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Foreign. Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the world. He wasn't here on Monday because it was Memorial Day. And we played some of our very favorite clips from the last year. Jimmy Fayler is here now for happy hour. And of course, I made you bourbon smash.
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Oh, come on. This is gorgeous.
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Cheers, Jim.
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Happy everything America.
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Everything happy. 250.
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America, America point. 250. This is sexy.
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Oh, yeah.
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So talk to me about this because I catch the bourbon off the top.
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Yep.
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Because you make drinks that Bill Cosby thinks are too strong. So I do get the heavy pour of the bourbon. I do. What else happened along the way? Is there pineapple juice in this?
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There's pineapple juice, fresh lemon juice, a little bit of grenadine. My secret sweetener.
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Oh, is that.
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This is valium,
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shout out to fentanyl
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and a couple of dashes of orange bitters. Today our bourbon is Knob Creek.
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This is. And I will tell you this, it's called a drinkable cocktail. A drinkable cocktail is not so much that it's delicious because, you know, a lot of good, well made cocktails are. It's the ease with which you can drink this.
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Yeah.
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So this is the kind of drink that sounds like we're gonna have one and have a pretty reserved conversation, but it ends with me shirtless, arguing with a parking meter. Cause you don't realize you've had 81 of these.
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Yeah, no, this is one of those that deadly in a backyard.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Because like on a hot day, you could. You could sip these for a few hours.
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Oh, this is magical.
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This is. This is like on par with what we were drinking the night that you and Dean and I went to Bobby Vans and we all had a very difficult time walking. I was trying to make best friends with a high end hooker. We were smoking cigars on the street with a borrowed Bic lighter.
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Yes.
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And you were like, let me go get my car. We're driving to Atlantic City.
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I want to go gambling. And there was a guy on the street who was gambling for us because he was with a very ratchet call girl, if I remember the end of that story. Well, but shout out to Bobby Van. Still my favorite ribeye in the city.
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Isn't it funny? Like, everyone thinks they have, you know, it's like the spot like kings is really good.
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Really great.
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I love Del Frisco's. And because it's right next door, like, they will always have my heart and my wallet. There are a couple of famous ones that I've never been to. I've never been to Luger's.
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Oh, it's good, but it's not on that level.
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No.
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You know what my favorite. Honestly, if you were just gonna go pound for pound trash to the area, Bobby Van's and the place we went, Brian and Cooper, that has the Cajun ribeye.
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Yeah, that was great. The Cajun ribeye was.
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I don't know how to make that.
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Why wouldn't you have that? Like, at a food cart in the city?
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Yeah. Everyone should offer that. It's a Cajun rib eye with Cajun spices, and it'll change your life.
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Yeah, it was really wonderful. It's making me rethink the rib eye that I'm gonna make this summer in the Traeger.
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But that with this, you end up in a holding cell. Like, this is a good, drinkable, Happy Friday drink.
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Yeah.
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So thank you.
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So I wrote about this for Daily Mail. Chelsea Handler. So I worked with her for a little while at VH1. And, you know, I worked with a lot of comics at the time, and, you know, and she was just one of them. She. She had not yet broken through. She wouldn't be doing, you know, VH1 best week ever stuff. And she was very obsessed with her looks in a strangely insecure way, because I felt that she was so pretty. And, like, pretty comics have a special pass because there are plenty of unattractive ones, like, the hot ones, like, oh, you know, wow, she's got a mouth in two ways.
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Hey, all right. So, yeah.
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But then she comes out after the Kevin Hart roast, which, you know what the Kevin Hart roast is going to be. And you. You know what roasts are. And this was my problem because, you know, she came out and was criticizing Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe as racist, sexist bigots.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, so lazy. It's so lazy. Because we know. We all know the rules of the roast.
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Yeah.
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As viewers, as the roasty, and as participants. Like, it. It takes, like, it is very brave to sit there on the dais and get roasted by Netflix. Like, Tom Brady was kind of wuss afterwards.
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Like, oh, I'm so sorry, because his kids were there. They were talking about him banging chicks and everything like that.
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It's a roast.
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This is what happened.
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It's not a TED Talk.
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No.
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And it's not a church social.
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No. And this is the thing, okay? Jokes are not statements, okay. They're not declarative statements. Like, I believe this.
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I believe Kevin should be lynched from a bonsai tree like that is ye. She treated it. And as a comic who made her bones making all sorts of racist jokes.
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Yes. But now she's not a comic. She's a celebrity. And the difference is, and this is why I always argue, celebrities shouldn't really dabble in politics. It's not they don't have a right. It's not that they can't use their platform. It's that they're usually very mildly informed, meaning most of their information comes from that limited ideological bubble that they exist in. So if Chelsea Handler was like a comic, still, meaning she was in clubs every night, she would know that we moved on from criticizing the tone of jokes. Five years ago, like, literally, I wrote a New York Times best selling book about Cancel Culture in 2023.
