Hi folks I've got the absolute pleasure of being joined by Shad from the YouTube channel Shadiversity.

If you don't know him, go look him up because he does great work.

He talks about castles and medieval war a lot, which is definitely up my alley.

But he also is concerned about, well, the modern world and the state of families,

which is something we're going to talk about because you're a very successful father

yourself thank you father of five that's amazing I'm at four and my wife's enough

we're not having anymore and to be honest with you I'm fine with that.

That was kind of our intent but interestingly enough my wife and I going into parenting we

actually were like we wanted as many as we could manage.

Like we would have been happy 12 and more, right?

Like, we genuinely love kids more than, you know,

I can really express.

But we also understood that we have to take it one at a time, see what we can manage, and we could see that okay. I think we have hit hit our limit at five, even though there is that side of us that gosh we would love for but five is brilliant.

My wife every single day she says something like I'd like another baby.

It's like okay we have a current baby at the moment. She's six months old and you know we've got more than enough to handle four is enough so you know no more for us. Thank God

But you mind if I jump on something that you mentioned. So yeah, I started doing

YouTube swords and everything, castles, history, knighthold, all that stuff. I've always been deeply

deeply interested in cultural events, as well as the way the culture manifests, more

so probably the way the culture manifests in terms of media because that had such

a astounding impact on me growing up. The heroes that I was engrossed in, the stories and

mythology, and it literally made me a better person. I grew up as a kid wanting to be a

superhero and that was an intent. That was an active quest of mine as a kid.

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