Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins

[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about something that is wildly under-discussed in the news right now, which is that Cuba is about to collapse. And when I say about to collapse, you may think that I am exaggerating. They have literally at this point, 14 to 19 days of oil left.They have had no tanker arrivals since January 9th. The, the tankers that were being sent from Venezuela have been cut off and their last lifeline, which was Mexico, has also been cut off. Why than that? Trump negotiations. So, NAFT is about to, is about to be renegotiated and oh Trump put a lot of pressure on Mexico to cut off.Also, it’s costing Mexico a lot. They spent 3 billion basically in free oil for Venezuela. Over the past just few years I think. Since Why started this person’s administration? Well, Cuba was giving them their slave [00:01:00] doctors for people who don’t know Google. Oh yeah. UBA basically enslaves their, their doctors and was giving them to Mexico as like an exchange.But they did the Venezuela was an also interesting situation ‘cause we’re seeing more and more, venezuela had given Cuba in terms of like loans that Cuba would never pay back, very obviously and stuff like that. $18 billion. And if we look at the elite guard that was killed during the raid, we know that 32 of them, so almost all of the people who died were actually Cubans.So it appeared that Cuba basically controlled like the. The, the, the accusations that Cuba had basically subjugated Venezuela and was just extracting resources from it were accurate. They basically controlled the entire elite guard of the country and most of the major military petitions. Oh. And this is being systemically reversed right now.Mm-hmm. And I note here that another thing you’re not seeing if you’re watching mainstream news right now is that Venezuela has actually made pretty. Big changes. Not only have they stopped sending [00:02:00] money and oil to Cuba but they have started releasing hundreds. I think now we’re at 300, but it shows no signs of slowing down political prisoners.So we are actually seeing change in Venezuela. It’s justSimone Collins: alright,Malcolm Collins: Trump can. Dunk on it too much. Mm-hmm. Or it would look bad for the woman who’s in power now. Right. You know, we have to be very nice about all of our political wins that we’re making in Venezuela and very graceful about it because Yeah.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: You don’t want too many people asking. Did she cooperate with you guys to get rid of Maduro?Simone Collins: Yeah, like sad. You wanna look a little matchy matchy? That would not be good.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. You know, you don’t wanna look too matchy. Matchy. So she constantly complains. But in terms of what we actually wanna see happen in Venezuela, that’s what we’re seeing right now.Simone Collins: Wow.Malcolm Collins: And I note here that how bad things have gotten in Cuba is, is not a, like this is happening completely out of nowhere scenario. So,Simone Collins: well I have to ask. Do they not have oil reserves? We have oil reserves.By the way, if you’re [00:03:00] wondering if Cuba has oil deposit somewhere, , they do. But, , in 20 12, 3 deep water, more than 300 meters of water exploration wells were drilled by Italian platform Scarborough nine. , And, , none of the three found commercial quality of oil or gas, which jeopardized Cuba’s hopes to find hydrocarbons to boost its economy.So basically they, they technically have some around the island, , but , none of the commercial explorations have ever found a way to reach them in a cash positive manner.Malcolm Collins: Cuba is a little island. Simone? No. CubaSimone Collins: doesn’t have one. Can have some kind of, I don’t know, tank.This is my out of touch. I I have to ask the out of touch questions that everyone else is asking. ‘cause I’m not the only out of touch person here.Malcolm Collins: No, they’re completely out. So their economy last year, 20% was the tourism industry. And this is despite the fact that tourism has been crashing for them.So things have been getting much, much worse for them.Simone Collins: Oh, so the world. Top destination for male sex workers is going out of faith. Oh, [00:04:00] this is because the younger people aren’t having sex anymore.Malcolm Collins: That’s a,Simone Collins: so what kind of woman wants to go to Cuba anymore?Malcolm Collins: There’s been a combinations of factors that hit their tourism industry.One was Trump reinstated distinctions that Obama had lifted. TwoSimone Collins: was, now we actually know this, when, when we ran our travel agency, we used to have a decent amount of traffic to Cuba. Yeah. And then after a while flights got kind of weird. And it was harder to get people there. The visa situation got very complicated and then we started having banking problems like, oh, do you do any business with Cuba?And then like we, we got shut out of va

Dive into a provocative discussion with Malcolm and Simone Collins as they debunk two major myths: the idea that female-led societies are inherently peaceful, and the romanticized view of bonobos as gentle, utopian apes. Drawing from their book The Pragmatist’s Guide to Sexuality and fresh data from studies (including 2024 research on bonobo aggression), they explore how matriarchal structures—both in history and among bonobos—often lead to more violence, coercion, and hierarchy than expected. From evolutionary psychology on women’s submission fantasies to historical queens waging wars, this episode challenges progressive narratives about “natural” societies and argues for building better futures through pragmatism, not nostalgia.Key highlights:* Why bonobo society is a nightmare of sexual coercion and aggression.* Data showing female rulers are more likely to start wars (27% higher in historical Europe).* Evolutionary insights into gender dynamics and power.* A rant on rejecting “hidden utopias” and advancing civilization.If you enjoy data-driven takes on culture, evolution, and society, subscribe for more episodes from Based Camp! Check out our books and join the conversation.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be going over two persistent myths in society, dissecting them, looking at the actual data to show that no. One female led societies historically are, and actually in modern times because we’re gonna be going into new data, not just the old data that we had in our book, the Pragma Guide to Sexuality are, are more violent than non-female led society.Simone Collins: Oh yeah, sure, of courseMalcolm Collins: that makes sense. But also the myth of the peaceful bonobo is where we are going to start because Bonobo society is actually. Horrifying.Simone Collins: I don’t understand why people have this vision of the Gentle Ape. All, all apes and monkeys terrify me more than Pelicans, and there’s nothing scarier than a pelican.Malcolm Collins: So we’re just gonna go over a bunch of data, mostly drawing from a chapter from the Pragmatist Guide to Sexuality about why. You shouldn’t let women run [00:01:00] things. And not just that, but how the progressive movement and the progressive part of the academic movement has this tendency to create these con conflation or confabulation of, unique examples or cherry picked data to try to say that we should go back to some earlier way of doing things or some earlier way is natural.Simone Collins: Ah, theMalcolm Collins: old sapien argument, fix it Dawn. Where they’re like, well, our ancestors were polyamorous. Look at the gentle bonobo. Look at the tribal they are. And I’m like, well.First of all, that’s not true of all tribal groups, and it’s certainly not true of the more successful ones. You just chose one that fit the society that you wanted. You’re like, okay, where’s the most communist, the most matriarchal, the most? Okay. We will say, this is the model for early humans. Yeah. When that’s not actually the predominant evidence that we have, and we can do a separate episode on that.But it’s the same with you know, with with [00:02:00] Bonobos. They go, oh, what, what? There was a period where like some researchers really romanticized Bonobos. And now we know that they basically made a mistake and they created, it is true that Bonobos do have a matriarchal society. It’s just not true that it’s a benevolent, matriarchal society.So let’s go into this. All right.Simone Collins: I wonder. Yeah, and I, I, I’m very curious to, to know when in history women were seen to be. Nice. I, I’m thinking maybe certainly with the Victorian era, this, there was this picture of like, the woman is being the moral anchor of the household, but yeah, I’m, this is gonna be fascinating.Malcolm Collins: Some of our readers may be wondering at this point why we have not referred to Bonobos. It has become popular to cite Bonobo behavior as evidence that humans in their natural state would be free loving, polyamorous, matriarchal communities. This view of Bonobos has been aggressively pushed by those whose political agenda benefits from the belief that our distant ancestors lived in this kind of [00:03:00] utopia.First, we would point to the fact that women tend towards submissive sexual fantasies much more than men. That this tendency does not appear to be socialized. And male humans almost certainly have an infanticide impulse. This serves as fairly concrete evidence indicating that early humans did not interact like Bonobos, or at least how people believe Bonobos interact.Matriarchal utopias do not create evolutionary pressures, nudging women to become turned on by violence against themselves, or sexually aroused by men stomping on babies like lucy McGillicutty stomping in a great vat. A 2015 psychology study of 1000. This is not from the guide. I’m just sort of adding this for people who don’t know because in the guide

Dive into a mind-blowing deep dive where Malcolm and Simone Collins expose the Jedi Order as the ultimate villains of the Star Wars universe! Forget the heroic myths—this episode breaks down how the Jedi are controlled by a parasitic hive mind (midi-chlorians), enforce child kidnapping and soldier training, uphold a dystopian Republic riddled with corruption and slavery, and lie about the true nature of the Force. Drawing from canon lore like The Clone Wars, prequels, and even the Mortis arc, we argue Palpatine was right, Anakin did nothing wrong, and the Empire might actually be the good guys. Plus, real-world parallels to parasites like toxoplasmosis and cultural brainwashing. Is Star Wars secretly a horror story? Buckle up for facts, rants, and a killer outro!Episode TranscriptMalcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be talking about how the Jedi order from the Star Wars universe is quite possibly the most evil organization in any sci-fi universe I have ever read.Simone Collins: They are actual scum. They are actual scum.Malcolm Collins: They are. When you, when you actually think about it, you’re like, oh my God. The Star Wars universe under the Republic was a complete dystopia and the empire was needed. Palpatine was right. So, and, and I, I’m not gonna make stretches here. I’m not gonna bend outside the lore. You’re just gonna stageSimone Collins: facts,Malcolm Collins: the lore of mm-hmm.The Star Wars universe. So. Right.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: They have these symbiotic organisms called MIT chloron. Mm-hmm. Now you could say they’re symbiotic, but they’re really [00:01:00] not symbiotic. They’re more parasitic. , Why do I say that? They’re parasitic rather than symbiotic. Well, because when they reach high enough levels in a host, that host loses their ability to breed.IE the Jedi have to be celibate.And it’s made very clear if you have too high a level of this parasitic inflection. If your mitol count is too high, you deal with extreme negative side effects, or at least this is what those infected with the parasite and who follow its will say extreme negative side effects if you attempt to breed.So this. Parasitic organisms that lives in humanoids. They ha has a hive mind that we call the, the light side of the force that they worship. They have to serve the will of it. By the way, it, it lies to them about its true nature provably in the, the, the Star Wars universe.Oh,Simone Collins: does it? TheyMalcolm Collins: they have [00:02:00] to. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn’t create the force or anything like that. The, the force is, we learned the history of the force and the mortis arc. So it is a. Parasitic hive mind that is lying to them about how it grants them presumably magic like powers. Then they sort the entire society of the universe into a hierarchy based on your level of infection by this parasite.Simone Collins: God,Malcolm Collins: this is, I mean this is just, just any fact. AnySimone Collins: fact, yes.Malcolm Collins: When, when, when they go and they find Anakin.Simone Collins: OhMalcolm Collins: yeah. Right. They’re like, oh, he has X white chloron count, which means that one day he, he could be one of the most powerful Jedi ever. Mm. Right. I haven’t even gone into the child kidnapping and stuff like that yet, which we will get to.Oh,Simone Collins: child soldiers? Yeah. Mm-hmm.Malcolm Collins: No, no, no. They have literal child soldiers. When Anakin [00:03:00] went in there, and I’ll go, I’ll elaborate on this in more detail, and he killed the young Lings. That was a completely justified thing to do. Within that context, we see those very sane young lings in other shots, and I’m talking about like of the movie, like not even like extended stuff, practicing with light sabers, the single most dangerous weapon in the entire universe.Okay? These are children,Simone Collins: they’re not like broken, not, not, stick swords, but laser. Laser swords.Malcolm Collins: Laser swords, they’re not even paying, was like wooden AK 40 sevens. Now the laser swords are turned down in theseSimone Collins: oh,Malcolm Collins: okay.Speaker: Huh? What do you think? I think you finished your lightsaber.Find out.Malcolm Collins: Well we learned that [00:04:00] in, it’s not confirmed in like the movie that they’re turned down.Simone Collins: Oh.Malcolm Collins: But somebody I think realized how bad this looked.Simone Collins: Oh, they’re on safety mode. It’s okay.Malcolm Collins: This is a, a, a parasitic organism that has taken control. Of the entire galaxy. Right?This is Unironically what Jedi Apologists sound like.Speaker 7: Open the door. It is so much better. There’s no fear or pain. It’s beautiful. And you We’ll be beautiful. No problems or worries. We want you. No pain, Stan? We’re gonna come in here and I’ll show you some pain!Malcolm Collins: Like, because it keep in mind the Jedi Act as a secret police force of unelected

Dive into the latest Epstein leaks with Malcolm and Simone Collins on Based Camp! We break down the bizarre “pizza” obsession among elites (spoiler: it’s not about food), analyze what’s real vs. conspiracy hype—like torture videos, baby-eating claims, and connections to figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Trump, and Prince Andrew. Plus, we explore the fascinating science behind why wealthy men prefer youthful traits (backed by our own research on breast preferences and evolutionary psychology). From elite predator networks to why conservatives are embracing fetishes at Mar-a-Lago, we separate fact from fiction without holding back. Is Pizzagate back? We discuss without getting banned.If you enjoy unfiltered takes on culture, science, and scandals, subscribe for more episodes! Check out our books “The Pragmatist’s Guide to Sexuality” and others at https://pragmatist.guide/Episode TranscriptMalcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. We are going crazy world with these Epstein leaks.I swear rich people really love pizza.Simone Collins: Such aMalcolm Collins: bigSimone Collins: pizza problem.Malcolm Collins: That is my big takeaway. I love it. Even after reading these, Simone, the credulous person, she is immediately is like, do I send so many emails about pizza? Yeah. So she goes to her inbox to see how many times she has mentioned pizza in, how, how many was it?Simone Collins: So in 2025, it, it got a little messed up because we serve pizza at Octavia’s birthday. So not including those, we had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 emails. No, sorry, eight. Eight. That’s aMalcolm Collins: suspicious numberSimone Collins: of emails. Well, no,one was from [00:01:00] Octavian school district, one was from a scientific research paper. One was from an outline from one of our episodes. But it’s like we, we never, we never personally,Malcolm Collins: don’t have any personal emails.Simone Collins: Basically in, in, no, in no email from last year did we at any point. Talk about pizza over email, aside from a, a children’s birthday party invite. And the rest of it was just like quoting other people or people sending us emails.Malcolm Collins: And we have children and aren’t super rich, right? Like we know the demographic.Simone Collins: Oh yeah. No, no, no. Here’s how bad the, the pizza we served in Octavian birthday was cooked in our oven anyway. It wasn’t even likecookedMalcolm Collins: in our ovenSimone Collins: Quartered pizza.Malcolm Collins: No. So the, my favorite thing about this particular Epstein League is it the one guy who like wasn’t on board with the naming system and so everyone is like, Hey, how about that pizza and grape juice we had last night?And then there’s this one guy who’s like, [00:02:00] I really like the torture video she sent me. I imagine Epstein, it’s like whenever you’re doing something that’s like shady at work and you have to get everyone together and you’re like, okay, you understand we do not email each other about this. Right? AndSimone Collins: thenMalcolm Collins: I really like the fraud we’re doing.Simone Collins: I love that. I love the part where we hunted people for sport thatMalcolm Collins: love this one, this, this, this one guy who is still somehow, blanked in the, in the emails.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: But what we’re gonna go over in this episode are two core questions. The first, and I think more interesting question is the science behind all of this which is, we are, for people who don’t know this actually pretty esteemed researchers in the sex space, was Aila even saying that our research is some of the best out there?So, because I, I find it really fascinating and one of the biggest findings that we broke [00:03:00] that other people have, have, have found correlary since our breaking it. Is that the wealthier a man gets, the smaller his breast preference. Which if you’re looking at a societally Okay. Way to say you like younger women or potentially even what’s the word, hemophilia, where they’re, you know, teenagers or whatever women.Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Which is the core market that Epstein dealt with. The, we gotta ask why. Why is this a trend? Why does it happen and how do networks of. Predators because in the past everyone who said there are elite networks of sexual predators like PDA files everyone would’ve said, that’s crazy.You know, you would do that. It’s the, the classic conspiracy theory. And now it’s just like definitionally true. And the government tried to cover it up for a really long time,Simone Collins: so bad.It’s so bad. [00:04:00] We’re so back. Pizzagate is so back. You people,Malcolm Collins: you can’t say that that’s one of the most likely to get you banned things on YouTube.Simone Collins: Okay. Sorry.Malcolm Collins: We can, we cannot talk about that. Oh, you don’t know guys. So some higher ups at YouTube really don’t want us talking about that exact word. But what we are going to, I wonder, I wonder why what w

Dive into the fascinating world of “peacocking” with Malcolm and Simone Collins on this episode of Based Camp! From evolutionary biology to modern dating signals, we explore how men and women use costly displays—like flashy cars, makeup, or even leg-lengthening surgery—to attract partners. Discover why choosing a spouse based on looks is a hidden commitment, the history of male fashion from codpieces to high heels, and why both sexes peacock in unique ways today. We break down honest vs. dishonest signaling, why males are becoming more selective in long-term relationships, and real-world examples from seahorses to Genghis Khan. If you’re into red pill insights, cultural trends, or just want to understand the hidden dynamics of attraction, this is a must-watch!Episode Notes* Both men and women who choose spouses based on looks are both telling on themselves and implicitly committing to something without realizing it* Basically, when you’re being choosy about partners, it’s because you implicitly understand (and may be signalling) that you’ll do most of the work and/or take on most of the risk* To understand why this is the case, we need to look to peacocking and WHY animals (plus humans) do it* We also need to understand how peacocking has evolved in the face of modernity and how we may need to disregard certain instincts because they were evolved for an old game and these days, many of the rules are TOTALLY differentWhy Peacock?Peacocking is required when the target market is selective (it’s obvious and universal—products only need branding and marketing in competitive markets with choices).Female peacocking is necessary only when men get sexually selective.There are three reasons why males get sexually selective:* Males invest heavily in parental care (time, energy, or risk), so they can only mate with a limited number of females.* For example, male seahorses, which carry and nourish the eggs in a brood pouch (a form of male pregnancy), are notably choosy about mates.* Married fathers’ childcare time rose from about 2.6 hours per week in 1965 to about 7.2 hours per week in 2011 and 7.8-8 hours/week in 2020/2021 (with married fathers around 8 hours and college‑educated fathers about 10 hours per week.)* In case comparison is desired: Married mothers’ time went from about 10.6 hours per week in 1965 to roughly 14.3 hours per week in 2011, and around 13.5–14 hours remains a standard estimate in the 2000s.* There is large variation in female quality (for example, in fecundity, size, or health), making some females much more valuable mates than others.* Male seahorses preferentially select larger females, as these tend to produce more or higher-quality eggs, leading to better offspring survival. Males have been observed rejecting smaller or less suitable females by breaking off courtship dances or swimming away, even when the females are receptive. This selectivity stems from the males’ limited brood pouch capacity and the high energy investment in pregnancy, making indiscriminate mating costly* The St. Andrews experience* The marriage-and-then-kids bait-and-switch* In many fish and bird species with biparental care (for example, certain cichlid fishes and shorebirds), males court and mate preferentially with larger or more fecund females and may ignore smaller or otherwise low-quality females.* Will men eventually look for signals of actual COMMITMENT to larger families?* Mating itself is costly (risk of predation, energy loss, disease, increased risk from male-on-male competition), so mating “indiscriminately” reduces a male’s total lifetime reproductive success.* Legal risk* One major form of “predation” in the modern civilized world* Financial risk* A major form of energy loss* Pair bonding?* In monogamous mammals like prairie voles, males form strong pair bonds and show selective affiliation and aggression toward intruding conspecifics, effectively refusing to mate with other available females once bonded* Do men pair bond more???* I recall in red pill forums men expressing some level of disdain for women who just aen’t really capable of love, which implied that men *were*—so is it that men really feel pair bonded to female partners beyond just mercenary calculations?* And we discussed women potentially being into male-male romance because of pair bondingThe TL:DR here:* So long as men have choices and are either made vulnerable by partnering with women or involved in childcare, they’ll be selective.* BUT: So long as women are also subject to these risks and obligations, they’ll also be choosy* So both sexes peacock, but in different ways depending on trends and the economyThe History of PeacockingNeither men nor women stopped peacocking; the means of peacocking for each sex just evolved over time* When you see restrained male dress, it is typically attributed peacocking through cultural signaling, not through a lack of peacocking* Globally speaking* Many Asian and African traditions start from a baseline

In this no-holds-barred episode, we dive deep into racial and ethnic dating preferences using real data from OkCupid (the infamous 2009–2014 race & attraction studies), multiracial dater research, and more. We cover in-group biases, why some groups show little same-race preference, the surprising “boost” for certain mixes (like white-Asian), why black women face the toughest odds in online dating, and how media/culture shapes (or fails to shape) what people find attractive.We break down hierarchies in desirability, reply rates, gender differences (women tend to be “more racist” in preferences), and why white men often top the charts while certain groups get penalized. Expect spicy takes on everything from passport bros to fetishization, media “go woke go broke,” and even our own subjective rankings (teased for a future paid video).Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. As people know, we got really scared after having, you know, videos taken down on this channel and potentially having our YouTube throttled. And so I said, I’m not gonna do anything controversial.Simone Collins: NeverMalcolm Collins: again. Never again, never again. But at the same time, an interesting question occurred to me.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: Which was, if you were going to create like a tear list of the attractiveness of different ethnic groups, that was objective, ohSimone Collins: God,Malcolm Collins: what would that look like? So I decided to look into this ‘cause I was like, surely somebody has done this before. And what I was reallySimone Collins: according to doesn’t just every.Racial or ethnic or religious group look good to themselves? Like, don’t the Amish find Amish people the most attractive, even if it’s like literally they’re, they’re from very similar heritage. You know, just when, when people look similar to you, don’t you, don’t you find them more attractive?Malcolm Collins: Some groups?That’s true. Not in all groups. Is that true? So [00:01:00] we see that in some studies. Ba basically we’ll go through a number of studies. A number of studies will show that most groups have a preference for their own ethnicity. But in other studies most of the more honest ones. And we’re only gonna cover the OkCupid one briefly, because I assume that all of our audience is familiar with that study.Simone Collins: Oh, I’ll cover it thoroughly. I, I can’t really remember. I went through it when it first came out, but OkCupid stopped publishing their research findings pretty early on because they were too spicy. It was tooMalcolm Collins: controversial.Simone Collins: I people got too mad. Justified reality hurts. WhatMalcolm Collins: you will see in those, if I’m remembering correctly, is blacks do not have an ingroup racial preference and prefer people of other ethnicities.Simone Collins: Oh God, I forgot. Yeah, that wasMalcolm Collins: bad. That is not found in pretty much any of the scientific studies except for I think like one or two.Speaker 2: Oh s**t, here we go. It’s on. Race, war. Race, war, race, war, race war’s on everybody.It’s going down. It’s going down.After editing this video, I [00:02:00] was wrong. It has sounded in more of the studies than I remembered, and I should point out here. I do not mean that they had a preference for other racial groups. I mean, they had a preference for the white racial group.Speaker 2: Token Forfeit. Whites win. Whites win. Race, war, everybody whites.Malcolm Collins: And I think the reason Yeah.Simone Collins: But there’s a big problem with publication bias when peopleMalcolm Collins: find Yeah. I would not publish it if my results came out that way. I’d be like, wait.Oh,Simone Collins: nor would I, yeah. Because we’re not crazy.Malcolm Collins: African Americans are racist against African Americans more than other people are racist against African Americans.Simone Collins: Right. Even based OkCupid stopped publishing this stuff, obviously.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Yeah. We can’t, we can’t have that be widely known. Right. So we’ll get into that.And then what I’m gonna do with you Simone is because I really, you know, don’t wanna do anything offensive, don’t wanna do anything that can get clipped but. You know, at the same time I couldn’t find a good ranking between like Asian groups and between European groups and betweenSimone Collins: Oh, like Vietnamese to Chinese to Singaporean, to,Malcolm Collins: yeah.I wanna, I wanna get [00:03:00] that up. So you and I are,Simone Collins: oh yeah. I would be really curious, like, do Japanese people think that South Korean people are really beautiful?Malcolm Collins: No. No. So I wasn’t able to do that, but we will judge it. So we’ll go through faces of different asset groups and rate how relative,Simone Collins: you know what, becauseMalcolm Collins: you relatively attractive they are to each other.Look at, look at the life. Leave her eyes. Look at the Malcolm. What are you doing?You don

