Magnet Challenge Tested on Random People! (From the HighWire May 20, 2021)

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She is abandoned on her arm. Did you get the vaccine? Today we are out in sunny Laguna Beach, California doing the COVID vaccine magnet challenge to see how many people we can find where a magnet actually sticks to their injection site on their arm. So what people are doing is they've gotten the vaccine and then they're recording themselves putting a magnet to their arm and it's sticking in the spot where they got the vaccine. So have you seen the videos online of the people putting the magnet on their arm where they received the vaccine? Yes, I've seen it on TikTok a few times and I've seen it stick to people. I've seen it not. So I've kind of skeptical. I don't know why it sticks, why it doesn't. People are saying the magnet's actually sticking on the exact spot where they got the COVID vaccine. I've never seen that before but I'm really interested. And when was your last dose? About two weeks ago. Do you know what's in the Pfizer vaccine? I do not. Do you care what's in the Pfizer vaccine? As long as it helps me stay safe, I'm okay. Alright, here we go. So it's been a week and a half, right? About... Let's see. Nothing is sticking. We got Pfizer. You got Pfizer and was this your first or second dose? This is our second dose. How recently did you get the second dose? I got it like an hour ago. Okay, so just literally an hour ago. This is fresh. We can still see the mark. No. I don't think it worked. You could try it. You feel like you're fully... No. Oh, wait. Is it just... Okay, now is that your arm just being like moist or is that... No, it's not like questions. I'm not sure. I don't know. Do you know where you got the... Maximately where? Because I don't see a mark anymore, anything like that. Which vaccine? The Pfizer vaccine. Okay. Because it... I don't know what's happening right now. See if we can find a spot. Feel something over here. No. Is it sticky? Oh. No, I haven't felt anything yet. I'm not sure. I don't think I feel anything. I don't feel anything pulling. Do you feel anything? Sarah said that she's received both doses of witch vaccine. Moderna. I see the magnet sticking on people's arms, but I don't know if it's true. Well, that's what we're trying to figure out here today, too, you know. I'm not feeling well. I mean, I don't know if that's just because... I don't know if that's just because... Do you have sunscreen on or anything? I don't know why it's sticking. Now, have you heard any of these theories going around the internet that there's like something in the vaccine that would cause this? No. What do you think about this sticking to your arm right now? I have no idea what it is. Yeah, maybe I should get back. Let's see if we can get anything. So you said you received your COVID vaccine. Did you receive one or two? Two. And which vaccine did you receive? Moderna. Fourteen of this month? So it was pretty recently. So maybe like a week ago. Okay. Oh. It's scary. Oh, f***. I don't know. It's... It's weird. I don't know. It's... Yeah, it does stick. Okay, so how do you feel about this? Um, I'm honestly scared. Moderna or Pfizer? I got Pfizer. I had a got Moderna. It's right there. Oh! Okay, it's dead. Get straight, get straight, get straight. Confirmed. Right on the whole... The shot hole. How do you feel about that? I feel weird. I have a tracking device in my arm from the government. So... Take it out. Not gonna lie, I'm kind of scared. I only got it because I wanted to travel. I don't know. It could be a tracking device. And it sticks around. Oh my goodness. Don't blame. I did it too. Sure. Metallic in the arm. It's really sticky, bro. I'm magnetic. Oh! It's working. Maxi shot. It's magnetic. They put a tracking device in here for real. It's kind of freaking me out. All right, well, what you make of that is gonna be up to you, but we're gonna bring in Carmen from California here to talk about that investigation and to see what some of our hurt thoughts were and maybe some behind the scenes stuff. Carmen, thanks for joining us today. Hey, Jeffrey. Thanks for having me. How's it going? Awesome. Doing good. Are you a little surprised at what you saw? Because we were a little surprised at what we saw. Yeah, you know, I was surprised. I mean, obviously there was more nose than there were yeses with the sticking. But were you surprised that so many people were willing to do this on camera and take this challenge on camera? Yeah, actually, you know, the people that get the COVID vaccine tend to live a little bit more fearful. So I thought, well, if we're not wearing masks and we're out, you know, with a camera crew, are they gonna want to talk to us? But surprisingly, we got a lot of people interested and as people were watching what was going on on camera, the spectators also wanted to get involved. So it ended up growing and we got so much interest. A lot of young people were out that day. So I think that really helped. But yeah, we were completely shocked at what we found. It's pretty incredible. I mean, it's something someone can do just, you know, anybody can do this. It's so. Now, reading some of the articles, there's a lot of fact checking articles that came out after these tick-tock videos, really surfaced and this thing, you know, Google Trends searches. We're just shooting straight up for a lot of the stuff that has to do with magnets and vaccines. And I was reading a lot of the fact checking articles and it was saying, well, that has to do with, you know, some, if people just received the vaccine, then they may have some of the stickiness from the bandaid