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The James Altucher Show

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | The Man Who Could Be President

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This is the only interview James ever recorded that wasn't released on the podcast...until today.In July 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined James for an interview at Stand Up New York, where the pair discussed RFK Jr's book American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family amidst a wide-ranging conversation on the Kennedy Family, the role money plays in American politics, and the cost of fossil fuel-based energy compared to renewable energy sources. Around the 50-minute mark in the conversation, the topic pivots, following a discussion on the post-WW2 tax rates and the rise of billionaires such as Bill Gates. James questions Kennedy's view on Gates - given the Microsoft founder's pledge to donate large sums of money to charity and his vaccine efforts to eradicate malaria in Africa - to which Kennedy responds, "Bill Gates has done more harm to the planet than arguably anybody in history." Kennedy believes that many vaccines are ineffective and harmful to the populace and that Gates' efforts in Africa have caused the deaths of "millions and millions of children".Kennedy continues to discuss The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, which limited the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims, and how three years later, "There was a 'gold rush' and it went from the three vaccines that [Kennedy] had, to the seventy-two vaccines kids have to get today. And suddenly, beginning in 1989, [America] saw this explosion of chronic disease in this country."Following the divisive turn in the conversation, the show decided against airing this interview. However, on April 6, 2023, Kennedy announced his plans to run for President in the 2024 election and will formally declare his candidacy at an event on April 19, 2023. Due to its topical relevance, The James Altucher Show has decided to air the previously unreleased 2019 interview in full.------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm a little bit nervous about releasing this episode because in the past 13 or 14

0:12.0

hundred episodes that I've done, I've always released the episode.

0:16.4

Like I would have a guest on, like I don't know, cream, have dual jubar or tire banks

0:21.6

or sarah Blakely and I would have a guest on and that would release the episode.

0:27.0

But this is the one time that after the episode was recorded, I made a decision where I'm

0:34.0

not going to release the episode.

0:36.4

And there's a lot of reasons why some of which you'll figure out when you listen to this.

0:40.3

But this guy recently was in the news again.

0:43.1

This one was recorded a couple years ago.

0:44.6

This guy was recently in the news again.

0:46.6

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced he is running for President of the United States for

0:51.4

the Democratic Party against Joe Biden.

0:55.5

A couple interesting things.

0:57.3

First off, in the podcast, I asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1:01.6

Why aren't you President already?

1:03.6

Because his uncle was President, his father, ran for President.

1:07.5

His other uncle was a Senator and ran for President at a gazillion times.

1:11.8

He said cousins who were governors, congressmen, anonymized.

1:15.0

Brother was a congressman.

1:16.4

Again, his whole family.

1:17.8

I mean, the Kennedy family is like the royal family of America.

1:23.8

And it's interesting.

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