Welcome to You Got Jobbed -- unforgettable stories about people and jobs. This podcast is based on the "interesting or unusual jobs" column from mcsweeneys.net. See yougotjobbed.com for details.

You Got Jobbed

1 – Welcome

Aaron has been a janitor, hot dog employee, shipping boss, hospital chef, typewriter intern. He listened to all of War and Peace on audio book cassettes. Interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-the-night-shift-an-interview-with-aaron-bostian-on-vacuuming-scrubbing-and-mopping

3 – Aaron Sells Hotdogs

Gabriel Harley talks about being a record producer and audio engineer in rural Indiana. Original interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gabriel-harley-record-producer

7 – Chills on a Weekly Basis

Safecracking for fun and profit with Ken Doyle and Ken Dunckel! Original interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ken-doyle-safecracker
Also, I know you probably can't find your password, but please rate/review on iTunes. It would mean a lot to me.

8 – Part 1: Make the Lock Speak

Ken Doyle and Ken Dunckel continue with safecracking and locksmith stories. Original interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ken-doyle-safecracker

9 – Part 2: Seven Minutes, Give or Take Two Hours

Stephan Horvath wants you to remain calm when your kid has lice. It could be worse (listen till the end if you want to know how). 
Original interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/stephan-horvath-picks-out-the-lice

10 – Little Animals on Other Little Animals

Larry worked for the Air Force, back when there was budget for researching UFO sightings. Now the aliens will probably just catch all of us unawares…

Original interview here:  https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tell-me-about-your-lights-in-the-sky-an-interview-with-larry-haapanen

17 – UFO Lights in the Sky

This week Avril and I talk about what it's like to work at a sperm bank, and what it takes to be a firewalk instructor. Needless to say, we know nothing about either. 

Original McSweeney’s interviews: here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-sperm-bank-an-interview-with-dina-n

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interview-with-robert-cork-kallen-certified-firewalk-instructor

19 – Sperm Bank / Fire Walker

Avril and I discuss airplane drama, 80s trivia, and her mom, who called BINGO for a brief time in the 80s. 

Original McSweeney’s interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jackie-watson-on-calling-bingo

21 – BINGO

Avril and I read an interview about selling knives door-to-door. We also cover the definitions of diaphragm, wrestling movies, Days of Our Lives, Bon Jovi, Avon, and Hempfest.

Original McSweeney’s interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/never-been-to-jitterbugs-an-interview-with-michele-beardsley

23 – A Suitcase Full of Knives

Dexter O’Connell is a referee who has been yelled at in every language of eastern Europe. He drops some Globetrotters knowledge, for example, how many times have the Globetrotters lost? Listen to find out! (Or Google it…)

Original McSweeney’s interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dexter-oconnell-referee

25 – You IN PARTICULAR Don’t Understand the Rules

Mike begrudgingly joins me to talk about a few of his friends. One was a movie extra for a brief period of time. The other catalogued porn.
 
Original interviews here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interview-with-matt-haze-former-movie-extra
 
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/buying-malt-liquor-with-nickels

27 – Movie Extra / Porn Cataloguer

Rachael Burke started her young career at a lampshade store in Vermont. Later, she won a dance competition on Jimmy Fallon and performed with Jimmy and the Roots. Now she works for him! I actually thought the interview was going to be about lampshades.

Original interview here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rachael-burke-apprentice-to-the-lampshade-lady

28 – From Lampshades to Late Night

Justine Coldwater drives the bookmobile! She talks about her sweet new ride (it replaced a sad old school bus), about her patrons, and the history of bookmobiles. 

Original interview here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/justine-coldwater-no-keys-in-the-ignition

29 – The Bookmobile

Haley DeLeon plays in a wedding band with her family. She played her first weddings at age 12! She plays accordion and violin, but can play drums if the drummer needs to use the bathroom.

 Original interview with her twin sister here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/zoe-deleon-and-the-family-band

30 – The Family Band

Happy Holidays to Taylor Swift fans everywhere! Hope to do more episodes in the new year.

31 – Happy Holidays

Sorry for the pun. Samuel Thornhill, owner of MasAppetit.com, talks about his crazy path from the music to the insurance industry, onto personal chef and wine stomper.

32 – The Fruit of your Labors

Ken Doyle, safecracker extraordinaire, talks about his time as a paramedic, responding to a variety of horrific calls. If you have a weak stomach, this may not be the episode for you. 
And just another note! Guess how many people have jumped off of the Golden Gate Bridge and lived? 26! Is that more or less than you thought?

33 – Baby Put Mouse in Mouth

Gil Prowler is a cameraman who’s seen it all. Stunts, alligators, Van Halen, Mohammed Ali, Manny Pacquiao, gophers, Santana, hot bods, hair growing, and paint drying.

Original interview here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gil-prowler-has-not-yet-been-eaten-by-a-bear

34 – From Hair Growing to Paint Drying

This episode is just, well, I don't know. Listen at your own risk. You may never get this time back…

35 – Ms. Cricket, First Grade Teacher

I’m interviewing myself this week. Come listen to what it was like to work at a titanium plant. I charm some men from the French Navy and hilarity (and diarrhea) ensues.

36 – The Titanium Plant

Abby Markson (from episode 11) is back to talk about a variety of crappy jobs and one bad car accident. Also covered: Jon Hamm on the dating game, Cheba Hut, and the elusive Loverboy album cover.

37 – Dippin Dots in My Shoes

39 – Ostriches

Wearing a bee beard at a bee farm; Shooting rats at an animal rehab center

40 – Bees & Rats

Pest control salesman and prairie dog relocator. No one wants animals around. One day THEY WILL DESTROY US! Or not. This podcast does not have the answers.

41 – Cockroaches & Prairie Dogs

Geoff Fox is a meteorologist with a long career in Connecticut. Jake Vick makes inflatable things, like the boob bounce-house from the Museum of Sex in NY.

42 – Meteorology & Inflatables

This week: Jen Belt at a law office babysitting a pig, Elizabeth Griffin taught (and learned) how to log roll, another woman shipped tuna, and then a guy worked at a strip club called Tuna's. It all comes back around.

43 – Tuna, etc.

Tom worked on a Christmas tree lot. It was not fun. Also I worked on a construction site installing door stops. Also I'm on twitter, can't you like my #birbigsunderstudy thing so I don't feel like such a loser? @iloveusue

44 – Holiday Special

Cheese sculptor and Casino surveillance employee! Also decapitated mouse ornament and banana-peel-style fall!

45 – Cheese & Crackers

This week I talk about the nightmare that was Brigantine Castle, NJ. Also, a woman makes Christmas wreaths and another woman makes donuts in a building with stairs that lead nowhere.

46 – Haunted house, haunted donuts

A wedding dress salesperson and a pathologist's assistant. Also an 80s countdown and the new Jordan Peele movie trailer.

47 – Weddings & Death

An employee from the department of motor vehicles has to clean up poop someone smeared on the walls after they took his license away. An obituary clerk has a co-worker who says, "people are dying to get into the paper."

48 – DMV & Obituary Clerk

Unforgettable stories about people and jobs. Based on interesting or unusual job interviews from the McSweeney's website.

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