The Sorkincast

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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If you're a longtime listener you'll remember that a few of the staff have a, lets say, complicated relationship with Aaron Sorkin. So in a year where he releases both a movie and a West Wing reunion special, there was a non-zero chance that we'd need to podcast about him. Join Rob and Gita as they discuss The West Wing Reunion, a special that has the cast of The West Wing slip into their old roles with ease, with writing that magnifies some of Sorkin's odd characterizations of the woman in the show. After the break, they discuss The Trial of the Chicago Seven, where Sorkin's editorial choices of what to include from this historic event and what to alter lay bare his unimaginative neoliberalism while simultaneously attempting to co-opt a moment where staunch leftists were harassed while the country watched along.

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0:00.0	What's good internet?
0:25.0	It's some time during the holidays and you're listening to Waypoint Radio.
0:29.0	I'm Gita Jackson.
0:39.0	We are going to be talking about Aaron Sorkin's magical autumn.
0:46.0	This fall, Aaron Sorkin returned to the cultural news,
0:52.0	with two things that released within a few weeks of each other.
0:58.0	The first was a, get out the vote special,
1:03.0	that he and the cast of the West Wing put on in advance of the election.
1:08.0	The When We All Vote West Wing special, where they did a live reading of Hartzfield's landing,
1:17.0	an episode from the West Wing that takes place as the first votes are being cast in a primary in New Hampshire.
1:26.0	Then he also released a movie for Netflix called The Trial of the Chicago Seven.
1:32.0	And that is about, well, I mean, it's about the title.
1:37.0	But Gita, you want to give the, the, the, the, the, the set up for trial of the Chicago Seven?
1:41.0	It's about the trial of Abby Hoppin and some other less well known leftist activists
1:49.0	for inciting a right at the 1967 Chicago Democratic Convention,
1:54.0	where it was widely known as being an absolute circus that lasted for months,
2:00.0	based on Trumped up charges and completely made up by the government.
2:03.0	And Aaron Sorkin has an interpretation of those events.
2:08.0	Yeah. I think, you know, Gita, I think the last time we talked about Aaron Sorkin,
2:15.0	we were talking about his to kill a mockingbird productions.
2:19.0	And I think we both had a feeling that this is a guy who on one level,
2:23.0	sense his times have changed, that like the politics have shifted
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