May 11, 2024

RFK Jr.'s Brain Worms and JFK's grandson's awful Political Parodies

RFK Jr.'s Brain Worms and JFK's grandson's awful Political Parodies

In today's episode, we dive headfirst into the bizarre world of brain worms and political parodies, because why not?First up, the jaw-dropping revelation that RFK Jr. claims to have once battled brain worms, sparking a whirlwind of speculation and...

In today's episode, we dive headfirst into the bizarre world of brain worms and political parodies, because why not?First up, the jaw-dropping revelation that RFK Jr. claims to have once battled brain worms, sparking a whirlwind of speculation and eyebrow-raising. We explore the surreal saga of how a literal parasite allegedly invaded his gray matter, leaving us all wondering about the sanity of our political contenders.But the weirdness doesn't stop there. Join us as we dissect Jack Schlossberg's unconventional campaign tactics, including his cringe-worthy regional accent impressions aimed at mocking his anti-vax cousin, RFK Jr. From Cockney caricatures to Deep South drawls, Schlossberg's efforts to rally support for President Biden take a decidedly comedic turn.And just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, we uncover the eccentricities of the RFK Jr. campaign, from advisers jetting off to Costa Rica for spiritual rejuvenation to a deep-seated fear of microwaves and their alleged electromagnetic radiation. With each revelation, the line between political theater and outright lunacy becomes increasingly blurred.

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Calarogu Shark media from Washington, DC. Ask not what brainworms can do for

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you, ask what you can do
for the brainworm. This is ballot.

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That's right, brainworms. I don't
work weekends for no reason. Let's hit

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this. Did you see rfk Junior
has brainworms? Our choices are an old

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guy, a guy involved in like
four hundred court cases, and a guy

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with brainworms. It's too bad OJ
died. He could have won this thing,

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seth Meyer said. Independent presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy Junior posted on

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x and said, I offer to
eat five more brainworms and still beat Donald

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Trump and President Biden in a debate. And this can't be good. His

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supporters have already made it a TikTok
challenge, seth added, So let me

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just go through my list of Kennedy
family quotes. According to a twenty twelve

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divorce deposition obtained by The New York
Times, the current third party residential candidate

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claimed his past cognitive issues were caused
by a worm that got into my brain

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and ate a portion of it and
then died. Apparently, back in twenty

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ten, Kennedy was experiencing such severe
memory loss and mental fogginess that friends worried

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he had a brain tumor, and
while neurologists initially thought that was the case,

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one doctor at New York Presbyterian allegedly
had a much more outlandish theory,

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a parasite inhabiting Kennedy's brain, because
when you hear hoof beats, you gotta

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think zebras with the side of nightmare
fuel parasites right to make this tail even

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wilder, Kennedy says, around the
same time, doctors also discovered he had

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mercury poisoning, likely from eating too
much fish. So not only was he

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battling a real life Wrath of cons
scenario with a brain burrowing creature, he

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was also slowly being poisoned like a
fancy Victorian aristocrat. While Kennedy insists he's

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recovered from those cognitive troubles, you'd
think tales of brain eating worms might raise

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some red flags about his fitness for
office, but nope, the campaign shrugged

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it off as a hilarious suggestion compared
to whichever septagenarian he's running against. Gotta

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admire the unshakable confidence there, though
it does make you wonder what RFK Junior's

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spirit animal is a literal tapeworm,
because embracing that brain parasite origin story as

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your superpower is a wild brand of
political performance art. In any case,

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this isn't even the weirdest thing about
Kennedy's campaign. When your main platform is

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disavowing COVID vaccines and cozying up to
anti vaxers, a few yarns about brain

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parasites and mercury poisoning probably register as
perfectly normal health talk. Still, you've

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got to hand it to the guy
for having a great story to whip out

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at Compenga's sure most candidates bond over
their humble beginnings or patriotic call to service.

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Kennedy's got everyone beat with the time
he had to overcome a literal brain

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eating invader. Now that's a nice
breaker. Well, it looks like Jack

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Schlosberg is taking an unconventional approach to
campaigning for President Biden. The thirty one

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year old grandson of JFK has been
serving up a buffet of regional accent impressions

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on Instagram to mock his anti VAX's
cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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and rally support for the incumbent.
In his latest comedic contribution, Schlosberg debuted

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a character he's calling Tiny Tim,
a Cockney accented bloke who mocks RFK Junior's

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cries about bodily autonomy when it comes
to vaccines, channeling his inner Dick Van

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Dyke from Mary Poppins, No doubt, we went to pull the audio here.

