Hey everyone. Today I want to share something special with you. It's an episode of the

podcast What's it Like to Be from New York Times Best Selling Business Book author Dan Heath?

In every episode Dan interviews someone from a different profession. For example, a cattle rancher, an FBI special agent, or a professional Santa Claus.

He asks, what's it like to do what they do?

What does a couple's therapists think when a friend asks for relationship advice?

Is a secret service agent supposed to pretend like they're not there when they're around the president?

And what does a hair stylist do when a client asks them for a celebrity hairstyle that's never going to work for them.

If you've ever met someone whose work you were curious about and you had a hundred nosy questions

but were too polite to ask, then this would be the show for you. In the preview you're about to hear, Nan talks to an archaeologist about unearthing ancient

wine cellars, finding the right places to dig, and tracing the arc of lost civilizations,

as well as what archaeologists of the future are going to make of us.

You can find more episodes of What's It Like to Be, wherever you listen to Podcasts.

It was mid-morning, and it was already really hot.

Eric Klein was chipping away with a little hand peck at an archaeological site in Northern Israel.

He was a college student on his first overseas dig.

The heat was getting to him. Suddenly his pick struck something green and kind of small that flew up into the air.

And everything went into slow motion and so as this green thing is twirling in the air because I had hit it and it flipped up,

I thought, oh, a petrified monkeys paw. That's cool.

And then before it hit the ground, I thought, wait, a petrified monkeys paw?

That makes no sense. There weren't any monkeys here in

antiquity and then I picked it up and it turned out to be a little bronze kind of a

statue that actually goes at the end of a wooden arm on a chair.

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