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- I didn't really want children.
I'm sorry.
too heavily.
- Yeah.
Until my dad died. When my dad died, I felt like
my period of being a student was over and it was time to become a teacher.
And then I understood that if I'm going to teach people, that's important, but even better to teach my own lineage and bloodline.
Guess who it is? Daddy Daddy!
- Come here, come here.
Have you missed me? Yeah. Aww, have you missed me? Have you been good? Yeah.
Are you lying?
Are you lying or telling the truth? No. No, you're not lying. You been good? Give me a kiss.
The degree of patience that a mother has with a toddler is incredible.
They will sit there for 12 hours and listen to garbage music
and play garbage iPad games, and deal with the endless demands of this little human that doesn't understand other people have feelings. So this little toddler is effectively a psychopath, that only thinks about itself.
And the level of patience they show is incredible. I don't think men can do it. I don't think a man can show that much endless patience. And I don't think we should, because we should be the disciplinarians. I was always the one who said, no, enough.
"No more Peppa Pig."
It's been six hours. No.
And if you want to cry, you can cry, but it ain't going back on. I don't care.
I was that guy. But the mothers were just...
tolerate and tolerate
which is why our jobs are so different but also so equally important because patience is important and
Just witnessing the level of patience was mind-bending to me. I was like, I don't know how you
And the woman's still happy and still smiling.
truly incredible.
Bye.
Turn around. Say it. What is this?
Pong.
This is what most people in life are.
pause.
*sad music*
This is called a knight.
A knight, like a horse, you see? Yeah, like a horse.
I'm sorry.
This is a bishop.
Bishop. Bishop. Ready? We're going to test you, so you better be paying attention because we're going to get tested.
This is a queen? Yes.
You know what a queen is, don't you?
Good.
And this is a king.
Kid.
Like Daddy? Yeah, like Daddy Pig.
Daddy Pig, okay. Daddy Pig and Peppa.
Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig, you're right.
I think a father needs to be a superhero.
I think a father needs to be
to a degree emulated. I think a father needs to be absolutely not really respected.
I don't think a father should be a second mother.
Mothers can change diapers and make bottles. I've never changed a diaper in my life, never made a bottle in my life, never done any of them things. I don't get up at night.
It's not my job. My job is to be...
Thank you.
somebody who the entire family
both the mother and the child looks at and really truly believes is a superhero.
And I feel like I do that fantastically.
Thank you.
And I think to a degree you have to sacrifice part of your time with your kids to be a superhero. You can't be a superhero of your home all day changing diapers and...
playing with the baby. You have to go out
do something epic and come home and tell that story. You have to go away to war and come back with stories of war.
and there's been times where I've missed my children.
desperately and I haven't been with them as much as I would have liked to have been.
But I've always come back with a story worthwhile. I've always come back with gold for the family. I've always come back with a carcass for everyone to eat from.
- Wow.
So I feel like
As soon as you're a father, you have a responsibility to be a better person, but also be a more interesting
and more capable person.
There's a lot of fathers out here who are very boring people, very uninteresting, average, mundane people. And I don't see how you can raise a child to be exceptional unless they look at you and understand that you're exceptional.
What is your powers? Is this me? Yeah, your superhero powers. Put it on.
I fell off. Are you stronger than daddy now or no?
I am . Are you? Yeah. Can I-- I can--
I can, I can, I can do stuff, mom. I can, I can do...
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- Ow!
Who's going to do that? I got a robot. You got a robot? Yeah.
- No, I didn't get you. - Well, who told you to do that?
I'm Tristan. Tristan? Yes. Go get him. Go get Tristan.
What do you mean, though?
Go get Tristan!
- One more!
You hit daddy, but you want me trusted.
Why?
I think I want to go to any movies.
Oh, so you don't want to interest it.
Right.
I will also say that having children made me understand how heinous abortion is.
You'll always find a way. You'll find food.
No one's starving to death, not in the Western world. You'll find food.
- Yeah.
And you'll never regret having the child when the child is there.
And I think everyone who has kids wish they started earlier. But God has a plan and God decides when the best time is.
So
but has never
too early to have children. I actually think I used to be super against teenage pregnancy.
I think you're an idiot if you've got
pregnant as a teenager.
But depending on the particular circumstance, I mean, if you're financially secure, if you're fiscally secure, if you're from a rich family, or the man who got you pregnant is particularly rich, and you don't have to worry about money,
A woman should have kids as early as she wants.
I think it's the most beautiful thing a woman can possibly do. In fact, only a few generations ago, I think everyone had kids before they were 22, 23. It was pretty normal.
So I would encourage everyone to strongly understand that
Abortion is never the answer and children are truly beautiful and they're innocent and that
The best way to be a good parent is to be a good person. It's a great way to level up.
There's a lot of things if you can't do them for yourself, at least do them for your kids.
and that you take a vested interest in the world and your community more when you have children which are
growing up in it.
But all in all, it's been a beautiful experience bestowed upon me by God and
Truly, children are a miracle. I really believe children are a miracle.
you
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Yeah.