WHY BOBBY KENNEDY JR. TAKES RISKS

good morning welcome to my hike I'm Kevin and this is a relatively flat trail we're hiking on today it's in Sullivan Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains and it's a little dusty today but not too bad I think you'll be fine yeah I'm not worried about you but don't go binge watching all my other hikes because that could lead to some health problems alright grab a candy bar we're going for a hike this morning my hiking wingman is someone who really cares about our planet and he's actually doing things that make a difference in his work he walks that walk although today he'll be hiking that hiking he's an activist he's an author and he's a member of a very well-known and well-respected family that's right today I'm walking that walk with the phenomenal Bobby Kennedy jr. well known family I not so much what is it like like flying out of JFK or seeing public buildings or structures named after your father your uncle is that it's gotta be pretty amazing huh yeah it's wonderful I can't imagine driving to the airport and see you named Emma deaf Neil and international I had a very strong voice till I was 42 yeah and then I got a something like was I and like almost it was really good this is you know the amazing amount of work your family has done for civil rights etc do you think you and your family are more recognized by white people or African Americans let's say you walking down the street good question are you Bob you were near Riverkeeper t-shirt Waterkeeper used to be Riverkeeper that's what our keeper is the umbrella okay but what drew you to it I mean of course we all want clean water it's that's what we need but why why not something else like you know the poor or you know I grew up I fathered all right people say what is good for you but too much of anything is not good for you you could die from drinking too much water that's true what's the point there's no point there's no point anything why does it have to be a point anything I also from a very early age here's a I do not know you're also as President Kennedy now this is how great Bobby is he doesn't even have a dog and he's picking up poop along the way did you go on a lot of vacations with your father yeah so God my father would take us to wilderness trips I know almost every other vacations oh we go back during that winter and usually in the spring we do a butter truck how would you guys get through though cuz there's so many kids in your family ten kids right yeah and would you go he wouldn't go like a one-car would you because when we took the vacations there was three of us at the time then eventually five we all go in the same car it was a madhouse so you guys must have had like a care of a lot of kids that's right and was your father driver back yeah yeah we went to the White House that's it my cousin's all the time yeah you know I hadn't actually maybe the first a after the inauguration do you ever forget the names of your brothers cousins no but you you try heads I forget what is the most surprising thing about Hyannisport compound yeah I'd say the most surprising thing to most people is if there's no security like and there's constantly people wandering and like having meals we went out on your mother's on the boat on Teddy's uh Teddy's boat and your mother was steering the boat yeah and she's what 80 89 yeah and then she sells you know probably four times a week yeah she loves it and she loves having all you guys were on okay I remember being in the living room at her house with her it was just her and me and I saw a picture of her and your father on the wall you know the what I'm talking about this standing in the convertible going down the street oh yeah and I said there's the convertible and they have the fearsome foursome yeah walking around the car my father's bodyguard when he was during the California primary yeah and I rose rosey Grier yeah Deacon Jones OJ Simpson yeah all those guys and I said you've had a full life haven't you and she looked at me she goes I've been very lucky yeah and I thought that was an interesting answer because lucky but also a lot of tragedy you know in the family what she says is everybody takes their legs and what and huge family that everybody loves each other education and a lot of different ways process tragedy everybody's got charged right right life is a string you know I'm challenges tragedies and you gotta be Oh totally every day I wake up I go I get to do this again do you think your dad would have won that election yeah I do too step over the bodies yeah my father was very confident that he could beat him you know I was poignant reason my father is when we buried him and we took on that train ride you brought him back from I will worry or the venom or team oh and I had flown out uh II we wake him at st. Patrick's I'm down at the Train should have been a two and a half hour ride the Union Station indeed the seven-hour vine don't people on the tracks I remember and a it was a whole cross-section of America that I had seen and all the way good black people white people you bet everybody had a man our uniforms now and there were people there were hippies what died I heard there was a nun's blacks white years later oh and most white suit my night train track two holding flags holding up their babies holding signs pray for us Bobby those people 1972 voted for not for joy wasn't maintenance way for George Wallace every nation I get every individual that has a dark side and the easiest thing for a politician that is anger medicine xenophobia and you know I think one of the things my father did with us see now he constantly encourage risk-taking behavior and including Donnie's whitewater yeah climbing cliffs he wanted us to I don't need to imbue us with beef jerkey be toughness that was part of the American character and also to know persuades a hero inside each one of us and that you know physical courage accompany moral courage and I need to have opportunities to test both of those oh and I think that he listened on a broader scale in public yeah so your parents instilled in you and all your siblings the importance to getting involved and taking risks what would happen if one of you like just wanted to become like like a mine for our circus travelers would that be okay I love to ask this question what was the first concert I ever went to the Beatles you did yeah you saw where and you probably know Palmer now right yeah I knew John I remember one night when he and no I'm really interested what you have to say and and Rosie free earth and they literally sang when you were a kid what's the most trouble you got into and you remember your father scolding you I was angry my father oh if he was it was a devastating did you ever want to be an actor Oh who's I'm thinking John much yeah Lots he seemed like a nice guy I met him one time probably his greatest gift was I think it was curious yeah yeah I act once what I'm surprised do you think you have a lot of pressure on him following his father's footsteps he didn't did you yeah you probably could just because you look so much like your father you probably know what it means I mean it doesn't irritate it's kind of flattering yeah you know it's hard you are without somebody coming thanks what is your most outstanding feature on your face let's say let's say I was a caricaturist what would I really know because whenever I seen caricatures of Kennedys it's always the teeth we see you yeah kind of yeah probably my droopy eyes I can't jump through the window here I come oh thanks Bobby I told you he walks the walk and he also walks the dog and he also picks up the poop he does it all but he doesn't now no that's what I do and so I'm going right now thanks for joining my hike please subscribe to our notifications and we'll catch you next time happy trails and happy smooth

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Id: oJzY1xE7Gjc

Length: 18min 16sec (1096 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 28 2018