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Bulwark Takes

Inside Cheryl Hines’ Bizarre Kennedy Life

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Egger and Sonny Bunch talk about the new WSJ article on Cheryl Hines’ unusual public journey from a beloved comedic actress on Curb Your Enthusiasm to the spouse of RFK Jr., and how that shift has pulled her into political controversies. They discuss her tendency to sidestep criticism and avoid engaging directly with her husband’s more extreme views, questioning whether she’s deliberately playing naive or simply staying loyal. Along the way, they touch on the surreal mix of Hollywood image-making, Kennedy family baggage, and the uneasy intersection of celebrity culture with modern political campaigning. 

How Cheryl Hines Went From Hollywood Star to Mrs. MAHA 

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0:24.5

new profile out of Cheryl Hines, the actress, best known previously from as Larry David's TV

0:31.3

wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm. A little more interesting recently as the wife of Robert F.

0:36.3

Kennedy Jr., our cool new Health and Human Services Secretary, who's been getting up to so much mischief over there. Really wild profile. We're here to break it all down for you is our culture editor. Sonny Bunch, we're going to talk about it. Hopefully it'll be a fun time. Sunny, how you doing this morning? I'm great, Andrew. How are you? Oh, I'm,

0:54.6

I'm just doing awesome. This is a weird piece. Where should we start? What do you think?

0:59.4

I wanted to kick things off with a fun game that I like to call. I invented this game. Nobody's

1:05.9

ever played this game before me. Three truths and a lie, which is basically I'm going to, I'm going to read four statements here

1:15.0

that are derived from this piece. And you have to tell me which one is the lie. Hit me. Hit me. What do you got?

1:21.8

All right. Three truths and a lie. Here we go. First statement. Cheryl Hines's first acting gig was at Universal Studios, Florida,

1:29.1

where she played a fake Marion Crane on the Psycho Tour and was stabbed up to 15 times a day by visitors with fake knives.

1:37.5

That's statement one. Statement number two, Larry David personally gave his blessing to the union of Cheryl Hines and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

1:47.2

Statement three.

1:49.0

Heinz objected to the family adding a baby owl to the menagerie of animals in the RFK Jr. home that once included an ostrich because she, quote, didn't like dead hamsters in the freezer, end quote.

2:03.2

Fourth statement.

2:04.3

The house that they live in contains painted portraits of both Heinz and RFK Jr.

2:10.3

And Heinz hates her so much, she takes it off the wall whenever RFK Jr.

2:16.1

That's it. That's the four statements. Now, I want to

2:20.0

give folks at home some time to think about this, want them to let it rattle around in their brain,

2:25.6

about which of these statements might be true and might be false. But Andrew, you, again,

2:30.5

have read the profile. And this is, I, like I said, I got a little bit tricky here. I'm curious to see if you can get which one is the lie. I think, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think I might have lucked out on this one because I think I quoted the relevant portion this morning. But I think it's, it's not dead hamsters in the, in the freezer, right? Is that the, is that the thing you slipped in there? It's like dead chicks. Yes, it's dead chicks in the freezer. Also, it was an emu, not an ostrich. I did, I did too. But these are all, these are all functionally true things from the profile. Let's be honest here. I would like, these are, these are essentially all true statements. The third one is actually. The third one is a lie they had an emu not an ostrich

3:07.6

she didn't like having dead chicks in the freezer it wasn't hamsters but uh for for all intents and

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