It Could Happen Here - Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

Mia talks with Dr. Kaveh Hoda about Trump’s efforts to stop giving children the Hepatitis vaccine. Sources: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that's right friend the energy is chaotic today friend most importantly it has to be that is the normal response to what is happening in this world if we don't embrace a little chaos then we will lose our mind so I am I am loving how this is going so far I am so glad because there is so much chaos and what of the chaos things that we have have been tracking and that you spend a hideous amount of time tracking.

Too much. On your show is, yes, it's not good. It's very bad. Please stop doing this stuff so we can all go back to doing normal things in our lives. I would love to just do more fart jokes and episodes on poop. But people in power keep saying and doing terrible things. Yeah. Crazy terrible things that make me feel like I'm losing my mind.

So I have to keep doing this for multiple reasons. One, because someone's got to talk about it. Two, it's sort of therapy for me. Like, if I just internalize this, I'm going to be a miserable person. So thanks, thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm excited to talk to you about, well, okay. See, literally every single time I do an episode, it's like I'm really excited to talk to you. And also, Jesus Christ, I wish we did not have to talk about this.

That's how everyone feels. That's how my patient feel. That's how my patients feel when they see me. It's terrible. God, really, truly, we got to stop meeting like this. One day we'll do a fun episode, one day. I swear to God, okay. But the thing that I've been talking about that we've both been covering is basically

the annihilation of the entire U.S. medical establishment at the federal level is being systematically dismantled. And one of the ways that's being systematically dismantled is that a bunch of people have been put in charge of it who are, I mean, two years ago were fringe anti-vaccine cranks and are now running, like, the most sophisticated, like, public health institutions that have ever existed? Yeah.

As producer extraordinaire, Sophie Lichten, once said, you can't put a hater in charge of the thing that they hate the most. And that is what has happened completely and fully, almost at every step of this government. Yeah. They find the person that hates it the most, and they put that person in. Yeah, and, you know, one of the big sort of,

I don't know, turning points is the right word, but one of the major events we've been covering from this was the announcement by RFK Jr. and Trump that they had found what causes autism. And also ADHD, too, which got very little coverage. I think I said this last time I talked about this. It was very baffling,

but there was just, there was so much in that whole thing that I think a lot of the stuff kind of fell through the cracks inside of like, but there was a lot. There was a lot to digest. There's so much.

There's so much. And so I guess I wanted, we wanted to talk about mostly the hepatitis B thing, but also just sort of the broader antivax stuff that was in this. Yeah. Before we get into, I don't know,

like the weirder, more boutique anti-vac stuff, which is like the anti-hypotitis B vaccine stuff, a thing that I didn't realize people were against, like children getting until like now, and like I follow these things decently closely. Yeah. Let's start a little bit with like, let's ease the audience into this by going back to the classics, the greatest hits. They really have one hit, the one hit of the anti-vaccine. movement, which was Trump's stuff about separating the MMR vaccine.

Yeah. So, yeah, recently during that press conference where he really threw Tylenol under the bus, he also really, it was weird because there's no new evidence. I want to make that clear. There was no new evidence that they presented about vaccines. But Trump actually really harped on vaccines and his thoughts, his medical opinion, and his advice. and his advice on how to manage vaccines. It's truly bizarre.

Never seen a president say or do those sorts of things. But one of the things he mentioned was the MMR vaccine, the measles, mumps, rebella. And he said that it should be split into three separate shots. Again, medically unfounded, it really, as you have alluded to, echoes these long debunk claims, these Wakefield-like claims,

from starting from back in 1998, again, Wakefield was the disgraced author of that vaccine study that tied it to autism, lost his medical license for that, but that has persisted and carried on, and the seeds of that are still growing terrible, terrible plants and trees today. And one of them was this fruit of Trump saying we should break up the MMR vaccine. So I'll just say it up front. One, there's no reason to do that. There's no reason that shows improved safety. There's no credible evidence to suggest that, at least. And more importantly, the more you split these things up, the more likely you're going to end up missing doses. That is like a known fact.

