Will Cain Country - Donald Trump Removed From GOP Ballot In Colorado

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

Kennedy, host of the Fox News Podcast Kennedy Saves The World, joins Will to discuss the major stories of the day, including Former President Donald Trump’s removal from the Republican ballot in Colorado. They also ask what is going on in our nation’s capital as allegations of more Congressional sex tapes come to light, plus the fallout from the Harvard plagiarism scandal around President Claudine Gay.    The two also prepare for Christmas and discuss their best presents and favorite traditions around the holiday.    Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail]   Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for $5.5 plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. One, kicking Donald Trump off the box. ballot in Colorado. There's nothing the defenders of democracy won't do to save themselves, save democracy from Donald Trump. Two, more sex in the Senate, more sex, more porn in Congress. Three, the plagiarism scandal around the president of Harvard. All of this with the host of

Kennedy saves the world, Kennedy. It's the Will Kane podcast on Fox News podcast. What's up? And welcome to Christmas. Officially, I think we are now together beginning the holidays, the Christmas break. Merry Christmas to you and yours. We got a lot of exciting episodes coming up through the holidays. Stay tuned because we're going to talk about my New Year's resolutions from 2023. How did I do? How much success?

How much failure? Plus, I have some new resolutions for 2024. We'll get you ready for the college football playoff and I'll give you my top five songs, series, and movies. of 2020. That's all next week and the following week right here on the Wilcane podcast. But the news does not stop. And as we head into this holiday weekend, as we head into Christmas, I thought we might review some of the biggest stories that happened over just the last few days. Can you believe the defenders of democracy have now subverted democracy, they've kicked Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado? Let's discuss that. Plus more porn in Congress and the plagiarism

scandal around Harvard with the host of Kennedy saves the world. Kennedy. Kennedy, the host of Kennedy saves the world on the Fox News podcast network. I'm so glad to have you here today on the Will Kane podcast. For two people that name their shows after themselves, you take the cake for most humility, Kennedy saves the world. It's a humble job. It's a small job, but I signed up to do it will and buy gum every day five days a week you just told me that humility is among your greatest attributes what is your best what is the best personality characteristic of kennedy that's a great question um hmm i think it depends who you ask i'm very loyal um i'm very very loyal to people, and I'm a food nurturer. So I do cook for people and bake and mixed drinks.

I have been in your office during one of your cocktail parties. I have had your mixed drinks. I know you take a lot of pride in those mixed drinks, which I appreciate. I appreciate a good cocktail. You know, as I was listening to your answer, I was thinking how I would answer as well. I was totally not listening to what you had to say, just thinking about how I would answer my own question but what's your best attribute will you know i only thought about this because i actually thought i might ask you as well what is your obsession like one of my attributes kennedy is i i am insanely curious but i i get obsessed on something and it probably goes in like a i'd give it i'd give it a 48 to 72 hour cycle where i need to fall down the wikipedia rabbit hole i want to know

everything there is possible to know about some subject that's grabbed my curiosity. Like right now, as we're talking, I'm obsessed with Oklahoma Indian tribes. I want to know about the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, their current Supreme Court battles, their historical march, literally, on the Trail of Tears, toward having these Indian reservations in Oklahoma. So that's in part because I just watched the movie Killers of the Flower Moon, but also I was in Southern Oklahoma just the other day. So that's my current obsession.

What is your current obsession? That's interesting because my obsessions are much longer term. So I have been obsessed with triathlon since 1995. And I'm constantly every day trying to figure out how to get faster. And I think I plateaued about 25 years ago. And I'm still racing essentially at the same. speeds and I've tried everything like coaching equipment nutrition trying to swim more days trying to swim fewer days for longer periods of time trying to add sprints seeing if anything will help and

so far nothing I didn't know this about you this is one of the things that I forget and then love every time I talk to is you have these things like when you and I first both discovered that we we both love surfing. What a fun thing to learn about one another and then to discuss. I can't profess any experience or passion for triathlons, but I didn't know that about you. I didn't know in 25 years worth of triathlons, that is dedication. Yeah, it's been a while, and I just got a new bike.

