On today's episode, we take a bit of a side-quest to the Hamptons to talk about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy. Was Grey Gardens a curse for the ladies or was the whole ordeal an embarrassment for the Kennedys?

Check out our YouTube channel, Fixate Today: Grey Matters

Sources (there's a lot):

Books: The Kennedy Curse by Edward Klein, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Katie Clifford Larson, The First Kennedys: The Humber Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli, Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan, The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills, Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates, RFK Jr.: The Rise and Fall by Vincent Isabel, Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Media: Grey Gardens (1975 documentary), JFK (1991 film), Thirteen Days (2000 film), Murder in Greenwich (2002 television film), Bobby (2006 film), Grey Gardens (2006 musical), Grey Gardens (2009 film), Parkland (2013 film), 11.23.63 (2016 series), Jackie (2016 film), Chappaquiddick (2017 film), Cover-Up (2018 podcast), The RFK Tapes (2018 podcast), The Last Podcast on the Left, Episodes 400-405: JFK (2020 podcast), The Last Podcast on the Left, Episode Relaxed Fit: Marilyn Monroe & The President’s Aspirin (2020 podcast), The Last Podcast on the Left, Episode Side Stories: The Bullet in the Backseat (2023 podcast), Wine & Crime, Episode 366: Lobotomy Crimes (2024 podcast), The Last Podcast on the Left, Episode 1046: The Miseducation of Ed Larsen - JFK & Government Conspiracies (2025 podcast), United States of Kennedy (2025 podcast), Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder (2025 podcast), Wine & Crime, Episode 456: Family Curses (2026 podcast), Love Story (2026 series)

Websites: historyhit.com, Scientific America, CNN, PBS, CBS News, BBC, Autistic Self Advocacy Center, InStyle, Best Buddies International, All Things Interesting, USA Today, Today in Civil Liberties, Cambridge Dictionary, Kennedys and King, RJP Books, New York Post, Boston Magazine, Time, The Moth, Vanity Fair, Voices Center for Resilience, Reddit, Washington Association of Black Journalists, NPR, The Ringer, The Daily Express, The Harvard Crimson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Washington Post, National Library of Medicine: National Center for Biotechnology Information, danielpsheehan.com, Wikipedia

This week, Nikki had the pleasure of appearing on The Leaving Eden Podcast to discuss her theories about JP Miller's theology. Nikki spoke with Sadie and Gavi quite a bit about JP's book, Hell? No! Today's bonus episode is the audio from our YouTube video about the book.

Our video

The Leaving Eden Podcast

Death of the Pastor's Wife

We'll be back next week with an episode on Grey Gardens! You cannot be sloshed at five-fifteen!

Sources: Hell? No! by John-Paul Miller, Agatha Mae Detective Agency, missiochurch.org, ESV Study Bible

Thank you for letting us take a week off! Life kept life-ing last week for both of our families, but we're back with part two of Ted Kennedy.

On today's episode, we talk about Ted Jr's cancer battle, Ted's position in the US Senate, Kara's death, and the tragic life Joan Bennett Kennedy found herself in upon marrying into the Kennedy family.