Kennedy curse
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Oct 26, 2026
Dean RyanHOST
Her father, Michael Kennedy, died in a skiing accident all the way back in 1997.
Dean RyanHOST
Because of these events, discussions have turned toward what is often called the Kennedy curse.
Dean RyanHOST
This phrase is linked to the American political dynasty due to decades of untimely deaths and losses.
Dean RyanHOST
While these tragedies are very real, there is no evidence of a supernatural curse thus far and as of yet.
PhilHOST
They keep being the victim all these years later.
PhilHOST
People call it the Kennedy curse.
PhilHOST
I call it the Kennedy Lark.
PhilHOST
And you see how I titled the video, the Kennedy LARP.
AbHOST
always
PhilHOST
have a tragedy.
PhilHOST
I know they always – Is it on the front page? It's not the Kennedy curse.
PhilHOST
It's the Kennedy LARP.
NikkiHOST
Joy is autistic and we are letting our hyperfixations fly.
NikkiHOST
Today we are fixating on the Kennedy Curse.
NikkiHOST
Welcome back, everyone.
NikkiHOST
Hello.
23 MINS LATER
JoyHOST
So we're down to, yeah.
NikkiHOST
Yeah.
NikkiHOST
And I imagine Ted went through his life feeling, I think if anyone felt like the weight of a Kennedy curse, it was probably Ted Kennedy having lost his three older brothers.
JoyHOST
Yeah, although don't get me started how he only started calling it a curse after he heard something.
CherylHOST
In 1966, her brother, George Skakel Jr., was killed in a plane crash.
CherylHOST
And some people consider that part of the Kennedy curse.
CherylHOST
Yeah.
CherylHOST
Ethel's nephew, Michael Skakel, was convicted in 2002 of murdering a woman named Martha Moxley.
40 MINS LATER
CherylHOST
And so I remember watching my little TV in my tiny little room and like kind of being, I think I was doing stuff in the room, but I had the news on for a couple of days straight.
CherylHOST
And I was not a news consumer at that time in my life.
CherylHOST
So it really fed into the Kennedy curse idea.
DaveHOST
If you see a Kennedy on your plane, get
MattmanHOST
What a, what a...
MattmanHOST
That's a, they talk about the Kennedy curse for God sakes.
NineHOST
Oh, you could tell the Kennedy by looking at her, right? Like, they, those genes just, you know, permeated-
MattmanHOST
They-
6 MINS LATER
PaigeHOST
[laughs]
MattmanHOST
...
MattmanHOST
the Kennedy curse, and then like, oh my God.
PaigeHOST
Oh, God.
NikkiHOST
Joy is autistic, and we are letting our hyperfixations fly.
NikkiHOST
Today, we are fixating on the Kennedy curse.
NikkiHOST
[gentle music] Welcome back, everyone.
JoyHOST
Hello.
JoyHOST
So, um, but I, I read s- something interesting.
JoyHOST
A, um, author by the name of Edward Klein, um, had written about five books about the Kennedy family.
NikkiHOST
Yeah, one of them is in my show notes, The Kennedy Curse, I think it's sp- yeah, The Kennedy Curse is in the show notes.
JoyHOST
Okay.
AllisonHOST
And she said, "How about that..." And, and I've watched her for years, and I'm like, there's not enough time in the day to make you go back to watch, like...
AllisonHOST
But she's always so calm, so, like, when she was like, "How about that," she was like, "You never, ever, ever, ever bring up the Kennedy curse." And I was like, I was like, she's Soprano style, has a gun under the table, like, where it's like, I have a gun shot at, like, like-
SteveHOST
No, but then it goes to the, uh, to the confessional-
AllisonHOST
And then she's like, "Can I have salt?" [laughs] She was like, "I do need some salt for my matzo ball soup." Like, I'm gonna, I will kill someone over the, about the Kennedy curse, but, "Can I have salt?" I'm like-
SteveHOST
So Carol's like, I di- I didn't see Caroline as, as a-
AllisonHOST
Fashion
EamonHOST
But it was also the, like – I did like the moment where she was just like, just to be clear, don't ever – and she was very firm.
EamonHOST
She was like, do not ever bring up the Kennedy curse in front of me ever again.
MerlinHOST
Like,
EamonHOST
that's
EamonHOST
But it was also the, like – I did like the moment where she was just like, just to be clear, don't ever – and she was very firm.
EamonHOST
She was like, do not ever bring up the Kennedy curse in front of me ever again.
MerlinHOST
Like,
EamonHOST
that's