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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Jordan Klepper: Reiners R.I.P. & The Year in Late Night Comedy

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

Politics, News

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

John welcomes The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper back to the show for a fond remembrance of the lives and legendary film and television careers of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner. Klepper also discusses his latest Daily Show special, which took him from Mississippi to Norway to Portland, Oregon, where he took part in a naked anti-ICE protest and got pepper-sprayed in the process; the challenges of finding the funny amid the fear and loathing that have typified the Trump 2.0 era; and the sword of Damocles that hung over late night comedy in the year of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and Stephen Colbert’s cancellation. See all the ways bp is investing in America at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bp.com/InvestingInAmerica⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

InPolitic with John Heilman is presented by BP.

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Lunas, New Mexico.

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Phil, who grew up in Los Lunas, has seen the positive impact that Meta's ongoing $600 billion

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investment in American jobs and infrastructure

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will bring.

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I had to travel for work.

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Missing moments, I can't get back.

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Then Meta opened a data center and brought new jobs.

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Now, I don't worry about missing out anymore.

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Learn more about Meta's investment at meta.com slash building America.

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Music more about Meta's investment at Meta.com slash Building America.

0:46.8

Aloha and Namaste, everyone, and welcome Tim Politic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors

0:51.2

of power in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

0:56.4

In the wake of the brutal, horrific, unspeakable, unfathomable, gut-wrenching, soul-destroying double murder of legendary film and television actor-director,

1:08.1

deeply committed and remarkably effective progressive activist, and ever-joyful,

1:12.9

reliably hilarious, and profoundly menshe, Rob Reiner, and his wife and frequent producing

1:18.0

partner Michelle Singer-Riner on December 14th. It seemed imperative to devote at least part

1:23.6

of the next episode we recorded, i.e. this episode, to a tribute and fond remembrance of

1:30.1

these magical humans whose work on screen and off touched the lives of millions and permeated

1:34.6

the culture in ways that are likely impossible and certainly difficult to comprehend in our

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