rant · moment 6 of 26
His Dad's Boomer Career and Mom the Weeki Wachee Mermaid
from #180 - History Hyenas | The Tim Dillon Show · #180
3 min
Tim describes his father's unglamorous career selling office equipment for Pitney Bowes after a hippie youth, and his mother's job as a Weeki Wachee mermaid being ogled by truckers, riffing on generational work ethic.
- Tim's father didn't like his job but accepted it, coming home daily to watch Sally Jessy Raphael on the couch.
- Tim's mother was a Weeki Wachee mermaid in Florida, swimming in a tank for truckers before strip clubs opened.
- Fathers in the boomer generation were too exhausted from work to play with their kids, forcing them to learn on their own.
- One picture showed Tim's father at Woodstock; the next showed him in an ill-fitting suit trying to knock over small businesses.
- Boomers grew up listening to Bob Dylan and talking about world peace, then ended up screaming about MS-13 invasions.
- Boomers inherited money, got cheap loans and credit, got the GI Bill, and received houses on Long Island, yet still claim the deck was stacked against them.
- Tim's father constantly repeats the same three things: he can't get ahead, he's just trying to stay out of trouble, and he regrets not playing more golf.
- No matter what Tim says to his father, the response is always about how important golf becomes with age.
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