On this episode of the Gains For Girls podcast, we are joined by none other than John F. Kennedy Jr. (R-VA) to talk about his time in the Senate, his hilarious testimony, and his new book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.
00:01:43.840And if you watch these hearings, I think you'll notice, at least I have, that he sometimes, I believe, almost plays clueless to get them to play into or really just to play ball.
00:01:55.660And by the end of his five minutes that he has allotted on the microphone, he's gotten them to show their hypocrisy or their lies or their real agenda on full display for everyone to see.
00:02:06.360His videos come up on my TikTok for you page all of the time.
00:02:11.700I saw one a few days ago that had 6.6 million likes and 31 million views.
00:02:19.260And the best part about this is if you go to the comments section, you have people from from all over the political spectrum who comment saying something to the effect of like, you know, you don't actually have to agree with us with his politics to admit he's really funny or something like, you know, I hate when a Republican is hilarious.
00:02:36.520Comedic relief is unifying and Senator Kennedy does it really, really well.
00:02:44.340It is called How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.
00:02:49.160And important to mention, it's a New York Times number one bestseller.
00:02:52.780That's really an incredible achievement, obviously, on its own, but especially for a conservative, for a Republican, they don't like to hand that out.
00:03:03.540I could say some of the quotes that he says in my best Louisiana accent, but I think better than doing that, I mean, would y'all just be mad if I played two minutes straight of some of Senator Kennedy's best moments?
00:03:16.860I actually don't care if you say yes, that you would be mad because we're going to do it anyways.
00:03:20.540If you hate cops just because of the cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.
00:03:26.880As I've said about her before, I think she's the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle.
00:03:32.760When you have hypothermia, you don't strip naked and run in the snow.
00:05:10.860A little whiskey under the right circumstances can be refreshing.
00:05:16.100Too much whiskey under the wrong circumstances and you end up drunk as a goat.
00:05:23.960God created the world, but everything else is made in China.
00:05:27.740For some people, the best way to to get back on your feet is to get off your ass.
00:05:32.400I'd tell them, look, you just got to try harder not to suck.
00:05:36.500Well, Senator Kennedy, how does it feel to be everyone's favorite senator?
00:05:41.360Well, I'm not everyone's favorite senator, Riley.
00:05:46.720I mean, I mean, it's gratifying that some people think I'm OK, but not everybody thinks that.
00:05:55.080In fact, my staff showed me a text message that somebody sent in the other day and they they brought it to me and said, you got to read this.
00:06:04.260And I said, what's it say? And this person said, Kennedy, you remind me of my second wife.
00:06:11.160I said, no, that's a criticism. That's great.
00:06:14.380But anyway, thanks for saying that, Riley.
00:06:16.380It could always be worse. You could remind him of his third wife.
00:08:58.940In my opinion, one of her best friends needs to sit her down, the Congresswoman, of course, and explain to her that the voices in her head are not real.
00:09:07.580But she has the right to say what she wants.
00:09:11.860I will be very surprised if she is our next United States Senator from Texas.
00:09:22.760Some of my colleagues from Texas who I've talked to, not just in the Senate, but just friends there, of course, are delighted that she's running.
00:09:31.360She's part of their secret operation to win Texas, which is entitled to let them speak.
00:09:42.500You know, they just feel like the best thing they can do is turn the Congresswoman loose and say, go for it and keep talking.
00:10:41.540One of the things that they propose is Black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time.
00:10:47.220Because then again, that puts money back in your pocket.
00:10:50.220But at the same time, it may not be as objectionable to some people about actually giving out dollars.
00:10:57.720But obviously, then you start dealing with the different tax brackets and things like that.
00:11:01.240And that's one of the reasons that, you know, we argue the reparations make sense because so many Black folk, not only do you owe for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things, right?
00:11:13.740But the fact is, like, we end up being so far behind, right?
00:11:17.680And so it's like, how do you bring forth people?
00:11:21.500And so it's like, if you do the no tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and aren't really paying taxes in the first place, it doesn't really, exactly.
00:11:32.760They may want those checks like they got.
00:13:09.360Being a criminal is more so about your mindset.
00:13:13.080Committing a crime can come for a lot of different reasons.
00:13:17.040Again, mind you, this is a woman who's running for U.S. Senate.
00:13:19.700And she says that committing a crime doesn't make you a criminal.
00:13:24.220I mean, I think it's quite literally in the definition there.
00:13:28.220And so to speak to the issues, again, that we're seeing surrounding crime, specifically President Trump deploying the National Guard in crime ridden cities like Memphis, like Chicago, even in Washington, D.C.
00:13:40.700What are you guys seeing in the U.S. Senate surrounding this?
00:13:44.900Is this really as polarizing as people like Congressman Crockett have made it out to be?
00:13:51.400Well, the Congresswoman, I think it would be fair to say, is part of the moon wing of the Democratic Party.
00:14:30.320They try to convince the American people that every cop in America gets up in the morning and strives to hurt people, to be a racist, to be a Nazi.
00:14:46.920I mean, American people don't believe that.
00:14:51.700The truth is that most cops will leave you alone unless you do illegal stuff.
00:14:57.440And the first responsibility of government, Riley, you know this, is to protect people and their property.
00:15:08.940And so when my Democratic colleagues, the moon wing of their party, starts talking all this rubbish, that's, you know, there's nothing you can do to convince them.
00:15:18.380You know, it's just Operation Let Them Speak.
00:15:21.800I have no doubt that the American people look at this kind of rhetoric and go, you know, what planet did she just parachute in from, for God's sakes?
