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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #121 | #111 | — |
| Oct 26 | #116 | #111 | #100 |
| Oct 25 | #107 | #99 | #96 |
| Oct 24 | #99 | #91 | #95 |
| Oct 21 | #130 | #124 | — |
| Oct 20 | #84 | #73 | #66 |
| Oct 19 | #142 | #135 | — |
| Oct 18 | #131 | #123 | — |
| Oct 17 | #162 | #155 | — |
| Oct 14 | #183 | #177 | — |
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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic. A Puck-Audacy joint, new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.