Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State’s Digital Evolution

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

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There aren’t many Ivy League professors as bold as Dave Collum. It’s amazing he still has a job. (00:00) How Collum Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis (11:00) Collum’s Mission to Uncover the Truth About Covid (19:36) Government Experiments Being Conducted on Foster Care Children (24:17) What’s the Truth About Diddy? (34:07) What’s the Truth About the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump? (1:00:45) Are We Being Purposefully Distracted From Things That Actually Matter? (1:12:04) The Real Dangers of AI Dave Collum is a professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University, where he earned his BS in biology and later returned after completing his PhD in chemistry at Columbia. A former department chair and 20-year associate editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Dave has also consulted for major pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Pfizer, and Amgen. Outside of academia, he’s known for his sharp, contrarian takes on politics, economics, and culture—often shared via his unfiltered X account (@DavidBCollum), frequent podcast appearances, and his widely read annual “Year in Review” at Peak Prosperity. He’s also coached collegiate gymnastics and taekwondo and has been featured in outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and The Federalist but usually on topics far removed from chemistry. Paid partnerships with: Dutch: Get $50 a year for vet care with Tucker50 at https://dutch.com/tucker Liberty Safe: Visit https://LibertySafe.com to find a dealer and learn more Beam: Get 30% off for a limited time using the code TUCKER at https://ShopBeam.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	very few college professors do what college professors are supposed to do, which is kind of
0:07.3	breakthrough outside campus into the conversation among smart people about what the world
0:11.7	is about. And in other words, they don't kind of influence their broader culture directly.
0:18.3	And you do, and you're an organic chemistry professor.
0:24.7	Are you allowed to do this at Cornell?
0:28.3	Are you allowed to kind of opine on economics, social policy, foreign policy?
0:33.9	Like, what are your administrators saying when you do this um i don't know if it's
0:42.4	generally true but um Cornell's not giving me any golf the only problem I had with Cornell and we
0:49.8	talked you know we had breakfast and we talked a little bit about I think my colleagues wish I would
0:54.0	shut up but but they don't tell me to shut up, although, you know, they've told me to stay on.
0:59.1	I have kind of an intellectual Tourette syndrome.
1:01.4	Stay in your lane.
1:02.5	Well, I'll be in the middle of class.
1:04.2	Like in March of 2007, in the middle of class, no warning, I blurt out the banking system's about to collapse. I had written about it in 2002, but I turned, I said, I think it's about to collapse. This is an organic chemistry class? An organic chemistry class. And they looked at me, and I just said, look, I think the entire banking system's going down the tubes now. And it took another year and a half to... Did they say that's not a related discipline? What are you talking about? No, no, no, no,
1:29.6	gave me gut for that. What was entertaining about that particular Tourette's like outburst is that
1:35.3	I had the same kids in an honors thesis course two years later in the first lecture, one lecture
1:43.4	a week, the first lecture I said, didn't I warn you,
1:45.6	this is February of 2009. He said, didn't I warn you that the banking system was going to collapse?
1:50.6	They said, yeah, you did. And I said, did your econ professors tell you that? They said, no. And I said,
1:56.1	what are those assholes made for. In this thesis course, in this thesis course, I used a lot of guest lectures.
2:22.6	So my first guest lecture was the CEO of Morgan Stanley Bank.
2:27.3	And he had cut his teeth on mortgage-backed securities,
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