I sold two bikes to get one bike. So hopefully this bike I will have for a good 10 years. And, you know, I've gotten to the point where I don't want to screw around with any extra equipment, but what I have, like, it has to last and it has to actually serve some purpose. There has to be functionality. Okay. I want to go through three of the top biggest stories I feel of the week with you, and we will mix into some personal questions about the holiday. So let's start with what I think is the biggest decision, the biggest story of the week. And that's the Colorado Supreme Court taking Donald Trump off the ballot, the primary ballot

for the 2024 presidential election. It will immediately go to the Supreme Court. We'll find out if this will stay. And even if it does stay, the Colorado GOP has said they'll move quickly to a caucus system of electing their candidate for president. When you see this story, Kennedy, and this is a place where I'm interested in what you may have in a potential surprise in the form of your opinion, when you see this story, what is your reaction? My reaction is it's putting the cart before the horse. he has been indicted. He has not been convicted. And I think that's actually very important. And I think if the former president is convicted of something, then you'll see states moving forward. And I think because they know that it will go to the Supreme Court very quickly, this is essentially a roadmap that they're giving to other states. And, you know, there are a lot of other states who will follow suit and try and do the exact same thing. But I don't, I think it's a very, very dangerous precedent. And what you have to do, if this is something you're cheering as a Democrat, you have to ask yourself, if this were a conservative Supreme Court doing this to a Democrat candidate,

would I be cheering in the same way? And if the answer is no, then you have to employ the political golden rule, particularly for things as sensitive as this. And I don't like Donald Trump is not enough of a reason for people to keep them off a ballot. You know, and if you're if you're so worried about voter suppression as our vice president has been put in charge of, you know, voter suppression and voting rights and all of that. She should be at the forefront really questioning skeptically this decision, which I think absolutely will be overturned, but we have to be very, very careful setting these precedents and going down this road. So when you say he's been indicted but not convicted. Of course, there are four separate criminal charges that fit

that description. The one that matters when it comes to Colorado is the quote-unquote insurrection charge around January 6th with special prosecutor Jack Smith. That's the one that allows the Colorado Supreme Court to say, you know, under the rules of the Constitution, if you are guilty of insurrection, then you can't be on the ballot for a Democratic office. My takeaway, Kennedy, I want to hear your response to this is, and I truly do. do try my hardest. Not to set aside my own bias because I think that's, I don't think being an honest journalist is the process of setting aside bias, but being honest with the audience about your bias. But I do try to set aside partisanship. It seems pretty clear that of the potential

options for 2024, when it comes to those on the left, and I think most in the Democrat party, it's just not an option for it to end with Donald Trump. And they will do anything at this point, censorship, criminal charges, including removing him from the ballot, to ensure that our democracy does not choose, does not elect Donald Trump. And it's just here we go. The defenders of democracy seem to be willing to do anything to ensure that that's not the outcome of democracy. Yeah. And these are very anti-democratic means. And I know what it feels like to not like a president. I pretty much don't like any president because as a philosophical libertarian, I haven't really seen a limited government person that I've been excited about running for president since Ron Paul in 2012. And I thought he made a lot of headway, a lot of traction there with Tea Party Republicans who, were very frustrated about the size and scope of government. They have forgotten that directive, many of them,

since there are very few Republicans who remain. But I do think that we have to be very, very careful not to go down these roads because of personal feelings or dislike. And, you know, I look at Donald Trump. I didn't vote for him either time, not because there aren't things about his policy, that I despise. There are a lot of things, you know, his curtailing regulations, rolling back, regulations,

cutting taxes, you know, flirting with the idea of cutting spending, although he didn't really do that. But I think he had some good intentions in the arenas that are most important to me. But it made me realize he's such an anti-establishment candidate that the establishment, even if it's not his establishment, we'll do whatever they can to dismantle his campaign and his legitimacy. But what they don't realize is that is furthering and deepening the division. It just, it makes people who love him that much more angry. It doesn't change their minds at all. Oh, I thought, yeah, you're right. It is furthering division. I thought you were going to say it's,

it's, it's, it's, it's backfiring on them. It's counterintuitive. That's what I mean. It's furthering the passion for him. I think they are increasing the likelihood that he is the choice of democracy. Well, they're increasing the likelihood that the people who gravitated toward him, and there are different reasons people voted for him. And now one of the reasons is, oh, well, my personal economy was better under Trump than Biden, so I think he's crazy, but I'll go back to that. But the people who liked him because he was an anti-establishment person,

who is really standing up for normal people, the fact that you have these technocrats who are trying to subvert their will because they think people are stupid, that absolutely will backfire. What is, it'll be interesting to find out if this is unique or if this is traditional. What is the Christmas tradition at your home, Kennedy?

