EITM: OEWS 6/18/24

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

Episode Transcript

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Name for me, and I willtell you this. Number one, number
two, and number three are essentiallya statistical tie. There is a leader,
but you're talking about whinning. Ihave held that in for god knows
how long, Diane. The nowI'm stuck. I'm choking on it.
I'm choking on a burph Not true, I'm actually choking on a Tater todd.

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Anyway, they are separated. Oh, statistical tie, right, short
and curly name for me. Thethree most common jobs in America go sales
marketing? Okay? Can we can? We You can't just say sales.
You can't. Everybody is selling,don't you? Doesn't everybody know somebody in

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sales? But is there is therea difference between somebody who sells insurance and
somebody who sells cars? Is therea difference between yeah, Diane, yes
it is. Is there a differencebetween somebody who sells season tickets for a
baseball team and somebody who sells knivesout of the trunk of their car?
It isn't that like haven't you metthree million people when the first time you

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meet them and it's like what doyou do? And they say sales?
Okay? But that is just becausethey don't want to tell, like,
dig deep into that. I'm notaccepting that. I'm not accepting that.
Now marketing if you want to.Does she not understand marketing may be more
broad than sales? Yeah, likegive me a job. Give me a
job. Zoo keeper? You thinkthat is one of the most common jobs

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in America. No, but it'sthe first one that came to mind,
next to cyclists. So zoo keepertoo. Because I thought sales was a
good answer, Did you say cyclists? Yes? Yes, what job is
that? I don't know, Likedelivery in Tokyo, I think sales is
a good answer. No, it'snot. Now, bus driver, the

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oh my god, you driver driver, delive delivery. Everybody gets Amazon delivery
driver. So you think there aremore delivery drivers in the US than anything
else? All I know is Ican't win. No, But because you're
not thinking, I thought delivery driveris a good answer too. So there's
more delivery drivers in the US thanthere is. Would it be easier if

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I said, let's break it downpublic sector versus private sector? Now,
which one do you think you're betterequipped to answer? I don't know the
come on, public sector or privatesector? Public? Public sector? I

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have that list too. Name forme, Diane, the most common public
sector sector jobs in America. Ican't say delivery? What public sector delivery
job is there? I think she'sconfused. I am no doubt captain obvious.
Just check it in she she forfor public. I don't think he

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means like forward facing, okay,because delivery is definitely not a public sector
job. No, no, no, that's a private sector but you work
for Amazon or whatever. Yeah,that's not a public sector job. I
think public is easier for for numberone. I can't come up with all

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three that you said, top privatesector but public. I think that answer
is actually obvious. Umm, Iwill tell you, Okay, do you
want me to to take a stabat public? Sure? Well, I
have I guess for private, ButI don't want you know, I don't
want you to take Diane's guess.Well, you asked, you're going to

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say cyclist if unicyclist, don't youthe weird craft that pops into my head?
Okay, but just because of pupsin your head, because I gave
you good answer and they got crapped? Did not you really didn't? You
really did? Sales is a goodanswer. The Diane, you're selling yourself.
Come on, everybody is selling.Everybody is selling. Wait, you

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wanted to go public. I dothink number one for public is easier than
number one for private. Give menumber one for public sector. It's going
to be education. You're gonna haveto be more specific. Teachers. You're
gonna have to be more specific thenteacher. Yes, well it's obviously public

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school teachers. Yes, because yousaid public sector. Yes, elementary.
There's more elementary schools than there arehigh schools. There's more elementary schools than
there are middle Thank you. So, yes, the number one most common
job in the public sector is anelementary school teacher. Okay to her data.

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That's all I get. What's numbertwo? Uh? EMT? I'm
sorry, EMT. No, youthink that there are more EMTs. I
can't do it. I can't doanything. No, okay, now,
don't get all because every time Igive you an answer, I get crapped
on. No, No, whocrept on you? You? No,

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not at all? Impatedly last fiveminutes wind it back. So you think
there's more e mts than teachers?No, I think Diane's onto something though.
I it's it's it's a first responder, I bet no, Well I
think it's going to be police numberfour. Oh that's not number two.
No, well that's why when we'renumber four, where's like Diane's answer,

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emergency medical services? No, no, no, registered nurse that's number six.
You want that, it's not anEMT. I'll tell you that people
can get weird with private versus public. Yeah, well ask like you know
me? Yes, Diane, retailpardon me, retail retail sales. You

