The Charlie Kirk Memorial

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• Lt. Gov Dan Patrick on the Charlie Kirk Memorial

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Welcome here this Monday. How did you spend your Sunday?
Did you spend your Sunday watching football? Did you spend

(00:41):
your Sunday watching the Charlie Kirk Memorial. Did you spend
your Sunday going to church yourself? Maybe you haven't been
in a while. It was interesting to me, you know,
I I did you a full confession. I did not
go to church on Sunday, but I did want to
get out and observe whether or not other people were.

(01:02):
And this is just anecdotal, but from what I've heard
of other people, it feels like this is a little
bit more than an anecdotal, that maybe there was a pickup
of business, if you will, in our nation's churches. Now
there's a church I go by all the time after breakfast.
It's a Baptist church. It's on Kirkandal, and they have
a big, huge, it's a big church, but they have

(01:24):
a big, huge parking lot, and usually that early service,
usually the parking lots maybe one quarter to half full
for that early service, the one that's earlier in the morning,
not the eleven am, but the one that's I want
to say, the service is probably at nine nine thirty
something like that. And this Sunday when I drove by,

(01:47):
it was packed. The parking lot was full. So I
think there are a lot of people who felt compelled.
Maybe they went to the early service because they wanted
to watch the Charlie Kirk memorial. Maybe the death of
Charlie Kirk inspired them to go to church. I'm not
sure how that whole thing worked out, but I think

(02:07):
it made a big difference. There's been a bit of
a revival. The memorial itself was a bit of a revival,
but I think there's been a church revival for a
lot of people as a result of the assassination of
Charlie Kirk. So maybe there is a silver lining here
to this terrible, terrible event. But if you didn't see

(02:28):
it the memorial service itself, I think it's pretty safe
to say what The most compelling moment was and it
was when Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica spoke, and there was
a dry eye in the house, including her of course,
as you might imagine, but she struggled through it and

(02:50):
she did something I think most of us, quite honestly,
could never ever do. Here is Erica Kirk, young man,
that young.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Man on the cross.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Our Savior said, Father, forgive them, for they.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Not know what they do.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
That man, that young man, I forgive him.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
I forgive him because it was what Christ did and
is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is
not hate.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
The answer we know from the Gospel is love and
always love, love for our enemies, and love for those
who persecute us.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Man, that's some pretty compelling stuff. I mean, from a
practical standpoint, how many of us could have forgiven something
like that? What's the old country song? God may forgive you,
but I won't. Jesus may love you, but I don't.
Not about something like this, obviously, But that is I mean,

(05:01):
that's kind of the the epitome or the height of
Christian forgiveness. Is it not to be able to forgive
somebody who has just killed your husband? And that's a
pretty amazing thing to say, It really is. But she
had more to say. She went on to talk about
carrying on the work of her husband.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
The world needs Turning Point USA.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
It needs a group that will point young people away
from the path of misery and sin. It needs something
that will lead people away from hell in this world
and in the next. It needs young people pointed in
the direction of truth and beauty. And so I promise

(05:46):
you today every part of our work will become greater.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
I am tremendously honored.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
To be the new CEO of Turning Point USA.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I do not take that lightly. Charlie and I were
united in purpose.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
His passion was my passion, and now his mission is
my mission. Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie's
vision in hard work, we will make ten times greater
through the power of his memory. Chapters will grow, thousands
of new ones will be created. TPUSA Faith will add

(06:45):
thousands of new pastors and congregations. And yes, campus events
will continue, and we will continue to hold debates and dialogue.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Well, and those are all those are all great wonderful things.
Is there another Charlie Kirkda Does Turning Point have somebody
else who can wade into the fray on college campuses,
who can have a convincing debate back and forth between
young progressive left students to get them back on the path.
I hope to god they can. I don't know if

(07:27):
they do, but I hope to God they can. All right,
quick will break more, by the way, more for those
of you that may have missed it, more of the
guest speakers. It was a I mean, it was a
who's who of political pps. And we'll share some of
that audio with you coming up next here on AM
nine fifty kPr seeing the Jimmy Barrett Show. Because yesterday