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I'll play five seconds so you get
the idea. Hi, Hi,

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now you're doin love. My name
is is Tim. They call me Dony

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Tim Downtee. But Tiny Tim is
just the latest in a parade of imaginary

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voters Schlosberg has trotted out to Zinger's
cousin. Earlier this week, he played

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Jimmy from Massachusetts, who brands Kennedy
a prick for his third party run while

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praising Biden's economic policies with some very
New England dephrasing a lot of people talking,

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a lot of people talking about Robert
F. Kennedy Junior. Robert F.

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Kennedy Junior. You know I'm a
fan of his father, and you

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know his uncle rests in peace.
I remember the day where I was today

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he was killed. I mean,
it was a tragic to the entire country.

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Wept, But listen, that guy
he's a prick not stopping there.

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Schlosberg has also voiced a Deep South
caricature named Wade, who defends Biden from

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inflation blame with some dubious economic analysis
told in an exaggerated drawl, because what's

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a collection of regional stereotypes without a
big daddy simpleton. Rounding out the ensemble

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is a pair of New York accented
fellas, a nasally guy fretting over rfk's

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plan to acts the Federal Reserve,
and a more street wise bloke preemptively defending

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Schlosberg from charges that his shtick is
offensive, because nothing diffuses claims of insensitivity

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quite like more over the top ethnic
impressions. Look, Schlosberg's heart seems to

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to be in the right place,
vehemently disavowing his conspiracy touting cousin while stumping

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for the president, and a bit
of levity never hurts in the often dreary

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political arena. But yeesh, these
cringeworthy caricatures veer awfully close to the kind

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of reductive, stereotype fueled comedy that
gets called out more often than not these

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days. Tiny Tim Wade and the
Fellas feel like they were plucked straight from

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some mid twentieth century vaudeville act or
animated Disney relic. Then again, maybe

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the outlandish impersonations are meant to be
purposefully absurd. A next Jen Kennedy using

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his famous pedigree to satirize the divisions
and assumptions that so often cloud political discourse,

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In which case mission accomplished, we
guess, or more likely, it's

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just a well intentioned nephew who happens
to be really, really bad at regional

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accents and doesn't have anywhere else to
take out his RFK Junior frustrations. Well,

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bust out the tinfoil hats, folks, because the RFK Junior campaign is

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taking paranoia to wacky new heights.
According to reports, this motley crew of

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anti vaxers and conspiracy theorists have some, let's say, unconventional ways of operating.

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It seems top advisor Charles Eisenstein felt
the need to reconnect with spirit by

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jetting off to Costa Rica in the
midst of campaign season. Hey, when

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the aur needs cleansing, I guess
duties like attempting to become the leader of

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the free world can wait. Then
there's comms director Del Bigtree, who apparently

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used a hot January day to take
a rally field trip a mere block from

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the Capitol on January sixth. Nothing
ominous about that location pick, but the

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piece to resistance has to be the
campaign's deathly fear of microwaves and their nefarious

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electromagnetic radiation, to the point where
potlucks became logistical nightmares, with staffers urged

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to bring crock pots instead of using
those nuclear satan boxes we call microwaves.

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Apparently every Sunday kicks off off with
a virtual seance sorry prayer session led by

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a reverend who's likewise terrified of vaccine
requirements for kids, because what better energizes

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a campaign than a weekly dose of
fringe conspiracy. And in case you wondered

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if the head honcho was exempt from
the kookiness, RFK himself allegedly joined a

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zoom Christmas party while admittedly high,
before AIDS had to clarify he just had

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dentist, great anesthesia flowing. Real
professional there, but hey, for an

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eight thousand dollars per month consulting fee, I'm sure that high school grad the

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campaign hired is worth every pretty penny
of expertise, even if former staffers are

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calling the whole operation a grifter's paradise
waiting to happen. In all seriousness,

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though, an administration led by this
bunch of nut jobs could be genuinely terrifying.

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If they're this paranoid about kitchen appliances, now imagine the havoc they could

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reek with actual power. Let's just
hope voters show more sense than to entrust

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them with anything sharp or electronic.
Parts of today's show were made with the

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help of AID, but not the
Bobby Kennedy impressions. If we used AI

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for that, they would have at
least been good. Oh, if you're

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mad at me because I haven't made
fun of Joe Biden in two days.

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Joe Biden is so old that he
actually dated Mary Poppins in high school.

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