00:08:35.600we know what evil means well it doesn't seem like you do because you built a freeze ray
00:08:41.220he he uh and then and then punished anyone who said anything about that did he in any way reflect
00:08:50.180on that anywhere in his diaries or is that just not there like that's the first thing i went into
00:08:54.440to look at and i i so i'm maybe too autistic like i take things super literally so i'm kind of like
00:09:01.500I mean, what one person in the same out of the loop thread said, I only read through January of 2020, but he seemed convinced that the market was where the virus spread not originated. I didn't see any hypotheses about its origin. People don't get that he was very careful in public about the data he had. China covered everything up. So there never was and never will be data about the origin. So that's not actually what I took from the document.
00:09:25.280what I took from this was in the beginning and I could be I'm just maybe coming with way too much
00:09:31.780bias and so I'm going to read some actual quotes and you the listener and you Malcolm can decide
00:09:37.560what you think but what I read from this is him in the beginning being legit concerned that gain
00:09:44.500of function research that he funded has caused the leak and then trying to present a narrative
00:09:50.980that it wasn't and then every time someone gives him evidence or an argument that it wasn't he's
00:09:57.080like oh okay well no see it wasn't and then he just becomes so entrenched in it wasn't it wasn't
00:10:03.280it wasn't that like he kind of comes to believe it and kind of gaslights both himself and in the
00:10:09.460records would never ever admit though he kind of passively does i'll also i i went through and
00:10:14.300looked at his gain of function how are other people not covering it from this angle are you
00:10:18.840just better at researching i was willing to put down a lot of money to analyze the doc well not a
00:10:24.900lot of money but like i think most people because this this this document is so long and it's not
00:10:29.660an easily readable pdf because there's scans of typewritten because he's old content so the
00:10:37.540problem is i think a lot of people didn't want to spend the tokens to go through all all of it and i
00:10:44.140spin the token i love that that we do not intern power not anything yeah no no not like take the
00:10:49.100time to freaking read it i mean i read the tokens for you yes dear listener this is how much we care
00:10:56.920about you and also i was curious so i'm going to read what i pulled that is relevant to it and i
00:11:03.360mean god bless ai for all this honestly because if i were just reading this page for page i would
00:11:08.080miss things i would miss things all the freaking time because you get so bored going through all
00:11:11.720those pages. How many things have been missed in legislation, in legal documents, because people
00:11:16.380were just pouring over it using their eyes instead of machine eyes, which are way more
00:11:21.560sharp. So I just love that we're able to precisely go into long documents like these. And if you're
00:11:25.540willing to pay for the tokens, you know, getting what you need. So anyway, in terms of what Dr.
00:11:29.680Fauci wrote about the origins of the COVID-19 virus, whether he entertains the idea of it being
00:11:36.780the lab leak on january 26th in 2020 this was like when we were still traveling internationally
00:11:42.260by the way we were in peru at this time my dad and his girlfriend had gotten super sick they
00:11:47.980didn't know what it was it turned out to be covid probably almost certainly because he almost died
00:11:52.220right so like covid spreading people are like oh what's this weird thing and and you know here's
00:11:57.840here's his first kind of discussion of it well along these lines in terms of origin so he wrote
00:12:05.640about the wuhan wet market quote it now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first
00:12:11.700infection was in early december and was not connected to the market dot dot dot now we know
00:12:16.700the market was not the source it was the amplifier having said that somewhere the virus jumped from
00:12:23.560animals to humans end quote the more striking entries came from january 30 that's pretty
00:12:29.200striking as well that he's saying we know it was something around the market i i feel
00:12:34.980uncomfortable saying whatever this could be but it was not the market itself yeah i mean he did
00:12:40.580write somewhere it jumped from animals to humans i think he the first thing he jumps to is this
00:12:44.780came from an animal but again on january 1st so just a couple days later he he describes a call
00:12:51.660from welcome trust director jeremy farrar conferenced with the evolutionary biologist
00:12:58.360christian anderson who comes in a lot in this diary quote there have been conspiracy theories
00:13:04.180that the virus was given gain of function by inserted mutations and deliberately or accidentally
00:13:09.800released in Wuhan dot dot dot. The people on the phone felt the mutations around the furrine
00:13:15.940cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally since it would require an
00:13:21.800evolutionary jump that they found nowhere else in bat, nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the
00:13:28.600possibility that this could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or
00:13:34.160deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab the former being the most likely
00:13:39.540which to me sounds pretty damning well okay but he sorry he starts it by saying conspiracy theorists
00:13:46.700but then he refers to somebody else who is he referring to biologist christian anderson and
00:13:54.000this person i think later is like oh no no no no it was it came from animals but this is where it
00:14:00.900just gets kind of shady for me so he's saying an authoritative source that he trusts yeah that he
00:14:06.760trusts and later uses to confirm well this is why it wasn't a lab leak well the first thing this
00:14:12.400person said was i think this is a lab leak so but and his read the first part of that again
00:14:20.220he he frames it as he first brings it up as a conspiracy theory which i think so that that's
00:14:26.440i feel like i'm overthinking this maybe but kind of i if if i were seriously concerned
00:14:32.820that i contributed to something around wuhan that might have caused this i would be very
00:14:39.260concerned about it but i would never write anything indicating that that could possibly happen
00:14:45.480yeah he's basically writing conspiracy theory think here's an authoritative source i use
00:14:51.880in trust elsewhere there have been conspiracy theories that the virus was given gain of
00:14:56.460function by inserted mutations and deliberately or accidentally released in wuhan dot dot dot
00:15:01.240the people on the phone felt the mutations around the foreign cleavage site of the spike protein
00:15:06.740could not have occurred naturally since it did not require an evolutionary jump that they found
00:15:11.600nowhere in bat the people on the phone who's the people on the phone but the evolutionary biologist
00:15:16.740christian anderson and also welcome trust director jeremy farrar but christian anderson comes up
00:15:21.480later we'll go we'll go through some more quotes okay we're okay but basically everyone authoritative
00:15:25.560is telling him and he immediately goes to this framing it as a conspiracy theorist which is very
00:15:30.700interesting that he never seriously at least in writing and i guess this would make sense if he
00:15:35.200understood the implications of this was willing to consider this idea despite all of the evidence
00:15:39.840that he had access to at first time he's like it's a conspiracy it's not no no no no no on
00:15:45.320On February 1st, 2020, Fauci convened a larger group of virologists, including Anderson, from that previous call.
