What is up Freaks at your boy, Marty Bent, here to introduce this week's episode of Tales from the Crypt.

I did a terrible job of introducing my guest when we hit record.

I'm going to do a better job here.

I sat down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry from Cornell University.

But he's much more than that.

I've been following him on Twitter for quite some time now, most acutely for his views on finance,

but he's got views outside of the world of chemistry and finance, and in my opinion,

it is an example of a critical thinker that we need more of in the world today.

So I was very happy to be able to sit down with Dave over the computer last Friday and go over his 2019 year-in review before it dropped.

I had not read anything before we have this conversation.

So it is pretty raw.

And I did read his year-in-review over the weekend.

I highly recommend you freaks go do that if you have not already.

If you have done so already, don't worry this podcast, such as on a few other topics as well as Bitcoin

and approaches the subjects in some different fashions as well.

So it's definitely worth listening to.

Dave, again, as somebody I think is one of the best thinkers I've encountered on the internet in the recent years.

And I want to drop, or excuse me, read this tweet that he dropped in July of this year before we jump into this episode.

Because again, we talk about some taboo subjects that are going to trigger some people.

All right, here's a tweet.

I am a conspiracy theorist.

I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire.

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