00:27:02.080If you, as somebody who may be a little bit cynical, slightly blackpilled in any form of the word, whether it be through dating or personal development or career development or finances or social mobility, whatever it is that you're worried about, think about how fragile the average person is.
00:27:20.140And realise that half of the population is more fragile than that, right?
00:27:25.680It's a great rewording of, I think it was George Carlin's line, think how stupid the average person is.
00:30:24.820This is why I think that's such a great reframe because the alternative to going for it and trying things and doing your best and actually attempting to achieve the thing you're meant to achieve,
00:30:38.560and I really believe in that sense of destiny in a way, is not comfort and sort of everything's all right.
00:31:17.320Like, there is, the bar has never been set lower.
00:31:19.900And I understand, you know, if you wallow in Reddit and the dark recesses of Twitter, that you can believe that you are a genetic dead end as a man and there is nothing that you can do.
00:31:30.600Or as a woman, that the culture is, you're kind of at the mercy of the culture in a way.
00:31:34.800And you maybe feel like you missed a time of glory or that was more appropriate for you.
00:31:39.360Maybe it was the 1950s or maybe it was the fucking Middle Ages.
00:32:55.560You know, the one thing that I worry about is having kids, and I'm sure the two of you will have kids at some point as well, is how do you pass?
00:33:05.800Like, we were talking earlier before we started about, like, you're a dog.
00:33:09.280You were saying this to me, like, you have really high standards.
00:34:02.860And then Ryan Terry's dad and then him, both plumbers, I think, like, really bad plumbers.
00:34:11.340He's a bad plumber, according to some friends.
00:34:13.620And both of them really, really valued the lessons that their working class upbringing gave them, you know?
00:34:21.040Really, like, spit and sawdust and you, like, eat what you kill type mentality.
00:34:26.380And yet, what was the point in working this hard if you're not going to give your progeny the benefits that you have worked for?
00:34:37.060Like, what was the point of doing this?
00:34:38.920Yeah, there's legacy and impact and all that sort of stuff.
00:34:41.140But presumably the greatest impact you want to have is on the people that have your genetics, right?
00:34:45.780Your kids, the people you care about the most.
00:34:47.400Okay, so tell me, how are you going to balance this, I want them to learn the lessons of things being hard, with, I want to be able to afford them the opportunities that I never had.
00:34:58.960And I, these two worlds, I genuinely don't know how they fit together.
00:35:05.120I guess this is going to be a challenge that you're going to have to face in some regards as well.
00:35:08.820But I know for a fact that Ryan pulled his kid out of private school.
00:35:13.200His kid was going to a private school.
00:35:14.740I think he's maybe only, like, three or fours of preschool, private school, something.
00:35:18.140And, like, there was, like, a non-zero number of children that arrived by helicopter each day.
00:35:23.760So kids, like, just getting dropped off by, presumably, the fucking nanny or the assistant or whatever it is, ushered off and then they'll fly away.
00:35:31.960And he was like, I just can't, I couldn't, I couldn't do it.
00:35:34.900I couldn't, I didn't like the work ethic of this particular school.