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🗓️ 2 July 2025
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Join us on the beautiful Cape Cod National Seashore as we explore Kennedy family royalty Maria Shriver's new book of poetry— yes, poetry— "I Am Maria." From growing up as the niece of JFK to marrying Arnold Schwarzenegger, always being a horse girl, and ultimately getting railed by a former Bush campaign strategist, this is one very American tall tale.
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| 0:00.0 | So, I mean, that does suck to be a Kennedy, but it's like, not of Teddy, not of, as she says, not of Bobby, not Jack. It's like, you niece. It's like, it's a sister. |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah. No, I mean, it's got to be really hard. |
| 0:15.8 | Like, be a NEPA baby, but like, not enough. I guess to me I'm like, that's the most fun role you can |
| 0:22.7 | have. Like that's actually the best thing because you're not, it's not like so, it's like when you're |
| 0:27.1 | like fucking Bobby Kennedy's kid, when you're JFK's kid like drugs. It's there's so much |
| 0:33.5 | pressure. There's so much attention. Like it sucks. No one like takes you seriously even when |
| 0:38.5 | they do take you seriously. No one took JFK seriously junior when he started George, which was an amazing |
| 0:43.3 | magazine. And you know, and this is why I'll be hard on someone like Ella Emhoff versus someone like |
| 0:47.7 | Malia Obama where it's like it kind of sucks to be Malia Obama. It's like you never really are |
| 0:51.9 | going to get to be your own person. Everyone, you're just going to be Barack's kid forever. Unless... I love you're saying that. Like, |
| 0:56.6 | you coach them in soccer. You're like, and this is why I'm always harder on Ella. Okay? |
| 1:02.7 | Malia has it really hard at home, okay? So sure, maybe she didn't. She missed a ball today. |
| 1:10.5 | But look, she had to go to Kazakhstan to welcome J-Lo with Barack. |
| 1:16.1 | Imagine what that does to a kid, okay? |
| 1:19.0 | Come on, team. |
| 1:20.3 | You're 14. |
| 1:21.2 | You're meeting Jailo in Kazakhstan at the Royal Presidential Palace in Almaty. |
| 1:26.9 | It does a number on you. |
| 1:29.6 | You don't know what it's like to fall asleep as you as |
| 1:33.7 | as Eunice's daughter. |
| 1:34.9 | Well, the second trauma is clear, |
| 1:36.7 | okay, second trauma, |
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