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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:05I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10So what's the official name of the job?
00:12We are the Mucking Crew.
00:13This is a mucker.
00:15Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living...
00:18Can't see a thing.
00:19...doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:23Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:27Day!
00:29Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:31Why are you putting the dirt into the shirt?
00:33We had a bunch of white shirts.
00:34The hurricane came through and trashed all the shirts.
00:36It just took off like crazy.
00:38Shirts usually get dirty by accident.
00:40At the original Red Dirt Shirt Company in Hawaii, they do it entirely on purpose.
00:45You're the anti.
00:46We are the anti.
00:47You're the anti-clean.
00:48And we like it.
00:49And not just with any dirt.
00:50Red volcanic soil from eruptions thousands of years ago.
00:53It's a place with six washing machines and not one clean piece of clothing anywhere.
00:58Try to keep as much in the machine as you possibly can.
01:01Yeah, I can see that your commitment to tidiness is, you know, unexampled.
01:05And later, this one's for all the marbles.
01:08Half a million of them.
01:09So the company makes marbles.
01:11That's it?
01:12That's it.
01:13That's how many marbles they make every day at J-Bo in Ohio.
01:16It's about a million degrees in there.
01:17Pretty close to 3,000.
01:18But no matter how hard you work, once you get rolling in the marble business, the heat is always on.
01:23These years, they're still warm, though.
01:25They're not warm, man.
01:26Well, they're maybe a little hot.
01:28Oh, God.
01:30I go through a lot of t-shirts on this show.
01:46This one's one of my favorites.
01:47Picked it up not long ago at an olive ranch in Arizona.
01:52Today, though, I'm in Hawaii, specifically on Kauai, home of the original red dirt shirt.
01:59I see these signs all over the island, and I'm intrigued.
02:03I'm also titillated by the prospect of extreme irony.
02:06You see, our country appears to be obsessed with getting dirt out of clothes.
02:11And here we have a thriving business that appears to be doing well because they're putting dirt into clothes.
02:17I need to get a closer look at what's going on.
02:19So I'm going in there right now.
02:21See if I can't find one of the original red dirt shirts my size.
02:27Of all the Hawaiian islands, Kauai is the oldest.
02:30Over a million years old, in fact.
02:32So all the vegetation and the dirt originally formed by a volcano has been sitting there for quite some time.
02:39That's until a company decided to use that dirt in their shirts.
02:43And the story of how that happened is worth telling.
02:46So that's the Hanapepe Valley out there.
02:49And this is Randy Williams.
02:51And that's Erwin with the pick.
02:53Hello, Erwin.
02:54All right, well, I've got like a million questions before we actually start working.
02:57I'll just ask one or two.
02:59Why?
03:00Why are you putting the dirt into the shirt?
03:03It happened actually after Hurricane Iniki.
03:06And we had a bunch of white shirts in a warehouse.
03:09And the hurricane came through and trashed all the shirts.
03:12So now they're wet and dirty and everything.
03:14And it was kind of an I survived the hurricane line.
03:17Yeah.
03:18You know, like a dirt line like that.
03:19And it just took off like crazy.
03:21I love it.
03:22So dirt saved you from bankruptcy?
03:25Absolutely.
03:26Has that shirt you're wearing been dyed entirely with dirt?
03:28It has.
03:29Has it been dyed entirely with the dirt that we're picking?
03:31This very dirt right here at the secret dirt mine?
03:33Yes.
03:34We are at the proprietary secret dirt mine.
03:37Let's keep talking but actually work.
03:39I feel bad Erwin's doing all the picking.
03:41How much dirt do we need to take back?
03:43Well, we only fill these up about half because we've got to put them up in the back.
03:48Because somebody's got to pick them up.
03:49It's like a heavy thing, yeah.
03:50I just got some original Hawaiian red dirt right in my eyes.
03:55The red dirt can only be found in certain areas of Kauai.
03:58This particular dirt lot is owned by Randy.
04:01And he's been digging from it since Hurricane Iniki hit Kauai in 1992.
04:05Why have you taken so much care to put the word original on your signage?
04:11Well, you know what?
04:12People come here and they go, huh, we have dirt.
04:15So we just want to let people know that we started it and, you know, it's kind of our thing.
04:19So are people dyeing shirts in other shades from dirt?
