Boomer Parents, Wine Salesmen, and a Pool Hustler Grandfather

• 58:20Tim recalls eating out with his parents once or twice a month, mostly fast food and deli because both parents worked constantly.
• 58:54His father was a wine salesman in New York City running around restaurants with a wine bag; his mother was a swim coach teaching private lessons all day.
• 59:14The upcoming book is a funny assault on his parents' boomer parenting and their lives, and he wants it out while they're still in their early seventies.
• 59:44Tim's parents had a brutal divorce when he was five and his older brother Christian was ten.
• 1:00:08His father took him to see the movie Seven when he was eight because his father wanted to see it, exemplifying oblivious boomer parenting.
• 1:00:32Tim argues that boomers had a defining trait of being self-focused because their own parents knew real struggle but the boomers had it easier.
• 1:02:39Boomer food education was horrible—lots of fast food, using food as reward or restriction based on whatever diet his mother was on at the time.
• 1:03:22Tim's father loved commercials: the Budweiser frogs, the fat guy at Dunkin' Donuts, and cried during the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial after 9/11.
• 1:04:11His parents barely encouraged college, just saying he should go to community college, with no campus tours or guidance about which schools to consider.
• 1:05:03Tim's Irish grandfather came to the country broke, homeless, and died a multimillionaire through general contracting, and was a boxer and pool hustler before becoming deeply moral.
• 1:05:50Tim's grandmother's husband died young from an amphetamine and heart problem, so she raised two kids alone while teaching full-time and stayed very religious and community-involved.

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