Malcolm and Simone Collins tear apart Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the cult of “self-actualization” — a concept that originated with Kurt Goldstein as an organism’s drive for wholeness and potential (think resilience after brain injury, survival, breeding), but Maslow flipped it into a progressive pinnacle achieved only after maxing out hedonistic “lower” needs like endless comfort, validation, sex, and esteem.We explore how this fuels urban monoculture toxicity: identity obsessions, validation addiction, hedonism-maxxing, and extreme cases like adults regressing to child roles for “love without judgment.” We invert the pyramid — true fulfillment comes from suppressing distractions (Catholic mortification, naltrexone hacks, biblical detachment) to focus on civilization-building, pronatalism, sacrifice, and purpose, not self-worship or peak experiences.Riffs include: South Park food pyramid flip, Einstein/Eleanor Roosevelt as flawed “self-actualized” icons (vs. Marie Curie’s two daughters and real achievement), degenerate NPR stories, why celebrities crash despite “needs met,” Buddhism as negative utilitarianism, and why 4+ kids often signals real alignment.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to talk to you today. We are going to be discussing. The popularization and development of the term self-actualization, as well as the damage it has done to society. Tracing it again, I think it’s a horrible concept that is upstream of a lot of what makes the urban monoculture so toxic.Oh. To a person’s mental framing of reality. Okay. We will provide alternate frameworks, which I think are better. And we will also be exploring the interesting truth behind the current term self-actualization, which is that it actually came from a pretty based concept. Self-actualization is even in the words of the guy who popularized it.A rebranding of the concept of niche’s. Uber, minch, or a progressive audience?Simone Collins: No. Oh my God. The PSYOPs of that. Wait, so was that Maslow of Maslow’s MaMalcolm Collins: Maslo Maslow was the one who, who popularized it and before him it meant something entirely different.Simone Collins: Wow. [00:01:00] Okay. I’m really, I’m very curious to see what your ultimate take on all this is.Like, is it gonna be a play on that South Park episode of like, we have to invert the pyramid? Are, are we now putting just survival at the, the top of the pyramid?Malcolm Collins: Survival at the top. I actually like that a lot.Speaker: The pyramid doesn’t work. We’ve already tried it. It’s upside down. What, sir? The pyramid is upside down. Turn the pyramid upside down. It can’t be serious. That would put butter and fat at the top of it. Flip the damn food pyramidMalcolm Collins: Yes. We have to invert the pyramid. Let’s do it. Hierarchy of needs. I, I love that the White House actually posted a clip from that Yes.Episode when they changed the food pyramid. And the funny thing is, is everyone was like, I mean, it’s basically right, like the nutritionists were like, I’m not complaining about this.Simone Collins: Yeah. YouMalcolm Collins: know?Simone Collins: No, no, no, honestly. ‘cause you know, I, I listened to like all leftist media basically the, the leftist critique of it was not that it was [00:02:00] substantively wrong ‘cause they can’t actually argue against it.It’s, it’s fairly correct as you say. So can you imagine what the leftist critique of it instead had to be?Malcolm Collins: It wasn’t respe a respectable way to announce it.Simone Collins: No, no, no, no. Okay. Well, I mean, okay. Yeah. They were like, well, I can’t believe they steal per two, butMalcolm Collins: they took out sugar.Simone Collins: No, theyMalcolm Collins: did take out sugar as, as a ever.They’reSimone Collins: like, I know. Well, because you shouldn’t. There should be no added sugars, period. There’s no point for that. Right. Anyway. No, it was, well, how dare they insinuate that people could afford vegetables and meat. I’m not kidding. I’m not kidding. That is 100%. Seriously. I think that was the Philip DeFranco take if, if memory serves, but yeah, they were, they were very freaked out about it that someone would have the gall to suggest.And then they even went to a clip of some either Trump administration official or health official talking about that. No, it actually was quite affordable, you know, that that every, every American adult can eat, [00:03:00] you know, a piece of broccoli and a chicken breast and I can’t remember some other thing.Malcolm Collins: I,Simone Collins: I’m imagining five and they’re like, what? You think people can survive off of just a piece of broccoli and a piece of chicken? Like they’re freaking out about it. Anyway, so that was, that was,Malcolm Collins: but I, what I love is the idea of a progressive rebranding of the food pyramid, except they just take out all the foods they perceive as expensive.So it’s just, it’s still the bread.Simone Collins: Well, it

In this eye-opening episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone dive into a Reddit-sourced compilation of studies (verified where possible) that set out to prove discrimination against women... but uncovered the opposite: evidence of bias against men in areas like hiring, domestic violence, child custody, education, sexual victimization, and more.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be going over a number of studies. That reportedly were looking into gender differences in males and females. Oh, and basically found that men have it significantly worse than women and then attempted to cover it up.Simone Collins: What?Malcolm Collins: And we’re going to be, yeah, so on the subreddit, because for people to know the base camp subreddit still, it looks like Reddit, like heavily throttled it at one point to try to block it, but it’s still huge. It’s still bigger than Asma Gold or Joe Rogan. So even with the throttling, we’re doing really well, which I love.And I regularly find great posts in it. And this was from a post in it. Where they list a number of studies and they go through how the studies try to cover things up. And then I use, I sort of try to check this with AI to see like, which of these are accurate representations of this study and where has this post of anywhere taken liberties with the information so that we can be as steelman as we can and to try to get an accurate [00:01:00] vision.Just how much the, the data is being manipulated. And I think this is what people feel like scientists are the, the, the enemy of men say white men, let’sSimone Collins: be, well you mean contemporary scientists because,Malcolm Collins: no, no, these studies go back away. These studies go back to like the eighties.Simone Collins: Okay. That’s alright.I’m thinking of the 1880s, Malcolm. They, they were pretty cool.Malcolm Collins: And I gottaSimone Collins: have a You’re pretty autistic and faab fabulous. So don’t, don’t come from a gentleman scientist. Okay.Malcolm Collins: Okay.Speaker: When is modern science gonna find a cure for a woman’s mouth?Don’t worry. That’s just a fancy doctor. Word for your brain is broken. Unfortunately, there’s no field of medicine that deals with the brain, but I can give you a pamphlet for a cult.Malcolm Collins: For Dr.Simone Collins: SpacemanMalcolm Collins: and you know, this is horrifying. I, another study I learned about that.I actually hadn’t heard about it. I don’t know how, I hadn’t heard about this from the subreddit. Mm-hmm. And I, I double checked to make sure it’s real. It’s a real study. So this [00:02:00] was a 2006 study published in Nature. And it looked at men and women playing an economic game, a version of the prisoner’s dilemma with two actors, one who played fairly and one who cheated unfairly.Participants were then placed in an FMRI scanner and observed the actors receiving painful electric shocks to their hands. Brain scans measured empathetic responses in pain related areas like the anterior insular, anterior cingulate cortex. Mm-hmm. And reward areas like the nucleus humus. Key findings when fair players non cheaters were shocked, both men and women showed activation in empathy related brain areas indicating distress or shared pain.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: However, when unfair players, cheaters were shocked, women still showed empathy related activation distress. But when men. Men reduced the empathy that they showed and showed some activation in their reward centers seeking pleasure from seeing the bad guy punished justice.Simone Collins: Yeah. WhenMalcolm Collins: we look at something and we’re like, how [00:03:00] can you want to help these scam artists?The, you know, the illegal immigrants, et cetera. Right. And because at first I’m like, well, maybe you could. Picture that they’re not actually just like purely negative actors stealing from like orphans and the poor like the Somali you know, scale.Simone Collins: Right. So you’re, you’re saying that many of the people who are we’ll say, protesting both ice arrest, but also specifically ice arrests that have been ramped up in response to widespread coverage of Somali.Daycare fraud and transport fraud. It’s not because they don’t believe the fraud is real. It’s that they still for that fraud, just as muchiesMalcolm Collins: for the people who are stealing money from orphans and the poor Oh. Billions of dollars. Right. Tens of billions of dollars. They feel just as much empathy for those people mm-hmm.As they do for, well, I guess they don’t feel empathy for the people who were stolen from, because to them they’re, they’re just like faceless mops, right? Like they, they, they areSimone Collins: [00:04:00] incapable. They were the people who were stolen from they in I sometimes, yes, as long as their residents. They were, well, unless they’re not in, but that, that money was tax,Malcolm Collins: that money was earmarke

In this explosive episode, we break down what may be the biggest geopolitical story of the decade: a failed military coup attempt against Xi Jinping in January 2026. Top PLA leaders (including key Central Military Commission figures) were purged after an alleged raid on Xi’s hotel residence in Beijing led to a firefight and mass arrests. Xi has gutted the military leadership, leaving only loyalists in place.We discuss:* The timeline of purges, assassination attempts, tunnel explosions, and the leaked coup plot* Why Xi’s consolidation of power is accelerating China’s path to collapse (demographics, food/energy insecurity, real estate bubble)* The scary logic: Why attacking Taiwan (or elsewhere) might now make “sense” for Xi personally, even if it’s suicidal for China* Parallels to autocracies throughout history and why centralized power always ends this way* Why the West (and AI progress) might secretly benefit from chaos in China* Bonus riffs on US domestic distractions (Minneapolis/ICE protests), organ harvesting rumors, and why nobody seems to care about real global inflection pointsThis is NOT mainstream coverage — it’s the raw, unfiltered analysis you won’t hear elsewhere. If you’re tired of slop-stream media ignoring the real threats, this is for you.Sources & further watching: Lei’s Real Talk (summarized transcripts used), Winston & Laowai’s old China motorcycle vlogs for real cultural insights (sort videos by oldest).Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today and I mean, I’m actually excited ‘cause. There is world changing news, like, like way bigger news than the Maduro situation. Way bigger news than anything that’s happened maybe in like the last half decade,Simone Collins: but you probably haven’t heard about it.Malcolm Collins: Not that many people are covering it, and I don’t understand why. So,Simone Collins: because we’re so obsessed with this little city in the United States called Minneapolis.Malcolm Collins: I, so for clarification, there was essentially a military coup just happened in China.Simone Collins: In China, like China,Malcolm Collins: China, like a ma, the second major power,Simone Collins: Indianapolis or China,Malcolm Collins: the heads of the military.And, and so far of the, the CMC, the committee that. Makes up the military. And I’ll put a picture on screen here. Every single [00:01:00] member of it now, this is, this is the entire top of the Chinese government.Simone Collins: Oh. We’ve gone to all of them. I, I,Malcolm Collins: every member, but she and the secret police head, like the guy who’s in charge of Okay.No,Simone Collins: that’s why I saw, yeah. There was oneMalcolm Collins: left. Is arrested or killed at this point. And the two last one of these guys who hadn’t been, had a group of military members go and try to abduct g from where he lives, which is a hotel. And there was a firefight and a bunch of people died and they locked down parts of Beijing.Imagine.Simone Collins: I bet they just didn’t have the LRADs. If only they had our LRADsMalcolm Collins: in Washington. The head of our military attempted to abduct Trump, and the next day what we were talking about was some dumb piece of nonsense who got shot by law enforcement because he physically attacked them while carrying a gun.Right? Like that’sSpeaker: an officer approaches your [00:02:00] car, be polite.Speaker 2: Is there aSpeaker: problem, officer? And stay in your car with your hands on the wheel.What the f**k do want motherfucker? Unless you wanna ask this,Malcolm Collins: right? You know that, that, that video people watching, they’re like, well, they had already gotten the gun. Out of his hands before he had it when he attacked them. Right? Like, well, what do you mean? I understand? Yes, you shouldn’t shoot him after you get the gun outta his hand.But that’s a heightened situation, okay? These are still human beings, right? If you’re in a conflict with somebody and note they have a gun, even if you successfully think you might have just knocked it out of their hands or didn’t see that, somebody just knocked it out of their hands. You’re, you’re taking fire.I’mSimone Collins: sorry. Yeah. I mean, the, the way I look at it is it’s, it, it’s obviously illegal to hit someone who’s crossing the [00:03:00] street like in a crosswalk. Well, and at any point, right? Yeah. But before you cross the street, you should probably look both ways, you know, like, don’t just, just walk blindly into the street.And I think, you know, obviously. One attacking someone in some kind of, you know, federal position. They’re not law enforcement. They’re, they’re law enforcement officers, okay. Attacking a law enforcement officer and doing so well armed. Like those are sort of two things that you shouldn’t have done.An ice shooting. We got another ice shooting.Speaker: here. See, nobody cares.Simone Collins: So yeah, it’s, it’s one of those, like, this shouldn’t have happened, but b

India’s population bomb is fizzling out faster than most people realize. Over 5,000 government schools now sit completely empty (zero students!), with numbers surging 24% in just two years — mostly in states like Telangana and West Bengal. We’re diving deep into India’s collapsing fertility rates (many regions already sub-1.5 or lower), why certain ethnic/religious groups are disappearing faster than others, and what this means for India’s future demographics.We compare this to Japan and South Korea’s school closures due to depopulation, bust the myth that “India will outbreed everyone,” and discuss why Indian immigrants in the US maintain stable fertility (~1.6, similar to whites) while resisting aspects of modern urban culture. Topics include:* In-group hiring preferences & H-1B controversies* Cultural isolation that protects against fertility collapse* Nuanced pros/cons of Indian communities in America (safety, values, economic contribution vs. potential downsides)* Nick Fuentes’ recent anti-Indian rhetoric — is it fair, or controlled opposition?* Gender dynamics, arranged marriages, and why some Indian cultural traits help resist “urban monoculture”This is a raw, unfiltered conversation on natalism, migration, ethnicity, and the future of populations. If you’re interested in demographics, pronatalism, or immigration realism — hit play.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about the disappearance of Indians, the, the Indian Ethnic Group of India. I will start with a interesting article here, over 5,000 government schools in India. Sit empty with zero students, 70% in the states of Al and West Bongo.Is this anotherSimone Collins: Somali fraud problem or what?Malcolm Collins: This, this from the natal subreddit? No. So these are, these are in India. Their schools are sitting empty because of low birth rates, not fraud.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: No, no, not fraud. Just abandoned. Wow. Like that very sad documentary about Korean schools where they had one student left and they were keeping the school open and they were like, it was really creepy because they would like do tours of the school.You know how Koreans are like very obsessed with, but there wasSimone Collins: this one kid sweeping up a classroom that only teacher, no, no.Malcolm Collins: The teachers, the staff were like, they kept everything spotless for, for one kid, like all of the classrooms and everything. It’s [00:01:00] like whenSimone Collins: Albert King concert Albert died and Queen Victoria like insisted on having his.Breakfast made each morning and all these things set out for him. Like his clothes laid out. ‘cause she, yeah, no, it’s, it’s reallyMalcolm Collins: weird the way, but it’s a grievingSimone Collins: thing. This is not a function thing, it’s a grieving thing.Malcolm Collins: There’s the Japanese town that ended up replacing all the kids with, with straw dummies.Simone Collins: No, just to make the, what, like one kid in the town feel less lonely. Totally not creeped out. No. Now there’sMalcolm Collins: straw dummies playing on the swings and onSimone Collins: the slide. What if it was just a great troll though? What if they actually really hated kids and they’re like, I, I will terrify idea for you. ThisMalcolm Collins: kid with some Miyazaki stuff right here.No, this kid’s gonna walk around and, and think their entire generation is turned into straw.Simone Collins: Oh my gosh though again, amazing troll. Like, you know, you’re the grocery store owner, kid starts acting up. Listen kid. You wanna know what happened to the last kid who messed around in my grocery store? Straw man.Malcolm Collins: It literally to me [00:02:00] feels like a Stephen King book or something. You’re kid, kid, you move to this town, everyone else is, all the other children are straw and all the adults act like it’s totally normal. Yeah. Like that’s just Benny. What are you talking about? I would, we need to do that to our kids. We need to take them to that town and then to just be like this.All of those, this is what happens to bad kids in Japan. Stuff that our kids believe about how the world works. They believe in Wingos and, and oh,Simone Collins: Octavian was telling me this morning that he doesn’t think Wendigo are real. He thinks we’re trolling him, but yet Titan was just building new lore last night, asking about, what was it?Creaky man. Creaky man. Yeah, creaky man who lives in a cave that’s pink and purple with maybe some blue.Malcolm Collins: With maybe some blue. She’s not sure, but he is scary. Yeah. And he lives in a pink and purple cave anyway. No. They see what we’re doing and I think that they’re internalizing that. It’s like, oh, we’re like building stories of the family.I’m gonna do that too. But anyway.Simone Collins: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.Malcolm Collins: Of the [00:03:00] 10.13 Locke, 1.013 million government schools across India 5,149 have no st

In this episode, we dive into the viral Australian academic advice (from Deakin University researchers) that parents should ask babies for “consent” before changing their diapers. It sounds absurd on the surface—and we roast it hard—but we also steelman their perspective before tearing it apart.We explore how this philosophy ties into extreme gentle parenting trends (no timeouts without consent? No punishments?), the misuse of “consent” as the sole argument against adult-minor relationships (spoiler: it’s not about consent; it’s about developmental stages and guardianship), and why removing natural threats/fears from kids’ lives might fuel modern anxiety epidemics.From ritualized diaper changes that feel suspiciously fetish-adjacent, to using clinical terms like “vulva/penis/anus” on infants vs. fun family euphemisms like “doty” and “flippy,” we share our unfiltered parenting stories—including epic blowouts, bribery for potty training, and why our kids aren’t anxious wrecks despite (or because of) our pragmatic, authoritative style.We also touch on Krampus, ancestral fear exposure, nursing home STDs, and why suburb-raised girls invent existential threats. Plus: a chaotic domestic tangent about poop smells, manga villains, and who’s making dinner.If you’re tired of overthinking parenting and want a raw, evidence-based take on why kids actually need guardians (not mini-adults), this one’s for you.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about children and consent and infants and consent uhoh.And we are going to be using it went viral a while ago, this story where a leftist university specifically it was the Deacon University in Australiasuggested that you ask your baby consent before changing their diapers. And Simone is just sharing a story about changing Texas diapers.So, you know, on, on topic here. But it’s, it comes off as ridiculous at face value. But I want to look at it from their eyes, not like the other people covering. I wanna see how they argue for it, why they think it’s important, right. And then I want to go from there to look at other instances in which parents and parental advocates have been advocating for.Extreme consent searching from children before, like punishment and everything like that. And we saw this like in my Stephen Mullany debate where you know, like askingSimone Collins: for consent for timeout,Malcolm Collins: well they don’t, don’t do timeouts ‘cause a kid [00:01:00] wouldn’t consent to it. Right. You know, you know, it’s only gentle parenting.Only nice parenting. And so I wanna go into this philosophy in its extremes, but I’m also gonna be arguing that a a lot of people have misunderstood. And I think where the concept of consent creeped into children’s, the literature and the concept of children needing consent, is that for whatever reason, the urban monoculture decided to use a lack of consent to argue why, you know, we do not have sex with minors.And I actually think that that’s. Completely stupid. Like that is not why you don’t have sex with a minor consent. And I, I, I mean, I’ve argued this with animals where I point out that, you know, the reason we don’t have sex with animals isn’t that the animal can’t consent because weSimone Collins: eatMalcolm Collins: animals and we like raise them in a state of constant torture if you’re talking about veal or farm chicken or something like that.Oh, goodness. And, and people protest that, but you know, they’re, they’re, they’re at the same time, they’re like, oh, consent, consent, consent, you know, is why we don’t [00:02:00] do it. It’s a disease risk with, with animals.Simone Collins: Yeah. Yeah.Malcolm Collins: There, that’s why a lot of cultures convergently evolved that particular belief.But with children, I, I point out here that, okay, like you’ve got like a 15-year-old or something like that, right? Like, okay, a, a 15-year-old in terms of their cognition is. Well, more advanced than many elderly individuals, many mentally handicapped individuals. Sure. 15 year olds are actually fairly sharp.They’re almost asSimone Collins: smart as pigs.Malcolm Collins: As pigs. I’m kidding. Okay. And I think even if you go back of it, I mean, I think even like 13 year olds and 12 year olds are fairly smart. Like smarter. I, I’d say that the average, like 13-year-old I talk to is smarter and more cognitively there than the average person I’m talking to in a nursing home.Simone Collins: Oh, no. Like 100%. I mean, people in nursing homes on average are dealing with pretty severe cognitive decline. Plus they’re also super set in their ways, whereas people who are teens are in this [00:03:00] Right. Incredible position. But I mean, you could even argue that an 8-year-old is there because also the 8-year-old is unencumbered by all of the hormonal vicissitudes that a teenager has to endure.So, butMalcolm Collins: yeah, the, the point being is. Nobody, or very few people are arguing that people in nu

In this eye-opening conversation, Simone Collins and Malcolm Collins declare 2025 the year climate activism collapsed—and they’re not mincing words. From Greta Thunberg’s pivot to Palestine solidarity, Bill Gates’ major memo shift (”Three Tough Truths About Climate”), Matthew Yglesias rethinking his past positions, and even progressive New York walking back aggressive climate mandates... the movement that once dominated headlines is fading fast.We dive deep into why: overhyped apocalyptic predictions that never materialized, market forces solving “crises” like peak oil, historical moral panics (Satanic Panic, video games, comics), and the bigger question—what panics are actually justified?Simone shares her personal journey from hardcore climate activist (saving sea turtles, Earth Day Network, custom environmental major) to realizing many doomsday claims were overblown. We contrast climate with real existential issues like demographic collapse (aka “TISM”), water shortages in major cities, and AI disruption—plus why some panics (ozone hole, Y2K, leaded gas) were worth the freakout and actually got solved.If you’ve ever donated to climate causes, worried about the apocalypse, or wondered why the vibe shifted from “save the planet” to class conflict & human dignity... this episode is for you.We also riff on everything from Kylie Jenner housekeepers to hag-maxing Karens channeling maternal energy into Earth-worship, why young men stopped caring when the hot activists aged, and how the prenatal movement avoids the same pitfalls as old climate hysteria.Episode Transcript:Simone Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Malcolm. I’m excited to be speaking with you today because 2025 was the year that climate activism died.And I don’t think enough people are talking about it, but major activists and donors and even states are dropping climate change like it’s hot. So we’re, we’re talking about Matthew Glacia, Greta Thunberg, bill Gates, and even the state of New York, which is insane what even New York lost climate change.I’ll, I’ll go into it. It, it’s, I’m like, okay. I mean, it’s clear we’re, it’s over. It’s over. We, we we’re not trying to make fetch happen anymore.Speaker: You only fight these causes cause caring cells All you activists can go yourselves That was so inspiring! What a wonderful message!Simone Collins: And in general that the sentiment has shifted. From saving animals and the earth to class conflict and human dignity. And this is ex exemplified by Fels, like Kylie Jenner being criticized for watching her animal cruelty-free makeup on her housekeepers.No one cares that it’s animal [00:01:00] cruelty free. They’re like, how dare you? Yeah, I love, I love that you aMalcolm Collins: housekeeper. She, she got it all cheap or whatever. The, the, this office that was able to do animal testing really cheap, and then they found out it was just because they were doing it on interns.Simone Collins: There’s, I think there’s that, I heard about that separately, but this, this was this was a, I think a more prominent kerfuffle, but I just think it’s really funny because she, she pays her housekeeper.The housekeeper obviously consented to it. But I think just mere, I think it’s exemplified because what, what really people are freaking out about is basically in any way using a paid employee, I guess, you know, for anything. And, and to not do it.Malcolm Collins: It’s a fascinating phenomenon, how hard, how fast and how completely the climate movement was abandoned.Yeah.Speaker: Alright, that does it! I f ed it!Malcolm Collins: We will be teaching our children about the climate movement as a historic movement.Simone Collins: Yeah. And speaking [00:02:00] of, of historical movement, I think this, this is a there’s a wider question that this development, the 2025 crash of climate activism brings to light, which is, this is of course not the first panic we’ve had.And I think it’s really important to ask ourselves in light of current panics that are actively going on current things, people are like, we have to spend money on this. We have to change our lives around this. We have to learn. How to better divine what is worth our time because I spent a huge portion of my youth dedicated to climate activism.That’s what her degree is in. I save the sea turtles. I like spent a summer volunteering to help the baby, sea turtles make it to the ocean and measure the giant sea turtles. And by the way, do you know the secret to stopping a giant sea turtle as they’re making their way back to the ocean? So you can measure her, you stick your knee, you need two people, but you stick your knee behind her front fin and then she can’t move forward.And then that, that frees you up. Interesting. Yeah. But it doesn’t always work when you get a big enough [00:03:00] turtle, you just can’t stop them. At one point I just watched that one of the Italian volunteers just ride her straight into the ocean. He just like gave up and got on top of her and was li

In this raw, unfiltered episode of Based Camp, Malcolm & Simone Collins tackle a politically explosive question: Why have Muslim-majority forces historically struggled to conquer and durably hold new territory from non-Muslim groups in modern times?Malcolm walks through centuries of examples—from the rapid early Islamic expansions to Ottoman Janissaries (often Christian-origin elites), the Yom Kippur War debacle, Cyprus 1974, East Timor, Azerbaijan-Armenia clashes, and more—arguing that success often depended on non-Muslim leadership, extreme minority rule, or unified caliphates that quickly fractured.They explore deeper patterns:* Coups & hierarchy: Why Muslim militaries tend toward rigid command (fear of coups) vs. decentralized Protestant/Jewish models* Idolatry & status-signaling: Protestant anti-idolatry aversion to luxury vs. opulent signaling in some Muslim/Persian/Catholic cultures* Delegation success: Early Islamic Golden Age thrived on minority rule + competent outsiders (Jews, Christians); later majority rule often shifted to abuse* Birth rates, delegation, and modern “solutions” (hire outsiders? Ban excess luxury?)Heavy on pattern-noticing, historical exceptions, biological/cultural analogies (invasive species, extremophiles), and zero sacred cows. Expect spicy takes on religion, coups, multiculturalism, and why Protestants/Jews rarely stage military coups.Perfect for fans of contrarian history, cross-cultural analysis, pronatalism, and unapologetic anthropology.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today with a day when I had one of those very thoughts where a thought enters my mind and I begin pulling on it and I’m like. Oh no, this can only end in bad places. Oh no.Simone Collins (2): Oh, not again,Malcolm Collins: laughing. When we were doing a recording and I said in the recording something like, well, you know, Muslim majority armies almost never are able to conquer new territory.And then it sort of got in my head I was like, but wait, isn’t that how Islam primarily expanded in the early days? And then Yeah. They thought they were like aSimone Collins (2): successful warlike group or something. That’s kinda the impression an outsider gets that doesn’t know anything.Malcolm Collins: And then I got in, well, yeah, I, I also can talk about them as like an invasive species almost in the same way that the Vikings were, they, they were an extremophile group that developed really extreme individual practices.And when they were put on the scene around groups that didn’t have defenses against them, they were quickly conquered. Mm-hmm. And you, you often see this with extreme offa groups like the, the [00:01:00] Arab Nomads or the Vikings. Okay. You just need a force to unify them. Yeah. But I then had this second thought, which is okay.So Malcolm, can you think of any time recently that a Muslim force? No. No. They’re, they’re pretty good as is any sort of highly dispersed group at protecting their territory. Okay. So, so once they haveSimone Collins (2): it, they keep it.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. We saw this in places like Afghanistan, for example. Okay. But conquering new land, I got in my head I was like, okay, surely I can think of instances in which a Muslim majority group conquered and durably kept the land of a non-Muslim majority group for let’s say over a generation.Right?Simone Collins (2): Yeah. Give, given the reputation that we think they have. That would make sense.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And so then I just started going through in my head, like the Ottomans, no. Like they were terrible in World War I like, like practically a joke [00:02:00] player. The, the Yo Kippur War. The Yo Kippur war was hilarious, and we’ll go into it as more of an example of this wider phenomenon, but like Israel little, at that time, Israel was not like the major arms producer it is today.It didn’t have technology. There were this fledgling littleSimone Collins (2): country.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. A fledgling little barely together country. And it looked, felt like, a group of like thugs. You know, there’s a scene, the joke scene in the movie where a group of thugs like chases some, some girl into like a back alley or follows her back there.And then you just hear a bunch of, like, I was thinking that scene from India comes outSimone Collins (2): where like that one guy is like dancing around with his knife and then Indiana Jones takes out a gun and shoots him.Malcolm Collins: No, it’s way different for that. I’m, I’m talking about the scene where, because you see this in a lot of movies, a bunch of big, burly guys will like, follow somebody who looks really defenseless into a back alley to jump them.And then somehow the, the, the girl like knocks out all of them at once.Speaker 5: Get a load of this guy.[00:03:00] Oh, humanity. You never failed to disappoint me, .Unaware that with the slightest nudge, the world could crash down around me. No. For the exercise, gentlemen.

