Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Army Aviation Veteran Mike Hobart, who Bitcoins and is communications and marketing manager at Great American Mining.

Welcome to geopolitics and Empire, Mike.

Man, thank you for the intro.

I was telling you just before we started recording that I've been listening to your podcast for quite a while.

At least the two years since all of the Tom Fulery started with, you know, the

blovid virus.

So I'm pretty excited to be here, man.

Yeah, I mean, it's very cool.

And I even sometimes am surprised, you know, including my past guests have also said, you know, they listen. I even had a recent guest mail me and, you know, say they want to come back on. So that's cool, you know, what, what, what, what's how G&E has, uh, grown. And, and, and maybe if you tell us a bit about, um, the work you do, I've read your articles for Bitcoin magazine, found your medium,

and your Twitter feed is an excellent resource. And tell us a bit about your background and what

you do. Yeah. So as far as background goes, I'm kind of a, I don't like the terminology or

the turn of phrase, but it's probably pre-active for myself as far as a

jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none. Because I got a bachelor's degree in exercise

and movement science at University of Northern Iowa, but then I also attended the Army National

Guard as far as the aviation side. I was really more closely to Air Force than at his army. And I was a new drollics, an aircraft neutralics specialist, which basically just meant that I was a hydraulic specialist for specifically Blackhawks and Chinooks.

And that, I mean, that was a lot of fun.

That was actually my stay in the army was where I got exposed to the actual value of geopolitics.

Because the base that we were deployed to, I found out that one of the main reasons we were holding on to it was because the base was sitting right on top of an oil reserve.

So, I mean, it's, it's really more of like all of my background has led me to just having an appreciation and real drive for understanding complex mechanisms and relationships.

Yeah, yeah, very cool.

And I mean, I thought maybe one place to start would be, I saw your Twitter image, which says great resist instead of great reset.

And maybe to get your thought on Cobra Commander Klaus Schwab's project, which everyone is talking about these days.

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