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know that's not a public sector job. Oh, you're right. Look how
many things are crossed out on Diane'spiece of paper? Showe elliot your paper.
It looks like you were drawing.Now wait, can I go back
to retail sales because that is agreat guess that's private sector. That's my

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guest for a private that's number two. That's number two, Diane. So
you're you're on the right track.You're just lost in public prim Yeah,
that's it. Now that you knowone is private and one is public,
does that help a little bit?Not really? Oh all right, now
which one do you want to do? Well? You had police? Okay,

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we're back to public elementary teachers.What's number two? Public? Public?
Or give me number three? Isthat the one you have Diane?
Number two? I don't have anyof them. What about Kristen? She
looks into this and she's laughing alot, Kristen with her at Kristen turned

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yourself on for a moment. Pleaseyes, whoa hello Aaron M. Barlow.
Oh wait what did bear? Didyou hear them? Oh? Her
laugh? Yes? Her laugh?What is are you going public or private?
I would like you to help identifythis? Okay, like a Walmart

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cashier, that's sale. No,that's retail. That's retail. That's not
that's not retail. The cashier isa separate is it? I would say?
So she's saying specifically Walmart. Thatseems really you can't tell. That's
kind of what I was thinking.Oh no, you know what, Well,
then you that's what you should havesaid. They're separate. I just

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said retail, yeah, retail sales. Yeah, but that's not necessarily the
cashier. Cashier is one, two, three, four five on which one?
Do you know a lot of publicsector cashiers? I don't know,
but think about a store at themall. There's more employees at a retail

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store exactly exactly. So that makessense if you think about it that way.
If you think about it in practice, then you would get that.
But cashier is what number one,two, three, four, five?
All right, she's got her handup again. Oh yes, waiter,

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wayter, that's going to be aprivate Thank you, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven, Very good, Kristen, good.
Yeah, I thought food would havebeen higher. Really, it's not even
a top ten. What kind offood? Oh? Is the waiter only

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fine dining? No? But ohI'm sorry. Every restaurant you go to
has waiter service? Chipotle is not. Well cashier to me goes back to
that's see, cashier is very broad. Yes, that could be food,

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that's fast food. Yeah, nocashier, you said it was fifth.
Say again, yes, yes,yes, think go to practice, Go
to practice, Go to practice.Okay, Christmas, if you don't put
in that, no coach, no, God, no, put it into

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practice. Put it into practice,right, So waiter not every restaurant has
a waiter. McDonald's does not.Exactly what does McDonald's have a kiosks?
Oh my god? Why do Ieven ask? It's robots? Is it
robots? Elliot? Number one?Robots? They don't have You have to
clean up your own stuff. Exceptthey got rid of AI at those test

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restaurants, the fast food and counterworkers. Oh so they're not calling the
cashiers, they're not casting because whenI worked in Burger King, I can
tell you I was forbidden to toucha cash register unless it was to sign
myself in the thank you, thankyou, by the way, fast food

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counterworker number three, number two retailsales. What's number one Diane? In
private sector? I don't know.You should know this, honestly, you
should know. Have I worked it? No? No, no, no,
Why are you saying that? Well, I can't tell you. Oh

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gives it away, which means Diane'snot qualified to do it. No,
I no, you know what.I bet I honestly, and I know
that that you're trying to get meto pile on to Diane. I bet
Diane would actually be very good atit. Could she those step into this
role tomorrow? No? No,you would need some training. You would
need I would need some training.We all would need some training. Yes,

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Chris did an uber driver. Dianewould be great at that. She's
a safe driver. When is thelast time you were in a car with
Diane? When she took me toget my appendix check up and my car
is spotless by the way, thankyou. Okay, but I would be
the one who'd have water and mints, right, Oh, that I believe.
But you would also get medical emergency. Yeah, but you would also

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look at like on the timer thatit says like you should arrive and then
you add twenty minutes because Diane doesn'teven drive the speed limit. Diane is
horrible because you get us sur fastand I don't like write in in a
reckless manner, not at all.I'm sorry if we ever wrecked, I'm
sorry. Say again, Kristen,Diane interrupted you. Yours is fine.
I like to go fast, thankyou. But Diane like and I don't

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sleep in cars, but I feellike I would be able to just yes,
you would, absolutely. That's nota compliment you to sleep, but
that's relaxing. Hey, I've drivenwith Mike. But Diane could be an
uber driver tomorrow. Yeah, sheknows how to drive. She has to
get used to the app. Theyou know, I use the app.

