Happy Hour: Kennedy's Bachelorette Bash

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Kennedy Saves the World

Episode: Happy Hour: Kennedy's Bachelorette Bash
Date: July 31, 2026
Host: Kennedy
Guests: Jenny, Emily, Madison

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Episode Overview

This celebratory episode brings listeners into Kennedy’s surprise bachelorette party, featuring candid and comedic banter between Kennedy and her close friends. They share memories, wedding plans, relationship advice, and hilarious stories—offering an unfiltered, fun-loving look at friendship, anticipation for Kennedy’s Hawaii wedding, and musings on the “factory settings” that make relationships last.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Surprise Bachelorette Party Kickoff

• The episode begins mid-party with Kennedy and friends reacting to the spontaneous celebration.
• Immediate party atmosphere, joking about champagne and wedding misadventures.
  • Jenny: “Your friends are here. I can't even believe it.” (01:15)
  • Kennedy: “Hello, and welcome to the Kennedy Saves the World surprise bachelorette party.” (01:22)

2. Wedding Planning, Dress, and Vibes

• Kennedy describes her wedding aesthetic as “mermaid vibe”—a blend of Coney Island flair and Hawaii beach style.
• Dress designed by her friend, noted designer Heidi Merrick.
  • Kennedy: “She’s making my dress... I really just gave her one directive, like, I want to be able to dance in it.” (03:44)
  • Friends recount the dress fitting at the party, comparing fashion moments and sharing Kennedy’s surprise when a friend arrives as she’s wearing the gown.

3. Playlist Planning: Dance Floor Philosophy

• Kennedy and fiancé Fred are curating their playlist to ensure an energetic, dance-driven reception, interspersed with slow “change up” songs to let guests catch their breath.
  • Emily: “I am excited for the dance. I think that this is a dancey crew.” (05:20)
  • Madison: “You need to have songs where people can take a break... It’s okay to have that in there.” (06:16)
• Nostalgia for karaoke nights and pandemic Zoom cocktail parties forms comedic, relatable asides about friendship, drinking, and making the best out of tough times.
  • Jenny: “That's how I knew I was a bad drinker when I got kicked out of a Zoom cocktail party.” (05:56)

4. Storytime: Fred’s Wild Driving & Relationship Dynamics

• The group shares stories about Fred’s reckless—yet fun—driving style, relating it to their philosophy of embracing fun in life and marriage.
  • Jenny: “Fred might have been the worst experience I’ve had...because he drives like a hazing ritual.” (07:08)
  • Kennedy: “I think that’s part of the key to a successful marriage, is you’re always gravitating towards the fun.” (07:36)
• Metaphors from pop culture (e.g., the orchestra from Titanic) underscore the importance of finding joy even in chaos.

5. Destination Wedding Strategy

• Kennedy details her laid-back approach to wedding planning: focus on essentials (cake, dance floor, booze, friends), minimize stress.
  • Kennedy: “With a destination wedding... it’s going to be so hard to screw that up... Our friends and family will be there... everyone knows how to have a good time.” (08:56)
  • On second weddings: “Pressure’s kind of off... being able to throw it to someone else... no, just you go ahead and pick.” (09:37)
• Running joke about strong drinks and aggressive bartending at Kennedy’s social events.
  • Jenny: “Bill Cosby thinks your drinks are too short.” (10:03)

6. Marriage Wisdom: Fun over Drama

• The group riffs on wedding horror stories, cake disasters, and the importance of chemistry rooted in shared fun rather than perfect planning.
  • Jenny: “If the common interest is fun and not drama, you have a shot.” (10:18)
  • Kennedy: “That’s what we were saying... Life shouldn’t be like that.” (10:47)
• Extended riff about embracing the unexpected, referencing “love the gimp you’re with.” (11:16)

7. Future Plans—Kids and Travel

• Kennedy and Fred plan to travel for a few years before considering children, joking about expectations for parenthood.
  • Kennedy: “We want to travel... we want to wait a few... What kind of parents would we be?” (11:35-11:43)

8. Wedding Playlist—American Classics & Party Anthems

• Friends suggest essential wedding songs, from “Billy Idol’s White Wedding,” to “Humpty Dance,” “Get Down On It,” “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” and “Footloose.”
  • Jenny: “The universally most accepted song is the Humpty Dance.” (13:43)
  • Emily: “You need some Kool and the Gang—Get Down On It.” (14:15)
• Discussion of classic rituals—dollar dance, chicken dance, old-time favorites, and wild stories from past weddings, including bartending at Ja Rule’s wedding.