If you delay vaccines, if you split them up more than they need to be, there is a much greater chance you will miss that. In case, this is not clear, measles is bad. It is one of the most contagious viruses out there and lower vaccination rates, quickly lead to outbreaks, as we're already starting to see, and when there's already some hesitancy in the community, pushing it like this is a terrible thing. So even though that was a throwaway statement from the president of the United States, it could have serious repercussions. And it's very concerning. And I've also, I have committed myself every single time this comes up, the Wakefield study, which is where this whole separate the other thing, like came up. A, it's not, it's not even

a conclusion that even if you take his completely fake premise that he made up. Yeah. It doesn't actually follow that you should split the vaccines up. Right. It's baffling. But the second thing is, the reason he wanted to split the vaccines up was that he was trying to sell his own vaccines. Correct. Yes.

It was just trying to sell his own vaccine. It makes me insane every single time this is talked about because this whole thing is like a medical, it's literally an industrial complex. It's like the anti-vaccine industrial complex. They're all trying to sell you something. That's the whole thing. I was watching Trump give this talk, this press conference, and I said, I think I said this

on another show here on this channel. I started to disassociate. I'm like, yeah, this can't be real life. Am I dreaming? Is this? It felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. It did not feel real to me. To be fully transparent, I did not make it through that press conference watching it on video about like four minutes in. I was like, fuck this. I'm going to read the transcript. So I'm just working off the transcript because I was like, I can't. It was tough. I can't do this. So on my podcast, The House of Pod, you should all listen to it. I played a clip from Trump talking about Tylenol and another clip of him talking about hepatitis B. And when you listen to it, when I listened back to it as I was editing it, it sounded like I edited his clips to make him sound

crazy. I did not. I just took straight from what he says. And it just the way he was talking, it's hard to listen to. I mean, it's hard to read to, but the way he talks, it's so disjointed. And he just goes from one thought to the next. He does this weave thing that he thinks it's so clever, but it's just lost. The threads are never brought back together. It's just an unravel, terrible rug of lies. And that is, that is why it's so hard to, like, listen to him. I totally understand. Yeah. And this has also been, you know, one of the things that most of the media has done is that, you know, in order to be able to, like, play a listenable clip

on air, right? And it also in sort of in service of power, they edit the clips to make him sound like a normal human being. Right. So the version of it that people are seeing is not the version where he's just sort of completely ranting and coherently and, like,

you know, you just see these clips. But then also because they're, because they're editing it down progressively more and more, like just more stuff, like more just like information content gets lost every time, which is a problem because there's just like so much stuff. The fire hose

of nonsense. Yeah. Title of my first album. Fire hose of nonsense. Incredible. Incredible. Oh, God. Okay. So, you know what? All right, we're going to a second fire hose of nonsense. This is slightly early to be doing this, but fuck it.

It's chaos week. We're doing it. Do you know what else is the fire hose of nonsense? Oh, well, I wouldn't say it's nonsense. I would say it's very important in pays bills. So it's very, very important. I believe in, I don't. I'm just kidding. I'm assuming ads and services.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We are back. So, amidst the torrent of, you know, the MMR stuff, which also I do want to say very briefly, is sort of a baffling thing to be talking about in a thing where you're not blaming the vaccines for autism. You're blaming Tylenol, but then you're still also mad at the vaccine.

It's very weird. Yeah. I had thoughts about that. You know, I felt like what Trump was doing with that by bringing up the vaccine stuff was I felt he was trying to console RFK Jr. in a way. I felt like he was like, okay, hey, we're moving away from the vaccine stuff to focus on this Tylenol stuff. But I know how much you love the vaccine stuff, RFK. So let's talk about that. And so I felt like he was just throwing that out there to placate RFK Jr.

That was my guess, but I don't know how to read sociopaths very well, so I can be wrong. This could also just be like what comes into his mind when he thinks about medicine. Right. So, you know. Oh, yeah. Again, weird to me that this president was giving medical advice. I mean, he was making statements. Yeah.