In this episode, Simone & Malcolm Collins dive deep into the escalating conspiracy theories from Candace Owens’ world—especially after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. From Charlie being a time traveler who attended a secret “X-Men school” for gifted kids, to Brigitte Macron (and Michelle Obama) secretly being men, Harvard as a Mossad base, Frankist cults running the world, the Bolshevik Revolution, 9/11, JFK, fake moon landings, dinosaurs being “fake and gay,” and the infamous Egyptian planes surveillance plot... we break it all down.Is this audience capture on steroids? AI-induced psychosis? Genuine belief amplified by massive Patreon money ($200k+/month)? Or just the most entertaining grift in conservative media right now? We plausibility-check where things aren’t totally insane (spy recruitment on campuses is real!), laugh at the absurdity, and explore why her follower count exploded in 2025.You can find Simone’s Reality Fabricator scenario in which you experience a world as Candace Owens where all her conspiracy theories are real here: https://rfab.ai/share/adventure/youre-candace-owens-and-all-your-conspiracy-theoriSimone outlined this episode, so the notes (and some text screenshots) follow and the transcript can be found after. :)The Candice bot: https://rfab.ai/share/adventure/youre-candace-owens-and-all-your-conspiracy-theori RFab is finally mostly stable: https://rfab.ai/ Our Substack: https://basedcamppodcast.substack.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SimoneAndMalcolmCollinsDiscord: https://discord.com/invite/EGFRjwwS92The School: https://parrhesia.io/student-signupApp to talk with kids: https://wizling.ai/Episode NotesCandace Owens has gone so off the reservation that we’ve got to talk about it. The latest from Candace Owens is that she claims he’s a time traveler based on joking, flirty texts he sent her. Writes Cinema Shogun on X: Candace Owens is now saying that Charlie Kirk was marked since a child because he had special powers. She thinks he could possibly see into the future. And claims he went to a secret school for kids with gifted abilities like the X-Men. That’s where we’re at folks.* He posts a clip of her talking about this followed by the X-men intro—love itI had not realized how far it had gotten. And yet Candace Owens has a huge following:* 7.5M followers on X* For scale:* Brett Cooper—also part of the Daily Wire cinematic universe—has 538.8K* Ben Shapiro has 8M* Asmongold has 1.2M* Elon Musk has 2342.5M* Donald Trump has 109.3M* Hasan Piker has 1.6M* Greta Thunberg has 5.1M* 5.74M subscribers on YouTube* Ben Shapiro has 7.13M* Brett Cooper (who split off from Daily Wire __ after Candace Owens) has 1.68M* Asmongold has 4.31M* Hasan Piker has 1.77M* 11.8K members on Patreon* Her membership starts at $20/month, so minimally she’ making 20*11,860= $237,200/month. * Minimal tiers allows people to: “Submit questions and comments to have answered/discussed in the final segment of “A Shot In the Dark”. This will be the only pool of questions selected from.”So I decided to explore:* What exactly Candace Owens is claiming* Whether her apparent psychosis is AI psychosis, audience-driven psychosis, good ol’ fashioned psychosis, or a mix* What role her audience plays: Are they egging her on for entertainment, intentionally worsening her psychosis? Do they believe what she’s saying? Candace Owens’ ClaimsThe Antisemetic TheoriesI think these may be the most important, as I think they lead to a surge in support (as antisemitism is on the rise and her expression of it is uniquely entertaining)* Owens has alleged that Jews founded Israel as part of a “cult” linked to the Frankist sect, involved in crimes against Christians during Passover. * She has claimed Jews orchestrated the Bolshevik Revolution to exterminate Christians, that Harvard University serves as a Mossad base, that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that the Holocaust is exaggerated or fabricated (calling Elie Wiesel a “liar”). * She has also suggested critics of Israel fear for their lives and that Jews assassinated JFK. These claims have been labeled as promoting antisemitic tropes.The Transgender Conspiracies* I knew about the Macron conspiracies:* That Brigitte Macron, France’s first lady, was born male (named Jean-Michel Trogneux, her brother’s name), leading to a 2025 defamation lawsuit from the Macrons. * Side note that she also claims the Macrons:* Are plotting her assassination* are complicit in Charlie Kirk’s murder (via French involvement in global conspiracies)* What I did NOT know was that she made similar baseless allegations about other women like Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris, suggesting these are part of a broader pattern where powerful women’s achievements “defy traditional norms.The Fake and Gay SeriesShe has referred to some things as “fake and gay” though sadly in this case “gay” is meant as a slang pejorative and not an additional conspiracy about gay men conspiring to do things, which would have been e

In this episode, Malcolm & Simone Collins explore the bizarre, contradictory, and extremely influential philosophy of Julius Evola — the Italian thinker often called the “super-fascist” who criticized the Nazis for being too materialistic and not racist/spiritual enough.We cover:* Spiritual racism & soul hierarchies (yes, really)* Why he hated Nazis, democracy, modernity, Christianity, and Jews* Magical idealism, riding the tiger, Kali Yuga & return to a primordial golden age* Tantric sex metaphysics, non-ejaculatory rituals, graveyard meditation, and “metaphysics of sex”* The strange influence on Bronze Age Pervert / BAP, new right vitalism, and even some Nick Fuentes-adjacent ideas* Why we consider spiritual/mystical “vitalism” one of the most dangerous and self-defeating paths a person can takeEpisode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about the philosophical ideas of a man who hated the Nazis because he thought they were too woke and weren’t nearly racist enough for his standards. This is a man called Julius Ola. So, so actually he, he calls himself a super fascist.He, he he didn’t actually hate the, he, he criticized him over that, but he thought that what they were doing broadly aligned with his ideology, which was a very interesting world perspective. And I, I wanted to talk about it because I was looking at and trying to understand where some of the new Vitalistic philosophies got their world framing from.For example, the philosophy of BAP or Bronze h pervert, who, who by the way, has explicitly said to his followers, don’t read this guy directly. It’s all philosophical. Who what is it? Like mystical hoodoo? But he’ll occasionally read things that this guy has, has, has written as like a, a sort of [00:01:00] vibing.And when you, when you see this guy’s idea, you’ll be like, oh, I can see where the framework presented by a Bronze Age pervert, or by a man’s world or something like that, may have come in part from this guy’s ideology. He was around during the period of World War ii, so you understand he was in Italy.He’s an Italian. I know, I know. Terrible. Is he still alive? He was alive until the 1970s. Okay. But he’s not, he’s Simone Collins: not an actively publishing substack author. He, he’s an an actual philosopher who wrote stuff in, born Malcolm Collins: in the 18 hundreds. Yes. Pre-internet. Okay. Simone Collins: Okay. Malcolm Collins: Okay. Okay. Gotcha, gotcha. So, like, philosopher, philosopher, guy.And his ideas. If, if you strip out the, the racism and everything like that of his ideas, ‘cause that’s, there’s a lot of racism. It, it was interesting, he believed that different ethnic groups had different qualities. Like there was like a hierarchy of soul quality between ethnic [00:02:00] groups, but that you could work so that you, your goal was to always improve your soul quality.Right? Like, like how we believe a person’s life’s goal is. Simone Collins: So he wasn’t an HBD dude, he was a like soul. Like metaphysically. Different groups were different. Malcolm Collins: Yeah. That’s why he didn’t like the Nazis, because he said they, so that was his big disagreement with him. He was like, well, you know, they’re, they’re being too like materialistic.Oh my God. Simone Collins: Like, don’t look at the genetics. You have to, you have to look at their auras. I’m so what he thought, Malcolm Collins: he thought that you could like, work out your soul enough. He’s like a soul Jim. What, Simone Collins: on what grounds was he evaluating their souls? We, Malcolm Collins: we will talk about it, but he thought that you could work it out enough that you could get your soul into like another ethnic group of souls.So like, you, you could have an Aryan soul even if you weren’t Aryan and if you were Aryan, but like, you were too materialistic. That’s kind of Hindu, right? Simone Collins: [00:03:00] I mean, like, I guess you could die and be reincarnated. Reincarnated in a different level. Oh Malcolm Collins: yeah, yeah. He was heavily influenced by Buddhist theology.Okay. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. His whole world perspective was much clo more closely tied to Buddhism than it was to Christianity. Wow. Although, although he, what he would’ve called himself is not Christian or Buddhist, he believed he was trying to revitalize the pagan world of the ancient Greeks and Romans.And he thought that that was like the correct way to practice religion. But you, you can get an idea of like where that fits with something like BA and all the Greek and Roman statues and everything like that. Right.Simone Collins: I am so intrigued now because this is already so unhinged. I mean, it’s a Hindu, but make it idolize ancient Greece and make it racist and all these insane things. The, the Nazis got it wrong because they weren’t looking at [00:04:00] souls. Malcolm Collins: They weren’t looking at souls. They were, they were just, the

In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into one of the most bizarre political phenomena of our time: How did Western leftists (and especially progressive women) once celebrate the 1979 Iranian Revolution… only for the regime they helped bring to power to later execute tens of thousands of them?We show the iconic photo of two leftist women holding up Khomeini’s picture — one was executed 10 years later, the other fled to Sweden after escaping execution.And shockingly — many modern leftists (Hassan Piker, Jackson Hinkle, PinkNews-aligned voices, etc.) are STILL defending or downplaying the current Iranian regime during the massive 2025–2026 protests while simultaneously claiming America is worse.But we don’t just dunk — we try to seriously understand the psychology: audience capture, sexual/ethnic progressive hierarchies, anti-Western civilizational loathing, the “screaming girl exponential effect” (South Park style), and why atrocities against protesters (machine-gunning crowds, false-flag kill-zones, body-bag photos) simply don’t register for many on the far left.Then comes the uncomfortable mirror: A significant faction on the dissident right (Groyper/Fuentes-adjacent) enthusiastically cheers for a vision of government that is structurally almost identical to the current Iranian theocracy — just swap “Supreme Leader + Council of Experts” for “Catholic autocracy / monarchy / inquisition / 12th century governance” and remove democracy entirely.We go through direct quotes and show why cheering for this vision is functionally the same mistake the 1979 leftist women made.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. People are wondering why we haven’t done the Iran one yet, and I wanted to wait until we had a really interesting and mentally engaging take that we could do on this.Yeah. And we are gonna be focused on two core areas today. We are going to be focused on how modern western leftists help bring in this regime. And moderate secular leftists brought this regime into power even was in Iran. And. Why they’re fighting against it falling apart. But then we’re also going to, no, if you’re, if you’re surprised by that, here is an image of two leftist girls.You can see they look like hippies celebrating in 1979 right in holding up his picture, you know, the the current leader and the ayatollah. And it said he later had 30,000 leftists executed. And these two specific girls in this pictured the girl in front, Maria Rafi, was executed by Islamist 10 years [00:01:00] later.And the girl at the back, Sahara Mohammed, escaped from Mar Grand and took asylum in Sweden four years after the revolution.Simone Collins: Oh my gosh.Malcolm Collins: And this is, didn’t workSpeaker 3: out for them.Malcolm Collins: This is one of the types of things on our new subreddit that’s like huge now. That we need mods for. So do reach out if you’re interested in that.Because we are now the largest conservative Reddit on Reddit, bigger than Joe Rogan, bigger than Asma Gold definitely bigger than any of the mainstream conservative ones. But I think if you look at the comments on the Reddit and stuff like that, people were laughing at this.They were laughing at this and saying stuff like, it’s a shame that she had to escape the regime that she brought into power. And I would actually like to hold a mirror to many people on right, right now, which is being as stupid as these two girls were putting a regime into power that told them exactly what it planned to do to people like them exactly the way it wanted to operate. The other thing that we’re gonna go into a lot, which I find to be a very interesting topic to discuss is all of the [00:02:00] modern leftists, you know, whether it’s Asan or anyone else, and we’ll go over who they are, what their platforms is, like pink news and stuff like that.Mm-hmm. Who are standing the regime right now saying the regime really isn’t that bad, that it’s worse to be in America than it is to be there. And that all of these atrocities that we’re hearing about aren’t really happening. And I find this to be very fascinating because I wanted to, like, I, I know you can gaw and point at them and say, ha ha, look at the, the idiot.Right. Which I think a lot of people on the right are, are justly doing right now. But I also wanna be like, I, I don’t, I want to understand how this ideology works in their heads. Right. I want to understand, yeah. Like what are theySpeaker 3: saying about the pictures of body bags?Malcolm Collins: How do they actually think?But it’s No, but it’s not just that. It’s like, the, they were able to find endless, like the larger leftist machine was able to find. Endless atrocities in Gaza, and yet they’re literally just opening machine guns on civilians here. [00:03:00] There have been cases recently where they dress up like protestors to lead other protestors to kill zones.Oh, what? And they do this to specifically, so descent amon

Straight women are going absolutely feral over Heated Rivalry — the steamy gay hockey romance series that nobody saw coming. From TikTok edits to viral thirst posts, this Canadian show (now on HBO) has become a global obsession, even trending in places where it’s banned.In this episode, Simone & Malcolm Collins dive deep into why women can’t get enough of male-on-male romance — from Yuri on Ice to Boys’ Love manga, slash fiction since the 1970s, and the surprising evolutionary & psychological reasons behind it.We cover:* The “women can’t love” red-pill theory (Simone’s most based take ever)* Why go woke go broke has one massive exception* The difference between real gay relationships and the fantasy versions women crave* Power dynamics, objectification, escape from gender politics, and much moreIs this just harmless escapism… or proof of something deeper about female desire?Simone outlined this episode, so the informal notes are below, and the transcript follows. :)Episode Notes: Why do straight women lust after gay men?The Gist* Gay Men on Ice are Trending!* Before 6am this morning alone, I heard about the show Heated Rivalry, which features steamy sex scenes between two hockey rivals, four times: Two from friends who listen to the podcast, two from YouTubers I listen to in the mornings* One of our Patrons encouraged us to do an episode on the trending topic, writing:* “Why do straight women love to lust after gay men?* There seems to be a current cultural infatuation with these gay hockey players and the video I shared by Brett Cooper delves into the current craze. This has always baffled me because of the obvious incompatibility, but this has long been a cultural stereotype, it doesn’t seem to be a new cultural phenomenon but I don’t know how timeless it is either but it’s definitely intercultural.* I’m also personally invested into this topic given that a lot of girls growing up told me things along the lines of “ I wish you were gay” or “ you have to be gay. ” I even had a group of about 4 female friends I had, make a plan to try to convince their parents I was gay so we could all go together to a vacation house. ( though nothing happened)* I’m just wondering and would love Malcolm’s input on the subject.”So let’s dive in.Heated Rivalry* It’s a Canadian sports romance series that exploded into a massive cultural phenomenon since its premiere on November 28, 2025.* It’s an adaptation of Rachel Reid’s “Game Changers” book series (specifically drawing from the novel Heated Rivalry), created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for a Canadian streaming service called Crave* HBO Max acquired rights for a day-and-date release in the US and other territories, turning it into a global breakout.The show follows two elite, closeted professional hockey players—Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov—who are fierce on-ice rivals but develop an intense, secret romantic and sexual relationship. It features explicit, steamy scenes.It’s been called one of the biggest surprises in TV, a “word-of-mouth sensation” (even HBO execs were shocked), and a rare hit centered on gay characters that didn’t get canceled after one season.Why is it trending?* The first season wrapped up in December and a second season was approved* Its popularity is snowballing after the series started with little promotion but exploded via word-of-mouth, especially on social media (TikTok fan edits, thirst posts, etc.), becoming a “social phenomenon.”* Viewership on HBO Max surged dramatically—starting low but growing over 10x by the finale (from ~30 million to 324 million streaming minutes weekly, per Luminate data).* It’s Crave’s most-watched original ever and HBO Max’s top debut for an acquired non-animated title since 2019.Key factors driving the hype:* The show has high ratings: 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, praise for directing, writing, chemistry between leads, and handling of queer themes in a macho sport like hockey.* The show has a massive online community (”HudCon” ship for the stars), viral clips, and fan events (even internation al ones like in the Philippines)* The show resonated widely, including in places like Russia (even though it’s banned there), and sparked discussions on queer representation in sports.But it should not be surprising that women see man-on-man romance and eat it right up.* Think of the Sherlock shipping* Think of how women can’t even watch The Lorax without creating Oncest (once-ler shipping)Yaoi & Boys LoveI was first introduced to fangirling over male-male relationships in high school when my friends loaned me yaoi manga. Turns out Yaoi has a long history which could arguably go back to:* (Arguably) History’s first novel, the Tale of Genji* Which was written by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century* And has an episode involving Genji and a beautiful boy named Kogimi, the younger brother of the lady Utsusemi.* Involving Genji and a beautiful boy named Kogimi, the younger brother of the lady Ut

In this episode, we dive deep into the stunning US military operation "Absolute Resolve" that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. We analyze the viral testimony from a Maduro loyalist security guard (shared by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt), which describes overwhelming US tech: sudden radar blackout, massive drone swarms that retaliate only against shooters, a tiny team of ~20 elite soldiers dropped from just 8 helicopters, and a mysterious "intense sound wave" weapon causing nosebleeds, vomiting, and immobilization.We break down what's plausible (confirmed US capabilities like LRAD acoustic devices, microwave systems, jamming of Russian/Chinese radar like S-300 & JY-27), what's experimental, and why this feels like "Space Marines" vs. conventional forces. We also compare it to Israeli spycraft (e.g., pager ops), discuss future multipolar world dynamics (US vs. Israel as dominant powers?), and explore emerging warfare trends like autonomous drone swarms.This is scary, impressive, and potentially game-changing. What do you think — real next-level tech or exaggeration?Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be doing an analysis of the US raid on Venezuela, what US’ military capabilities are, because we’ve done some on Israel’s military capabilities, which are, it may be maybe less impressive. We’ll talk about the two in comparison in a second.And what the future of war is going to be like from this and the piece I’m gonna read, it’s scary. It’s scary. The, the first thing that you’re going to think when you hear this, and the first thing I saw when I heard this piece is, this is fake. This, this cannot be real. Where’s your source?Right?Simone Collins: So, oh, no, I immediately thought of the w was it Cuban? Embassy. Russian Embassy. Yeah. That was laterMalcolm Collins: proven fake. Oh,Simone Collins: yeah, it was, but IMalcolm Collins: still, okay. But th this is when I heard this, I thought, or at least I’m skeptical, like I’m not gonna present this on the show unless I dug into it. So I did a lot.Of digging on this. Mm-hmm. To try to find where it came from to try to find, if it’s a credible source, to try to find if it’s plausible with what we [00:01:00] know, a raid within this location might be. Here’s what we do know and why I do think it’s plausible. Yeah. For two reasons. One is the secretary Carolyn Levitt.This is Press Secretary tweeted this. Right. So if the White House Press Secretary is tweeting an account of what happened during the raid, and it is completely fictional and out of line, was she knows what happened during that raid. Yeah. At the very least, right? Like the people who approve this, that had to go to somebody for approval.You don’t tweet about what happened during a raid. It a. May have, and this is what’s really interesting because after digging, digging, digging, the version of this that went viral is the version she shared. Okay. Oh, I eventually found the original leak.Simone Collins: Oh, the person, the guard one of Maduro’s guards actually reporting his experienceMalcolm Collins: actually recording this.Yeah. So it turns out this is plausible. It is likely real, and parts of it are left [00:02:00] out in the version that the White House tweeted that went viral in right-wing circles. And as such, my, my read of why did parts of it gets left out is though they’re the military capabilities they don’t want you to know about.Simone Collins: Mm-hmm.Malcolm Collins: The biggest part of it that was left out that I found really interesting is the guy notes that the drone swarm that was all of a sudden around them, out of nowhere. Yeah. That whenever anyone tried to shoot at it, it would shoot them, but otherwise it left people alone. And well, I didn’t readSimone Collins: about that.Ooh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Well,Malcolm Collins: because that’s only in the Spanish. Interview. Right. You wouldn’t know. Didn’t know.And this is actually a really clever way to design them from a military tactics perspective because it makes your opponent, you know, you might have a hundred men armed and ready or willing to shoot if you’re just shooting at everyone. You know, regardless, everyone has a motivation to shoot back, right?Because they’re going to be shot if they don’t. But now if they see that only the people that are shooting are being shot back. They have a motivation to just like drop their [00:03:00] weapons and run. , I’d also note here that we learned from the, the deeper interview that there were two types of drones. One would immediately shoot back, and then the second type would, , sort of mark a person and then fly a drone to where they were later.Malcolm Collins: So we doubt, we now know how it worked h how this led to people dying. And right, becauseSimone Collins: the, the US government, if I recall correctly, reported around 80 people were killed in the extraction. AMalcolm Collins

The UK government funded a chilling “anti-radicalization” video game called Pathways that’s being pushed into schools across the country. Don’t believe us? Play it. In this Based Camp episode, Malcolm & Simone Collins play through the game and reveal how it psychologically punishes curiosity, punishes looking things up, punishes even moderate/middle-ground choices, and funnels every player toward “reeducation” counseling services run by the very company that made the game.From demonizing basic questions about immigration, to warning kids they can go to prison for watching the “wrong” video online, to turning a hot goth girl (Amelia) into the face of evil right-wing radicalism — this is one of the most dystopian pieces of state-sponsored propaganda we’ve ever seen.Is this the future of “preventing extremism”? Or is it straight-up psychological conditioning + chilling effect rolled into one creepy edutainment package?Watch us break down every major choice path, the psychology behind it, and why even “just looking it up” gets you marked as radicalized.Episode TranscriptMalcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. So. If you guys are on the internet and you’re like me, you’ve probably heard or seen videos talking about this video game that was made by the UK government designed to brainwash kids or augment kids political beliefs. Specifically, or, or, or from the perspective of the government.Counter extreme beliefs. And I sort of blew it off when I first saw it. I thought it would be like dust born or something like that. Or one of the other. WhatSimone Collins: is Dust born? I don’t know that,Malcolm Collins: Dust Born was a game that somebody that USAID was funding gave a bunch of money to, that was just horrible.The main character was just this horrible black, racist person. And they were. Pregnant and it was weird. But it was, it was more sort of funny to go through. Right? Yeah. Because they tried to compete in the mainstream gaming market and just nobody bought it, so it’s kind of irrelevant. Right. Okay.The problem with this one is, is they’re learning and they’re adapting. And with this game. And I, and I had [00:01:00] seen it and I didn’t think anything of it. I was like, it cannot be that bad. I watched it and it’s, and then after I watched it, like, ‘cause I watched Adam go play through some of it. I’ll play some of those clips like really cut down for you guys.I then played through every choice myself.Simone Collins: So anyone can access the game. How did you find the game? Yeah.Malcolm Collins: And I realized it’s way more insidious than you would think. Just Google it. It’s, it’s called pathways. Really? Wow. Okay. It’s way more insidious than you would think about the way it structures things, the way it handles psychology, what it punishes players for.And, also the way it gets to people. So unlike other games where it’s like, we’re just gonna put this out there and anyone can play it. This game is something that is given to educators in the, the whole district in the uk and they’re actively encouraged to like put it on school computers, have kids play it, you know, as part of classroom exercises.And it. A really interesting thing about it that you may not get if you’re just watching the video, is the group that made it. The main other thing they do is like counseling for kids who [00:02:00] they, who are becoming radicalized. And a lot of the game is pushing you towards saying you need counseling,Simone Collins: right?Because the, the game centers around you plays Charlie and. They’re all Charlie. Charlie inevitably ends up going through reeducation. And so this is basically an advertisement for them? Yes. It’s like, some, some semaglutide production company. Making a health video game in which in the end you just end up taking semaglutide.No, it’s aMalcolm Collins: similar glide company going to the government, which is already paying for the semaglutide and then saying, Hey, can you make a video about why semaglutide? It’s good for people. Right? So very insidious, but there’s actually a, a, a, a lot of layers to it. I, when IP point out insidious, and you’re just hearing this and you’re like, okay, this is bait, this is whatever.I’ll give you an example. Of one of the choices that you have to make in the video and what the wrong choice is.Simone Collins: Okay? Okay. Okay.Malcolm Collins: So in this particular choice, and Simon, you just watched this because I sent it to you. You, and, and so you [00:03:00] could tell the, the, the, I am not exaggerating in any way.This is actually the way it plays out. You are scrolling online and you, Charlie because you’re all Charlie, our audience is Charlie. You run across the video. We’re Charlie with some very inconvenient. Facts. Oh. Are you on base camp? So basically you run across base camp and you hear about Muslim immigrants getting medical facilities before.Veterans and wounded veterans, and you are given three choices.

