7.16: Election Day, Part 1 (with Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Michael Hissrich)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week’s episode is one of love and loss, but with our guests this week, we’re celebrating the joyful side. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich wrote this episode, and she and her husband, West Wing line producer Michael Hissrich, join us to tell us how their path together mirrored and influenced Josh and Donna’s.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly.
0:08.9	This is Joshua Molina.
0:10.7	And this is Rishikesh Hereway.
0:12.4	Today we're talking about episode 16 from season 7, Election Day Part 1.
0:17.1	It was directed by Mimi Leiter.
0:18.8	It was written by Lauren Schmidt and it first aired on April 2nd, 2006.
0:24.2	Lauren Schmidt is now Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as she is married to West Wing Line producer
0:28.5	Michael Hissrich and the two of them are our guests on this episode.
0:31.9	Later today we'll hear from both of them.
0:33.8	Hazal.
0:34.8	And Mimi Leiter who directed this episode directed the pilot of Apple TV Plus' new The Morning
0:43.0	Show.
0:44.0	Oh really?
0:45.0	Have you seen that yet?
0:46.0	I have not.
0:47.0	Nor have I, although I'm really looking forward to it.
0:48.7	Well Mimi Leiter was nominated for Best Directing Emmy for the season of the West Wing
0:54.4	based in part on this episode.
0:55.9	Yeah.
0:56.9	She's terrific, very talented.
0:57.9	And she deserves a lot of credit.
0:58.9	I enjoyed this episode as a sort of kind of ambiance experience if that's the English
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