Dawn's Big Three begins with the active search connected to Billy Schmidt’s killing and the theft of an off-duty Philadelphia police officer’s Dodge Charger. Dawn details the search for 19-year-old Kadfi Fleming, the arrest of his younger brother in Colorado and charges against stepfather Donte Abdulmalik for allegedly hindering apprehension and tampering with evidence. The conversation expands into parental accountability, the Michigan case involving James and Jennifer Crumbley and frustration over how much attention the Schmidt investigation receives locally.
The middle of Dawn's Big Three centers on RFK Jr.’s claims about the increase in autism diagnoses and his insistence that researchers investigate outside exposures rather than assuming genes explain the change. Dawn uses a longtime teacher friend’s first-grade classroom as a real-world example, while Greg argues that widening diagnostic standards help explain a substantial part of the statistical increase. We debate the 1994 expansion of the autism spectrum, environmental exposures, medication, parental age, IVF, maternal and paternal age, and the need for published evidence rather than political declarations.
The pregnancy-vaccine dispute returns with Dawn pulling up the archived August 2021 CDC guidance and the Fauci-Walensky-Murthy text chain. The crew again separates Fauci’s theoretical first-trimester concern from a disputed interpretation of later pregnancy data and argues that Walensky, Murthy and other officials should face detailed questioning about what was known at the time. Dawn then delivers the sports surprise: LeBron James opens his first Sixers season against the defending champion Knicks and returns to Los Angeles to face the Lakers on Christmas Day, before the available transcript closes with Dawn comparing the age of first-time mothers across generations.
Aug 11, 2026
