(music) Extinct Jobs Trivia Tuesday LMBYTS #1536 Jason Newland 13th January 2026

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It's been raining all day. All day. It's raining.

I mean, all day. All day. It's been raining.

And it doesn't look like it's gonna stop anytime soon. It's just been going the whole time. Vinnie's on the chair over there.

Looks like he's meditating. He's just chilled out. He's got his head up, just staring ahead.

You know, something I've noticed, realized lately, the last few weeks is that listening to me, me listening to myself, I find I get more relaxed. And I find myself interesting. Believe it or not.

I find myself getting really relaxed. And if I close my eyes, I do fall asleep. Maybe it's my voice.

Maybe it's not quite as exciting as I think it is. Maybe. I don't know.

So hello to anyone that's watching me live. Hello to my YouTube people. Hello to my podcast audio listeners.

Hello to those are listening on my website. Hello to everybody in the world. Now today is trivia Tuesday.

Trivia, trivia, trivia, trivia. Tuesday. So I'm going to be focusing.

Part of the reason for this is because AI and I watch a lot of AI videos and forecasts. And it's talking about, you know, the changes in jobs and stuff. So I thought, I thought I'd look up on chat GPT, because that's my assistant in these recordings, to give me the information.

So it might not be true might just be lies, is jobs that no longer exist. It says 100 factual entries. I can't guarantee it's factual.

So if you're getting into a big old argument with someone, and it's about I don't know people that used to sweep chimneys. And one of you saying all they started sweeping chimneys at six years old. And then your friend might say no, they started it was it was seven.

And you know, you're on the verge of having a tantrum over it because you want to be right. Don't because this might not be true. Don't have a tantrum.

Move along. Have a KitKat. So apologies for the shirt.

It's very bright. It's the only way I can take really the distract you from how red my face is. If I wear something like a really red or pink.

Jason can sing. Thank you. I actually, you know what I used to be able to sing.

So hi, everyone. I used to be able to sing. And as I got older, here's here's the thing, right? I think my, my voice is much younger than my face than my body.

But it's, it's not catching up, but it's old and what it was. So when I was about 30, I sounded probably 18. When I was in my 40s.

Pretty sad in my 20s. You see what I mean? So by the time I get to my 70s, or 80s, I might sound like I'm in my 50s, 40s or 50s. Because I just got a seem to have a younger voice.

Not when you watch me, it probably because you're like, no, if you if you didn't know what I looked like. And you just heard me on a podcast, you won't be able to it. If you was like really into listening to me, some people like listening to me, hard to believe it's true.

And if you just showed them a picture of me, and they didn't know what I look like, and you say, who's that then? Apart from I mean, they might have to get up after collapsing from the shock of seeing me, but like, dunno, they wouldn't guess they wouldn't guess it was me. And it's weird. I mean, that's you know, I see some radio DJs, they show pictures and you go onto their website, or you go onto the radio website, and it's pictures of them from like 30 years ago.

Because they still sound the same, they still sound young. But some of them like in their 60s now. And they don't look the way they did when they were in the 30s.

Because it's normal not to. But they still have the like a picture from the 80s and the 90s. Wow, 90s.

So this is, I feel like I'm introduction, introduce myself quite a bit. But this is a, it's not just like a relaxing session, or just a opportunity to close your eyes and go to sleep, providing it's safe to do so. It's also, I don't know, it can be company for those because you know, especially the online is there's a lot of arguments online.

There's a lot of people with opinions and wanting to shout and argue and wanting to be horrible to each other. It seems to be quite prevalent. And this isn't really that.

This isn't. I don't mean podcast when I say that because podcasts are generally the audio podcasts are pretty calm because it's pre recorded and, and some of the live stuff you can get out of hand. So this is just a bit of peace, bit of calm.

At the end of the day, the beginning of your day, depending on where you're living. And that's all it is. It's nothing more than that.

And, and anyone on live, I can't see your messages because they're so small. So it's on my phone, you see, and it's over there. But if you'd like to join, and you have to follow me, but also, I will read all the messages afterwards.

Please make them nice. Please, please, please, please, please. So yeah, I think it's every day's an opportunity to be nice.

I don't mean all day long, like walking around and just being like a saint. But I do wonder what to be rude to people can be funny. It can be I found it funny when I was younger and or being rude about people or just being rude in itself.

I mean, I still I say rude things. But I aim at myself. So if you can aim the comedy at yourself, see, I make fun of how I look.

I don't make fun of how other people look. I make fun of my own weight. I don't make fun of other people's weight.

Usually, I don't. I make fun of myself being bald and other people. Do you know why? Because I don't associate myself with bald people.

I have nothing to do with them. They're an embarrassment to be around. No, I'm, of course, I don't mean that.

I'm bald by choice. Look, I do actually have hair. I just shave it.

But on the back, I've got a bald patch. That's the biggest if you notice the difference in sound like this. Yeah, I think you can hear that.

I hear the slap it sounds different. That's why it's called a slap it because it literally does sound different. I think someone just said about their dad being a nice bloke.

I think a lot of people are nice. In fact, I would say and this is controversial because if you read the newspapers or watch the news, you know, you'd think that everybody was horrible, wouldn't you? Especially every young person. Oh, I don't believe that.

