Aaron Sorkin, Live From D.C.

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In a special live episode, Matt and Puck colleague Peter Hamby are joined by screenwriter, playwright, and film director Aaron Sorkin to discuss the current state of Hollywood, the impact of AI on writers, politics, why he fired his agents, and much more. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Aaron Sorkin and Peter Hamby Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on with Kate Middleton?
0:02.5	Which cult is popping off right now?
0:04.5	What the hell is a trad wife?
0:06.8	And why are we so obsessed with them?
0:09.1	I'm Jody Walker.
0:10.4	And I'm Chelsea Stark Jones.
0:12.5	And we're obsessed.
0:14.3	Obsessed with all the pop culture happenings,
0:16.7	filling our group chats and 4U pages.
0:19.1	And we want to talk about them with you.
0:21.5	Our new show, We're Obsessed, is for all the things we're loving, buying, watching,
0:26.6	listening to, and spiraling over right now.
0:29.5	Follow the ringer dish feed on Spotify to listen to We're Obsessed every Friday.
0:37.2	It is Friday, April 26th.
0:39.6	I'm in Washington, D.C. this week for some events around the White House
0:42.9	Correspondence Dinner, the nerd prom, which is not really my thing.
0:46.9	It's actually kind of lame.
0:48.3	But Puck, where I work, hosted a nice party last night.
0:51.4	And at the party, I got the chance to interview Aaron Sorkin
0:54.6	live with my colleague Peter Hamby. Sorkin is always great and here in D.C. he's kind of a
0:59.5	hero thanks to creating the West Wing besides being one of the greatest screenwriters, Sorkin
1:03.6	won is Oscar for the social network and created shows like I said the West Wing sports
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