(08:01):
was such a hippy thing. With this Charlie Kirsch memorial,
I purposely kind of looked for there. There were a
few lighter moments during the procedure, because, after all, I
think any good memorial contains anecdotes or stories that are
humorous in nature. I would hope that not that anybody's

(08:22):
gonna have a memorial for me, but I would hope
that if anybody ever did have a memorial for me,
they would bring up some of the stupid, funny things
that happened to me or I said, or I did
during course of my life, because like everybody, I've done
soull these stupid things we all have. But one of
my favorite moments when it comes to that was Donald
Trump Junior doing an impression of his father, which which

(08:45):
was pretty dog on funny. If you ask me, I'm
not widely.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
Known for being a sentimental guy. Anyone who's seen me
on social media knows I'm far more likely to crack
a joke or get myself in trouble for hosting some
grossly inappropriate memes than I am to shed a tear.
I know this because I've even gotten the call from
that guy a couple of times. You know, don done,

(09:13):
You're getting a little aggressive and social media done. Relax.
To say Charlie knew more about the Bible than me
is an understatement, folks. It's like saying Donald Trump knows
more about being president than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
No kidding, Yeah, that's very funny. Had pretty good pressure
of his father. By the way, Dog, I can't do it.
I've never been able to do Trump. I used to
be able to do some impressions, but yeah, I could
never figure out Trump. People who could do Trump out
that takes a little work to do Trump. I think

(09:57):
one of the other ones that I found surprisingly entertained
was Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio talking about when he first
got introduced to what it was that Charlie Kirk was doing.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
About maybe ten or twelve years ago, a person I
knew very well had been very helpful to me in
my campaigns when I was in the Senate came to
me and said she had met this very impressive young
man and he was going to start this group to
go on college campuses and try to convince young Americans
that ours was the greatest country in the history of

(10:32):
the world, and that Marxism was bad.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
And I remember.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Thinking back then, I'm gonna admit to you guys, there
was a little skeptical I said, college campuses, you're going
to do that, why don't you start somewhere easier, like,
for example, communist Cuba. You know, But my skepticism was
proven wrong in place after place over the last twelve fourteen,
sixteen years, we've seen this renaissance. Understand where we were

(11:01):
at that time in our history, understand where we are
still today. In many places where young Americans are actively
told that everything that They were taught that all the
foundations that made our society and our civilization so grand,
they were all wrong, They were all evil. That marriage
is oppressive, that children are a burden, that America is
a source of evil, not of good in the world.

(11:23):
And here was this voice that inspired a movement in
which young Americans were told that is not true. The
highest calling we are called to is to be in
a successful marriage and to raise productive children, and a
movement that taught them that ours was not a great country,

(11:46):
but the greatest, most exceptional nation that has ever existed
in the history of all of mankind, and that it's
worth fighting for, it's worth defending, it's worth preserving, and
it's worth passing on to the next generation.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
This was the.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mission and the work of Charlie Kirk, and a couple
of things that stand out about him. He led this movement,
but he did so with incredible knowledge. It's unbelievable how
much he knew. He came to me very recently he
said some quote. He said to her. I said, who
said that? He said, Marcus Aurelius. I said, what district
does he represent? I kind of knew whe it was,

(12:30):
but he said back no, it's a Roman, you know, philosopher,
king or emperor.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
His incredible knowledge. And let me tell you that one.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Of the last messages I had with him was just
a few days before his passing, where he wrote me
from overseas, I'm in South Korea. I have many concerns
I want to share with you when I get back.
He was constantly expanding his horizons, but he just didn't
have knowledge. He had wisdom, an uncanny amount of wisdom
for a man as young as he was.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah, except you know, he was thought to be ignorant
by the progressive left. Charlie Kirk, Was you ever been
called ignorant? You know, usually there's something somebody who has
a college degree or perhaps a PhD or doctorate might
say to you something along those lines. Yeah, ignorant. No, no, no, no,

(13:21):
I don't think so. All right, one more for you
here for this time around. Anyway, let's go ahead and
share this with you. What we have is Tucker Carlson.
Was I guess I wasn't surprised to see Tucker Carlson there.
I was just a little bit surprised at what he
said a little bit, and he had that goofy little

