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00:00My name is Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:08I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:16Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:20I think it's going pretty well.
00:22Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:26Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:33What, you're still watching?
00:36I told you to get ready to get dirty.
00:38Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:42When a pleasure craft ceases being a pleasure, some owners just abandon it.
00:47So it just sits in the water, it rusts, fuels can leach.
00:50Derelict boats are safety and environmental hazards, and they're just plain ugly.
00:53And when they're submerged, the greener band just kicked me right in the head.
00:57Hauling them out is a dirty job.
00:59Freaking mess.
01:01And later, people have a lousy mattress, they don't want it, they just thump it.
01:04You've heard the fairy tale about the princess and the pee.
01:07Well, if that princess had been sleeping on a stack of these mattresses, she'd be worried about a different kind of pee.
01:13What's that smell?
01:14Good dog viewing.
01:15And a few other things.
01:16Possibly bed bugs.
01:17The bloody nose.
01:18Is that like mold?
01:19We do get some pretty odd stuff sometimes.
01:21What the heck happened here?
01:22That Byron going to have a little binder for the Thailand.
01:27Oh god!
01:32Today I've come to Miami to have some fun with boats..
01:41So far, so good.
01:42Right now, I'm in this boat.
01:43This boat is taking me over to that boat.
01:45That boat's actually a barge.
01:47Then I'm going to take the barge into the dock and put a big bucket on the barge.
01:51Then we take the barge and the bucket out there somewhere to find another boat.
01:56The boat we're looking for is not on the water.
01:58It's under the water.
01:59How it got there is another story altogether.
02:01But when we find it, we're going to haul it up, smash it into little pieces,
02:04and take that boat and put it on the bucket on that barge.
02:08After that, it'll be dark.
02:11Sound like fun?
02:21This looks like a fairly serious device.
02:24You look like a fairly serious guy.
02:26Mike.
02:26Bill, nice to meet you, Mike.
02:28Bill, pleasure to meet you.
02:29What are we looking at here?
02:30We're looking at our demo machine.
02:32This rig's done about 1,200 derelicts.
02:35The job is, and that's always encouraging.
02:38What's that signify?
02:39That's just sort of the, you know, good news mascot.
02:41Imposing death is what it is.
02:43You say derelicts, of course.
02:45That's just referring to boats that have sunk up and down.
02:47Abandoned boats.
02:48Right.
02:49Why do people abandon their boats?
02:50Uninsured boats.
02:52People are behind in the note on the boats.
02:54They want to dispose of them for insurance purposes.
02:56Or they don't have the money to dispose of them properly.
02:58So they take them and they sink them or hide them in the trees and grind off the FL, the indicators on them, and say it's not theirs anymore.
03:06What is your business called?
03:06Blue Water Marine Services, we're towboat U.S. South Dade out of Homestead, Florida, down south, just above Key Largo.
03:12We go as far as Key West up to the middle of the state, recovering derelicts or commercial diving operations, stuff like that.
03:18All right.
03:18And if all goes as planned, we ought to be able to get this thing done?
03:21Hour and a half.
03:22We do five to ten a day.
03:24The most we've done is 14.
03:25I don't expect we're going to do that many today.
03:27Let me tell you something, Bill.
03:28The only thing on this show that takes an hour and a half is seven hours.
03:31Right.
03:32We're going to put the boat here and actually demo it on the deck.
03:37That's the Bilge Queen.
03:38The mascot.
03:40Don't know why it's here, but it's...
03:41What goes on out here, man?
03:48This guy with the dumpster, is he with you or is that a separate company?
03:50That's Jay from Trashmasters.
03:52He's going to be putting that 30 on here.
03:59So how far are we to the barrel?
04:01That's it.
04:02There's a little creek that goes into the trees.
04:05And we've got Durham that's following us in the back back there.
04:07That's Department of Environmental Resource Management.
04:09They want to make sure we don't break a branch, tear any grass,
04:14that the area's left in better condition than when we got there.
04:18Oh, that makes it exciting.
04:20Yes.
04:20And then we have the law enforcement, FWC, who's on scene.
04:24What does that stand for?
04:25For the wildlife.
04:26Wildlife.
04:27Okay.
04:27Probably arrest us if Durham tells us that we broke the grass.
04:30You need to pull a boat, essentially, out of the silt off the bottom.
04:36Inside the mangroves, endangered trees, endangered grass.
04:39You're surrounded by protected grass and endangered trees.
04:42Correct.
04:43So the tree police are here to arrest you if the Durham people tell you that the grass was somehow harmed.
04:51FWC's also here to ensure that...
04:53Dude, you're screwed.
04:54Oh, yeah, we are.
04:55Oh, yeah, we are.
04:55They're also here to ensure that that boat is the correct boat we're picking up that's on their list.
05:00That's what they're actually here for.
05:02But now, you've got to be extremely careful.
05:04You can't break anything in there.
05:06They've got to find the owners to the boat, or they attempt to find the owners to the boat.
05:09If they find the owners, they give them 30 days to remove it.
05:11Yeah.
05:11A lot of them don't remove them.
05:12And then there's got to be grant money.
05:15The city or the county goes to the state for money, and then the state goes to the federal government for money.
05:20The boat goes derelict.
05:21It'll be about two to three years before it gets pulled out.
05:23So it just sits in the water.
05:24I mean, it rusts.
05:26Fuels can leach.
05:28Amazing that they have to wait that long before you can just come out and clean it up.
05:31By the time we finish one spot, by the time we get back, there's more boats.