I think everybody's nice. Everybody's got the ability to be to be nice. It's just sometimes we get with off days, or we get caught up in the wrong situation.

But I know just got to look at a little kid. Kids aren't usually really cruel. Are they? You ever see a little kid like handing out sweets, little candy or whatever, they'll get something and I hand it out.

And they love it. They love handing it out and sharing it out. I don't do that.

I don't share anything. Doesn't mean I'm horrible. But it's I think kids, human beings are inherently kind.

And I know people have done been in prison for long periods of time. Yet, if they see a person falling over in the street, they will go and help them up. They might steal their wallet, but they won't.

But they will help them up because that's the natural instinct that I think we all have is to help other people. The instincts to cause harm. I don't think that's natural.

In a sense, other than like protecting ourselves, or others that we care about. So yeah, I don't know why I'm talking about that. But I suppose I want to try and reread that what someone's just posted on here.

Well, you keep posting strange. Okay. Fair enough is people talking to each other.

I'll have you know, love. We was his first friends, because we defended him on live. Okay.

I don't argue over me. I know I'm amazing. But it's see, the thing is, we've I'll get on with the to trivia Tuesday.

And I do appreciate everyone coming on there. I think it will be one of those things because if you went on to there's a channel with two blind people in the kitchen most of the time cooking and talking and saying hi to each other to people don't see any people being horrible to them. I mean, I ran out of horrible things to write down.

It was terrible. Joking, obviously. And there's another there's a few other people with like, there's a lady on there with no arms.

That's, I think in another country, and she's washing, washing clothes in a bucket and stuff. People don't write horrible things to her. So it just shows you that we've all got our kind of kindness there.

You know, there's a limit. I suppose I'm kind of fair game because maybe well, I'm able bodied I can. I'm just old.

It's the only thing you can really pick on me for. And being old looking old, whatever. You know, outside of that, you can go on what I look like, but what else? You tell me I've got a squeaky voice.

Have I got a fish? No, I used to have Amber, I used to have a fish. I've had three fishes. One was called Popeye, when I was I think I was eight years old.

And you know, the fairs you go to and you can not win stuff. But I think I must have chucked a hit some coconuts down or something in one of those dodgy fair, you know, roundabout things, whatever they're called. Circus, but without animals.

No, there's no crocodiles. And I want a goldfish called Popeye. I call him Popeye because he had one big eye.

I didn't realise he was diseased. Because I took him to the vet. And the vet seemed surprised because I've never seen a goldfish before.

People don't take goldfishes to a vet. I did. I loved him.

Not the vet. And so he had an eye disease. So I had to put these droplets into the water.

Like three times a day or something. And yeah, he didn't last long, unfortunately. And then I had two goldfish when I moved in here.

Just before I moved in, I had one called Milton. And the other one was called Erickson. And it just didn't work out.

I didn't evict them, like, you know, gave them three months notice, you got to get out, it's not working. I thought we could have a relationship. But there's three of us too many, just a crowd.

I don't mean that. I mean, just, you know, just like it wasn't really they unfortunately, they they didn't last. But at the time, I had a ferret that kept trying to eat them.

And he didn't get to eat them, but he wanted to eat them. So I'm wondering whether or not he scared them. You know, I mean, so that might have happened.

So other than that, really, the two main pets, they were they're my children, as far as I'm concerned, is Andre, my ferret, I had 2015 to 2021. And Vinnie that I've had for just over three years. A little red Jack Russell over there.

Amber says I have a pet donkey at my yard. Wow. A pet donkey.

He's called Erickson too. Okay. I've never had I called you got one in your room as well.

Amber. Okay. So I don't know what's going is people talking to each other there.

So anyway, so what I'm gonna do is go into the jobs that no longer exist. And this list is probably going to increase over the next few years, unfortunately, but hey, I'm not responsible for that. So let's but then whenever jobs like get lost new jobs open.

So lamp lighter, lit and extinguished street lamps by hand. Wow. I've seen that on on film.

So you know, the street lights that we have lampposts and stuff. They actually used to be burned by gas, or by some kind of I don't know what it was oil or something. So they used to light them in the morning, go up on a ladder, light them, and then come back in the evening and turn them off.

That was a job that was their job, which is knocked up. So someone asked me to like dairy milk or milky bars, two different things. And it's not two different things.

But I like dairy milk, big choc, I'm not allowed to really eat it. But because my blood sugar level is not at, I'm just not supposed to eat lots of sugary stuff. Which is weird, because I used to be absolutely used to drink a lot of Coca Cola.

Other fizzy pops are available, apparently. knocker up woke people before alarm clocks existed. Wow, when he said knocker up, I thought, you know, when he said, Oh, I've been knocked up before they were talking about that.

So people actually before alarm clocks, the thing is, I reckon, isn't that what the town bells are for? Just maybe just to wake everyone up? Or in those days, they used to get woken up by cocks, didn't they go cock a doodle doo, cock a doodle doo, like that. And people would wake up. Because you know, if you go back far enough, there was no streetlights, turning themselves on, you know, at five in the morning or six in the morning.

And then, so they would be, they would be woken up during the when it's sun. When the sun came up, they would wake up, and then go to bed when it was dark. Because there's no electricity.

