Feed the drops, help keep the lights on and history on fire going.

If you're not familiar with them, what you get today is a short intro to a different

history podcast you may want to check out, along with a small sample from one of the

episodes. So in light of that, here we go.

You think your job stinks? Just wait until you hear what it was like to be a funeral clown.

Long before all human knowledge was in your pocket, people had some pretty bizarre professions.

Luckily, you don't have to come in contact with a senior terror barber surgeon now,

but you're about to find out what it's like to get surgery with an afternoon shave.

One of these new podcasts, This Job Is History, is hosted by Chris Pernell from Saturday Night

Life and Rick and Morty. Steved in factual history, this brilliantly funny podcast

delves into quirky and absorbed jobs from the past, with hilarious interviews that are infused

with fascinatingly true Easter eggs. Come get weird with us each week, as in

prof comedians from groundlings and UCB act out the old fashion gigs from another time.

You'll be glad your guidance counselor did a recommend any of these jobs.

I'm about to play you a clip from This Job Is History, while you're listening

for a lot of this job is history, wherever you get podcasts.

Prime members, you can listen to This Job Is History early and add free on Amazon Music.

Download Amazon Music Up today.

From Wondery, it's This Job Is History, with me Chris Pernell.

Each week, my producer Linda and I invite actual people from the actual past

who've worked the strangest and most unexpected jobs throughout time.

You'll be transported into the past and here remarkable on the job stories

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