05:36All right, there's a nasty rumor going around that we're actually ready to shoot.
05:40This is the boat that's going to take me and Kevin here, and Ryan, who's driving, and Carlos.
05:48Yeah, it looks like a little mango channel back in here.
05:51Basically, we're just going to rig up some airbags, fill them up.
05:55They get air in them, the boat pops up.
05:56So there's the star of the show.
05:58Okay, I get it.
05:58So it's not really down there, down there.
06:01No, it's not down there.
06:02Watch yourself.
06:03It's got a...
06:03Lots of barnacles and all kinds of shorts.
06:05Yeah, that's a slipper than it can be.
06:08Oh.
06:08That's kind of nice, huh, Carlos?
06:12I'm not the first one to want.
06:14I was expecting something a lot warmer, to be honest with you.
06:17You want your gloves?
06:18No.
06:19Nope.
06:19Gloves are for girls.
06:21That's what I like to hear.
06:23I don't know what this is tied to, but I'm just going to tie it to the rope.
06:25It feels pretty...
06:26That's fine.
06:26It feels pretty strong.
06:28Now we've got to get this boom.
06:29Current's coming this way, so we've got to do a big horseshoe right here around it.
06:32Right.
06:33Thank you, Carlos.
06:33This is the boom.
06:34Is that the yellow thing you're talking about?
06:34This is the yellow thing.
06:35Yes.
06:35The boom will contain any fuel or debris that might come out of the boat when it's moved,
06:40to keep it from contaminating the water.
06:43You know, I don't know what the heck I'm doing with this thing right now.
06:45All right.
06:47Yeah, kind of over to the other side of the creek.
06:48Yes.
06:49Oh, I thought we were just wrapping the boat.
06:51The current's coming this way, so anything that floats up, oil or fuel or anything,
06:55because the boat's been sent in for...
06:57Oh, I see.
06:57...we don't know how long.
06:58I wonder how deep this is.
07:02I like that.
07:04Hey.
07:06Am I allowed to touch the tree?
07:08Absolutely.
07:08Just tie off to as far as you can, kind of back to the south there.
07:14Now we've got to do the same thing on the other side with the other end.
07:17Okay, there's two rudder shafts in the back of this boat.
07:23Yeah.
07:23They're probably, when you feel down the back of the boat, probably a foot or so that way.
07:26Right.
07:27And we've got to get some chains around them on each one, and we're going to put bags.
07:29But first step is to get to the shafts.
07:32Ready?
07:33Ready.
07:34There, Mike.
07:36Yeah, but I can't see it.
07:43Shafts, I found you.
07:44What'd you come up with?
07:48I smashed my head on the barnacles a few times.
07:54Well, any progress?
07:56Dude, I'm just digging around in the mud.
07:58What do you suppose he's doing down there?
08:00He's looking to make sure the rudders are actually there.
08:02He's still coming.
08:14There's no rudder.
08:16Is that right?
08:17I don't see him.
08:18We got jinxed on that one.
08:20I didn't see him either.
08:21These straps are what the lift bags will be attached to.
08:24They'll raise the boat.
08:25Kevin joined me in the water.
08:27Yeah.
08:27Throw me a line on there so we can saw it back and forth through.
08:29Oh, he wants the pin.
08:41He wants air.
08:43He's three words.
08:44Sounds like...
08:45He's reaching for the pin.
08:46Sounds like luck.
08:49Watch out.
08:50I believe the band just kicked me right in the head.
08:52What happened?
08:53What happened?
08:54A strange dude with a funny face kicked me in the head.
08:57Then we played charades.
08:57I gave him a pin.
08:59All right, you need to go back down and tighten it up.
09:01And what?
09:02It's hard to understand you when you're drowning.
09:09Well?
09:11Piece of cake.
09:12With the straps in place, we connected the hoses from the compressor to the lift bags.
09:17All right.
09:18Fire it up.
09:18We got one more thing to do before we pump the boat out.
09:20Where those exhaust ports are.
09:22Hey, do we hit...
09:22This has to be stuffed in each one.
09:24Man, I don't know.
09:24You got an exhaust hole over here, and you got an exhaust hole over here.
09:28Up on the surface is what goes.
09:29Oh.
09:30Crap.
09:31Ah.
09:38It's splashing in the kitty pool.
09:40Oh, air pops up.
09:44I can't see anything.
09:45Can't feel anything.
09:47Can't put the thing in a hole.
09:48Don't know where the hole is.
09:49If you can't find the hole, you've got bigger problems than me, Mike.
10:02Guess what?
10:02I don't see a noodle.
10:04Oh, man.
10:06Come on.
10:14Are you faking?
10:15All right.
10:16I shoved it up the valve tube.
10:18Coming up, turning a piece of crap into a floater, then dumping it.
10:23Smells good, don't it?
10:24I never really knew a boat could smell so bad.
10:26And later...
10:27New mattress, 90 pounds.
10:29Ten years later, 110 pounds.
10:31What's that extra 20 pounds?
10:33Probably a dance can.
10:34You have another pair of gloves, by any chance?
10:35Yes, I do.
10:35You get more from an old mattress than a new one, and it's nothing you want.
10:39You got a very specific stink on them, don't they?
10:41Years of farts just jammed, powered, powered in there.
10:46As water was being pumped out of the boat, the air compressor was filling the lift bags,
10:58and the boat gradually rose from the bottom.
11:03My job was to make sure the pump hoses were sucking properly
11:07and plugging up the rest of the holes in the hull with foam.