There's always been electricity in my life. Don't worry, I'm not that old. There was no electricity.

And people didn't know really the difference about time. Like, it was just case of in the winter, they got more sleep. In the summer, they got less sleep.

Ice cutter, and there's no television. No internet. Can you imagine that? No TikTok, no YouTube, no Facebook.

So ice cutter, cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes. Yeah, they used to be I mean, this is what I've often wondered, is not often, but I've wondered about, you know, talk about global warming. And when the ice, the ice pot, or you know, place in the in the world, where there's lots of ice, when they melt, it will just flood everything.

So why not remove that ice now while we can move the ice, take it to countries that don't have enough water, you know, spread out, spread out the water. And then when the ice caps melt, it won't cause flooding, because we've already kind of reduced the water, we reduced the ice. But then we've also saved people's lives by putting it into places where like in deserts, where we need water.

So I'm seeing some people saying, I don't know, I can't read a lot of the words, because as you can see, I've got these big goggles on. So it's not, I won't be able to see what's being said on the what's it until I've actually finished really. Me and Jace like this.

Okay. I haven't called Jace for a while. And ice cutter, rat catcher, controlled rat populations before pest control services.

I mean, I'm in London and it was it was a big issue, wasn't it? I mean, did his my my lack of ignorance, probably didn't the Great Fire of London kind of put the end to the plague in London? Am I wrong? Or am I just completely out with that one? But it was it was the fleas, wasn't it? Not the actual rats. But technically, if a fleas on a rat, you know, you say it's the humans, not motorbikes, that's causing the problems.

We're still the motorbike in it.

Just because a human being is riding on the motorbike doesn't exclude the motorbike from the situation. Tosh's searched sewers for valuable items. I'm pretty sure there's still people doing that.

You see people on beaches with those was it magnifying things, whatever metal detectors, pretending they're just like they're looking for stuff. You know, they come out in the summer. They come out when everyone's gone home.

They're looking for watches, jewelry. That's what they're looking for. Come on.

They're looking for people's stuff. And they'll find a lot of it. ice cutter, cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes, rack tosses, toshes, searching sewers.

I mean, Hmm. I probably wouldn't want to do that. If I'm honest.

Yeah, I don't think I would. Everyone's left the live chat now. Oh, mudlark collected usable objects from riverbanks.

Collected usable objects. So I guess it's actually stuff that's kind of washed in, maybe. leech collector gathered leeches for medical use.

Here's a question, when you pick up a leech, do you have to be careful how you pick it up? Or will it get stuck to you? Because you got suckers in a like, do you have to like, pick it up in a certain way? I've never I don't think I've ever even seen a leech off the TV screen. I've met a few leeches, but haven't seen any like, you know, fuller, cleaned and thickened woolen cloth, cleaned and thickened woolen cloth.

So that sounds like a thing rather than a job, a fuller.

Okay, dock labourer, casual hire, hired daily without contracts. That went on. I think for centuries.

That was still going on in the 80s. I think, in fact, that was still going on in the 90s. Maybe not on the docks so much.

But it just turned into agencies. So people join agencies and get a day's work. Maybe two, maybe more depending on whether or not they were liked or they were needed.

But no contract, no guarantee of any work. And especially during the, what do they call it, like in America, the, there was a time when people used to queue up in this country as well, they just queue up for work, see if there's any work for the day. And I'm glad it's not like that now.

That was, there's actually a movie about it, isn't it, called Hard Times, with Charles Bronson, but also it was named Street Fighter. And he made his money by just travelling around, getting odd jobs on the railways, on the building sites, and then having a punch up if he got, you know, got paid. Powder Monkey was a powder monkey.

Oops, a powder monkey carried gunpowder on naval ships. Can you imagine if your job was to carry gunpowder? Right. First of all, if your job was to carry gunpowder, like hugely volatile, hugely dangerous could go off at any minute, right? First of all, you ought to get paid a lot of money.

Secondly, you're not going to want to be called a monkey, are you? Like, you know, carrying it, it's like calling you a monkey, would you call me? Chuck it at them. Nice. Gunpowder.

Wow. Domestic and service jobs. Scullery maid.

Clean dishes and kitchen areas. Well, I've done that. So I mean, when I did it was called a kitchen porter.

So maybe, maybe, I don't know. No one called me a scullery maid. Cleaning dishes, washing plates, keeping the area clean and tidy.

Household, housemaid. Maintained household cleanliness. See, a lot of these jobs, it came from people that were, like in America, for example, they were told that they were free.

You're freed. You're a free man, a free woman. You know, we can no longer tell you what to do.

And you no longer work for no money. And they ask her, what can we do? What jobs can we do? Well, you can do the same job you used to do before. And will the money will basically give you somewhere to live.

And you got paid practically nothing. But you're free. You can leave.

You won't be able to do anything. You're still gonna be treated the same. But you're free.

Okay. Okay. So yeah, that was weird.

Domestic and service jobs. I mean, housemaid, footman, valet, page boy. So we had a lot of that with the hierarchy with the, like the higher class people.

So royalty and the people that got, I would get all political, but a lot of people that became really rich came rich because of the, I don't want to say the word, but you know, through other people's misfortune, let's say. And they're the ones that are like super wealthy through generations. And some of those people, they're just grown up knowing nothing else but having people serve on them.

