October Bonus: Catching Up With RFK Jr.
Added 2024-10-29 07:05:02 +0000 UTCFor Halloween we picked one of our scariest topics: What has RFK Jr. has been up to? Updates include a whale head, a bear body and a cameo from Roseanne Barr for some reason.
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As a diabetes researcher, him calling it juvenile diabetes gave me a stroke. Pediatric diabetes is more severe phenotype and a real concern but if hes saying "juvenile diabetes".... that's the out dated term for t1d
Br
2025-05-18 23:50:13 +0000 UTCSo. Fucking. Dark.
AmberSwan Mundy
2025-05-05 19:20:12 +0000 UTCA bear, a whale, and a worm walk into a bar
Abijah
2025-05-01 01:11:19 +0000 UTCListening to this post destruction of HHS because of RFK Jr is dystopian.
Bri
2025-04-21 13:01:49 +0000 UTCCalifornian here, when I first registered I accidentally registered as the independent party before registered and fixed it
Not_Machines
2025-02-02 01:20:33 +0000 UTCIf you've ever met a person who grew up without flouridited water, met their family and see how much they spend on dental care you'd change your mind about flouride.
Kristin Brown
2024-12-25 12:12:00 +0000 UTCThe dog meat trade (DMT) in Cambodia is incredibly cruel, senseless, and disgusting. It’s not for sustenance, it’s a “luxury food” meant to represent masculinity and virility. I was involved in reporting on DMT when I lived there. It’s so weird to say you’re not ashamed.
Shalma Movassaghi
2024-12-09 21:12:19 +0000 UTCI'm not ashamed to say I ate dog meat in Cambodia while staying with a family in the forest. They were proud to serve it to me and I will try anything. I also taught English in China and my student came from a city where they commonly eat dog meat. Yes dogs are eaten in Asia. Not defending RFK, more saying that just because your culture doesn't eat a certain thing doesn't mean it's not a valid thing for other cultures. I do personally judge negatively cultures and peoples who make animals suffer and damage the environment with the food source.
S
2024-12-05 18:39:12 +0000 UTCI’m sure my dad just watches YouTube videos of people boring cylinder heads over and over (even though he does it for a job) because he’s eccentric and I’m autistic because of vaccines I guess??
mumbles march
2024-11-21 13:29:35 +0000 UTCCould you literally be any funnier Aubrey? Your sotto voce brain worms are for closers killed me.
mumbles march
2024-11-21 13:27:33 +0000 UTCBetween RFK and Dr. Oz, I'm beginning to think that Trump is just choosing his cabinet based on who y'all have torn apart for being insane and terrible lolol 😭
Claire DiVizio
2024-11-20 01:20:10 +0000 UTCY'all should consider doing an episode on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis!
Chaya Nautiyal Murali
2024-11-19 21:44:39 +0000 UTC“Brain worms are for closers” sent me 🤣
Katy Gaston
2024-11-18 22:41:21 +0000 UTCListening to this after the election hits different... 😭😭😭
Becca Mascull
2024-11-18 21:47:44 +0000 UTCThe bear thing is so Prince Charles coded
Zelph On The Shelf
2024-11-18 16:36:05 +0000 UTCGriftiest Grifter - Professor Tim Spector https://amp.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/18/zoe-nutrition-app-diet-tim-spector-wellness-science
Jess Ni C
2024-11-17 09:01:44 +0000 UTCWe are so effed.
Cora Leighton
2024-11-16 03:33:45 +0000 UTCI can’t believe this saga is going to continue and we’re going to have to follow it. Maybe y’all should unlock this one for the public? I want to send this to everyone.
Leo Puppytime
2024-11-15 00:12:41 +0000 UTCoh no, poor Mike & Aubrey: this doofus being appointed to HHS (assuming he's approved by the Senate). You guys will never be free of him! :-(
JCCTigris
2024-11-14 21:58:05 +0000 UTCWait, so does Mike not know the trick of using their profile pic along with “David 💪🏻” so you vaguely know who they are? 😆😆😆
Chris O.
