I'm an ex-father of my ex-mits and this is essential presents.

So I remember as a kid, I used to love books of fables, like ASOPs fables, and another kind

of like, you know, here's like your...

There was a comic strip in the book Highlights for Children.

Inside there was a comic strip called Goofus and Gallant, and there was like, you know,

Goofus says, Mom, I'm not going to wash my dishes and Goofus is like, I get those dishes

mom, that kind of thing.

All those fables and Goofus and Gallant are kind of like morality stories, where it's

the hero, the star of the story, Gallant, I mean, obviously it's in his name, was not

Goofus, he used the bad guy essentially, hence Goofus.

It was really clear that whatever Gallant does is like the right thing, very clear that

whatever Goofus does is the wrong thing.

And same thing when it comes to like a lot of the fables, there are stories that are meant

to actually indicate like behavior, morality, and ethics, whatever.

This is the person, this is the character that this is the...

You should model your behavior off of them because they're the hero.

This is the behavior that is bad, and it's clear because they're the villain, or they're

not the hero, the kind of thing.

So that's fine, it's cool, it's great to have, I think, fables, I think sometimes the

stories we tell are very important because they shape our character.

I think some ways, stories shape our character more than anything else.

Okay.

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