Hey, it's a laje.

So I don't know if you feel this way, but sometimes even I feel overwhelmed by the news.

And I hear this a lot from friends and family.

So we're going to do a future episode about news avoiders.

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.

Send us a voice memo to postreports at washpost.com, telling us about your relationship to the news,

and why sometimes you may avoid it.

Now, let's get to today's news, which I'm glad you're not avoiding.

It's a conversation hosted by my colleague, Jeff Edgers, a national arts reporter who you'll

be hearing more from over the next couple of weeks. Okay, I'll let Jeff take it from here.

So we're starting to hear this name RFK Jr. More and more.

Do you say Robert F Kennedy Jr.? Do you say Jr.? I'm not sure you'll tell me, but I'd love to

understand a little bit more about him, you know, kind of breakdown who he is and why he's in

the news right now. Yeah, he calls himself Bobby, like his father, the more famous Bobby Kennedy,

the former Attorney General of the United States, who was assassinated in 1968.

This is Michael Scherer. He's a national political reporter for the post. He tells me,

if you want to understand Robert F Kennedy, or Bobby Kennedy Jr., you should start with his father

and his uncle and their assassinations. I think he's heavily informed by the murder of his uncle,

which he believes was done with the participation of the CIA. There's a six-year cover-up.

You know, the Warren Commission was run by Alan Dulles, who was the head of the CIA,

who my uncle fired. Congress found that, yeah, it was a plot. It was a conspiracy. There were

multiple people involved. He believes that the convicted murderer of his father, Sir Han Sir Han,

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