11:14Remember that little boy with his hand in the dike?
11:18One in the middle.
11:20Yeah, I feel like him.
11:24Come back.
11:24The next phase, as mandated by DERM and FWC, is to remove any fish from inside the boat.
11:36One napper there.
11:37Snapper?
11:38Yeah.
11:39Oh, yeah, look at that.
11:42Oh, jeez, I lost it.
11:48See them?
11:48There's a nice one here.
11:49Yep.
11:50Some of these are just planted, Dad.
11:52All right?
11:54Are you passing on to me, or are you in?
11:55Yeah.
11:56Yeah, Dad.
11:57All right.
11:57Give me a jump kick.
11:58Oh, God.
12:02It stinks.
12:03Yeah, it stinks.
12:05Cool.
12:07Oh, yeah, he's still alive.
12:10We're taking care of the fish.
12:11It's part of the job.
12:12You've got to get all the fish out of the boat before you drag the boat out of the mud.
12:18Whoever said that a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work never spent
12:21the day fishing inside a derelict boat, but, like many other miserable experiences, it
12:26was for a good cause.
12:28We're saving lives.
12:30All right?
12:33How do we know when we're done, though?
12:35We're done.
12:35Now we've got to take these bags off and see what happens when I ask.
12:38Yeah, there you go.
12:39Thank God I didn't wait until 4 o'clock.
12:42The derelict boat was finally afloat, so we started to tow it out.
12:45How many of these are you doing today, like when you're rolling?
12:5010, 11.
12:53We are slowing you down.
12:54This was an especially difficult one.
12:56Yeah, thanks.
12:58What makes them grow like this, roots above the ground?
13:01The mangrove tree.
13:02They grow in the water, so they've got to have the roots come up so they're not completely
13:05saturated.
13:07I think we might be...
13:08Todd, I think we're hung up up front.
13:09Hold on.
13:10Mike, actually, stand right here now.
13:12Try it again, Todd.
13:15That'll make the stern go that way now.
13:17There you go.
13:18Good job.
13:27Look at that, like a cat.
13:28Woo!
13:31Oh, boy.
13:33Oh, crap.
13:34Oh, no.
13:35Don't look tree, police.
13:41We've got to spin the boat around.
13:46That's a $500,000 finder, Spartan.
13:50Tree!
13:51Trees!
13:53Oh, boy.
13:56Standby.
13:57Oh!
13:58It's going to roll up a little bit.
14:00You're stuck?
14:01We're stuck.
14:02We have to wait for the tide to come in.
14:03I said, if you pull it, mud will come up.
14:07It'll dig trenches through the mud as we pull it out.
14:11Why is that bad?
14:12It's damaging the environment.
14:15If nature didn't do it, we did it.
14:17That's basically what it boils down to.
14:19If we do it to nature, it's bad.
14:21If nature does it to us, it's okay.
14:22Absolutely.
14:24So what we need is a hurricane to blow us out of here.
14:26I'll see you in jail, dirtbag.
14:34Actually, the branch that broke was from an already dead mangrove tree.
14:38No harm done.
14:39There we go.
14:40We're out of the woods.
14:41Yeah.
14:42We were indeed out of the woods, literally, but there was another problem.
14:45I'd slowed things down so much that the tide had gone out, which caused us to run aground yet again.
14:51It's been one of those days, you know?
14:53Lots of mud, lots of water, lots of waiting.
14:56Now we're waiting for the tide.
14:57We're essentially marooned 100 yards from the barge.
15:00It took almost an hour to get unstuck, and we hadn't even had lunch yet.
15:03Heck of a thing to starve to death 50 yards from the barge.
15:06Given all the extra time to think and reflect, I was remembering my conversation with Bill at the start of the day.
15:12We ought to be able to get this thing done.
15:14Hour and a half.
15:19I want you to take the pull this thing apart.
15:21Minutes.
15:22Really?
15:23Yeah.
15:23I'd love to hear that.
15:24But you had a keyword there, should.
15:26Yeah, you had a keyword, minutes.
15:28You didn't say 7,000 minutes.
15:31Man in charge?
15:33Yep.
15:33Man behind the controls?
15:35All right, what we're going to do now is we're going to grab these straps, Mike, that are on the deck.
15:39We're going to lift it in one piece, set it up on the deck of the barge.
15:41We're going to demo it right here between us and the box.
15:45Go ahead and grab that one end.
15:47That's in the other end.
16:01I think that's good right there, no?
16:03All right.
16:03Yeah.
16:05A lot of guys would have gone with steel toes on a day like this.
16:09Yeah.
16:10I would have recommended it.
16:15Right here.
16:16You're good.
16:20Into the chain, right?
16:22Like right into the heart of it.
16:23Not around it.
16:24In it.
16:24In it.
16:25Oh, no.
16:25No, not in it.
16:27That's what I'm thinking.
16:27I was testing.
16:28Slides into it.
16:29That's right.
16:41She's heavy.
16:42What do you reckon this thing weighs, Bill?
16:50Right now, it's probably 20,000.
16:53I'll bet you half of it's mud.
16:55Yeah.
16:55She's too weak.
16:57She's going to break it, too.
16:58I got no lift.
17:00To help Bill lift the boat, he took some slack out of the chain.
17:03Oh, crap.
17:10She's coming apart.
17:13She's just so rotted.
17:14She's thin.
17:14It was a cheap boat to begin with.
17:16What's like a worst-case scenario for what we're doing right now?