04:22No, they all try to make it the same color and actually they just use dye.
04:26No.
04:27Because after they go in their backyard and dig it up and then it turns into a mess, they think they're not dying.
04:32Who needs this? I'll just dye it red.
04:33Right.
04:34We'll just, yeah.
04:35People say imitation, right?
04:36Highest form of flattery.
04:37Yep.
04:38What a crock of crap that is.
04:40You know how many people have tried to rip this show off?
04:42Year after year they come along.
04:44Gross jobs, disgusting jobs, filthy jobs.
04:46They all suck.
04:47Yeah.
04:48What's the matter with people?
04:49Aren't there any original ideas?
04:50Erwin, aren't there any original ideas left anymore?
04:53I don't know, sir.
04:55These are probably full enough for our purposes?
04:58Full enough, absolutely.
04:59We throw these in the van and then we go back to the...
05:01We kind of drag them over there and hoist them in.
05:03Throwing would be...
05:04I'm all with drag.
05:05Yeah.
05:06Drag and hoist are good.
05:07I don't know if you can throw them in, but...
05:08No.
05:09No, I can barely drag.
05:10So what do we do?
05:11Just drag?
05:12Let's drag.
05:13See if we can get this up here.
05:14Ooh.
05:15It's heavy, isn't it?
05:17Yeah.
05:18Oh, this is the hard part.
05:25Yeah, Erwin, just grab that on there, would you?
05:30At least I can, sir.
05:31I'll put that up there for you, Erwin, huh?
05:33What's it called again, Brandy?
05:34Hanepepe Val.
05:35Hanepepe.
05:36How many letters are in the Hawaiian alphabet?
05:39Fourteen.
05:40Fourteen?
05:41Yeah, with Val's.
05:42No, we've been lost since we got here.
05:43Been on Hanepepe.
05:44Make a left on Pupurayki.
05:46That's what they say.
05:47There's Capa, Capa, Capa.
05:48Yeah.
05:49And then, uh...
05:50Mostly everybody goes, you know, turn left at the greenhouse and there's this big rock
05:54and...
05:55No addresses.
05:56Just look for the big pile of red dirt and you're there.
05:57That's what comes from...
05:58You know, a small community and that's where it comes from.
06:00Can we go get dirty?
06:01Absolutely.
06:03Nice ride.
06:04So, we are officially where?
06:17This is the red dirt dye house.
06:19What?
06:20Did something explode?
06:21No, you know what?
06:23It seems like the...
06:25It was just a boring job and people, you know, threw that stuff up there.
06:29Yeah.
06:30That stuff has been up there for eight, nine years and not a piece of it has fallen down.
06:35Are all these in play?
06:37All these washing machines?
06:38No.
06:39Those have been retired.
06:40We kind of keep them just in case there might be some kind of part, but mostly they just sit
06:44there until, you know, we get enough of them that we take them to the dump.
06:49Yeah.
06:50On average, they'll go through about eight washing machines a year.
06:54But the ones that do work are filled with dirt and shirts.
06:58How long have these been in here?
06:59About ten minutes is how long we die them for.
07:02So, ten minutes ago, these look like those.
07:04And the good thing about it is they, you know, they can never get dirty.
07:08Yeah, you can't, you can't mess anything up.
07:10Nope.
07:11Try not to splash as much water up there.
07:13That's what kills it.
07:14Electricity is what kills all these machines.
07:16So, you try to keep as much water, mud and things in the machine as you possibly can.
07:21Got it.
07:22Yeah, I can see that your commitment to tidiness so far is, you know, unexampled.
07:27I think we got them all.
07:29All right.
07:30Now, now what we have to do is refill.
07:34This is the technical part.
07:35This is the technical part.
07:36All right.
07:37First.
07:38Hey!
07:39Sorry about that.
07:42That's okay.
07:43I didn't do that.
07:44No, no.
07:45It's just, it's only my favorite shirt.
07:47It's been a while since I turned on that.
07:52I forgot that it's high pressure.
07:56It's physics.
07:57Now, this dirt has to be the consistency of like a milkshake.
08:02Try to get most of it.
08:05There you go.
08:06Try to put most of it in there.
08:07What about the clumps?
08:08No, that's good.
08:09Just going just like...
08:10No problem.
08:11The dirt contains large amounts of oxidized iron, which gives it that red color.