(13:42):
laugh in there at what seemed like an inappropriate time.
But here's Tucker Carlson speaking about Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
And Charlie would have loved this, not just because he
loved large groups of people, but because ultimately he was
a Christian evangelist. And it actually reminds me of my
favorite story ever. So it's about two thousand years ago
in Jerusalem and Jesus shows up and he starts talking
about the people in power, and he starts doing the

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worst thing that you can do, which is telling the
truth about people. And they hate it, and they just
go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with
making him stop. This guy's got to stop talking. We've
got to shut this guy up. And I can just
sort of picture the scene in a lamp lit room
with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking
about what do we do about this guy telling the

(14:32):
truth about us? We must make him stop talking. And
there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I
could just hear him say I've got idea.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Why don't we just kill him.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
That'll shut him up, that'll fix the problem. It doesn't
work that way, It doesn't work that way. Everything is inverted,
and the beatitudes tell it. I think the most risk
believe everything is sort of the opposite of what you
think it's going to be Blessed are those who mourn

(15:05):
for they will be comforted. That is true, and you
can feel it here. The thing about Charlie's message, I
thought a lot about it, and I'm trying not to
be emotional because, in addition everything else, he was a
wonderful man and a decent man, and one of those
rare people you meet who you just groove with in
conversation and have these very intense conversations that you don't
stop thinking about, which is my experience with him. But

(15:26):
the main thing about Charlie and his message, he was
bringing the Gospel to the country. He was doing the
thing that the people in charge hate most, which is
calling for them to repent.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah. Again, very little I can add to what you're
already hearing with these some pretty amazing comments when you
get right down to sell leabi As will share one
more with you, and that is President Trump himself. Here's
the President talking about Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Look at what's happening.

Speaker 9 (16:03):
Look at what's happening in the day since Charlie's death,
we have seen how his legacy has touched so many millions.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Around the world.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
In Calgary, COUNTAA, thousands gathered at city Hall to sing
the American national anthem and raise up posters with the
name Charlie Kirk. In Seoul, South Korea, crowds gathered to
wave American flags and shout we are for Charlie Kirk.

(16:34):
His memory has been honored in the streets of Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Sydney, Madrid, London,
Tel Aviv, and.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
All over the world.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
So beautiful to watch a man as far away as
rural Australia texta a pastor, I'm going to come to
church tomorrow for the first time ever. The why is that,
the man replied, because of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 7 (17:03):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 9 (17:05):
The lesson of Charlie's life is that you should never
underestimate what one person can do with a good heart,
a righteous cause, a cheerful spirit, and the will to fight, fight, fight,
have to fight.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
Yeah, what do you think the long I kind of
asked this this morning, You know, what do you think
the long term ramifications of this are? Is there a
long term thing? I mean we're all we're all hyped
up on it. Now, it's new, it's fresh.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
You know.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
I hate to say it, but it's basically human nature
for almost all of us to forget about things. As
time goes on, it becomes less a priority, less important.
Or is this different somehow Do you feel that this
somehow is different? Do you feel like, like the name
of his organization, we really did hit a turning point
or even a tipping point where we're gonna start going

(18:01):
back towards a more traditional approach to our lives. That
this will be an impetus for young people to change
their lives in the things that they're interested in or
concerned about. Or do we just go back to where
we were? I mean the far progressive left, it's never
left where they are. This has no impact on them whatsoever.

(18:22):
They are completely tone deaf, and they are as committed
to fighting a war with us is humanly possible to be.
It hasn't impacted them at all. But I'm just talking
about the vast majority of Americans. All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment. Jimmy Bartt show
here an in nine fifty KPRC. All right, I fought

(18:55):
myself yesterday doing something I really didn't expect to do.
I found myself watching the entire Charlie Kirk memorial. I thought, well,
just watch it for a while and see who all
is there and get a feel for it, and so
I know what I'm talking about on Monday, and then
I found myself watching the entire thing. I don't know
if our next guest watched the entire thing, but I
know he was a good friend to Charlie Kirk. And

(19:15):
that's our Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick. Welcome to our show,
Lieutenant Governor. How much of that did you end up watching?
You stay the whole thing like me.

