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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Episode 459: THE TRUTH IN OUR BLOOD

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 452 minutes

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Summary

This week, Del opens on the media backlash to the CDC’s shift toward shared vaccine decision-making. Is the panic really about safety, or about empowering Americans with choice? Jefferey Jaxen delivers a wide-ranging investigation into COVID vaccine injury data, exposing massive underreporting through VAERS and V-safe, new polling that shows widespread harm, and even admissions from legacy vaccine leaders that current safety science is insufficient. Then, he reports on Florida’s discovery of mercury and other heavy metals in baby food, the presence of PFAS “forever chemicals” in popular bottled water brands, and the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence as it displaces white-collar jobs and pushes universal basic income into the political mainstream. Finally, a deeply personal and powerful conversation about medical freedom at its most fundamental level — blood — as Del recounts his own near-fatal medical emergency and the extraordinary effort required to secure a transfusion aligned with informed consent, while families share how the right to directed blood donations saved their children’s lives and how that right is now under threat.
Guests: Liz James, Tanya Lair, PA-C


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0:00.0

Have you noticed that this show doesn't have any commercials?

0:08.0

I'm not selling you diapers or vitamins or smoothies or gasoline.

0:14.0

That's because I don't want any corporate sponsors telling me what I can investigate or what I can say.

0:20.0

Instead, you are our sponsors.

0:23.6

This is a production by our nonprofit,

0:26.6

the informed consent action network.

0:28.6

So if you want more investigations,

0:30.6

if you want landmark legal wins,

0:33.6

if you want hard-hitting news,

0:35.6

if you want the truth, go to I Can Decide.org and donate now.

0:41.3

All right, everyone, we ready?

0:43.3

Yeah!

0:44.3

Let's do this.

0:45.3

Action.

0:46.3

Action. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

1:02.7

Wherever you are out there in the world, it's time to step out onto the high wire.

1:08.2

Well, last week we're obviously bathing in all the success that we've had on the conversations

1:13.5

around freedom, mandates, vaccinations, but the pundits keep going and the news keeps going,

1:21.2

and they keep screaming and yelling about how dangerous it is that we should have choice

1:27.2

over six of the vaccines that were just

1:29.9

moved into shared decision making, meaning between me and my doctor. It's kind of amazing

1:36.6

to watch it. But in case, for some reason, you've been under a rock, this is what that's looked like.

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