And I don't knock it because I'd love people to serve on me. I want people to be brilliant. I don't know if I want someone walking into my bedroom with a cup of tea.

I've never had that. I don't know what that would be like. What if they tripped and the tea fell on me and scolded my, you know, knee.

I don't know. A housemaid. I mean, I did wonder about that as well.

Like a housekeeper. Someone that could, I mean, it would be no point having a housekeeper in a flat this size. It needs to be a big property.

Otherwise you're just going to get in the way of each other. But I think it would be nice to have someone that would like clean everything up and make everything nice and tidy and have someone to cook me dinners and make the bed and iron my clothes or iron my clothes. Not that I don't really need ironing.

Most of my clothes are just baggy. So apart from those that aren't. Hmm.

So I don't know. It's a bit of a dream really, isn't it? I'm in a valet, isn't that? Oh, managed clothing. I thought they were talking about like cleaning cars.

Managed clothing and personal care. So they marry your clothing. I don't know.

So would I would I draw the line at having someone help me to dress? Now I'd have to be depending on who it was. I think. And you know, if I'm able to dress myself, I'd be it seemed quite weird to have someone do it for me.

Someone give me a bath, maybe help me with that. Because it's hard to like, you know, scratch your own back, isn't it? Brush around. I mean, you've got loofahs and stuff, but I don't know.

Probably not. I don't know. Outside of a romantic relationship, probably not.

Someone's did laundry. I've had people do laundry for me. The laundrette lady.

I was quite good friends with one in London. You got you can't not be friends with someone that washes your underwear. You got to be friend on friendly terms.

I mean, I realised I'm taking my laundry in every week of the year. And she's nice to me. Now who else is going to be friendly to me after? You know, just so yeah, best friends for life really.

Page boy delivering messages and assistant assisted nobility. nobility. I suppose I mean a page boy.

That's pretty what pages were called pages. Because in this country, or at least in my, in my world, we didn't have pages. And pages were around.

But we had mobile phones in the 90s didn't have pages. page me, here's my pager number. And I think is quite big in America.

And it might have been quite big in certain circles in the UK. But I never knew one person had a pager at all. And you see in the movies, don't you when a doctor said, Oh, got a pager got made a phone call.

Well, now obviously, it's just pick the phone up company. Chamber pot emptier. I mean, that's got to be quite low down, isn't it? On the Yeah, quite low down on the the workforce.

If he was in a pub, and you've met someone that you liked and you ask them what they did. And then they ask you what you did. What would you say? I remove waste before I remember.

Oh, yeah. I remove waste from the pot that is being used as a toilet. Because they weren't.

Did you know this is before indoor plumbing? When toilets came into the UK, went to England, let's stick to England. I don't know about everywhere. But in England, when toilets were kind of a thing, indoor toilets, because we had outdoor toilets for a long time.

People didn't want indoor toilets. This is genuine, it might, it might find it hard to believe. But they didn't want indoor toilets, they thought was disgusting.

The idea of having doing that in here inside. There's still some traditions that feel the same way. But they kind of couldn't get their head around it.

Even though going outside in the freezing cold, in the middle of winter, with no lights, and would have been atrocious. Yet people still preferred that than being in the warm. And having some kind of comfort.

Eventually, people came around to the idea. But it's amazing. I mean, I've lived in places with outdoor toilets, when I was a kid, because outdoor, a lot of places, like council houses that have an outdoor toilet, they might also have an indoor toilet, but the outdoor toilet was still there.

It's basically just like a little hot, like a shed really. Or it might be an extra room added on to the house. So when I moved into the big house we moved into, when I was nine, there was an outside toilet, but it was literally attached to the house.

So it wasn't like at the bottom of the garden. And it was still cold as anything. And it was used as a tool shed really.

But it was still an outside toilet. But it wasn't technically, it was inside. But it wasn't, you know, a charwoman.

Who's a charwoman? A charwoman part time cleaner in private homes. Okay, I could do a part time cleaner. Just someone just to sort out the mess.

Really, that'd be nice. A boot, a boot black, cleaner, cleaned and polished shoes professionally. I mean, if I didn't have to bend down, not that that would have bothered me when I was a kid, but polishing shoes is okay.

I used to do that in the Sea Cadets. It's quite relaxing, actually. I used to spend hours polishing my shoes.

Because they had to be shiny at the end, on the end of the, like where the toes is, of the boots. So I used to like use a metal spoon and and wax and like a lighter. And we'd kind of do lots of circles until it was almost like a mirror.

And then I'd go to the Sea Cadets and the someone would stand on them. Yeah. Sometimes it was the instructors or the people in charge.

Like I don't know. I don't know. I think some of the people that do those, even though it's voluntary, the scout leaders and Sea Cadets, Army Cadets.

I think some of them just like teachers maybe enjoy a bit of power, a little bit of power, maybe not all but maybe the odd one. wetness. That sounds like I'd like to be a wetness.

What does that mean? breastfed another person's infant. How would I do that? I wouldn't know how to do that. So how does that work? I mean, you'd have to have this.

Do you just pretend to have milk and just have a little cold? I don't know. icing bag. So medical and health related.