17:18You come up on one like this, and you reach down, and you're grabbing something, and red
17:22diesel fuel starts pouring up by the hundreds of gallons, and that's a bad scenario.
17:26That's bad.
17:27Yeah.
17:27Then you go to plan B real quick.
17:29But just change your name and sail to Bermuda.
17:35Coming up.
17:36That's a freaking mess.
17:38Some people search for shipwrecks off the coast of Florida.
17:41I'm making one.
17:42Hi, Mike.
17:43Oh, crap.
17:44I'm going to stay on the board.
17:45I'm still good, though.
17:46It didn't fall off.
17:47It didn't fall off.
17:48And later.
17:49Since we know it's bedbuck, we have a white suit.
17:52You're going to put on a hazmat suit?
17:53Every mattress comes with a list of contents.
17:56Imagine the depravity that went on in this thing.
17:58It's the contents that aren't listed you need to worry about.
18:01What happened here?
18:02Blood.
18:03Bloody nose?
18:04I think all your DNA, Sam, is on here.
18:06I feel closer to you than ever.
18:07That's a freaking mess.
18:21Smells good, don't it?
18:22It smells great.
18:24I never really knew a boat could smell so bad.
18:26And to think that once upon a time, this decrepit pile of crap was called a pleasure craft.
18:50The only pleasure it's giving me, Bill, his crew, and mine is watching it get torn to pieces.
18:57All right.
18:58Just like Xbox, all right?
19:05You know, I never really...
19:06I haven't either.
19:07I never really made the Xbox investment.
19:09You've got to run the throttle up.
19:11This guy?
19:11Yep.
19:12Run it up.
19:13Keep going.
19:13Keep going.
19:14Keep going.
19:14Keep going.
19:15Right there.
19:16All right.
19:17First thing you want to do, your grapple's open.
19:20You want to boom down.
19:21You want to go into the plow.
19:22That's that one.
19:22There you go.
19:23Now, this is just like the thing at the carnival where you're grabbing the...
19:27But you never win?
19:28Never win.
19:28I win every time.
19:29You've got to be a machine at that.
19:34There you go.
19:35It's always fun to drop it from way up in the air.
19:39Uh-oh, Mike.
19:40Oh, crap.
19:41I've got to stay on the board.
19:42I'm still good, though.
19:47Slide it straight over into the box.
19:50Sure you haven't done this before?
19:52Imagine straight down, it'll usually come off.
19:57Hey, Jay's not here, the trash master, is he?
20:00No.
20:00Good.
20:01We'll paint it red.
20:01He'll never know the difference.
20:02No.
20:03It's been a treat.
20:04I should probably let you mop this stuff up now,
20:06otherwise we'll be here all night picking up one piece at a time.
20:09And with that, we pulled up stakes, or spuds,
20:13as those tall vertical things on the barge are called,
20:15and headed back to the dock.
20:17Well, all in all, I think we'd have to say that this day was a success.
20:21The mangroves were not harmed in any way.
20:24Fish were released.
20:25An abandoned boat was picked up, reduced in the splinters,
20:29and jammed inside of a dumpster.
20:31And the Miami area, if you can believe it,
20:33is just a little bit cleaner than it was when we got here.
20:37That's cause for me and the bilge queen.
20:39It's a celebrant.
20:47Dirty mattresses are like those wooden water tanks on the buildings in New York.
20:52They're there.
20:52You just don't see them until you start to look for them.
20:54And then once you see them, they're pretty much everywhere.
20:59That's Kim, right?
21:00Yes, it is.
21:01I can tell on account of the word Kim is written on your fancy shirt there.
21:05I'm good, thanks.
21:06How are you?
21:06I'm doing well.
21:07What is your job exactly?
21:09Picking up the mattresses.
21:11Generally, we go to homes that schedule.
21:14This here, DPW generally sometimes calls us in regards to abandoned waste.
21:20What's DPW?
21:21That's Department of Public Works.
21:22Gotcha.
21:22Can we walk over here and look at this for just a sec?
21:24I'm wondering why, I mean, first of all,
21:26why do people just throw their mattresses in the street?
21:28Is there a theory on that?
21:30Yes.
21:31Sometimes people feel it, rather than paying for disposal, just the normal way.
21:37People have a lousy mattress.
21:38They don't want it.
21:39They just dump it.
21:39Exactly.
21:40And you can see these here probably have been in the garage or the backyard for maybe the last 10, 20 years.
21:46I got this thing.
21:47I mean, I spend a lot of time every year lying on beds that aren't my own.
21:51Mm-hmm.
21:51And sometimes if I let my mind wander, I begin to think about what it is I might be lying on.
21:57Yeah, that's not a good thing.
21:58There are possibly bed bugs, so they have it wrapped up.
22:00Tell me about bed bugs.
22:01I read that they're like almost in every state now.
22:03They're back.
22:04They live in a mattress.
22:05They're small.
22:06They come out.
22:07They lay their eggs into your skin.
22:09Exactly.
22:09And you bring them home with you.
22:11So everything we're going to be touching today could be contaminated with...
22:14Could be, possibly.
22:15I read that a new mattress, say, might weigh, you know, 90 pounds.
22:23Okay.
22:23And the same mattress, 10 years later, might weigh, say, 110 pounds.
22:28Okay.
22:29Now, what's that extra 20 pounds?
22:31Probably dead skin.
22:33All right.
22:33This is disgusting.
22:34So we're going to cruise around.
22:36We're going to pick up some mattresses.
22:37Then where do we take them?
22:38We take them back down to the garbage company.
22:41Uh-huh.
