Shots Fired, Morals Retired, and Somehow the Marathon Loser Is the Star
About this episode
The episode discusses gun violence at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, explores RFK, Jr.'s legacy, examines America's moral code, and highlights an unusual marathon story.
This week on Something Ain’t Right , we showed up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner expecting rubber chicken and recycled jokes, not live ammunition. But baby, apparently America said, “What if the red carpet had gunfire ?” And then Trump — never one to miss an opportunity to make tragedy tacky — pops up to declare that the shooting proves we need a brand‑new White House Ballroom. Because nothing says “leadership” like responding to violence with interior decorating. Then we crack open Isabel Vincent’s new book, RFK, Jr: The Fall and Rise , which dives into the heartbreaking final days of his second wife. And let us tell you, the details are haunting. We’re asking the real question: is there anything that is right about RFK, Jr.??? From there, we take a hard look at America’s moral code — or whatever’s left of it after years of erosion, corrosion, and straight‑up abandonment. Are small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience actually activism, or are we all just trying to survive a system that’s been gaslighting us since the Nixon administration. And finally, we get into the Delaware Marathon, where the loser somehow became the star of the story. Meanwhile, the winner…
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