Hello, everyone. Chris Martinson, CEO of Peak Prosperity here with a very special guest. I'm very

excited to have with us today. The Chicken Little itself, Dumburg, Dumburg, welcome to the program.

So good to have you here today. Chris, you know, long time in the making, really thrilled, actually,

to be able to speak with you today. I know it's going to be a great

discussion. Indeed, it is. And so for people who aren't familiar with you, a little background,

because you really came out of, for me, nowhere, May of 2021. An article comes out. You developed a very

rapid following. You built everything around social media. Substack being a primary place,

doomburg.substack.com. Everybody should subscribe. But you just,

you really came on the scene rather suddenly in great style as far as I'm aware. So

what can you tell us about your background, your interest, and why you started writing about

these things? You know, it's kind of fun to hear you say that.

Obviously, there's no such thing as an overnight success. And there's a lot of, you know,

decades of experience and practice and know how that go into creating a project like this.

But we're a very small team of former industrial executives from the commodities sector.

We had built up a pretty reasonable consulting firm, advising high net worth individuals,

family offices, and C-suite executives on all things, energy, commodities, markets, science,

and finance.

And, you know, COVID hit.

And like a lot of small business owners, it was really damaging to our

business. I think at our apex, we probably lost 85% of our revenue over a period of 60 days. And we'd like

to characterize that as a high pucker factor moment for the members of our team. And what do you do?

And do you reinvent yourself or do you split up and

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