9. Marriage Longevity & ‘Factory Settings’ Philosophy

• Jenny reflects on her 20 years of marriage—unexpected and full of mishaps—emphasizing the need to laugh, adapt, and stick to the “factory settings” that drew a couple together.
  • Jenny: “Every marriage at the time you decided to get married, you have factory settings... If you remember that... and you stay true to them, you actually can succeed.” (23:03)
  • Kennedy: “That’s why it’s so different getting married in your 20s versus your 40s and 50s... The casserole is set.” (24:02, 24:07)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Bachelorette Party Chaos
  “This thing’s going straight to hell. Hey, to you and Fred.” — Jenny (02:51)

• On Wedding Planning
  “I really just gave her one directive, like, I want to be able to dance in it.” — Kennedy (03:44)

• On Embracing Fun
  “We’re all in the fun business, man. This applies to every conversation you’ll ever have in your life. Just go have fun.” — Jenny (07:42)

• On Old Wedding Traditions
  “People pin money to the bride’s dress... It’s in case the marriage tanks and she has to strip to pay child support.” — Jenny (16:36)

• Realism about Marriage
  “If the common interest is fun and not drama, you have a shot.” — Jenny (10:18) “All gas, no brakes.” — Kennedy (07:40)

• Marriage and Change
  “If you remember that those are your factory settings, and you stay true to them, you actually can succeed.” — Jenny (23:03) “That’s why it’s so different getting married in your 20s versus your 40s and 50s.” — Kennedy (24:02)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Bachelorette Surprise! – 01:10–02:34
• Dress & Fashion Discussion – 03:31–05:01
• Dance Music & Playlist Philosophy – 05:20–06:39
• Fred’s Driving & Marriage Attitude – 07:07–07:36
• Wild Wedding Planning Stories – 08:56–11:18
• Advice for Fun Marriages – 10:18–10:39
• Plans for Kids – 11:35–11:43
• Wedding Song Suggestions & Rituals – 13:00–15:11
• Long-Term Marriage Reflection – 16:07–18:38
• Explosion Jokes / Pyrotechnics – 18:52–19:39
• Classic Wedding Anthems – 20:03–21:10
• ‘Factory Settings’ & Growth in Marriage – 23:02–24:09

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Tone & Style

• Playful, irreverent, and full of inside jokes and pop culture references
• Honest but affectionate approach to marriage and friendship
• Rapid-fire banter, self-deprecation, and supportive camaraderie throughout
• Notable for combining real advice with humor and relatability

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In summary:
This episode of Kennedy Saves the World captures the joy, unpredictability, and life lessons that come with friendship, wedding planning, and long-term relationships—peppered with the host’s signature humor and a what-really-matters philosophy. Whether you’re contemplating marriage or just yearning for joyful, real talk about love and celebration, this episode delivers a dose of candor—and plenty to laugh about.

Transcript

[Kennedy]

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Holy hot dog.

Yay.

[Jenny]

Your friends are here. I can't even believe it. Your friends are in the stage. D out.

[Emily]

Hi. We love you.

[Madison]

Amazing.

[Jenny]

Oh, my God.

[Kennedy]

Hello, and welcome to the Kennedy Saves the World surprise bachelorette party.

[Jenny]

Oh, God. We were all surprised by that.

[Emily]

This one needs a bottle at least.

[Madison]

We all had practice at the White

[Emily]

House Correspondence center, so I knew to

[Madison]

just hit the deck when there was a loud pop.

[Jenny]

This does take me back to the correspondence dinner. A loud pop. Run to the table.

[Kennedy]

Steel shampoo.

[Jenny]

Send it in here.

[Kennedy]

Oh, thanks.

[Madison]

J.

[Emily]

Is that.

[Madison]

Is that pop off or is it.

[Kennedy]

No, we need a. They're. They're getting one, though. Y. They've already sent reinforcements.

[Emily]

I know that you'd have a bottle opener there.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, and the moms are already half in the bag, like. Ah, it's okay. They'll figure it out.

[Jenny]

I don't have one. Use your teeth, Madison. Use your teeth, Emily.

[Madison]

I'm having the number five today.

[Emily]

So have the bottle.

