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

Published August 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 59:23

I have some theories, but people I know actually, but, but I don't know if they're true. But what I, what is obvious to me is that it was, It's a control mechanism trying to siphon off some of that energy and move it in a siphoning off the energy that's less, less dangerous direction. Right. Focus on Wuhan. Right. Focus on the lab and Wuhan. That's siphoning. It's all American politics. Like, have a race war. Leave us alone as we loot your country. (59:23–59:32)

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Asserts that QAnon was a control mechanism to redirect political energy.

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“There are these giant hedge funds called university endowments that aren't paying any taxes.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:29:05-1:29:11
“Any of these schools have more tenure professors than they do administrators? I don't think so.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:31:00-1:31:06
“Very few college professors do what college professors are supposed to do, which is kind of breakthrough outside campus, into the, the…”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 00:00-00:13
“So you'd spent 44 years at Cornell at that point. So not a newcomer.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:46-06:51
“Wait, so you're a consultant to Pfizer? You're a pretty famous, one of the most famous organic chemists in the country.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:51-13:00
“Wait, you think it came out of a lab in North Carolina?”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 18:04-18:08
“If it was created North Carolina, how did it get to Wuhan and what was that?”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 18:31-18:37
“So, but you. I just want to flush this out a bit. You think it was created or begun in North Carolina, then brought to Wuhan for.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 19:07-19:18
“Testing potentially dangerous drugs on people without their full consent [is unethical].”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 21:59-22:04
“I thought that was one of the big lessons of the second World War.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 22:09-22:13
“Well, that's clearly the point of the first Jeffrey Epstein arrest.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 24:07-24:12
“We thought this through when we started this podcast a year ago, and we decided we're never advertising anything that we or people on our…”
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“We're only partnering with companies that we agree with and endorse, actually, in our personal lives.”
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“I have a big surplus of survival food from that great company.”
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“He drove to Mexico from Vegas.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 47:25-47:28
“Two of them did.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 47:28-47:30
“We got very hassled by law enforcement.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 52:53-52:56
“They blocked our camera position.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 53:13-53:15
“QAnon was clearly that.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 58:16-58:19
“It's not a, you know, bunch of college kids on no. 4 Chan or whatever, whatever they claim it was.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 59:00-59:07
“It's all American politics. Like, have a race war. Leave us alone as we loot your country.”
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“Around 2014-15 it became clear to the people running the world that you can't keep information under wraps anymore because the Internet is…”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:13:52-1:14:05
“So you had to flood, flood people's brains with extraneous and misleading information.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:14:07-1:14:13
“If you see or hear voices that are dissenting from the official storyline, they're going to have to be silenced or eliminated.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:15:32-1:15:39
“More dissent is allowed in Abu Dhabi than in D.C.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:18:26-1:18:30
“I thought the SAT was designed to do that.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:32:28-1:32:31
“No, but I mean, no. So the idea was that the SAT was supposed to democratize education.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:33:25-1:33:32
“And actually have a child who got an 800 couldn't get into college.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:33:38-1:33:43
“So clearly it's like the system has gotten so corrupt.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:33:43-1:33:47
“College graduates, even Ivy League graduates, humanities graduates, not engineers or chemists, but you know, the mark, the business guy or…”
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“Educated 22 year olds are having trouble getting jobs, but 711 can't hire.”
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“The CPI is correct. Crap.”
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“Housing market now with free, with free money.”
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“It creates a very scary political environment where people don't own anything and therefore have nothing to no future.”
Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State's Digital Evolution | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 1:55:41-1:55:48
“That they're going to lose total control over society.”
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“And in the process, of course, you acclimate people to this new digital world. New kind of commerce.”
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“There are all kinds of things to worry about that are seem imminent.”
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“YouTube is suppressing this show.”
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“Google has decided you should have less information rather than more.”
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