22:41And they'll recycle the mattresses.
22:43Do you have another pair of gloves, by any chance?
22:46Yes, I do.
22:47Sure do.
22:47Could I have them?
22:48You sure can.
22:49I think you need them for this.
22:51Yeah.
22:51Okay, I'll get that fight.
22:52I'd be grateful.
22:53And just to belabor the point and drive it home as best I can for a moment,
22:57if a 90-pound mattress weighs 20 pounds more 10 years later,
23:01it's probably the dead skin, just so you're clear.
23:05See, the thing is, if I'm sleeping in 5, 10, maybe 15 pounds of my own dead skin...
23:11Yes.
23:11I mean, that's disgusting, right?
23:13But the idea that you're sleeping in somebody else's dead skin...
23:17Yes, uh...
23:17That's off-putting.
23:18Exactly, yeah.
23:21Let's just pick them up and move on.
23:23Okay.
23:25Yeah.
23:27Okay.
23:27I'm going to lay it down.
23:28Oh, we're going to use the gate?
23:30We're going to muscle it up there.
23:32Oh, no, just lay it down.
23:33Oh, that.
23:36How long have you been doing this exactly, Kim?
23:38Oh, I've been doing this about six to seven years now.
23:41Slightly used.
23:45Yes.
23:47Well, the truth is with these, the ones that look the worst might not necessarily be the worst.
23:51You're right about that.
23:53You don't really know.
23:53What'd they say?
23:55Looks of deceiving?
23:56You're not kidding.
23:56Now, this truck is dedicated to a mattress pickup, transport?
24:05Just about.
24:06Actually, this particular truck, we might pick up televisions, electronic equipment, computers.
24:13Right.
24:14We're just going to grab these and take them on in.
24:16San Francisco Recycling and Disposal collects about 375 pee-stained and lice-filled mattresses
24:22every week from the San Francisco area.
24:25It's a dirty job.
24:26What's that smell?
24:27It could be cat urine, dog urine, some other things I'd rather not talk about.
24:31This is one of the few shows on the TV, Kim, where you can pretty much talk about whatever you want.
24:34If you want to talk about urine from many species, you go ahead.
24:41Coming up.
24:42Should I really beware of the dog?
24:43What kind of dog is it?
24:44Pitbulls.
24:45Pitbulls.
24:46Good.
24:46Turns out the hazards of mattress collecting aren't always in the mattresses.
24:50Oh, I see what you mean.
24:51Beware of the dog.
24:55Beware.
24:57And later.
24:57This is it.
24:58Mattress heaven.
24:59I was going to go more with the purgatory.
25:01Out here, though you may feel like dropping off, there's no lying down on the job.
25:06Bed bugs with no suit.
25:07Sleep tight.
25:15Well, stuffed with the same stuff?
25:16You must have seen so many different mattresses.
25:18Yes.
25:19You know what amazes me are the different sizes.
25:22You know, you got your singles, doubles, queens, and kings, and your California kings.
25:26Yeah.
25:27What kind do you got?
25:28I have a California king.
25:30You like to move around.
25:31Yeah, I like to move around.
25:31You like some room.
25:32I like my side of the bed.
25:33My wife has her side of the bed.
25:35Sure.
25:35Sure.
25:36And nobody in between.
25:38Hey, man.
25:38A fella can dream.
25:41Watch out, man.
25:43Where's the next stop?
25:44Oh, pretty close.
25:45Just about two blocks away.
25:46Now, according to the list, this one here may have a mattress with bed bugs.
26:04If it does, they should have it wrapped up.
26:07Like that.
26:08Yeah.
26:09And it should be a note on it.
26:10There we go.
26:11Well, first of all, how do they know they got bed bugs in it?
26:13You know, that's a good question.
26:14I don't know if the...
26:16See, I've never had bed bugs.
26:17Good.
26:17I don't know if they're just kind of just jumping off the bed.
26:20I tell you this.
26:21When people say they have bed bugs, it creates an image in your mind, and all of a sudden
26:24you start to itch.
26:25I'm itching all over right now.
26:26Exactly.
26:27Yeah.
26:27So, since we know it's bed bugs, we have a white suit.
26:31You're going to put on a hazmat suit?
26:32Yeah.
26:33Uh-huh.
26:33I'll do...
26:33I guess, yeah.
26:34Yeah.
26:34Whatever you want.
26:42Here.
26:42You want to drive me crazy?
26:43Here, grab it.
26:43Here, do this with you.
26:48It's a bed bug call.
26:49Okay.
26:49We'll get him.
26:50Great.
26:50All right.
26:51I feel like I'm back at my old job doing asbestos.
26:54Yeah, you got all the plum gigs.
26:55Yes, I'll tell you, man.
26:56Asbestos, bed bugs.
26:57What's next?
26:57You going to clean up a reactor?
26:59No.
27:00I hear that's bad for you.
27:03It's a bad night's sleep.
27:09Well, I can grab this one.
27:10Yeah, I'll get the contaminated one over here.
27:11Okay.
27:18I don't want anybody to get the impression I'm letting you do all the work.
27:20No.
27:21No, don't worry.
27:21Nobody watches this show.
27:23Now, what I do like about these, they have the handle.
27:26You can't pick up a king with no handles.
27:27You might pick it up, but it's like wrestling with a fat woman.
27:30Have you ever done that?
27:31Wrestle with a fat woman?
27:32Yeah.
27:32No.
27:33You should try.
27:34It's a lot like riding a moped.
27:35It's fun until somebody sees you.
