Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest, returning guest. His name is Mark A Carpenter. We just talked about, among other things, the Kennewick man, who was a body of a indigenous man who had kind of European characteristics. He was found in Washington. But you can listen to that discussion.

When we were done talking, he was like, hey, I know a lot of stuff about this.

One of the things I've always wanted to cover is the Federal Reserve.

Well-known book is a creature from Jekyll Island.

Jekyll Island was or is a club on the coast of Georgia where all these people met

in this unconstitutional thing that's

not a federal, not a reserve of us created.

And it has tons of power.

It's an incredibly powerful organization.

The ability to contract and strict credit or release credit really opposite too is very powerful and

has a big effect upon all of us but we're going to talk more about that so mark a carpenter

welcome back to the show thank you for having me i i really appreciate it yeah so for people who didn't hear our last conversation, can you kind of talk about your interest?

I know you have, you've researched a lot of different things, including the Federal Reserve.

Can you kind of talk about that and what led you into this particular subject matter?

Sure. So my background initially was in archaeology, anthropology, religion, psychology. I was really interested in culture and narratives and paradigms and worldviews. Why do people believe the things that they do?

Always very interested in the power of narrative.

And beyond that, I wanted to explore the intersection

between narratives and the archaeological record, the fossil record.

So I delve deeply into archaeology and anthropology.

I focused on Mesoamerican, Native American, biblical narratives and religion and biblical.

I'm a cultural anthropologist.

So that's really what led me into this.

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