Kennedy and Jimmy Need To Get This Off Their Chest

Summary

Kennedy Saves the World

Episode: Kennedy and Jimmy Need To Get This Off Their Chest

Date: April 1, 2026
Host: Kennedy
Guest: Jimmy
Podcast Network: FOX News Podcasts

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Kennedy and Jimmy tackle the headline-grabbing scandal surrounding Kristi Noem’s husband, Brian Noem. With their trademark mix of irreverent wit, media savvy, and pop culture fluency, they break down the salacious Daily Mail revelations, speculate on marital maneuverings, and reflect on the fallout for both Kristi and Brian Noem’s public images. The conversation veers into broader territory, touching on political ambition, marriage dynamics among power couples, and the unavoidable circus of scandals in the age of social media.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Brian Noem Story Breaks Wide Open

• [00:10-00:41] Kennedy explains that Jimmy was away because he was tied up covering the sensational Brian Noem story, about Kristi Noem’s husband’s involvement with OnlyFans and cross-dressing.
• Jimmy provides a comedic overview of the scenario, likening the initial rumors to a wild party gone off the rails.

2. Behind the Scenes: How the Media Handled the Scoop

• [00:41-01:36] Kennedy recounts how her editor at the Daily Mail tipped her off about the explosive story before publication.
• The pressure of keeping the secret and the temptation to leak it to friends highlight the thrill and burden of covering political gossip.

Kennedy [01:20]: “It hurts having a secret like that because I wanted to text and tell everybody.”

3. Speculation on Brian Noem’s Motives

• [02:54-03:36] Both hosts discuss whether Brian Noem may have engaged in self-sabotage, possibly wanting to humiliate Kristi in retaliation for her alleged affair with Corey Lewandowski.
• They consider the dynamics of a marriage under political and media scrutiny and the psychological impact of being a public punchline.

Jimmy [03:36]: “He has been a public punchline for four or five years, and he knows that this thing he’s doing is the end for her.”

4. The Corey Lewandowski Angle & Kristi Noem’s Ambitions

• [03:11-04:37] The podcast delves into the alleged affair between Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, with Jimmy sharing anecdotes from North Dakota locals that “everybody knows” about the rumors.
• They discuss Lewandowski’s ambitions for Kristi Noem’s career and his connection to Trump.

Jimmy [04:22]: “She was able to overcome a lot. Her husband knowing it was over now. … This was the boob drop, the one finger, and then just went all over the Daily Mail.”

5. Media Fallout: Who Loses More?

• [07:24-09:14] Kennedy and Jimmy debate whose reputation is more damaged by the scandal—Kristi’s or Brian’s. While Kristi faces career derailment, Brian, they argue, can retreat into private life and crop insurance.

Jimmy [09:14]: “It’s Christie’s [reputation] because her career gets hit by the shrapnel of this blast. He doesn’t really have anywhere to go.”

6. Political Parallels: Power, Marriage & Public Humiliation

• [07:24-09:14] The hosts riff on Bill and Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, and the difficulties of spouses living in the shadow of political power.
• They poke fun at the absurdity of political marriages—how some spouses are tempted to stick around for the perks, despite personal misery.

Kennedy [08:09]: “Being first husband would be the worst. I would be living in a prison.”

7. South Park, Memes, and Managing Public Ridicule

• [09:29-10:48] Jimmy highlights how politicians handle becoming fodder for late-night comedians and internet memes, using Kristi Noem and Charlie Kirk as examples.
• The right strategy, they argue, is to lean in and laugh—something Noem failed to do.

Jimmy [10:33]: “The difference between how you handle being a national punchline … is clearly distilled in how they handle it. Charlie Kirk made it his profile picture … She was like, ‘how dare you!’”

8. Memorable Zingers and Callbacks

• [11:10-11:18] Kennedy closes with a pun on inflation and fake boobs, tying the episode together with her trademark one-liners.

