Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado—always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado, increasingly more so Wyoming. Today is February 13, 2025, and it is a good day. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the next Health and Human Services Secretary. He’s going to make America healthy again.
Some of you may know, but many of you probably don’t, that my family has a unique reverence for the Kennedy family. My grandmother, on my mom’s side, was from an Italian Catholic family. She had two pictures in her living room when my mother was growing up: one picture was of the Pope, which a lot of Italian Catholic families had to have, and the other picture was of JFK. They campaigned for him back in 1960 and fought hard; everybody put a lot of resources into it. It was a tragedy that stung the family when JFK was assassinated. Later, when RFK was assassinated, it was even more of a tragedy because everyone put in all that effort again in 1968. It was just a terrible time for the nation, and the Kennedys never quite reclaimed their mantle in American public life. They were a bit of venerated royalty, but that reputation of being youthful outsiders wasn’t able to penetrate back in.
RFK is a shining example of what the Kennedys brought to American politics in the 1960s. He had completely new, unorthodox, and different ideas. When he ran for president, I was extremely excited to support him and do anything I could to help push the message along. The media likes to talk a lot about various people, and we’ve learned that they get paid to do it. If you don’t know anything about RFK, what you might know is that he’s a vaccine skeptic or anti-science, and I wouldn’t blame you for having these opinions because, at the end of the day, that’s what you’ve been told 24 hours a day, seven days a week by broadcast media.
The Kennedy I know is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, and disciplined person. He wakes up every morning, keeps his faith in his heart, works out hard, and is still remarkably in good shape for a man of his age. He is incredibly devoted to people and science. If you take a look at the books he’s written and how well-sourced they are, and if you consider the lawsuits he won against some of the biggest and toughest companies like Monsanto, you’ll see that he has made significant contributions. For a long time, everybody looked at him as the Kennedy that mattered. In fact, there was a headline for that. Then he went to the other political side, and now he’s a monster because that’s just what our media does. The good news is they’re dying and falling apart.
We all know America is not healthy. I’m sorry, but it’s not just fat and red meat. We’ve been consuming fat and red meat since the beginning of time. It’s the new stuff we added to our food in the 20th century and the new things we’ve been doing to our bodies that have created the chronic health epidemic. Every now and then, you need to bring somebody from the outside in who’s skeptical, and he’s going to force a process for us to have an adult conversation about why so many people are sick. Why do so many people have autism? Why do so many people have cancer? Why do so many people have diabetes? Why do so many people have heart disease? It wasn’t this way in 1963; it wasn’t this way in 1973, but in 2025, it is.
Every person listening knows somebody or is a person who’s impacted by the chronic health epidemic and the mental health epidemic. How many of you listening have depression? How many of you know someone with depression? Maybe, just maybe, it’s not an upstairs problem; maybe it’s actually your gut because that’s where your neurotransmitters are made outside of the brain. We don’t talk about that. We don’t talk about seed oils, different diet regimes, processed foods, and high fructose corn syrup. All the weird dyes, some of which are made of ground-up insects, are pretty crazy when you actually study it. We have these labels on food boxes that you can’t pronounce, and they assure you not to worry; it’s all safe. Yet every kid has ADHD now, and everybody’s got skin problems and all these weird diseases that we just didn’t used to have.
Part of Health and Human Services is for somebody to take a time out and reevaluate whether the direction we’re going makes sense. You’re going to hear over the next four years the media tell you again and again that this person is evil and anti-science, and measles, mumps, and rubella are going to come back, and we’re all going to die. Those same people don’t care at all about any real public health matter. There’s a tuberculosis epidemic right now spreading throughout Asia, and it’s coming to America. This is antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, a disease that has killed hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, throughout the ages. Richard Nixon lost two brothers to it, which gives you a sense of how recent tuberculosis was a significant problem. Do they particularly care about that or want to talk about it? No, not really. They want to talk about any of the things that are coming, like antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So much of it is coming, and it’ll be one of the biggest public health crises in the 2030s and beyond. You notice how that’s not in the mainstream media.
We also don’t talk about how drug companies make drugs that really don’t do much for us. They get them on patents and push them on people, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, and we all seem okay with paying for that. They don’t seem to have any accountability at all for actually trying to cure things or heal things. As a society, maybe it’s a good idea to take a different approach and ask some foundational questions: Are we getting screwed? Why are we buying these things? Why is it getting so expensive? Why are we so unhealthy? Why are stem cells being kept off the market? I’m in that business, and the clinical evidence is absolutely clear and remarkable about what they can do.
Any of you remember watching the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson? It might surprise you to know that he almost ended up on an oxygen canister. He was a smoker for over 40 years and had severe empyema. His doctor said he had to be on oxygen. Mel went down to Panama and got stem cells, and now he can breathe again. We ignore that as anecdotal, even though deep down inside we know that the only way you can cure something like that is with something we haven’t seen before. Yet we make criminals out of the people trying to fix problems. The media doesn’t talk about that at all; they just call us all anti-science.
