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Bonus Ep! Remembering 'Meathead': Rob Reiner's Amazing Career

Bonus Ep! Remembering 'Meathead': Rob Reiner's Amazing Career

Update: 2025-12-17
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Rob Reiner was an actor, director, and political activist who left an enduring mark on American culture. Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their Hollywood home on Dec. 14. Their son has been arrested and charged with murder. In this episode, historian Benjamin Louis Rolsky reflects on Reiner's remarkable show business career, as well as his political activism, which followed in the footsteps of his role model, Norman Lear.

Recommended reading:

The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond by Benjamin Louis Rolsky

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Bonus Ep! Remembering 'Meathead': Rob Reiner's Amazing Career

Bonus Ep! Remembering 'Meathead': Rob Reiner's Amazing Career