Jimmy [11:10]: “In the end, she’s just another politician brought down by inflation. Hey, there it is. Because, you know, the fake boobs. Come on, you guys. Come on.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Brian Noem’s cross-dressing revelation

  “At some point, Kristi walked in and Brian’s in those little sage leggings and a tube top. Like, oh. I was just, whoops, it’s too small. I better send it back.”
  — Kennedy [01:36]

• On public humiliation as payback

  “I think there’s a part of it that’s like, oh, you’re gonna humiliate me with the Corey Lewandowski thing. … What can I do that, like, I will like, but she will hate when it blows up.”
  — Kennedy [03:13]

• On power couples and marriage incentives:

  “Jill Biden loved the trappings of the presidency so much she was willing to pretend her husband didn’t have dementia… There’s a part of [Brian] that hates her, you know, or isn’t attracted to her because he’s into these weird fetishes. Knows she’s having an affair, but is also like … Maybe I kind of ride the lightning, keep this to myself, you know what I’m saying?”
  — Jimmy [07:24]

• On managing ridicule:

  “She got trashed in the Charlie Kirk episode. And the difference between how you handle being a national punchline … is clearly distilled in how they handled it. Charlie Kirk made it his profile picture … She was like, 'how dare you!'”
  — Jimmy [10:33]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:10 — Jimmy recaps covering the Brian Noem story
• 00:41 — Kennedy on getting the tip from the Daily Mail
• 01:20 — The challenge of keeping juicy secrets as a journalist
• 02:54 — Motive: Did Brian want to be caught?
• 03:36 — Jimmy on Brian as a “public punchline”
• 04:22 — Kristi Noem’s resilience, Corey Lewandowski connection
• 07:24 — Sympathy (or not) for Brian; parallels to political spouses
• 09:14 — Damage assessment: Kristi vs. Brian
• 09:29 — How politicians should handle ridicule (Charlie Kirk example)
• 11:10 — Wrap-up pun on “inflation” and fake boobs

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Tone & Style

Kennedy and Jimmy keep the mood light, sharp, and irreverent, blending political analysis with pop culture references and humor. Throughout, both hosts maintain an undercurrent of empathy for people stuck in high-profile personal crises, even as they revel in the absurdity of public scandals.

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Summary prepared for listeners who want all the wit, insight, and key takeaways from this headline-driven episode—without the ads or filler.

Transcript

[A]

Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. Jimmy was not here for a very exciting reason. Because he was blowing the Brian gnome case wide open.

[B]

Man, oh, boy. Oh, man. So it's a weird thing, right? We had a guy retiring. We're like, yeah, we should trip in and get him a stripper. They're like, you want a blonde, brunette? We're like, I was just someone with big breasts. Wouldn't you know it? Kristi Noem's husband walks. What's even happening here? This is awkward for me, too. Wow. Huh. So, yeah.

[A]

Can I tell you how that went down?

[B]

Give it to me.

[A]

So my editor from the Daily Mail called me the night before the story dropped. It was like, we have a crazy story and it's going to blow up and it's going to be insane. And he's like, I cannot text it to you. I. I'll call you until. And he tells me. And I'm like, you have to be kidding me. And I was like, please tell me there were male only fans, models. He's like, no, he was talking to all women. But there are times where he's dressed as a woman. I'm like, what? Like. And I was like, I. It hurts having a secret like that because I wanted to text and tell everybody.

[B]

That's a lot.

[A]

I was like, just wait. Because I wanted everyone to have the feeling of knowing it was gonna come out and just knowing the reaction everyone's gonna have. And it was so much fun texting the initial Daily Mail article before I wrote about it.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

But I. So I'm reading all about the story. I read the article before it comes out. I'm formulating my thoughts and I'm like, if you're Kristi Noem, like, you know, because he keeps going, hun, for Christmas, why don't we get like, really big breast implants? Really big. And she's like, no, Brian, I'm okay. Like, I like what I'm working with now, but it's like, at some point you. Cause I'd heard that Kris Jenner had walked in on Caitlyn when Caitlyn was still Bruce. And, you know, Caitlyn was in Kris's closet trying things on and was like, what's going on here? And eventually Caitlyn was like, you know, I'm a lady inside. But, you know, at some point, Christy walked in and Brian's in those little sage leggings and a tube top. Like, oh. I was just, whoops, it's too small. I better send it Back.

[B]

Now we know where she got all those extra outfits for that DHS commercial. Do you remember the commercial where she played every person in the Village People? She's a cowboy, she's an Indian, she's a cop, she's an ice age.

[A]

The 220 million.

[B]

Yeah. Say what you want about the gnomes, they probably were having the greatest Halloween costumes ever. Oh, yeah, because they sure like to dress up now, don't they?