2024-11-14 04:47:37 +0000 UTCI think it's worth noting that T1 Diabetes was called "juvenile diabetes" through part of the 70s. Which makes RFK's framing that much more diabolical imo
Jacklyn Jenness
2024-11-14 01:02:51 +0000 UTC"This is the last time we'll have to talk about him" JK turns out this has only been the terrifying prequel
Jacklyn Jenness
2024-11-13 22:56:14 +0000 UTCListening to this today for the first time and my skeleton shrinks a little each time you say ‘hopefully this is the last time we have to talk about this man’ ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Charlotte
2024-11-12 18:52:18 +0000 UTCI'm not in US but if there are any vaccinations you've procrastinating from, go now!
Meh
2024-11-12 07:33:22 +0000 UTCOne quibble - RFK Jr was a real attorney. He was an ADA while an addict, which is such a dereliction of duty, I have no words. But yes, beyond that, he hasn’t done much. And he’s a scary moron.
Claire Richardson Pence
2024-11-11 19:05:39 +0000 UTCGod I miss my robot vacuum 😭😭😭
CoyDahlia (Lindsey)
2024-11-08 17:06:18 +0000 UTCImma need you to more than double down on his shenanigans now 😂😂 did you hear he is coming for our cough syrup?! 😂😂
Sarah Rugh
2024-11-08 05:05:15 +0000 UTCbrainworms are for closers!!!
Zoe
2024-11-08 01:10:38 +0000 UTCI need y’all to cover Ashley Black and the Fasciablaster. I need to hear Mike rant about this grift.
Lindsay
2024-11-08 00:45:39 +0000 UTCPlease hang in there everyone
Magdalena
2024-11-07 16:54:08 +0000 UTCConfetti cannon for the shark a vagrant reference.
Covo
2024-11-06 20:25:07 +0000 UTCso "below sea level" wasn't a lesbian joke then
Lilith Anderson
2024-11-06 09:11:04 +0000 UTCYou've already done Jamie Oliver, but there's another UK reality show "Doctor in the House" with Rangan Chattergee where a well spoken, thin doctor lives with a working class family and tells them (in a fairly patronising way) that they'll die early unless they drink less soda and eat more broccoli. He now has a very popular health podcast which is littered with all the usual productivity tropes you would expect. I'd love so much to hear you guys' take on it but it is a bit niche.
Dave
2024-11-05 17:33:26 +0000 UTCNene H assign
Kate Hartfield
2024-11-03 16:23:50 +0000 UTCWhile “The Rambler” isn’t a song, it apparently was a broadside. Meaning Aubrey isn’t WRONG, just a couple hundred years too late: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=361
Crystal Robinson
2024-11-01 19:16:28 +0000 UTCY'all are the best.
Guru Mantra Khalsa
2024-11-01 14:21:01 +0000 UTC"Brain worms are for closers!" Not me cackling in my car
Drew Pearce
2024-11-01 12:57:03 +0000 UTCOkay, you guys owe us a bonus episode on Aronofsky's The Whale
Amanda
2024-11-01 10:33:28 +0000 UTCIt's the ivy league education hahaha
fig leaf
2024-11-01 04:02:01 +0000 UTCNo I literally work at Central Park and when the bear story dropped I spent a full week having to explain who he was and how whacky he is based on the previous 2 RFK Jr episodes 💀
Ham
2024-10-31 19:18:26 +0000 UTCSorry for the gross factor, but I just got over a stomach bug. And listening to this podcast episode with noise cancelling headphones on made vomiting my brains out a much better experience. I was too busy being horrified by RFK 🤣
Rose
2024-10-31 18:21:14 +0000 UTCListening to this episode made me realize just how entirely too online I am. None of this was new to me. BRB going to go touch some grass
Daria
2024-10-31 17:37:10 +0000 UTCThe real question no one is asking: does QAnon think RFK Jr is the reincarnation they’ve been waiting for? No one covers the JFK reincarnation story anymore.