08:15You're going to put in blanks, aren't you?
08:17Yes.
08:18The main thing is you just don't want to clump them, you know, so that the dirt gets to
08:24travel all the way around.
08:26What?
08:27There we go.
08:28That's the good stuff.
08:29Vinegar.
08:30What's the...
08:31Why vinegar?
08:32Well, it raises the pH level of the water, and then the water becomes unfriendly for anything
08:37in it, so it sticks on the shirt.
08:39The vinegar also helps set the color into the shirts, so it doesn't wash off.
08:44You've put as much thought into the process of getting shirts dirty as typical soap makers
08:50or detergent manufacturers might put into getting them clean.
08:53It's really just the same kind of thing.
08:55You're trying to either exclude or include.
08:57It's just that you're the opposite.
08:59You're the...
09:00You're the anti.
09:01We are the anti.
09:02You're the anti-clean.
09:03And we like it.
09:04After the shirts go through the rinse cycle twice, they'll be ready for the dryer.
09:08You need gloves, Mike?
09:10He told me that only the sissies wear gloves.
09:13No, he has to do it every day.
09:16Okay, I'll wear the gloves.
09:18Sure.
09:19Each month, they dye about 10,000 shirts here, going through about 3,200 pounds of dirt to
09:25do it.
09:26No, it's running.
09:28That's running.
09:29I thought it was done.
09:30No, they're full.
09:31Is there anything on earth more tedious than waiting for clothes to dry?
09:35Now I know why people throw stuff at the walls here.
09:37It's boredom.
09:38This is the lint.
09:39Yeah.
09:40This is normal dryer lint, except it's full of dirt.
09:44Now it needs some water, right?
09:47That looks pretty good, huh?
09:49I'm aiming for the first complete rectangle.
09:58Just a little light.
10:00Oh!
10:02That's sad.
10:03I have never seen those fall down.
10:08That's really sad, man.
10:10Well, what?
10:11The funniest damn thing he's ever seen.
10:14I know what you're saying.
10:15You're saying, try it again, only don't throw like a girl.
10:18All right, I'm aiming for the D in Egghead.
10:22Now I got the A.
10:23So you do this, huh?
10:24You've been throwing these up there?
10:25No, sir.
10:26Never?
10:27Never do that.
10:28No, you just work, but you know exactly where the lint is and just how much mud to put in it.
10:32He was just telling me today how stupid the guys were that were throwing that stuff up.
10:36Yeah.
10:37They know respect.
10:38Not no respect.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Coming up.
10:41What's your t-shirt say?
10:42Try trial.
10:43Try try what?
10:44Anything.
10:45And the other part is...
10:46He go, eh?
10:47Sometimes when you try try...
10:49Aw, man, that is bad.
10:50You fail fail.
10:51And then he no go, eh?
10:53He no go.
10:55And later...
10:56The process we have here is to crush this glass.
10:58You're going to crush this glass.
10:59That's nice.
11:00A crush video in which the crusher is also the crushee.
11:04That's horrible.
11:05That's the easy part.
11:06At home, when a load of shirts comes out of the dryer still dirty, it's kind of a letdown.
11:17Yes.
11:18At the original Red Dirt Shirt Company, it's the whole point.
11:20So these are shirts that have been dried, obviously.
11:23The drying process is actually part of the smoothing out process.
11:26They're kind of chunky and gnarly when they come in.
11:29That's why all that lint and mud is below.
11:31Right.
11:32So as far as the t-shirt goes, you're buying really good blanks, basically.
11:37Yeah.
11:38That's like any product.
11:40You know, if you don't start out with good material, no matter what you do in the process,
11:44you will not wind up with a good product.
11:46Why is it so hard?
11:48I mean, is it possible to make something in America anymore?
11:52And sell it and stay in business in the garment industry?
11:57I've been checking it out.
11:58No, it doesn't exist.
12:00Whether it's right or not, when Ross Perot said, when you hear that huge sucking sound,
12:04it's the jobs going south.
12:06Well, in our industry, literally, it had to be a million or more jobs went south almost immediately.
12:13I mean, why is it so hard to get people who are really just willing to get dirty and work anymore?
12:19I mean, it just seems like I talked to so many people who would, you know, would like to buy stuff that's made on American soil, myself included.
