I think I’m just someone that just tries to get by. I’m kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I’d be a black marketeer, I think.

In this self-deprecating remark, Ferguson frames himself less as a heroic striver than as a pragmatic survivor—someone who adapts to circumstances and looks for angles rather than ideals. The hypothetical of World War II black marketeering exaggerates that stance for comic effect, suggesting opportunism and moral ambiguity while also implying resourcefulness and street smarts. The line plays on Ferguson’s public persona: candid, skeptical of grand narratives, and willing to puncture self-importance. Read generously, it’s an admission of fallibility and a refusal to mythologize oneself; read more critically, it’s a joke about how easily ordinary people might compromise under pressure.