Pin Settin' Rag Pickers (Airdate 4/20/2026)
The Oddcast Podcast
Now! Media | Bob & Sheri
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Today's Oddcast - Pin Settin' Rag Pickers (Airdate 4/20/2026)
The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show!
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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 They've been replaced by technology in a lot of cases or by just the fact |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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