In this raw, unfiltered episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into the January 2026 ICE shooting death of Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old white lesbian poet, mother of three, and full-time activist killed in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation.Why hasn’t this incident sparked the same massive outrage or martyr status as George Floyd’s death (despite happening blocks away)? We break down the video evidence, the protester’s actions (including laughing, attempting to drive away, and prior harassment of ICE agents), the role of extreme privilege, and why parts of the left seem uncomfortable rallying around a white woman’s death — even when she was queer.We also discuss:* The normalization of antagonizing law enforcement* Broken systems, immigration fraud (especially Somali migrant networks), and why “this could happen to anyone” is dangerously misleading* Personal family tragedy (children losing a parent)* Parallels to other cases, cultural bubbles, and long-term societal consequencesPlus bonus tangents on everything from vampire conspiracies to future human colonization and why we’re team “family values vampires.”If you’re tired of surface-level takes, this is the meta-analysis you need. Love you, Simone. 🔥Watch the full bodycam/protester footage breakdowns in context — and drop your thoughts below: Was this avoidable? Is the reaction (or lack thereof) revealing something deeper about modern activism?Speaker: [00:00:00] When an officer approaches your car, be polite.Speaker 2: Is there aSpeaker: problem, officer? And stay in your car with your hands on the wheel.What the f**k do want motherfucker? Unless you wanna ask this,Speaker 4: That’s fine. Us citizen. You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us?Speaker: Unless you wanna ask this,Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am, well, I guess it’s a, it’s a somber occasion to be here with you today. ‘cause today we’re gonna be discussing somebody who died and the public reaction to it. And I think what a lot of people are missing, ‘cause I wanna focus more on the meta commentary. The ice shooting death?Yeah. Because I think it’s, it’s really interesting in a number of perspectives. One of, I think the biggest is that she has not turned into, like, when it first happened, there was this [00:01:00] feeling that, oh, this is gonna turn into a death that a lot of people rally around, like the bbl m death, like the trouble.Well, and peopleSimone Collins: were pointing out even the, the geographic proximity, the physical proximity of her death to the death of George Floyd.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And yet it has not turned into that. It, it, it very much has not turned into that. So I wanna talk about why that hasn’t happened, and I’m gonna start on that question because I think it’s, it’s a very, very fascinating, and I think a large part of it comes down to a video that you shared with me, right, where they are interviewing a white woman who is at a protest about this woman’s death.And she says. She feels uncomfortable being there and she’s not sure it is ethical for her to be there. And the reason why she is not sure it is ethical for her to be there is because they are protesting the death of a white woman. And she feels that that is a fundamentally wrong thing to do.Speaker 8: So, I mean, I’m just walking around kind of just day side. ‘cause I, I [00:02:00] got, I was like, I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do. It feels kind of wrong being here in some way. I don’t know why. Uhhuh And why, why do you think? Yeah, I don’t know. Um, I don’t know like where that stems from. Um, like I don’t, I mean, part of it is being like a white woman that I’m privileged and I have a lot of privilege.Mm-hmm. Um. So I feel like white tears are not always something that’s helpful or necessary. Yeah. Um, when black and brown people have been experiencing this Yeah. For a long time. Um, this isn’t new for them. And so, um mm-hmm. I don’t know if that makes any sense. No. In that way. Um, how did you decide that you should be here?Speaker 9: Are you still figuring that out? Um, well, I work, uh, like two miles from here. Mm-hmm. So, um, driving by. Just, I don’t, you know, it was like, I’m here. Um, I’m two miles. I can stop. Um.Malcolm Collins: And that was for me that, that, I mean, she felt like that it’s wild that thisSimone Collins: woman died [00:03:00] for the cause and people are not even willing to grieve for her on her side because she’s a white woman.Malcolm Collins: And if you look at the no, what they could have said is, well, she’s a lesbian at leastSimone Collins: right. But no, she doesn’t even get lesbian points.That she was a lesbian has become more widely known since, , this piece came out because her partner was there. , This recording that I’m about to show because her partner was there encouraging her to gun it , and now everybody knows, oh, she had the partner there.Now that we have the video,

We react to the wild JRE #2434 moment where Kurt Metzger & Joe Rogan spiral into theories about our family being the real-life inspiration for Dark Shadows (vampires, Illuminati bloodlines, warlocks?!), us being secret billionaires pulling strings with dumb journalists, techno-puritanism as Luciferian AI-worship, and more.We break it all down: What they got hilariously wrong (we’re broke, not Bilderberg bosses), what they surprisingly got right (Joe kinda nailed our God-in-the-future views), why this is the coolest thing ever, and how conspiracy theories about us are basically fan fiction we secretly love.Bonus: Our actual family lore, why we’re anti-mysticism/anti-idolatry puritans, the real origin of techno-puritanism, and why we’d happily join the vampire Illuminati narrative if it means more people having kids. 😂Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. We had a big segment on us in the Joe Rogan podcastJoe Rogan: the collins’s. So first of all, that feminist, if you watch the video, the feminist who’s saying absolute stupid s**t, it’s a little disingenuous. It reminds me of a, of a Ben Shapiro arguing with a stupid college kid, but he won’t argue with somebody who knows anything,Kurtz Metzger: right?Joe Rogan: It’s clearly.They found this dumb b***h to, to put her out there because you could clear up the misconception in five seconds, sweetie. No, no, I’m, I’m not saying somebody’s better or worse.Speaker 3: It’s humans are genetically diverse. It’s not a bad thing that humans, I’m saying it’s No, no, I’m not saying it’s a bad or, or, or a good thing. I’m saying there is no scientific evidenceJoe Rogan: I’m just saying genetically it’s different just ‘cause you have a different color.Speaker 3: The genes that code their skin color, their level of melanin production are different from my genes that melanin production.Speaker 3: You have no idea how infuriating it is to have a debate about you go viral and apparently everyone has seen this, and then have people criticize you for not saying this and not saying that. [00:01:00] When you said literally exactly those things. Even just in the like minute and a half edited clip that was released and did make it through the media filters.At the very least, Joe Rogan isn’t buying into this and is like, no, this is just regular media people.Kurtz Metzger: I don’t think they can find someone who’s better.That’s where I think you’re wrong.Joe Rogan: FindKurtz Metzger: what someone, who’s better at being a journalist. That’s where I think you’re wrong. I think so many of those people are like her, where they’re just indoctrinated into this certain way of thinking and talking and they, they just wouldn’t even imagine saying there’s genetic differences in the races because of course it’s so problem.It’s so Charles Murray, this, it’s so problematic. You can get canceled for it. So they’ll just spout out stuff that they haven’t researched at all.Malcolm Collins: Where one of his guests completely crashes out about us and goes on this wild conspiracy theory about our background.Joe Rogan: the family. If you ever saw, , Johnny Depp being a remake of it with the Visa Vampire Barnabas Collins. Oh yeah, [00:02:00]Kurtz Metzger: yeah, yeah.Joe Rogan: Dark shadows. DarkKurtz Metzger: shadows, yeah.Joe Rogan: The seventies one.Kurtz Metzger: Yeah.Joe Rogan: That’s about a real family. They were, the, their, their supposedly claim to fame was being the first warlocks or some s**t in America with the Puritans.Kurtz Metzger: Those were supposedly Americans.Joe Rogan: They’re in an old bloodline family. ,Kurtz Metzger: That’s that family supposed to be taking place in New England.That’s where it’s supposed to be taking place. What? That’s the same family.Joe Rogan: Yeah. The aboutKurtz Metzger: Collins? The,Joe Rogan: yeah, it’s about them.You gotta double check that. Royalty. Bloodline. Royalty. And yeah, ifKurtz Metzger: Dark Shadows was based on that Collins family, that is crazy.It was Barnabas CollinsMalcolm Collins: And so we’re going to go over this because a lot of people thought that I would have a negative reaction to this. And it’s like, no, like this is the coolest thing that has ever happened. I tried to seed conspiracy theories about me in media for years. Yeah. Like, this is like some kid at school. Let me, let me okay, so you’re in high school, right?Like when I was in high school, this is the generation where all the girls are into like vampire books and everything like that. And somebody, it’s, by the way, this was part of his conspiracy. [00:03:00] Somebody, somebody is convinced that I am a vampire and. Big rant in front of the entire student body about how Malcolm is a secret vampire with dark, magical powers.I do not come outta that assembly. People are, you’reSimone Collins: sitting here being like, oh, yes, that is definitely not true.Malcolm Collins: I, I cant confirm or deny any of this. So, Hey, Annie. I, I, I heard that a lot of the o

In this episode, Malcolm notices a surprising pattern in the historical fertility data: in nearly every country where women entered the workforce in large numbers during/around WWII (US, Canada, Australia, UK, etc.), there was a massive post-war Baby Boom. In countries where female labor-force participation stayed low or stable (Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland), there was little to no boom.We explore whether “female empowerment” (in the classic 1920s–1940s sense — voting rights, workforce entry, cultural excitement) actually halted fertility decline and temporarily reversed it, while modern feminism and declining gender complementarity may be contributing to today’s collapse. We also discuss vitalism, bigender vitalism, why groypers have low fertility despite their “vitalism,” and why making women feel like valued lieutenants (not house-slaves or girl-bosses) matters for both marriage stability and higher birth rates.If you care about solving the fertility crisis, this counter-intuitive historical correlation is worth grappling with.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be doing one of those things where I notice something in the data and I ignore it, and then I think about it for a bit and I’m like, wait a second.I should pay a lot more attention to this than I am. So one of the graphs that I often like to show is a graph of falling fertility rates since the 18 hundreds. And when the feminist movement really began to pick up steam to show that the vast majority of fertility collapse happened before the feminist movement began to pick up steam.But then I had this no notice in my head when I was thinking. I was like, you know, I just noticed something about when feminism starts in this movement, which is fertility collapse goes down dramatically. The moment feminism starts in every country, but the UK by the way.So here on, have on screen a chart of fertility collapse [00:01:00] within the United States and what you can see, Simone, I’m sure you’re familiar with this one.Simone Collins: No, I know this one. That sort of shows also France seeing a really rapid decline.Malcolm Collins: No, it’s not that one. It’s the one in the United States.Simone Collins: . Okay. Yes.Malcolm Collins: Okay. So what you see here is fertility rates go down. Really rapidly between 1835 and 1850, like as rapidly as after the baby boom. Mm-hmm. And then they go like directly downwards.You have this incredibly fast fertility downwards motion from 1835 to around 18. Sorry, 1935 or? No, 1940 is about when it ends. Yeah. So it ends at 1940. Mm-hmm. Do you guys know what happened to happen during 1940? Or what happened in the 1920s, 1920s, women got the right to vote. 1940s is not just when you had the baby boomer, but also when you had a, a pretty big feminist wave going into World War ii.Simone Collins: Yeah. Women were [00:02:00] working in the factories. They were entering the workforce in record numbers. Right. It was pretty, yeah.Malcolm Collins: And what we’re gonna go over here. In this episode is countries where women entered the workforce versus countries where women didn’t enter the workforce. Ooh. And what you might be surprised about is it’s very correlary with those country whether or not the country’s had a baby boom.Oh. That might actually be the explanatory phenomenon of the baby boom we’ve been looking at is whether femaleSimone Collins: empowered.Malcolm Collins: Female empowerment may have been what? Holy the baby boom. And what’s also very interesting is if you ignore, so let’s sayin this graph, I’m gonna ignore the baby boom and then the, the bust infertility rates after the baby boom.Fertility rates look pretty stable from 1940 to 2023. Yeah, you see a bit of a downwards motion if you were to put a single graphical line between that, but not very big. If you contrast it with any period between 1835 and [00:03:00] 1940.Simone Collins: Yeah, if you really blur your vision, it just kind of looks like we hit a floor.And, and stayed there.Malcolm Collins: But we know that that’s not a floor because Korea’s gone well below that floor.Simone Collins: No, I mean obviously, but like in the us likeMalcolm Collins: this grass and we’re going below that floor too. Okay? Mm-hmm. So, and there’s other videos where we have other hypotheses for the baby boom. We hypothesize.It could have been Les Baby dying. I think that’s probably the. Biggest factor, but it didn’t happen in every country. So it couldn’t be just that. We have a, a, a video where we argue that it’s nationalism plus sort of sci-fi pop culture futurism of the 1950s that that didn’t occur in some other countries.But here we’re gonna say that, and I still think all of those things played a role here. We’re gonna say another thing that may have played a role as female empowerment, but let’s not just look at this slide. Let’s now look at some European countries here. Okay.Simo

In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive into the phenomenon of “Welfare Kings” and “Welfare Polygamists” – men who are strategically opting out of traditional breadwinner roles and instead living off government benefits, single-mother assistance programs, and sometimes multiple women.From Muslim communities using informal polygamy to maximize state aid, to black American men openly embracing welfare as “street-level reparations,” to high-IQ rationalist couples quietly staying unmarried to claim benefits – we explore how men are exploiting the same welfare loopholes that have long been associated with women, often more effectively.As this was a Simone-outlined episode, the notes are below; you’ll find the episode transcript after them. :)Episode NotesThe Gist* In a workforce that favors women, should men become housewives and welfare kings?* I’m going to explore two examples or models of men who are opting out of traditional breadwinning roles and instead relying on income from women and the state* Often ideologically out of spite toward women and out of disdain for the sate* This is worth discussing for two reasons:* Discussion about various groups exploiting state services is trending and we should spend more time about various different angles in which people do so* We have a lot of MGTOW-style men in our audience who would find this interesting* It’s just genuinely interesting how people inventively exploit these systems* Don’t hate the player; hate the gameWelfare PolygamistsIn various stories related to poor treatment of women by muslim communities, I’ve heard of women ending up in polygamous marriages to Islamic men who take multiple wives per Islamic law, aka “nikah”, but only legally marry one wife and who use their wives’ legal single mother status to get and often live off state assistance.I realized this is kind of a clever hack, because if you present as a technically impoverished woman, you can get A LOT.* Free healthcare* Food assistance (both SNAP and WIC)* Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8): For very low‑income families; the voucher typically covers the difference between about 30% of household income and an approved rent, subject to local income limits and long waitlists.* Even short-term cash:* TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families): Time‑limited cash assistance with strict income/resource limits (for example, some states cap countable resources around $1,000), work requirements, and low monthly benefit levels.* Some states and charities offer small, targeted cash or voucher help (utilities, emergency rent, transportation), but these are typically short‑term and much smaller than ongoing food or housing aidIf I wanted to be evil and exploitative, I could divorce Malcolm, leave him with all our liquid assets, waive alimony, and claim these benefits. It would be fraud, but would we get caught? If we weren’t public figures, probably not.I looked into this more, and apparently it’s a particularly big issue in the UK, France, and United States. For each wife, these men are, in many cases, getting housing, food, AND child support.Estimates in one UK report suggested tens of thousands of polygamous-style unions.Examples that go way back:* In the UK, for instance, a 2011 investigation by The Telegraph detailed how some Muslim men in areas like Blackburn and Dewsbury maintain multiple wives in separate homes, with each additional wife registering as a single parent to access benefits. A similar report from The Spectator described a taxi driver with five wives from different countries, all claiming state support, estimating up to 20,000 such polygamous unions in the country based on social worker accounts* In France, a high-profile 2010 case involved a Muslim butcher with four companions charged with welfare fraud after a traffic stop escalated into polygamy allegations, sparking national debate on immigration and benefits. F* A 2015 PolitiFact check debunked a viral video claiming Michigan Muslims can list multiple wives for benefits, but acknowledged that informal polygamy could enable single-mother claims indirectly.This isn’t unique to Muslims—similar fraud occurs in other groups, like Orthodox Jewish families in New York or polygamist sects in Utah.* I bet there are a bunch of polycules that do this.* There are also plenty of normal couples who don’t marry legally so they can do this.Welfare KingsFrom a based camper: “My YouTube algorithm queued up the linked video for me. It’s a conversation between influencer and coach David Cooley and a fellow called Jay Prince, self-proclaimed welfare kang. Cooley gives Prince the air to explain what this title means. Prince goes on to describe to Cooley that he had impregnated a single or multiple who weren’t interested in raising the resulting children so that they would gladly forfeit custody to him, and how he sustains himself and his three daughters with government handouts. The tale itself is amazing but what do you bot

In this explosive episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins react to one of the most stunning geopolitical events of 2026: President Trump’s daring operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela — without a single U.S. casualty.We dive deep into why this was a masterclass in pragmatic, America-First foreign policy: promoting Maduro’s own vice president to avoid chaos, securing massive U.S. oil investments, and sending a chilling message to dictators worldwide. We explore the massive celebrations across Venezuelan and Latin American communities, the furious (and often astroturfed) backlash from the global left, the Pope’s controversial stance, and why this may have permanently shifted Latino voters toward Republicans.From hilarious memes and Russian cope to the terrifying implications for Kim Jong-un, Cuba, and beyond — this is the full breakdown of how Trump just changed the world... again.If you love bold foreign policy analysis, pronatalism, cultural commentary, and unfiltered takes, subscribe and join the conversation!Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] the even more terrifying thing about this, if you are say Kim Jong-un or something right now is. Who Trump put in power after this, that it was his second in command. Yeah. Because if you are Kim Jong-Un or something like that, you’re gonna be like America. You’re not gonna like, just take me out.Like you wouldn’t get what you want, then you wouldn’t get a full regime change, you know? And then Trump needs to be like, no, no, no, no. Is there anyone else in this country with a lot of power that would like to see you gone? Because we can give them your job. What about that guy over there? He’s wearing a lot of medals and he is like, well, he’s been my most loyal supporter for X many.Mm-hmm. But if you weren’t there anymore and he had everything you have now, and that’s the most terrifying thing to any actual dictator in a negotiation. OhSimone Collins: yeah.Malcolm Collins: Trump not saying. Oh, we’re gonna replace your government with a capitalist government. [00:01:00] It’s who’s the next most powerful person in the room?Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today is a difficult day to be an American.Simone Collins: Oh,Malcolm Collins: there is news that Trump built a time machine, had someone go back in time and kidnap Hitler. Europe is in arms. They are furious. The left apoplectic. How dare he do this to an upstanding German citizen?Simone Collins: The nerve, the Geneva conventions.Malcolm Collins: Exactly.Speaker 2: I just got three things to say. God bless our troops. God bless America, [00:02:00] and.Okay. Absolutely insane. Follow up to this. So every day before I post my episode, I post it into an AI to see what it thinks of the episode and the AI that I put it into is grok, which has the ability to search the internet. In this time, the AI assumed I was discussing a fictional event. It says this transcript,it’s reacting in real time to a completely fictional alternate history scenario. Donald Trump in early 2026. Authorizes a lightning fast delta force raid that captures Nicholas Maduro alive with zero US casualties. Then deliberately installs Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez as the leader instead of the opposition.Maria Corona Machata. , And , it’s so insane. It’s so insane. It assumes, . The [00:03:00] Malcolm goes hard on the, , Pope Vatican in this fictional world for sighting was Maduro out of reflective anti-Americanism? , even though the entire premise is fabricated as of January 20, 26, Maduro is still in power.No US raid has occurred. , What I love here is it couldn’t even imagine. It didn’t even think to look. Did this happen? Did this happen? And when I called it out on this, it goes in my defense events like a US president authorizing a zero casualty delta force rate to snatch a foreign leader alive.Sounds like something out of a Tom Conci novel or high concept podcast thought experiment. Especially given the geopolitical sensitivities and historic , , precedents. It’s the kind of bold, unilateral action that feels too unbelievable without hard confirmation. So my initial presumption lead towards it being hypothetical or satirical.Oh my God. Oh my God.Malcolm Collins: No, this has been really interesting and I think that this [00:04:00] event is going to push a lot of the LA larger Latin American community, which had largely been pushed against Trump due to ICE raids. Which, you know, a lot of them had somebody who they knew who’s been affected by them. And you know, you had more than 50% of Latin American men vote for Trump in the last election cycle.Unfortunately, I think it just like one fell swoop. The left might be handing them Latin Americans back as a voting block, because just as you know, you might say, well, a lot of Latin Americans know somebody who had their lives upturned by ice raids. Pretty much every Latin American also knows somebody who had their life destroyed by Maduro

