#345 Do You Know Who My Dad Is? Episode 4: The Kennedy Family

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Betches Sup presents the fourth installment of the 8-episode limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. On this week’s episode, Alicia guides us through the lineage of another one of the most powerful dynasties in American history, the Kennedy family. First, they discuss the rise of JFK’s father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and how he groomed his sons for a life in politics. Next, they discuss the success of the Kennedy sons, including JFK’s time as president, and cover the many scandals the family endured. Finally, they close things out with a game of “Kennedy or It Can’t Be” all about some of the most surprising Kennedy family trivia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you know who my dad is? A limited series podcast from Betches Media.
0:08.0	Hosted by Brian Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles.
0:13.2	Do You Know Who My Dad is?
0:15.2	A podcast about failing up.
0:17.8	Hello and welcome to Do You Know Who My my dad is I'm Brian Russell Smith and I'm Alicia Angeles
0:27.0	And do you know who my dad is a limited series podcast brought to you by the
0:31.6	Bedges up not another true, and at Betches where we explore
0:35.1	diagnostic nepotism in the effects it has on our culture.
0:39.1	And today we are talking about the phase. Let's do it. Let's get into it. So today I'm going to
0:47.8	kind of take you through you know the first iconic presidency which was the
0:53.8	the kennedies if you guys know who j fk is obviously you know he was
0:58.4	assassinated obviously you know his brother was also assassinated but the best part about all of this is that it
1:06.0	wasn't them who kind of were the you know people who were awesome and popular it was
1:12.2	not their father it It was actually their grandfather who was an American politician and businessman who essentially started growing as a popular guy in Boston that kind of trickled all the way down.
1:27.6	So I'm going to kind of talk about the origins. I'm going to go into a few of the craziest scandals. I mean there are endless scandals but I'll only touch out a few and then I'll kind of go into where you can see the Kennedy's today because believe it or not a few of them are kind of all still alive and wet. Kennedy is J.F. K. K.
1:45.0	Well, which kind of is something that I don't think many people think about.
1:49.0	All right.
1:50.0	So let's get into it.
1:52.0	K. K. K. K. K. it. K. J. Kennedy is JFK's grandfather.
1:56.0	So I'm going to talk about everybody similar to how we were to talk about the Bush's,
2:01.0	they all had similar names.
2:03.0	There was PJ, who is Grandpa, there was Joseph Kennedy Sr. who was PJ's son.
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