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I can't reach forward and hit acceptif that takes practice? Very fair?
All right, come on, comeon, what's number one? Diane?
What's number one? Would Diane needsschooling for this, you know what.
I don't know the answer to that. I don't know if you need schooling.
I would think, No, Idon't think you need schooling for it.

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I do training. I think youneed training. I think there would
be a ton of on the joblearning. There's probably I don't know for
sure. I don't know for sure. No, there's no way that you
need schooling for it. There mightbe, there might be. I'm the
iffy on it. I could seewhere somebody would argue the answer, I

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don't know it's the real answer.I could see why. I could why.
Half my brain is telling me youneed training for this, because you
would be required to do some thingsthat need schooling. And then my other
half would be like, you couldprobably just teach me how to do it,
and I could. I could doit, So I would need training,
but maybe not schooling. But somy guess is all tied to medical

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school. And if you don't needmedical school, it's not going to be
a physician. Oh you don't,no, no, no, no,
no, no no. You thinkthere's as many doctors as there is fast
food workers if you don't separate outby specialty. No, there's a lot
of doctors yeah, but not asmany as fast food. More people work
in McDonald's than a Nova. Diane, check your phone the Oh you got

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the app? I gave her ayes, Well, why don't you say
it? To chime in? Whatwas her guest? Construction work? Great
guests? Not it, but greatguess? Is that on the list,
Diane, I don't know where tolook. Do I look under private or

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private? Private sector? Uh?Yeah, absolutely? One, two,
three, four, five, sixseven? Come on, what's number one?
Please? Please? What's number one? You already know? Let me
go to public sector real quick?Public sector was easy, right, Public

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sector was easy? The teachers elementaryschool teacher number one, number two,
teaching assistance number three, Secondary schoolteachers, number four, police, number
five, middle school teachers. Isn'tthat weird? Is there more high schools?
Oh, they're bigger, they're bigger. That would make sense. See
how I think in practice? HowI put that through, Diane, classize

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this kind of travel with the grades. Yeah, but I'm just saying there's
there's a thousand times more elementary schoolsthan anything that filters into middle schools.
But middle schools are smaller than highschools. So your high schools, I
could see where you would have moreeven though there's fewer. I understand that.
Let's not exhale so loudly. Themics are on, all right,
Diane, come on and again,I don't know if you need schooling.

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I'm gonna bet not. How couldit be the most common job in America
if you need schooling for it.There you're using your head. That's putting
it into practice. Like you don'tneed You don't need schooling to work retail.
You don't. It's on the jobtraining. You don't need schooling for
fast food. It's on the job. You don't need schooling to be a

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cashier. But these are all thingsyou learned, so there's no way you
need schooling for it. I answeredmy own question. What now Kristen sent
me landscaping? You know what?Oh huh, I'm sorry. What about

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the video you have to do tothe guys? Oh you got a no
no to spit on it. Youdidn't see that video? The Oh,
okay, all right, it wasdisgusting. Maintenance. Oh that's a good
one. Building like building maintenance.It doesn't work here. I mean again

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that there are more people doing buildingmaintenance than there are doing fast food work.
Nope, spit on that thing.Come on, Diane, it's so
obvious. It's like the nose onyour face. That's not a hint.
By the way, come on,what do we know as Americans? Very

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little? We are a what society? America? First, we are a
blessed did I? That is nottrue? That is not true. That
is not true. There are plentyof healthy people in America. Okay,

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what we want things? To setthis up right, we are a blank
society consumer the Yes, we wantthings fast. We don't want to wait
for them. Right, So backto Amazon. Driver goes back to that.
We are an aging society. Okay, so caregivers, thank you,

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Home health and personal care aids.What that is the most common job in
America? Wow, you don't needa license for that. No, not
everybody. No, Like if Iwent and worked that a but by the
way, I head of fast foodworkers. They are short and curly split
with each other. Number one ishome health and Personal care aids. Number

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two is retail salespeople, and numberthree is fast food counter workers. And
it's because of the aging population.Also, think about how many you need,
like drive by any old folks home, like the one around the corner.
Well, yeah, they're they're Imean usually wholy uh woefully understaffed.
But right, but and they're understaffed, they need more and it's still the

