Cabot Phillips

It was great.

Yeah.

I felt my kids are younger.

Mine are two and a half and four months old.

So I haven't had to deal with as much of that.

So a lot of it right now is more conceptual for me.

And I think it has changed.

Fatherhood has changed my political beliefs in many ways.

It's radicalized me on certain topics.

It's made me think more about concrete issues in ways that

Not just, oh, what's the best for our GDP or our immigration policy or whatever it is.

It's made me realize this is literally the world my kids are going to grow up in, which is so cliche, but it's cliche for a reason.

So it's definitely, I don't know, it's made me think more deeply about like the issues facing our country and our world from like a tangible standpoint.

I'm realizing now, especially with our two and a half year old, that we're getting to the point

Like the things we're doing now, the things that he is experiencing are actually shaping who he's going to be in a very real way.

And that feels like a heavy weight.

And yeah, I mean, we're trying, the big fear for me is just technology.

And I think when I see the explosion of AI, it's no longer just a, wow, what a cool tool.

What's that going to mean for our country?

It's now, what does this mean for my kid's job prospects in the future?