Does Kara Swisher Really Want to Live Forever? Should We?
Impolitic with John Heilemann
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4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Instagram teen accounts default teens into automatic protections for who can contact them and the content they can see. |
| 0:09.4 | Explore teen accounts and all of our ongoing work to protect teens online at Instagram.com slash teen accounts. |
| 0:26.2 | Aloha Namaste and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint. |
| 0:39.6 | And for all of you out there, a vast number of people, I am certain, who spent the past few weeks struggling to cope with the more or less nonstopstop discussion of two deeply unpleasant and upsetting topics. |
| 0:41.4 | War and Donald Trump, or really the wars of Donald Trump, from his literal war in Iran |
| 0:48.0 | to his War of Words with Pope Leo the 14th to his social media war on the sensibilities |
| 0:53.8 | and sensitivities of the world's |
| 0:55.1 | two billion Muslims and 2.4 billion Christians, first by mocking Allah and dropping the F-bomb on |
| 1:02.4 | Easter Sunday, and then the next Sunday, just yesterday, posting an image of himself as Jesus. |
| 1:09.6 | Yes, Jesus, ministering to the sick. For all of you who have absorbed |
| 1:17.1 | all of that and more and need nothing more desperately, urgently, and immediately, than a |
| 1:23.1 | break, a blessed respite from all of that. Well, friends, I have some good news for you. The arrival of a new, |
| 1:31.5 | limited documentary series that I am close to 100% certain will provide you with just the kind |
| 1:36.4 | of change of pace you need. Now, you might ask why I'm so confident about that. And I'll tell you, |
| 1:42.9 | because the series in question is thoroughly diverting, engrossing, and best of all, ongoing. The first episode dropped |
| 1:49.0 | this past weekend on CNN, and the next five episodes will be premiering every Saturday at |
| 1:53.6 | 9 p.m. for the next five straight Saturday nights. Also, the topic of the series, which is |
| 2:00.2 | the science, culture, and business of longevity, |
| 2:02.6 | from the wellness industry to the quest for life extension and even immortality, is super timely, |
| 2:08.6 | infinitely rich and tied to broader topics from healthcare and economic equality, |
| 2:12.6 | to the culture of innovation and tech bro narcissism in Silicon Valley because the treatment of these |
| 2:19.1 | topics in the series is smart, probing, and bullshit free, also fun, funny, entertaining, and |
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