The Patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy
We’re finally going back to where it all began. Joe Kennedy — father to the nine Kennedy children — was a banker, a real estate baron, a liquor magnate, a Hollywood producer, a Washington insider, the...
6 Apr 1h 6min
The Rise of RFK Jr.
RFK Jr., currently the Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Trump, has come up repeatedly on the podcast over the last year. We finally do a deep dive into his origin story and pre-T...
30 Mar 1h 4min
Eunice Kennedy’s Lasting Legacy
Eunice was the fifth of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children. While she’s perhaps best known as the founder of the Special Olympics, that was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of her lifelong co...
23 Mar 1h 6min
‘Love Story: JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’: Part Two
Since we recapped the first three episodes of Ryan Murphy’s ‘Love Story’, it has become the most streamed limited series on FX — and TikTok’s favorite show to argue about. We discuss what’s behind the...
16 Mar 49min
Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was a bipartisan project for the advancement of the performing arts conceptualized during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. When JFK was as...
9 Mar 51min
Film of the Month: Blonde (2022)
Inspired by our recent episode about Marilyn Monroe’s relationship with the Kennedy family, we watched the most recent fictionalized account of Marilyn’s life to make a splash: Andrew Dominik’s 2022 N...
2 Mar 51min
Ryan Murphy’s ‘Love Story: JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’
We discuss the buzzy new FX series ‘Love Story: JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.’See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
23 Feb 49min
