"Suppose you were already very comfortable with passive income, just like I am. Imagine that you had many thousands of dollars coming in every month, more than enough to cover all your expenses. Whether you work or not, fresh income keeps flowing to you month after month and year after year, based on streams you set up years ago."

Aye, there's the rub.

Not sure what his point is after that supposition. The verbose fictitious conversation is rather ... absurd.