[Jenny]

Nobody knows what day you tape this. No kidding.

[Emily]

Have you been drinking before?

[Jenny]

I'm just driving a school bus.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

I have nothing to concern myselves with.

[Madison]

In that case, you're not up to the legally acceptable limit that you have to blow.

[Jenny]

Thank you.

[Madison]

So start pounding.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

Thank you, guys.

[Madison]

Oh, you guys.

[Jenny]

The K train.

[Madison]

This is so amazing.

[Jenny]

Getting married and stuff.

[Kennedy]

Thank you.

[Madison]

Special place where you manifested.

[Jenny]

This really matters to. Oh. Cause you need. She needs some of these. Apple juice.

[Kennedy]

Yes.

[Madison]

Just a little bit. Yeah, that's perfect. Thank you guys so much.

[Emily]

Yay.

[Jenny]

Little apple juice.

[Emily]

There you go.

[Jenny]

Shirley Temple. Like you're a fox.

[Kennedy]

Well, Jim and I'll finish this bottle.

[Madison]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

This thing's going straight to hell. Hey, to you and Fred.

[Emily]

Yes.

[Jenny]

A couple that reminds us of all the classic romances. OJ And Nicole Lacy and Scott Peterson.

[Madison]

Cheers.

[Jenny]

Emily Robert Blake and Bonnie Lee Blakely. I mean, when you think of the classic romances, I think of you and Fred.

[Madison]

This is gonna be the best blessed wedding of the whole marriage and everything.

[Jenny]

We're so happy.

[Kennedy]

I'm so excited.

[Emily]

We're really excited.

[Jenny]

It's gonna be epic. I love this. But I want to know a little bit. Can I know a little bit about the energy you're going for in Hawaii as a fashionista myself.

[Kennedy]

Mermaid.

[Jenny]

Are you doing mermaid?

[Kennedy]

Yeah. It's like. It's definitely a mermaid vibe.

[Jenny]

I dig that.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

So it's kind of like Staten island meets Hawaii. You know, they have the Staten island mermaid parade.

[Kennedy]

The Coney Island Heidi Merrick.

[Jenny]

That's what I meant.

[Emily]

Coney.

[Kennedy]

Heidi Merrick is one of my best friends, and she's making my dress. Everyone knows Heidi.

[Emily]

She's love Heidi.

[Kennedy]

She is a beautiful designer. And so months and months ago, she's like, just start sending me some ideas. And, you know, everything I sent her was kind of the same. And it was. I really just gave her one directive, like, I want to be able to dance in it. I don't want to have to change. I want to be able to move. And she was like, no problem. And she actually showed up at the bachelorette party with what was made of the dress so far.

[Jenny]

Come on.

[Kennedy]

To try it on. So she did a fitting there.

[Emily]

Love that.

[Kennedy]

And, like, was. Was pinning lace on and making notes and drawing on what they had constructed so far.

[Madison]

Can I add in that during that moment when Kennedy was wearing this. This mock up of this beautiful bridal gown, but it was white. It looks gorgeous. And watching it unfold, like, watching it in action was really incredible. To see the creative that Heidi is and just such skill for her to be pinning it and all the things. It was like watching the magician at work. And then the doorbell rings, and they happen to be standing right in front of the door because it was like, an open floor plan. And then Kennedy gets surprised by her other best friend, who. It's so funny to me, because imagine her shock when she surprises you, and then you open the door in basically a wedding gown.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

And she's like, oh, my God, we eloped. We eloped in the kitchen.

[Madison]

Timing.

[Jenny]

But it's actually. But it's a full circle moment. Because usually when she gets surprised at the door, it's because there's a cop and she's been playing Whitney Houston or George Michael too loud in the background.

[Emily]

We were pretty close.

[Kennedy]

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought. This is America.

[Emily]

I am excited for the dance. I think that this is a dancey crew that's going. So it's not like there's going to be. The dance floor is going to have two people on it.

[Kennedy]

We've been, we've been putting together a Spotify list for the dj.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

Of stuff that we really want to dance to. And, and you know, so I put on one of our favorite songs and we were, we had a long drive the other day, so we're listening to it just to see how everything kind of flows together. And Fred was like, this is too slow, doesn't matter. He's like, you can't dance this. I was like, I know, but I really love. He's like, there's a lot of songs that I.

[Emily]

Well, we used to just do karaoke at my apartment during the pandemic when my house became the bar.