Elizabeth Leavy
2024-10-31 17:30:17 +0000 UTCBrainworms are for closers .... never change, Aubrey. Never change.
Corrie Tritz
2024-10-31 17:03:41 +0000 UTCMy dog's BFF is a robot. Granted it is one of those treat-dispensing bots that I stuck googly eyes on... but he loves to sit next to his "roebit fren" or gaze lovingly into its googly eyes willing it to vomit out some snacks.
Furbekah
2024-10-31 15:37:20 +0000 UTCThat was spot on, thank you.
Elizabeth Elliott
2024-10-31 09:00:04 +0000 UTCThis episode is like dipshit bingo - name drops for every nut job and grifter, when I heard Tim Pool I said “Oh JESUS” aloud to an empty room 🤦🏻
The Mad Jay Woman
2024-10-31 02:20:22 +0000 UTCOk admittedly I saw the subject of this and was like “nooooooooo why, please noooooooo more about this turd”. 25 minutes later I’m laughing hysterically in the shower that I forget to rinse the shampoo out of my hair. Well done you two.
TR
2024-10-31 01:02:24 +0000 UTCBased on the Behind the Bastards episodes about RFK Jr, I can say with 99% certainty that he planned to feed the bear carcass to his falcons. Maybe after storing it in his neighbor’s freezer for a while.
Brooke Chappell
2024-10-30 22:38:52 +0000 UTCOn the anti vax anti autism running mate— as an autistic person I’m pretty confident that it came from the 2 tech industry parents, not the vaccines. lol
Elle✨
2024-10-30 21:29:09 +0000 UTCi am from CA but now live in MN and it took me until this episode to realize i had originally registered with the American Independent Party 🤦🏼♀️😂
Mackenzie Look
2024-10-30 21:23:27 +0000 UTC"Okay, question:...No it's not" is how I've felt this entire election cycle
Lore
2024-10-30 20:54:51 +0000 UTCI also find it hard to believe that the cyclist wouldn’t also die after hitting a bear
Kim Luke
2024-10-30 20:51:24 +0000 UTCAlso as a school nurse can 10000% confirm “1 in 3 kids” do NOT have diabetes. We see 1-2 in a school per year if at all
Jessica C
2024-10-30 19:55:37 +0000 UTCLove how obvious it is that Mike’s physics YouTube rabbit hole took him to quasars recently
Sam Marshall
2024-10-30 19:31:14 +0000 UTCRobot vacuums are very underrated. And really an essential for disabled people.
Alex Allen
2024-10-30 18:05:29 +0000 UTCRFK jr is terrible, and the bear story of putting a bear in Central Park is whack. But the laughing at the basic concept of gathering roadkill thing feels pretty classist and reflective of urban caricatures of rural culture. Putting a bear in Central Park? Yeah, whacky. Picking up usable meat? perhaps unfamiliar to you but not itself evidence of far-right whackiness. -your friendly neighborhood rural queer Nonetheless thanks for this wild ride of an episode 😆
Neak
2024-10-30 14:07:59 +0000 UTCAs someone who grew up in Massachusetts it’s painful to see who RFK, Jr. has become. Intelligent enough to become a lawyer, but somehow no critical thinking ability.
Rosemary Sullivan
2024-10-30 12:36:07 +0000 UTCalso Joe Biden DIDN'T do the "lockdowns" (there were no real lockdowns to be clear). he lifted them, kicked people off Medicaid, privatized COVID vaxx and treatment, allowed the eviction moratorium to expire without any pushback, reduced the isolation guidance multiple not based on any science but the desires of business. I could go on and on. it's hilarious that ppl see Joe Biden as some COVID extremist when he has overseen a policy that is almost the exact same as what conservative think tankers in 2020 suggested.
Rai
2024-10-30 12:02:52 +0000 UTClmfaooooooo
Carly Gove
2024-10-30 12:00:18 +0000 UTCAlways Be Groping!
George
2024-10-30 10:00:22 +0000 UTCRFK Jr going FALCON HUNTING is the weirdest part of the bear story
Andrew Dunn
2024-10-30 09:27:12 +0000 UTCHow is this man just a reverse Snow White? All these animals, just coming to him and dying.
