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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Tenacious D

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

When Jack Black and Kyle Gass formed the mock-rock band Tenacious D in 1994, they were just a pair of unknown members of The Actors' Gang in LA with a spiritual and satirical kinship with Spinal Tap, a penchant for R-rated lyrics about their sexual prowess and prodigious cannabis consumption, and surprisingly serious musical chops. Twenty-six years later, Tenacious D has accumulated a large and passionate following, released three platinum albums and a feature film, and won a Grammy Award — and Black, of course, has become a movie star. In this final 2020 episode of Hell & High Water, Heilemann talks with Black and Gass about the group's turn towards the political following Donald Trump's election, from its "South Park"-flavored album/YouTube series/graphic novel "Post-Apocalypto" to its viral, celebrity-studded, get-out-the-vote video cover of "Time Warp" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (which included Heilemann) ... as well as Black's breakout role in "High Fidelity," his wildly popular quarantine videos on TikTok, and Tenacious D's top five records for celebrating the end of the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 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

There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating on your local takeaway,

0:06.2

the setting on your razor, and whether the party actually is fancy dress.

0:11.1

The other thing you should check is your Experian credit report, especially if you're looking to borrow money.

0:17.2

It lets you understand what lenders see, so you can increase your chances of getting the best deals.

0:22.8

It's dead easy to check it and completely free.

0:26.6

See it in seconds. Download the Experian app today.

0:30.4

At LinkedIn, we know hiring is a big deal for your small business.

0:34.4

Sometimes it can feel a little overwhelming.

0:37.0

LinkedIn uses data that you can't

0:38.9

find anywhere else to find you the best candidates. Also, you can feel confident you're hiring the

0:43.9

best person for the job and even a little hiring bliss. See why 86% of small businesses who post

0:50.8

a job on LinkedIn get a qualified candidate within a day. Post a job for free at LinkedIn.com slash agree.

0:57.5

LinkedIn.

0:58.2

Your next great hire is here.

1:00.1

Hey, everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Helen Highwater, my podcast about politics and culture

1:04.3

on the edge of Armageddon.

1:06.4

It's a determined, if dubious, committed if cuckoo for cocoa puffs, often wrong but rarely in doubt

1:12.6

exercise in elevated gas baggery that neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the toxic

1:20.3

rantings of the Nuthouse Right, a president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election and

1:25.2

staged an auto coup complete with an armed insurrection at the United States Capitol,

1:29.3

nor more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly,

1:33.1

the capture of a decent-sized chunk of our political, social, and civic spheres

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