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and check out all of my affiliates. Joining us is Chad Grills. He was mentored in economics by past

Geopolitic and Empire podcast guest, Dr. Dustin Chambers, who is now on the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors.

Chad joined the military, deployed to Iraq, did security for presidential inauguration among many other numerous other exploits.

And then he got into business with Silicon Valley, which will tell us about,

as well as why he likes Texas and more. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Chad.

Hey, it's great to be here, big fan. Yeah, thanks for coming on. You got a fascinating background,

you know, academia, military entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley. I don't know where to start.

So you've got sort of a deep and wide experience of America, Americana. You know, if you want to tell us anything more about

your experience in these different roles. And I think you're a good person to sort of give us

the good, the bad, and the ugly on America, where America is at, sort of to get a pulse on the United States.

Sure. Yeah. So I'm from a small town in Maryland originally and studied economics in college,

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