00:15:53.220Also, Holmes, Drosten, Fauci, or Gary, or, yeah, Gary, Ramball, and others, to debate the subject.
00:16:01.220His notes are unambiguous that the opinion was split.
00:16:04.660Quote, there was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion.
00:16:09.160ron fouchier or fouchier said he was sure that this could occur naturally also christian drosten
00:16:17.280was with ron the rest felt deliberate insertion was possible so it's interesting like again this
00:16:23.520is where i'm reading maybe i'm reading too much into it but i'm like well why is he so so hopeful
00:16:27.260about like every piece of evidence every every time people lean on the animal thing the animal
00:16:32.680origin he writes more about it but hold on you've got to keep it so this is when he and the cdc is
00:16:40.060still framing lab leak as a as a conspiracy he has a debate of presumably experts and it appears
00:16:48.020only two of the experts in the debate thought it could occur naturally what's also very interesting
00:16:54.380is the way that he frames that and he names them and and keep in mind i i asked very explicitly
00:17:00.340for notes about him talking about gain of function origins so there is a very deliberate absence of
00:17:07.600the entertainment of gain of function origins at least in these written notes no no hold on this
00:17:13.860isn't this is a he was concerned enough about this that he put together a large group of experts
00:17:19.360the large group of experts you need to look at what is being said because you are getting confused
00:17:24.680about the way that he's reframing it okay okay but closer to your mic because you're if you look
00:17:30.060at the way that he frames the words right he says there's a group of people there is a disagreement
00:17:35.680right now he he attempts to frame the disagreement as if it's a 50 50 disagreement but we know it's a
00:17:41.600group of experts for a debate i would assume at least eight people well so one two three four
00:17:47.620five six and others and others so more than six more than six so that's why i say eight to 12
00:17:55.900people maybe only two of the eight to 12 people thought and notice the words here not that it
00:18:03.080definitely wasn't a lab leak that it was even possible that it wasn't a lab leak that is what
00:18:09.180the that is he said he was sure that this could occur naturally not that he was certain it wasn't
00:18:15.700a lab leak was sure that it could occur naturally sure that this and and what that implies and he
00:18:22.100doesn't write it this way because he hides like oh it could be a lab leak is that everyone else
00:18:27.140so presumably the vast majority 80 to 90 percent of the other experts they had in the early days
00:18:31.460thought it literally was impossible that it couldn't have been a lab leak that is the majority
00:18:39.440opinion around him and he is twisting in the way like i don't know if you guys have ever talked to
00:18:45.900like an annoying boomer or like a histionic person or whatever you can go in a room and like
00:18:50.400clear it's clear that no one disagrees with them and agrees with them and they leave the room and
00:18:56.060they're like well one person agreed with me so it's really more of a 50 50 thing you're just like
00:19:00.480yeah what are you what did you hear in there right like give in mind this this is a man of
00:19:08.480of mature age who collects cacti in his home office so yeah he's not like of the younger
00:19:12.780generations well no but there's like a specific boomer mindset where they're like super delusional
00:19:17.520about stuff like this sometimes and like it is on full display here i mean i get the impression
00:19:22.740that he really walked out of a debate where almost no one agreed with his position and the
00:19:27.360only two who did only believed it was possible and note here even if you're not a researcher
00:19:34.160okay even if you're not a a a like it's funny that all of the data he has here isn't the
00:19:41.860circumstantial data like he's not even considering that what he's looking at is data that you the
00:19:46.780public likely were unaware of that it appears biologically impossible in the minds yeah like
00:19:53.240certain cleavage sites yeah yeah he's not doing the john stewart thing here where it's like and
00:20:00.300i'll put this the scene here you know there was a wuhan gain-of-function covid lab right next to
00:20:07.740the wet market right the suffering of this pandemic which was more than likely caused by science
00:26:26.480Anyway, the most revealing entry is July 7th of 2021.
00:26:30.380So this is well after, you know, this is when we're all like normalized to the pandemic.