Speaker 10 (19:23):
Just like you, Jimmy, and millions of people around the world.
It was something you.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Couldn't stop watching quite Frankly, No, you're right about that.
It was one part memorial in another party. It almost
felt like a revival, don't you think.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 10 (19:41):
I was thinking as I was watching it that it
reminded me as a kid of watching the Billy Graham revivals.
I haven't seen anything like it since then. And now
I chair the as you know, I share the Presidential
Convention Onligious Liberty and Franklin Graham. Reverend Franklin Graham is
on the committee with me and our last hearing, which

(20:03):
was several weeks ago, when we were walking out, I
said to him, long before this happened to Charlie, of course,
I said, Franklin, only God would work out a plan.
Where As a kid, I watched your father do these
massive crusades, and my mom would watch it. My dad
would watch it, and I would as well. And now
we're working together on a committee on religious liberty. And

(20:27):
I thought yesterday as I watched it, that's exactly what happened.
I tweeted out in the middle of it, that we
are witnessing the next great awakening in America. And we've
had several when Christ clearly speaks through others to our country.
And that's what I saw yesterday, the most amazing thing

(20:48):
I've seen. And I think probably more people Jimmy came
to Christ yesterday or at least started thinking about where
they are in their faith walk. If they're not already believers,
then any day in the last four or five, six.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Seven decades, you know, knowing what we've heard from the Left,
I couldn't help but wonder yesterday how much of what
happened to that memorial. How much of that do you
think scares the progressive left of the death.

Speaker 10 (21:16):
You know, I don't know, and a little bit I
don't care because that goes into the political side of
the event. And this is I was actually on laur
Ingram last week and I said that Charlie, who I've
known for at least at least ten years, maybe eleven,

(21:37):
so going back to his early days because he worked
in the first Trump administration. I remember we we met
and talked at length at the Trump Hotel in the
in the first during the first inauguration. Somewhere during that time,
we were going to an event together. And he had been
in Texas once or twice because of the Conservative Christian leader.

(21:58):
Obviously Texas has a lot of conservative Christians. So that's
how I knew him. But what I said to Laura
last week was he was killed, murdered, assassin, assassinated for
his faith more than his politics. I really believe that
that's what that Some people objected to him and wanted

(22:23):
to shut him down because it wasn't the politics. Politics
come and go, but when you can convince someone to
maybe change their direction in their life by accepting a
faith walk of Jesus Christ or whatever God you believe in.
Not everyone is a Christian in this country. But when
you can bring someone to faith and make that their

(22:46):
direction in life, well, that's what scares.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Some people, I think, yeah, And I think that along
with the combination of just generally his ability to persuade,
he was able to he changed hearts and minds, and
he did so in a way that I think is
maybe unparalleled unless you want to go back to the
times of Jesus. There's something about this whole thing that
reminds me of that whole thing. You know, a young

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man in his thirties, you know, who's who's teaching the
word to young people and they're listening and they're being converted,
and he's changing hearts and he's changing minds. And for
people who who don't want that to happen, and we
know we have a fair amount of those in this
country who don't want that to happen, that's a scary
thing for them.

Speaker 10 (23:31):
Yeah, it's it is a very scary thing. And as
I as I look at Charlie, what he accomplished is
really it is a biblical proportions at least I will
say that because he came from nowhere. He started this

(23:52):
this movement in a garage and has ends up, you know,
in less than really around fifteen years later, has millions
of people following him, and he's talking in love and
he's talking in peace and what happened. And I want
to be very careful, I'm not comparing him to Jesus.