Do not take time. He said that multiple times. He talked about breaking up the hepatitis B vaccine, changing the hepatitis B vaccine, the times of which I think we're going to talk about because that is very important to me. And things that doctors would have a little pause to say so strongly. And even the people whose paper he's citing would say, oh, slow down a little bit with that. You know, it's very important. And I think it's super impactful. And you're right, it's slipping under the radar. So I would love to talk about the hepatitis B stuff. Yeah, let's do this. So I'll give a little

background for your listeners who don't know me. I am a gastroenterologist and hepatologist. That's liver, not herpetologist, which is study of snakes, which sometimes people think online. I am a doctor that looks at the liver, and hepatitis B has an important place in my heart. It's a disease that can be incredibly devastating. It's incredibly common. It has so many complications. It has such long-term ramifications on someone's life if they have it. Some of things they have to consider do follow up, so many possible things that can happen with it. And the thing about it is we have a vaccine for it that is very safe and super efficacious and works really well. And when we use it, it works amazing.

And Trump during this conference, through that a couple of passing shots as he was doing this whole rant about Tylenol, et cetera, and those passing shots can have a huge impact on uptake in this country. I think it really needs to be discussed. So I'll stop there. I'll let you see what questions you have for me about hepatitis B because I could talk about hepatitis B for a long time. Yeah, okay. Let's go back to like the very basic. How would you explain hepatitis B to our dear listener who knows many things, but what hepatitis B is is not one of them?

Yes. So hepatitis just means inflammation of the liver. Anything withitis means inflammation. And there are different ways of getting hepatitis or inflammation of the liver. They range from alcohol, medications, autoimmune problems, to viral things. And there are viral things that can cause bad hepatitis affect the liver primarily. Hepatitis A, B, C, you've heard of some of these hepatitis. And hepatitis B is a very common one in the world. It's about 2 billion people in the world have either had it or presently have it. Jesus.

About 880,000 people in the U.S. alone have chronic hepatitis B. But if you actually look at studies that include more immigrant populations, that number can go up to about 2.2 million. Jeez, yeah. It is something that can, when you get it at an early age, when you're young and your baby or an infant, you're young, and your immune system is not super robust yet, it's very likely about 90% or more that if you are exposed. to it, you'll get chronic infection from it. If you get it when you're older, it's a little different. You can have a pretty

strong reaction to it. You'll get really sick potentially. Sometimes to the point where the liver fails, but most people are when they're older, able to clear it. They're going to eventually get rid of the virus to a point where the liver is fine and it manages, but it lives in

the liver indefinitely. Once you get the hepatitis B, there's a very good chance you will have it forever. Whether or not it's causing you problems is another thing. A lot of people can live with it, not have any problems, but a lot of people will get it, and they will be very sick in the beginning. And when you get it as an infant, you have a very good chance of having it for the rest of your life. And that can be a major problem because, like all viruses that go into the liver like this,

all these viral hepatitis, what can happen is it can cause scarring, which you might have heard of when it's really bad called cirrhosis. When that happens, the liver can stop working. You can get cancer of the liver. You can get big blood vessels in your esophagus called esophageal varices and vomit of blood. You can get a lot of bad things that happen. Now, what makes hepatitis be particularly insidious. It makes it a little bit, even my opinion, more dangerous than a lot of other viral hepatitis, is that you don't always have to go through these phases to get to the really bad part. Like when you have hepatitis C, for example, you get bad scarring over a long time.

That can cause that cirrhosis, and that cirrhosis can lead to cancer. But since hepatitis B is a DNA virus, that DNA can get into the DNA of your liver cells, and it can cause cancer without even having to go through those steps of cirrhosis. That's obviously terrible. Yeah. And that can happen to young people and I've seen it and it's awful. So I'm saying all these terrible things about hepatitis B because it's one of these things that does not need to be. I didn't mean to say that like that.

No, yeah. I didn't mean to make a play on words there. But it doesn't need to happen because we have this great vaccine that can manage this. And when we use this vaccine, it works. In fact, in the U.S., they looked at it. Between 1990, it was introduced in this country, like for infants in 1991. And when they looked from 1990 to 2004, they saw 94% decrease in kids and adolescents who have hepatitis B. That's incredible.

That's amazing, right? That's really good. This is a great success story. And part of the reason people, like, Trump don't recognize that this is an issue is. because it's done well, because this vaccine works, and it does a good job. Now, the other thing to discuss is how it is transmitted, because that's a big part of what Trump was saying during this press conference. Yeah.