[A]

Sure do.

[B]

Wow. Yeah. Brian Br. Brian Gnome. That was his name.

[A]

Did you see that one coming? And also, do you think. Because there's also a lot of speculation that he was doing this in order to get caught. Like, he wanted to get caught, which I don't disbelieve. Like, I think there's a part of it that's like, oh, you're gonna humiliate

[B]

me with the Corey Lewandowski thing. Yeah.

[A]

And you're gonna traipse around to every conference and every corner of the globe with this guy and your blanket. And can I tell you, you know, he's your chief of staff, and I'm just gonna sit here in an empty house with our three own children gone. And he just, like, walked around the house stewing. He's like, what can I do that? Like, I will like, but she will hate when it blows up.

[B]

No, that is 100% spot on analysis. Is that, you know, a guy like this who knew he was the butt of a joke? Let me be clear. I went to an event in North Dakota, in Fargo, where the people flying us there where very super duper religious. I've never heard a course word or a curse word out of these people. And I brought up the subject of Kristi Noman for a completely unrelated reason. We were specifically talking about ice, and they said she might be at the event of the night if she's not doing this is their way of saying it. The horizontal hula with Corey Lewandowski. And I go, that's. Ooh, tell me more. And they're like, oh, yeah, everybody knows, you know, they're fair. Everybody in the world knows it. And it was like a year ago. Yeah. Okay. So it was not necessarily known to me that they were being as brazen

[A]

as they were, but obviously broke the story in 2021.

[B]

Yeah, but I didn't know that. I did not know that. So.

[A]

And so Corey's big thing was, you know, he was going to be the architect behind her candidacy for president.

[B]

Yeah, that's what.

[A]

That's what that campaign is going to make you president. I did this for Trump.

[B]

I did this for Trump.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'll do this for you. I just need you to do one thing for me. One thing for me. That being said, not every guy that cross dresses is trying, but not every guy that cross dresses in a bimbo fetish hates his wife. You know what I mean? Me and Jenny get along grip. I'm sorry, I gotta go. What just happened? No, but. But I'm with you. Let's put it right there. He has been a public punchline for four or five years, and he knows that this thing he's doing is the end for her. She overcame shooting the dog.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Somehow I read one someplace that Trump liked it. I don't know if that's true, but they're like, he makes hard decisions. I don't know. I don't believe it's true. But. What? But she overcame it, so it's not false. Okay. If shooting a dog is a bridge too far, she doesn't get the gig. She did.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. Now, I don't doubt it was Lewandowski, who's tight with Trump, who went to bat for her just the same. Okay. But the point is, she was able to overcome a lot. Her husband knowing it was over now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. Knew that this was the last thing, you know, when Hulk Hogan broke out of the hole and was getting ready to pin you, the last thing he did was the leg drop. This was the boob drop, the one finger, and then just went all over the Daily Mail. And away we go. Don't go anywhere more.

[A]

Kennedy saves the world right after this. A New York Times reporter reached out to him today and was like, you know, hey, Mr. Nome, any comment? And he was like, I really appreciate your heart. I don't have anything to say at this time. It's like, this is gonna be. So he answered the Daily Mail's phone call, and the Daily Mail was like, listen. Like, you know, we just are reaching out to you for comment. We have all of these chats from the OnlyFans models, from the fetish models. And they also said that you texted and said you're still in love with your wife and you're trying to make it work. And he goes, I never would have talked about my wife and them. That part is not true. The rest of it, that's all true. And he went on record and said that before he hung up the phone.

[B]

And the fact that he said, I appreciate your heart. That's something you say when you've just been given a token on OnlyFans. You know what I mean? Like, thank you for the donation. Thank you for the greenery, for the scenery. And it is 100% on, with 100% certainty, because I've been around a lot of weird human nature in my travels between comedy and cab driving and obviously media and everything like that. People like that that are doing this deviant thing, become a prisoner to it, because it is a secret that you're keeping that you know will change people's opinions. So I always tell people, if you go on a date lead, whose opinion does it change?

[A]

Yours. Of him. Which, you know, you're like me, very

[B]

limited, like, nobody matters.