(24:13):
But Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who also serves
on the Religious Committee with me, he said he's a
modern day Paul. One of the things that Cardinal Dolon
said last week was that he had not heard of
Charlie Kirk. And Cardinal Dolan said he decided to start

(24:34):
read about him and go back and watch his videos
and listen to what he had said, and he was
stunned on two levels that he didn't know who Charlie
Kirk was in this movement and secondly, how much of
in essence a biblical figure like Paul he was. And
I don't think anyone can deny that.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Well, I guarantee everybody knows who Charlie Kirk is now,
don't they? Yes, absolutely they know today.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
And you know, there was there's a moment yesterday that
I think we all gravitated to when Eric has said,
I forgive the man who assassinated him, because that's what
would That's what Charlie would do. And in my own
faith walk I learn when in the Lord's prayer it

(25:23):
says forgive us our truspasses, as we forgive those who
truspass against us. It doesn't say forgive those who trespass
against us for little things. It's for all things. To think,
Jimmy about our own lives. When we say, Lord, please
forgive us, we don't ask. We don't ask God to

(25:45):
forgive us for the little things. We ask God to
forgive us for all things. And that is and that
is the Lord's prayer. Forgive us our truspasses, as we
forgive those who trustpass against us. So what she said
and how she said it, that that's what Charlie would
do is exactly the teaching of the Bible.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
Yeah, no doubt. Before I let you go, sir, look
back quickly if you would. At the last session. Are
we going to have any more special sessions? Are we done?
Do you think we're done?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well?

Speaker 10 (26:17):
I'm playing to the Good Lord. We don't we You
were there, you know a lot of folks don't know
this to me, but our representatives make six hundred dollars
a month, including myself. We all know that that's a
part of the deal, what we get in. But for
a lot of people, particularly in the House where they
tend to be younger members. Of one hundred and fifty

(26:39):
we have thirty one senators, they have to get back
to work at some point, and they take these jobs
and their spouse says, okay, I'm supporting you at the
part time job every year, every other year for five months,
and in twenty twenty one we were there, I think
until October. In twenty three, we were there until the

(27:00):
December this year till September. And one of the reasons
we have less than five years experience for the average
House number, the senators tend to be older and be
able to be more self sufficient, and maybe not as
many as global children are around as some of the
younger House members. It's very tough on their lives and
they just can't do it. And so we see turnover

(27:21):
over turnover, and we've got to get back to doing
our business within that five month period and not drag
it out to a year's session. Now it's turning into
every other session. It seems like every session, and so
I think a lot of people just have to get
back to family. They missed their graduations and miss birthdays,
they get vacations canceled. And I know if people say, well,

(27:43):
that's what they signed up for, and they did, that's
what we've all signed up for. But it's very tough
on keeping people coming back and running, and then you
lose experience, you lose continuity. So in the Senate we're fine,
but in the House a tremendous amount of turnover because

(28:03):
of that. So I think we've done our work and
when we go back for a special session, they should
be short sessions, not thirty day sessions, after thirty day sessions,
after thirty day sessions.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Right, Well, hopefully we'll get to that point. But thank
you for your servicer as always, and we'll talk again.
Thank you you, bet. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick back with
more in the moment, Jimmy Baird Show, You're a thing.
M nine to fifty KPRC. All right, don't know if

(28:39):
you heard or not, but there evidently was a TikTok
deal that was made. President g talked to President Trump
and they worked out the details of what that looks like.
Mike Dance is the current owner of TikTok. They maintained
some sort of minor ownership, I guess, and they get
like one seat on the board of director. Anyway, the

(29:01):
President talked a little bit about that, and then the
White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt this weekend had further details.
So let's find out what the deal is.

Speaker 11 (29:10):
It was great. I had a great call with President
j and as you know, we approved the TikTok deal
and we're in the process. We have some great investors,
big or some of the biggest in the world, American investors,
great people, and we look forward to getting that deal closed.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Would you accept a deal where China controls the algorithm
of TikTok.

Speaker 11 (29:33):
Well, it's all being worked out.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
We're going to have very good control.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Caroline, Are you confident that a deal at TikTok has
been reached?

Speaker 12 (29:44):
Yes, we are one hundred percent confident that a deal
is done. Now that deal just needs to be signed,
and the President's team is working with their Chinese counterparts
to do just that. Great credit to Secretary Bessen and
Ambassador Jamison Greer and our Vice President j. D. Vance,
who really led the charge on this and been negotiating
with the Chinese for months, and they were able to
accomplish a deal that puts America first and keeps TikTok

(30:07):
open for all of the young Americans and all of
the small businesses who have benefited greatly from selling their
products and really creating a name for themselves on.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
This highly popular app.