And he said, it's sexually transmitted, which is true. That is one of the ways that you get it. But you also get it from the mother. The mother, when you're having a pregnancy and a delivery, it's a messy, bloody process. And that is a huge risk factor for the infant getting hepatitis B from the mother. There's also household things that can happen. You know, people share razors. That's a risk factor.

Toothbrushes, small things, bites at daycare centers. All these things are small risks. They're not as common as sex or the childbirth ways of transmission. But there are other modes of transmission for getting hepatitis B, not just sex like Trump was saying. So I think that's super important to, Tim, to be clear that I think that is one of the major things he said that was wrong. He said a lot of things are wrong, but that's probably the biggest, easiest one to point out. Yeah, and I think also was interesting because that was one of the things that got followed up on by reporters. But the reporter was like, well, you can also get it from like reusing needles, which like, yeah, but like not, not mentioning the whole, you can get it from being born, a thing that everyone has to do statistically.

And this is true. The statistics bear that out. That is true. 100% rate of being born in order to exist. That's exactly, that's exactly right. You know why I realized why Trump says this? This is the realization I came to. He doesn't even think about this as a possible mode of transmission.

If you've ever seen a delivery, I don't know if you have, Mia, but if you've ever seen someone give birth, whether it's natural, vaginal or cesarian or whatever, whatever method. There is a lot of fluids, blood, mucus. There's a lot of fluids happening during this time, exchange between mother and baby. And if you saw that, I think you'd be like, oh, well, yeah, that makes sense that you would get it that way. If you could get it through sex, why couldn't you get it through that? You know, if you could get it by putting a penis into a vagina, for example, why couldn't

you get it from being birth from one? So you would see that and it would make sense to you inherently and automatically. My guess is that Trump has not seen any of his kids delivered. That would not surprise me. If he was in a nearby room, I would be impressed. And he had to want to cast aspersions on her president. I don't know. Maybe he was there, you know, cutting the umbilical corridor.

I don't know. But I get the sense he was not. And I feel like that's why in his mind he doesn't even register it. And then the other thing, that makes me that's weird about this is he's like oh it's just me i say that they get the shot at the age of 12 because it's sexually transmitted and that makes me wonder and i'm surprised no one's brought this up why does he think that's okay then does he think that kids are having sex at age of 12 and that's okay why did why did 12 become the number for him it's so weird and i don't know i that's truly

one of the, there is something just deeply evil going on in his mind but I have no idea what it is and I can't follow the path of logic because I'm not like a billionaire who was born in like the 50s or whatever I don't know

that guy has seen that guy has gotten brainward from things that like don't exist anymore no he's I'm born in the 40s. Sorry. My apologies for thinking he was born a full decade later than he actually was. Good Lord. Yeah, I mean, I think the results are still the same. Yeah, but it's like, you know, there's just like there's prejudices and weird stuff that he picked up rattling around there that like, who knows where they came from. And I think also, you know, one of the other angles about this that's sort of really distressing is this, like, what feels like the sort of stigmatizing.

aspect of it, of just being like, oh, well, there's something you can only get, like, sexually transmitted. So, like, why are you giving this to kids? And it's like, well, yeah, but, like, there's just, like, a bunch of other ways that you can get it. And, like, only talking about that one and then having it as an excuse to, like, raise the vaccination age for no reason. And that, you know, again, goes back to the MMR thing. Because, you know, when we talk about giving these doses, the WHO, the CDC, they recommend the birth vaccine within 24 hours. or the first, at least then, the current schedule is you get at birth and follow-ups at one to two months and then again, it's six to 15 months.

And part of the thing of stretching that out, pushing that out further, again, same thing as the MMR, which is the more likely you are to not do it at all and to have decreased uptake. Yeah. So this is the real reason why that's a concern. Yeah. And it's this sort of decreased uptake is their goal? Right. Like that's what they want.

That's why RFK Jr., for example, is making it increasingly difficult to get the COVID vaccine and the flu vaccine and stuff like that. And it's, you know, they're doing this sort of like double-pronged approach of both establishing it from the top down through the medical bureaucracy of taking control of and also just like spreading it among their supporters and among people who are like, oh, the president wouldn't just like lie to me. about medical stuff. Right. That's unreasonable. And if you didn't know, if you didn't know that there was an other means or transmission, what he said is reasonable. You know, why would you give an infant a vaccine for something they could only get through sex?