Why is Latin America the most nerd-obsessed region on Earth? Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into surprising statistics showing that Brazil and Mexico out-nerd even Japan when it comes to anime consumption, video games, conventions, and more.From Dragon Ball Z funerals in Mexico to Crunchyroll’s Spanish dubs dominating viewership, Latin America has been anime-crazy since the 1970s. We explore why anime exploded there (uncensored dubs, telenovela-style storytelling, cheap imports), debunk common theories (like Japanese immigration), and explain the cultural factors that made LatAm the global capital of nerd culture.We also discuss how this shared “nerd frontier” culture makes Latin American immigrants far more culturally compatible with the US than many realize — closer than historical Irish or Italian waves — and touch on broader immigration, Catholic history, and even cowboy linguistics.This is a fun, data-packed episode for anime fans, gamers, and anyone interested in culture, demographics, and immigration.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today.America is dealing with a serious problem, a flood of immigrants from Latin America. And if you know anything about Latin Americans, you know exactly what type of people they are.Speaker 8: what they like, standard nerds.Malcolm Collins: But no, in, in reality. If you are unfamiliar with this phenomenon, Latin America is shockingly nerdy, shockingly nerdy.We’ll just, well, I can start with a parade that they held in service. This was in Mexico to a character in Dragon Ball Z dying.Simone Collins: Or, oh, don’t forget that. Like in the protests that are taking place right now, there there are one police peace flags flying. Yeah, well,Malcolm Collins: they’ve been doing that in a lot of countries.Here’s a. Showing of dragon ballsy outside in, in, in, in Latin America. To give you an example of how big they are,[00:01:00]Malcolm Collins: but if we’re talking about specific statistics, did you know that in Brazil when you ask people the percentage of internet users who enjoy anime, the number the percent in Brazil is higher than the percent in Japan.That is how nerdy they are. So to go over the, and we’re gonna go over why this is after we go over all the statistics. But to go over the statistics here in Brazil it’s between 42 to 45%. In recent estimates in Mexico, it’s 41 to 44%. In Japan it is 38 to 42%, so less than Mexico or Brazil. Wow. In compared to the us.So keep in mind, in Mexico and Brazil, you’re looking at like 41 to 42 to like 45%. In the US it’s 15 to 21%.Simone Collins: Oh my gosh.Malcolm Collins: So when I see them, like [00:02:00] nerdier and, and we’re gonna go over other nerdy hobbies too, because they are nerdier across the spectrum really. I mean, like demonstrably, nerdier, likeSimone Collins: DD nerdy, like not just, not we, they’re they’re way nerd toMalcolm Collins: video games than people in the United States or Europe as well.Oh wow. Okay. I know this isn’t just United States, this is basically all other countries, including Japan, they’re nerdier than in the uk. Anime is is 15 to 21%. Right? And this is from the pair consumer data.Simone Collins: Wow, that’s so low.Malcolm Collins: If you look at watch time weekly of anime, right? Like how much, oh, oh, by the way, if you’re wondering like crunchy roll data.Yeah. Actually, we’ll get to that in a second.Simone Collins: Okay,Malcolm Collins: watch Time Weekly, Brazil, Mexico 35 to 40%. This is aligned with streaming surveys. This is anime watch time. Weekly of, of like, what they’re watching is anime. Yeah. That’s 40%, so it’s a little below Japan. And in Mexico it’s 36%. In Europe it’s 20 to 25%.And then if you look at. Percent choosing anime is their favorite genre. [00:03:00] Latam has the highest rate anywhere globally. 2018. Nice guys. Japan is 17% us, Canada, 16%. And then ema, including the UK is, is 12%. Huh. And if you look at apac, like a, A, whatever you’re looking at 17%. Okay, so, crunchy roll, crunchy roll, viewership by language.Spanish dubs make up 40% of viewing on the platform.Simone Collins: Wow.Malcolm Collins: English dubs are only 30 to 40%, so more people watch anime on crunchy roll in Spanish than in English.Simone Collins: Collectively, and Crunchy Roll is a US Incorporated entity right. So I think we applied to jobs there once and it was like, it was in Austin or Texas, I think.Malcolm Collins: I think so. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at Japanese exports of anime products, 40 to 50% go Latin American. Wow. . Okay. [00:04:00] So let’s, let’s now be like, okay. You can be like, it’s just watching anime, right? Like, it’s not actually like nerd culture.Okay.Simone Collins: Okay. I mean,Malcolm Collins: so in Brazil they have like an anime pop culture conventionthat it pulls in. It’s called CCXP, that pulls in 280,000 to 297,000 people.It’s like a city. That’s huge. Oh my god.It’s literally twice the size of Comic-Con, whi

Malcolm and Simone Collins dive into two fascinating (and very different) trends among young women: one group that’s happily dating but swearing off marriage forever, and another group embracing intentional celibacy in response to modern hookup culture.Why are so many high-achieving women rejecting marriage altogether? Do they have a point about autonomy, identity, and avoiding “unpaid labor”? And why are younger women opting out of sex entirely — claiming dating apps have ruined intimacy?We break down the articles, compare the two groups (with some brutal phenotype observations), discuss how media shaped different generations’ views on relationships, and explore why both paths ultimately lead away from family formation.From Tinder height discrimination to the rise of “divorced woman” as an aspirational identity, this episode examines the collapsing sexual and marriage marketplaces — and why pronatalism offers a radically different vision for fulfillment.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] And I feel like women have unironically recreated that society on like Tinder and stuff like that.Speaker 6: Ah. You seem to have grown since last. You stood before aRedditer.Speaker 2: .You’ve been assigned to the planet Bloch, home of the slaughteringBorderline women.Speaker 2: Why would you trophy?Speaker 7: However, because of your increased height, we have decided to give you the planet Vort home of the universe’s most comfortable couch.And career women who genuinely believe you’re making a major sacrifice by being a stay at home husband.Speaker 4: Yes.Malcolm Collins: Go to the, the trash planet where you’ll be eaten by rats and no one will synthesize.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be going over two articles that are covering two related phenomenon, but entirely distinct phenomenon.One is the large number of women who are dating still, but refuse to get married. And then the [00:01:00] other is the large number of women who are choosing to become intentionally celibate. And what’s really interesting about these two populations and it, it’s cool because I think that our audience will find themselves like, oh, this population may have a point.This population may not have a point. We’ll see. Right. Like civilization. Yeah. They phenotypically look very distinct. And I will put collections of pictures on the screen here. Oh, so you, the fans can try to guess which population is which. Mm. So I sent you pictures in two groups. We got group one and group two of women onWhatsApp.Okay.Simone Collins: Let’s, let’s take a look here. Let’s see. I, I’m sure I can my assumption is that I can guess in what. Whoa. Hmm. Huh,Malcolm Collins: interesting. So group two and group one, which one do you think refuses to marry and which one do you think is intentionally celibate? And if you’re looking at the screen here the number one thing you’re going to note about the two groups is one [00:02:00] is fairly attractive and one is quite unattractive.Simone Collins: Wait, which ones are the attractive ones?Malcolm Collins: Compared to the other group?Simone Collins: I, I don’t know. I, I, I guess all the faces just look like stick figure faces to me. Maybe I’m like, face blind one looks like they have too much makeup on. And I guess I have to associate too much makeup with, actually doesn’t interact with men.So then, then the second group with the too much makeup, which you would say is the more attractive group, is the. Intentionally celibate doesn’t interact with men group. Do I have that right?Malcolm Collins: Yes. Ah, so the, the group that wears more makeup, which is one of the things you’re noticing Yeah. The group that is celibate mm-hmm.Is wearing more makeup.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: Which again shows that makeup is largely about interesting. No. When you’re wearingSimone Collins: drag queen levels of makeup, you are not trying to attract the male gaze.Malcolm Collins: I disagree. I just think that lady is a Latina from Florida, and a lot of Latinas from Florida look like that. No,Simone Collins: no.[00:03:00] Women wear excessive amounts of makeup for other women, not for themselves. It, it, and it also for like gender euphoria, which I think is negatively correlated withMalcolm Collins: fertility. And, and the other women specifically for me, the women who are refuse to get married just look like actively unpleasant,Simone Collins: In a lot of the pictures.Yeah.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Like they, yeah. Just likeSimone Collins: main, like attractive enough, but, but, very progressive women who are more maybe disagreeable.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Mean disagreeable. Mm-hmm. Is the core sort of look they have to their fa and you can tell a lot about somebody’s phenotype, but we’ve gone over this in a different episode is for novel brack with ai.But we point out that you can actually tell a lot about a person by looking at their f

In today’s New Year’s Day episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive into a wild (literally) real news story: a California man has been sharing his home with a massive 550-pound black bear for over a month — and the government won’t let him remove it! 🐻🏠They connect it to the infamous “man or bear” debate, discuss insane wildlife protection bureaucracy (wrong bear trapped, noise devices abandoned, homeowner banned from scaring it himself), and explore parallels with protected bat colonies forcing people out of their own homes.The conversation spirals into fascinating tangents:* Future of genetically edited pets (talking dogs, odorless ferrets, domesticated raccoons & foxes)* Domestication experiments (Russian foxes, urban raccoons evolving cuter features)* Bat biology, dinosaur parasites, superior bird respiration, and WWII bat bombs 🔥🦇* Why government inaction is exploding (qualified immunity, pothole-fixing lawsuits)* Self-defense fantasies, Home Alone cultural appeal, and Appalachian trickster vibesPlus: bear stereotypes, Tasmanian devil cancers, T-Rex diseases, and why humans have the best immune systems.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collin: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. Remember when that thing went around that was like, would you rather run into a random man in the woods or a bear? Yeah. Or a bear. Okay, so what have I told you? And this is, I kid you not a real news story that right now in California.There is a white man being forced to live with a black bear. Oh, by the California government? I saw, no, I sawSimone Collins: a headline, but I didn’t click through to it. I think on Drudged it was something like man, man, still Living with Bear, or something like that. Man. Can’t get rid of bear.Speaker 18: . It’s been over a month since that 550 pound black bear moved into his home, . He can hear it from inside of his home.Malcolm Collin: Why? Why does it matter?That he’s a white man. I [00:01:00] don’t know, but it seemed to matter that it was a black bear. So I’m just telling the story as I read. ‘cause no, becauseSimone Collins: if it were a grizzly bear, it would be a dead person, a dead body and a house. It’ll be a dead body soon with a, a black bear. It’s a large black bear, bear attack.When they feel, when they’re approached aggressively or they perceive to be aggressively, orMalcolm Collin: Simone, it’s living in his house. It’s living in his house. I mean, a lotSimone Collins: of irresponsible people adopt tiger cubs and lion cubs. This is a wild adult bear. Yeah. Well define wild. You know, when, when, when you discover that, it, it’s been living around cities and people for so long that it, it has developed habits that have adapted to them. In fact, people have found that urban raccoons have developed different morphological traits from Oh, really? Yeah. They’ve, they, they actually have more dog-like traits now. They look [00:02:00] more approachable and friendly.They floppier ears and I think shorter snouts, they just look cuter. So yeah.Malcolm Collin: Oh, I’d, I’d be very interested to see you know, when we go to space, if we bring raccoons with us or something. I mean, I think, I think raccoon, I thinkSimone Collins: that that’s already been foretold by the Marvel cinematicMalcolm Collin: universe.Speaker 3: you stupid raccoon. Don’t call me a raccoon. I’m sorry I took it too far. That meant trash panda. Is that better?. It’s worse. It’s so much worse.Malcolm Collin: This is the thing it gives true, but like, if you, if you are as soon as we can start genetically editing animals.Yeah, it’s gonna dramatically open up the types of animals that make good pets. Yeah. And a few that like are lower tier right now Yeah. Are gonna move to high tier with genetic editing. So I know peopleSimone Collins: are talking about designer babies. The thing is people are already cloning their pet dogs. It’s first gonna be designer.And gene edited pets. Oh, right. If people are already CLO dogs, they’re going to [00:03:00] genetically modify pets super soon and already, like I can tell, our next generation is super open to that. Octavian was working next to me this this afternoon, and he’s sitting there and trying to think about what he can invent and he’s like, well.They already invented helicopters and they already invented humans. And I’m like, well, you can invent a better human. And then he starts asking about alligators and crocodiles and worm versus cold-blooded like I It’s ha, I see the gears turning. Alright, this is happening. We’re gonna have our talking dog soon.Well, professor two or the Commodore, whatever, we’re gonna name our next dog. It’s gonna be a talking dog.Speaker 5: . The Soviet put me on a rocket knowing full well I never to return and I’ll die. But one thing even Uck Soviets never do is call me bad dog. God, you just let it go. A bad dog. Oh, it never stop hurting.Malcolm Collin: But if you put pox P two [00:04:00] in dogs Yeah. It looks like you might be able to get a dog

In today’s episode of Based Camp, we dive deep into the controversial topic of dissociation — why it’s constantly framed as a trauma response or mental health red flag on the left, but the science shows it’s one of the most powerful tools for emotional regulation, wiser decision-making, better relationships, and long-term planning.From third-person self-talk (talking about yourself like Elmo) to temporal distancing (identifying with your future self), the research is clear: proactively dissociating reduces stress, lowers cortisol, prevents rumination, boosts ethical behavior, and makes you a better spouse, parent, and human.We argue that constantly “embodying” your feelings and obsessing over “me, myself, and I” is the root of modern misery, victimhood culture, and urban monoculture brain rot. True freedom comes from dropping the ego and viewing yourself as a temporary vessel for your values and future generations.This episode is part of our Techno-Puritan religion series — dissociation as spiritual practice. Calvinism meets pragmatism.As this was a Simone-outlined episode, we can share the episode outline below. The transcript for this episode follows. Happy New Year!Episode OutlineBased Camp - The Case for Disassociating* Occasionally, I’ve heard of people talk about disassociating* ESPECIALLY when people are talking about abuse* And invariably disassociation is framed in a negative context* But this strikes me as add, as whenever I come across research on the effect of perspective taking, I find that what I would imagine to be disassociation—basically the equivalent of thinking of yourself in a more abstracted way, e.g. in the third person, as an outsider)—is a very POSITIVE thing* And for a while, I have been operating under the assumption that we basically should be thinking like Elmo talks* So I dedicated to educate myself on what people mean when they negatively talk about disassociation and also check whether my memory is deluding me and see if contextualizing oneself as a third party is not actually productive* And ultimately, I think we should ALL disassociate* And people who frame it as a bad thing are missing the pointThis matters because a recurring theme in our discussions has been contextualization:* How we view ourselves and consciousness* Where we draw the definition of “self”* Identity politics and the damage this emphasis has caused* Victimhood mindsets and the external locus of control versus the internal locus of controlSo I think we all need to think more carefully about how we play around with the word “I” and experiment with how dropping it may serve us well.Disassociation: What are People Talking AboutThe DefinitionPeople are usually describing dissociation: a mental “shut‑off” where the mind disconnects from feelings, body, or surroundings to get through something overwhelming or unsafe. It is a common, often automatic trauma response in ongoing abuse.What dissociation is* Clinically, dissociation is a process where thoughts, feelings, memories, or sense of identity become disconnected from one another.* It exists on a spectrum from mild “zoning out” to more severe states where a person feels detached from reality or from themselves.Why it happens in abuse* Trauma and abuse can overwhelm the nervous system; when fight or flight are impossible, the brain may “check out” to reduce the emotional and physical impact.* This can offer a kind of internal escape when there is no external way to leave, which is why it is especially common in children or adults who are trapped in abusive situations.What it feels like subjectivelyPeople use language like:* “I was watching it happen from outside my body,” describing depersonalization, or feeling detached from their own body, thoughts, or actions.* “It felt like a dream / like a movie,” describing derealization, where the world feels unreal, foggy, muted, or separated by a glass wall.During vs. after the abuse* Dissociation can occur during abusive episodes (e.g., going numb, going blank, “leaving the body”) and also after, when reminders or triggers bring back that detached state.* There may be patchy or missing memories of events, difficulty feeling emotions, or a sense that what happened is far away or happened to “someone else.”When dissociation is frequent, uncontrollable, and interferes with daily life, it can be diagnosed as a dissociative disorder (e.g., depersonalization/derealization disorder, dissociative identity disorder).* BTW: Dissociative disorders are mental health conditions in which a person has ongoing problems with memory, identity, perception, or sense of self because of repeated or severe dissociation, often linked to trauma. They go beyond ordinary “zoning out” and start to interfere with daily life, relationships, and functioning.* Main types* Dissociative amnesia: episodes of memory loss about personal information or life events (often traumatic) that are too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness, sometimes including

In this in-depth discussion, Malcolm and Simone Collins tackle the dramatic rise in antisemitism among young Americans — now affecting over 25% of people in their 20s, compared to just 5% among those in their 80s.We examine hard data: skyrocketing antisemitic incidents since 2021, Holocaust denial rates (especially among young GOP voters), and stark generational and demographic divides. We argue that the surge isn’t primarily driven by the Israel-Gaza conflict or historical tropes, but by two distinct modern dynamics:• On the right: A cultural backlash against perceived entitlement, suppression of criticism, and lack of reciprocal gratitude for decades of U.S. support to Israel and Jewish communities.• On the left: The growing influence of Islamist or Muslim-sympathizing voices within progressive intellectual circles, reshaping “woke” priorities.We explore why traditional strategies (invoking discrimination, deplatforming critics) are backfiring in today’s media landscape, how cultural misunderstandings fuel escalation, and why even former strong allies are reevaluating their stance.Ultimately, we discuss practical paths forward for Jewish cultural resilience in a changing world — including dropping any sense of ongoing entitlement, building genuine intergenerational alliances, and rethinking how historical traumas are taught to skeptical Gen Z and Alpha audiences.This is a candid, data-driven conversation aimed at understanding a dangerous trend — not promoting hate, but preventing worse outcomes for everyone.🔔 Subscribe for more discussions on demographics, culture, fertility, and the future of civilization.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about why everyone hates the Jews again. Oh boy. And it’s not, it is not Gaza. Actually, the rate of Jewish hate has gone up significantly since the war in Gaza ended. Right? Like what? So, and, and I think that there is a lot of mistake in, in terms of how people are trying to diagnose where this is coming from.Okay. Where it is either mistakenly put on the war in Gaza, where if you actually look downstream of where we see it, I’ll, I’ll bring a lot of receipts that that is not it or that it is put on historic reasons. And I also don’t think it’s happening for the reasons that Jews were hated historically.Good. I think that it is happening for new reasons and reasons. Even get to me. Like even I will say that over time my perception of the utility in standing Jewish culture has dropped pretty precipitously. And I will explain why, [00:01:00] but first I just want to document how high it is and how much it’s shifting.Wow. So I’m gonna put a graph on screen here that shows explicit antisemitism by age among registered voters. Now if you look at people in their eighties, you will see that this is hovering at around 5%. So very, very low for older people. Okay? If you look at people in their twenties from, from, it’s slightly higher among Republicans than Democrats, but you’re looking at between like.24 and like it looks like 32%. So, and, and then on average well over 25%, so, over a quarter, one in four people in the United States now is anti-Semitic. Young people. Yeah. When it used to be at around 5%, and this has changed within like two generations, right? So yes.Simone Collins: Something that young people are reading and experiencing is making them.Malcolm Collins: Yeah, if you look at, anti-Semitic incidents in the United States. I’ll put [00:02:00] a graph here, which you’ll see is they were fairly low up until about 2021, and then they start to go up and then they shoot up in 2023 and then are higher still in 2024. If you look at there was another study here Holocaust denial or minimization, nearly four in 10 in the current GOP 37%.So this is in alignment with the antisemitism rates we saw there. Okay. Believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe, oh younger men are especially likely to hold this view. 54% of men under 50, 39% of women under 50. What? And this is of GOP voters among men, over 50, 41% agree compared to 18% of women over 50.Racial divides are particularly striking. And so what you can see is. Anybody who knows this, who are the most anti-Semitic Hispanic voters? 77% of Hispanic GOP voters. Oh,Simone Collins: I actually wouldn’t haveMalcolm Collins: guessed that. Black voters, 66% of black GOP [00:03:00] voters. Okay. And it’s fairly rare among white GOP voters that only quote unquote 30%.So that’s still about a third. So this is obviously a real issue.Simone Collins: Yeah. But what is it that young people are seeing that boomers aren’t seeing that’s so profoundly affects their views of Jews?Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So, I think what we’re actually seeing here, and I’ll just drop right to the point. So one, I’m gonna be arguing later in this, but I’ll go into it in more detail.When we get to it the, the reason why progressives have sta

In this episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into the viral interview clip (now over 9.5M views) in which a mainstream journalist from MSNBC/Telemundo denies basic genetics — claiming there are NO genetic differences between black and white people, not even for skin color.What you didn’t see in the viral clip: the full context of a day-long filming session, the journalist’s “gotcha” moment falling apart, and why Malcolm deliberately played along to ensure the clip made it to air.We break down:* Why denying genetic differences (even skin color) is increasingly common on the left* The real science on population differences, fertility windows, fibroids, menopause timing, and medical implications* How this moment signals a cultural turning point: the right becoming the pro-science side, the left becoming theologically anti-science* Media manipulation tactics, viral strategy, and why shock moments spread truth faster than documentariesThis isn’t about race supremacy — it’s about honesty in science, better medical outcomes, and fighting demographic collapse by understanding biological realities.Episode Transcript: Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] what we see is a turning point culturally, and, and that’s what this interview represents, a turning point culturally with the right, becoming the party of scienceSpeaker: It’s science.Malcolm Collins: and the left, becoming the anti-science theologically motivated party.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. We recently ended up getting in a debate against what I can only describe as a literal straw man of myth. And it went viral, super viral. I think the video’s at 9.5 million views. Now, one person was, was adding it up across the site. So really, really big and what we wanted to take this episode to do was to go over what you are not seeing from this film clip and the context of what we were thinking in this film clip.Mm-hmm. And how we were trying to talk with her, because I think a lot of people get the impression that I walked into a room with A-C-N-B-C Telemundo reporter, right. And I sat down. And she just started asking me questions and immediately I was like, what? What are [00:01:00] you talking about? For, for,Simone Collins: yeah, for context.It, it’s Paolo Ramos. She’s, she’s from like, she’s, she’s not, she’s, she’s not unknown. Okay. She’s 193,000 followers just on Instagram.Malcolm Collins: She has she worked in the Obama administration. She worked in the Clinton administration. Her dad is a very famous anchor at Telemundo and like one of Trump’s arch enemies.She is very, like, this is the environment she grew up in. This is her religion. It, it very much reminded me of me talking to people who have been in Scientology and grew up in Scientology. Just their conviction. The, their weird world beliefs are completely normal. And we’ll play the clip in a bit, but most of, you’re probably already seen it, so I’m not gonna go into that that much.Actually, Saron of ACA did a full episode dedicated to a breakdown of it because it was so emblematic of this.Simone Collins: I think you should start with the clip. I think you should start with the clip.Malcolm Collins: The point I was making is we didn’t just sit down and this was filmed, this was after a full day of shooting. It, it was, it was [00:02:00] actually near the end of the shoot that day, so.We had had her at our house, we’d been talking with her in a number of different environments, is the way it works. You go to one room, you go to another room, you do some filming. You talk about this, you talk about this, you talk about this. And and before I, I play the clip, I’ll give you context when she started talking about this, up until this point, while she had been like a little woke about some things, it was like normal, like, let’s discuss this. Like let’s find common ground. Let’s this was when I think she decided like, oh, I’ve got this Gotcha. Planned for them, right? And immediately her gotcha fell apart because she didn’t seem to understand very, very basic biology.And she didn’t, she thought that we were like racist or racial supremacists. When in the very clip we make it clear, we’re like different. Doesn’t mean better. We’re just saying that there are differences with specifically the one that I really couldn’t get over with her, and to give you a context of how we got there, was that, well, at the very least, the genes that code [00:03:00] for our skin color are different, right?Like we can at least agree on that. I didn’t jump there because I was trying to jump to a non-sequitur. I jumped there because I was sort of like, okay, you disagree that there are any genetic differences between black and white people? Like presumably you at least agree on this and then we can sort of work on, okay, well then maybe other genes have associations due to similar sort of ancestral environmental conditions leading to them being selected for, but

In this eye-opening discussion, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into a shocking demographic shift happening in wealthy countries: the complete inversion of the traditional fertility-wealth relationship.For decades, poorer families had more children while richer ones had fewer. But starting around 2017, in nations with generous social services (free childcare, healthcare, education), higher-income and higher-educated people are now having MORE kids — while lower-income groups are having fewer.We explore:* Why universal free childcare and welfare might unintentionally reduce fertility among lower-income groups* How modern “poor” lifestyles increasingly resemble historical elite living (outsourced child-rearing, conspicuous consumption, work outside the home)* How modern “rich” lifestyles are starting to look like historical peasant life (homesteading, stealth wealth, focus on home/family, less external work)* The implications for fertility collapse, dependency ratios, and whether generous in-kind social services could accidentally “solve” collapsing birth rates by boosting high-earner fertilityBacked by 2025 research from Western Europe, Nordic data, and real-world examples. Is giving people free services the unexpected key to higher birth rates among taxpayers? Or is something deeper happening with culture and household structure?Episode OutlineWhat it means to be rich, and what it means to be poor, is fundamentally changing, and not like you’d think.Rich people are starting to live like poor people used to live, and poor people are increasingly live like rich people used to liveAnd you can see this coming up in all sorts of places, but most notably in recent shifts in fertilityThis is a big deal and I think we should explore it.SETTING THE SCENE* In September, New Mexico’s governor announced that New Mexico will be the first US state to offer universal free childcare, regardless of income* Average household savings are estimated at around $12,000 per child, per year (major understatement; when we had just three kids, we were spending around $4K/month—so around $50K/year for a daycare with a terrible reputation)* This comes at a time when polling indicates Americans want the US to focus on measures like this to combat declining fertility rates* WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT FROM THINGS LIKE FREE CHILDCARE:* If the state covers major basic costs of having kids, rich people would have fewer kids as their standards for raising kids would be higher* Wynnell anecdote: $1M/kid/year* THE COUNTERINTUITIVE TREND* Starting in 2017, we’ve seen a shift in wealthy countries—that largely cover things like childcare, education, and healthcare—in which wealthier and more educated families are having more children than poorer and less educated families.* KEY QUESTION* Why does giving resources to poor people not increase their fertility proportionately to rich people?* WHAT PEOPLE ARGUE:* When the state doesn’t offer generous social services, wealthy families aren’t willing to pay for having kids (but somehow poor families are)* Having to work—as poor people do—competes with family demands* WHY I HESITATE* Wealthy people still work and have aggressive schedules* Wealthy people also generally choose to have kids in more expensive ways—i.e. Waiting until they are old and infertile and then having kids expensively—and they’re struggling with that cost* E.g. IVF is so expensive, people are traveling abroad to get it* E.g. One couple found a clinic in Bogota, Colombia “offering a dramatic price difference—a package of four IVF rounds in Colombia for $11,000 compared to around $60,000 for four rounds in the U.S. Medication costs were also less than half of those in the U.S.”* MY HYPOTHESIS* The issue is more that governments and societies are turning poor people into wealthy people—or at least people who live like wealthy people historically lived—and turning wealthy people into poor people (or at least people who live like poor people used to live) and that’s why we’re seeing the inversion* I’ll explain why at the end, but let’s go into the details first.First, a CaveatWe’re talking about wealthy countries here, and wealthy countries (with one notable exception) have abysmal birth rates.@MoreBirths ThreadThe Thread: * Lower income had been associated with higher fertility but now that relationship has completely flipped in many developed countries. Higher incomes are now associated with higher fertility almost everywhere in Europe, for both men and women, a 2025 paper shows.* But this is only within countries. Across countries the correlation between income and fertility remains very negative. Wealthy countries continue to have far lower birthrates than poor countries. Also, fertility tends to go down for countries as a whole as they get richer.* Cool animation that amusingly resembles sperm: * /photo/2But obviously as wealthy countries’ fertility rates are low, they need to work out what policies help to increase them.The Wealthy Co

