What's the Hardest Part of Your Job?

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If smoke from a camp fire keeps blowing in your face, and you say aloud, hate white rabbits to stop the smoke, it will stop the smoke. I looked into this, and this tradition may have started with first nation stories about smoke resembling white rabbits. What is the hardest part of your job? What is the most vexing? Anything you don't like? Youre welks.

Grab your fire extinguisher and hang on to your eyebrows, we’re building FIRES today. Now, this is pyrotechnology in the anthropological sense; the kind covered in hair metal concert venue liability insurance will have to wait for another day, no no, these are the kind your ancestors made. Get ready for sharp rocks, hairy jello, sooty caves, glowing coals, iron sparks, burnt feet, wolf skulls, fluffy fungus, molten metal, ember tending and more with Yale anthropologist and pyrotechnologist, Dr. Ellery Frahm.

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