[Jenny]

Oh, that's so funny. Like when you think back of the pandemic, that's how I knew I was a bad drinker when I got kicked out of a Zoom cocktail party. I'm not even at your house.

[Emily]

It was really, it was really stressful, the amount of drinking that you had to do.

[Jenny]

Right.

[Emily]

You know what I mean? Like, you'd be like, you couldn't say can't make it.

[Kennedy]

And everyone's rationalization was, well, everyone else is drinking.

[Emily]

Yes, exactly.

[Madison]

Back to your wedding. I'll say this, you need to have songs where people can take a break. So it's actually good if you have a great song where people are like, oh my God, I love this song. And I'm going to enjoy it while I sit down for a second because they're going to be sweaty. And so it's perfect. It's okay to have that in there. Every song.

[Jenny]

Change up. They're called Change Ups.

[Madison]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jenny]

You throw in a slow jam, you're supposed to treat your wedding like it's like a bar mitzvah. Do you know how even if you're not of that faith, they slow it down so the kid can feel up a girl.

[Kennedy]

Does anyone know that fred is a 13 year old Jewish boy at heart?

[Jenny]

Yeah, yeah, I'm well aware of Fred. And he drives like a 13 year old Jewish boy who stole his parents car. So Fred has this electric BMW rocket ship. Station wagon. But he totally drives it. Like, he's not supposed to be driving it at all. So we were hanging out at the cabin. It's probably one of my favorite Fred moments ever, is we got in the car and it was so uncomfortably fast. And again, no one knows. As a fox, I used to drive a taxi in New York City.

[Emily]

I've never heard that.

[Jenny]

I don't like to share it, but I've been in some crazy driving situations. Fred might have been the worst experience I've had in the passenger or driver's seat of a car. And it was like. Because he drives, like a hazing ritual.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Madison]

It's like 9G force immediately within half second, because he goes from 0 to 120 and points Amber.

[Kennedy]

Literally. Amber O' Connor came back to the house shaking, and she was like, they were doing 137 miles in a 12.

[Jenny]

In a 12. Yes. It's a cry for help, but we like that.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

And I think that's part of the key to a successful marriage, is you're always gravitating towards the fun.

[Kennedy]

All gas, no brakes.

[Emily]

Yeah. Am I right? Yes.

[Jenny]

We're all in the fun business, man. This applies to every conversation you'll ever have in your life. Just go have fun.

[Kennedy]

Exactly.

[Jenny]

Think about we're talking about with COVID It's like everyone was dying. The world was knocked down. We were drinking. A karaoke party.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

That's what you're supposed to do.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

You know, the cool.

[Kennedy]

We truly did make the best of it.

[Emily]

It was a feral time. Go ahead.

[Jenny]

I'm sorry.

[Kennedy]

Oh, no.

[Jenny]

I was just gonna say, when you really think about it, the coolest people in the movie Titanic are not Leonardo DiCaprio and Rose, who drowned him, by the way. He could have fit on that door.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

The coolest people of the orchestra, they're like, we're gonna die anyway. We might as well keep rocking out. They actually had it down, man.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Madison]

Kennedy, do you want to share about one of your favorite things you're looking forward to for next week?

[Kennedy]

Yeah. So the best part about a destination wedding is, you know, you had an interesting wedding because it was during COVID Yep. And you were limited to the number of people and your best friends jumped in, made the food. Like one of your best friends is an actual chef slash caterer.

[Emily]

And it was so small.

[Kennedy]

Food was fantastic.

[Emily]

Yeah, yeah. It was small, chill. Like nobody was there.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

But the ones who needed to be there showed up, and it makes it absolutely beautiful. But with a destination wedding it's like. And it's so funny because the wedding planner is so used to people being like, I want this. And this has to be beige, not ivory.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

And like, she was traumatized by a wedding she had a few weeks ago. And so. And the two of us are like, just, we need a cake, a dance floor, a lot of booze, great food. Like, our friends and family will be there. And that's literally, like, it's going to be so hard to screw that up. Like, you really have to go out of your way considering you know, the threshold of what we really need. Because it's like, everyone knows how to have a good time. Like, everyone's adults. And when it's not your first wedding, like, the pressure's kind of off. I hope none of you ever experience a second wedding. But having said that, like, being able to throw it to someone else and be like, no, just you go ahead and pick.