27:37Okay.
27:38Okay.
27:38We're not going to throw it up there.
27:49No, no.
27:50Not this one.
27:50It's too big.
27:51All right.
27:55Okay.
27:56We'll go ahead and stack these up, and then we'll be off to the next stop.
27:59Great.
28:00Can you imagine the depravity that went on in this thing?
28:13I think if you do it the other way, we might go down.
28:18Hey.
28:18That one.
28:18Yeah, I got it.
28:19Yeah, that's it.
28:20Now, maybe at the next stop, maybe we might get a honeymoon special.
28:23Tell me about that.
28:24Honeymooners.
28:25They never want to get out of bed for the first two months.
28:27Should we take the mattress and the people with us?
28:30Yeah.
28:30You know, they just might still be there.
28:36Yeah, my wife doesn't mind me bringing home a paycheck, but I don't think she wants me
28:40to bring it home, anything else.
28:41Yeah, I don't know what they're paying you, but if you're bringing home bed bugs, it's
28:45time to talk about a raise.
28:46I had no idea.
28:47I had no idea how popular the mattress guy was, but we're at the end of this street here,
28:52and this guy's popped out.
28:53We went and got his mattress over there.
28:55I didn't get his name, though.
28:56But he's very grateful.
28:58And then we got more people over here who just kind of came running over.
29:03They've invited us into their home.
29:05Should I really beware of the dog?
29:06What kind of dog is it?
29:08Pitbulls.
29:09Pitbulls.
29:09Good.
29:10Oh, I see what you mean.
29:12Beware of the dog.
29:17Beware of the dog.
29:19The dog.
29:19That's it.
29:20Yeah.
29:21All right.
29:22Yeah, why not?
29:23Me and you.
29:24It's kind of sobering to think about how many years people will sleep on dead skin and assorted
29:29vermin.
29:30Maybe the waterbed was a good idea after all.
29:32So were you sleeping on this one before?
29:34Yeah, my first message.
29:35This is your very first mattress?
29:37Yeah.
29:38Well, it's got to be kind of a sad day.
29:40Say goodbye to it.
29:41All the stuff that went on here?
29:43Ten years.
29:44Ten years.
29:44I think all your DNA, Sam, that's on here.
29:48All collecting.
29:51I feel closer to you than ever.
29:54What happened here?
29:56Blood.
29:56Bloody nose.
29:57The bloody nose?
29:58Yeah.
29:59Uh-huh.
30:00Okay.
30:00That's nice.
30:01Nice floral pattern.
30:03Here's the box springs.
30:04Good.
30:04We're off.
30:09I'm going to let you drive again.
30:10Okay.
30:11Appreciate it.
30:12Coming up.
30:13How many mattresses will it hold?
30:14300 plus.
30:15Nearly half a ton of dead skin from other people.
30:17That's a disgusting load.
30:18There you go.
30:20Dead skin is just about the nastiest thing you'll find in an old mattress, except for everything
30:24else.
30:25Look at this.
30:26This just looks like a crime scene.
30:28God.
30:29This one?
30:29And later.
30:30Just pull.
30:30Gangsters have a saying that when you're at war with your rivals, you must go to the
30:36mattresses.
30:38Here we go.
30:39Here, your rivals are the mattresses.
30:42It's a workout, man.
30:43This mattress could absolutely kick your butt.
30:53What's the weirdest thing you ever picked up?
30:55I think a pair of alligator shoes.
30:57$700 alligators.
30:59They were in very good condition.
31:00Pays to look through the garbage, that's for sure.
31:02Yeah, right.
31:02Head down.
31:03Definitely.
31:19I guess we're in the right place.
31:22Our old mattress has come to die.
31:24We're getting reborn.
31:25This is it, huh?
31:26This is it.
31:27Mattress heaven.
31:29I was going to go more with the purgatory.
31:32What's going to happen to them here?
31:34They'll come out with a forklift, and they'll load it into one of these containers and ship
31:41them off where they'll be refurbished.
31:44They're refurbishing the company over in Oakland.
31:46Now, do we unload this then?
31:48Yes, we do.
31:49And then it's goodbye for me and you.
31:50Yes, that's it.
31:51It's a fun time's over.
31:52I don't even want to talk about it yet.
31:53It's too sad to think about.
32:07We'll take our big boy, our big square.
32:08Yeah, that's it.
32:10Are you looking for a new mattress?
32:12Oh, here's a great one.
32:13Barely used.
32:14Bed bugs with no suit.
32:18Sleep tight.
32:20Barely used.
32:28All right.
32:28Okay.
32:29And this is it for me and you?
32:30Yeah, that's it.
32:31Pleasure.
32:32Good, good, good.
32:32I'll tell you.
32:33Yeah, hey, would they officially call us bedfellows for this?
32:37Listen.
32:39I've had stranger ones.
32:40Okay, all right.
32:41Thanks for the education.
32:42Okay.
32:42Well, thanks to the Magic TV and a guy named Derek and a forklift, now all our nasty, dirty
32:50mattresses are stacked neatly into piles of, what'd you go with, five, six of these things?
32:54Five, six, seven, depending on how high I want to go to.
32:56Mix it up?
32:57Yeah, exactly.
32:57I didn't officially say, hi, I'm Mike.
32:59Well, I'm Derek.
33:00What's your last name?
33:01McWay.
33:01McWay?
33:02Yes, sir.
33:03Irish?
33:04Black Irish.
33:04No.
33:05Hey, man, in this light, who would argue?
33:09What is the job exactly?
