Patrick Radden Keefe

quite to heart, and he ended up at another school called Mill Hill on the northern outskirts of London, which was a fancy private school, a fee paying school, but not as academically rigorous.

And when he got there, he was surrounded by the children of oligarchs, the children of this generation of foreign plutocrats who had found a commodious second home in London.

And I think Zach was very taken in by the swagger of these kids.

They're kind of blingy lifestyle.

They partied in fancy hotels.

They wore designer clothes.

There's a story about how...

There were dormitories on campus and it was about an eight minute walk from the dorm to the classroom.

And on cold winter mornings, these boys would summon Ubers to take them rather than do the eight minute walk.

But Zach, I think it was a combination of things, right?

He came into this school, he'd been rejected from the other school.

He was at a bit of an inflection point in his life.

And he was an adolescent in that kind of very malleable sort of plastic form that we all remember from being an adolescent where you're kind of distinguishing yourself from your parents, trying to figure out who you're gonna be.

He was also a child of social media.

He grew up very much on Instagram and followed his own preoccupations in that way.

And I think he was kind of taken in by all this.

And so he sort of rejected those more... The sober moral reflection of his parents.

The kind of more incremental... Again, it's not that his parents... I mean, his parents were quite well off, but they had a sense that you live a decent life, you squirrel some money away if you can, you live within your means, you try and have a kind of comfortable retirement, but...

It wasn't the sort of bet big, push all your chips into the middle of the table and you've got to kind of win it all or you're a loser ethos that I think is actually quite prevalent among a certain kind of man, it must be said, today.

I think there are a bunch of reasons.