Speaker 12 (30:18):
President Chump was ahead of the curve on this. He
recognized the need to protect Americans privacy and data while
also keeping this app open. I saw your comments earlier, Kaylee,
and you're absolutely right. TikTok is a vital part of
our democratic process. And President Trump credits TikTok and of
course Charlie Kirk for the wins that he had with
young Americans in the last election. But this deal does

(30:40):
put Americas first. And let me just be very clear.
This deal means that TikTok will be majority owned by
Americans in the United States. There will be seven seats
on the board that controls the app in the United States,
and six of those seats will be Americans, and the
data and privacy will be led by one of America's
greatest tech companies Oracle, and the algorithm will also be

(31:04):
controlled by America as well. So all of those details
have already been agreed upon. Now we just need this
deal to be signed and that will be happening I
anticipate in the coming days.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Okay, you got all that. Okay, Yeah. I think it
was very important to President Trump to save TikTok because
I think he credits TikTok and along with X for
having an amazing impact on the election in his favor.
I think he believes that, you know, in certainly, Charlie Kirk,
if you were around, we'd agree with him on that.

(31:35):
So that was one of the I think the main
impetuses for making sure that there was some sort of
deal to keep TikTok around is it's seen by certainly
President Trump is a valuable tool. I don't use it.
I'm not on it. But that's me. That's me I
realize having in the minority when it comes to that
kind of stuff. Also, here's one we'll have to talk
about in generic terms because we're doing the show before.

(31:56):
The announcement today has been made by but one of
the announcements that the President did mention during the Charlie
Kirk Memorial was that there would be a big announcement
today from Health and Human Services regarding autism, and the
story reported in The Washington Post yesterday was that the
Department of Health and Human Services plans to link the

(32:19):
consumption of the over the counter pain medication tailenol, which
contains the seed of metaphine during pregnancy, to the onset
of autism and to recommend it only be used to
tackle very high fevers. Post also reporting that AHHS believes
that low levels of fol lay, which is a vitamin
essential for the development of a baby's brain and spine,

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are also a contributing cause behind autism and will recommend
the cancer drug leukavorin or phylinic acid as a means
of addressing the symptoms. So are those the only causes
of autism? And is that something that quote unquote science
is willing to brace. That remains to be seen. But

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everything I have seen would indicate that there are plenty
of people who seem on the medical side who don't
believe that that is the case. In fact, an associate
professor of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences at
the University of Melbourne, Australia, said that research shows that

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both autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are
prominently are predominantly, i should say, driven by genetic factors,
which account for about seventy to eighty percent of overall risk,
while environmental influences together contribute only about twenty to thirty percent. Well,
even if you could lower even if this is only

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twenty percent of the case, even ten percent, you know,
the amount of autism cases have gotten so high. Would
it not be a good thing to lower the autism
rate by ten twenty percent. I don't think they're going
to come out and say that every case of autism
has been determined by the mother taking a seed of

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menathite during pregnancy. I would be very shocked if that
were the case. I think we should all be about
finding whatever the causes are for autism and trying to
figure out exactly what caused those things and prevent them
from happening. And even if you can only lower the
cases by ten twenty percent, that's a good thing. So again,

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you know, part of it's going to be the messenger
Robert F. Kennedy's Health and Human Services is going to
be part of it. I'm sure for some of the
medical community who just look at RFK Junior and think
that he's a witch doctor type then and don't give him,
give them any credit whatsoever. But if they've made some
advancements here, that's that's fantastic news. So I guess time

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will tell on that one. Anything they can do to
try to come up with the causes is like cancer.
I mean, there's multiple things that cause cancer, right, And
maybe they've said that, well, the reason why the numbers
have gon up. But it's like one out of every
twelve kids now is diagnosed with some form of autism
somewhere on the spectrum. And is that just better diagnosing
or are we just at the point where we consider

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anything to kind of fit within the realm of autism.
Those are the questions you got to ask, I guess,
and those are the answers we're gonna see. All right, listen,
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