The last Democrat RFK Jr. ｜ The Roseanne Barr Podcast #060
Summary
R.R.K. Jr. is a former professional basketball player, father, husband, and husband to former NBA player Bobby Bobby Kennedy Jr. who is on the autism spectrum. In this episode of the show, we discuss his journey with autism and how it has impacted his life and how he has changed the way he lives and the way his family lives. He also discusses the importance of early diagnosis and how important it is to have an early understanding of autism in order to be able to make informed decisions about how to manage it and how to best manage it in a world where it s so rare to be diagnosed with it. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetmGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Light Up Black Friday with Freedom Mobile and get 50Gigs to use in Canada, the U.S., the US, the US and Mexico for just $35 a month for 18 months, plus, get a one-time gift of 5 gigs of Rome Beyond Data! Details at freedommobile.ca. BetmoGMGMG is the king of online gambling and is the best in the business in the world. Betmo GMG is betting responsibly on the future of gaming in the 21st century. - Betmo MGM is the King of Las Vegas, the gambling mecca of all things gambling and entertainment. . Betmo is betting and sports betting . is a company that does not only in Las Vegas. is betting on sports gambling in the United States, not in the USA and Canada. , not in Mexico, and in Mexico. We are betting on me, not the other way. I am betting on you! I m betting that you will be in the future, too! - I m not just betting on your future, I m gambling on me. and I am not in Vegas, not you are betting with me, I am I betting with you, I'm betting with Betmo, I bet you are going to be in Vegas? - and I bet me gambling with me! I know that you are not in a casino? - I M betting that I am going to bet with me? ,
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Well, today's show is going to be one of the biggest ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba bangers we've ever had.
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It's more than a banger. It's a boom, boom, boom banger.
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We have such a great guest, somebody that I have admired my entire life, and even before this life, I think.
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Hey, Roseanne. Thank you so much for having me.
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You've had an amazing life, and you've created an amazing life.
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You have the life that God gave you, which was just, you know, it was interesting.
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And you have the life that you made up for yourself, which is heroic.
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You are, I don't even know where to start, but we'll just converse and see where it goes,
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because I know it's going to go to some big places.
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You're somebody I've wanted to talk to for a very long time, and I've watched all your other interviews.
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And I'm always amazed at the spectacular amount of knowledge you've got in that brain of yours,
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And I forget my wallet and my keys every time I leave the house.
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I think I'm very, I mean, I'm very conscious of my surroundings.
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I'm very, I think I'm very intuitive about what other people are thinking and how people react to me.
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So there are some things that my wife would like me to be more conscious of.
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But I think I came around at a time when autism was very rare in my generation, which is 70-year-old men.
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It's about one in, depending on what studies you read, it's about one in 2,500 to one in 10,000.
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But in my kids' generation, which you're much closer to, it's…
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And in, you know, some of the states that really have granular data, it's down to one in 22 boys.
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I do want to go into that and we'll discuss what we think causes it.
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I've read that you've said that you're on the spectrum.
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But, you know, I would never have, I would never have made that diagnosis having the little that I know of you.
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Well, it's, and this is why I thought to ask you, because it's kind of like a dog that has a bone
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and they don't let go of it until they've picked off every piece of meat on it.
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You know, you just research, and autists in these days that are a lot of anonymous and a lot of researchers,
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And so they dig, dig, dig deeper, deeper, deeper, and they don't let go of that bone
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until they're satisfied with the information that's not readily available.
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And so that's why I thought, yeah, I thought you did.
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So it's, you know, a need to know, a want to know, and the desire to do the footwork to uncover it.
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So that's why I thought, kind of described you to a T, because the stuff that you tell us about autism itself
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and the kind of forced vaccinations of our children, how that kind of coincidentally increased at those same times.
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You had to dig really deep into medical information to find that.
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And so that's why I thought you were like a dog with a bone on that one.
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And that may be, I think I may be a little ADHD, because I have very good concentration.
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And when I'm focused on something, it is irrelevant what's going on around me, the chaos around me.
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You know, my wife needs to get everything kind of calm and neat before she can focus.
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And I was raised, I have 11 brothers and sisters, 11 of us all together.
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I was raised in a very chaotic environment, and I can focus very easily through that chaos.
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But, you know, my, it's interesting, my uncle, President Kennedy, when he was a young senator,
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he met his wife, Jackie Bouvier, and he met her, she was a reporter for a newspaper,
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and she was doing, she did these kind of profiles of famous figures and people met in the street.
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And she asked, in her first interview with my uncle, she asked him what he thought his best quality was.
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She thought he was going to say courage, because he had been a war hero.
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He was the only president who's won the Purple Heart.
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And then he had written a book and won a Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage,
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which was about a group, it was about a series of stories about political leaders,
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mainly senators and congressmen, who had made life-changing choices that they knew were against
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their political interests, but were in the interests of our country.
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And they torched their political careers by doing something that was morally correct.
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So she assumed that he was going to say courage was his greatest asset.
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And I think, and I've thought about that a lot, because I think that's what allowed him to be a peacemaker.
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He was able to put himself in the shoes of Khrushchev, of Castro, and others,
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and understand their motivations, their rational motivations for making the choice that they made,
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rather than kind of these ideological constructs that are rooted in tribalism,
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where you just say everybody on that side is, you know, is dehumanized and evil.
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He believed that, you know, whatever was happening in the Kremlin was a lot what was happening in Boston,
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you know, in that local political scene where people were conniving against each other,
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where there was a ferment of different opinions,
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of different ambitions, of different agendas, and that it was not monolithic,
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the CIA knew nothing of what was happening in the Kremlin,
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their view of what was happening in the Kremlin,
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Was that, it seems like it's still going on, too,
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it disables their capacity for critical thinking,