Plague doctor treated plague victims. Well, I'm glad that job's not around anymore. We don't want that.

This I know this, this is just if you didn't know about this, this is absolutely ridiculous. There was a time when if you were ill, to fake you ill. You went to your barber surgeon.

The same person to cut your hair might remove your appendix or something like that. I mean, I'd rather don't do that anymore. And then haircuts were awful.

Leech applier applied leeches during treatments. I mean, that was all part of letting blood wasn't it? The idea is if you they release some of the leeches would take the impurities out of the body and stuff. I don't know.

I don't think it's used quite as often. bone settler bone setter treated fractures without formal training. But why they call bone setters if they didn't have formal training? I mean, does that mean they weren't doctors? Or they weren't nurses? But if they were doing that all the time, then they probably were really good at it.

But if they weren't really good at it, they might cause a lot of problems. I don't know. I don't know enough about it.

Blood letter. Okay, right. So as I say things earlier, asylum attendant, supervised patients in early mental hospitals.

So mental health hospitals or whatever they're called now used to be called asylums. And for those that don't know, and it they were, they weren't nice places. resurrectionist dug up bodies for medical study.

I thought that was illegal. My local police told me it wasn't allowed. both apothecary prepared and sold medicines.

Apoc apothecary apothecary. I can't say I can't say the word. midwife unregulated practiced before modern licensing.

Okay. Yeah, but it's good that midwives are around isn't it? Because babies have always been being born when they I didn't know that dogs can have cesareans. Didn't know that until the other day, a lady in a park told me.

She just jumped out some bushes and said dogs can have cesareans and then jump back in again. It's very strange. And she started playing the trumpet.

Sanitary inspector pre modern managed waste and hygiene. I thought it'd be some nicer jobs here. These are I might as well just put in list me the grottiest jobs that you can think of.

But maybe that's what happens with progress. The jobs that people didn't like doing got dropped. And the new inventions found a cure for that find a replacement for that stuff.

So an outside toilet, mucking out and all that stuff was replaced by an indoor toilet that flushes and turning the lights off manually. Electricity came along so people didn't have to do that job. Which I guess is quite dangerous walking up and down a ladder or all weathers and stuff.

But yeah. So this is communication and information. Town Crier.

So announced news publicly. And I think they would just shout that I'm sure I've seen it on the TV like, um, a oil oil, listen up, listen up. I don't know something like that.

I'm using my hand as the bell. Town Crier someone just speak very loudly. I mean, I've just seen it on TV and movies.

So I don't know how if it was like that or not. To be lucky the town square telegraph operator sent Morse code messages. Yep.

I thought telegraph operator is just sent telegraphs as well. It's not just Morse code, is it? Because we used to get telegraphs to other countries. It'd be I guess it was the precursor to the fax machine, which is a precursor to emails, I suppose, which was a precursor to texting.

Although you wouldn't necessarily use a text would you for a business and thing but telex machines. Yeah, telegraph then telex, then fax. But telegraph, we had a telex machine.

I couldn't figure it out. I had a couple of jobs where I used it very much found it difficult to use it. And it was, I think it's one of those things you just need to use all the time for a little while and you get used to it.

And it's like easy. For me, I just found it difficult. I don't know why.

But at that time, I had no computer experience. Never used a computer didn't know, you know, there was no internet, there wasn't really any need for computers. When I was young, they were being used, but it was like optional.

Wasn't like now where you have to everything is kind of computerized. Line O type operator, operate the line casting machine. Okay.

Newsboy sold newspapers on the streets. So alright, so the only time I've ever seen people selling newspapers on the streets was in London. And they used to sell to the Evening Standard.

And they would shout out Evening Standard, but it wasn't Evening Standard. It was I think they started off shouting out Evening Standard, Evening Standard, and did a big pile and people would come up and give them a pound or whatever it was 50 pence and they'd give them the paper. And it'd be full of adverts.

And you know, it's very popular. Every tube station would have them outside and inside. And you'd Liverpool Street probably have about six different sellers, like just in front of the train station, because there was so many people coming and going.

And it turned from being Evening Standard to like, they completely didn't even attempt to say the word anymore. Or they maybe they thought they were saying it, but it was just And I thought, are they aware of that? Why don't they just have a machine that just shouts out Evening Standard? You know, just repeat this Evening Standard, waits for maybe five seconds, Evening Standard, Evening Standard, Evening Standard, you know, instead of like doing this, doing it yourself.

Because they completely just, it's almost like they forgot what they were saying.

But I never saw newspaper boys or newsboys doing that. It was always adults. And then of course, the Evening Standard, they gave it away free and no one wanted it.

So when they were selling it, people wanted it, maybe not enough people because they wouldn't have gone free otherwise, I suppose if everyone's buying, but they got to the point they couldn't even give them away. And Evening Standard was a really good newspaper, especially if you're looking for work, or you want to know what's going on in London and what you know, just things going out for night, nights, time, things and you know, things like that.

It was a good newspaper.

Maybe it is now but there was a period when I used to watch and they couldn't even give them away. But people would stop and buy them when they're for sale. Go figure, unless they just filled them just with so many adverts.

So they were free, they just filled them with adverts and people just didn't want to watch adverts or read adverts. And if you go on to the tube stations or the trains, rather the tubes or the trains or buses, it's just Evening Standards everywhere. So a lot of people probably think well, I'm not gonna buy it.

