Link to the Show / Show NotesAll I Really Need To Know I Learned at York Steak House:
Jobs. Remember the first job you had in high school? The reality of work was a bracing slap in the face for the pampered tail-end of the baby boom. That generation faced a moribund economy and a job market sucked dry by the boomers that had preceded them. We kids of the suburban professional class worked in chain restaurants at malls, in fast food, in market research. It was supposed to build character. In me it revealed a dizzying abyss of futile, soul-deadening labor for which suicide seemed an appropriate remedy. But that which doesn't kill us... Listenhere,and learn the meaning of the word 'mung', Andy Dunlop's Parable of Procrastination, and the Lovecraftian terror of The Plastic Factory at Midnight.
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