00:15:33.440I'm of the same mind where it's really not as partisan as they make it out to be in terms of the way our elected representatives are voting and certainly the way that mainstream media is portraying these issues.
00:15:47.700It's just not representative of the overwhelming majority of the American people and how we feel about these issues, whether it is crime, whether it's the border, whether it's the issue of men and women's sports, which you yourself have done really a beautiful job in tackling because you call it what it is.
00:16:25.400We got problems in collegiate sports with the transfer portal and the NIL and now gambling and biological males, you allowing biological males to compete against biological females.
00:16:40.920And you folks at the NCAA don't do anything except sit there, watch, cash your checks, and suck on your teeth.
00:16:49.620Biological males are not going to be allowed to compete against biological females.
00:16:53.780Why don't you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?
00:17:01.860I remember watching this live as it was happening and just like snapping my fingers.
00:17:06.580I was so excited to hear this because, of course, you're talking to the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, who, I mean, the NCAA has a long history of really failing to take accountability and to lead on issues.
00:17:19.480But the issue of men and women's sports is really no different.
00:17:23.520And so watching this back now and knowing that the NCAA, they still have not complied with federal law.
00:17:30.180I mean, are you are you surprised by that at all?
00:17:33.960No, no, the NCAA, nobody takes them seriously anymore.
00:17:54.300They just want to do what's politically correct.
00:17:56.960And a lot of the senior officials make an enormous amount of money, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, thousands of dollars, in some cases, in the millions for doing nothing.
00:18:10.260And I think I mean, it's not just the trans issue, the the men and women's sports, which they've they've been an abject failure at.
00:18:26.960And I can see a time when when when when the college teams get together and go, why do we need these guys?
00:18:34.080I mean, well, you know, why do we need them?
00:18:37.100I hate to say that, but it's just it's true.
00:18:40.720And I was very disappointed that that that on the the the the women's sports issue, that they just did nothing except what they thought was politically correct, which turned out to be politically and morally wrong.
00:19:59.680That doesn't mean that men are superior by a long shot.
00:20:04.240That just means that men in terms of physicality are different from women.
00:20:08.980And we've really worked hard to elevate women's athletics in America and and and to give them parity in terms of their importance.
00:20:18.800And the idea that we would just destroy that to say nothing of the privacy issues.
00:20:25.160You know, I'm not going to vote to require the mother or father of a junior high school girl to force their daughter to look at the penis of a junior high school boy in a locker room.
00:20:47.400And I think when you put it that way, forgive me for being so frank, but when you put it that way, that's what many of the Democrats wanted.
00:20:54.320And I think the American people go, well, hell, no, we're not for that.
00:21:14.320Well, when you put it as plainly as you just did, which, again, that's that's honestly even putting it lightly to what many young girls are being exposed to.
00:21:24.180The other side of the aisle, they try and like sugarcoat it with buzzwords like inclusion and empathy and happiness and compassion.
00:21:30.640All these wonderful things, which are great in their true nature.
00:21:33.940But again, that's not the reality of what we're seeing.
00:21:37.140What we're seeing is is men, even sometimes, especially in prisons or what have you, who are, I mean, predators.
00:21:46.080I think any man wants to expose himself to a woman is a predator.
00:21:49.060Predators exposing themselves to young girls while they're also simultaneously undressed.
00:21:53.760Like it's the most nonsensical, dangerous, harmful, discriminatory, regressive practice that I think we've seen in a long time.
00:22:02.220And in speaking about that Senate hearing that that you were referring to where I came, that was like one of my first few times being in kind of a hot seat like that, where you're able to have people push back on you.
00:22:13.180And I remember prior to the hearing, you know, starting up, it was actually Senator Booker who came over to me and he said, look, Riley, I played football in college.
00:22:23.980I can't imagine a woman on the field with me.
00:22:27.640And then he gets on the other side of the table and absolutely grills me when the cameras were on.
00:22:32.320And I remember being so shocked in that moment and really having the veil lifted of just how corrupt this, I mean, really politics in general.
00:22:42.540And I know I don't have to tell you that, how corrupt they can be.
00:22:46.520You do a fantastic job in talking about this issue in your new book.
00:22:51.600And I appreciate you detail even the story that and the experience that we had as Division One female swimmers, your book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.
00:23:05.160Talk about this book, number one, and secondly, where we can get it.
00:24:21.060You can buy it at Amazon or Barnes and Noble or anywhere you want to buy a book.
00:24:26.560And and I've been really gratified at the reception I've got.
00:24:31.820Well, it'll certainly make people think and I agree it will definitely make people laugh.
00:24:36.920We had the cover of the book on the screen just now and you can see your face in it, which I think is a perfect depiction of really half the stuff I would imagine that that you guys have found yourself talking about, especially over the past, gosh, five, six years or so.
00:24:53.420And so, Senator Kennedy, we just want to say thank you for representing the average American so very well.
00:25:02.580Very grateful for you, for your leadership.
00:25:17.920You went out there when everybody was just they were they were they were beating on you like you'd stolen Christmas and Thanksgiving put together and you were practically alone.
00:25:28.960But but you and and and and a couple of others, mainly you turn this thing around and and the American people owe a debt of gratitude to you.
00:25:37.720Well, we have a great Christmas and congratulations on that baby.
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00:26:03.100We have some very exciting things coming up for the Gains for Girls podcast in the new year that we will talk about release very, very soon.
00:26:10.480But in the meantime, thank you guys for watching and we'll see you later this week.