So my Christmas tradition is my girls will, lobby to open as many presents as possible on Christmas Eve, they will get one. I do, I pride myself on a very strong stocking game. And, you know, stocking items have to be bulky. You know, you can't put little things in a stocking. And I think, like, a thing of ice cubes or trinette gum is totally fair. A giant Hershey's Kiss. But then I also do a lot of nice stuff from Sephora because I have teenage girls in the stocking. And then in the morning, and I use that in air quotes because my college freshman has laid down the law that no one is to wake me up before noon. So we will have my mom has a very traditional cheese souffle that I make every year,

whether I'm with her or in New York. And this year we're going to be in New York. I make homemade cinnamon rolls from scratch. And then this year, I'm doing a Panatone French toast. Okay, really quickly. You just slice up a Panetone loaf and dip it in egg and milk and spices and sugar and fried up like French toast. Okay, quickly. So the stocking game, your focus on the stocking game. That's right. The cheese souffle, the cinnamon rolls. Are those things that your mother did for you? Are those traditional? that were handed to you down to you that you are now doing with your girls? The cheese souffle, yes, since I was a baby. My youngest memories of Christmas, and the first

Christmas I remember I was two years old, we've had that cheese souffle. And my mom has gone to great lengths in many forms to either write down or email or print out the recipe for us. So everyone has it. And that is made in every home if we're not there with my mom. So I saw this, my wife showed me this Instagram meme that said, whatever it is you're doing today is what they will do with their kids. They will, they will seek to replicate whether or not they know it or not the way they felt when they were kids. And that, that's the essence of a tradition. But there's a reason that on Christmas Day, I put on George Strait's Christmas album. There's a reason that I say to my wife, no, I think we should put the stockings outside their door. It's because

that's what they did for us when we were kids, my parents. And by the way, that was a time buying mechanism. Stockings got moved to the bedroom door, so you had something to occupy time while parents slept in a little bit longer before whatever goes down on Christmas Day. Are you a let them rip through it as fast as they can on Christmas Day or make this go one at a time? You have girls, so it's probably a little less glutness. It's a little more genteel. Is it or is it like drag it out on Christmas? No, I like, I like one at a time. I do. I like people, you know, it's like if I, because I've been buying stuff for months and I do that. So I don't have a massive credit card bill in January.

You know, I really try and kind of meter things out and think of things, but also I forget that I bought stuff, so I always have a little bit more than I thought I did. But, you know, it's like I have put thought into everything I've gotten them because I don't want any garbage presents, you know, other than the ice cubes or trident gum or giant Hershey's kisses. Like, there's thought that has gone into everything because I don't want a bunch of garbage. And therefore, if I'm putting thought into it and putting time and wrapping every single gift, I want everyone to open theirs kind of individually.

I wish I did that. I wish I bought gifts throughout the year. Okay, story number. I mean, I'm telling you, like the credit card debt, just remind yourself next year. So you start buying on like June or July, and you just get a couple things here and there because it makes it so much better when January rolls around. I believe you. I'm going to have a conversation as soon as this podcast is over about budget.

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story number two um what's going on with sex in the senate or the congress what's going on with sex in washington dc it was earlier this week last weekend there was the story from the daily caller about two senate or one senate staffer we don't know the identity of the second person uh for senator ben cardin essentially creating a gay porn tape inside a senate committee uh hearing chamber and now there's a report from semifor i don't know if this is newer or older Kennedy, I don't think they know for sure the timing of it. It might be older, that there's another sex tape involving other members. I think this one might be connected to the House, but the identities haven't been released and it's not out yet. But it's, I mean, one's enough. Are we going to

have multiple, you know, gay porn tapes from inside of the halls of Congress? It was not the gayness that freaked me out. It was the fact that it's a, it's a, it's a part of of this story. The adjective is actually part. And an entire career to lose because he had to fulfill his whims and desires in the moment. And, you know, I'll give you an example. Like, I know the feeling of wanting to get the best picture, the best moment so you can post it on social media. So I went to the F1 race in Vegas with my boyfriend.

And we were in a paddock. and the bust with the podium winners was right in front of us. So I knew that when they started spraying champagne, it would look really cool if I turned my camera on and did a video of my boyfriend and I pouring and drinking champagne in that exact moment. I knew that would look great. And it did. It looked awesome.

What was cooler is people in the paddock area were also spraying champagne everywhere. So everyone was just soaked. It was a great moment. And it's like you have to take advantage of that backdrop because it only happens for a couple seconds. And if you miss it and you don't do it, you regret it. So I understand that feeling, but that is what is fueling an entire generation. So this kid is like, everyone knows I work for Senator Cardin.