00:26:33.980And when she describes a National Security Council briefing with Beth Cameron and Mayher Bittar, it became, quote,
00:26:41.460it became clear that the FBI has no idea what they're talking about since they are convinced
00:26:46.800that the origin of COVID-19 is from a laboratory leak. The reasons that they give do not make any
00:26:52.560sense. In contrast, the NSA gives some reasonable hypotheses leaning heavily toward a natural jump
00:26:58.480of species. I emphasize that I keep an open mind about the possibility of a lad leak. However,
00:27:04.580in this regard, I emphasize that just because two alternatives are possible, that does not mean
00:27:09.080they are equally probable there's a lot of bias in that i mean what was the sorry what was the
00:27:15.220scenario or what was the group that said so the fbi the fbi told him so he's got the biologist
00:27:22.820telling him he's got the fbi telling him yeah anyway he's mad at the fbi for that when the
00:27:28.340u.s intelligence community's origins report came out in late august 2021 he noted quote
00:27:32.780they still left open the possibility that it could be a lab leak however more elements of
00:27:38.300the intelligence community felt that it was a natural occurrence compared to the single component
00:27:42.440fbi those if it wasn't for those meddling anyway who seemed to feel strongly that it was a lab leak
00:27:51.960although this is based on no data at all okay i continue by july 2022 his private tone toward
00:28:02.260lab leak proponents had hardened further. At a social event, he wrote that Fox News anchor
00:28:08.800Brett Baer, quote, finally admitted that the two recent science papers by Warbley Anderson
00:28:14.920Rasmussen et al. convince him that the lab leak theory is really not true, end quote.
00:28:21.540Throughout 2021 and 2022, he repeatedly vents about congressional critics, especially
00:28:27.300critics especially senator ran paul who released his secret diaries with the pink over gain of
00:28:34.540function funding at one point writing the accusations were quote totally mind-boggling
00:28:39.820how they are distorting quote end quote the record so in short at this point it seems he
00:28:45.640he fully believed like he had he had convinced himself right like yeah no no yeah he had
00:28:50.620convinced himself he was extreme but like the I think for me what what makes me feel so like
00:28:57.560uncertain about it is why would you get so angry if you were so confident that it wasn't a lab lake
00:29:07.420you know like I just feel like look they're concerned about it I get it you know we'll
00:29:12.600have to collect more information I don't know I don't know anyway let's see what he says about
00:29:20.340gain-of-function research, and I thought this was also pretty interesting. Across the diary,
00:29:26.120gain-of-function comes up constantly from spring 2021 onward, but almost always in the context of
00:29:33.200Republican senators and outside scientists accusing NIAID of funding gain-of-function
00:29:39.840research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and they claim that that caused the pandemic,
00:29:45.340and Fauci's own position stays super consistent throughout all this. He holds that
00:29:50.180NIAID and their EcoHealth Alliance sub-award funded work that some experts call gain-of-function
00:29:57.980under a loose definition, but it did not meet the governance official regulatory definition
00:30:05.520known as, or I guess categorized as P3CO. So it didn't meet P3CO standards. And critically,
00:30:15.860the viruses studied could not have evolved into SARS-CoV-2. So on May 19th, 2021, he wrote,
00:30:23.600quote, one of the real problems is that people are conflating whether or not we approved gain
00:30:28.740of function research for Wuhan and the possibility that the Chinese created SARS-CoV-2 in the
00:30:34.960laboratory. Whether or not one agrees as to the conduct of gain of function research, when you
00:30:39.820look at the bat viruses that was studied under the grant and compare the genetic sequences with
00:30:45.420cars with SARS-CoV-2 it becomes clear that SARS-CoV-2 could not have come from the bat
00:30:51.600viruses associated with the grant that was funded so that's what's what's interesting here is he is
00:30:57.520first of all that this is the craziest thing I have ever heard it's like that's what that was
00:31:04.020that's what I was teasing because he's like well it's not gain of function per this definition and
00:31:09.080and then he's like well but I mean so there was gain of function but like it it's like you catch
00:31:14.400the mad scientist who's like making like genetic abomination like monster things and he's like
00:31:21.300well yeah i mean i understand they could tear a person apart but like they don't technically count
00:31:26.160as genetic abomination monsters because you can see they don't fit the the 50 points in this
00:31:33.140government document yeah exactly it's like that has nothing to do with whether or not they are
00:31:38.640the things running around ripping apart people whether or not they meet the government documents
00:31:43.780requirement for gain of function so more on that describing the october 21st to 23rd 2021
00:31:49.680controversy over a late eco health progress report showing mice getting sicker in their study
00:31:56.020he wrote on october 23rd quote larry made it very clear that the research did not rise to the
00:32:02.720scrutiny of p3co in other words by our definition it was not gain of function that by our definition
00:32:11.600caveat is the crux of his position yeah but they were but he's like but they were trying to make
00:32:16.560the virus more deadly and virulent they just weren't doing it by like hipaa 3 compliant
00:32:22.380standards or something yeah no that's really his argument here like internally with himself is like
00:32:27.880well but like technically not and his argument that the people around him what's even more
00:32:33.180fascinating is the people around him the scientists who around him that initially said biologically
00:32:38.120this has to be gain of function research he who then argued later it wasn't are using this same
00:32:44.460very flimsy argument that technically this lab wasn't doing gain of function research yeah and
00:32:49.960in public he was generally pretty like level-headed perhaps so as to not raise suspicion or show like
00:32:57.380how triggered he was by all this but you can see by this one entry that he wrote about this scientist
00:33:03.380named Richard Ebright how actually angry he was about this like people making those arguments
00:33:10.640quote Richard Ebright with his gain of function obsession is a total asshole who's pushing his
00:33:16.440theory because he wants to be somebody end quote he added I am terribly quote I'm terribly
00:33:23.800disappointed with Jesse Bloom and David Relman for doing somewhat of the same thing dot dot dot
00:33:29.400I believe that in some respects they are pushing for and even hoping that this was a lab leak, which the molecular analysis of the viruses dot dot dot clearly indicate that it was molecularly impossible for the viruses under the auspices of the NIH grant to have been manipulated into or evolved into SARS-CoV-2.