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Yeah.
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So we're sitting here in 20, meaning in 2023, society embraced the fact that nobody wanted to go to the comedy show to ruin the guy telling jokes.
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Yes.
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But because she hasn't been engaged on
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a ground level, nobody wanted to withhold the joy of going to a comedy show for fear they were going to be offended 100%.
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And the thing is, again, when it comes to edgy jokes, when it comes to racial jokes, when it comes to jokes about tragedies, okay, the reason a lot of people tell them is because a lot of people cope and process trauma that way.
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Yes.
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A lot of people go to comedy clubs, and at the end of the show, on the way out, they're like, thank you so much. You have no idea. So and so just killed himself. So and so just died. So and so just happened. This was so cathartic. And we know that because you and I were raised in the era of the space shuttle Challenger. If you were our age when the Challenger blew up.
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And Andrew Dice Clay.
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Andrew Dice Clay. But if you. Yes. If you were in the Dice era, when the Challenger blew up, you either sat in your fourth grade classroom and cried, or you ran to the schoolyard and told dirty jokes like we did. Okay. Sadly, they were Christa McAuliffe jokes. I know that might rub some people the wrong way, but if you're 10 and you just watch the space shuttle blow up on live tv, you deserve whatever outlet we can give you. And that's what comedy is for. A lot of people do. You know, people think it's, like, mind blowing in this day and age that every comic in New York City after September 11th had to do September 11th material? Everyone. Because people who were there were there to cope. They were there for the catharsis of a group. And they weren't making fun of victims. They were just making fun of the way the world changed. All the news is trying to scare you. Oh, they got this color coding system.
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Tony Hinchcliffe told a joke at the roast. Cheryl Underwood, husband killed himself. Yeah. Cheryl Underwood, who was a co host on the Talk. Her husband took his own life. And Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke. Like, you know, he. He killed himself after two years of marriage or three years of marriage. And he said, I don't know how he made it that long. I've been on. I've been out here with you for two hours, and I want to kill myself.
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And that's great.
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Yeah.
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And she laughed and she actually said, which is funny. She went on to Shane's podcast after the fact, and she thought it was a funny joke.
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Yes. But she said that she knew that she was a target and she understood, like, she had to talk with herself before she went out there. She knew this might come. Yeah.
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But Chelsea Handler did the thing that everybody is so exhausted by. It's called, as you know, performative allyship. It's white people getting offended on behalf of other groups who didn't ask them to. Cheryl Underwood said, I like the joke. It's funny. But Chelsea Handler said, that was racist. That was uncalled for. Why? And in whose opinion? But it's because she's not out there fighting the ground war every day. That's right.
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And also, she. No one talked about her set. No one talked about her jokes. No one talked about her.
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That's the point.
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And Shane Gillis had a really funny statement.
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Epstein.
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No.
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Well, yeah. Yeah.
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Well, Steve Byrne had something about Epstein, but Shane Gillis was like, oh, good for Chelsea. You know, here's Chelsea just trying to get a little attention. All right, I'll see you at the stadium in Philly on July 17th. Meaning, like, I'm gonna go play this massive venue. And Chelsea Handler is not.
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He is selling tickets. Yeah. She was at the tip of the spear in terms of the comedic zeitgeist for about five years there. And you know what? She didn't do right with that. Cause a lot of comics actually flourished because of that show. Cause they had a lot of national exposure at the time. They were able to sell tickets, they were able to tour a little bit. But she never really became a comic. Meaning a comic. Like, your loyalty is to the joke. Your loyalty is to the people in the trenches. Those, like brothers and sisters in arms who are just here grinding out material the minute you become the whole monitor. You're not one of us. You're one of the other people.
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It's just like, who wants a scold? Especially after, like, don't participate in roast. Just don't do it.
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I know, but that's the point is
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that I think, because how are roasts different than other comedic venues? Like, roast. To me, like, there, there's only so many taboo subjects left.
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Yeah.
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Like, you are meant to not just dabble in those, but exploit them during a roast.
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100%. A roast is a lot like, you know, when you went to a video store as a kid and they had that one section that had a curtain. You know, like, if you go behind this curtain, you're gonna see some things that aren't on the regular shelves. That's the whole point of a roast. You're going behind the curtain and things are gonna go on in there.
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Yeah.
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Okay. I, I don't know. Okay. But I, I, I, it's, it makes me sad to think we're in an era where people now police jokes and they don't have a curtain because they just have a laptop.
