RFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d Expect
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a new podcast titled The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, billed as a platform for transparency in government health policy. The first two episodes focus on food and feature conversations with celebrity chef Robert Irvine and boxer Mike Tyson, avoiding Kennedy's previously prominent anti-vaccine messaging. The podcast's launch coincides with political and financial challenges for Kennedy's MAHA movement and advisory panel.
- ▪Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, promoting it as part of a 'new era of radical transparency in government.'
- ▪The first two episodes center on food, featuring interviews with chef Robert Irvine and Mike Tyson, with no mention of vaccines.
- ▪Kennedy's MAHA PAC is reportedly low on funds, his vaccine advisory panel was disbanded by a federal judge, and President Trump dropped Kennedy ally Casey Means as surgeon general nominee.
- ▪Chef Robert Irvine, who worked on military dining improvements at Fort Hood, promotes cost-effective healthy eating but does not detail prior or current meal offerings.
- ▪Food prices in the U.S. have risen significantly, with beef and veal up over 12 percent and fresh vegetables up 7.5 percent year-over-year as of March 2026.
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Emily MullinScienceMay 4, 2026 7:00 AMRFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d ExpectThe first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda.Photograph: Kristina Bumphrey/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyLast month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched a podcast, which he said would be part of a “new era of radical transparency in government.” In a teaser, Kennedy promised, over foreboding background music, to “ask the questions and lift the taboos and expose the hypocrisy” around the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic.“For decades now, Americans have been told that…
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