33:11For me, the stack mattresses.
33:13You stack and you load.
33:14Right, exactly.
33:15Gotcha.
33:15Which trailer are you going to be loading?
33:17I ask if you're going to do the one on the far right side.
33:19Way over there?
33:20Yeah.
33:20How many mattresses will it hold?
33:22300 plus.
33:23If your average mattress is 30 pounds when you get it, and it picks up 10% extra weight
33:28over 10 years, that's three pounds of dead skin per mattress.
33:31Right.
33:32So we have almost 1,000 pounds, nearly half a ton of dead skin from other people.
33:36Exactly.
33:37That's a disgusting load.
33:38I know it.
33:38All right.
33:39You going to be driving the forklift?
33:40Yes, I am.
33:40Okay.
33:40Did you want to drive?
33:41You think they'd let me?
33:42Sure, you can drive it.
33:46Safety first.
33:47Yeah.
33:47Top five, anyway.
33:49There you go.
33:52Okay, now tilt back.
33:53There you go.
33:54That's fine.
33:55So this your first time ever loaded up the trailer?
33:57With dead skin, yeah.
33:58Yeah.
34:01Am I up high enough?
34:02Yes, you are.
34:03Chill forward.
34:05There you go, chill.
34:08Okay, you can stop right there.
34:09Yep.
34:10Put it in part.
34:11Yeah.
34:11All right.
34:12As long as we got enough room to get in.
34:14Uh-oh, how are we going to get in there?
34:15Climb on top.
34:16Sure.
34:17Be careful.
34:18That's my middle name.
34:20Yeah, see, plastic.
34:21That makes sense.
34:22May have big bucks.
34:24Knowing what I do, we just go from the side here.
34:27Yep.
34:28Okay, lay it down.
34:30Just lay it down like so.
34:31Yeah, like this.
34:32Mm-hmm.
34:33Okay, this big one, we're going to slide it here because it's too big.
34:36This is one of those square ones.
34:38It's not a king or a queen.
34:39No, it's a California king.
34:40This is a California king?
34:40This is a California king.
34:41This is the biggest one they make.
34:42Okay.
34:43Push it up.
34:44Uh-huh.
34:45Oh, and you slip it right back in there.
34:47Slide it in.
34:47Oh, that's good.
34:48It's like a puzzle.
34:49It is, like a big old game of Tetris.
34:51Exactly.
34:53No, no, flip it, roll it up, and start it in.
34:57You don't have to finesse it.
34:58No, kind of sense.
35:01They've got very specific stink on them, don't they?
35:03Yeah.
35:04That's just years of farts.
35:05Yeah, it's years of farts.
35:07Years of farts just jammed, powered, powered in there.
35:10You do this by yourself, normally?
35:22Yeah.
35:27Oh, I dropped my coffee, too.
35:29Frack.
35:30Don't worry about the coffee.
35:31You get more.
35:32There you go.
35:33Look at this.
35:39This just looks like a crime scene.
35:41God.
35:42Like so.
35:45And that's how you load a tractor trailer full of mattresses.
35:48Yeah.
35:48Now, this gets driven over where?
35:50Toad in California.
35:51Well, I'm going to go over to Oad in California, see what they do with it there.
35:54Okay.
35:54That was disgusting.
35:56I knew it.
35:57Just a short drive from San Francisco, and we're at DR3 Recyclers in Oakland, a division
36:04of the St. Vincent DePaul Society.
36:07This is Sergio, and he's asked me to wear this mask.
36:09Is it okay to take it off when I talk to you?
36:11Yeah, it's okay right now.
36:12Okay, good.
36:13Because the air in here is basically, well, I guess there's some oxygen in it, but there's
36:19got to be a lot of dead skin floating around.
36:21Somewhat, yeah.
36:23It's a lot of dust.
36:24We're calling the dead skin dust now?
36:26Is that how we do it?
36:27Well, there's dust.
36:28There's, like, dead skin.
36:29There's, like, a lot of bad chemicals that comes with the territory.
36:34This is a truck full of...
36:35This is basically what we call our metal scraps from the mattress that gets stripped.
36:39The metal part, the wood, cotton, I mean, everything, the fabric, it all gets recycled.
36:47Coming up, is that, like, mold?
36:49Mm-hmm.
36:49Look at this.
36:50That's terrible.
36:51Whoever said that what you don't know can't hurt you, ears and fluids.
36:54Look.
36:55Never took apart an old mattress.
36:57Well, that's, like, black mold on there.
36:59Do people know they're sleeping on this stuff?
37:08So, you've got one, two, three, you've got half a dozen trucks here, at least.
37:12Yeah.
37:13How many are we going to unload?
37:14Uh, we'll start with this one first.
37:16Okay.
37:16Your forklift or we just drag them?
37:17Um, it's...
37:18I see your guys just walking out with them there, like...
37:20Yeah, well, these are really kind of damp.
37:22It's been raining lately.
37:24Oh, good.
37:24So, when they get damp, they're really, really heavy, and it's much easier with the forklift.
37:28Oh, however you think it's best.
37:29Yeah.
37:29And just right up against the wall.
37:35Right about here.
37:36Cool.
37:36What we'll do is we'll get a mattress, and we'll just throw it right on.
37:40Flip it, flip it.
37:42Got it out.
37:43Yeah.
37:43All set.
37:45Now, the thing about the tables is they spin, so you don't have to, like, actually go around, walk around, uh, cutting it.
37:51You can just kind of get the blade, just go right here, and then, if you want, just...