00:33:48.680I almost wonder, like he's being very specific about like the grant, but maybe he realizes that the lab was working on additional things alongside that.
00:33:58.640his argument is spectacularly bad so and you exactly caught the weakness in his argument
00:34:05.660the covid lab in wuhan clearly was not only working on things on this one grant that he
00:34:13.440personally was tied to they certainly would have had i would be very surprised if that was more
00:34:18.440than five percent of their funding or work right like that's not really the way labs work i know
00:34:23.640this is somebody who used to work at a research lab that got grants right the fact that he is
00:34:28.920refusing to look at any of the other gain of function research that the lab is doing that
00:34:33.860would have ancillarily been made possible so you you get a grant and you use the grant to focus on
00:34:39.160you know like the one thing but then you're still funding the facilities the staff everything like
00:34:43.500that ancillarily he would have funded this other stuff him focusing like any person who's being
00:34:51.100logical and understands how science labs works would know it's not an open shut case to say
00:34:57.200this one funded grant definitely didn't lead to it and i'm even willing to say maybe that one
00:35:03.560funded grant didn't lead to it right but that doesn't that doesn't what that's so insanely
00:35:11.340stupid yeah and and the the anger you could see that he takes it very personally because he knows
00:35:18.000i think he's internalized the truth if it's a lab leak it's his fault and his fault over something
00:35:24.080that he had been criticized for before this which was funding gain-of-function research which like
00:35:28.060the ea community is largely against most of the like edgy like very informed science people that
00:35:33.980i know generally are against i don't even know like who's doing it anymore right like they're
00:35:39.000like well it's to learn to you know better defend against you know i'm sure terrorists are doing it
00:35:44.600because it's not really it's not the easiest way to do terrorism there's easier ways to i don't
00:35:50.340want to go over i think i've gone over it on weekend episodes and stuff like that yeah uh
00:35:55.320there's easier ways and cheaper ways to create incredibly virulent diseases gain of function
00:36:01.100research it's just yeah it's it's it's it's weird that he decided to fund this in the first place
00:36:06.980it's weird he decided to fund it in china in the first place perhaps the only thing we have to
00:36:12.060think of before is covid dramatically actually like geopolitically speaking covid was phenomenal
00:36:19.080for the united states it completely fucked up china and china will likely never recover from
00:36:26.040what happened during covid shutting down your ports when you are a parts maker and part of an
00:36:32.040international supply chain makes it so that nobody because if one port part is you know two months
00:36:38.200late the whole product is two months late or a year late or two years late who's going to
00:36:42.800manufacture there in the future right like this isn't just a zero covid thing which we don't know
00:36:47.260how many people that killed when you look at modern population statistics in china you look
00:36:50.740at their salt consumption you look at their we have another episode on this covid may have killed
00:36:54.500a lot more of the chinese population than the government is saying and as well because they
00:36:59.400refuse to use the u.s vaccine and they use their own basically fake vaccine that didn't really work
00:37:04.060just like at every stage i guess in that respect he's done america a favor but like it's it's not
00:37:12.260a favor that was worth it in terms of the human capital costs like even ruthless malcolm is like
00:37:17.160no that that one was a little too high mr fauci but to do it in china just like everything around
00:37:22.120this was really shady and i think here he's sort of backing himself into like a oh my god what's
00:37:28.700going to be my legacy if this becomes the mainstream narrative and i think we're moving
00:37:33.780to a place where it has become the mainstream narrative because like and i think it also is
00:37:39.740one of the narratives that broke the media's back and is why people stop trusting the media
00:37:42.760because it was just so obvious from this john stewart thing and my favorite thing about the
00:37:46.920john stewart speech around this is stephen colbert being like no no no no no no no you're not allowed
00:37:52.720to have these thoughts you're not allowed to say these things it's not the approved thought
00:37:56.340for real yeah so another thing that that's kind of those are the most important quotes
00:38:02.540about gain-of-function research the origins and everything i think they speak for themselves
00:38:07.620i was also really curious to see what was happening behind the scenes with masking policy
00:38:12.660because that was one of the really big things that i think broke a lot of people's trust
00:38:16.560in the government when at first people were told don't mask don't do it look it's not even that
00:38:22.920effective it's not gonna help you very much and then suddenly you have to wear a mask now do not
00:38:28.680leave without a mask it is illegal to be without a mask we must shout you down if you don't have a
00:38:33.260mask you know like it became one of those i think people are forgetting just i think they're
00:38:37.960forgetting one how shamed you were for saying you should wear a mask to begin with by the liberal
00:38:44.020elite yeah and then the positions just flipped yeah and the whiplash i think for a lot of people
00:38:49.020was like hold on wait so one of these two times if not both you are lying to me yeah like
00:38:56.400demonstrably lying you're like all the scientists agree it's been decided only a crazy right oh
00:39:01.680you know there's still progressives who like wear masks all the time yeah like the the the one where
00:39:09.980like there's a funny story about the the couple who broke up i think it was like last year because
00:39:14.200one of them decided to stop wearing a mask all the time in their house gosh yeah i mean some yeah
