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Globalist Long Islanders, Catholic School Snobbery, and Graduation Advice

from Built To Win · #43

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7 min

Tim jokes about who counts as a "globalist" on Long Island, compares Catholic high schools, then pivots into mock graduation advice (buy gold, befriend the rich) riffing on Gary Vaynerchuk and a wedding photographer's seminar about spending habits.

In this bit12 moments
  • 56:35Tim warns Long Island Trump supporters they might be globalists if they live in Merrick or Belmore and their dad works in investment banking.
  • 56:55Attending a Catholic school that costs twenty thousand dollars a year may indicate globalist tendencies.
  • 57:09Tim went to Holy Trinity, which cost eleven grand a year and wasn't good, but lacked the name recognition of schools like Kellenberg.
  • 57:41Advice to impressionable kids: take risks in your 20s and try ambitious pursuits like comedy or starting a band.
  • 58:09Tim claims he didn't do anything instructive in his 20s but is still doing great, with very few people doing better than him.
  • 59:41His graduation advice to kids: buy gold, get in there, because gold always goes up.
  • 59:57Practical alternative advice for graduates without money: get a second job.
  • 1:00:49Tim learned from wedding photographer Gary Fong that it's remarkable when people claim they can't save money despite earning enough to cover all monthly expenses.
  • 1:01:22Real advice for graduates: befriend the rich and find guarantors to build connections with wealthier people.
  • 1:01:48If you're pursuing the arts, do it if you have realistic and pragmatic way to execute it, but don't use excuses like being marooned on Long Island.
  • 1:02:17Talk to rich people and be friends with them if you want to be rich; play the role you need to play.
  • 1:02:41Final advice to graduates: play your position in life.
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Gary FongGary VanyachukSteve BannonLeonardo da Vinci

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