A ravenous pandemic. A ruinous recession.

Protest riots, racial strife, police brutality, and yes, Donald Trump.

I'm John Hyalman and in Hell and High Water, I'll explore this moment in a series of raw

and real conversations with the people who shape our culture.

2020 feels like apocalypse now. Again.

Having consumed every psychedelic known to man I'm familiar with bad trips.

But nothing could prepare me, or any of us, for the bone jarring, psyche-scarring moment

we're living through right now.

You've heard the phrase come hell or high water?

Well, right now we're facing both hell and high water and it's going to leave a mark.

Even before COVID-19 America seemed to be

careening towards total system failure.

The division and just trust, the partisanship and polarization.

A pervasive loss of faith in major institutions, Washington Wall Street,

Fortune 500, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, religion, even sports.

Then throw in the worst pandemic since 1918.

The worst economy since the 1930s and the most serious racial reckoning since the 1960s.

And no wonder it feels like the end is not.

But I'm here to tell you, all is not lost.

If every crisis is also an opportunity, then the overlapping, super duper mega monster crises

of today offer a chance to re-imagine and rebuild everything that's broken.

Meaning, pretty much everything.

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