00:39:19.920some people sort of developed covid psychosis anyway though let's so what does he say in terms
00:39:25.380of the the the stage one where it was like no everyone please do not wear a mask both in his
00:39:31.580own words and in press clippings he pasted into the diary this is such a girl's diary i love it
00:39:37.020by the way when you do the title card for this you absolutely have to have him look at your
00:39:40.440what's up but dr fauci diary no you did it wrong you you have to have him writing something like
00:39:47.420so you can see what he's writing something like oops killed killed a bunch of people
00:39:55.200oopsie you gotta have him ready to do like because you need a space facing the camera
00:40:02.380what do you have on like writing you have the camera looking from like the side come on
00:40:06.220well let's see what you can do mr ai genius i will i am an ai genius how that came out
00:40:14.640anyway by the way on rfab now on all the loading pages it now has cyberpunk cat girl animations
00:40:21.920for the loading icons and it's really fun but the thing is is i also made it so that anyone using
00:40:27.960our api can can make these really easily what i did to make these which was so cool is again using
00:40:33.000stolen leaflet tech like i i found the leaflet tech in the in the ruins and then i was able to
00:40:39.240reverse engineer what the leaflet tech allowed me to do was to remove the background of video
00:40:44.900creations and then using the removed background video creations i could create simple loop cycles
00:40:50.860again using leaflet tech to very easily with any ai you have on any project you have create any sort
00:40:57.180of animation you want as you're loading they are so cute it brings loading screen to a whole new
00:41:01.500level i love it i love it it's it's it's it's a it's inspired every load 70 unique loads totally
00:41:08.780unique animations yeah i i i'm so impressed even you have separate image loading animations for
00:41:15.620images within adventures and images on just the image generation i was like oh my gosh that level
00:41:21.240of attention to detail anyway love oh love it so anyway so it is clippings the initial don't wear
00:41:28.240masks guidance was driven by a PPE shortage, which is sort of made clear, a PPE shortage for
00:41:34.040healthcare workers, not a scientific judgment that masks were ineffective. And he later acknowledges
00:41:39.560somewhat sheepishly that the messaging went too far. So he does realize the mistake. And I
00:41:45.060appreciate that. Around March 31st to April 1st, 2020, as the White House debated universal masking,
00:41:51.220Fauci wrote plainly, big issue today is whether we should be recommending masks for everyone.
00:41:56.320we probably were too strong in saying masks do not work i mentioned this on cnn scudo this am
00:42:03.540and then this is the most direct so i want to point out is what he's admitting here
00:42:08.320is they said masks don't work yeah and strongly they didn't say they didn't say you shouldn't
00:42:16.660use masks so health care workers can get more they lied to everyone for what they thought was
00:42:24.640was the best interest at the time which i think also shows that his and his entire department
00:42:29.680was willing to lie and was totally comfortable lying and it's just sort of part of who he is
00:42:34.660yeah no and he doesn't like he doesn't express regret or he doesn't question his tactic just
00:42:41.300wrote quote we probably were too strong in saying masks do not work end quote like that is
00:42:47.760he he knew that the shortage was driven by a need for ppe for essential medical workers
00:42:55.160he also knew that n95s were more effective he also said to the public that masks did not work
00:43:03.560and admitted that in his writing so and i knew that he did that and then felt bad about going
00:43:08.280too strong on that because it's going to be hard well it's because i basically i gaslit them and
00:43:12.180now i have to gaslight them in the other direction and then i wanted to know also what he wrote about
00:43:16.780efficacy or really lack thereof of homemade cloth masks later in the pandemic when the u.s
00:43:21.820government publicly mandated mask mandates the clearest mask quality entry is actually about
00:43:27.700upgrading protection not questioning cloth masks found she wrote quote cdc is starting to do
00:43:33.200practical things that i have actually been pushing for some time for example wearing two masks could
00:43:39.700be better than just one they did a my god that showed that a cloth mask over a surgical mask
00:43:45.020actually gives more complete fit and keeps out aerosols. This, end quote, this frames the cloth
00:43:51.740masks as a useful component for a better fitting combination, but not as ineffective on their own.
00:43:57.500I mean, I'm sure he knew that they were ineffective on their own. He just didn't bother to write about
00:44:00.920it. After Trump's COVID diagnosis, Fauci noted the president, quote, wore a cloth mask instead of a
00:44:07.380N95 and press criticized him for endangering the Secret Service who were in the car, end quote.
00:44:12.760This is during his drive-by wave for supporters. And he clearly acknowledges in that statement that N95s are the superior choice for someone who's actively infectious, though it's reported as press criticism rather than Fauci's own stated opinion.
00:44:28.660But I see that as more just him tacitly acknowledging that that's a universal truth that we all understand, at least many of us understood.
00:44:36.160So, okay, in terms of vaccines, did he express any concern or hesitancy about the vaccines? I wanted to know. And not, not really. On December 17th, 2020, discussing UK data with Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance, quote, the UK is seeing more than just two instances of anaphylactic reactions to the mRNA vaccine of Pfizer, end quote.
00:44:59.620He was tracking the signal closely even before the U.S. rollout began.
00:45:03.200So he knew that there were some issues with the vaccine.
00:45:06.100On April 12th, 2021, quote, got a call at 10 p.m. from Rochelle Walensky that the CDC and FDA have called a pause of the J&J vaccine due to six cases, all women, ages 18 to 48, of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.