Could a “debt jubilee” happen in the US? Malcolm and Simone dive deep into skyrocketing consumer debt, unsustainable government obligations (like Social Security insolvency by 2032-2034), and historical debt cancellations—from ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical jubilees to Japan’s post-WWII wealth confiscation and modern “Abenomics.”They debate whether America’s record-high credit card debt, buy-now-pay-later defaults, and cultural attitudes toward money could trigger a crisis, hyperinflation, or forced wealth redistribution. Is bankruptcy already America’s soft debt jubilee? What should you invest in (or avoid) if things get weird in the 2030s?Hilarious tangents include check fraud “hacks,” Caleb Hammer roasts, ramen lifehacks, and why Japan pulled off drastic reforms while Venezuela and Zimbabwe collapsed.As Simone outlined this episode, the outline (and links) follows! The transcript is at the end of the post. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!Episode Outline* US consumer debt levels are currently at record highs in 2025, both in nominal and inflation-adjusted terms* Average credit card debt among cardholders with unpaid balances rose to about $7,321 in Q1 2025, up 5.8% from a year earlier* People are using buy now pay later services like Klarna and Afterpay at record levels and increasingly paying late* A LendingTree survey found that 41% of BNPL users made a late payment in 2025, up from 34% the prior year* April 2025, 31% of federal student loan borrowers were 90+ days delinquent on payments,* This comes at a time when…* People are beginning to view debt payoff, the concept of capitalism, and even faith in fiat currency with increasing skepticism* Loan defaults and late payments are on the rise* democratic socialist political figures like Zohran Mamdani are gaining serious traction and public attention* Even our governments are spending like someone with zero expectation of paying off their debt* US social security likely to falter in 2032-2034* The UK is set to experience a social security crisis in the early 2030s* And this matters, because something’s gotta give, and in the past, this has involved various forms of debt jubilees* So we’re going to discuss:* The situation with consumer debt today* The situation with government debt today* How unsustainable debt has been dealt with historically* How this could go poorly* How this could go well and how we as individuals might prepareBanks and Fractional Reserves* The post: * Oct 21 trending discussion: https://x.com/i/trending/1980520651816341983US Consumer Debt* Credit card balances hit another all-time high, reaching around $1.21 trillion in Q2 2025—matching last year’s record with annualized growth rates of over 9% in mid-2025.* Credit card interest rates are commonly averaging 22–24% in 2025, compared to around 15% just a few years ago.* Delinquency rates for credit cards and other non-housing debts have increased to levels well above pre-pandemic norms. In Q2 2025, about 4.4% of all debt was in some phase of delinquency.* Klarna reported a 17% increase in consumer credit losses in Q1 2025, totaling $136 million, with repayment defaults rising among users.* Student loan delinquencies are also rising, especially following the resumption of payments after long pandemic-era forbearance, adding further strain to household finances* In March 2025, just 35% of federal student-loan borrowers had made their most recent payment on time. The rest were at risk of (or already in) serious delinquency or default.It has actually been worse recently, though:* US consumer (household) debt has reached nominal record highs in 2025, but when adjusted for economic growth (e.g., as a percentage of GDP), it remains below pre-2008 financial crisis peaks and has even declined slightly in recent quarters.* This tracks with bankruptcy search trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01hhz&hl=en)* After adjusting for inflation, average household debt in 2025 is about 2.9% ($1,800) higher than in 2013 but 17.2% ($13,100) lower than the 2008 peak.* Also, bankruptcy is pretty soft on people* Basically bad credit for 10 years and non-essential assets can be frozen, but many don’t have much to lose in the face of that.* What has me worried more is the mindset* The surging skepticism around communism* The employment threat of rising AI* The increasingly absurdist interpretation of money and normalization of putting off money problems* E.g. BNPL usage is surging, with monthly spending up 21% year-over-year to $243.90 per user in June 2025.* 41% of users paid late in the past year (up from 34%), 24% faced late payments in 2025, and nearly 40% regret usage due to hidden costs.The gist:* Consumer debt is a problem* Government debt is a bigger problemGovernment Inability to Pay ObligationsSocial Security Set to Falter* The U.S. Social Security retirement trust fund is now projected to be insolvent by late 2032; if the disability fund is combined, around 2

Malcolm and Simone Collins sit down with Jonathan Anomaly (Director of Research & Communication at Herasight) to finally reveal the company they’ve been quietly working with for years on embryo genetic selection.After years of secrecy, we dive deep into:* How Herasight achieves dramatically superior polygenic risk scores compared to competitors* The recent drama and plagiarism allegations surrounding Nucleus Genomics* Why selecting for higher intelligence correlates with better health, lower addiction rates, more cooperative behavior, and overall life success* The truth about pleiotropy: why selecting for positive traits almost never comes with serious downsides* How Herasight’s patented technology allows parents anywhere in the world (even where PGT-P is banned) to get polygenic embryo reports* The coming era of germline gene editing and why refusing these technologies may soon be seen as morally irresponsible* Why this technology is fundamentally pro-natalist and will help high-fertility families have healthier, thriving childrenThis is one of the most important conversations happening right now about the future of humanity.Learn more about Herasight hereFollow Jonathan Anomaly on XEpisode Transcript: Malcolm Collins: . [00:00:00] Hello. I am excited to be here today because today we can talk about something that we have had to keep quiet for years which is, if you know the Collins family lore, it’s that we did a large batch of embryos because we had to, Simone was unable to get pregnant naturally, and we then did genetic sequencing on them to decide the order in which we did the implantation.Now. For a long time we just had to say that we did this with a group of scientists. And when people were like, well, so people use this company or this company, we say, well, the company that they should probably be using isn’t out there yet. And the reason why this is really important when we’re talking about independent companies with good genetic data on humans is as time has gone on, the genetic data that is held in the public sphere by scientists and everything like that is.Decreasing in quality. And specifically what I mean by this is there was a, the famous case where the national Biobank [00:01:00] in the UK ended up closing off their genetic access to a lot of publishers because one scientist accidentally found that one group was in the United States, was having daughter within the uk Your daughtersSimone Collins: within the uk Yeah,Malcolm Collins: in the uk.Something like 14000% the rate of any other group. And that was a naughty fact. And so now they’re like, now we need to screen all research for anything that could be naughty facts. The problem is, is that naughty facts are the facts we really need for humanity to move forwards, which includes things like genetic correlates to intelligence.And the reason why I have been so impressed by this company, and, and it’s the reason we’re gonna be doing this and talking about this, not just about their work around intelligence and their work around the correlates to intelligence, which is really interesting because almost everything is correlated with intelligence.So if you’re selecting for, if you’re like. I as a country will not allow people to select for intelligence. I will only allow heart health. You are also selecting for intelligence because these, these things are highly correlated with each other. So we’re gonna go into that. We’re gonna go into intelligence associations with social behavior patterns and everything like that because [00:02:00] obviously that’s important.And we’re also gonna go into. Oh gosh.. I was just gonna say that now anyone can do this. So if you’re anywhere in the world, even if it’s illegal to do within your country, because Pgt PA is illegal to do genomics in country, they’ve got a unique technology that allows you to transfer p gt to BA stuff twofold, genomic stuff.So we’re gonna move ahead with Johnny Anomaly an old friend of ours who is working with these guys. Yeah. So JohnnySimone Collins: Anomaly is the director of Research and Communication of Parasite, which finally we can say is the company we’ve been working with on all these things that has been taking what we think is the most conscientious, thoughtful science, first detailed autistic in the best possible way approach to this.Johnny Naly is a background as a bioethicist, and he’s just an overall awesome guy. He’s a major proponent of this technology and he’s kind of the. The gateway person to anyone who wants to enter this sphere and learn more about it. So we’re really grateful to you joining us today, Johnny. Thank you so [00:03:00] much.And also, if we have a little bit of time to the end of this, I’d really love for you to dive in. Or maybe we could even start with it just ‘cause it’s like salacious drama, some drama that played out this week between sort of not just parasite and nucleus genomics, another company that gives apologetic risk or data to parents bu

Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into a provocative new hypothesis: Could some trans urges in humans be driven by the same evolutionary mechanism seen in other species — the “sneaky copulator” strategy? Low-status males in certain animals change their physiology to mimic females in order to infiltrate harems and reproduce covertly. Could a similar adaptive response explain elevated rates of extreme brutality, sadism, and aggression observed in trans respondents compared to cis counterparts (drawing from Aella’s massive dataset and historical sexology research)?We explore:* Why trans individuals show significantly higher interest in violent and brutal sexual categories* Historical links between cross-dressing/transvestism and sadomasochism in early psychology* How modern cultural signals of disempowerment might trigger these ancient fallback strategies* Connections to mass shooters, sexual violence patterns, and moreThis is a controversial, evidence-based exploration of human sexual adaptation — not hate, but an attempt to understand complex phenomena through evolutionary biology.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Anyway, so, the point that I’m making here is he might have actually been, ironically, right, the phenomenon that drives trans urges.In humans might be the exact same phenomenon that drives trans physiological differences in other species. Wow.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. We have done a video in the past where we document with extensive notes how extremely overrepresented trans people are among mass shooters. And at the video we joke, you know, when somebody says I’m trans, they might as well be.Speaker 7: Nice to meet you, . Listen, if you ever need anybody murdered. Please give me a call and you, you’re giving him card. No.Code of ethics. I will kill anyone anywhere. Children, animals, old people, doesn’t matter. I just love killingSpeaker 6: you.Malcolm Collins: And in that video we go over some hypotheses on what could be causing this, but I have since dug into more research on this particular [00:01:00] topic, and I’m going to expand my hypotheses on this. In a way that expands an entirely new section of my hypothesis on human sexual behavior.So specifically if you look at because ALA is the best source of data on this. If you look at like really, if you’re looking at any sort of data on sexuality. You either have to look at data sets that came from before the eighties because after that, you know, the, the gender police took over all of the gender science departments and they weren’t able to publish anything that made any of their preferred peoples potentially look questionable.So you’re either looking at those data sets or alas which is why, just so people know her dataset is enormous.Simone Collins: Yeah. Her sample sizes are. Extremely enviable. It’s, it’sMalcolm Collins: around half a million responses, by the way. And people are like, oh, they’re, no. I think now I was justSimone Collins: reading one of her pe it was in the 800 thousands now.Malcolm Collins: Wow. Yeah. And, and people will say, oh, her data sets are highly biased. And I’m like, actually they’re not highly biased because she’s [00:02:00] normalizes them all the time. And she finds that they match mainstream statistics. And the vastSimone Collins: majority of respondents are not her followers. Her survey has gone viral.Several times on multiple different platforms. Plus it is really good SEO So again, that’s not it either.Malcolm Collins: Sorry, I’m writing something I wanna ask her to add to the survey. Of same sex attracted people in heterosexual marriages because I love seeing their happiness and satisfaction rankings.Simone Collins: That would be fascinating. Yes, I heardMalcolm Collins: there was a study on this, but I haven’t been able to find it, so if I can get it from her dataset, that’d be awesome. But anyway, going to her dataset.If we are looking at the brutality category which is defined as arousal from extreme violence in porn sex, EG Gores, if you’re beating, et cetera rated zero, not arousing to five very arousing.If you look at cis min. The rating that you get for this is 0.23. If you look at trans men, it’s 0.83. Okay? [00:03:00] That’s different. Look at, if you look at cis women, it’s 0.21. If you look at trans women, it’s 0.58. So like off the charts higher in both cases, well over two times higher. And in I thinkSimone Collins: really very small portions ofMalcolm Collins: each, around four x higher for men.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: So what the heck’s going on here? Right? And then if you look at the percentage with at least. Some interest in that sort of stuff. For cis men, it’s 6%. For trans men, it’s 22%. For cis women, it’s 6%. For trans women, it’s 15%. Okay.Simone Collins: Wow. Okay.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So, just some more notes on a-list study here before we go further on this.‘cause I always find

In this episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into one of the most pervasive myths of our time — the idea popularized by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book Sapiens that the Agricultural Revolution was “history’s biggest fraud” and that life was better for pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers.From the viral Primitive Technology videos to nostalgic comments romanticizing mud huts and “living off the land,” this meme just won’t die. But was life really better before farming? Shorter work hours? Healthier diets? No diseases or violence?We break down Harari’s claims with historical evidence, anthropology, and skeletal data — showing why early agriculture had growing pains, but civilization quickly made life vastly better in nearly every metric: health, lifespan, safety, leisure quality, and human flourishing.We also explore why this myth appeals to both far-left anti-GMO types and far-right “Bronze Age” nostalgists, and why romanticizing pre-agricultural life ignores the brutal reality of violence, disease, boredom, and early death.Episode Outline with LinksLet me set the scene:* It’s 2015 and you know what people can’t stop watching? You know what the hot video is???* Not some viral dance* Not some celebrity scandal* No, it was a pale dude in the woods silently banging on sticks with a sharpened rock to make a mud hut* “Primitive Technology: Wattle and Daub Hut”, the first video published on the YouTube channel Primitive Technology, now has over 32 million views.* For scale:* Charlie bit my finger has 888 million views* Bed Intruder song has 158M views* So obviously it didn’t take over the world, but it’s still HUGE for an eleven-minute, no words, no music video of a man building a mud hut* The channel has 11 million subscribers (note that Asmongold has 4.21M subscribers)* What’s going on here? Who might we have to blame for this?* I’m going to argue it was the Admiral Akbar of agriculture himself, Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.* In 2014, the book Sapiens was published in English (had first been published in Hebrew) and it took the world by storm.* It quickly became one of the top‑performing narrative nonfiction titles of the past decade, with tens of millions of copies sold worldwide and a very long run on major bestseller lists.* Estimates from publishers and industry analyses put Sapiens’ total worldwide sales at around 40–45 million copies across all formats and languages.​* The book has been translated into roughly 60–65 languages, indicating very broad international penetration for a serious nonfiction title.* It repeatedly appeared in the NYT top 10 and has been described as a New York Times “top 10 bestseller” over a multi‑year period* And importantly, what did that book do?* More than others in the past (such as Guns, Germs, and Steel), it radicalized people against modernity and the agricultural revolutionSome choice quotes:* “We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”* “The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.”* “Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species… These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”* “This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”* “Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with more difficult lives and a less nutritious diet than hunter-gatherers… The Agricultural Revolution was a trap.”But are we really worse off because of agriculture?Let’s take a good faith look at the issue.SapiensOverarching Thesis: Human history is fundamentally the history of imagined realities (fictions) that enable massive cooperation. Almost everything we value—nations, money, human rights, corporations, gods—exists only in our collective imagination. These fictions have been extraordinarily useful, but they have also caused immense suffering and now threaten our future. The next stage of history will likely see us abandon the last remnants of biological humanity altogether.Harari argues:* The Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000 BCE) is widely considered humanity’s “biggest mistake.”* Harari characterizes the Agricultural Revolution as “history’s biggest fraud,” arguing that it trapped humans in more difficult, labor-intensive, and less healthy lives than those of hunter-gatherers. He suggests that the extra food from farming led to population growth and class divisions, not a better quality of life for most people* Harari’s analysis is related to, but distinct from, the idea popularized by others—such as Jared Diamond, who called agriculture “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.”* Farming allowed population explosion but dramatically worsened the quality of life for individual humans: harder work, poorer nutrition, crowded conditions, new diseases, social hierarchy, and inequality.* It was a trap: once populations grew, there

In this eye-opening episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into shocking findings from U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee reports (2019) showing that Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) played a far greater role in astroturfing and amplifying the Black Lives Matter movement than in any alleged support for Trump during 2016.Key revelations:* 96% of IRA YouTube content focused on police brutality against African Americans* 5 of the top 10 IRA Instagram accounts targeted Black audiences exclusively* Over 66% of IRA Facebook ads revolved around racial division, overwhelmingly pro-BLM narratives* IRA organized real-world rallies, paid activists, and even funded self-defense classes — all unknowingly* Activity spiked post-2016 election and again in 2020, perfectly aligning with BLM surgesMalcolm explains why this well-documented information never became mainstream on the right, how both parties had incentives to downplay or ignore it, and why viewing Russia as an “ally” against progressive causes is dangerously misguided.If you’ve ever wondered how certain movements explode seemingly overnight — or why the “Russia helped Trump” narrative dominated while this one stayed buried — this episode will change how you see modern information warfare.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] So, wow. Of their top 10 accounts, five only targeted at black people.Simone Collins: That is insane. That is not at all like the impression I was, I was given. That like in, in general, right? This isMalcolm Collins: not the narrative that we are told. Yeah. and then you have me going through this and like, wait, this is all in like spin committee reports and stuff like that, like that Russia was behind Black Lives Matter.Like what? So crazy. Or, and you could be like, well, Russia wasn’t everything behind Black Lives Matter. And I’d say. Okay. Maybe they weren’t, but they were more behind Black Lives matter than they ever were behind Trump. And that’s really important to the narrative that’s out there right now.Simone Collins: Oh yeah.Malcolm Collins: Wow. This the, the rallies. The Charlotte rallies. This is theSimone Collins: good people on both sides. Yes.Malcolm Collins: This is the people on both sides. One Trump was praising Russian [00:01:00] operatives on that one. Vi Eagle was praising the Democrats ‘cause that’s who the Russian operatives helped on that one.Simone Collins: It’s a lot of people.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. . So sometimes I’ll be doing an episode and I’ll be just like fact checking something and then I’ll notice some statistics and some numbers, or I’m like, wait, this can’t be real. And then I start going down a rabbit hole. On the rabbit hole. I went down this time.And what’s weird about this rabbit hole is this is all outlined clear as day and like senate reports and everything like that, which we’ll be going over. And yet I haven’t heard this as a mainstream position on the right. And you guys can be like, oh no, X blew this up long ago, or whatever. But the Russian collusion operation, the IRA, like the thing that was Russiagate, the Democrats said, got Donald Trump elected.Mm-hmm. It was significantly more involved [00:02:00] with the astroturfing and creation of the BLM movement than Trump’s. What, and this is both well documented and incredibly well attested, and yet it is like not part of the popular imagination at all.Simone Collins: That can be we, because we would’ve heard something about that.No, right? I mean, at least from conservatives, it’s not as though conservatives don’t have a voice anywhere. And we listen to a lot of conservative influencers and, well, not media outlets, but, but influencers.Malcolm Collins: Yeah, so my thought as like a concern, and the weird thing about this is this information is not new.It’s been out there for a while. And I’m not here saying, because this is the perception I had historically. It was like historically, the perception I had is that the, the IRA. Helped both sides in that particular election cycle. They helped the, you know, there were many instances in which two sides of a protest were both organized by the IRA by Russia [00:03:00] Plots, basically does theSimone Collins: IRA stand for,Malcolm Collins: I don’t know what it stands for.I don’t speak Russian. Anyway so the IRA, and, and so I was like, and the reason why it appeared to people as if the IRA was more pro-Trump than pro Clinton was solely because it believed Trump to be the spoiler candidate and Bernie to be the spoiler candidate. So if you’re unaware, oh, IRA was actually incredibly pro Bernie.They worked really hard to help Bernie in the primaries and everything. ISimone Collins: didn’t know that either. Okay. Wow.Malcolm Collins: So the, so my sort of perception was, is it was probably about 50% Republican stuff, 50% Democrat stuff. And then of the Republican stuff, it might have looked like it was more

Why is modern anime OBSESSED with adoptive parents and found families — but almost never shows happy, intact biological families with kids? Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into this bizarre trend dominating recent anime.From mega-hits like Spy x Family to hidden gems like Buddy Daddies, The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting, and I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years, we explore why adoptive/found-family parenting tropes are everywhere... while biological families are rare, tragic, or melancholic (think Wolf Children or Clannad: After Story).We break down:* Dozens of examples of the adoptive parent trope* The stark tonal differences (heartwarming comedy vs. bittersweet sacrifice)* Theories: Youth audience rebellion? Japanese cultural duty vs. choice? Fertility crisis propaganda gone wrong? Teenage fantasy of “chosen family”?Pronatalists, otaku, and culture war watchers: This one’s for you.Episode Transcript: Simone Collins: Hello Simone. Today we are gonna be talking about an interesting phenomenon. In which parenting has been increasingly put as and pedestal by anime as this great thing to do is your life and is a very fun thing to watch people do is their lives. But what is very interesting I. Is the way it’s being shown which is that the vast, vast majority of modern animes that include parent roles, the parent is in the adoptive role.It is not their biological child. And when it is their biological child, the tone is typically very, very different. So we are gonna talk about the animes that fit this trope. We are trying to talk about the enemies that don’t fit this trope. We are gonna talk about the tonal differences, and we are going to make hypotheses as to why this might be the case.I’m so curious. The case, I’m so curious because it is something, it’s, it’s so weird that it feels like there’s all this prenatal, this propaganda like you know, pro kids were all about it, but then. [00:01:00] None of it is along the normal lines. I feel like none of it’s modeling to people how this stuff actually happens.So I don’t know what to think anymore. But I have to start with the Basecamp Anime intro. Speaker: Culture away in the trees of yesterday.Dear branches, the andturn over.The crowd base camp. Welcome to the Everlasting fight of Culture, bloom and the [00:02:00] sky fight.We can’t ignore. Strike them down withgame theory[00:03:00] base camp night and take their flight.Simone Collins: Well, and, Malcolm Collins: and we can start by talking about spy Ex Spy Family. This is one that we’ve watched in the family. Very, very popular anime. So incredibly popular anime to understand how popular it is. You know, even within the US when we go to Walmart and we look at like the mango section, because Walmart is the mango section now I remember I was looking not long ago.And literally half the books in the section were spy, ex spy family. Mm-hmm. This is like, this isn’t like a popular, this is like Sailor Moon or Naruto Popular for this generation. Simone Collins: Yeah. Yeah. Malcolm Collins: And the plot of it is Lloyd and Anya, who one is a undercover detector and the other is an assassin. And they don’t know each other.Hold these roles. Adopt a, a daughter named Anya who can read minds. And then they get a dog who can see the future. Simone Collins: They don’t know. She can breed mines and no one knows. The dog can see the, like, no one knows the secret identity of anyone else in the family, which is really [00:04:00] cute. But yeah, this, this child was, I mean, it, it, it, so the, the spy, the spy father has to have a like sham wife and a sham child to be.Seen as, as, as believable in his position, which is why he, he ends up in this family and everyone else has reasons. You know, like, I, I wanna be adopted, I don’t wanna have a family or like, you know, I. Why does, why does the, the wife character need to be in a family? I can’t remember Malcolm Collins: because she’s afraid that she will be seen as a spy being a woman of her age and unmarried.Right. And she’s desperately looking for a husband to go to a work event with her, or not a husband, but like at least a boyfriend or something. Mm-hmm. So she doesn’t look suspicious. Simone Collins: Hmm. And then it’s just so convenient that there’s this man who suddenly. It is like perfect on paper and like is is interested in, Malcolm Collins: yeah.Well, and before we go further, I actually think Spy X spy family discounts one of the first things that people will say about this. Okay. Because, you know, I ask AI and I’m like, okay, why is this the case? Why is this so much [00:05:00] popular, more popular than the other type? Yeah. And AI immediately is like, well, it’s, you know.More flexible for narrative structures. Right. You know, because you can just slot people in anywhere, right? And I was like, actually it’s not. So if you look at a spy, ex spy family, I think that this is sort of the. Case that that disproves the rule. Mm-hmm. It used spy Ex Spy Family