I mean, yeah, you back, sure, that makes sense. But it's just wrong. Yeah. All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know.

A story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her,

or rape or burn, or any of that other stuff that just, you all said it. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. we're bringing you a new snafu every single episode.

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My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that people think that I am. I'm too compassionate. I have sympathy for that fuck my man. You put so much heart and soul into your work.

What's the hardest part for you to take that criticism? This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Even when I was a stripper, I'm going to be the best pole dancer in here. When was the moment you felt I did it? I still, to this day, don't feel comfortable. I fight every day to keep this level of success

because people want to take it from you so bad. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's kind of pointless to ask the question, does he know he's lying on this one? But I don't think he is. I honestly don't think he understands. I think he probably did hear that there are some other modes of transmission.

And in his mind, it requires some sort of blood contact or some sort of mucosal contact in his mind. And that's how he interpreted it. And I think he just doesn't equate that with childbirth. I think he assumes that, like, because the child he sees comes out, like, perfectly wrapped and clean. and, you know, looks like a little baby in like a blanket when he sees it. Yeah. So I think that's the thing.

So I think he believes this. I don't think he's lying on purpose on this one. Yeah. That makes sense. And I think, I don't know, I think the interesting aspect of this is that this is like, was kind of just a Trump thing. Right.

Like, this is like one of the parts of it that like RFK Jr. And Martin McCari didn't really talk about. It was just Trump. Right. Kind of just, like, started talking about it for reasons that are deeply unclear. Yeah, I mean, Martin McCarrey's an interesting guy, and I think he did some good things in the past and has done some not-so-great things, some bad things.

Yeah, would not be surfing in this administration. This may shock you, Mia, but Trump picks somebody for a high-level position that might be a little problematic. especially this version of the administration too where it's like in Trump one it was possible for him to appoint someone random and it kind of be like Department of Energy right they put Rick Perry who famously would call to a well forgot that it was the thing

that he wanted to abolish but then he got in charge of it and the Department of Energy people like explained to him this is where the nuke stuff is and then he was like sure whatever fucking go run this I'll just stay out of everyone's way and that kind of worked fine. That is not happening this administration. You are not getting Rick Perry going to like a make work job,

letting the bureaucrats run the actual stuff. How wild it is that we long for the days of Rick Perry. Yeah. The days when someone could explain to you, hey, this is the department that does the nukes and they'd be, and they would change their opinion about it. Staggering. Incredible.

So let me tell you a little bit more about this McCarrey character. Yeah, yeah. So he is a surgeon. I don't think he practices as a surgeon anymore, but he's sort of a health policy expert, or at least self-fashioned as one. And he's the person that was tapped by Donald Trump to lead the FDA.

You've seen him on Fox News a lot, and he's been very outspoken about pandemic policies in the past. He was noted as a one, one of the greatest perpetrators of COVID misinformation during those times when people fact-checked him again and again, found that he was wrong. But the thing about him that you may or may not know how I first learned of him and how he popped up on my radar while back was he is the person that's responsible for this claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. And sometimes that's cited as second. Yes, that's him. He's the person.

Oh, boy. Right, right, which there's a lot of issues with this claim. It is at best controversial. It's based on extrapolated data. There was no formal methodology that went into him doing this. It totally misrepresents the complexity of health care and health care outcomes. But it's like the herpes of medical misinformation because it always comes back. No matter how many times it gets disproven or people talk about it, it always comes back.

And it's always used as this, it's an inherent part of the belief structure of these anti-vaxxers. It is taken as gospel now. But back in 2016, basically, he wrote this BMJ paper that estimated something like 250,000 deaths per year in U.S. hospitals for due to medical errors. But, again, was not a formal study. It presented no new data. And it didn't have any sort of real rigorous statistical method behind it. it kind of average figures from different sources. It doesn't actually even work because death certificates don't capture medical error,

so it's hard to really study that, even if you wanted to. But anyways, long story short, no matter how many times people disprove this or make arguments that work against it, it never goes away. So that's him. That's McCarie. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. And he's not running the FDA, which is great.