00:45:20.960I died well he probably wrote I should read three oh one died yeah he meant to write one died
00:45:31.960one died three hospitalized two in ICU two discharged the next day he noted quote
00:45:37.640obviously this is a big deal even though it is a very rare end quote so he knew it was an issue
00:45:45.220I think I don't remember him playing it up that much as an issue in the public but I understand
00:45:49.440why he couldn't. When an Oxford-affiliated study claimed mRNA vaccines caused more thrombosis than
00:45:55.640AstraZeneca's vaccine, he wrote on April 14th, 2021, quote, obviously BS, they did not look for
00:46:04.680thrombocytopenia. And so the observation is invalid, not surprising from the Oxford group,
00:46:12.540since their vaccine is in trouble. And I would not be surprised if they're trying to disparage
00:46:18.460the other vaccines end quote so he he's he's willing to publicly reject safety claims he judged
00:46:23.620methodologically weak because he wanted to see motivated breezing by a yeah it's so interesting
00:46:30.800that he looks at with no skepticism at his own side at his own positions ever really yeah yeah
00:46:36.840ever does he ever treat anything with a degree of skepticism um he might have been the single
00:46:42.520worst person on earth for a job like this no that there there's worse okay yeah i guess but like
00:46:48.300actually no if he had just been stupid it would have been better because then you could have
00:46:53.080you know people would have noticed or he might not have been as effective in his initial cover-up
00:46:58.820which i mean he probably did more for the destruction of people's trust in the media
00:47:03.480than anyone else than any other single human being so remember how young men were like dropping dead
00:47:09.760from the vaccines which i mean this was a known genuine safety risk repeatedly through august
00:47:17.580through November of 2021, he documented internal FDA and CDC debate over booster and pediatric
00:47:24.160authorization being slowed by, quote, the risk of myocarditis balanced against the risk of their
00:47:30.860winding up in the hospital as a result of COVID, end quote. Interestingly, his own position was
00:47:36.140less cautious than the regulators. On November 9th, 2021, he wrote that he was, quote, pushing hard,
00:47:42.260for boosting everyone despite the FDA and ACIP's myocarditis concerns, saying he was
00:47:50.040clearly at odds with the conservative approach at the ACIP. He saw them as
00:47:55.520overly concerned, not the reverse. He was much more gung-ho, and he was certainly a voice in
00:48:05.080favor of pushing vaccines even when there were known and very well-documented health concerns.
00:48:10.700So he admits that he knew about the health risks?
00:48:16.760What he was talking about in these diary entries was that the FDA and CDC were really concerned over when and how to advise boosters knowing that it could increase the risk of death from myocarditis.
00:48:32.600And he's like, I don't see what the big deal is.
00:53:04.960He said that they were, quote, meant for each other.
00:53:06.940After finally meeting his year-long texting friend in person at the Kennedy Center Honors, he wrote there, quote, friendship was cemented last night as it became clear that we really were, as I said, meant for each other, end quote.
00:53:22.200He also recounts Garth Brooks' wife, quote, just gushing to meet me, end quote.
00:53:27.640He wrote about Julia Roberts fangirling over him, quote, she put her hands in front of her mouth and said, oh, my God, it's Dr. Fauci.
00:53:36.580he is here oh my god i am the type of person who would have gotten off on this too though i know
00:53:42.800like i think a lot of people would a lot of people would write in their pink little fluffy diary of
00:53:47.940course this wasn't pink and fluffy we're just imagining here but let a girl dream about these
00:53:52.560things you know he he noted you know his pride and excitement with brad pitt's snl cameo quote
00:54:00.160brad pitt plays me on saturday night live and thanks me in serious tone after his skit end
00:54:06.120to quote there's a there's a pop song that was oh my god hollywood and sucking off fauci that
00:54:11.320whole period it was a big thing it was a big thing quit sorry quote betts malone has written a song
00:54:17.900about me to the words of you made me love you going viral on youtube totally crazy like i'm
00:54:23.840glad he enjoyed it you know like if you're gonna become famous enjoy it he he enjoyed it it's super
00:54:28.360clear yeah it's clear so also he loved when president obama trashed donald trump jr on his
00:54:36.080behalf. So after Fauci described Don Jr.'s Fauci kills puppies merchandise, Obama reportedly said
00:54:44.860that Trump Jr. is an effing moron and apologized for the language and then added Trump Sr.,
00:54:51.320quote, was a hopeless idiot who was a pathologic liar, end quote. And speaking of Trump, he didn't
00:54:57.740know- This is back before Trump's first victory, right? No, this was when Trump was in office.