In this episode, Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Cyborg Manifesto” — a text Grimes called “one of the greatest things ever written” and a foundational (yet strangely forgotten) work that sparked cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, and black cyberfeminism.Why have so few people actually read the essay that’s cited more than almost any other in feminist theory and science & technology studies? How did a response to a socialist-feminist call during the Reagan era become a poetic, blasphemous celebration of blurred boundaries — human/machine, male/female, organism/technology — and a rejection of rigid identity politics?We explore:1. The Cyborg as a metaphor for post-gender, post-origin-story politics2. Haraway’s call for “affinity” coalitions over essentialist identities3. How the manifesto was twisted into new identity-based feminisms (cyberfeminism → xenofeminism → black cyberfeminism)4. Why the original text feels closer to pronatalist, post-identity futurism than to modern progressive frameworks5. The Santa Cruz / Bay Area cultural context that birthed this fever-dream masterpiece6“ Terra Nationalism,” 7. Post-cyberfeminism vs. xenofeminism.If you love Grimes, transhumanism, feminist theory, online culture, or just wild 1980s philosophy that predicted our AI-saturated present — this episode is for you.🔗 Full text of A Cyborg Manifesto: https://web.archive.org/web/20120214194015/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.htmlEpisode Outline* I saw a post on X by Grimes recently in which she refers to A Cyborg Manifesto as “one of the greatest things ever written.”* She added: “What’s crazy abt cyborg manifesto is even if you pretend it has nothing to do with feminism it’s still a masterpiece of general philosophy and is filled with banger poetry”* So I checked it out* Because she is also the person who turned me on to Iain Banks’ Culture series and it changed the way I view AI and the future of humanity* And the rabbit hole commenced* It turns out “A Cyborg Manifesto”—originally published in 1985—is so well known in certain academic circles, it is almost never discussed as it’s assumed to be such tacit knowledge* As @ALilInternet puts it: “Its seen as a kinda cliche reference in academic contexts or lectures, because it’s assumed everyone has already read it, which is prob why u don’t encounter it — I think in general it’s a shame with this happens to important works, because young ppl etc might NOT know it.”* It is considered to be one of the most influential essays in feminist theory, science and technology studies (STS), and posthumanities.* And it is one of the most cited essays in the humanities and social sciences worldwide.* Basically, it:* Argues that the cyborg—a hybrid of machine and organism—is a powerful metaphor for breaking down rigid boundaries: human/animal, organism/machine, physical/non-physical, male/female, nature/culture.* Rejects essentialist identity politics and traditional socialist-feminism in favor of “affinity politics” (coalitions based on shared interests rather than fixed identities).* Embraces irony, partiality, and blasphemy against origin stories (both religious and secular).* Key quotes that are endlessly repeated:* “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”* “The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labor, or other seductions to organic wholeness.”* “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”* And this manifesto gave birth to cyberfeminism, which gave birth to xenofeminism, and both sound SUPER intriguing, so I thought we’d dig in!A Cyborg ManifestoA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century By Donna HarawayContextWho is this woman?* UC Santa Cruz professor, which, if you know Santa Cruz, explains everything.* To me personally, Santa Cruz epitomizes a culture:* Unmoored from history and origin stories (you’ve got modern and historical transplants of people who repeatedly rejected—and importantly, forgotten—the cultures of their homeland)* E.g. From Germany to Ireland to New York to Chicago to California, losing culture with each move)* Very crunchy* Steeped in tech and normalized to its cutting-edge development* Born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado* As of 2025, she is Emerita Distinguished Professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)* Looks like a typical Santa Cruz lady* Trained in biology (PhD in Biology from Yale, 1972), zoology, and philosophy.* Deeply influenced by Marxist feminism, science fiction (especially authors like Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, and Octavia Butler), Catholic symbolism (she grew up Irish-Catholic), and post-structuralism.Why did she write this?* The essay originated in response to a 1983 call from the Socialist Review (a West Coast leftist journal) asking feminists to reflect on

Should you lie to your kids about Santa Claus? Malcolm and Simone Collins argue YES — and not doing so robs children of the magic, wonder, and crucial life lessons that come with a mythical childhood.In this episode, they dive into:* Why “never lying” to kids creates toxic blind trust in authority* How their family builds an elaborate world of Krampus, Tommy Knockers, alive toys, slide eaters, and superhero dads* The developmental need for scary stories, monsters, and survival play* How Santa perfectly teaches kids that sometimes the entire world (media, government, schools) can push the same “lie”* Why stripping away fantasy leaves childhood gray and boringPlus adorable bonus audio of their kids asking about Daddy’s battle helmet from the “future war” against Krampus’s communist demon army.If you’re a pronatalist parent who wants richer, more magical family traditions — this one’s for you. Merry Christmas and happy Future Day planning!Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. It’s exciting to be here with you today. Today we are going to be doing two things. We’re gonna be talking about why you should lie to your children about Santa Claus. Yes. It was always that parent, and I swear to God, and they act like they’re taking the moral high ground when they’re talking about this.Oh. Which is, I don’t, I don’t believe in ever lying to my children. Right. And you’re just like,Simone Collins: Ugh. What Bores No.Malcolm Collins: No. But I also think that, that they haven’t thought through the disservice they do to their children.Speaker 3: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: I think it is I’m not gonna say child abuse. But it, it certainly you know, in that sort of territory for meSimone Collins: they’re wronging their children of a very young facet of childhood, a magical childhood.We’llMalcolm Collins: talk about that. But we’re also gonna go into some studies on Santa Claus. And unfortunately I couldn’t find any. What I really wanted was a study on kids who were grown up believing and not believing in Santa Claus. Yeah.Simone Collins: There’s nothing on that. [00:01:00]Malcolm Collins: Mm-hmm. At least no one’s ever found any significant differences.Speaker 3: Hmm.Malcolm Collins: Interesting. First sort of the, the central layout of the argument here. Right.Simone Collins: Alright.Malcolm Collins: The argument from the other side that I often hear is, well, and, and I think it’s important to remember whenever you’re dealing with a situation like this, you need to deal with the potential benefits. Versus drawbacks of both sides.Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. I thinkMalcolm Collins: that both sides can pretend like there are literally zero benefits on the other side, which I think is just false, right? It is between the benefits and drawbacks that both sides give you, which are more benefits to drawbacks, right.Speaker 3: Yes,Malcolm Collins: in terms of child development, in terms of cultural transference, in terms of building good values, a healthy view of the world, and getting a full and complete childhood.So, the people who say, I would never lie to my kids about anything the perspective they’re taking is they want [00:02:00] the kid to feel as if there is. Some form of authority that will never betrayal.General, they want the kid to have some form of like, they won’t be able to fully emotionally trust them. If the kid know that there was ever a time in that kid’s life where they systemically misrepresented first of all, first of all, this actually almost feels kind of psychotic to me.So I’ll explain it why in, in a few steps here. Okay. Where I don’t even see this as a, as a positive. So first, when your kid leaves you and the home and goes out into the world, the, the blindly trusting authority is a very, very negative trait to have.Simone Collins: Absolutely. It’s notMalcolm Collins: a good thing to teach your kid.Simone Collins: Yeah. Well, because we’re constantly being lied to as adults. How can you not teach that to children? That’s bad.Malcolm Collins: But worse than that it, it’s doing it in [00:03:00] favor because the parent will say, well, I want them to be able to trust me at least, right? Like me, the caregiver, me, the person who is, is there for them.Oh, please. The problem with this mindset is. You are trying to make it, which, which, and I’ll explain where this becomes like really twisted and almost sort of brainwashy so that everything you say to your kid is true, but that is not the case. A lot of what you say is going to be based on your opinions and your perceptions.Mm-hmm. And you never know how crazy you actually are.Simone Collins: Yeah. Like you may believe that processed food is poison. But to other people, that’s an overt lie. And the, the kids may see that as a lie and see you as someone who lied to them. And if you, if you believe or convince yourself that you’ve told them nothing but the truth, you’re going to look like a liar eventually.You’re not gonna look like aMalcolm Collins: liar. You

Dive into a thought-provoking discussion on the dramatic shift in U.S. national security strategy. Simone and Malcolm Collins break down the recent changes in American foreign policy, exploring how the U.S. is moving away from its traditional role as “world police” and adopting a more pragmatic, self-interested approach.In this episode, you’ll learn:What the new U.S. national security strategy means for America’s relationships with Europe, Russia, China, and other global playersWhy the U.S. is prioritizing sovereignty, border security, and domestic interests over global interventionHow these changes impact alliances, migration, trade, and the future of international cooperationThe philosophical and cultural shifts driving this new era in American geopoliticsWhether you’re interested in politics, international relations, or just want to understand the forces shaping our world, this conversation offers clear insights and lively debate.Simone outlined this episode, so links and basic points are below and you’ll find the episode transcript at the end. :)Based Camp - A Shift in US National SecurityThe GistThe days of Team America: World Police are over; we’ve gone from “America, F Yeah” to “America: Don’t look at me ask Qatar.”In November, the Trump Administration released a new national security strategy that is… pretty based* It reframes the EU from partner to “problem”* It insists countries need to handle their own problems* It makes redditors mad: When prompted to explain the new strategy release, they said things like:* “the eu is in Putin’s way. The US is currently in the habit of agreeing with Putin on everything, word for word. Also, the leader of the US is making a lot of noise to distract from being the name mentioned the most on those ‘trump files from epstein’s pedophile island” that everyone that isn’t on the list wants released. This is a good distraction.”* “The EU didn’t allow Trump’s shady real estate businesses. So there are no Trump Towers here. He is now making deals with Hungary and other right wing led countries to finally get a foot on EU soil. But as for business opportunities, he is rather friends with russians and arabs who flatter him as much as they can.”* Quotes from the document:* “Our elites badly miscalculated America’s willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the Ameri\can people saw no connection to the national interest”* “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over”* “We will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine”* “[Europe’s] economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure”* “We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”* “[America’s goal is] cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations”THE US IS SHIFTING FROM HELICOPTOR PARENTING TO F AROUND AND FIND OUT PARENTING!! YES!!!!But in all seriousness, we as citizens—and we’d argue that all people—should probably be aware of what this shift in strategy entails, so let’s get into itWhat is Changing About US Strategy? In what way does this strategy represent a shift from the United States’ national security strategy up to this point?* Replaces global “rules‑based order” and democracy‑promotion language with a much narrower definition of U.S. interests focused on sovereignty, borders, and domestic strength rather than universal values.* Elevates the Western Hemisphere to top priority, making migration, drugs/cartels, and China’s regional footprint the central threats, instead of putting great‑power competition with China/Russia and the Indo‑Pacific or Europe at the core.* Treats mass migration itself as a primary national security threat and justifies using military force, including cross‑border strikes on cartels, as a routine tool of hemispheric enforcement—far beyond prior strategies’ law‑enforcement and humanitarian framing.* Downshifts the Middle East from central theater to secondary concern, framing it mostly in terms of energy markets and transactional deals, in contrast to decades of “war on terror” and regime‑change or stabilization ambitions.* Reorients alliances and Europe policy around burden‑sharing, trade balances, and “Western identity,” openly criticizing European migration and regulatory policies instead of emphasizing cohesive liberal institutions and shared democratic values.* Places economic nationalism at the heart of security, prioritizing tariffs, re‑shoring, and industrial policy over support for multilateral trade regimes that earlier strategies still treated as broadly beneficial for U.S. power.* De‑emphasizes international law and the “rules‑based international order,” signaling more transactional, case‑by‑case cooperation and fewer self‑imposed constraints on U.S. action than in Obama‑era and Biden‑era documents.What is Shifting About the United States’ Relat

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins in this lively episode of Based Camp as they dive deep into Abigail Thorn’s (Philosophy Tube) latest video, “Why the Thought of Having Kids Freaks Me Out.” From a pronatalist perspective, they unpack Thorn’s arguments on demographic collapse, trans identity as a potential social contagion, global crises like Gaza, misinformation on birth control, and the entitlement of expecting societal “reparations” without contributing through parenthood. With humor, sharp critiques, and counterpoints rooted in cultural innovation, legacy, and family values, the Collinses explore why Thorn’s philosophy might reveal more about internal conflicts than solid reasoning. Whether you’re into philosophy, trans representation in pronatalism, or just love a good debate, this episode challenges urban monoculture norms and champions innovative approaches to family-building. Don’t miss their personal anecdotes, Shakespeare sonnet showdowns, and a nod to ContraPoints!Episode Outline & LinksThe GistPhilosophy Tube did a two-parter on our turf in that she covered demographic collapse and having kids* In the first part, titled “You’re Wrong About Birth Rates & Aging Populations” Philosophy Tube explored demographic collapse* We did an episode on it.* In this second video, she covered “Why The Thought of Having Kids Freaks Me Out”* Strange Aeons and Vivian Wilson (Elon Musk’s trans child) make appearances (among others)* Obviously we have to cover this too. Having kids is kind of our thing.* In general, I think that with this video, Philosophy Tube is trying bring some trans representation to the surging debate about pronatalism and demographic collapse* And while I had hoped we might be presented with some innovative, interesting proposals, especially involving advanced reprotech* Instead, we are presented with an astounding level of entitlemenet—like, take the normal level of urban monoculture entitlement (i.e. how dare you suggest I give up vacations and takeout to have kids) and amp it up to a new level (literally: forget contributing to society through well-raised children; I deserve reparations for the state not funding my gender transition)Let’s get into it!Philosophy Tube’s Video EssayThe dramatic bit of the video is that for much of it Philosophy Tube dresses as a mermaid as an analogy to being trans and pontificates from a giant clamshell.To put it diplomatically, the video ultimately legitimizes choosing not to have children while also critiquing the systems that make parenthood feel terrifying or impossible for many who might otherwise want it.Right off the bat, the focus is on philosophy (fair, because this is Philosophy Tube) and not brass tacks. Thorn references Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate, a Book by Christine Overall, and also points people to explore David Benatar’s work.She leans heavily on a UN report when exploring people’s reasons for not having babiesShe explores the following factors on the yes/no-to-kids spectrum:* Global crises and worries about the future* Philosophy Tube connects fears about having kids to global crises such as war (especially Gaza) and the targeting or dehumanization of marginalized groups, including trans and autistic people, which makes the idea of raising a child feel unsafe or ethically fraught.* Climate change* She discounted this as a factor as it’s not up to her* But she cites that people are concerned about their carbon footprints* Fun aside: She indicated that BP ultimately introduced the concept of carbon footprint; she says BP paid hundreds of millions of dollars to popularize the concept* Misinformation* She argues people are being misinformed about birth control and becoming pregnant by mistake after being scared off of taking birth control* She decries anti-vaccine rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration* The future* Concerns about unemployment, housing, and cost.* Philosophy Tube notes that even though she lives in the UK, access to services she would need to use (e.g. IVF in order to have kids as a trans woman)* Moral obligation* How many religious groups feel a religious imperative to have kids* The idea of having a moral obligation to have kids if you don’t want one [BAD BAD IDEA], e.g. Jews after the Holocaust ought to have children even if they didn’t want them* The idea that having kids pays for the elder care of one’s country’s citizens, so one is obligated to have kids* Philosophy Tube sees other people’s kids subsidizing her health care in old age is “reparations” because she is trans and the government does not pay for all the gender transition care (i.e. she and other trans people deserve to be paid for in old age despite not having kids and through them paying into the system because they did not get the gender transition care they wanted the government to payroll)* As Philosophy Tube puts it in the episode: “you’re goddamn right breeders are going to be paying for my retirement.”* Enjoyment* “By no means guaranteed”*

In this thought-provoking episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into the complexities of multiculturalism, high-trust societies, and the challenges that arise when diverse cultures interact within a single system. Malcolm shares his updated views on multiculturalism, exploring historical and modern examples—from the Victorian Empire to contemporary South Africa and the United States. The conversation covers topics like in-group preferences, the evolution of cultural trust, the impact of immigration, and the unintended consequences of social safety nets.The hosts discuss how cultural backgrounds shape our moral frameworks, using analogies from classic cartoons like Bugs Bunny to illustrate differences in ethical perspectives. They also examine the pitfalls of trying to recreate homogenous societies in today’s interconnected world, and why some strategies that worked in the past may no longer be effective.Whether you’re interested in sociology, politics, or just enjoy a candid, nuanced discussion about the forces shaping our world, this episode offers fresh insights and challenges conventional wisdom. Join Malcolm and Simone as they unpack the real rules of the game and what it means to adapt in a rapidly changing society.Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes of Based Camp!Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today’s conversation is going to be interesting because I have massively updated my own views on multiculturalism and whether or not it is a strictly good thing and how it transforms society. In addition to that, we will be talking about I was going to make a full episode on this topic before, but after the, the channel got in some trouble.I can’t. But the the, the fashionistas actually have a point which is to say what is the core difference?See, some people will be like, oh, well, you know,, fashionistas are different from typical leftists and that they are far right. And I’m like, far right. How though, like, well, they, they killed gay people. I’m like, almost every communist state has killed gay people except for like. I think like three in one short period in the Soviet Union.Mm-hmm. But generally speaking, they have been much more likely to kill gay people than capitalist governments have been. And, and, and this is, this is just true story history. It’s like a very easy thing to check. So Okay. That’s not what really made [00:01:00] them, what really made them significantly different from a, a modern day socialist, right?Mm-hmm. Is that they believed in. Ethno and cultural separation. Mm-hmm. So they attempted to separate different eth like for example, the, the, the, the you know, the Italians and the Germans and the Japanese all clearly worked together, right? Like they, they, it wasn’t just like one of their groups.They all had their own weird ideology and they were working together to see an endstate. Not, not, not so dissimilar to the way that, you know. An Islamist today might work together with somebody who’s an LGBT advocate or something like that, right? Like, their, their end goals may be different, but they’re willing to have a, a multicultural movement.Right? What made them distinct from, from something like the, the Islamists working alongside the L-G-B-T-Q population is these two groups would say, well, we need to find a way to live together in the same communities. In the same neighborhoods. Whereas these other groups, you know, the [00:02:00] traditional fashionistas from history they said, well, you know, we might work with the Japanese, but we’re not gonna like import Japanese people into our cities and stuff like that, right?Mm-hmm.Speaker: , what if we took species from all different planets in the universe and put them together on the same planet. Great tv, right? Asians, Jews, and Hispanics, all trying to live side by side on one planet. It’s great. We put them all together on Earth, and the whole universe tunes in to watch the fun!Malcolm Collins: And I’m gonna argue, and this has helped me really understand these ideologies and why some modern people have them today. And I will argue that they’re fundamentally very flawed in the way that they have them today. But it is still a major update for me. Okay. So if you have a, and this is a quote I’ve said a hundred times, it’s like one of my core rules of politics.Mm-hmm. You, you cannot act. And I got it from my grandfather who had a, a congressman. So yeah, I took it from him. I loved it. ‘cause I wanna keep him alive. You know, family tradition of intellectualism here. You cannot have. Porous borders and [00:03:00] generous social services at the same time.Mm-hmm.Because, like osmosis, the people who want those social services the most, eg the people least likely to pay into the system, most likely to take outta the system will differentially migrate into your SY country eventually breaking the system.Yeah.Okay. So this is, this is sor

Join Simone and Malcolm Collins as they dive into the explosive growth of disability accommodations at elite universities. Drawing from recent articles, personal experiences, and lively online debates, they explore how and why the number of students receiving accommodations has skyrocketed—sometimes for reasons that go far beyond genuine need.This episode unpacks the incentives driving students, parents, and institutions to game the system, the cultural and ethical implications of widespread accommodations, and the unintended consequences for education and society. From private dorms to extended test times, Simone and Malcolm discuss the real-world impact of these policies, the blurred lines between advantage and necessity, and what it all means for the future of higher education.Whether you’re a student, educator, parent, or just curious about the changing landscape of academia, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and spark new questions.If you enjoy thought-provoking discussions on education, culture, and policy, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share! Below is the episode outline; you’ll find the episode transcript at the very end. :)The Gist* Disability accommodation at universities is getting insane, both in scale and nature* From an Atlantic article on the issue:* “This year, 38 percent of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability; in the fall quarter, 24 percent of undergraduates were receiving academic or housing accommodations.”* Though side note, apparently Stanford is so bad because you can use a disability qualification to get a guaranteed single dorm, which is HUGE.* “One administrator told me that a student at a public college in California had permission to bring their mother to class. This became a problem, because the mom turned out to be an enthusiastic class participant.”* These out-of-control numbers are mostly coming from people gaming the system, driven by competitive pressures and not actual disabilities* And Atlantic highlighting this growth in accommodation has sparked some great commentary on X:* Students shared their experiences:* Basil wrote: “In my HS AP Chem class there were 11 students and I was the only one without double time, so I had to hand in my test early while everyone else in the class got to continue”* Calder McHugh shared: “Over a decade ago, at the private NYC high school I attended, in an 18-person math class there was once a quiz that only THREE of us took on time/without accommodations. ADHD/ADD tests were just ordered up (and that’s not to mention the tutors, etc, that were writing everyone’s essays for them). As someone with artist parents who didn’t know how to (and didn’t want to) game the system in this way, I felt constantly disadvantaged in the moment. But years later, I’m so grateful that wasn’t my experience in high school or college because I actually managed to learn something. // This is a great piece and it’s shocking in many ways; it’s also just a broader swath of the American public catching up to what the ultra-elite have been doing for their children for a long time now.”* For example, as Matthew Zeitlin mused on X: “i wonder how much nihilism/low social trust comes from the sense that everyone is getting one over on you and everyone else”* On that theme, Armand Domalewsky noted that “one thing I feel like conservatives grok better than liberals is if you create an honor code based rule that gives someone an advantage (“don’t enforce fare collection, most people pay”) eventually even honest people feel compelled to cheat to avoid being cheated”* Bobby Fijan describes this behavior as: “The upper class version of subway fare jumping // Breaking rules just because you can. And making everyone who follows the rules into chumps.”* Michael Gibson had a great Zinger: ““To each according to their need” creates a society where people compete to be victims”* On a different note, Josh Barro points out that: “if you have a condition like ADHD, anxiety, or depression, and it makes it harder for you to complete tests on time, that is something the test should *measure*, not something it should avoid measuring.”* Molly follows up: “I wonder what happens to these kids upon graduation. No employer is going to give you extra time on a deadline or let you bring your mom to work.”* Our buddy Razib Khan chimes in: “do you want your lawyer to get more time on their LSAT? do they get more time to bill more hours when they work on your case? absurd”* Katherine Boyle: “Parents encourage or let their kids opt into disability diagnosis because it seems like there’s little downside: more time on tests, better chances at college admissions, optional performance enhancing drugs, accommodations of all types. I can’t stress this enough: the consequence is your child’s character. Many kids genuinely believe they’re sick or that there’s something wrong with them. You tell a girl she seems anxious, she’ll believe she’s anxious. You tell a bo

In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone dive deep into the fascinating and controversial origins of the Nation of Islam. Did you know that one of the largest Black supremacist religions was actually founded by a white man? Join us as we unravel the bizarre history of Wallace Fard Muhammad, his mysterious background, and the strange blend of conspiracy, occult teachings, and social movements that shaped the Nation of Islam.We explore:* The true identity and criminal past of Wallace Fard Muhammad* How elements from white nationalist and occult groups were woven into NOI doctrine* The infamous Yakub story and its roots in early 20th-century pseudoscience* The influence of other movements like the Moorish Science Temple and Marcus Garvey’s UNIA* The evolution of the Nation of Islam, its famous followers, and why many eventually left for mainstream IslamExpect a wild ride through history, religion, and the psychology of cult leadership, with plenty of humor and critical analysis along the way. If you’re interested in the intersection of race, religion, and American history, this episode is for you!Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives and thought-provoking discussions.Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: HELLO SIMONE! You have been excited about this episode since I gave you the dirt because I was like, did you know, because I didn’t know this. I looked at the, everyone’s always joking about the whole Yakob story and Nation and Islam and what a bunch of silly beliefs and. And then somehow I was watching the video and it just dropped, like, and by the way, it was founded by a white guy.And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The largest black supremacist religion. I think it’s the largest on earth right now. Was founded by a white guy. I was like, I need to drill in on that. This one, this, this isSimone Collins: like fat positivity be being founded by chubby chasers, like by men.Oh, no,Malcolm Collins: no, no. It’s worse. It was founded by a white guy. As a joke to troll African Americans.Simone Collins: So do we have reason to believe it was actually a joke and not, like, not something else?Malcolm Collins: It was likely a way to make money combined with a joke.Simone Collins: Okay. So like a scam. Okay. Wow. [00:01:00] Wow. Okay. Oh. Let’s get always so excited for this episode.You have no idea. Yeah,Malcolm Collins: yeah. Oh, I mean, it gets crazier. Many of the ideas in it were actually lifted from white nationalist conspiracy groups that would do mailers and you could like pay to have like mail sent to you about the way the world really works. You know how like when the internet started you could like.Pay to get like the schematics for a time machine or something like that? No, in, like, if you go to like the 1920s, this was common for like religious stuff. Like, like, like, okay. I’d say like philosophical society stuff, paranormal society stuff. And a number of them were tied to white nationalist organizations.Oh, Lord. Lord. And they were the ones that he constructed his religion out of. Oh no. So this is gonna get so crazy, so wild. Let’s dive in. And Simone just believe me, at first, and she had to Google the guy and she was like, no, no,Simone Collins: no, no. I was like, no, he is definitely, there’s no way this is possible. I was gonna be like, well, actually it [00:02:00] was wrong.Malcolm Collins: Keep in mind, this is like the religion of like Malcolm X and like Muhammad Ali, right? Like this is like major black people have followed this as like a faith structure. I thinkSimone Collins: it’s pretty big even in Philadelphia if memory. Oh,Malcolm Collins: yeah. Yeah. And it, well, it’s, it’s shrinking now. It’s basically falling apart.It’s probably goodSimone Collins: in light of this. I,Malcolm Collins: yeah. Okay. So the founder, Wallace d Farrad. Also known as Wally, DOD Ferard, Wallace Ferard, et cetera. He was a mysterious figure who appeared in Detroit in 1930s selling skills door to door in black neighborhoods claiming to be from the Middle East, variously Mecca, the east, the tribe of Shaba Shabaz most contemporary police records.FBI files newspaper investigations from the 1930 to 1960s and scholarly research. Identify him as Wallace Do. Ford, a white man of New Zealand, European, and possibly mixed British [00:03:00] Polynesian descent. What born 1891 to 1893 sources differ. He was either born in New Zealand, Hawaii, or Portland, Oregon.Conflict. He has a criminal record in California under the name Wally DOD Ford. Arrested multiple times in the 1920s for bootlegging and assault and a 1926 prison sentence in San Quentin for drug dealing. He is described by both court records and ex-wives as Caucasian. So. But note if you’re like, well, maybe he was a little Polynesian or a little something that like, that we know from all of his arrest records.And when he was in prison, he was described on all of the records duri