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Yeah. The, the post mortem that we're doing is so. It is upside down, it is lazy, and it is patently false. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world. Right after this. I look at Joe Biden. You know, we talked about Jill Biden. Dr. Jill Biden. Whoopi Goldberg wanted to nominate him to be Surgeon general.
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You know who the first person to play me that clip was? I want to give him credit. Guy Benson, if you're out there. He had played it for me on my, on his show once, and I immediately clipped it. I played on my show, like, three times a week. Because whatever. The View's on. I'm like, don't forget they wanted Jill Biden to be the Surgeon General.
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And she wasn't joking.
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She goes, Dr. Jill for surgeon General.
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Yeah. I hear she's.
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Because she is an excellent doctor. She's a very good doctor. And Elizabeth Farah was like, Or Megan, whoever was there at the time goes, I don't think she's a doctor.
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Yeah.
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And she goes, oh, I mean, I could be wrong. And everybody's, like, in the audience, it started clapping because nobody knows anything at the audience of the View. They have a really good warm up comic, Regina, who I love, who is, I mean, really like an actual miracle worker. Because she fires up that crowd.
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Yes.
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So much so that they're just applauding at every inane stupidity that comes out of their mouths. It's fascinating to watch, but again, that is the power of comedy. Used the right way.
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Yes.
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This Regina gal who gets out there and opens up. It's just there to be funny.
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Yeah.
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I laugh and like her.
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I hope she makes $800,000 a year.
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I mean, in hazard pay alone. She would have to, just for the Whoopi farts. I'm kidding. Stop it.
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No, seriously, Biohazard fart pay. She's masking up not because she's scared of hantavirus or Covid.
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She wants Covid at this point.
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She has Joe Biden coming out going, you know, and I realized, like, she is a bull artist. The whole thing has been an act this entire time, all of it, you know, her pearl clutching, like, you know, oh, God, I was so worried that he was having a stroke. And I've watched that clip over and over. And then you watch, you know, the clip that you played me on your show yesterday of Biden going, and then. And then we beat Medicare.
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He literally said, at the State of the Union, now's the time to choose between unity and schmeckenna. Hemina. Hemina. He said that because they shot him up with so much B12. He used to come on TV once in a while and just scream. Do you remember that?
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Yeah.
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You know, and people would be like,
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look at his vigor.
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Yeah.
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And it's like, yeah. But the State of the union was. Was the most. Like, they had rested him in a hyperbaric chamber for days. They, you know, they wheeled him out of the crypt. Out of the crypts. And then they juiced him.
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Oh, yeah, Adderall, you name it.
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Baby laxative. And B12.
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Can I tell you what happened to him at the debate where he glitched out? It's called the reverse coffee. I don't know if you've ever had this experience, but it does happen from time to time. Sometimes you'll be tired, and it's like nine at night. You drink an iced coffee or something and. And somehow you become exponentially more tired immediately. It's like they gave you a fricking sedative. I get reverse coffee once in a while. Like one night a week. I'll drink a nice coffee too late at night, and it actually just knocks me out.
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Interesting.
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And I bet you they hit him too late in his day in, like, his biorhythm.
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Yeah.
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Like, meaning they should have shot him up. If it was a nine o' clock debate, they actually should have shot him up at 4. They probably shot him up at 8,
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they were pushing for a 6 o' clock debate. I really do.
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For sure. And you know what probably happened, which is funny, the day after the debate, he probably got out of bed like a million bucks because the drugs kicked in while he was sleeping. But they blew it. That's a great. I love that story so much. They.
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They gave him the stack.
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I love that. I've never seen Joe like this before or since. I mean, other than the time he talked to the dead woman said cannibals ate his uncle.
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Yeah. And so now, and the fact that the press is melting down that Trump has been to Walter Reed, I don't doubt there's something wrong with Trump. He's got bruised. Exactly. He's got bruised hands and swollen ankles. Like his brain is still functioning. But I don't doubt there's something wrong. But at least every time he goes to Walter Reed, his team's like, yeah, he went to Walter Reed. He had some weird thing, you know. Of course Trump gives it. Everything is perfect. It's the best physical anyone's ever had. They had an Alzheimer's specialist go to the White House like 15 times and they tried to say like, oh, no, he was just there for like a routine fun screening that they do with the interns every once in a while.
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It's just a silly game they play.
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They make sure the 20 year olds aren't getting gonna be demented bags of bones in a few years like Joe Biden is.
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Ah, I love that. I love. I'll never forget the line, cheap fakes. It was so funny. Do you remember when Obama famously grabbed Biden by the wrist?
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Yeah. It's like Jimmy Kimmel out of here and then they dragging him off stage like you embarrassing hunk of Centrum silver.
