…that was popularized by a different chemist named Ritter, who was then popularizing a synthesis that I believe was first featured by Strike in Total Synthesis 2. And I imagine that Strike was not the first person to employ, obviously he wasn't the first…

…who was then popularizing a synthesis that I believe was first featured by Strike in Total Synthesis 2. And I imagine that Strike was not the first person to employ, obviously he wasn't the first person to employ a WACKER oxidation, but I don't think…

…know anything about the original, you know, serious synthesis that came from the literature. I just knew I was reading the Strike book and I saw that in there and immediately gravitated toward that emanation route because... It just fit everything I was…

…as a way of changing the world or bringing a medicine that will promote some kind of social change. Some people like Strike, for example, I think had a explicitly political orientation in what they were doing. He wanted to overthrow a prohibitionist regime…

…consider the big guys like Rhodium. Maybe the top guy there was Rhodium. I think he was a Dutch chemist. I probably talked to Strike a few times. Let's say I had a question about recrystallization. I would direct it to a guy that I knew would answer…

…and the quantitative amount was much higher. The yields were 95% is what the formula calls for. If you get a chance, look at Strike. I think it's number seven or eight in Strike's book. Yeah, I think that was the route. I think he used a bromo-sacral…

…San Antonio? Yeah. I've never met him, but the funny thing was, in my case, when the feds got it, they asked me if I knew Strike, and I said, I don't. I said, I don't know. And I asked him what he looked like, and they just smiled. And I said, I…

…never met him. I wish I had. Maybe you can one day. Yeah. He's alive. Do you know the funny thing? The book I got, His Strike, how I got that, that's one of the few books that the organization gave me. They got it. I don't know how they got it,…

…this in passing during the conversation, is that Terry Delcassen the forensic chemist from the DEA, this very same chemist who Strike called the godfather of clandestine ecstasy manufacture, came through in the end and said that he agreed that DIPT should…