{"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":825,"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":"2026-07-16T22:17:45.149216+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161"},"episode":{"title":"Why do Leftists Keep Asking If We Have Kids to Fulfill a Kink?","slug":"why-do-leftists-keep-asking-if-we-have-kids-to-fulfill-a-kink","published_at":"2026-06-16T12:03:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161/why-do-leftists-keep-asking-if-we-have-kids-to-fulfill-a-kink","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161","url":"https://basedcamppodcast.substack.com/p/why-do-leftists-keep-asking-if-we","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202264440/dc87bf6583c4b95f20e122ac21202e5b.mp3","summary":"Malcolm and Simone Collins discuss a surprising realization about why many leftists accuse pronatalists of having a “breeding kink.” They explore how some in the trans community appear to structure major life decisions around arousal patterns and identity fulfillment, leading to projection onto families who have many children (often via IVF). Topics include: why breeding kinks don’t actually drive real family-building, the difference between fantasy and daily life, identity-maxxing vs. objective function living, Techno-Puritan sins, power dynamics in kinks, furries, Lia Thomas, and much more. This episode dives deep into psychology, sexuality, culture wars, and how different worldviews shape behavior. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about basically a very weird phenomenon that has happened to us repeatedly, and I didn’t understand it until today, and I had this, like, shocking realization when I was just thinking through this today, and I was like, “This explains so much of a leftist mindset that I didn’t fully understand before.” Which is when we initially would go viral people would say, “Oh, like, why do they have to, like, bring us into their weird breeding kink?” You know, and this was a common... I, I’d say it’s, like, 1/5 or 1/8 of comments whenever we used to go viral. We, we had a journalist come to our house recently, so, like, a trans individual who’s a journalist, and he was interviewing us or she, whatever. I, I, I never know with these people. She was interviewing us over, And by the way, if, if you’re trans and annoyed by that, just know how annoying it is for the rest of us when we can’t tell, we don’t care, and you act like it’s the biggest effing deal in the world, [00:01:00] and yet you d…","meta_description":"Malcolm and Simone Collins discuss a surprising realization about why many leftists accuse pronatalists of having a “breeding kink.” They explore how some…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/based-camp-simone-malcolm-collins-6378161/episodes/why-do-leftists-keep-asking-if-we-have-kids-to-fulfill-a-kink/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/why-do-leftists-keep-asking-if-we-have-kids-to-fulfill-a-kink.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}