Hello folks and welcome back to the West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.

And I'm Rashique Sherway. Today we're talking about the premiere of season 4. It's called

20 Hours in America, part 1. It was written by Aaron Sorkin, it was directed by Christopher

Missiano, and it first aired on September 25th, 2002. Part 2 of 20 Hours in America aired

on the same date, but we're going to wait another week before we get into the second half

of the premiere. That's right, we're pacing ourselves. Coming up later, we'll be joined

by actor John Gallagher Jr., who played Tyler, the young campaign volunteer who drove Toby

Josh and Donna through Indiana. In this episode, the president campaigns in Indiana, and we discover

that Kumar is reopening the investigation into Sheree's death. Josh and Toby get left behind

by the motorcade, which means that a sleep deprived Sam has to staff the president when

he returns to the White House. There's other stuff that happens to involving rolling

pins and finding a big brother for Anthony, but these are the main plot points.

Indeed, there's a lot going on. It's a biggie. This two-part season opener, ambitious,

broad in scope, takes us places we've never been before. We get out of the house, so to

speak. I like it. Yeah. It was nominated for Outstanding Art Direction, and this is

one of the episodes submitted for Bradley Whitford's supporting actor nomination that he got

for the season, and the West Wing won Outstanding Drama for the fourth season, and this is

one of the episodes submitted for that. That's right. I guess I'll talk about it when

it's appropriate, but I was able to go to the Emmys for that fourth win. That must have

been exciting. It was. It was a lot of fun. This episode takes place in Indiana, or large

part of it, takes place in Indiana. That was actually shot in Pennsylvania. It was shot

at the end of August in 2002. There's a note in the episode at one point, Bruno

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