Okay, I'm here with Dr. Kirk Elliott. Welcome to the show, Doc. Thank you. It's great to be with you.

Yes. Can you give everybody a short background on yourself before we get into the economic questions?

Yeah, so I've been a wealth manager for, I don't know, 25 years, have clients all over the world. And during that time, I earned a couple PhDs,

one in monetary economics, public policy, more on the central banking side. And then the other one

was in theology. So it's like, how do those two possibly blend together? Well, they, when I,

when I start businesses, which I own a few companies, my mantra is, is people over profit.

Because I believe if you focus on people, the profit will come. But if you focus on profit, the people will leave,

right? And so it's not that I'm anti-capitalist. In fact, the opposite. I believe that when you

give people what they want, what they need, you will become crazy profitable, but it all focuses on

helping people, loving people, making sure that

their dreams are achieved, and I'm there to help them do it.

And tell me about your journey with gold and other types of these types of assets.

Yeah, so way, way back, I think it was 1994. Yeah. So, so way, way, way back, I think it was 1994. It's a long time I'm aging myself.

You can tell by my great year. I was a traditional wealth, wealth manager working in stocks,

funds, mutual funds, annuities, things of that nature.

And even back then, I saw the need for gold as an asset protection tool to help hedge people's

paper assets with something tangible. Well, the company that I worked for, they did not like that.

I said, you can't, because I was basically telling people to go to a gold broker that I knew

and put a portion of their assets into it. And they said, well, you can't do that because you're

selling away. I said, I'm not

selling anything. You don't really know what the word sell means. I'm just telling people to go

there and do something because I wasn't getting paid for it. I just knew it was the right thing

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