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Introducing What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6964 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We encourage you to check out What It’s Like to Be... a podcast hosted by bestselling author Dan Heath that explores the world of work one profession at a time. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Janice from Warner Brothers Discovery. Have you ever met someone with a really interesting

0:05.1

job and then found yourself walking away wondering, what do they actually do all day? What does it feel like?

0:11.4

If like me, you're curious about all the ways people can make a living, you're going to love what it's

0:16.3

like to be hosted by best-selling author Dan Heath. Every episode, Dan explores the world of work one

0:22.6

profession at a time. He talks with people who genuinely love what they do, and I think

0:27.8

Dan himself may have the best job in the world, because he's gotten to talk to everyone, from

0:33.2

a homicide detective to a cattle rancher, a long-haul trucker, a divorce lawyer, a professional

0:39.0

Santa Claus, and so many other people. Dan is a great interviewer, so this show feels more

0:45.2

like eavesdropping on a really engaging conversation than it does, say, hearing someone read

0:50.9

their job description. Have you ever wondered what it's like for a funeral

0:55.3

director to do the hair and makeup for a dead person? I, in fact, have. Or if a secret service

1:00.4

agent is supposed to pretend like they're not there when they're around the president, yet again,

1:04.8

I have. I have wondered this. Well, Dan gets to the bottom of it. And one of the questions Dan

1:09.8

asks near the end of every episode is what phrase or sentence strikes fear in the heart of someone in your profession.

1:17.1

He spoke recently with an airline pilot who had a particularly intense answer.

1:22.0

Take a listen.

1:23.0

It'll either start screaming at you, Winchere, Winchere, Winchere.

1:26.4

Wind shear, Wind shear. Wind shear, wind shear.

1:29.5

Wind shear is a sudden shift in wind speed or direction.

1:34.0

Like a severe tailwind or a down draft that require you to instantaneously firewall the engines

1:40.6

and try to get the airplane away from the ground as quickly as possible

1:44.1

lest you hit the ground.

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