00:55:04.420trump was this is when trump was in office so the guy who beat his candidate is an idiot okay
00:55:09.340yeah yeah so his exchanges with trump trump pulled him aside at one point and said tony
00:55:16.700you're losing me millions of effing dollars he followed him with oddly candid mob boss style
00:55:22.660truce quote you're playing me and i'm playing you i know you better than you think and i respect you
00:55:29.340and like you which is funny said that to him according to his diaries yeah i think he's telling
00:55:38.300the truth it's it kind of that sounds like something trump would say i know you better
00:55:44.580than anything and i like you and i respect you i love the way everyone else in this is talking
00:55:51.040like a normal human and then trump comes in and it's all of a sudden like this completely different
00:55:58.000way of talking uh ouchy i see what you're up to it's like you're when you're reading like i
00:56:04.080remember we had the episode that hasn't gone live on the great accusations against biden and it's
00:56:09.620like and what did he say come on man i thought you were into me and then you immediately hear
00:56:15.460that i think biden's voice you know you've got to play the character if you want the office okay
00:56:22.060so true i mean at least you know biden did play the character until
00:56:27.020old age got the best of him so after his own comments moved the stock market up he mused
00:56:33.400quote my remarks actually made him four trillion effing dollars and so he owes me three trillion
00:56:40.520then trump annoyed at having to wear a mask at a rose garden event snapped quote
00:56:45.600who gives a poof about the press they will try to kill us no matter what we do
00:56:51.220delightful again even when someone hates trump writes about trump it just comes off
00:56:56.360yeah it's just coming across as delightful and then he he also has sort of expresses this
00:57:00.580occasional embarrassment but it really comes across as a humble brag in his diary quote nancy
00:57:05.960pelosi was her usual self with me big hug kiss and telling everyone how great i am a little
00:57:12.020embarrassing and then he also before signing a relief bill apparently trump reportedly said
00:57:19.080anthony come here with us i can't sign this without you being here prompting applause from
00:57:24.540the room and fauci's own note quote very embarrassing i am not comfortable with this
00:57:29.300attention and i am not yes you are tracking bobblehead sales i think you're enjoying it
00:57:38.000near retirement he was still humble bragging about the humility quote i'm really being somewhat
00:57:43.820embarrassed by the amount of honors that are being given to me and kudos my way it was somewhat
00:57:49.360embarrassing since I do not like that kind of attention written he wrote this after a state
00:57:54.460department ceremony where secretary Blinken personally praised him so yeah that's I'm gonna
00:58:00.880leave it at that you guys should check out the actual original pdf which I've linked in the
00:58:06.040show notes I've included all my quotes here as well it cost a lot of tokens to go through the
00:58:10.800document but it's very entertaining and at least you can look at the first page because i think
00:58:15.160what senator ron paul's ran paul's office did with this is a a good work of art i love their
00:58:22.780their styling of the first page it's not over the top you know it's enough to look somewhat
00:58:26.420professional but it's super mocking and it's adorable so yeah you gotta you gotta you want
00:58:33.360it you want to see it malcolm i'll give you a yeah sure send it to me but you see it says
00:58:38.360tony's diary do not open lock sign so great oh my god isn't it cute thank you
00:58:46.840it is our people who are in the trump administration i love whenever i see stuff
00:58:53.160like this what it reminds me is because you know when it's like the biden administration or
00:58:58.220whatever and you're like who's really running stuff like trump can only be doing so much
00:59:02.000why can only be doing so much yeah who's actually operating everything and then i see stuff like
00:59:07.820this and i'm like oh these people are on brand paul you are doing god's work yeah like you hired
00:59:12.920the right people yeah it's it's who they hired because this stuff is not being done by ran
00:59:17.560made by yeah someone on the on the comms team or whatever they opened up canva they went they
00:59:22.980went for it and they did someone on the comms team went to him and said hey can i like make it look
00:59:29.160like a teenage girl's diary and he was like sure so it's not just that he has cool people who are
00:59:36.660like on message on brand on the team it's that he's open to these ideas like first you've got
00:59:43.040to keep in mind the environment that an office has to be for somebody to voice this as an idea
00:59:50.260yeah the this is an official government release can i make it look like a teenage girl wrote it
00:59:55.580right like and then not just do they have to feel comfortable saying that bringing that up
01:00:00.760in a meeting it has to get approved you can even imagine a world where like someone gets
01:00:05.520immediately fired for even bringing that up yeah and they need to know that the other people in the
01:00:11.100room won't look down on them for saying this no one in this room is the type of person who's going
01:00:16.000to chastise you for bringing up an idea like this or at least the on net the the weight and this is
01:00:22.660where we talk about like a major cultural shift within conservatism and you're like is this shift
01:00:28.420all the way to the top is it only in the meme lord factories is it only in the no no no it's
01:00:34.960not just the meme factories man down here in the meme factories that's where we are we're like in
01:00:40.260the mines pulling the ai like meme lord meme lord no truly if if if there was a category of human
01:00:49.240called the meme lords we would be among them the meme lord factories it extends all the way
01:00:56.000to the you know the senators and the congressional offices at this point
01:00:59.880delightful time to be alive i mean you know we felt this this way the moment
01:01:06.920covid started that was i don't know i feel like that's what everything yeah i mean covid was
01:01:10.820awesome for us i i love not being in the i mean it destroyed our business but like i don't
01:01:16.640whatever look we like to look on the bright side of things we like to believe as techno
01:01:22.040puritans that everything happens for a reason so yeah we love it's great oh i mean i love the
01:01:28.260business that we've been able to build let's see how many people over 200 people right now on the
01:01:33.440website all right we're regularly hitting over 300 now at certain times a day yeah yeah we're
01:01:39.380getting a good click-through rate on our ads so i'm gonna keep them around well i mean this is
01:01:45.300the thing when you're like i was only you know 13 first-time buyers a day or something like that
01:01:49.360but if we convert let's say 20 of those which would be half of our historic record for for
01:01:54.780conversion right into into you know long-time users that that becomes cumulative over time
01:02:02.760and also any lifetime user we get is somebody who is posting about us in other locations likely
01:02:08.940well yeah i'm like also what i like about rfab as a site is that while all the other sites
01:02:17.100especially that we're advertising against are kind of like for one thing they're adventure sites
01:02:21.980their chat apps or their NSFW apps, where you're only going to do one thing and it's not productive.
