Thanks for your comment and for thinking for yourself. I commend your willingness to question the typical blind following of Clif. Clif speaks of everything like he knows the answers for a fact. This creates a subconscious feeling in everyone listening that Clif is an expert on everything. He's not.
In regards to an underlying agenda, I really don't know if Clif is consciously or just sub-consciously Pied Pipering the masses into crypto while at the same time avoiding any of the real dangers. All I know is that he praises Freemasonry and his Templar family history and professes to practicing magick. All of these are very bad signs in my book.
All I can say for sure is that something is off with Clif regardless of the many people mindlessly lauding him with praise about how smart he is. Sure, Clif is no dummy. However, this also makes me very suspicious of both what he says and what he doesn't say. Clif avoids a lot and therefore appears to have a hidden agenda that he doesn't speak about. With Freemasonry and military intelligence (with his father) in his past, this makes me very cautious with anything that he gives out as supposed "facts" or recommendations.