Aaron Sorkin

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Over the past three decades, Aaron Sorkin has staked a claim as America’s most renowned film and television writer. With a list of credits that runs from "A Few Good Men," "The American President, "The Social Network," and "Moneyball" on the big screen to "Sports Night," "The Newsroom," and his crowning achievement, "The West Wing," on TV, Sorkin's work has achieved vast popular success, critical acclaim, and cultural resonance. On this week’s episode, Hell & High Water continues its year-end review, with Heilemann and Sorkin discussing how COVID-19, Trump's final year in office, and the racial justice movement affected Hollywood in general and three of Sorkin's projects in particular: his stage version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," the reunion episode of "The West Wing," and his film "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Sorkin also offers his lists of top TV shows and movies of the year — and his favorite political films of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.6	Hey everyone, John Hauman here and welcome to Hell in High Water.
0:54.6	I'm Cass about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon.
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1:02.6	Often wrong, but rarely in doubt, exercise in elevated gas baggery.
1:07.6	Then neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night nor the toxic rantings of the net has to write.
1:13.6	A president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election in stage an auto coup,
1:18.6	complete with an armed insurrection at the United States capital, nor more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly.
1:23.6	The capture of a desiccized chunk of our political, social and civic spheres by a cadre of incoherent, insidious, conspiracy-addled,
1:31.6	autocracy craving, authoritarian worshiping lunatics, hustlers, grifters, nihilists, and nincompoops.
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