01:02:29.380You know, it's not going to make you a better person. Let's be so real. It's a lesser evil
01:02:33.780that you're hopefully going to get over real fast and move on to something better.
01:02:37.680What I love about RFAB is it's like, okay, you just did that. Did you know, by the way,
01:02:42.440you can use this for Aging Tick AI and you can use this to dub videos and build stuff and become
01:02:49.340a VTuber and edit videos and record podcasts and research things, build dossiers. I mean,
01:02:56.540we've had people reach out to us and point out that a lot of the tools that you made could be
01:03:01.880useful in very buttoned up corporate applications that are better than the internal tools at major
01:03:07.980corporations. And this is stuff that can make you a more productive worker. This is stuff that is
01:03:13.640better than what people are working at in many enterprise operations. So I really like that
01:03:18.020about it too because you sort of you catch people with the vice and then you try to radicalize them
01:03:22.400into productivity in virtue what we'll be moving to the opposite mostly working right now is like
01:03:28.920a like debauchery trap we we like we use that as our lure and then we're like shasha like
01:03:34.240go build something and have a family thrive which is also kind of cool so i like that
01:03:41.420yeah i always love it when people who like use other image generation services use ours and
01:03:45.400they're like wait this is oh i can't hear you oh no okay hold on they're always like why is
01:03:53.480nano banana on your site better than nano banana on the nano banana site why is open gpt on your
01:03:58.920site better than open gpt image making on the open image site and it's like well we do we use a lot
01:04:04.220of hacks here but they're hacks that you're not easily going to be able to do but like everyone
01:04:08.120i've always known when they try our image and video generation they're like that is incredible
01:04:11.660it's really good i just used and we're also the only ai site i am aware of because we do this for
01:04:16.960image and video generation that tells you exactly how much something's gonna cost such a relief yeah
01:04:21.820no one tells you it's super annoying and then like you know you put in what like 10 bucks and
01:04:26.480then it's suddenly gone and you're like well i wouldn't have asked for that stupid thing if you
01:04:30.320told me that like i remember when that first happened with grok too like when you have like
01:04:35.440a subscription and you assume the subscription covers you and then suddenly grok is like no
01:04:39.800we're cutting you off kid and you're like wait well i wouldn't have generated all those extra
01:04:44.760images with your infinite scrolling yeah if you told me that there was a meter on this
01:04:50.620yeah i really the transparency is fantastic the pricing is unbeatable so also fantastic thank you
01:04:57.420yeah we'll also see well i mean it's dangerous frankly for us yeah i mean yeah our margins are
01:05:03.140dangerously thin on our fab like it could cause issues and it's it's quite scary to run the site
01:05:08.300in the way that we're running it because we on on the margin choose i think around one-fifth
01:05:13.500what is normally charged which means that it was with model pricing and cost changing constantly
01:05:19.400means we need to be hyper vigilant and like there's been multiple days where it's like 10k
01:05:24.300down the drain because something was mispriced yep i've hopefully put controls in place that
01:05:28.240will help us catch it sooner now like we're more organized now than we were before that happened
01:05:33.040anyway anyway i love you love you too you're amazing and i think you're super cute and you
01:05:41.640did great research here that is a benefit to society hopefully other conservative influencers
01:05:45.720who watch our stuff now have no information about well and if they just want to like
01:05:49.640just use literally my quotes and just copy our episode but with their own editorializing
01:05:54.320go to our show notes on sub stack or on patreon i i i make them available i don't pay well them
01:06:01.320so just they're all straight from the pdf you can control f to confirm so just like use them
01:06:08.600and make your own stuff because i wish more people were talking about this and and my i paid for the
01:06:14.040token so i'd rather that people use this stuff yeah anyway love you bye
01:06:18.800however you want to handle it i am really creeped out by what octavian said this morning that
01:06:27.380somebody was trying to break into our house yes yes yeah where we live so very worrying because
01:06:35.060he doesn't make those things up and he demonstrated very clearly what he saw anyway okay i'll just not
01:06:41.900think about it but that could be the way the house is designed or something like that old houses make
01:06:46.540weird noises and shake in weird ways didn't make a noise it moved but yeah it could have it could
01:06:52.260have moved it could have been a draft it could have been a draft all the doors downstairs were
01:06:57.640locked bolted lock well yeah but and you're just gonna get the security cameras all up and running
01:07:04.080again yeah i am this actually pushed me in a full-on crazy direction so you know those little
01:07:08.960puck things that i had that i was using for companions was rfab the m5 devices well now
01:07:15.640i'm making it so that they form a network around your house that can keep track of whatever is
01:07:21.660happening as well as make a phone call to alert you if anybody who's not in your sort of directory
01:07:27.740of known people appears in any images or around your house at any time but in addition to that
01:07:33.780at the end of the day it goes over both your personal email if you want to give it access
01:07:38.220that your wife's personal email if you want to give it access to that and everything that happened
01:07:42.240in the house during the day and then based on your own personal self-improvement goals calls
01:07:46.800you up and talks you through how you could improve based on what it's seen during that day and have
01:07:53.080that persistent memory we're calling it little brother i'm very excited for this release who
01:07:56.840knows maybe a week or something the the prototype's basically working right now but i've got a lot of
01:08:01.620work to do so you have a military base in titan what is this cathedral a giant beauty what kind
01:08:12.380beauty is it what does it do a castle it's a t-rex indie rare yeah toasty thank you so much i
01:08:30.300really appreciate it high five buddy oh okay