The COVID epidemic was perhaps the most transformational event of my life. I’d always been a bit anti-government, but it showed beyond a reasonable doubt how disgusting the media and the public health apparatus are. Every single thing we saw and heard was a lie. They told us it wasn’t made in a lab. Not only was it made in a lab, but there’s now growing evidence that we, the American taxpayers, through the NIH, paid for it. Imagine that—we paid to kill a million of our own people. There will be investigations now, and that’s a direct consequence of this nomination. Not only are we going to find out what happened, but we’re also going to find out who paid and why they thought it was prudent to do such research.
We were told again and again that certain things were safe and effective, and perhaps they are. But you know what? Good research will be done, and those who have data and evidence to the contrary will not feel pressured to stay silent. Science only works when people are allowed to participate objectively in the process. It doesn’t work when politics get involved and diminish and dilute the entire process.
Did you know that China was very straightforward? They told every academic institution in the United States that if you publish or endorse research that COVID was made in the lab, they would never provide funding for your institutions again. Is there objectivity then? If the leadership of these organizations is afraid of publication, not really. These types of things can be investigated; these types of things can be examined. By having an independent thinker in the position, we can start having those conversations about how much of what goes into our bodies, minds, and souls is controlled and manipulated for profit by people who do not have our best interests at heart.
Isn’t it the government’s job to be the objective watchdog on the other side, protecting us from this? Or have we become so cynical that we think they’re just a force multiplier towards that? Well, this is a day where we get to reclaim that mandate for all Americans—our kids, our parents, and our grandparents. This is the day where we get to start the process of making America healthy again, and God, I am so excited.
My family has been in medicine for 70 years, and we’ve watched the system transform and grow, in some cases for the better. My dad started practicing medicine in the 80s right out of medical school as an internist. Everything was black and white monitors; you would not believe how poor the MRIs and ultrasounds were. You couldn’t see anything. It was a miracle that radiologists were able to grow a tumor. Nowadays, we have these ultra-high-definition, beautiful color images made with AI. It’s incredible; it’s a miracle, and it’s saved a lot of lives. But at the same time, everything has gotten horrendously more expensive, and the quality of life has not improved. We’ve witnessed that; every person has witnessed that.
Taking care of people who have neurodegenerative disorders or cancers—perhaps a loved one or a parent—and watching them deteriorate, we see that the system as a whole typically has a fundamental lack of empathy for the human condition. It’s a business, and it’s about time that we get out of that. What’s truly extraordinary to me is how partisan things have become. Kennedy is a Democrat, full stop. Now he believes in making America healthy again, and that’s what he’s going to do. But at the end of the day, for his entire life, every political opinion and belief starts from that philosophical basis.
What we just witnessed with the confirmation vote was that every single Democrat senator voted against him. A normal Health and Human Services Secretary might have had some of them break ranks and vote for him, but this is their best chance to have a truly bipartisan agency that actually works for everybody instead of just one political persuasion. Yet every single one voted against him—a person who just 12 months ago was running for president as a Democrat whose last name is Kennedy. That’s where we’re at in 2025. The people in power have no morals; they have no standards or principles. They go from one talking point and propaganda point to another.
What’s so magical about the time we live in is that it’s so clear to all of us now. There’s no way to hide it anymore. We can see it, whether it be when Musk shares a video montage of every single person using the exact same phrase because those were obviously talking points given to them, or when the media predictively says the same thing again and again because they’re paid to say that. It’s extraordinary and sad, but because we’re aware of it, we’ve started the process to change it.
In the next 10 years, every single aspect of America is going to change: the way we get our news, the way we talk to each other, the way we fact-check things. If anybody ever sends me a meme or a picture, I can check it. That’s the magic; that’s the incredible part of where we’re at. Any statistic I can check, I can look at, I can analyze, I can get the full story. Every news article can be fact-checked; logical consistency can be analyzed. All kinds of things, and that’s exciting to me. They can’t get away anymore with lying to us. No one can lie anymore. We’re in an environment where things are different now, and it’s exciting to see somebody like this in my lifetime get into a role where he can actually make a difference and change so many people’s lives.
Medicine is going to get better; healthcare is going to get better. We’re going to get back to the business of healing people. Food is going to get safer; water is going to get safer. You know that because this guy spent decades of his life cleaning up the water in New York, suing some of the biggest companies in the world. Did he forget all that? Is he not that person anymore? Your derangement about the orange man is so significant that you believe it’s physically impossible for Kennedy to stay the same person. He’s a monster according to the partisans, but deep down inside, you know he cares. He really does. He’s got a soul; he’s a good man. It doesn’t take a lot of good men and good women in power—talking about you, Tulsi—before things change.
The next few years are going to be pretty special, and we’re going to watch a lot of big fights and a lot of uncomfortable conversations. But you know what? When we get to the other side of it, it’s going to be a better country, and we’re going to be happy and healthy again. So congratulations, my friend Robert Kennedy, Bobby—you did it. You’re the most significant, relevant Kennedy since your uncle and your dad. You made us all proud. Now it’s time to get to work.
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