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number one job. Now. Ihope you appreciate that I gave you a
compliment and said that I think youcould do this job. Yeah I couldn't.
I know, I couldn't, youknow, goddamn frustrated. I would
get with them. I mean,there's there are things that you should probably
have a little training for. No, but that would be on the job.
Yeah, Like you know, likefor example, I know, I

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don't know if if many of thosepeople are like like certified nursing assistants or
what ever, or have like basicmedical training. I would bet most don't.
Maybe there are some in the facility. Yeah, but listen, here's
what I know. If an oldperson falls down, I don't even pick
them up. I want one nineone one. Let the fire department come
get them lift the cysts have fundown there. See you in the morning.

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But isn't that an odd answer?Yes? And all of that being
said, how many people do youknow that work in the home health and
personal care job? Not as manyas the other too. I know people
that work retail. Hi, mom, I know people that work fast food.
I don't know anybody that works inretail or in home health or personal

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care. So maybe, but itis the most common job in America.
We should sort of back off whenit comes to criticizing Diane not being able
to get it. I didn't criticizeDiane. Oh you didn't, Well,
it was the last twenty minutes.No, well, because she was guessing
Amazon driver. Look on any roadwayin your neighborhood. What do you see

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the most of On any roadway?What do I see? I see exits
to turn into old folks home whereI know that there are personal care.
I see an awful lot of deliverydrivers in our neighborhood. But I'm just
saying I don't be stopping at myhouse. I don't think anybody listening would
have screaming or personal care. Yeah, no way, I think you'd be

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surprised. I do think retail sales. I do think fast food. I
don't even think people would have Ithink people would have said immediately, they
would have said fast food. Imean, think about how many fast food
restaurants I've been to, You willoath, I've been served by this many
people. But don't you But again, so, but that gets me back
to my point. I don't knowanybody who works in the field, but

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it is the most common field inAmerica. Do you have actual numbers?
I do, But it's weird.When you print this out from the from
the from the thing here, itcuts off that column on the side,
so I can't see it. Letme see if I can find it,
So hold on it may say,here, I have it. Wow,

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Wow, these are really close.You're you're not lying? I do.
I do three point seven million eachthere's three point seven million people working in
like personal aid, there's three pointseven like then it starts getting rounding,
but it is. It is quiteclose, and then it's then it's retail,
and then it's uh, then it'sfast food. You know what you

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didn't say, And it's between fastfood and cashiers. And there's three point
five million number four general and operationsmanagers. That to me is too vague.
I don't even know what that is. Oh, because it can be
applied to many different Yeah, Idon't even know what that is. I
don't even know what that is.Like if you're in general operations, what

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does that mean no general and operationsmanagers? It's gms and oms. Okay,
Well, I mean what does aGM do? Like, I know
what, I know what Brian McClellandoes. It's just sports. I mean
there's GM titles. I mean there'sa GM here. Okay, But what
Brian McClellan and Aaron Hyland and myfriend Eric who was the general manager of

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our Burger King do like those?Those are no no that he was he
hired me like that. I don'tunderstand what that job is. So for
that one, it is too vague. It's too vague. It's way too
vague. Up Nope, Daisy said, I was screaming the answer, thank
you. But it should make sense. And that's why when Diane talks about

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like when and I'm not bringing thisup to be a negative, but when
Diane was talking about how she helpedtake care of her mom, I think
you could do that for somebody else. I've never done that for anybody.
Yeah, I mean there's there's somestuff that it's kind of common sense.
You just got to help them doday to day stuff, right, which
I couldn't do because you're not patient. I'm not patient and I'm also don't

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have a filter for it. Icouldn't, like I couldn't. I'm not.
I'm not trying to be mean.I couldn't walk into an old person's
room and wipe their ass without likewretching. And that's probably yeah, and
they now imagining that scene. No, but they don't. You know.