[Jenny]

It's on you, bro. Yeah, good. But it's the right attitude.

[Kennedy]

We did pick the cocktails.

[Jenny]

Did you know, but listen, but you have. You have the right just. I don't care if you pick them. I just don't want you to make them. She is the most aggressive drink pourer.

[Emily]

Yeah. It will alter the course of your day. Sometimes weak. Yeah.

[Madison]

It might end your day as you black out.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

I've said this before.

[Madison]

After that Ghirardelli. One Ghirardelli liqueur and we were blacked out. By me.

[Jenny]

I said this to her the first time I drank at her house. I said, bill Cosby thinks your drinks are too short. She just doesn't even look.

[Emily]

Yep. But they taste delicious. That's the problem, is you don't think you're doing it.

[Jenny]

Yes.

[Emily]

You don't think you're doing what you're doing.

[Jenny]

There's nothing in this. And then jump cut to you arguing with a garden gnome in front of the house. Who you calling psycho? So I like this. I think you're both fun loving kids, you know, very adventurous. And I think that is actually the key to a long and prosperous marriage, is you need that common interest. And if the common interest is fun and not drama, you have a shot.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Jenny]

The woman you referenced earlier in, like, a fictitious sense. If I said mauve, not turquoise. Those are miserable people.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. So.

[Jenny]

Because they're looking at what's wrong.

[Kennedy]

That's what we were saying. We were talking to the wedding planner and she was like, they terrorized me the whole time I spent hiding in my room. Because every time I came out, the bride came to yell at me, and I'm like, life shouldn't be like that.

[Jenny]

Yes.

[Kennedy]

And how is a marriage going to fare?

[Jenny]

You gotta focus on what's right. That's the point. I can remember thinking back to Jenny. All right, it's not the same size gimp we ordered on Craigslist, but it's a gimp. And he's here for the. Let's have the fun. He's on time.

[Kennedy]

Sometimes you have to do the best with the gimp.

[Jenny]

You have 75 bucks. Love the gimp you're with. That was the original lyric. If you can't be with the gift you love, honey, love the gift you're with. That's a real. Yeah, it's a real lyric.

[Emily]

So do you think that you guys are going to have kids right away, or do you want to.

[Madison]

Do you want to take.

[Kennedy]

We want to travel.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

And if I take travel shots, like, we want to wait a few.

[Emily]

You want to wait a few years and really just be a couple. Exactly.

[Kennedy]

What kind of parents would we be?

[Emily]

Right? That's true. Okay. That's what I figure. You've got plenty of time. Yeah. I know some guys who wait until 60,

[Kennedy]

and they like to criticize women for working while having children.

[Jenny]

Unbelievable.

[Emily]

Don't go anywhere.

[Madison]

More.

[Kennedy]

Kennedy Saves the World right after this.

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[Jenny]

Get 20% off your first purchase at foxnewswineshop.com with code FNRADIO20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31, 2026. Must be 21 or older to order. Please drink responsibly. Well, I will drink to all of this. More champagne to you and Fred.

[Kennedy]

Thank you.

[Jenny]

To the girls. To the gals.

[Emily]

Cheers.

[Jenny]

Hawaiians. I love this. The girls, they'll be out.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Madison]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

That's exciting. I forgot about that.

[Kennedy]

I should. So, Lotus texted me today a song for. And I want you Each to give a song suggestion, please. She suggested Billy Idol White Wedding. And it's like, how could you. Like, she loves Billy Idol.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

So it's like, how could you not include that? So I texted her back, and, you know, this may feed into the worry that you expressed yesterday on the outnumbered couch. I said, can we put the chicken dance on the playlist? And she said, lol, sure. Because if you've been to a Midwest wedding, the chicken dance is ubiquitous.

[Jenny]

They're gonna do the chicken dance. That's a big one.

[Emily]

Oh, yeah.

[Jenny]

You might hear cockpit.

[Kennedy]

Have you done the.

[Jenny]

No.

[Kennedy]

Oh, and Rattlin Bog is on the. Rattling, bog, rattling.

[Jenny]

The universally most accepted song is the Humpty Dance. Get the Humpty Dance on.

[Kennedy]

Okay. Yeah.

[Jenny]

You know, I walk around this building with a boombox from time to time. I once, early on in my career here, had the elevator door open. There was a very powerful executive, and I had the Humpty Dance on. And he or she said, oh, I like that song.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

And that's the reason I'm still employed. We're not a fan of digital.