Well, we put the worst people in charge of quite possibly the most important part of our country. Yeah, I mean, just health and human service is run by RFK Jr. is just, when he first took office, my line on it was millions will die. And we are so incredibly on track for millions to die from just this guy and his people being put in charge. Yeah. I mean, I should say one more thing about Makari before we move on from him. That claim, you know, I wouldn't say that medical error isn't an issue. I think it is a very serious issue. Even if there's one or two cases in the whole country, it's a serious issue. And that should be addressed. But what he's doing is, I think, harmful. I don't think that is helping in any way. I think it's only made things worse by contributing to where we're at today with our anti-vax stance, our whole anti-intellectual approach to medicine. And that's, that's, this is like a thing that they do. This is a thing. They take a little kernel of truth.

If there is any lack of knowledge that there's any slight vacuum in understanding, it gets filled with these bad actors, these people. And he is, in my opinion, one of them. But still somehow not the worst. You know, not the worst is one of those bars in the Trump administration. It's not even the bar so low it's on the ground. The bar is so low that, like, You have to go digging to get under the bar, and it's not like a little bit of digging.

It's a lot of digging because the bar truly is below hell. There's like a second hell down there to find this bar for where these people are. Oh, God. Second hell. Every time I look into any of these people just. Yeah. No, no, you're never going to be surprised. Hasgen, hit a Marine with an act.

Like, this guy's just a secretary of defense now. He's like, he's the guy going in yelling at the generals. This is the guy who was on Fox News and he threw, he just throwing an axe and he threw it over the target and it hit a bunch of Marines. Like, what are we doing here? Well, whom amongst us hasn't done that. Maybe he is the real Antifa. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

I have never hit a Marine with an axe. Yeah. So. Yeah, well, there you go. Tragic. Papa, do you have anything else that you want to tell our dear listeners about this whole debacle? Get your vaccines. Yeah.

You know, get your vaccines. Get vaccinated. Now it's the time to start doing it for flu and COVID if you can. Talk to your doctor if you're having difficulty getting your vaccine from your local places, your regular places. Talk to your doctor about getting it. you should still be able to in most cases. So do it while you can. And if you want to hear more about this stuff,

make sure to check out my podcast, The House of Pod. We're going to talk about the stuff a lot more. We'll also talk about other stuff too. But you'll hear more on this along the way as well. And, you know, I like that people are questioning some of these things. I don't think it's unreasonable. Some of these topics are not unreasonable. to have, you know, we, as I discussed earlier on another podcast on this channel, I don't

channels, that what you say, on this network, I should say. The Tylenol autism question is not like a totally wacky, crazy one. It was a decent question to ask. There was some correlation. But the evidence when you look at it shows that it is very likely not a causal relationship when you look at the evidence. And I think it's okay to have some of these conversations and sometimes it takes a little nuance when you look at them. But I encourage people to continue to do so and to keep reading and to find trusted sources and look at those and learn about them yourself. I think if nothing else good comes from all this, it's that people are starting to have an understanding of antibodies and the science behind vaccines. And I think that's not a bad thing.

So, I mean, things are terrible. Things are terrible. There's so many bad things in the world. But I will say this, I see bright spots constantly. I see more and more people who care about science. I see more and more people than I ever have before care about important topics across the world. They're not scientific, like Gaza, for example. I've seen more people care about things that I've ever seen before in my long life.

And I feel like that's a good thing. There are bright spots out there. and that's what I cling to. And I see more people interested in this. People want to talk to me about hepatitis B and what it is and how to avoid it. And I think that's great. So there is some good coming from this. Yeah.

And this is, I think, the fundamental thing that both the media apparatus and the regime are trying to conceal, which is that there are more of us and there are of them. There always have been. And especially right now, there are way more of us. And, you know, their ability to shape the world is disastrous, but their ability to shape the world as fundamentally a minoritarian force in this country, right, with like 30 to 40 percent of the population is always going to be limited and is always going to be in danger of simply being reversed. Yeah. And we can be that reversal one person at a time.

Yeah. I love that. Well, Kami, thank you for being on the show. And go listen to House of Pod. It's great. Oh, thank you. Yeah. We're okay.

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