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Inside the Hive

Director Errol Morris on Bannon, Holmes, and the Scam of the Century

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Is Steve Bannon a white nationalist, a patriot, or something way more sinister? Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris joins Nick to discuss his new film about the Trump White House, the rise of the alt-right, and why Bannon might be the biggest hypocrite in the history of politics. Plus: the latest juicy gossip about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.8

A thrilling!

0:30.8

Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. So I just want to

0:38.4

apologize in advance because I sound very raspy and that's because I'm just

0:41.9

getting over a bout of bronchitis.

0:44.8

It will be worth listening to a voice that sounds a little like sandpaper because my guest

0:49.3

this week is a fascinating individual who has directed some of the biggest documentaries in the last two, three decades.

0:55.8

His name is Errol Morris. He won an Academy Award for the Fog of War. He did the very famous film, The Thin Blue Line, the Act of Killing. We're

1:05.5

going to get into a little bit of all of those, but we're really going to talk

1:07.8

today about his new movie, American Darma, which looks at Stephen Bannon and spends quite a lot of time with him

1:15.3

in relation to how he has driven this kind of white nationalist movement throughout

1:19.6

the country the rise of Trump all the things that we're seeing happening today in the world

1:25.1

as a result of the last few years. I watched the documentary this week and it was

1:30.7

truly fascinating. It made me think that Steve Bannon is a complete

1:34.5

psychopath and so I'm very excited to hear if Errol thinks the same thing and we're

1:38.6

going to probably bounce around to a few other topics including Elizabeth Holmes. So without further ado,

1:44.8

Errol Morris. Hi there, how are you? Thanks for joining us. This is very exciting.

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