So many of you are watching from all around the world many of you are new some just joined us during COVID and some of you just joined us this week

So welcome to everybody for those of you that may be new to this show. I just want to give you a little bit of a background.

We really launched this show in 2017, very beginning of 2017, after I had spent a year touring with a documentary I made called Vax.

I made that, really I had been working at CBS on the daytime talks for the doctors all the way up in about 2015 when I stumbled on the story of a

whistleblower inside of the CDC named Dr William Thompson that is the heart of

the story around Vaxed that film released about a year later in 2016.

But right at the same time that I stumbled on that story at the CDC, the same exact

moment suddenly on my show the doctors a senator

senator Richard Pan came on to the show and promoted a brand new bill he had

SB 277 in California that was going to take away any exemption, any ability to opt out of the vaccine program for kids going to school from K through 12th grade.

Now at that moment my child wasn't vaccinated. I didn't really make a big deal about it.

It was just sort of how I was raised. I wasn't back to it as a kid and I remember sitting backstage watching him on, you know, talk about this bill and thinking,

oh my God, that's like the end of the world that I know that how I was raised

and ultimately there were protests trying to stop it that we should have a right to decide what's injected into our children, when it's

injected to our children. Really there was always you know an anti-vaccine

movement if you want to call it that certainly vaccine hesitancy but really medical freedom

movement but senator Richard Pan I would say really is the godfather of the modern

movement because it exploded and there were rallies all over California.

It looked a little bit like this.

A rally at the Capitol today brought in hundreds of parents,

children and activists all because vaccine exemptions could change in California.

A crowd of parents and children took to the steps of the Capitol speaking out against a bill requiring California school

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