from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast

center

the Armstrong and Joe getty Armstrong and getty show

uh... there's a lot of the Atlantic and he uh... he talks a lot about work

and technology and that's uh... i'm sorry he writes about that sort of thing

and he put out the word to readers tell me what people don't get about your job

and he said i thought we might receive several dozen replies instead we received several hundred

we heard from teachers and professors opera singers and orchestra musicians corporate execs tech

workers screenwriters playwrights sailors and summer camp directors opera singers

what don't i get about your job you walk out on stage and sing in a foreign language

and i get everything uh... today he says i'm presenting more than two dozen replies an alphabetical

order from aid workers to timpannists for a metropolitan uh... orchestra

bum bum bum bum you got two drums maybe three if you're super fancy hard can that be

a place of course i actually did play the timpani at times uh... in my high school uh...

orchestra uh... just for fun and

If you make a mistake, everybody knows that's what I was going to say.

I might only have a couple of notes.

I got a jam here and here in this little section, but if I don't do it in the right spot, it's going to be very noticeable.

Yeah, whereas I can bury my bad trumpet planning among a coffee of noise and it is hard to tell.

You could not play at all.

Oh, yeah, you could always do that in a section.

Yeah, but there's only one template.

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