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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 560: RFK Jr. on Polluters, Falconry, and Assassinations

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with independent presidential candidate for the 2024 election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Topics discussed: Brain worms and bonding over parasites; getting mercury poisoning from eating all the fish you harvest; raising homing pigeons at age 7; being a master falconer; fighting polluters to keep water clean; making a list of every bad thing you ever did; focusing on what matters to people; government-subsidized vs. free market energy sources; Secret Service security; and more.

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0:00.0

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0:15.5

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0:18.3

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0:39.9

what you guys are about to hear and watch in some cases is an interview with a politician or at least an aspiring politician.

0:48.0

It's Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

0:50.0

who's making a bid for the White House.

0:53.0

We do not have a hell of a lot of politicians on the show,

0:57.0

but it does happen now and then.

0:59.0

By the best of our recollection, and Corinne and I texted about this. We've done over 500 episodes and

1:05.6

had on seven elected officials. That list includes five Republicans and two Democrats as well as a

1:14.9

politician's kid and don't go looking back it wasn't Chelsea Clinton. Now

1:20.3

Kennedy here is an independent.

1:25.0

So that's a third party category,

1:28.0

so our first third party category, independent category.

1:32.0

And I'll point out, I think it is a welcome category because I get a little

1:37.2

fed up with the two-party system that has enjoyed a monopoly on the office of the President of the United States of

1:46.7

America since get this 1856. Now I understand we've got a hotly contested presidential race coming up here and we have

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