Hello, I'm Namaste everyone, and welcome to In Politics with John Heilman, a Puck and Odyssey joint featuring fresh topical

candy conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America

from Washington to Wall Street Silicon Valley Hollywood and beyond

shifting and shaping the warp and weft of our politics and culture.

On this Columbus Day, aka Indigenous People's Day, we are launching the all new Monday edition of

the podcast, which will be doing alongside our usual Wednesday and Friday drops from now until the end of January.

When if all goes well we will have successfully and we hope peacefully inaugurated a new

president of the United States at which point team in politics will feel

comfortable taking our foot off the gas and returning to our usual twice a week

cadence and for this our first Monday episode we have a very special treat as we're joined by the one and only James Carville, the most famous and famously Cantankerous political consultant in the known universe.

Also the star of the fabulous new documentary, Carville, Winning is Everything,

Stupid.

Directed by our other guest today, Matt Tainauer.

The documentary premiered recently on CNN, where it'll be airing again,

I am reliably informed at various points between now and election day,

after which you will be able to stream it on Max.

Or, if you happen to be in one of the select cities around the country where it's showing in

theater screens over the course of this next month, you can catch it there too.

It's certainly happening in New York City and then it's going a little wider over the course

the next couple weeks.

30 years after the war room, DA Pena Baker and Chris Hedges' Academy Award nominated documentary

about Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for president helped turn James and George Stephanopoulos into celebrities and cultural icons

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