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What they don't want is like theyknow they crap themselves. They don't want
me, and they're going, yeah, don't be a baby, But I
would be. I would, Iknow myself. I don't have that filter.
Would you be better with babies?I would be, Yes, Actually
I would, because they don't.They're not as easily offended that they have
no idea what I'm doing. ButI would. And also I would,

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I would try to be I wouldbe inappropriately funny. So like even if
they did crap their pants once Iwretched and I was cleaning up their bed,
I'd be like, oh corn lastnight, like whatever it was,
like, it wouldn't be I wouldnot be good. I would not be
good. I wouldn't mind sitting andtalking to them like, I'd be good
at that. That's part of thejob too. But there is the like
a carry I'd be good at talkingto them. I don't know if i'd

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be good at listening. Oh god, how many time are you gonna tell
me a SAMN story? Exactly exactly? But I would talk. I would
talk to them for it for hours. It'd be their friend. Uh,
I would talk to them for hours. So that was good. We learned
a lot there. No, wedid all very valuable. Hi Elli in

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the morning, Hi, Hi,Yes, how are you? I heard
you all talking about I guess yes, Well do you really good for you?
You can't watch in front of them? Right? Well? I work
for activities like we keep them busy. Most of all of the people that

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live in the facility are on somesort of and to scale. So the
stories that we hear are on thedaily and they are on repeat, right,
yeah, yeah, and I'm surethey are. And I wish that
I wish that I could say thatI would be a lot more patient,
And maybe I would be if Iwas around it, and like you're seeing

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it work out. But like Isaid, I don't like nobody in my
family knock on wood, right,Nobody in my family has dealt with Alzheimer's,
right, so I haven't had todeal with that. But I obviously
I have friends whose parents either havelike really bad dementia or Alzheimer's, and
I sympathize with them, but I'venever personally had to deal with it.

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Yeah, it's frustrating at times.We just actually lost two of our residents
over the weekend. But with theactivities some of these residents, they're spunky,
oh oh absolutely, oh, andthey're all horny. Well I don't
know about that, but don't youalways read like all these like assisted living

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places are all rife with STDs.It's more like the senior communities. I
think whatever, like you want thehome, all you hear is hot thing?
All right, very good, Thankyou, ma'am, thank you,
Yes, Tyler, one last bitfrom the survey. Yes, do you

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know what the least common job is? Now, this has to be one
that's tracked by the government, soyes, there's probably somebody that is one
of a kind. But this isI saw this. You don't cheat.
I'm not because I don't even rememberthe name of it, because I'd never
heard of the job before. BecauseMike asked where disc jockeys were on the

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list. Oh, very low andthanks to iHeart getting lower. There's more
DJs than this profession, which again, that's a sad state of affairs,
because remember I told you I broughtall those people Linda sign NDAs, we
are going to fire hundreds and hundredsof people. So there are two hundred
and sixty of these people doing thisjob in America. I can't remember what

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it is about five per state,Diane, go ahead, Oh oh wait,
hold on, Christen's got a guess. He had a hand motion that
goes with it. Wasn't just raisingher hand? Yes, hope, it's
like the skyscraper window washers. Okay, that's a real job. Rare,

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the it is if there's five perstate. Once a month we see a
couple of states worth just at ourbuilding. Oh my god. We like
the skyscrapers. I think of likethe big cities, the okay, but
that they could do five stories,ten stories or one hundred stories, oh,
the big ones Okay, New York, La, Chicago. That's it.

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Maybe it's the list all right,great guess though, like a better
guess if she didn't have the thingenough assist all right, Diane, come
on, guess it. Guess it. You'll nail it. You'll nail it.
What do you mean, I'll nailit. You should know this.
You don't know it. I can'teven I read it, and I can't
remember. I I know, Iknow what they work with. I just

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can't remember what they do we meanwork with? Can I can? I
try to guess what it was?So you you know the medium? Yes,
yeah, we'll give it to her. Maybe if you say that,
she then can figure out the actualjob. Would haukta? I just spit

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on it would a lumberjack? Thefive per state was gonna say, poets,
that's a great guest. I mean, how many poets do you know?
Shock? That's it? No woodworker, Okay, there's a lot

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of woodworkers wood. Yeah, it'sthe medium. That's the medium wood.
I said, lumberjack. It's nota woodworker. Oh, it's going to
tell me all that it is awood worker. But yeah, a whittler
is a woodworker. A woodpecker isa woodworker. Come on, furniture maker

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okay, yeah, it's a woodpattern maker. Oh I should have gotten
that wood What what? I don'teven that is they make patterns of wood
on wood. I mean it saysthe name. I don't e wo is
that? So they make so Imaginea piece of wood that's got a pattern
on it, and there's five perc