Like, I can chase even more clout by boning a dude in this meeting room. Like, this is so taboo. This is so naughty. And everyone will know exactly where we are and what we're doing because we're being so explicit with everything. and we're just like barfing all of our indiscretions and needs and desires everywhere. And there's no compartmentalization. There are no lines.

Everything is completely blurred. And that is my problem with what's going on right now. Like if you want to have sex, if you want to do drugs, do it over here. So you're not affecting other people. But it's like this need to sexualize everything and put everything out in the open. it's right i don't think there is something i think there's something deeper kennedy i think be you're right and then you say why and i think the whatever we want to call it the the tabooness the ugliness the the that's the point it's not exhibitionism and it's not perfect

picture in my estimation not perfect moment i'm not even sure it's clout it's like in that video you know, whoever's taking the the POV shot does a pan to the seal of the Senate, right? And you have to prove where you are. Yeah. And I don't think it's for clout as much as it is for like,

yes, tearing down norms. I don't know, but norms isn't the right word I'm searching for. It's like tearing down what's proper. It's like the fact that this is wrong is the point of it. And that we need to do this we need to defile.

I think that's what there's something in there beyond simply exhibitionism or even hedonism. It's like the, the, I keep struggling for what the adjective is. The dirtiness, the ugliness, the indiscretion, that's the point. The point is to tear down what is, again, this isn't the right word, sacred. Because I don't think government is sacred, but to tear down what is supposed to be somehow in some way some communal good. Yes. And I think that's the point. So, but people, they want to burn churches. They want to burn flags. They want to burn the Quran. They want to burn the Bible. They want to burn Israeli flags. They want to tear down posters of Israeli prisoners and said they want to tear down and destroy. And that's one thing. But what are they offering in return? Like what, what utopia are you offering me? You're offering me a dystopia. No one wants to live in a dystopia. I don't want to live in a world where we have to blacklight everything to make sure we're not sitting in microbes. Yeah, poor Senator Klobuchar.

Apparently, that was her position in the judiciary chamber. She needs a black light. I like what you said. That was really smart. I do think we are in such a moment of indulgence of destruction. It's as though destruction is virtue, but you offer nothing in its place. And it's like creation is virtue, not destruction. Destruction is easy.

Creation is hard. Next, you're the perfect person, I think, to ask this. Next week, I'll be giving my top five songs, my top five movies or shows that I streamed during the year. Let me just ask you your top one of each. What was your top song and your top show? You can have movie or series of 2020. So my top song was actually a throwback from a few years ago, but it's a song that I kept

going back to, and that's life itself by glass animals. I think that's a really great song that I found to be very, very enjoyable. And also, Darius Rucker's version of Wagon Wheel. I listen to that so much. It made me so happy for some reason. I never liked his version as much as the original. I can never get into it. I mean, it's Bob Dylan wrote the song, but I can't find a Bob Dylan version of it.

I was talking about Old Crow Medicine show. Yeah, and that's a great version as well. It's fantastic. And then I made me realize, like, why do I not like Darius Rucker? Because of Hootie and the Blowfish? Like, that's so lame. It was so dumb on my part. And it's like, the guy has so much talent.

And he's supposedly a really, really cool person. So that was one thing. I really like jury duty. It made me laugh so hard. I thought James Marsden was so funny. I tried jury duty. I had it recommended. And I think I gave it two or three episodes.

And I don't have anything negative to say, it just didn't grab me. I just didn't keep going. And of course, you know, the crown. I love the crown. It's like embarrassing how much I love the crown. We're on different watching. So jury duty, for those who may not know, that's the show where everybody, there's one guy, it's like a reality show where they think they're on a jury and everybody's

an actor except for one guy. I mean, the pitch and the idea is awesome. And he doesn't know that everyone else around him is faking it. And so he thinks he's surrounded by insanity. I need to go back to it. Maybe I need to finish it. They did a really good job. So if you watch the show, Joe Schmo, did you watch that? No. And see that, it was so funny. So it was a guy who thought he was cast in like a real world type situation.

But everyone else was an actor. And the poor guy was so mad when he found out at the end. And everyone like, they all fell in love with him because he was such a sweet kid. And then he turned out he was really, really, really. mad at the end, but these cliches from every show, you know, from The Bachelor and the real world and every cliche archetype and character that you've seen in reality TV, you know, the slutty girl and the gay guy and the nerd, like they were all in there. So that, it was, it was like that, but the characters were just a little bit more nuanced and they were so, so funny. It was, I thought it was great.