Disagreeable Subjects
2024-10-30 08:07:51 +0000 UTCLove you guys❤️
Elliott Carrington
2024-10-30 05:56:10 +0000 UTCBest tag line yet!!
Haley Mosley
2024-10-30 05:37:26 +0000 UTCI really hoped you were going to also cover RFK Jr and the whole MAHA - Make America Healthy Again "roundtable" hosted by Sen Ron Johnson with Jordan Peterson, the Sears siblings, Jillian Michaels, etc. Though its maybe worth a whole episode? Because its really off the charts. https://wapo.st/4e9TGix
Casey Krub
2024-10-30 04:50:59 +0000 UTCAs someone who helped administer a California primary election some months back, and had to explain to many confused and irate voters why they couldn’t vote for certain candidates without changing their registration, fuck the American Independent Party. Fuck them SO HARD.
Brooke Chappell
2024-10-30 04:33:04 +0000 UTCFluid flow lololol
Cymantha B
2024-10-30 04:10:33 +0000 UTCRegarding the robot vacuum: my dog eats the crumbs and the vacuum cleaner eats the dog hair. It's a whole ecosystem.
Hester
2024-10-30 02:50:01 +0000 UTCDying at the gumar to David bicep in less than 30 seconds!
Coco
2024-10-30 02:37:43 +0000 UTCJust stuck on the bear and that he claimed he was going to use the meat. Clearly not, if he picked it up on the way somewhere and it sat in the back of his car ask day. I mean, did he field dress it before putting it in his car? What was the weather out? Was that bear sitting in the back of his car in 70 degrees, or 30 degrees? (Fahrenheit)
Laura
2024-10-30 02:16:33 +0000 UTCI'm just listening on my phone and I cannot understand them AT ALL
Sara Ellena
2024-10-30 01:44:23 +0000 UTCI would second an episode on this, especially if they included themes around moralizing foods
Sara Ellena
2024-10-30 01:42:10 +0000 UTCThat's the most Portlandish thing I've heard in a while, and I live in Portland, too. (hats off, not an insult)
Kazoolhu
2024-10-30 01:20:43 +0000 UTCthat's so dark, and also employment services case workers in mental health wards... Starmer really is a huge disappointment. Even the Tories didn't go so far as to get people in mental health wards into employment services.
Meh
2024-10-30 01:18:42 +0000 UTCThe Supreme Court ruled today that he's stuck on the Michigan and Wisconsin ballots.
Ryan Rowekamp
2024-10-30 00:10:49 +0000 UTCOkay definitely a nitpick but Assange isn't an American citizen that's one of the criticisms of the US attempting to prosecute him
Ellen
2024-10-29 23:22:00 +0000 UTCMy brain really thought for a second that the Google founder had an affair with Elon Musk and not his wife 😆
Taytum Bouchard
2024-10-29 23:12:03 +0000 UTCSomeone do a couples costume of the bear and the whale for gay Halloween pleaseeee 🐻 🐳
Charlotte Louise
2024-10-29 23:06:16 +0000 UTCThis was just so good. So happy you’re back 🩷
Jessica C
2024-10-29 22:37:04 +0000 UTCScariest Halloween Ghoul: RFK Jr, for his ability to still haunt this election despite dropping out.
Megan M
2024-10-29 22:34:45 +0000 UTC“The camping, and the dust, and the libertarians” *chef’s kiss
Solveig Almaas
2024-10-29 22:24:04 +0000 UTCAubrey
Emily Baker
2024-10-29 21:33:02 +0000 UTCHave you ever thought about an episode on the ‘ultra processed foods’ hype? Very interesting as it’s based on misusing data from Brazilian research. It also features a British tv ‘extreme medicine’ doctor who wrote a bestselling book about it. Lots of stuff to debunk and fun to be had! It’s really like that ‘clean beauty’ trend where there is a sliver of truth, but the exaggeration wins. Eating fresh products is better, but when even bread is deemed ‘ultra-processed’… Hmm…
Jedidjah
2024-10-29 21:12:28 +0000 UTCYeah, Michael kind of missed that RFK Jr was making a WAY bigger claim.
