{"podcast":{"title":"Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins","slug":"based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161","podcast_index_feed_id":6378161,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1643534/s/64409.rss","website_url":"https://basedcamppodcast.substack.com/s/based-camp-simone-and-malcolm","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1643534/s/64409/a478854e7b409f02072d443b587bdd1d.jpg","author":"Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins","episode_count":867,"summary":"We will try to have in depth conversations about intellectually engaging topics in a way that does not fall into simple left right pandering (and thus is both based and camp). This is the podcast by the creators of the Pragmatist Guide series and the Pronatalist movement, Simone Collins and Malcolm Collins.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T02:19:12.019878+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161"},"episode":{"title":"How Has No One Caught This In Fauci's COVID Diaries?","slug":"how-has-no-one-caught-this-in-fauci-s-covid-diaries","published_at":"2026-08-03T12:00:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161/how-has-no-one-caught-this-in-fauci-s-covid-diaries","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161","url":"https://basedcamppodcast.substack.com/p/how-has-no-one-caught-this-in-faucis","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209611210/7cd72d04748523b933c0dcfb11926d1d.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Based Camp, Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into the 1,141-page collection of Anthony Fauci’s private typewritten notes (December 2019–December 2022) released by Senator Rand Paul’s office. Most media coverage has been surface-level and dismissive. Simone spent significant tokens analyzing the full (scanned, hard-to-read) document. What emerges is far more revealing: Fauci’s early private concerns about lab-origin possibilities and gain-of-function research he helped fund, how the narrative hardened over time, his internal framing of expert disagreements, the evolution of mask guidance, vaccine safety signals he tracked privately, and the surreal personal side of sudden celebrity (bobbleheads, prayer candles, celebrity encounters, and more). We walk through the actual quotes so you can judge for yourself. The full original PDF is linked in the show notes. This is one of the clearest windows we’ve had into how the official COVID narrative was managed from the inside. Show Notes Here is the original PDF . What People are Saying About This The mainstream/leftist response to this is that Republicans are out on a Fauci-themed witch hunt. In response to someone asking “what’s going on with anthony fauci and his diary?” on r/OutOfTheLoop , Bignholy (who posted the top-voted comment) wrote: Rand Paul got ahold of Fauci’s private notes internal nonpublic notes from the COVID era. The current GOP being what it is, they are now trying to use that to push for punishing Fauci based on the fact that he wrote in it some things that don’t match the final statements made by the CDC back during COVID. When Fauci was called in to yet again to be questioned yet again by the same people who ignored him and tried to prosecute him previously, he flat out said that the…","meta_description":"In this episode of Based Camp, Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into the 1,141-page collection of Anthony Fauci’s private typewritten notes (December…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4115,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161/episodes/how-has-no-one-caught-this-in-fauci-s-covid-diaries/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161/how-has-no-one-caught-this-in-fauci-s-covid-diaries.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}