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Grandpa the Pool Hustler and Being 'The Street Guy'
from The Pilot! · #15
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3 minTim details his grandfather's pool-hustling past and shame about it, contrasts it with his own comfort embracing hustler/scumbag energy, and connects it to his dad's recent jab calling him a 'street person' during a tax conversation, plus warnings from childhood about ending up like blue-collar workers.
- 12:52Tim's grandfather worked his way from bricklayer to company owner by asking who did less work at each level.
- 13:14Tim's father was embarrassed about the grandfather being a pool hustler, which Tim sees as shameful given how cool that actually is.
- 13:37Tim's father tweeted for Gawker, a celebrity gossip site, while the grandfather hushed and made money as a pool player—so Tim comes from a line of hustlers.
- 14:18Tim's father flipped out over a tax return question and told Tim he's a street person and a hustler, the opposite of everything the father tried to teach him.
- 14:44Tim's grandmother used to point at construction workers and tell him not to end up like that, not realizing they made $100 an hour.
- 15:13Tim's parents had no idea how far down their family could fall from the middle class, imagining a much higher bottom than reality.
- 15:31Some LA comics are hucksters who don't care about comedy, just want TV fame, and know there's no foundation to their act.
- 15:57Tim respects the hustle of those LA comics even if he doesn't respect them as comedians, because he loves slime.