I'm not gonna get it. I'll just read it on the bus. That's a driver.

Copyist, hand copied documents. Wow. Now, I've done that.

Not documents, but I've written out books in the past. I've literally copied word for word, books, whole books into a pad. Don't ask me why.

I thought that the information, the knowledge might actually stick in my head. And this is true, literally written down whole books. I just remember doing that.

It's a long time since I've done it. I just remember. And I had an idea that it would be a very educational thing to do.

And a way for me to really learn the subject matter, and also to skim through it, and mark out different bits. And yeah, maybe it was, I don't know. But imagine copying hand copied documents, which would be now done in a photocopier.

Like instantly. But people used to actually do it by hand. Wow.

I mean, before like typing, before they had the carbon copy thing, so they could type more than one thing. That was all done just one sheet at a time, you have to keep doing it again. And then of course, photocopies came in.

So you didn't have to do all that and then computers and all that. But wow. dictation typists.

See, I could never in my wildest dreams. I've ever done anything like that. typed spoken correspondence.

I can't even speak at human speed, nevermind, right at human speed. And keep up just couldn't do it. I've tried.

When I was at college, I used to try and sort of keep notes couldn't do it. Or even copy what was on the board. I just couldn't.

I couldn't I just I knew it was never enough time. Just like when I'm watching a video on YouTube. And there's a screen.

And then it moves to the next screen. And I've not had chance to read it. Perhaps I just read so slowly.

I don't know. I don't know why. A human computer performed calculations manually.

That's probably another one that I would never have done. Suppose that would have been called a human abacus before that. Some people just have that skill, don't they? They just automatically have the skill to work out calculations in their head, and it automatically happens.

And I've always been like, wow, that's amazing. What an amazing skill to have. Travel and transport, stagecoach driver, drove horse drawn passengers coaches.

So I've never seen that outside of I think London, maybe they sometimes have horse and cars, don't they? Which you can hire. But not really in my life has it been a thing. I think it all changed in when the cars were invented.

100 odd years ago. Horse groom transport, maintained working horses, horses, horses. So it'd be basically like engineers, today's engineers, but they would maintain the horses.

So suppose check its feet, make sure it's eating and I don't know. Rested. Railway, I wonder if they had the little hole in the ground so they could work on it from below.

But do with engineers and mechanics. Railway porter, traditional, carried luggage and assisted passengers. Wouldn't that be nice? If there still was just someone there to help.

Help you carry your stuff onto the train, onto the bus, whatever. I'd be lovely. Signal, signal, signal, man, manual.

Operated railway signals by hand. That was still a thing in my lifetime. There was, it might still be in some places, but I think it's very few.

But when I placed a little town I grew up, there was a railway signal office like a thing, as someone was there, and they would let the trains go through back. So be done by by hand. So yeah, I don't know if it's still going, there might be parts of the country.

So it's maybe is completely defunct now, but it was still around. It was like me, very round. A ticket puncher.

Not what it sounds, it didn't actually punch tickets, but they put like holes in them. So they would clip them. I think they were called clippers actually, that was the short term for the names.

So someone bought a ticket, they put like a hole through it, which showed that it'd been used, or it'd be like a long line show that had been used. So they can use it again. Canal lock keeper.

Operated locks by hands. And by hand, it's the same thing really as the signalman. And so they would all be done by hand.

It might still be, I don't know. I mean, this is a list of old jobs that aren't really around anymore. So elevator operator, controlled lifts manually.

I think there's still places in the world that have lift operators, maybe really high class hotels and stuff. But the lifts aren't actually operated by the person in the lift, they just press the buttons for you. I think, you know, before they used to like close the cage and all the lights gone off on my thing.

Wait a second. So, yeah, I think the old lifts or elevators, they used to have like cages, didn't they? So it needed a manual activation to do it. Maybe they had their own key, perhaps.

Toll collector, collected road tolls. The thing about tolls, I thought the whole idea of a road toll was to pay for the cost of building the road. And then once the cost has been brought back, then there's no longer a toll needed, is there? Carriage builder, built horse-drawn vehicles.

So they were kind of the precursor to cars, obviously. And coaches. Wheelwright, made wooden wheels.

Ooh, craft and manufacturing. Anyone's interested in this? I can't, I'm so excited. I've been looking forward to this for ages.

A spindle spinner. A spindle spinner. Spun thread by hand.

A hand loom weaver. Wove textiles manually. Okay.

A weaver. Is that the thing where you put the things through? It's like a big string thing. You just put the thing through it and thread and push it down.

And eventually it ends up being something. I don't know. Like a blanket or something like that.

A cooper, made wooden barrels. And then you've got a cobbler. So that's a person that makes shoes by hand.

Traditional. I would have thought that there'd still be money in making shoes by hand. In fact, I'd have thought there'd be a lot of money for someone that could do that.

To make bespoke shoes, you go in, you get your feet measured, and they make shoes specifically for you. And yeah, it's going to cost a lot of money, but it's probably going to be the comfortable shoes you ever have. And chances are, you're going to be a repeat customer.

So it seems to me like that'd be a really good job. But they used to be around when I was a kid. They still used to be around.