Marissa Collins
2024-10-29 21:09:25 +0000 UTCAs a Med student, it drives me crazy when people think “juvenile diabetes” just means children with diabetes, when it’s just a term that’s not rly used anymore for type 1 diabetes ! It just means that most people get type 1 while they’re young !
Bruna Colombini
2024-10-29 20:09:07 +0000 UTCI know this is a small detail, but I can’t stop giggling about the logic that a bicyclist would hit a bear…in MANHATTAN 🫠
Madison Kitchen
2024-10-29 19:45:23 +0000 UTCSeconded! I am also a type 1, and it's refreshing to be so frequently acknowledged on the podcast
Kat Sayrs
2024-10-29 19:35:46 +0000 UTCThis is hilarious to me because I actually teach a class on harvesting roadkill for food...in Portland! It's not that weird, y'all
Kristnh Freestone
2024-10-29 19:18:37 +0000 UTCjust wanted to say that I appreciated the lesbian fluid flow joke even if Michael didn't, I had to pause because I was cackling too hard lmaooo
frankie
2024-10-29 18:35:18 +0000 UTCAnd oh, Michael, tapeworms can be so much longer than you think...
Cate Kneale
2024-10-29 18:32:08 +0000 UTCSame for Michigan! hoping that has some impact here in such a critical state
Anne-Marie Wagner
2024-10-29 18:30:24 +0000 UTCUK listener here, would you like to verbally eviscerate Wes Streeting for his transphobe pandering and recent ozempic for the unemployed bullshit? Please?
Cate Kneale
2024-10-29 18:29:45 +0000 UTCI wish I could send this comment directly to Aubrey, and I know this was such a minute part of the episode, but I deeply appreciate Aubrey's knowledge about diabetes in general. I am a Type 1 diabetic, and the way that diabetes is portrayed in pop culture and by politicians is so fucking annoying. It is used as this weapon and punch line about how unhealthy we all are when there is such a strong genetic component for both Type 1 and Type 2!! I wish we would stop demonizing people with diabetes in general, and find ways to just make our lives easier to live. Her responses to general misinformation is so spot on I always just feel so seen.
Anne-Marie Wagner
2024-10-29 18:27:44 +0000 UTCEvery time you guys post about this man I get both excited and a shiver goes down my spine knowing it will only be more disturbing than the last time 😭
Rlly_gross
2024-10-29 16:41:16 +0000 UTCI am outraged that Michael did not laugh at "Brain worms are for closers!".
Violence Zack
2024-10-29 16:36:02 +0000 UTCWish we rejected shit like that here. Right Wing organizations are always named shit like "America is Beautiful!" or "Protecting Our Children!". 🤦♂️
Violence Zack
2024-10-29 16:34:39 +0000 UTCI believe he had a VW van at the time. I could be wrong but that’s what I heard.
Geneva Samuelson
2024-10-29 16:29:05 +0000 UTCAlso the framing of the cyclist for the bear death is giving Charles wanting to pretend he had a fake arm for the press.
Hope Maze
2024-10-29 16:27:57 +0000 UTCI'm listening to this while sanding a wall so the bear clips are unintelligible lol
Hope Maze
2024-10-29 16:24:16 +0000 UTCBrainz wormz, Aubrey is hilarious.
Brandy Barth
2024-10-29 15:32:32 +0000 UTCMe: ugh end of the month rent is due :(( Me: but that means new maintenance phase 👁️👅👁️
Nico
2024-10-29 15:06:05 +0000 UTCDun dun!
Emily Garten
2024-10-29 14:49:11 +0000 UTCi was literally thinking "Ooo, I'm gonna make a 'Ripped from the headlines Law and Order' joke online about this bear in Central Park story" and then Aubrey said it 😆
Lorien Leonard
2024-10-29 14:20:35 +0000 UTCSeeing another "Catching up with" episode pop up in the Patreon feed made me think of having a Bonus Episode on April 1st that's "Catching up with" for somebody who *hasn't* done anything interesting since then, so the episode is just one minute long.
