Summary

Welcome to Gimme Five with Jones and Eli on Current Two. Today, we're discussing a strange tale from independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. Ten years ago, RFK Jr. allegedly drove a dead bear cub from upstate New York to New York City's Central Park, intending to skin and eat it, but left it there after realizing he had a flight to catch. The bizarre story, shared by RFK Jr. himself, has prompted numerous questions and criticisms, especially regarding his judgment and motives. This tale has certainly sparked curiosity and bewilderment among the public.
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Welcome into Gimme Five with Jones and Eli. He's Jones, I'm Eli. We're happy to be here on Current Two. And Jones, we got a good story today. Independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. said in a social media post Sunday that 10 years ago he drove a dead bear cub, Carcass, from upstate New York and left it in New York City's Central

Yeah, well, let's start it off. First of all, so honored to be here on Current 2. Glad to have the pod back. It's been a while. And the number one thing about the pod, we never get political. So this is purely commenting from a human being standpoint. First of all, you got to take everything this guy said with a grain of salt. Didn't a worm eat his brain? Did you see

I didn't see that, but I did see what I just told you, a dead bear cub carcass. Can we talk a little bit about that? And I like that he specified cub right off the gate. That's important.

So did he shoot it? Do we know? he? That would be nice.

Well, I'll give you a little more detail, because it's not super clear. So essentially, the video, RFK says he found a dead bear that had been hit by a car, and he decided to put it in his car with the hopes of skinning it and eating the meat. He then went to a dinner in New York City where he realized he had a catch -a -flight and could not take the bear with him. He and his friends then decided to put the dead bear in Central Park to make it look like he had been killed by a

no.

So I think the question is pretty fucking obvious, right? Why didn't he bring the bear to dinner? You...

I think there's many questions here. think why bring a bear? Like I don't understand. He says he brought a bear in his car because he wanted to skin it and then eat a meal. But then he went to a dinner and then he all of a sudden realized he had a flight after dinner. Was this flight not pre -booked? Was this like a spontaneous flight?

And where is he driving that he sees a bear on the road? He says, my God, food. what are we? I'm sorry, like this is RFK we're talking about. This is a guy who's been a Kennedy for life. He's always influential. He can go to the supermarket and get his heart's content. He could go to, what's a, give me a popular restaurant these days. Carbone, Carbone, RVs, sure. We went in different directions. And he could go to either of those places and be served really well. Why is this man thinking about eating? Does this have to do with the worm in the brain? That's the

Well, my question really, and I have so many questions with this story, it's like, what was he gonna do? The airplane thing is just very confusing because he had to have known he was taking the flight. And this is a guy, this was 10 years ago, so post 9 -11, like we had TSA and everything. They don't let you bring a fucking bottle of toothpaste on the plane. They're not gonna let you bring the bear skin. So even if he had skin to bear, what is he gonna put it in his suitcase and like, what are you gonna check that? Check luggage? They're surely gonna take that. • Check luggage? They're surely gonna take that.

Customs? I don't know where he's flying.

Eli, it's a fantastic point and that's why you get paid the supermax and I just get paid a few lowly pennies but the only thing I would say is this guy's a Kennedy, he might be flying private so you could bring a bear on private even

But then what did you just, couldn't you just bring the carcass? Like why, what was this, what's the distinction why now you can't bring the bear?

because maybe he had an event that he was going, I don't know why I'm defending him. I really don't. The only thing this reminds me of is, did you hear about the big Mitt Romney scandal when he was running for president? Well, no, but kind of similar. He drove his dog in a crate on top of his car for 12 hours on a road trip. And that was like the biggest scandal of the presidential election. So it kind of shows you how far America has fallen.

Does it involve a dead bear cub?

Well, like, yeah, I guess. mean, interesting segue there. mean, I just, still hung up on this. It's this, you are a segue guy. And I didn't know that story. I think it's actually less bad if you have a dog on your roof because what, probably stopping and letting it out to pee and stuff. No human can drive 12 hours straight without peeing.

You know, I'm a segue guy I'm a segue

So yeah, do you think at the rest stops he's just going in, getting the apple pie from the convenience store and not letting the dog out? He should be letting the dog

It's his dog. That's the bear cup situation is weird because it's not his bear So what he just put the other thing about this bear cub Jones and I hate to keep harping on the bear cub But I'm just so fascinated by I'm gonna harp at the end of the story It says he and his friends decided to put the bear in Central Park to make it look like it had been killed by a biker What fucking bike is killing a bear if it's a bear? No bike is killing

No, R.

Yeah, yeah, for all the police and FBI agents that are out there, let us know if that's a valuable way to kind of avoid a crime. You you accidentally murder someone or something, just put them out in Central Park and claim that a bike killed them. Yeah, I don't know. I've never been really wielding my bike and been like, I should slow down. I might kill a bear right now. I don't think that would happen. R .F .K., a very questionable person, I would say overall, no?

I mean, I can't speak to his character. I've never met the guy, but I can definitely speak to this decision. And it's also weird that he like apparently he said they wanted to he wanted to release this video to get ahead of an article that somebody was dropping. So somebody like found that one of the bear guys probably snitched on him to the New Yorker and they were going to drop an article like. This is him getting out and trying to clear.

so this was him, this was him getting out in front of the story. He was like, guys, before I get canceled, I actually did pick up this bear and a bike did not kill

Exactly. You wanted to admit, and what I'm envisioning by the way with this whole bear thing, this is I've been envisioning the entire time, is the opening Goodfellas scene where the bear is like in the front of the truck and it's red all around and the music's playing. For as long as I remember, I always wanted to be a bear killer and he's driving him upstate in the car and maybe somebody goes in the front and stabs him a few times.

Pain, pain.

my God, I've missed this partner, this is fun. Should I wrap, as usual? I'll wrap it up. This has been Gimme 5 with Jones and Eli now on Current 2. How do I usually end it, Eli? yeah, I remember. Hope you guys enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed talking. Eli, thanks for talking.

It's been good. It's been good. Yeah, wrap it up. Wrap it

haha

Always a pleasure, Jones. Talk to you soon.

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Sources

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/politics/rfk-jr-bear-central-park/index.html