Episode 470: A FOOD CRISIS, AUTISM COMMUNICATION RIGHTS, AND STEM CELL SECRETS
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
First, One of the most powerful human events The HighWire has covered centers on the film Spellers, and the communication method that allows non-speaking individuals with autism to express themselves through spelling. Dawnmarie Gaivin, AT-ACP, founder of the Spellers Freedom Foundation, joins Del, along with Spellers cast member Elizabeth Bonker, for an inspiring conversation exposing the growing battle over the right to communicate.
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to reconstitute the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), we examine the new media narrative being deployed against so-called anti-vaxxers and what it signals about the next phase of the public health debate.Then, Jefferey Jaxen reports on the growing fertilizer supply crisis linked to instability around the Strait of Hormuz, a key global chokepoint through which roughly one-third of the world’s fertilizer ingredients move. What could this mean for food supply, energy, fuel prices, and the risk of a broader international food crisis?
Finally, Del sits down with Ed Clay, a former MMA fighter whose family health crisis led him deep into the world of stem cell therapies and cancer research. He now leads one of the biggest clinics in the world doing this work — in Mexico. It’s a jaw-dropping conversation about why this science is happening outside the United States and what it could mean for the future of medicine.
Guests: Dawnmarie Gaivin, AT-ACP, Elizabeth Bonker, Ginnie Breen, Ed Clay
Airdate: April 2, 2026
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| 0:42.0 | All right, everyone, we ready? |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | Let's do this. |
| 0:46.2 | Action. |
| 0:46.7 | Action. |
| 0:46.8 | Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you are out there in the world, it's time for us all to step out into the high wire. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, today is World Autism Day. I guess many of us don't really pay attention |
| 1:15.2 | to that, but it's a very important day for me and for everyone here at the High Wire. This is also |
| 1:20.8 | the beginning of Autism Awareness Month. As I was contemplating what that means for me and the |
| 1:26.6 | work that we've done, I actually looked up and said, well, wait a minute. |
| 1:30.6 | All of this started when I made the documentary Vax. |
| 1:33.5 | Didn't that release right around now? |
| 1:36.4 | And I realized just yesterday was the premiere opening of Vaxed in New York exactly 10 years ago on April 1st. We were standing in the Angelica |
| 1:47.3 | Film Center for the premiere release of Vaxed after it had been unceremoniously kicked out of |
| 1:53.7 | Tribeca Film Festival, making it one of the biggest media stories in the world. I'll never forget |
| 1:59.8 | the lines that were wrapped down the block. And during, |
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