# Quite Frankly Ep. 60: Fauci's Diary, the Rand Paul Hearing & AIDS Revisited

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-07-31T04:21:30+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/quite-frankly-ep-60-faucis-diary-the-rand-paul-hearing-aids-revisited/
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Duration seconds: 7669

## Resource

Description: Frankie Val and co-host Jay open by reflecting on nearly 20 years of Thursday broadcasts, then get into a night billed as psyop central. First up: Anthony Fauci's newly surfaced pandemic diary, where the running theme is not global health but how many magazine profiles, cupcakes, and bobbleheads featured him. Frankie reads the entries, Jay talks about doing biochemistry grad work while the world burned, and they walk through this week's Rand Paul hearing where Fauci pleaded the Fifth. They dig into declassified DARPA documents on early COVID treatments, Trump's stubborn Operation Warp Speed victory laps, and what happens if Ron Johnson's efficacy hearing lands next. The back half turns to a much harder pill: a revisionist look at the origins of the AIDS diagnosis, the Bangui symptom definition in Africa, House of Numbers, and the AZT dosing story. Be warned, this segment challenges the official HIV narrative and leans heavily on fringe sources, so bring your salt shaker.

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