And you'd see them with nails, little nails sticking out of their mouths. Like little pins sticking out of their mouths. And I thought, that's a bit dangerous.

And it'd be, I think it'd be more like shoe repairing. So cobblers would still be, they wouldn't necessarily be making shoes, but they'd be repairing shoes. So they'd be knocking these little nails into the shoes, into the, maybe replacing the soles or stuff like that.

And, but they have all these little nails sticking out of their mouth. I just had that memory. It's weird, isn't it? I used to have one near where I lived.

Blacksmiths, general, forged everything, everyday iron goods or iron goods. You'd think there'd be good money in that kind of work, wouldn't you? It's very hard labour work, and it's got to be strong. It's very, very warm because of the heat and stuff.

But I'd have thought that it would be like you'd never be without work back then anyway. In fact, I'm surprised that it's not still a thing where people say, well, I quite like, but what would you want out of iron? What would I ever want built out of iron? I don't know. Unless you made anvils for other blacksmiths.

It'd be like a pyramid service. So a bit of a pyramid thing, couldn't it? So everybody makes anvils, big iron anvils and tools for other blacksmiths to sell to other blacksmiths, to sell to other blacksmiths. And then right at the bottom, they've got no one to sell to, because it's done.

But at the top, they're the original sellers, and they're making money off everyone. And then eventually, they all look up and realise that they're actually not making anything. All they're doing is selling the tools to make stuff to people that have nothing to make.

That's interesting. Bell founder. Someone that cast church bells.

I like the idea of being a church ringer, like a church bell ringer, or like a town bell ringer. You know, pulling the ropes like ding, dong, ding, dong. I don't know, whatever the sound is.

Tanner, Tanner manual, processing hides. Button maker. Make buttons from natural materials.

Old buttons as in like on a like a shirt and stuff. Matchmaker. So matchmaker, not the chocolates and not the the dating version.

This is produces matches by hand. That would have been a huge, I reckon thousands of people did that job for one at one point. A pin maker produces sewing pins.

I mean, you got a tiny little hands to do that, wouldn't you? Can you imagine trying to make a sewing pin? And it's so little to start with. How do you make the hole? Because the hole is small. In fact, why don't they make the hole bigger? And have it so it kind of squeezes, it's like bendy.

So, you know, you could kind of push it through, but it doesn't. I don't know. I don't know what I was thinking, really.

Nevermind. What a pin pin maker. Match it.

Okay. Maritime and fishing. harpooning.

I'm gonna go there. sale making making sales by hand. That must have been a really good thing.

Because they used to be sales in them boats and stuff. ships lookout, watched for hazards without instruments. Oh, hey, there.

Look, there's a seagull. Just practicing. What do they call it? The is it the chickens nest? The you know, right at the top of the ship.

It's like a little a little thing and they would stand bird's eye. And it's a stand on it. And they could see sort of all the way around themselves.

And birds nest is it called a bird's nest? ballast hauler loading ships with stone ballast. Blimey. When you think about it, people did all that stuff before.

I mean, there was no forklift trucks at one point. There was no mechanical engines to help to lift heavy stuff. How on earth did they do it? I mean, seriously, it's like, wow, I never put a pulley systems and stuff.

It's still Wow. It's amazing. The kind of the creativity needed back then to do just to build stuff.

I mean, it's houses built, or built, you know, massive buildings built stuff. Hundreds 1000s of years ago still here. And guaranteed, you know, this building wouldn't still be here in 1000s of years.

It's not built that way. It's look at the not the triangles, the what's it pyramids. They're still there after literally 1000s of years.

I don't know what it's like inside, though. You're allowed inside. Is it comfortable? I don't know.

Is there electricity in there? They got living rooms, toilets? I don't know. Because they were actually buildings, wasn't they? Well, they had people in the dock porter loaded and unloaded ships manually. Hard job, a fish wife, sexist, sold fish directly from the docks.

See, women did you should do things back then. A fish wife, isn't it weird? You got men like so many jobs with the word man in it. And the only one the only two that you got with the word wife in it is midwife and fish wife.

Yet so many of these jobs would have been done by women as well. And that's sold fish directly from the docks, lighthouse keeper, and maintain maintained oil lamps and lenses. That would have suited me lighthouse keeper, solitary, I don't need to be around people.

And peaceful. Yeah, that would have been good. And definitely could have done that.

I still would if I got a chance. Maybe not now. But you know, when I was younger, a lighthouse keeper, brilliant.

Just keeping an eye on everything. Make sure everything's clean. Especially in the summer, how cool would it be in the summer just to stand on the top and just watch the penguins.

I guess it's gonna depend where you where you are. Because penguins don't live everywhere. River ferryman, road passengers across rivers still do.

There's a place not far from where my dad lives where they still have that there's a little bit where the docks are. At the end of one part of a bit of land on another part. And they take this little road boat across once an hour.

River ferryman still there still still around. Anchor Smith, forged ships, forged ship anchors. Wow.

You'd think you'd need like a proper machine to do that. How does a human being make something that big? Corker. Sealed ship seams with bar and fiber.

Feeling was just barking there. Don't know quite why. Why, why, why, why? Dung collector, gathered animal waste for fertilizer.

