- So what's this?
- It's a past life.
- What was that life?
- I was a gang member.
- This is cool.
(plucky music)
- [Interviewer] Who are you?
- Bella Biagio.
- My name is Ron Coleman.
- My name is Kurt Rosengren.
- [Interviewer] Do you know what you're gonna do here today?
- I am going to guess what people's careers are.
- [Interviewer] What do you do for a living?
- Nothing, I'm retired.
- I'm a bartender.
We see all kinds of shit every day and we go,
oh, you must be a fill in the blank and we're usually right.
- I'm a career coach.
What's gonna make me good at this?
I love knowing about people
and I'm constantly asking questions.
- [Interviewer] On this clipboard is all the jobs
we'll be exploring today.
- Okay.
- [Interviewer] What's the first job?
- Aerospace engineer, kind of nerdy dressing, smooth hands.
- They're gonna look at me.
They're not gonna be afraid of that.
Well, they might be so nerdy that they won't.
Birth worker!
Am I allowed to use this word, hippie?
Think of somebody just very calm and probably does yoga
and meditates and knows the word mindfulness
backwards and forwards.
- Morgue transport.
I had a sister-in-law who did that.
She could tell you how to drain a body.
She was a little different.
- Children's pastor.
I've been around pastors.
I just get so creeped out.
They all remind me of Ned Flanders.
- Got a nanny.
And when I think of nannies,
I think of young Scandinavian women.
- [Interviewer] What else you got on that list there?
- Actor.
That's a tough one because I could be anybody.
- [Interviewer] Okay, line, come on in.
- Hello. - How you doing?
- I'm good, how are you?
- You good? - I'm good.
- Yeah, I could tell.
You like to smoke a lot of weed, don't you.
- No, I don't.
In the past, but not the present.
- So what I see is a young man with glasses
and hair I'm jealous of and a tattoo.
- So what's this?
- It's a past life.
- Like how past?
- Well, over a decade since I got out, but.
- You got outta what?
- That life. - Oh, the life.
What was it that life?
- I was a gang member.
- This is cool.
I'm up close and in person with a gang member.
I've seen many, but I've never had a conversation
nor am I trying to figure out what a gang member is doing
for a job.
He's having a good time.
- He's laid back, he's casual.
He's just kind of built like he can handle dead bodies.
I think he's a morgue transporter.
- I think you're a children's pastor,
because if you really super changed your life,
you may have gone down that road.
There you go.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, nicely done.
- My name's Van.
I use they, them pronouns.
- You what now?
(Van laughing)
- What do you love doing?
- I like hanging out with my kids at home.
Well, I got five kids at home.
- What?
- You have five?
- Mm hm. - Wow.
- My guess with this is birth worker.
Okay, let's role play.
I'm giving birth. (groaning)
- All right, I need you to calm down.
Slow down your breathing.
Center yourself.
Slower, slower, there you go.
There you go.
Good job, you're doing great.
You're gonna meet your baby soon.
(man sighing)
- Are you good at math?
- Hell, yeah. - Soft hands,
good mind.
And can afford five kids.
Aerospace engineer.
There you go. - Thank you.
- Aerospace engineer.
- Hi, I'm Tracy.
- Oh, hi, Tracy.
Do you like children? - I do.
- You do.
Let's say I'm a kid.
I say to you, I don't wanna go down for a nap.
What would you say to me?
- Well, I understand that you don't wanna go down for a nap.
Are you not tired?
- See, that's a good question.
That's why I think she's a nanny.
I'm probably so wrong right now.
It's okay.
- I know who she is.
You're the birth worker.
- What about me screams birth worker?
- Just your posture.
You know, she's kind of like this here.
So that means she's all day long picking the baby up.
- Noted, shoulders back, shoulders back.
- Hello. - Hello.
What do you love doing?
- I used to draw a lot, but I haven't had
the time to do that as much.
- Do you sit a lot at your work?
- I do.
- Do you like math?
- Math's okay.
I was a big reader.
- You're a big reader? - Yeah.
- Let's do a little role playing.
Okay, so you're an actor.
You've got a role that requires you to cry.
Now go.
(girl laughing)
Okay, nanny it is.
- She sits, she's a kind of into her reading
and I think she's just got some serious brain stuff.
You're an aerospace engineer.
There you go.
It's really coming down to the nitty gritty.
- What's your name?
- CJ. - CJ.
What are you about 23, 24?
- 32, sir.
- What?
God, you look good.
- Thank you. - Yeah, man.
- What do you love doing?
- I play the guitar, art, anything creative.
- Okay.
- Can I see your hands?
You use your hands?
Does anything bother you
in the sense of like bodily fluids?
- No, I deal with a lot of different bodily--
- Different bodily.
- Well, I've got actor and aerospace engineer left
and since he said everything is pretty creative,
then I went with actor.