You reminded me. I spent a lot of time with Love is Blind in 2023, so I may have to put that on my list of best shows next week here on the Wilcane podcast. Don't go anywhere. More of the Wilcane podcast right after this. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus, IKEA has hundreds of design ideas and affordable options to complement any budget. After all, you're in your school. small space era. It's time to own it. Shop now at Ikea.ca. I'm Benjamin Hall, Fox News correspondent in New York Times bestselling author. Join me for my brand new podcast, searching for heroes. Make sure you subscribe to this series wherever you download podcasts and leave a rating and review. All right, story number three, Harvard's plagiarism scandal. It seems to be swirling around President Claudia and Gay as we speak. It was, it was. The jumping off point was her testimony in front of Congress when it comes to anti-Semitism and generally speech at large on Harvard,

both when they censor and when they allow certain various forms of speech. It claimed the job, that hearing, that testimony claimed the job of Liz McGill at Penn. It didn't claim the job of Claudine Gay. And many people have wondered why. And then from that, donors have pulled, I think another donor pulled just yesterday. Bill Ackman said he pulled, he won't hire Harvard resumes, Harvard graduates. And people have focused on gay arriving at this position, which her qualifications are less than most university presidents, just on a resume. But now there's these allegations that I think, what is it, like 20, 20 different allegations of plagiarism and some of it's ripping full paragraphs?

The new post is it up to 40? Is it 40? Yeah. So the Harvard, so the New York Post was doing their own exposé before her testimony before Congress. And, you know, Harvard was like, back off. We're going to sue you if you keep investigating this. And it's like, oh, my gosh, the First Amendment is so inconvenient. And then they said that it was just the Harvard Corporation, which is the highest governing body at the school. They said that they have their own internal investigation and that more citations were needed. But it was just that it wasn't plagiarism. It was just that citations were lacking. So what that means is she was using someone else's words in a number of circumstances, but passing them off as her own words and thus her own ideas. But they weren't.

And so when you're passing someone else's writing or ideas off as your own, that's what plagiarism is. And, you know, it's like a lot of people have paid with their careers. Joe Biden was caught up in a plagiarism scandal. And, you know, I mean, he really shouldn't be president to begin with. But it makes you wonder if those protective and mutable characteristics are really the best way of selecting leaders in this day and age. Talking about race. They're calling anyone who's invested in this story, essentially a white supremacist. Yeah, race and gender.

Like, do I deserve a job because I'm a woman? No, I deserve a job because I kick so much ass, and I have been for 30 years. Oh, mic drop. I didn't know that was the end of that point. I thought that was a wind-up pitch. I didn't realize that was the strikeout pitch. That was a good one, yeah. It was a good one.

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear why she got the job and why she's being so protected. And to your point, it's not the best way to go about selecting the leaders of America. And it's not just leaders. It starts with leadership and then filters. down to the point that many people have brought up, you know, if this is how we're selecting people now on immutable characteristics, we're going to have compromised various parts of our economy from pilots to sanitation workers, from university presidents. Do you want your surgeon to be someone who checked boxes? And the other thing that it does

is, you know, you look at someone like Tonji Brown Jackson. She's a brilliant jurist. She's really, really smart, even if you had an issue with the fact that she couldn't answer the question about what is a woman, you know, a really brilliant person. And it would be a shame for someone like that for people to assume, oh, you've only achieved what you have in life because you happen to be a woman of color. And I think that's really unfair to people who happen to be women, who happen to be black, who've worked really, really hard against so many odds, you know, within their families and failing school systems and still continue to rise to the occasion, you know, they should be applauded. They shouldn't have people looking at them skeptically. But that's what happens when

you have instances like this, which, you know, they only further people's unspoken racism. And to me, that's sad. It's having the opposite effect of what their employment was intended. it is December 22nd perhaps December 23rd by the time somebody's listening to this conversation you are now as I know the perfect person to end this conversation with this question what is the perfect gift that you gave and that you want to get in 2023 you got to be careful I know with what you gave because they may they probably have not yet opened that gift no there's there has not been a lot of openings um I got my boyfriend a really nice suit.

