Robert Evans

Right.

They're taking over jobs that the grown men have have are no longer able to do, as are a lot of the women.

And there's shortages of everything.

So first off, he is kind of one of the only, quote unquote, men because he's 13 or 14.

Now, that's in this era, a child starting to become recognized as a child.

But if you think back to it, if you go back a generation or two, a 14 year old is basically a man in Western society.

That's when you start working full time.

That's when people you are old enough to like run a job and be living your life.

And the concept of a childhood doesn't sort of descend evenly upon society.

It is starting to at this period of time.

But it's also not very – it's not weird that he's going to be treated by a lot of adults as a grown man, as a 14-year-old or as close to a grown man because all of the bigger grown men are gone, right?

Yeah.

No, his dad is still around.

His father is like old enough that he's not going to get drafted.

But he's like working all the time and shit.

So because there's shortages of everything, a vibrant black market opens up.

And Jimmy rushes straight to the middle of it.

You know, he was – because of sort of his upbringing, I think he was primed to –

be willing to get into a business like that.

And because everyone else is kind of gone, he's able to start making money by, as he puts it, we were all in the racket business then, which is likely true.