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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Is This Actually a Love Story? JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the Nineties and Parliament Lights

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Technology, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.3834 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Are you watching Love Story? This week we're chatting with our resident ’90s guru Glynnis MacNicol about Hulu’s depiction of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's tragic romance and why that title feels either deeply ironic or just flat-out wrong. We talk about the mythology of John John and Carolyn , the downtown NYC glamour of it all, the slip dresses, the cigarettes (the sweet, sweet cigarette, and the media machine that chewed women up and spat them out. Join our newsletter community here. ORDER The Parisian Heist here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey all, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence.

1:06.8

For the past week, I have been binging all available episodes of the new Hulu series, Love Story,

1:11.8

which, by the way, and we're going to talk about this in today's episode, shouldn't really be called a love story unless it's ironic or maybe sarcastic. But again, again, we're going to

1:18.9

talk about all of that today. For those of you who haven't tuned in yet, it's a dramatized

1:24.4

version of the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bassett

1:28.4

that much like the movie with Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill ends incredibly tragically.

1:34.8

And I got to tell you, I am just, I'm addicted to it. I love everything about it.

1:39.6

So today, to talk all things love story, I have on our under the influence resident 90s expert,

1:47.0

Glynness McNickel.

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