Job Description with Rick Koster

Angela Moreira gives us an inside look - sometimes funny, sometimes dark - into mortuary sciences. She also worked as a nurse and an EMT before retiring, and has an incredibly honest perspective about working people during their most difficult times.

Florida-based beekeeper Patrick Gaudin has removed thousands of bees from people's homes, and now has 15-20 bee colonies living in his own back yard. Check out his website and his videos of bee removals.

We talk with Joshua Pendragon, an independent researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary, about how new words are added to the dictionary, the challenges of researching obscure words, and the evolving nature of language. ***This episode was originally released in August 2020***

Artem Belogurov is an internationally-known professional musician who specializes in historical keyboard instruments. He talks with Rick about how a young person makes a connection to the music and instruments of the past, and what kind of merch a classical artist could be selling.

Learn more about his music at https://www.artembelogurovmusic.com/

Check out his ensemble Postscript (and his yellow pants) at https://www.postscriptensemble.com/

Theme music by Wind Up: https://firebrainrecords.com/wind-up

What's on the bottom of the sea and why do we need to map it? Bob Wallace of Ocean Surveys, Inc. takes Rick on a tour of the ocean's depths.

We commonly describe something easy to do by saying "it's not brain surgery." This week, we talk to neurosurgeon Patrick Doherty about what it's like to operate on someone's brain.

Guitarist James Young reflects on more than 50 years with the band Styx in advance of their May 13 concert at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Okay, maybe it's not rocket science, but fluid dynamics seems like an equally incomprehensible field, so we enlisted mechanical engineer Jaime Duquette to try to explain the discipline, including how you really can put the toothpaste back in the tube. Jaime, who studied fluid dynamics in college, did his best to dumb it down enough so Rick could understand the difference between the Froude number and Euler angles.

Myles Karp once ate a mango so good it made him cry. An American journalist and consultant now based in Costa Rica, Karp talks about roaming the Central American jungles in search of a superior banana, and the many other exotic fruits that one is unlikely to find in your local supermarket.

https://www.myleskarp.com/

Do you ever find yourself wondering about an intriguingly obscure or maybe intricate job? Or “I didn’t even know people did that.” My name is Rick Koster, and I don’t do many things with fluency, so when i meet someone who has a really interesting gig or does something really well, it’s a privilege to talk to them. Job Description is a new podcast from The Day where we do exactly that, talk to folks who do things the rest of us could only screw up. Look for new episodes in your podcast feed in the coming weeks.