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courses. Thank you. And it's an honor to do this work. Okay, so this is a unique and somewhat

confounding episode. And I have invested considerable time thinking about how to best frame it.

And candidly, I'm not 100% confident I found the best framing. But here we go.

My guest on the show is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is the son of the New York Senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,

and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Robert is best known as an environmental lawyer

and an advocate for environmental justice. He is the president of the Board of the Waterkeeper

Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999, and for over 30 years he was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC.

Kennedy has brought and won numerous high-profile lawsuits against large polluters. In 2010, he led a Pace University lawsuit,

which forced ExxonMobil to clean up tens of millions of gallons of oil from refinery spells

in Brooklyn, New York. In 2017, his firm was part of the trial team that secured a $670 million settlement on behalf of over 3,000 residents from Ohio and West Virginia, whose drinking water was contaminated by DuPont.

And in 2018, the National Trial Lawyers Association awarded Kennedy Trial Team of the Year for his work winning a $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto for its use of the chemical glyphosate.

It is also notable that Kennedy has been a stalwart champion for indigenous peoples.

In recent years, Kennedy has been an outspoken critic of Big Pharma,

specifically as it pertains to vaccines. He has been dubbed by many as anti-vax,

but Kennedy claims to be pro-safe vaccine and contends that vaccines do not undergo sufficient

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