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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

The things we do for money

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Allen Ginsberg tries his hand at Market Research, Walter Benjamin goes on the radio and ToE’s Chris drops in on a new bar in DC called the Freedom Cock. Also visit radiotopia.fm and become a sustaining member today!

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You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.

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You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. This installment is called the things we do for money.

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Alan Ginsburg had decided that he wanted to become a poet, but of course being a poet didn't pay anything. So he had to have jobs.

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Bill Morgan was Alan Ginsburg's archivist and biographer.

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Alan tried everything. He tried being a dishwasher he was fired he tried working in a ribbon

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factory in Patterson he was fired every job he wasn't cut out for but at one point he got a job, a temporary job in market research. He was

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pretty good at that because he knew about words and their meanings and he always

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joked that one of his earliest jobs required him to do a survey to find out whether people wanted I pan a toothpaste to make their teeth right or luxurious.

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And he determined that Bright or luxurious.

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And he determined that people didn't want luxurious teeth because it reminded them of fur. And nobody would want furry teeth.

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