[Kennedy]

And you said, thank you, Mr. Murdoch.

[Jenny]

Can I call you a roop? You know what I'm saying? And away he went, and he just kept.

[Kennedy]

So Humpty Dance. I love it. What's the suggestion?

[Emily]

Yeah. I don't know. I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna blow. I think you need some cool in the gang.

[Kennedy]

Yes.

[Emily]

Get down on it. Get down on it down on it. That's probably my favorite song. There's, like, a lot of other songs that aren't as good as that.

[Jenny]

I'd say most people like songs from Greece.

[Kennedy]

Interesting. We don't have anything from Greece.

[Jenny]

How about paradise by the Dashboard Light?

[Madison]

Yeah. I feel like we're all, well, representing the regions that we're from in the country right now. By the way, I was going to say in terms of the, like, predictable wedding songs, but that I. I do love. I love Footloose because it.

[Kennedy]

To me, that's a good one.

[Madison]

Everyone to do their dance. Like, people, like, show off their individual dancing down the line. Like, I love that.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Madison]

To see people, like, show to feel uninhibited. And so I think Footlooses. I always love that.

[Kennedy]

Amazing.

[Madison]

I mean, our plate out.

[Jenny]

Yeah. And you have a wedding song, obviously. Yeah. Ours was wap. And it was, you know.

[Kennedy]

No, it wasn't.

[Emily]

It was not.

[Kennedy]

No, it wasn't.

[Madison]

Way after that.

[Kennedy]

Thank you.

[Jenny]

We renewed our vows.

[Madison]

You guys got married.

[Kennedy]

Like, okay. You have your 20th anniversary coming up this year.

[Jenny]

Jenny. I could be married 20 years and it's like the funniest thing in the world because I promise you, it's not like shtick when we say this. It's 19 years longer than we thought it would last. Like, we have no in the fact that like when we were young, I

[Kennedy]

mean, she loves you so much.

[Jenny]

I mean, how could she not though? I mean, let's, you know I'm kidding.

[Kennedy]

But I know you love her because she's amazing.

[Jenny]

Oh, Jenny's the best. Yes. Whoever took away her self esteem in her teens and made this possible, I owe a debt of gratitude to. I want to meet that guy, that farm guy.

[Kennedy]

Genetically.

[Jenny]

Downtown.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. I saw her family walking around at Lincoln's graduation party and I was like, those are some hearty.

[Jenny]

Like they're thoroughbred features and nice hands and. Yeah, yeah.

[Kennedy]

It's like my family that have like club feet.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

You know, it's like an eye like they do not plastic surgery won't fix.

[Jenny]

They look like they're on loan from a local circus. Yeah, we know. We've met them all. I kid, but no, she's great. And because we were young and when, you know, when you're young, you kind of gravitate more towards like what's wrong instead of what's right. So we were young. Like, we fought a lot. Like on our wedding day, we got married in Ohio. And people talk about, you know, how much it costs to get married these days in Ohio. They paid us, I think. I think they owed us like $89 a half.

[Kennedy]

Oh, my gosh. I didn't even think about this. Did you do the dollar dance?

[Jenny]

Yeah, they did the dollar dance. Everybody dance. A dollar on your chair.

[Kennedy]

People pin money to the bride's dress.

[Jenny]

Yes.

[Emily]

Oh, yeah.

[Jenny]

And it's almost like. Yes. In case the wedding doesn't last.

[Kennedy]

That's got to be a Detroit thing.

[Emily]

I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it. Yep.

[Jenny]

It's in case the marriage tanks and she has to strip to pay child support. But no, it's a. It's a thing. At our wedding, really quickly, we get married in Ohio. They did not have my talks an hour before the wedding. So it was. We can't name names. It rhymes with David's Bridal. They didn't have the tux in Ohio. So an hour like day of the wedding, I pulled up to get it in Lima, Ohio. They're like, we don't even have it. I'm like, what did you Want to wear? We could look around, we can call the other stores. And it wound up being a funny story that she knows. I'm not telling tales out of school. But we had two hours to kill while they tracked down the tux. So we went to a place called the Tender Trap, which a chicken place obviously. And we watched some women of the night dance and watched the Yankee game and got a call from David's bridal like 12 minutes before the church was ready to go and got my talks and had like an actual put on Frank Sinatra live at the Sands, get me to the church on time and race to the church. So we made it on time without Jenny knowing. We were talks less in Seattle. Got married at this Ohio farm church. But it was a Friday and after everyone took their pictures in front of the church and did a thing where they throw the rice and left the people running, the church informed us that it was a Friday. They had a mass coming in and we needed to take down the decorations. So I literally had Jenny on a ladder while I was holding taking down the decorations that they put up in the church.

