From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

We don't sit around going, oh, Trump's going to be in Saudi Arabia on Sunday the 21st.

We should write an episode about Qatar.

We wrote an episode about Qatar that we planned out last June, and then these things happen.

And that's just Veep.

TV writer-producer David Mandel is asked constantly if HBO's Veep is based on real-life

politics.

But the truth is that real life ends up imitating situations that seemed kind of crazy when he

and the rest of the Veep writers made them up.

Mandel tells us about overseeing Veep in the age of Trump, keeping track of the show's

relentless torrent of vicious insults, and how his wife's hands inspired. tells us about overseeing Veep in the age of Trump, keeping track of the show's relentless

torrent of vicious insults, and how his wife's hands inspired one of the most famous episodes

of Seinfeld. But first on the news banter, J.P. Morgan backs away from Megan Kelly, Delta

and Bank of America flee Julius Caesar. Everything is political. Stick around. It's the business from

KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So a lot of things have become really political.

For some reason, Matt, and I say this, and it struck me, I saw one of the summer

blockbusters that's not coming out for a while yet.

But what I have noticed is that every single one of these movies that I've seen so far,

these big comic book type franchise movies, even, you know, Disney animated movie like Zootopia,

they all seem political now. And we're once again seeing a replay of where art and politics

are becoming very entangled. And I say once again, because we had a big blow up about this

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