Pablo Torre
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Podcast Appearances
You can just walk around with that.
But Generation X, right, you grew up with a certain type of weed, and now weed is a scientifically engineered instrument.
And are you enjoying what is new weed, relatively speaking?
On the list of people where I'm like,
I hope that we can have a blunt conversation.
That was a great pun.
It was genuinely unintended.
Nonetheless, on the list of people that I want to have a blunt conversation with you about, though, is a guy named Martin Shkreli.
So in 2017, Martin Shkreli, a bit of the background, was convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud, one count of conspiracy.
He was sent to prison, fined millions of dollars, so forth and so on.
There's a civil case.
On and on.
He is a scammer.
Right.
Who is permanently banned, not unrelatedly, from serving as an officer of any publicly traded company.
And at some point, he gets the idea to do what, Meth?
Yes, sir.
And Once Upon a Time in Shaolin...
Had you foreseen the possibility that this would be this kind of a story?
And so Martin Shkreli, he spent about $2 million at auction.