of my problems with this episode. It sounds

silly. The killing everyone on board. But CJ doesn't want to wake the president because

he needs his sleep.

And the reason why Lawrence Lessig is at the White House is because he and Toby are working

to try and help representatives of Belarus, we're trying to craft a constitution for their

country. And then there's this other stuff about a visit from Miss World.

...