I wonder if any of these jobs had interviews. Imagine if it was a day you'd have to have a CV, show that you got the experience. Prove that you are who you are.

You know, prove that you've lived where you know your address, your name, national insurance number and all that stuff. And at the end of it said, Yeah, it's fine. You got the job is a bucket and a shovel.

Watchman, guarded streets at night. We need that back. I mean, yeah.

Why? Why did? Why did we stop guarding the streets? That seems like an obvious thing that needs to still be done. A beetle enforced parish order. I don't know what that means.

Anyone? Anyone? And poor house master. Managed workhouses. Blimey, yeah.

Workhouses, they was a thing, weren't they? Didn't you have to go to a workhouse if you owed money? Almona, a distributed charity. That's a nice name. Almona distributed.

So cool. So I guess that's someone that was wealthy. Wax tax assessor manual.

Calculated taxes without records systems. Wow. So basically, they just make it up as they go along.

I imagine they were the highest earners out of everyone. A fire watcher looked for fires from towers. I mean, that's just, I wonder if we went a little bit back to that.

Just having some people in their jobs was literally just to look out. I know there's fire alarms and there's telephones and, but someone just to just keep an eye out, you know? Look out for people as their job. And you might say, yeah, that's what we've got police for.

But I'm talking about people that are not there to arrest anyone or to solve crimes just, just to keep an eye out to make sure everything's okay. Ale tester, checked beer quality. I don't know if anyone's ever seen the episode of Cheers, where Norm gets a job where he's testing beer.

And he's literally, he goes into the the where they make the beer and he's walking up to the big vats. And he's kissing them. He's like he's waited his whole life to do this.

It's funny. Sin eater, a sin eater, symbol symbolically absorbs sins of the dead. Yeah.

I mean, how you get the job? How are you proving you can? How do you prove that you're doing the job though? How does that? How does that yearly appraisal work out? Always will let you know you're doing really well. Thanks. How do you know? Gong farmer, cleaned cesspits, resin collector, harvested tree resin.

Okay, that sounds like an interesting thing. Pearl neck, my pearl button sorter, graded buttons by hand. See if people like buttons.

You know, some people are gonna enjoy doing that. They're gonna love it. Candle sniffer, or candle snuffer, sorry.

Maintain candle lighting in large buildings. Balloon observer, spotted enemy movements. See, I just like that.

Like a candle snuffer. Again, looking out, just watching, attending stuff, make sure everything's safe, you know? Instead of like, let someone else look after it. Someone else, there's someone else deal with it.

Like, yeah, okay, let's take responsibility. A fur puller. I wonder what this could be.

Removed hair from hides. It's not as rude as it sounds. A bone collector, collected bones for fertilizer.

Really? Evaporated, evaporated seawater to produce salt. See, I didn't know. I knew the salt in the water, seawater.

So we can't drink it. Well, apart from the fact that it's probably full of other stuff that shouldn't really been taken into our bodies. But I didn't realize that.

Is that where we get salt from? I thought we got it from the ground. It makes sense, doesn't it? The last 10 is administrative and miscellaneous. So Scrivener, a professional writer of legal documents, because that was in that wasn't that the name of like a typewriter thing? Yes, Scrivener, court messenger delivering court documents.

Excitement, exercise, excisemen, collected taxes on goods. Land measurer, pre-survey, measured land by pacing. Sensors, enumerator, paper only, collected data manually.

Boob finder, book binder, manual, bound books entirely by hand. So that that's, I'm sure there's people still do that. It's probably but I mean, it's not like a big, well known job.

I'm sure people do still do that because you can still buy books that are bound up. Map colorists, hand colored maps, I guess this is before printing. Letter sorter.

So sorted mail by hand routes. I guess that was still done. It wasn't that long ago that was still being done.

Watchmaker, mass, made entire watches alone. Really? To make to sit there and make an entire watch from scratch is phenomenal when you only think it was all bits and bobs. It wasn't like you put a battery in, you put the cover on.

I mean, is it actually? Wow. Timekeeper, industrial, recorded worker hours manually. Can you imagine that as your job? Just keeping an eye on people's times.

Like where did you get in? When did you get in? Okay. When did you leave? When did you leave? Okay. And that's your full time job.

I mean, I understand it might be different shifts and stuff, but and there might be 1000s of people to deal with. But wow. It's not a bad little job to have is it? That, ladies and gentlemen, seems to be all of the 100.

Yeah, seems to be it. And we started off quite good. Quite well with the old TikTok.

And while we were like started, and then because I wasn't able to reply to a lot of people's messages, I think people got a little bit bored and left. But it's just hard because I'm streaming on my phone, which is over there. I can't I can hardly see the writing.

So and at the same time, because I'm making a podcast and I'm making a video, I don't, I don't want to kind of keep interrupting what I'm saying by answering some questions. And a lot of questions are just like silly, but there's the occasional ones that are genuine questions. So apologies, if I missed the questions.

So I'm going to go I'm going to have, I'm thinking of having a Cornetto. What's the time? What's quarter to 10? I'm thinking of having myself a Cornetto. Watching EastEnders.

And yeah, I would have some cake, but I've got no cake. I would have some chocolate, but I've got no chocolate. So Cornetto I'll have to do.

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