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The Oddcast Podcast

Pin Settin' Rag Pickers (Airdate 4/20/2026)

The Oddcast Podcast

Now! Media | Bob & Sheri

Comedy

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today's Oddcast - Pin Settin' Rag Pickers (Airdate 4/20/2026)

 

Before machines took over, people had some seriously strange jobs—and we mean strange. From kids resetting bowling pins to human “computers” and even body snatchers, we discuss the wildest jobs that somehow used to be normal.

 

The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's always so interesting to look back on your life and go, I used to do that for a living.

0:06.4

And not only do I not do that job anymore, but like that company no longer exists or that job no longer exists.

0:13.7

It's kind of like that weird feeling you have of you're somebody that I used to know.

0:17.9

You're a job that I used to have.

0:20.3

And now you're just gone.

0:22.3

We always have an odd one in the crowd. So it's kind of odd.

0:24.9

I decidedly odd. Isn't that strike you as a little bit odd? No, it doesn't strike me as a little

0:28.5

bit odd. It's the Bob and Sherry Oddcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't or shouldn't do on

0:33.6

the regular show. Now, here's the oddcast.

0:44.3

Okay, so in this episode of the oddcast, guys, I was reading about these occupations that no longer exist. They've been replaced by technology in a lot of cases or by just the fact

0:50.5

that we no longer need or want this service. So one of these jobs was a pin setter in a bowling alley.

0:57.2

That used to be, I never really thought about it, but that used to be a human being that was back there.

1:04.1

Yeah, that had to be a long time ago. Yeah, a long time ago, back there behind the thing.

1:10.3

Let me, I'll tell you what what so this is what i said this

1:12.9

what i read those automatic pin setters have only been there since the 1950s before that

1:18.6

they would hire little boys listen usually rowdy street kids picked up from the roughest parts of

1:25.4

town working for the barest minimum of wages,

1:28.2

not known for their integrity or their work ethic.

1:31.9

They not only were these kids like little street hooligans, but some of these pinboys

1:38.5

would kind of make it known in the bowling alley that they would reset your pins a certain

1:43.5

way for a price. Whoa. So it was a little bit of a bowling alley that they would reset your pins a certain way for a price.

1:45.3

Whoa.

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