[Kennedy]

I mean it doesn't surprise me that she would want to do it herself.

[Jenny]

Magical. No, no, I'm not complaining. Everyone had left the church but us. Like we took them down and then we went, we had a glorious reception. Got like rip roaring drunk. But we were locked out of our room so somebody had to break in and get into the room. We had a lot of cops there that knew how to do that. But the point is it was like

[Kennedy]

they're all in your family, their last name is Fela.

[Jenny]

Thank you. It was a category 5 cluster, but it was amazing, you know what I mean? And I think that's the kind of thing of like early on if you're just going for like, all right, we can't dictate process, but we can kind of make this funny. You endure and you last and you do well. So I think the fact that we had an upside down wedding was the key to our longevity.

[Kennedy]

Nice.

[Jenny]

I think a lot of people who have that wedding where the bride gets shot up out of the floor like it just starts. They usually break up in a month. Cuz he's gay. Cuz he choreographed like I was.

[Kennedy]

He was.

[Jenny]

I'm fine with.

[Madison]

Yeah.

[Emily]

Will there be any pyrotechnics?

[Kennedy]

I mean knowing my brother, he's probably gonna light something on fire.

[Jenny]

Your brother's gonna light something on fire. We've all made peace with that. This could be your Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial. So be careful. Brian Mont will light off a fire for sure. And Fred. Fred might, you know. You don't know.

[Kennedy]

He's a sapper, just like Cam.

[Emily]

Yeah, that's true, too.

[Kennedy]

They spent their time in combat, blowing up.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

That's real.

[Emily]

It's real. They really do.

[Kennedy]

When they talk to each other, they're like, what?

[Emily]

Yeah, they are like, ah.

[Jenny]

What?

[Emily]

What? What?

[Madison]

Anything.

[Jenny]

Yeah, they have explosion hearing.

[Emily]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

Of course.

[Kennedy]

That's a sapper, too.

[Emily]

Of course they do. Yeah.

[Jenny]

I love that.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jenny]

That's also great.

[Emily]

It's the only reason we've stayed married, I think.

[Jenny]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

He can't.

[Emily]

He can't hear it all.

[Jenny]

Yeah. Every half of the condescending comments, you

[Emily]

can't hear it all.

[Jenny]

He doesn't hear them.

[Emily]

You can't hear it all.

[Kennedy]

He just has a nice smile.

[Emily]

No one could. He's like, huh? Yep.

[Jenny]

Whatever, babe.

[Emily]

Yeah, babe. Love you.

[Jenny]

So, songs, cake, food, booze. I think this is amazing.

[Kennedy]

Nice.

[Jenny]

I'm so excited for you, man.

[Kennedy]

I'm so excited. I'm Footloose. Humpty Dance. What else?

[Emily]

Get down on it.

[Jenny]

She likes get down on It. Oh, you want Pour some sugar on me? Burns down a dance floor.

[Kennedy]

I think we have that on there, but you need.

[Jenny]

That's what I mean. You need to go to Big Box.

[Kennedy]

And that was. That was like an Emily.

[Jenny]

You want give a Detroit nod to Bob Seeger. Old time rock and roll. These songs crush. And what you'd be surprised at. I was a wedding bartender for one night. This is interesting, but a lot of.

[Kennedy]

So you know everything about me?

[Jenny]

No, no, no. But I've been to a lot of weddings as a comic. You perform at a lot of weird venues. There are certain songs you don't realize have such crossover reach that everyone does. Like if you were doing I Bartended a Ja Rule's wedding. Ja Rule the rapper. It was a wow. Before Fyre fest at the Jericho Terrace on Long Island, I bartended at this wedding. They played every song that you would recommend at, like, an eighth grade school dance. They played Living on a Prayer, and people rolled out. They played Poor some Sugar because everybody just knows those songs.

[Kennedy]

Y.

