Series Finale of the Trump Show?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan ask the question: If this reality-TV presidency was scripted, how might it end? Expanding on a special project published in the Hive this week—in which Susan Orlean, Tom Perrotta, Anthony Scaramucci, Alexandra Petri and others imagine a Trump-era “finale”—the hosts bring in special guest Lee Eisenberg, former head writer of The Office (and Hive-famous financée to Fox), to discuss how a writer’s room in Hollywood might build a bookend to the series—or, as the case may be, a cliffhanger to another season of Trumpian hell. In the spirit of both hope and realism, the hosts offer advice for surviving the next week and begin (carefully) imagining post-election possibilities for a nation desperate to wean itself from Trump’s show-and-awe dopamine hits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Inside the Hive. I am Emily Jane Fox. I'm here with my co-host Joe
0:08.2	Hagen. Joe, we have so much to talk about. We have a special guest but we're going to come back to him in a little bit
0:17.9	first I want to say hi I'm I missed you last week second I want to say it does not seem real that we are at the
0:28.9	very very very last leg of this race and third most pressingly I want to hear about what you've
0:36.7	been working on because you've been working on in a really incredible project
0:40.1	that I think is going to launch us into a discussion today. So go. Well first of all let me ask you this is
0:46.6	are we in the de noumont is that what this is technically? I think technically that's the term.
0:56.5	Right we're in the yeah we're in the we're in the we're reaching the final stage of the arc we've been in we're hoping
1:02.4	it's final we've been in. We're hoping it's final. We've been talking about that ever
1:07.1	since we took hold of these microphones many, many months ago. And so I've been thinking a couple of weeks ago while Trump was
1:18.2	going up to the balcony of the White House and ripping his mask off,
1:22.9	like in his Evita Mussolini impersonation.
1:27.2	I just remembered thinking,
1:29.8	it's just never ending the hairpin turns that we have to endure, the shock news
1:37.4	cycle that this president has dragged us through for four years. And you know constantly people when they saw that they were like you know if you wrote this into a TV show no one would believe it we've all heard that expression and it's you know in this age when we are all serialized television experts you know
1:58.0	we've been living in a reality TV show how how do people think it will end I kept and I was having conversations with friends and we would just speculate about
2:07.2	It's gone to such mad king
2:10.0	sort of level
2:19.2	Maybe somebody has to save the country from the inside, but maybe there would be a betrayer from the inner family circle. Maybe in my personal fantasy was a Baron you know the kind of like we don't really
2:27.0	know anything about him he's like Peter Sellers and being there right for
2:30.6	yourself yeah yeah you might know about him but in my mind he's just sort of a blank page so I could write into him that he would somehow either buy purpose or accidentally save the country. I love that.
2:43.0	I love it.
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