So a good friend of mine is a bespoke menswear designer. And he was kind enough to help me out. And I got my boyfriend a beautiful suit, which he knows about because he had to be measured for. Nice. The best gift I got this year was I got a trip to Monza to see the F1 race in Italy for my birthday. and that's probably the best birthday gift I've ever gotten. So let me ask a question about each of those. So the suit idea is great, by the way,

because suits are something that, I mean, this sounds so spoiled, but it's just true as a product of my job I take for granted because I get suits, right? I have a budget to wear suits on air, and that's just the way it is. But I know for guys, and before I was doing this, like I just didn't have many suits. Just don't, and I don't wear them all that often.

And so when it's time, it's kind of like what tuxedos were, suits have turned into. You only wear it so often. you pull it out and it doesn't fit right anymore and it's an old style. And so to get one that's actually fitted, you know, tailored to you, is an awesome gift. It's an awesome gift to have in your closet. And I don't know how often. And women, we don't relate to it because, you know, we cycle through dresses and outfits

and trends and, you know, we buy stuff that we know it wasn't going to last as long, whereas a well-made men's suit is there's, I don't know. that there's anything comparable in wardrobe for a woman, maybe like a really expensive handbag. But, you know, when you have a designer who takes the time, it goes, actually, this color fabric is really, really good for you. And, you know, this is why I like this cut. And it was a fascinating process.

And you go classic. You can't go trendy. You have to go something because a guy's going to wear that for five years, easy. But real quick, on the gift that you got, it wasn't Christmas it was your birthday experience is always interesting everyone loves an experience after and during but before like when you open it and somebody gives you an experience kind of a letdown right because you didn't have anything to open it's not your like on Christmas if I gave you hey we're going to go to El Salvador surfing together sweet first of all you'd be

like that's a bummer you're signing me up wheel to hang out with you for a while I would be great. El Salvador has some great surf. I told you I went to El Salvador this year, right? And it's rough. It's rough. El Salvador's rough. I've heard that. I heard you had to be really, really careful, but the breaks are fantastic. How about this for a statement? It's not Mexico. Whoa. Yeah. Right. Like, Mexico, it feels safer, more developed, cleaner. El Salvador's rough. But the experience thing, like we even talked about with my sons, like, what if you

if we took them, even tickets to a game, even if that were something, I can't decide if experiences live up in the moment when you're opening a present to your expectations on Christmas. So what if you got them like a really cool football? And they're like, oh, football's neat, but you're like, yeah, but this only, so you have like a physical thing. Can I tell you a funny Christmas fail that I had with my stepdad? Please. This was years ago. This was in the 90s when I was at MTV. My good friend Scott Ian from anthrax, his dad was a diamond jeweler. So I told him that I wanted to get my mom a pair of diamond earrings, split them with my stepdad. My stepdad thought that was a great idea. And so we agreed that we would each give her one, that I would give her one

in a box. And then my stepdad had a special way he wanted to give it to her. So Christmas morning, everyone's gathered around. Everyone has already opened everything. We have in-laws and boyfriends and girlfriends and, you know, grandchildren, kids running around. And so I give my mom the box and she opens it. She sees one earring. So I thought she would be intrigued. And everyone was like, what is wrong with you?

Where's the other earring? And so my stepdad hadn't come out of the room yet with the other one. So I kind of stalled and I was like, oh, my roommate and I were trying them on. I bet they're probably back in my apartment in New York. and everyone's like, you are so inconsistent. Like, everyone piled on and, like, started yelling at me. And my mom was just, like, really dejected and sad. And everyone was just like, how dare you?

I couldn't believe how quickly these vultures turned. And then my stepdad comes in with a little piglet from Winnie the Pooh. And my mom's like, oh, yeah, that's great. Thanks. I want a stuffed animal. And he's like, why don't you look at piglets ear? And then the little diamond ear was in piglets ear. And I'm like, suck it, Trebek.

You guys are the worst. You turned on me. I think that sounds like a great story. I love, you got to have the roller coaster of emotions. You got to have the highs, the lows to have the highs. I like the narrative. I thought the story was going to be about the special way that your stepfather wanted to give it to your mother. And I was like, wow, that sounds like a podcast episode of itself.

Yeah, with Dr. Freud. The mysterious special way. But it turns out it was Winnie the Pooh. No, it was Piglet. That's all. Piglet. Happy ending. Kennedy, this has been awesome. I've really enjoyed this conversation. I hope we do it a lot more. And everybody that listens to this podcast, go check out Kennedy Saves the World. Thank you, Kennedy. Merry Christmas.

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