37:57And there you go.
38:00Now, what we do is we take the entire fabric, just pull.
38:05There you go.
38:06Oh, is that, like, mold?
38:08Mm-hmm.
38:08Look at this.
38:10That's terrible.
38:11There we go.
38:11Now, this one, same thing, just...
38:14Oh, okay.
38:15Now, does this all get reused for something?
38:17This one doesn't, because this one is, like, really moldy.
38:20Yeah, it is.
38:20So, it's not going to be able to be reused.
38:23Well, that's, like, black mold on there.
38:24Yeah.
38:25That's bad stuff.
38:26So, the stuff that we can't use, we just throw right on this one.
38:30Hold on, man.
38:31I mean, do people know they're sleeping on this stuff?
38:34The thing is that it's been raining lately, so it's just kind of, like, the mold kind of builds up pretty bad.
38:38All right.
38:39Pull this off, too.
38:40This also is going to be garbage right here.
38:42I can't recycle that part.
38:43This is garbage.
38:44Mm-hmm.
38:44Once this is off, this is the part that you're going to need a little elbow grease, because it's all the attacks.
38:51There you go.
38:51So, these, they'll get dumped right there with that other stack.
39:00Okay.
39:00Excuse me.
39:01And it's okay to leave this bit on?
39:03Yeah.
39:03All right.
39:04Yeah.
39:04Because what's going to happen is that the guys, they'll come with the forklift, pick these up.
39:11Right.
39:11And take them to that section over there, where the shredder will take off all the springs.
39:17Right.
39:18And then it'll separate the springs and the wood, and we have a section where it's just wood.
39:22Where do the springs go?
39:23To a scrap metal place, yeah.
39:25And what's the wood used for?
39:27The wood, it goes also to a recycling wood place.
39:30And what about all that stuff?
39:32This is the good stuff.
39:33The stuff that's not molded, not wet.
39:35These will go to another section of the warehouse where the guys, they'll put them all into a
39:39baler machine, and they'll make a huge bale.
39:42They'll be picked up from another recycling facility, and they'll go ahead and reuse them
39:47again.
39:47They could make mattresses, sofas, pillows, anything like that.
39:51They could go ahead and reuse it.
39:53All right.
39:53So, we got to do all these?
39:55Yeah.
39:58Is that a hair?
40:00Yeah.
40:05This one's going to be heavy.
40:07Yep.
40:11Look at that.
40:12All the years and fluids.
40:14Look.
40:15Every day, DR3 recycles 800 pounds of foam, 3,700 pounds of steel, and 1,800 pounds of cotton.
40:22Oh!
40:23What the heck happened here?
40:25Was that inside?
40:25Just sitting here.
40:26We do get some pretty odd stuff sometimes.
40:29Really?
40:29Yeah.
40:30One of the guys actually told me that they found a snake in.
40:33Alive?
40:33It was dead.
40:34But it wasn't like...
40:36Rotted.
40:36It was a fresh snake.
40:37It was a...
40:37Yeah.
40:37You could tell it was a fresh snake.
40:42How many can you do in a day?
40:43At least 50 a day.
40:44The recycling impact from DR3 is huge, saving about 2,000 cubic feet of landfill space every
40:51day.
40:51Still got some snap in them.
40:53Oh, yeah.
40:54You could break your whole head open on this thing.
40:57Safety third.
40:59It'll work out, man.
41:01This mattress could absolutely kick your butt.
41:03It's soaking wet.
41:13Damn it.
41:18There we go.
41:19That's right.
41:20That's how I roll.
41:22This is our nut.
41:23This is a true pro right here.
41:24I'll watch and learn.
41:25How many of these, you guys, would you say you do a day?
41:3050?
41:31These guys do at least 50 a day.
41:34I've just done like two and a half.
41:36I wouldn't want to do 50.
41:39Or three.
41:41Sergio.
41:42Yes.
41:43This is goodbye.
41:44Okay.
41:44I get it.
41:46Thanks.
41:47No problem.
41:47Sleep tight.
41:48I will.
41:51The bottom line is, it all gets used.
41:54The steel is high grade.
41:55That winds up usually in the auto industry.
41:58The wood is low grade.
41:59That's used for something called hogged fuel, which is a very cheap form of energy.
42:03The foam typically winds up in the backing of carpets.
42:07The cotton is a very low grade cotton.
42:09In fact, you can almost see little cotton seeds in it, and it'll hold a flame.
42:13If you melt it into some paraffin, like from a used candle, for instance, you can actually
42:18make these eco fire starters.
42:21The most typical beds that come out of this place are beds for your doggy.
42:24That's made with everything here.
42:25It's hypoallergenic.
42:26It's all clean.
42:27I don't know what in the world happens to all the dead skin, but it's gone.
42:31And so am I.
42:37I'm going to say this once.
42:46Discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:52I lied.
42:53Discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:57We're now accepting your ideas for our next dirty job.
43:02It's weird when you fart in these suits, man.
43:04It comes flying right up the back of your neck.
43:09I hear you like that.
43:11It's like a safety thing.
43:12Wow, that's pretty good.
43:13That was good.
43:14Right.
43:14Like that, see?
43:16All right, all right.
43:17You guys can just form a nice long line and start kissing my ass.
43:22You don't think we're going to use what's going on right here?
43:24No.
43:24You don't think we're going to use you burping on camera right now?
43:26Come on.
43:27Honestly.
43:28You can stop that.
43:29You don't think we're going to use you stop that?
43:31That whiny tone you just did?
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