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But I love that because if you remember George Clooney, who wound up writing the op ed to knock him out of the whole thing, was at that debate and didn't say a word for three weeks. He waited till all the checks came in.
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Tens of millions of dollars because they knew that all that money was going to go to Kamala.
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Yep. That's what they were doing. They were shilling. And I'll just never forget, you know, I used to, I really grew up because I didn't work in tv, I didn't work in politics. I truly believe there was integrity on the other side of the TV screen when I was watching it as a kid.
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Yeah.
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The idea that like actual studied news anchors were getting on my TV and saying to me, no, no, this Video is a cheap fake. I can understand where from this angle that you're seeing, it's what you're seeing. Obama's leading him off by the wrist. But that's the cheap fake. They're not showing you the other angle where Biden was actually running the 110 meter hurdles. He broke a state record and Obama was lucky to keep up with the guy. And shame on Fox News, Jackie joined a curse. Shame.
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He's taking notes.
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Jackie Joyner, Biden and my good. Shame on Fox News for saying this on the Raw. And I was like, oh my God. And I didn't know that. And it's like, this has been all
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Trump here is like. And these cheap fakes.
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Like it's for, remember? And it's been. It was actually like, you know, an awakening for me because I knew, you know, people could be disingenuous and all of that. But even now after the fact, because she's still lying. Like Abby Phillips, to her credit, at least mentioned it last night, even though she spent two years telling you Biden was fine. Like, I don't give any journalist a free pass. Like Jake Tapper, who's coming around now and wrote his book Original Sin about the COVID up of Original sin because it had a nicer title than if I did it by O.J. simpson. Jake Tapper knows who covered up. But the point is, like, they were literally on our TV until they were forced not to be saying he was fine.
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Yeah. And until it became more lucrative for them to actually tell the truth that they knew all along. Because we knew it all along and we were just calling it as we watched it unfold in real time.
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The man said cannibals.
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It's not like we were developing these conspiracy theories. Cause it got us more clicks. Like we were just watching the same thing everyone else was watching. And. And we were dumbfounded that everyone at CNN and MSNBC isn't saying the exact same thing. And the whole time I was like, don't you want a better guy? Like, shouldn't you say something early?
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Thank you. Can I make tag onto this? This is why I think the Democrats don't deserve to be in power right now collectively as a group, is because they have bad instincts. And what I mean by that is they thought it was a good idea to lie about him. The good idea would have just been to primary him.
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Yes.
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Like the idea that Gavin Newsom didn't have the balls to just be like, no, look at this.
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And then patted himself on the back because being loyal, it's like.
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Yeah. Do you want to know? The truth is Gavin Newsom did not want to stake his political future against Trump.
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Yeah.
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Because he didn't know that it was an easily winnable election for him. And it's a shortened track. And I get that concern. But the reality is they should have just primaried him. The idea that their instincts told them to be like, no, no, we'll just sweep it under the rug. We'll shoot him off for the debate and we'll say he's fine.
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He'll be fine.
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They won't see him again until after
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the election committee's running everything. We all know that.
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Do you want to know what the best part about it? Jill saying she had no idea he resigned from the race via fax machine.
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What?
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Functioning cognitively, top of his game. Guy in 2024 even knows what a fax machine is, let alone issues a presidential statement. Come on, man. As you say. But it's so. The whole thing is so stupid.
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You know the thing.
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You know, the thing we hold these truths to be. I loved it. And this was amazing.
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Okay, well, here, let me take one more sip just. Just to make sure it didn't go bad. Did you see the chunks of floating pineapple?
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Oh, I did. Somebody got the good Whole Foods fruit.
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Yeah.
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You could always.
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Mara did.
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Yeah, Mara. Shout out to Mara. By the way, Whole Foods fruit has been on point this spring. I buy a lot of it. I don't eat it. I just walk around the lobby so the executives see me. I buy a lot of salads and fruits from there and then I throw them out.
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It's actually a five gallon bucket.
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Yeah. Before the.
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And he just fills it up.
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Right. Then I meet the pizza guy around the back alley.
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The top lay kiwi, dragon fruit, cantaloupe, and of course, pineapple. You know, it's like making it seem like he's indulging in the antioxidants. The rest of it is charcuterie. It's finally chopped his greasy little fingers
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and they're like, oh, we got. That's all I got in this world is food.
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All right, Jim, thanks for stopping by on a Friday.
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Happy everything, America.
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We'll be watching you tomorrow night. Yes.
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Hot day.
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Fox News Saturday night.
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Gonna be a heater.
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This has been Kennedy saves the World along with Jimmy Fala. I'm Kenna Dalia. Listen ad free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple podcasts and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News podcast network.