Alien@System
2024-10-29 14:06:00 +0000 UTCNonono, I’ve heard enough about the bear and the whale. I’m here for the retelling of campaign shenanigans.
Sei B
2024-10-29 14:01:37 +0000 UTCDavid. Bicep.
Juliet Hope slash Pangolina
2024-10-29 13:42:06 +0000 UTCThat’s just going to make Mike double down… like with “denowment” 😆
Julia Wykes
2024-10-29 13:28:37 +0000 UTCAmerican cars must be absolutely humongous to be able to get both a bicycle AND a dead bear cub inside and still be able to park in the city without anyone noticing it.
Flo Saxby
2024-10-29 13:26:05 +0000 UTCHaha Aubrey you’re ON IT today! 🤣 Laughing my way home from school dropoff!
Shelley DeWees
2024-10-29 13:08:14 +0000 UTCRFK Jr is still on the ballot in Indiana! He’s listed as “We the People” party. Missed this show, thanks for the ep (and condolences on how much you had to read about this guy)
Theo
2024-10-29 13:01:21 +0000 UTCBit for the Peep Show fans there “he’s eating Mummy!”
KWV
2024-10-29 12:51:35 +0000 UTCSpeaking of RFK Jr., another favorite podcast of mine, Binchtopia, decided to dress up this year as RFK jr. and his brain worm for Halloween. Enjoy. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBd2KunNTl-/?igsh=a21yenBoMTVkZ2Jm
Pagrocrag
2024-10-29 12:39:53 +0000 UTC18 year old me registered as an American Independent in California in '99. I was so embarrassed, glad I wasn't alone!
Anna Jane
2024-10-29 12:23:10 +0000 UTCso excited to listen to this after having heard Behind the Bastard’s series on him. what a character.
Leon Colbert
2024-10-29 12:17:20 +0000 UTCI have been wanting you guys to catch up on him forever omg 😭 I can’t wait to listen to this
Autumn Dawn
2024-10-29 12:06:03 +0000 UTCAubrey's "okay" at the beginning when Michael is talking about all of the animals that are going to be involved sounds very resigned and like "Hang on, let me get my cup of dumb bitch juice to get through this." 🤣
Lauren Milton
2024-10-29 11:45:24 +0000 UTCBehind The Bastards did a good deep dive into how vile RFK Jr is. I recommend.
Rosemarie Cawkwell
2024-10-29 11:40:44 +0000 UTCi'm humbly requesting a joint maintenance phase/ibck episode where michael just expounds upon astronomy & space stuff. xD
Nina VanHeeswijk
2024-10-29 11:30:12 +0000 UTCAubrey’s lil giggle at “fish and wildlife regulations” freaking sent me.
Lindsay
2024-10-29 11:28:39 +0000 UTCAbout the Independence Party, in Denmark, a right winger recently had the proposed name for his new party rejected by the election authorities. The party name in question was "Denmark's Best Party"
Kirstine
2024-10-29 09:07:58 +0000 UTCi live in portland and was meeting those canvassers all the time this summer, especially at country fair (lol). when they showed up outside the lesbian bar me and my very drunk friends said “no!!!!! he’s an anti vaxer!!” and the guy said “yeah i just get paid by the signature, man. i know he sucks” 😵💫🤦🏻♀️
Miranda Field-Martin
2024-10-29 09:07:17 +0000 UTCWow listening to this episode and the Behind the Bastards episodes about RFKJR in one week was A Lot of gross to consume.
Amber Smigiel
2024-10-29 09:05:36 +0000 UTCY’all. I love you, but please. Emu = eeeeem-you. Not eeeemoooo
Erin King
2024-10-29 08:36:17 +0000 UTC'I have a podcast voice' 😆
Roo
2024-10-29 07:56:16 +0000 UTC