on their arm still or that maybe just use some surface tension with the sweat. You were out there were people excessively sweating or did they have, you know, bandaid marks from just getting the vaccine before you stuck these on? There were three people that literally had just gotten away from the vaccine site and then decided to take a stroll down in Laguna Beach. And those people did have fresh band aids on as you can see. And they did probably have a little bit of stickiness from the bandaid. Now, I'm not sure if that contributed to what was going on, but nobody else besides those three. And I think we probably had 15 or 20 people overall. Nobody else besides those three had any bandaid residue because their vaccine was quite a bit ago, either like a week, two weeks, some of them were three months ago. So we tested all kinds of people with all different vaccines we want to see for ourselves, you know, does it make a difference how long ago you received the vaccine, which vaccines is happening to is it happening at all to anybody and and it did. So we wanted to document it in real time and make sure that this wasn't just a crazy rumor or some conspiracy theory, it actually did happen. So I guess people can make the decision for themselves now that they've seen it on camera with all of us, you know, they're witnessing what was happening. But I mean, I was actually surprised myself and so is our crew. So you can make it what you want. But yeah. Yeah. So really what you're saying is it's not a hoax. We've had we've been able to replicate what we've been seeing on these these videos that have been called hoaxes, correct? Yeah, I mean, I kind of went out there, tried to be open minded. I've seen a lot of the videos and in fact, one of my own personal friends had sent me a video of her friends sister and it happened to her. And so I thought, okay, well, there's probably some truth. I believe her and she believes her friends. So there's probably some truth to this, but let's really find out and yeah, we were pretty shocked, but it was it was really interesting, you know, because there were people that had the vaccine a week ago. There were people that had the vaccine three months ago. This girl, I think had it three months ago and it's stuck to her arms. So there were a couple people that had it, you know, within the last couple of weeks or whatever. And I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to it at this point, but, but it did work. So yeah, that, you know, have anybody have, did you get a sense that or did anybody tell you that they researched the vaccine before getting it? Did they seem educated on what they were taking? Well, I asked that question quite a bit and you didn't see it in that footage there, but I did ask almost every person why they decided to get the vaccine and if they knew what was in the vaccine. And most of the answers were, I got it because I wanted to, you know, feel safe and make other people feel safe or I did it for my parents, because they were concerned. And then the answer to, you know, it's in the vaccine every single person said no and, oh well, you know, I trust the government or I trust, you know, the vaccine company. So I'm just going with it. Very interesting. And we saw some of the reactions there from the people. What was a general consensus of the reaction? Was it all over the board? Was it, you know, there's a lot of people laughing there. It seemed like kind of a jovial situation when it did stick. It seemed like it was almost a fun thing. What was the reaction to a lot of people when they're doing that when it was sticking? Yeah, when it stuck, everybody was shocked because most of them had not seen the videos. So, you know, I've seen a lot of the videos floating around. So I was a little surprised that most of the people hadn't seen the videos. And then we did show them, I think we showed a couple of them the videos on our phones and stuff. And then when it actually stuck to their arm, I think they were like, okay, wait a second. What's really going on here? You know, why is this magnet sticking to my arm? And they seemed genuinely surprised. Most of the people were very shocked. And one guy I felt so bad for him. I almost thought he was going to cry. And he said that he felt really scared. And now he wasn't going to take the rest of the vaccines probably if there's ever any boosters or anything like that recommended. So he was genuinely scared. I felt bad for him because he was so shocked and very worried after that happened. But the rest of the people seemed like, all right, well, if it lets me travel and I can go about my business and be free, then I'll take it whatever. It was really interesting to see that people didn't really seem to care. Well, great work out there. Thanks. Thanks so much for going out there and doing that and getting the documentation. We're all kind of discovering this together. If you want to be part of this, you can join it. You can join in on it as well. If you want to try this with your family members or with yourself is called action, just hashtag the magnet challenge hashtag hashtag the high wire. Take a video and see if it sticks to your arm and upload it. If it does, if it doesn't, this is kind of an open air investigation. We're going to do here and just figure out what the heck's going on. And we'll report back on that over the coming weeks. So once again, thanks for thanks for going out there in Laguna and trying this out on people and we look forward to as this investigation continues. So thank you. Absolutely. Good luck getting more footage on that one because I'd love to see more. All right, talk to you soon. You