rant · moment 12 of 32
Why Did You Become a Teacher? A Holiday Interrogation
from #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show · #179
4 min
Tim mocks people at holiday parties who explain why they became teachers, arguing teaching isn't a top job and that people romanticize the profession's time off and short hours rather than admitting it's an easy path.
- Tim's family gave him nooses as Christmas gifts in 2019, joking about the rough year ahead.
- Everyone wore slippers instead and posed for photos, then an aunt started the hokey-pokey while doing it.
- Tim describes his suicidal despair watching all the adults dance the hokey-pokey at the gathering.
- People doing the hokey-pokey probably don't want to hear about JFK conspiracies, satanic cults, or the deep state anyway.
- Tim's father is a talented guitarist but hasn't played in years and now only writes bad songs about his day job selling wine.
- His dad's new songs describe mundane details like taking the train to sell wine with three guitar chords.
- Tim's father's three dogs are named Maya Angelou, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Frederick Douglass after his liberal wife's influences.
- His father showed pictures of the dogs at Tim's grandmother's funeral and explained their historical names while people were crying.
- Tim's father keeps writing pointless songs about mundane routines like riding the train with coffee to sell wine.
- Tim realizes how easy and pointless songwriting is after listening to his father's material about summer and heat.
George W. BushGeorge H. W. BushKennedyMaya AngelouRuth Bader GinsburgFrederick Douglass