Joining us is a neurosurgeon Bitcoins and someone I like to think of as a Renaissance man, Dr. Jack Cruz. Welcome to geopolitics and empire, Dr. Cruz. Thanks. No problem. So I've been listening to hours upon hours of your chats with Danny Jones and Robert Breedlove and Rick Rubin on so many topics. And I know we don't have the luxury of doing a 10-hour podcast so my goal is sort of to get

your big picture synthesis and for some of the more nitty or grittier details I'll leave all the

links in the description to your previous chats and but you know first to start out just as

someone who is curious and is always wanting to learn how to learn more. How do you know so much?

Do you read like a maniac?

Well, I think the genesis of it is how I grew up.

I grew up in New York City as a poor white kid.

And my singular focus back then is how do I change my life trajectory?

And my parents actually told me maybe you should talk to some rich people.

And that's kind of what I did.

And the guy that started me off really on understanding history and not trusting the government,

believe it or not, was a Zionist banker

who owned the Sterling National Bank on 57th in Madison.

His name was Theodore Silbert.

He was one of the first presidents of benign birth in New York.

And he's the one that taught me about fractional reserve banking, taught me about the

history of the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, Jekyll Island, how the whole system works and told me the good, bad, and ugly of that entire system.

And then I had another benefactor who I've never really talked about in any podcast.

His name is Frank Scharf.

He was an attorney that worked for equitable life, an insurance company.

And he told me the inside baseball of how that system worked, you know, with medicine,

the law and banks.

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