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🗓️ 31 October 2015
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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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1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. This installment is called the things we do for money. |
1:36.0 | 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. |
1:45.0 | Bill Morgan was Alan Ginsburg's archivist and biographer. |
1:50.0 | Alan tried everything. He tried being a dishwasher he was fired he tried working in a ribbon |
1:56.0 | 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 |
2:07.1 | pretty good at that because he knew about words and their meanings and he always |
2:11.6 | 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. |
2:22.0 | And he determined that Bright or luxurious. |
2:29.0 | 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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