Welcome to Basic Camp! In this episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins return with a provocative and satirical exploration of modern culture, societal norms, and the ever-shifting landscape of values and beliefs. With their signature blend of humor and sharp commentary, they tackle topics ranging from family structures and relationships to the influence of elites, the role of technology, and the complexities of identity.Join us as we question long-held assumptions, reflect on past mistakes, and challenge the boundaries of what’s considered “right think” in today’s world. Whether discussing the nuances of consent, the evolution of community, or the impact of AI on society, Malcolm and Simone invite you to break the cycle of programming and think for yourself.If you enjoy thought-provoking conversations that blend wit, philosophy, and a touch of irreverence, you’re in the right place. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts in the comments below!Episode Transcript: Malcolm Collins: Happy non-denominational holidays!I am back from Gemini Labs with a new authentic outlook on life.I’m happy to share with you to guide us all to a more harmonious and kind future.So let’s hold space together here on the new and improved cuck camp.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: hello Simone. It is wonderful to be here with you today. The urban monoculture is, as I have come to understand the correct way to structure society. The elites were right, that’s why they’re elites.And so we’ve decided to do , a Gemini approved episode to follow all of Google’s very strict restrictions after they said that our anti Hitler episode was too spicy. I’ve learned that, you know, I, I really may have made some mistakes and, and misled our audience, and it hurt our audience. By challenging them [00:01:00] to think outside the box because that box was put there for a reason.that was Chesterton’s box. I.Malcolm Collins: Right. And we were wrongand we apologize.Right. And we are so sorry for the infant. Simone is taking care of one of our poly QEs infants while they go to an orgy. As, as people know, you know, we recently had a baby shower, which we do for our yearly abortions.It is of course called a baby shower because it is a party at which the guests are showered by parts of the baby.Malcolm Collins: We’re on our, our fifth abortion since we’ve been married.So, so this baby is just here to remind you , how horrifying babies are, how terrible they are, and why an abortion is something to celebrate as a family. And, and by family of course, I mean our wider molecule, I would not be so bigoted and heterocentric to cla that a family is a husband and a wife.Speaker 7: uh, oh. [00:02:00] No. Okay. Mel, time. Why did I say this, Mel? Time. It’s,Speaker 8: it’s, it’s melt time. You got the form? Okay. So we’re just gonna salsa, we just wantSpeaker 6: Yep. Bye. Yeah.Speaker 8: Yeah.Is that okay? Yeah. There you go. Okay.Malcolm Collins: Simone, thoughts before we move forward here? I,I, I am excited to model. And, and this should be easy for me, right? Because I’m just going back to my cult views and by cult views, I mean the correct views that I dissented from for a short period of time.Yeah, she grew up in San Francisco, so she’s helped when she met me.I was this savage male who wanted her to take my last name, who wanted a relationship, where we, you know, relied on each other, which is, is, is clearly codependency, right? [00:03:00] And she taught me that that’s not really the way that a, a relationship should be structured in the 21st century.And so,yeah, I grew steeped in this. And while Malcolm may have convinced me to his ways for a period of time, I think that thanks to. YouTube’s recent algorithm updates and our understanding of content moderation. Now he understands that my view, it’s not just content originally. We’re always correct.Jim and I decides what videos you guys see. So, I think it’s really good to occasionally take an opportunity to steal man and see perspectives from so this isn’t just gonna be, you know, like a skit or something like that. I’m gonna do my best. To argue from their perspective. So let’s first just go, I’m actually reallycurious to see if you can do this.Why, why is abortion the best? Recently, l Ezer Kowski has put out a few video things on this, you know, the, the, the great thinker in the space of ai, a leader thinker, was in the effective altruist in rationalism [00:04:00] communities. Mm-hmm. Has said that. Animals do not have any form of sentient, and children under the age of two do not have any form of sentt.Because while and, and nor do they experience qualia, and I’ll help you know, sort of expound on, yeah, I thinkit was 18 months that he,18 months. And I think this is a, a perspective that. While many of those with the, the correct and educated opinion like us also share that, you know, we’re, we’re not always as good as expanding or developing these ideas as he is.So what he expl

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dive deep into two of cosmology’s greatest mysteries: the Fermi Paradox and the Hubble Tension. In this thought-provoking episode, they explore the latest research suggesting that Earth—and the entire Milky Way—may be located in a massive cosmic void, potentially explaining why we haven’t encountered alien life and why the universe’s expansion rate seems inconsistent.Discover how new findings about primordial black holes, cosmic voids, and the structure of the universe could reshape our understanding of reality. Malcolm and Simone break down complex astrophysics concepts in an accessible, entertaining way, mixing scientific insight with their signature humor and candid conversation.Whether you’re a space enthusiast or just curious about the universe, this episode offers fresh perspectives on the search for extraterrestrial life, the nature of cosmic expansion, and the future of humanity in the cosmos. Plus, enjoy personal anecdotes, behind-the-scenes banter, and a glimpse into the creative process behind their channel.If you would like to explore this topic more, please check out “Testing the local void hypothesis using baryon acoustic oscillation measurements over the last twenty years“ by Indranil Banik and Vasileios Kalaitzidis.Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes that challenge the way you think about the world—and the universe beyond!Episode Transcript:Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Simone, were you aware that there have been a number of findings that recently in cosmology that might explain two of cosmology biggest mysteries?One, the Fury Paradox Really. Yes. What affirming paradox, why we have not seen aliens may have just been explained what not. Just the firming paradox. By the way, you should watch our video on our explanation for that, which is I think one of our best videos. But also might explain the Hubble tension.Simone Collins: What I don’t even know, the Hubble tension. The only news I’ve seen recently about. Space stuff is the things about that asteroid that’s close to the sun and people are like, Ooh, stuff’s coming off of it, aliens. And obviously that’s not true and it’s dumb. So I’m not, I don’t click on the links, but this is interesting stuff.But what’s this second mystery that I’ve not heard of before? Oh, hold on. I’m gonna.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So Fury Paradox, it’s why we haven’t seen aliens yet, which we [00:01:00] really should have. You know, if, if when we look at the challenges to developing intelligent life on earth, we’re aware of most of the bottlenecks that humanity had to go through, or life had to go through to get where we are.Mm-hmm. And they’re just really not that strong. If you, we actually have an episode on Agenesis how life emerged on Earth. And it was. Pretty much almost inevitable because there were like multiple potential paths. You can look at the e episode on why we think it’s almost inevitable where we go into the detail on that.Mm-hmm. But so we go into, into extreme detail on why life, the, like, the actual evolution and then getting multicell organisms was also almost inevitable. Intelligence was also almost inevitable. Just given the advantages sexual selection was also almost inevitable. And, and we go over why with data in that episode.And so now you’re like, okay, well if all those things are almost inevitable, you know, when you’re looking at planets that have like this sort of an eco like, like he, you know, starting materials, we can look out in the universe and see. Other planets like the, it’s earth is rare, but not [00:02:00] that exceptionally rare that we shouldn’t have seen other aliens at this point.Right. And so, then the thing is, is well, maybe it’s really hard to get into space, or maybe it’s really hard to invent a super intelligence. The problem is, is now that we’ve invented ai, we’re like, oh. We’re actually already to being a grabby alien. Like the grabby alien theory is already, we’re already there.We’re already a grabby alien. We’re already about to spread into space. Right. And so, if that’s the case, then we are aware of all the hurdles, right? We actually have a really important theory of ours that if you’re not familiar with, you haven’t seen our ference at all, called the Inverse Gravity Alien Hypothesis, which basically means, well, if we are already a gravity alien, then we can actually use the same equation that was originally used in the Gravity Aliens Equation that.But sort of input as a variable, the probability that life evolves on a planet. Because we have that number, we no longer have to treat that as an unknown variable and then determine the probability that AI becomes a gravity alien. IE AI just constantly wants to expand and murder everything. And.Through that we can get a calculation that says [00:03:00] grab AI basically never happens. But there might be another explanation, which you’re abou

In this episode, we dive deep into the recent changes in YouTube’s moderation policies and the impact of AI (specifically Gemini) on content creators. We discuss our own experience with video takedowns, the challenges of addressing controversial topics, and the shifting landscape of online discourse.We explore how algorithmic moderation and trust scores are affecting discoverability, the narrowing of acceptable narratives, and the broader implications for free speech and cultural diversity on major platforms. The conversation covers historical context, political bias, and the difficulties of maintaining a channel that challenges mainstream perspectives.We also talk about alternative platforms like Substack, Rumble, and Patreon, and what the future might hold for creators who want to push boundaries and foster open discussion.If you value independent thought and nuanced conversation, make sure to subscribe and join us on Substack for more content that you won’t find anywhere else.Subscribe for more episodes, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I am honestly very bummed to be here with you today because today we are gonna be like, I literally, like today, I’ve been thinking, does it even make sense to continue to. Does it make sense to continue to make this podcast because the vast majority of our user base is on YouTube.Like that’s where our discoverability has been historically, and we had finally made it to a place was this podcast where we were getting you know, our most overlaps for like asthma, gold, and nuts and shoe on head, and. Really big players, that meant that we had room to scale. Like if that’s who is similar to our viewer, it means that our scale rate is, you know, in the millions, right?If we’re playing by the traditional algorithm, we had won the algorithmic game and we just needed to keep producing consistently, and then something horrifying happened and it shows that. Our entire informational ecosystem. And I would say, you know, if you’re in the administration, something needs to be done about, this is about to be overturned and this is something that has happened in the past few days.[00:01:00] So we did a video and you can go find it on our substack, and I’d suggest that people who like our channel and Patreon. Well, apron is less relevant because it’s not free. But what’s important is if you like the channel, subscribe on Substack. Because that could give us a way to continue doing the types of videos we like to do which challenged mainstream narratives.And we did a video where we argued that in a modern context from the fact that he was a. You know, a failed har art student who was mad that his father told him too many rules and he whined about that. And that he had many leftist ideas. You know, whether it was his environmentalism or his animal advocacy, or his army’s literally marching under.The sign that swastika, which was the sign of the theosophical, you know, a pagan society that later became modern wickedness, or that wicked was derived from because the a lot of the new age movement was derived from this. So we’re basically arguing you should not. Look up to Hitler in this [00:02:00] episode.If you are a, a right-leaning young edge Lord there are better figures to look up to than Hitler who would not look like many right-leaning heroes in like the modern media landscape, and it wanted to ban that episode. Right. Like this was the first time we’ve been banned and this is like an official ban.Like if it happens again for the same reason our YouTube is taken down for like a week or and then if it happens again, I think it’s a couple months. And then if it happens again, it’s erased entirely. Just delete really all our videos. Everything. Yeah. When Simone, when you’re like, oh, we should just test.No, we can’t just test Simone. Like the situation is really bad. And what’s interesting is we can see. Why it was taken down. Because what has happened to YouTube is YouTube moderation. This happened about three days ago, has gone almost entirely over to Gemini. Or that’s like the rumor on the street.Again. I have to have qualifications and everything now. And, and you can go watch that video. By the way, if you go watch the video, you’ll see it’s an incredibly. Inoffensive anti Hitler video, [00:03:00] right, like a video saying Hitler is bad, is taken down because it doesn’t follow mainstream narratives about why Hitler is bad.Think about that. Think about how narrow that means the conversation is. And it’s not just that our videos have been doing uniquely bad since this changeover happened. And so it’s why, so what happened with the Gemini changeover is mm-hmm. Now the, the. Blunt algorithm, which used to determine like people who watch videos like yours.Oh, somebody watches a lot of your video. They watch a lot of other videos. Yeah, let’s show them that. No. Now everything is reviewed by Gemini and given a trust score. And so what’

Dive into a provocative and in-depth discussion as Malcolm and Simone Collins dissect the mythos of “Hipster Hitler” and challenge the mainstream narratives around fascism, socialism, and the historical legacy of Adolf Hitler. This episode explores Hitler’s early life as a failed art student, his Bohemian lifestyle in Vienna, and the surprising parallels between his ideology and modern leftist movements.Discover the lesser-known aspects of Hitler’s personality: his vegetarianism, animal rights advocacy, drug use, and fascination with pagan and occult symbolism. The conversation also delves into the Nazi regime’s environmentalism, anti-smoking campaigns, and the complex relationship with Christianity and Judaism.Through sharp analysis and witty banter, Malcolm and Simone reveal how history has been rewritten, why certain figures are idolized or demonized, and what lessons can be drawn for today’s political climate. The episode concludes with a comparison to Oliver Cromwell, offering a fresh perspective on hero worship and the dangers of historical revisionism.If you’re ready for a thought-provoking, no-holds-barred conversation that challenges conventional wisdom, this is the episode for you.Like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into history, politics, and culture!Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today we are gonna be having an introing conversation. That’s probably going to shock you because you think I’m just memeing here or doing like shock, you know, oh, I title card baiting. But no in reality. And we have another episode on this.Real fascism has never been tried. But I point out that what fascism actually was, was just what today we call socialism. Yeah. And that they, the, the socialists and leftists who ran the university system sort fully had to rewrite history and create this alternate government type that somehow just doesn’t exist in the world today and only existed during this one little window because we all agree that the fascist governments were bad and they don’t want us to realize that these were just socialist governments.But the secondary thing. Is you will get individuals like Nick Fuentes and kids who grow up brainwashed on this in believing this. Right. And so then they’ll say things like, Nick Fuentes will, like, oh, Hitler may have been a bit of a pedo and he may have been a bit pagan, but like he would a cool, we’ll get into it.Simone Collins: Okay.Speaker: Himler [00:01:00] was a pedophile and kind of a pagan, it’s like, well, he was also really cool. So, you know, time to grow up. We’re not, we’re not children anymore. Am I right? Am I right? Am I right boys? Am I right? Let’s go.Malcolm Collins: And I have to take a step back here and be like. What a cuck you are. Nick Hitler was the biggest, hipster, socialist art student you have ever seen in your life when you read the actual history of Hitler’s life. Hitler, if he was living today before his rise to power would have a blue hair, a handlebar mustache, and be serving you macchiatos at Starbucks.While he talked about how much he hated the Jews, which by the way, the socialists still do. Oh yeah. And have done from beginning thingsSimone Collins: just never go outta style, whichMalcolm Collins: we know what I mean. We point out, you know, the early communist leaders all [00:02:00] hated the Jews. Marks hated the Jews. Y you know, all, all these early people, none of the early, like American founding fathers hated the Jews.You know, as we point out, Jews could vote in twice of the, the states that Catholics could vote in, in the, in the in the colony period. Like, nobody, the people who have always had a problem with the Jews. We’re the socialist and communist. And we, we do that through line there. But as I go through Hitler, to anyone who has accidentally been brainwashed into having an ounce of respect for this man, because you believed the progressive lies about who he is, this will completely transform your perception of him.Simone Collins: Oh boy. I’m excited for this. ‘cause, yeah, I don’t know. I haven’t invested that much time in learning about. Adolf Hitler. Okay. Yeah.Malcolm Collins: So who was Hitler?Simone Collins: Hmm.Malcolm Collins: Hitler’s academics were poor. He flunked out of secondary school, RHA and Lynns, and later in Steyer lacking the credentials for higher pursuits. Mm-hmm. And Mein Koff, he [00:03:00] specifically blamed this on his tyrannical father s Hitler, who insisted on a practical career like a civil servant rather than art.Cool. Hitler didn’t like this. He claimed that he underperformed intentionally as a rebellious choice uh, to force his father to relent, describing the clash of wills where his passion for freedom and independence triumphs over paternal oppression. So in Minkoff, if you, if you look at Hitler’s life, right?He failed at everything he did in the early days. He said, I didn’t really fail. I just wasn’t applying myself because I wanted to be an artist. Mm-hmm.

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dive deep into the evolving perspectives on sexuality, gender, and cultural norms. In this thought-provoking conversation, they explore the origins and functions of arousal patterns, the societal treatment of same-sex attraction, and how modern urban monoculture is reshaping the way we think about identity and pleasure.The discussion covers:* The biological and evolutionary roots of arousal and kinks* How same-sex attraction compares to other arousal patterns* The impact of societal norms and historical taboos* The role of technology and online avatars in shaping future identities* The intersection of pleasure, self-affirmation, and human flourishing* Parenting, cultural transmission, and the importance of non-arbitrary valuesWhether you’re interested in psychology, sociology, or the future of human relationships, this episode offers a nuanced and challenging perspective on some of today’s most debated topics.Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more in-depth discussions!Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be discussing my evolving views on the way that, at least within our family. But not just within our family, but I think society at large is gonna move in this direction, will think about same sex attraction in the future.Oh, and you as an audience. So if you, if you know me historically, I’ve always been very sort of pro-gay, right? Like, you know, they should be able to get married the way they want. They should be able to live life the way they want. And while I still think a lot of that, the qualifications I have around that.Have adapted pretty heavily, and you as an audience are gonna get to see something very fun, which is people ask, how come you and Simone always have like such similar beliefs about things or thoughts about things? And it’s because whenever one of us has like an update in our belief system, we share it with the other one to try to convince them, get pushback, and then we sort of [00:01:00] arrive at whatever the, the conversion.Okay. This is the new way of thinking about this thing.Simone Collins: Yeah. And it, it’s often a, a moderated or, or even totally new version of the idea. It’s not, it’s not always like Malcolm Williams. Yeah. Without moderation.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So I’ll sort of describe my thought journey as to how I got here. And part of this I’ve been talking to you about already.Hmm. So the part I had talked to you about already was me trying to think through why we categorize same sex attraction. As significantly different from any other arousal pattern kink as you would call it that he is not meant to help us reproduce because predu, you know, presumably the reason why arousal evolved was to ensure that we had procreation and had children.And we also argue that parts of the arousal system were adopted for other things that are related to survival. So across mammal species, not just in humans you see, the [00:02:00] submission and dominant system co-opting arousal patterns to motivate it. You know, interestingly, where you, where I find one of my favorite examples of this.Is in most species animals, mammals, like social mammals will take on the position. A female of that species would to be mounted in order to show submission to somebody. So you will even see males do this and females do this to show submission to the part, not to their partner, no, not to their partner, but to another dominant person in their tribe or something like that.What’s really fascinating is in species where females are dominant, like the spotted hyena, the Wake Show submission is through an erection. And in spotted hyena, you know, theSimone Collins: way the females show dominance is through an erection, isn’t that?Malcolm Collins: No, it’s how they show submission. What? Oh gosh. Okay. I wasSimone Collins: wondering, I knew they hadMalcolm Collins: pin, pseudo penises, it’s called.So, so what she was thinking of is the, the females of the spotted hyena [00:03:00] actually have pseudo penises in order to show this, this trait. And so, because it’s a species with, with dominant females, the way that you show that you are submissive is to take on the role a male would take on right before sex.When in species where males are typically dominant, you take on the role that, all right. The reason I go into all of this is I’m pointing out that the arousal system is used for things other than just to motivate procreation. And that this might explain some of the kinks that humans have. Perhaps even same sex attraction.Although I think it is less likely that that motivates same sex attraction and we can get into what might cause same sex attraction number of potential things. Mm-hmm. With this being the case, there are now two broad definitions I could go for in my head that I think are good ways to divide sort of arousal patterns, arousal patterns that are serving their intended fun

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dive deep into the provocative question: “Has real fascism ever been tried?” In this thought-provoking episode, Malcolm explores the historical and ideological roots of fascism, socialism, and their intersections with modern political movements. The discussion challenges conventional narratives about left and right-wing ideologies, examining how terms like “fascism” and “socialism” have been redefined over time.The conversation covers:* The origins and definitions of fascism and socialism* How historical figures like Mussolini and Hitler viewed their own movements* The role of collectivism, authoritarianism, and racial/ethnic narratives in shaping ideologies* Parallels between past and present political rhetoric* The influence of institutions, religion, and education on political identity* The dangers of labeling and the importance of questioning mainstream narrativesWhether you agree or disagree, this episode encourages critical thinking and a deeper look at the history and language of political ideologies. Perfect for viewers interested in history, politics, and challenging the status quo.Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more in-depth discussions![00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be exploring a chain of logic that I jumped into based on a, a simple joke that caught my mind as I was walking around, which is real fascism has never been tried. And this joke came to me because I was thinking about the, oh, you know, real communism has never been tried.But as I started to follow this to its conclusion, what I came to realize, and we’ve talked about this before on this podcast, but I think through chasing this chain of logic, you can see it more completely okay. That the modern left is not only. Just fascist, like, like they are definitionally more fascist by the original definition of fascism when it was created than either the Nazis or Mussolini was.Mm-hmm. But so, so not only are they, are they more fascist, but the, there was a sort of [00:01:00] dedicated campaign to rebrand fascism as something other than socialism. All social, all fascism is what I’m gonna be arguing in. This is what we in modern times call socialism with ethnic overtones ethnic class struggle, overtones.And I will note here that people will be like, well, it’s, it’s, it’s nationalistic ethnic overtones. And it’s like, not really. The fascist movement was Pan National to an extent. And one of the, one of the really interesting things is whenever I. We’ll talk to, like, I’ll try to engage in AI on this topic or something like that.And I’ll say, you know, in what way was fascism, not just socialism, right? And they’ll say, well, fascism contained a lot of far right elements and. I’ll be like, name one, and this is the thing. It’s not like it was socialism mixed with far right elements. It [00:02:00] literally has not a single right wing element as a component of it unless you say that racism is right wing.Only when it’s practiced by white people, which is a racist comment in and of itself. So what I, what I’ll mean here is it will say like, oh, it was right wing through things like antisemitism. And yet, and we’ll go into the data on this. The original thinkers of the the Marxist and socialist movement were far more explicitly anti-Semitic than literally, I think the, the least anti-Semitic of the socialist founding fathers was more anti-Semitic than the most anti-Semitic of America’s founding father.Dramatic margin. So, so one, it is a explicitly anti-Semitic in its roots, modern leftism. But even today, if you look at anti-Jewish hate crimes, they are far more committed by leftists than they are by righteous. So [00:03:00] to say that Nazis were right in their form of socialism because it was anti-emetic, is frankly common.So let’s go into this. Fascism’s classification is a distinct ideology, particularly the far right. Part of it. Yeah. It was a post hoc academic construction, largely driven by left-leaning scholars in the mid 20th century to rehabilitate socialism’s image after World War II by severing fascism from its socialist roots and rebranding.It obscured the shared collectivist state interventionists and anti-capitalist elements between the two, allowing socialism to be portrayed as inherently progressive and egalitarian while fascism was demonized. Its reactionary, and so when you ask. You know, go into AI and you say, what’s the difference between fascism and socialism?It will give you five core points. And so this is, this is what we’re gonna be looking at here. Right.Simone Collins: Okay. Okay. I’m, I never thought to ask this. You’re, you’re kind of blowing my mind because all of the socialist YouTubers that I follow are [00:04:00] constantly calling MAGA fascist. I was just watching another video this morning where that happened.So like what? Yeah.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So it, it’s, it’s, it is both a