Doctor Mike

Do you remember eating the pets?

They're eating the cats.

It was a rumor, right, that started on Facebook that made its way to Twitter.

One of the reasons that it blew up in the way it did was that it had that blend of, like, weirdness, right, that just lent itself to content creation.

The power of it gets missed, I think, a lot of the time.

People think of it as just something that happens online and stays online, but it doesn't now.

It becomes a lot bigger.

Well, actually it was as a pro-vaccine activist.

So that's the kind of funny thing, right?

Yes.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, we had the measles outbreak in Disneyland, right?

I had just moved to California.

I had a baby who was too young to be fully vaccinated, my first child.

He was born in December, 2013.

I was doing this thing that you have to do, and I lived in San Francisco, where you put your child on these waiting lists for preschools and daycares and things like that.

There's a lot of demand, not a lot of supply.

And, you know, I had read these articles about like the crunchy Californians, because remember, it was like a left-wing thing 10 years ago, right?

And I candidly, you know, I grew up in New York, here in New York, and I just didn't want my kid in an anti-vax preschool.

That was my personal values.

I just wasn't cool with it.