In maybe the dozen or so of these that I've listened to, he's given Earth-shatteringly, life-alteringly good advice, to the point where I think these people will look back sixty years from the time that they called in, and point back with a pocked, gnarled finger: "That was the moment that put my life on track."
In this one, even though my situation is different than the callers-- she's a woman, I'm a man, for starters-- this exposition from Molyneux hit me really poignantly, and articulates, better than I ever could myself, why I chose to get married and raise a family. My transcription:
"...they [people who have children] have purpose, they have a house full of laughter, and noise, and games, and mess... it's lived in; it's alive. There is a future; their children will grow strong, as they grow old. And they will have companions, they will have friendship, and they will have love, and they will have care as they age. And they will have grandchildren. And they will be sitting at the edge of a very full table.
And you, will be binge-watching Netflix, with some frozen shit on your lap... no one to cook for. Your house will be tidy, because there is no one there to mess it up-- there is no life to knock anything over! There are no stains, called 'existence'..."
And you, will be binge-watching Netflix, with some frozen shit on your lap... no one to cook for. Your house will be tidy, because there is no one there to mess it up-- there is no life to knock anything over! There are no stains, called 'existence'..."