So I'd love to kind of hear your latest take as it relates to what you're seeing out there in the world today and what is pertinent to viewers.

Well, you know, Christian, since I've been studying currencies and currency life cycles and actually all of these markets on all different levels, but I've been a banker and I was a stockbroker in the 80s.

And that was at the period where globalization was just kicking off and also how brokerage houses were gathering assets in-house.

And I remember that very distinctly because they paid me extra if I could have my clients keep their assets in house, whether it was a stock certificate or a bond certificate or anything like that.

I didn't really understand at the time that that was about creating a collateral base for those Wall Street banks to go out and use your equity on their behalf.

because if you held it directly, they couldn't use it.

But if you held it in house, now it's held in street name.

Oh, I get where you're coming from.

So, you know, where do these eight pillars come from? Start talking about those.

Well, absolutely.

And they came from my work as an economist because I know how deeply I dive in.

And so for those viewers that aren't familiar with my work, I started studying.

I've been studying this on some level since I was about 10 years old.

But as a stockbroker at Shearson, I started studying about currency and currency life cycles.

And there is no doubt that we're at the end of the currency's life cycle.

And yeah, Lynette, when we left, you were about to tell us the strawberry story.

So where do we start with that?

Well, really, you know, you brought it up earlier, Andrew, and you could not have been more spot on because when one system dies, another one is born.

So what you need is you need a bridge to get you from one system to the next.

And that's partly what gold and silver provide because they hold your purchasing power intact and they enable you to sustain a reasonable standard of living.

But mostly as far as being that independent, gold, because really 2008, I knew the system died.

And that's when I became a prepper and I've had, and I've been working on it diligently since then, to become as independent and self-sufficient as possible.

We don't have that luxury of time anymore.

Like, so basically on one side, you have a dime, which is, explain that, please.