[A]

Yeah. It's like I kind of felt bad for him. And it was like, I'm just a Christian man in a Christian marriage, and I'm going to stay in this marriage because I'm a Christian. Having said that, look at my little bratwurst and my pink hot pants and my giant boobs.

[B]

Hey, Christie, I know you're mad about Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, but, you know, who doesn't mind taking a knee? I can't. This is where it happens to a guy like that. You know, we used to talk about how Jill Biden loved the trappings of the presidency so much she was willing to pretend her husband didn't have dementia, and it was about her. I don't doubt there's a part of him that hates her, you know, or isn't attracted to her because he's into these weird fetishes. Knows she's having an affair, but is also like, she. I'm not saying she will be president, but she. She has a lottery ticket. She's in the Cabinet. She's DHS secretary. The border's the number one issue. Maybe I kind of ride the lightning, keep this to myself, you know what I'm saying, and hope that I don't. Again, I don't like her, but would I like being first man? Maybe. I mean, imagine what kind of boobs I'm going to say. If that's the case, I get to hang out with the other First Men who might have this habit.

[A]

He's like Bill Clinton. I think he's like, being first husband would be the worst. I would be living in a prison.

[B]

Yeah, it's a he. Bill Clinton didn't want Bill Clinton.

[A]

No, Bill Clinton was like, you go to Washington, you be senator. You'd be Secretary of State. I'll be here in Chappaqua with the Energizer Bunny.

[B]

He. Remember, that was the nickname of the girl he was Shagging.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

God, I love that. And you want to know something? Bill Clinton might have banged, like, the presidency.

[A]

Look at Hunter Biden. The presidency. Worst thing that happened to him, and it is theoretically the worst thing that could have happened to Bill Clinton is this wife becoming president.

[B]

Yeah. Oh. He would never in a billion years want anything to do with that. He definitely. I'm not saying he voted Trump, but he definitely voted Gary Johnson in 2016. There's no way he voted for her. And he's got to love that, because in the pecking order of your marriage, if you're both president and hers is more recent. Okay. The power dynamic does not belong to you.

[A]

And the first female president.

[B]

Oh, man.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So you think about it in those terms. Clinton definitely owns a MAGA hat.

[A]

Yeah. Whose reputation suffers more, Christie's or Brian? Brian.

[B]

I know, it's funny. It's Christie's because, like, her career gets hit by the shrapnel of this blast. He doesn't really have anywhere to go.

[A]

I mean, he got money, he's got

[B]

his little insurance, and he sells crop insurance. He's gonna be fine. They're gonna buy crop insurance off the weirdo. Okay. The guy you meet in the theater,

[A]

guy lowers rates by 20%.

[B]

They might not want to meet alone in the field anymore, you know, but the point. Think he's fine. I think her issue is she clearly had national ambitions. And that DHS commercial, the $20 million ad campaign and all that. It's $200 million, to be clear, was such an absurdity on its face, and we didn't notice it in real time for obvious reason. There was so much going on in the world that every once in a while you just. You're watching cable news where Trump is just announced he's releasing the JFK files and they're burning a Tesla dealership because of the Elon Musk, and everything's going on. And once in a while she just rides by the camera on a horse and you're like, I don't know what's going. Okay. It wasn't for me until the south park thing happened. And the south park thing was very funny. She got trashed in the Charlie Kirk episode. And the difference between how you handle being a national punchline, or at least someone's attempted one, is clearly distilled in how they handled it. Charlie Kirk made it his profile picture and was like, haha, that's funny. She was like, how dare you? Yeah, this show hasn't been funny in years. I'm like, dude, they said your play, your face was so fake that it slid off and went down the road and jumped on someone else's face. That was like. And it was just funny, no matter how demonstrably untrue it was. But I realized in that moment, I was like, oh, she's trying to go worldwide and there is zero chance of that.

[A]

I mean, she tried the same thing with her husband sitting behind her at the congressional hearing where they're like, have you ever had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski? And she's like, oh, that is disgusting. Oh, I didn't know that's what we were doing today. That is Bogart. It's like, well, yes or no would

[B]

suffice as her beeper goes off. 69, 69, 69.

[A]

I gotta go now.

[B]

In the end, she's just another politician brought down by inflation. Hey, there it is. Because you're the fake boobs. Come on, you guys. Come on.

[A]

I love it. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. See, Jimmy's back. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free with the 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.

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