- You're a morgue transporter.
There you are.
- This time.
- Hi.
- Hi, they save the best for last, don't they?
- Best for last?
That's so sweet of you.
- Yeah.
What's your name?
- I'm Sofeena.
What?
Oh my God. (laughing)
- [Interviewer] When you look at Sofeena, what do you see?
- I see intelligent.
I see sexy.
A lot of charisma here.
- Got the actor vibe.
And it isn't just because of the way you're dressed.
It's because you've gotta look in your eye
that you can look at me straight in the eye
and you're probably studying me for the next character.
- An actor would be bold in their appearances
and the way they dress and the way they carry their self.
I think I'm spot on.
- You are like counter to everything that I would stereotype
as an aerospace engineer.
Let's start with something an aerospace engineer would know.
Can you name the planets?
- Let's start with the center.
Got the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus.
- I'm impressed.
- [Interviewer] Raise your hand if Ron guessed
your occupation right.
(all laughing)
- Are you serious?
- I got one.
- Two?
- [Interviewer] Switch to what your real jobs are.
- Oh, you're the actor, eh?
You transport in the morgue, you?
- Well, you know what, I'm totally surprised, okay?
I really am.
- You're not a children's pastor?
- No, I'm not.
- What kind of acting do you do?
- Film, commercials, I used to do stage.
- [Kurt] So do the tattoos ever get in the way
for your career?
- I thought they would and I play a cop a lot
and you wouldn't expect that, so.
But it's cool, they just cover 'em up so.
- Fun.
- Sorry that I had you pegged as a children's pastor.
- No, it's okay.
'Cause I do work with at risk youth on my spare time, so.
- Oh, well hey, I picked up something.
I think it's fantastic that you're an actor
and that you've changed your life around.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- It's nice to meet you.
- You are the birth worker, so you are a nurse?
- No, I attend births at home and in birth centers.
I'm a midwife in training and a doula, so.
- Oh, my mom was a midwife.
- Yeah, that's what's up.
- I helped somebody do a home birth.
- How was that?
- It was frightening. - Really?
- But yeah, but I caught the child and--
- That's hella dope.
- So how'd you get into this?
- I seen like a birth video one day and I was like,
I have a vagina, I know nothing about birth.
That's hella weird.
So I learned more about it and after that,
I kind of fell in love with it.
- Nice to meet you, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Yep.
(Tracy laughing)
So what made you do this?
- I had a really crazy early 20s
where my parents were kinda like
maybe you should go to church.
And I was like, okay.
I found a church in a community that I really appreciate.
I never thought I would be a pastor.
When they were like, oh, would you ever be interested?
I'd be like, no, because I think there's a lot of stigma
with the word pastor.
- Oh, there is. - Yeah.
- I have a terrible one.
I grew up in a Catholic home.
I saw some shit that really was disturbing.
It's notorious for child abuse, notorious.
- There is an unfortunate stigma
that has come around people who have had past experiences
who don't deserve to have that.
I want people to know that there is still good
in the church and children deserve to have that.
Sorry. - Oh my God.
- Can I give you a hug?
- Yes, thank you.
- Absolutely.
- Have a good one. - You, too.
- Now I'm a mess, it's okay.
All right, next.
Come on, bring it on.
- Well hello, aerospace engineer.
Tell me about what you do.
- Well I design thermal systems for spacecrafts.
- Wow!
- [Interviewer] Do you know what that means?
- No, but it's--
(all laughing)
wow!
You're a badass.
You all are.
You, nanny, get over here.
You're a nanny?
- Yeah, I wasn't lying to you when I said
I deal with bodily fluids every day. (laughing)
- So you really have to have to love kids.
- You don't have to, but.
(all laughing)
I've always knew that I wanted to work with children.
Most of your issues as an adult stem
from childhood traumas and stuff like that.
And I kind of wanna break that cycle
for the future generation.
Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much.
- Hey, Ron.
What's the--
- [Interviewer] Ron, you look upset.
(all laughing)
- So how long you been doing this?
- Almost a year now.
- What got you into doing that?
- I actually work at the radiology department
in my hospital, but this is one of the tasks
that got put onto my department.
- Yeah, how do you go from radiology
to picking up dead people?
I don't understand.
- Morgue transport, of course,
you kind of think of the undertaker
and definitely not the undertaker.
- People in the death industry are not the sociopaths
that they're pegged as.
They're actually really great, empathetic people.
This isn't the most fabulous looking title,
but someone's gotta do it.
- Right.
- [Interviewer] What did you learn here today?
- That I'm not as smart as I think.
- Don't judge a book by its cover is
a very appropriate thing to say.
- Everybody is so much different than their appearance
and I can be super wrong
even when I'm trying to get below that.
- [Interviewer] And when you die,
do you want Sofeena to take you away?
(all laughing)
- Wait a minute.
(all laughing)