[Jenny]

Because what you forget is, like, up until like, five years ago, Living on a Prayer. Of course you do. Yeah, up until maybe not, but I'd say 10 years ago. Top 40 used to be, like, every music genre known to man. You listen to Casey Jason, you might hear Wild Thing by Tone Loke, but then you'd hear Richard Marx. Hold on to the night. You Know what I'm saying? So there's a lot more range.

[Kennedy]

Richard Marx became a total commie.

[Jenny]

Did he?

[Kennedy]

Yes.

[Jenny]

Is he one of those?

[Kennedy]

Yes, he is. And he has convinced his wife, Daisy Fuentes, that he's married to Daisy for Wednesdays.

[Madison]

I forgot about that.

[Jenny]

Damn it.

[Madison]

She was.

[Jenny]

Daisy.

[Madison]

Yeah. She was on everyone's wall in her volleyball photo with the.

[Jenny]

She was on my. She was on my couch. Whether she knows it or not. I'm just. Anyway, is this thing on?

[Kennedy]

She got mad at me because one time we had an MTV up front in Chicago, and so they sent all the VJs and we stayed at the Four Seasons. And it was the first time I'd been to a Four Seasons. I'm like, oh, my God, this place is amazing. And they sent each of us a bottle of Champ. And so at the time, I wasn't drinking, so I called him. I'm like, hey, I don't drink. Can I send this back? And Daisy was like. She wanted to punch me in the

[Jenny]

face because she wanted it.

[Kennedy]

She was like, call back and get it right now. And I said, well, I already got bottled water. And she was like, what is wrong with you? I know you don't drink, but I do get that.

[Jenny]

Stop it. Wow. I love that her and Richard were getting saucy in the sack. Well, listen, man, whatever that thing is that makes you two who you are, you kind of figured that out by now. And that's the magic trick, you know, you run on something. You know, people say, because it's not one size fits all, you know? The song with the world needs now is Love, Sweet love. Sometimes it's hate. Sometimes you need to hate the same things, you know?

[Emily]

Of course I do.

[Jenny]

Yeah. It's a big part of a marriage.

[Emily]

Of course I do.

[Jenny]

You believe what this?

[Emily]

Like, did you. Did you see this?

[Jenny]

Yeah.

[Emily]

Did you see it?

[Madison]

No.

[Jenny]

That. Really, Matt, that matters, you know?

[Kennedy]

Got to get fired up. But you're absolutely right if you're fired up about the same things. That's why I don't know if marriages survive where people are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Like, opposite. Like where we are now in our politics. Not like, I'm a little bit right, she's a little bit left.

[Jenny]

No, I think hate banging only gets you so far. Like, it gets your way. You can bang your way into a relationship. You can't bang your way out of it. That's the problem. No, I think the truth is, everybody who chooses to get married.

[Kennedy]

What sage advice.

[Jenny]

I know that's it. So anyway, hold on a second. This. Because this is true. Every marriage at the time you decided to get married, you have factory settings. You got here because you behave in this specific way. You like to do these specific things. You laugh over this specific type of energy, okay? If you remember that those are your factory settings, and you stay true to them, you're actually undeniable. What happens is we all evolve over time. People take up new hobbies and. You know what I mean? In the beginning, I was, like, doing comedy and betting on sports. I don't really bet on sports. You know what I mean? Like, you evolved. Jenny made cakes. Now she does furniture. You know, I was with Jenny. Now I have an Asian girl. You know? But the point is, as these evol.

[Kennedy]

Not true.

[Jenny]

None of that True. None of that true. None of that's true. But the point is, okay, whatever those factory settings were that made you two this appealing entity to each other, if you just are mindful of that, you actually can succeed. I think what happens to people is they grow apart. That's the phrase they use. But they're not going apart from each other. They're going apart from that thing that they constitute.

[Kennedy]

Well, that's why it's so different getting married in your 20s versus your 40s and 50s.

[Emily]

50s?

[Jenny]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

Because, like, where I am in my 50s, like, I'm. The casserole is set. Like it's. There's not gonna be a lot of surprises at this point. But in your 20s, like, I'm evolving. I'm an open book. The rest is yet unwritten. All right, thank you guys so much for the best.

[Jenny]

You did it.

[Kennedy]

The best friends a gal could ever buy.

[Jenny]

Oh, we love you. There it is. Poor Fred.

[Madison]

Feels so good when it hits the lips.

[Kennedy]

This has been Kennedy Saves the World, along with my best friends in the world. I'm Ken. 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.