Interview: Rory Groves from Durable Trades

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode, I interview Rory Groves, author of the book, Durable Trades: Family Centered Economies that have Stood the Test of Time.We'll talk about what got Rory doing research for the book, what authors influenced him, and why fiat currency in an inflationary debt-based economy is destroying America. We'll discuss his family's farm, how the Industrial Revolution impacted families, and what life within a durable household economy is actually like.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of science.
0:07.0	Welcome to this episode of the Hardman Podcast. I am your host Eric Khan and in this episode I'll be interviewing Rory Groves. He is the author of the bookable Trades, which of course I reviewed in a previous episode.
0:25.2	If you haven't heard that, be sure to check that out.
0:28.1	And nevertheless, stay tuned.
0:29.2	This is going to be a really great conversation between Rory and I, as we talk about money, we talk about
0:34.4	Fiat currency, we talk about why durable trades in this world today matters and
0:40.4	how it can impact you in 2021. So stay tuned, sit back the Hard Man Podcast. I am your host Eric Kahn and I'm joined by a very special guest. We have Mr. Rory Groves. He is the author of Durable Trades.
1:06.8	Rory, how are you doing today?
1:08.8	I'm doing great. Thank you, Eric.
1:11.0	Well, is our listeners probably know by now we did I did a review on Rory's book super helpful
1:18.8	Roy I want to dig in right away and just I want to get a feel for where this book came from. So maybe you could start with some of your own personal story, what brought it about and what got you thinking about this subject matter?
1:31.0	So I have my computer programmer, computer technology consultant background. That's what I've been doing for the last 20 years.
1:38.0	What I was always interested in doing, even as a kid I was always into computers and high-tech kind of stuff.
1:44.0	And one of the things that I learned quite early on in my career,
1:48.0	I graduated right into the dot-com boom and bust.
1:52.0	And so one of the things I learned early on was just how fragile
1:56.9	the corporate ladder can be I remember I was in a in a room and I talk about this in the in the book but I was in a room and I talk about this in the in the book but I was I was in a dot-com
2:06.3	company and I had just recently been brought in and the day after I was brought in some
2:12.1	corporate buyout fell through and the entire company was
2:17.3	not shut down but almost everybody there including the person who hired me was laid off that day.
2:22.3	Wow.
2:23.0	And I remember walking into that scene, it was kind of almost like a war zone.
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