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Episodes

Total: 52

A Deli Owner

2025/7/1

Boiling briskets for five hours, escorting obnoxious customers to the door, and preserving the ritua

A Massage Therapist

2025/6/17

Choreographing massages to Mozart, enforcing cancellation policies with beloved clients, and shuttin

A Harbor Pilot

2025/6/3

Scaling three-story rope ladders up the sides of ships, memorizing every rock and current in a harbo

A Hospice Nurse

2025/5/20

Comforting patients as they prepare to transition, navigating end-of-life regrets and frayed relatio

A Veterinarian

2025/5/6

Calming scared cats with pheromone sprays, advising families how to balance their pet's well-be

A Software Engineer

2025/4/22

Tracing mysterious errors to their source, jousting with product managers, and rolling out new featu

A City Manager

2025/4/8

Mediating pickleball noise disputes, shepherding communities through thorny decisions, and practicin

A Barman

2025/3/25

Pouring pints for thirsty tourists, defusing situations with drunk patrons, and finding flow in the

A Brain Surgeon

2025/3/11

Zapping parts of the brain to know where to cut, operating a mouth-controlled microscope that's

Commanding a floating city of 5,000 sailors, intercepting Houthi missiles in the Red Sea, and stripp

A Daycare Owner

2025/2/11

Singing cleanup songs, tiring out kids before naptime, and battling the "babysitter" stere

An Audiobook Narrator

2025/1/28

Fine-tuning the perfect accent for a character, recording for hours in a sound-insulated booth, and

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A Homicide Detective

2025/1/14

Cracking decades-old murder cases, delivering unthinkable news to victims' families, and tracki

A Toy Distributor

2024/12/31

Forecasting demand for 40,000 different products, arranging for model kits to traverse the globe fro

An Olympic Bobsledder

2024/12/17

Hurtling down an ice track at 100mph, perfecting the practice of visualization, and shaving off hund

Shearing Christmas trees into their classic shape, fighting back weeds and blackbirds, and planting

Swimming with 20-foot manta rays, suffering through grant applications, and rushing to the whale fre

Perfecting the soft finishes, dealing with divorcing couples, and cultivating the perfect network of