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Blood and Business

S2E2.1: JFK Before Fame

Blood and Business

Cassie and Bethany

True Crime, History

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this Kennedy Family Meeting episode, Cassie and Bethany discuss JFK and Lem Billings’ intimate relationship, the different dynamic that each sibling had with one another, and the fact that the kids did not know about The Great Depression until they went off to college... This is The Kennedy Family Meeting Episode Two.

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This is our discussion of the infamous American royal family… the Kennedy family. Joe, Rose, Joe Jr., John or Jack or JFK if you will, Rosemary, Kathleen (Kick), Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia (Pat) Kennedy Lawford, Robert or Bobby or RFK if you will, Jean, and Edward, or Ted (Teddy)… we’ve read all the biographies, watched all the documentaries... here is everything you need to know, complete with all the juicy details. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let the spirit of the Kennedys and the magic of the Disney brothers be with you always.

0:05.9

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0:08.4

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0:09.9

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0:11.3

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0:12.1

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0:13.1

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0:14.3

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0:21.3

Testing testing.

0:22.5

I don't know how we want to start out like every cut and paste intro.

0:25.9

Yeah, we're probably going to have to figure that out.

0:28.1

We need to talk about the Kennedy siblings.

0:31.2

Episode two.

0:43.4

Welcome. Welcome to blood and business.

0:46.5

I'm Bethany and I'm Cassie.

0:56.2

I think Cassie and I have said this several times that we thought that the Kennedys were trash. Like, just horrible people. Just horrible people and like the whole Maryland thing. And yeah, just I don't know, it just sounded like they were all gaudy and flashy and rich and selfish and yeah, all of that kind of stuff. But when you really dig into who their family was, like as a family unit and then as

1:12.2

individuals, I feel like they did more good than harm. Yeah. And it makes me sad that their reputation

1:17.9

is so tainted by the assassinations and the Kennedy curse and the affairs and all of that

1:26.0

drama overshadows, all of the amazing stuff that they did and it's

1:30.8

really not super fair because you look at like MLK and he had affairs and he wasn't the greatest

1:37.7

husband and no one thinks about that when they think of MLK everyone thinks of all of the amazing

1:42.0

things that he did as they should right exactly and we should just look all of the amazing things that he did as they should. Right. Exactly.

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