6.16: Drought Conditions (with Debora Cahn and Richard Schiff)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week, we’re joined by Debora Cahn, to talk about her script for "Drought Conditions," and by Richard Schiff, to talk about his heartbreaking performance in it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:09.4	And I'm Josh Waulina.
0:11.2	And today we're talking about drought conditions. It's episode 16 from season 6.
0:15.9	This episode was written by Debra Khan. It was directed by Alex Graves and at first aired
0:21.2	on television on February 23rd, 2005.
0:25.3	In this episode, the campaign story and the White House story come back together. We
0:29.1	spent the last few episodes bouncing back and forth between the campaign primary trail
0:33.4	and the West Wing. But now, because of a DNC gala, all of our characters will be under
0:37.5	one roof. But in the middle of the fight for a new president and in the wake of Toby's
0:41.9	brother's recent death, not all as well. Toby and Josh crash into each other with words
0:46.8	and fists and Kate Harper and Will Bailey end up silently flirting and looking like they
0:51.5	want to crash into each other with other body parts. And we're joined for this episode
0:56.4	by a very special guest, writer Debra Khan.
0:58.9	Hello.
1:00.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:01.1	I'm so happy to be here.
1:03.0	Right. The first time I must have been fun or you wouldn't be back.
1:05.7	It was so fun.
1:06.8	It really was. There was wine.
1:08.6	It was far more fun than I had anticipated.
1:11.5	This is a great episode.
1:13.0	Aww.
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