12:29And if that's no longer an option, you know, it's kind of cool that, you know, you can sell some things maybe that are made from American soil.
12:37Sure.
12:38All right, so we follow the red dirt road.
12:39We do.
12:41This way.
12:43All right.
12:44Mike, this is Rochelle, and she's going to show you how to put the Dirty Jobs logo on the back of those shirts.
12:50You made us a logo. Look at that.
12:52Now, Rochelle, did you make this or did he make this?
12:55I made the screen.
12:56You made the screen?
12:57Yes.
12:58Was that complicated?
12:59No, it wasn't.
13:00No, it wasn't.
13:01That's good.
13:02This just says jobs.
13:03Where does it say dirty?
13:05Right there on the next screen.
13:06That says...
13:07Each screen has only one color.
13:09Oh, okay.
13:10So what you're really seeing here is the jobs come through right here.
13:15Then we have another one with my girl.
13:18With the guy's name, yeah?
13:19We had it just to have the shirt showing through like that.
13:23But that, you know, most of those TV kind of guys, like, they're really proud of their names.
13:27They care about their name, yeah.
13:28They really want to see, so I thought, you know.
13:30Ah, yeah, my name kind of pops in the white there.
13:32Had you, uh, had you considered maybe putting an exclamation point after it.
13:36Okay.
13:37You can take them off.
13:39Just slide your hand in there like that.
13:41Yeah, you can do that.
13:42Yeah, just pull it up like that.
13:43Okay.
13:44The shirts need to go through the oven at 320 degrees for the ink to dry.
13:48A corner like this, grab it off.
13:51Well, first you do this though, right?
13:53Yeah.
13:54And then you grab it like this.
13:56Mix it a little neater.
13:59What's your t-shirt say?
14:01Try, try them.
14:02Try, try what?
14:03Just try anything.
14:05And then the other part is...
14:08Ego, eh?
14:09What does that mean?
14:10Ego?
14:11Ego?
14:12Ego?
14:13Ego.
14:14You tried them?
14:15Yeah.
14:16And then he left.
14:17That's kind of sad.
14:18Tell him.
14:19Tell what that means.
14:20Just try anything.
14:21Go for it.
14:22Yeah.
14:23Like if I'm going to tell you to try something, taste something, try it.
14:26Just try them.
14:27Try, try them.
14:28And then if you like it, Ego, eh?
14:29Ego?
14:30Yeah.
14:31Ego, eh?
14:32So Ego is good?
14:33Yeah.
14:34Ego.
14:35So you try it, you like it, Ego?
14:36Ego.
14:37It works.
14:38It works.
14:39It works.
14:40It works.
14:41Ego.
14:42Just spray it a little.
14:43Just spray it a little.
14:44The spray adhesive is applied so the shirts will stick in place.
14:47Ego.
14:48Ego, eh?
14:49Try them, try them.
14:50We put them on the front?
14:51We're putting them on the front, right?
14:52We're putting them on the front, right?
14:53We're putting them on the back.
14:54You load them in.
14:55Make sure it's even on both sides and pull them evenly.
14:59And then Ego, eh?
15:00Ego.
15:01Do like this.
15:02All the way.
15:03All the way.
15:04All the way.
15:05Isn't that all the way?
15:06Yeah.
15:07And then you pull it out a little bit.
15:08Yeah.
15:09Oh, man.
15:10That is bad.
15:11Don't hold back, Rochelle.
15:12Tell it like it is.
15:13It's bad.
15:14Okay.
15:15Okay.
15:16Okay.
15:17Okay.
15:18Okay.
15:19Okay.
15:20Okay.
15:21Okay.
15:22Okay.
15:23Okay.
15:24Okay.
15:25Okay.
15:26Okay.
15:27Okay.
15:28Okay.
15:29I'm going to do you black first.
15:31Black first.
15:32That means, uh...
15:33Spin this around.
15:34Uh-huh.
15:35Right there.
15:36You float a little.
15:37Yeah.
15:38A little.
15:39And then you press.
15:41The ink stays in a liquid form at all times.
15:44It will only dry when it's heated.
15:46You forgot the brown on this one.
15:48I forgot the brown over here, Rochelle.
15:50Good eyes.
15:51What would happen if I did just my last name?
15:57You missed part of your arm.
15:58That's silly.
15:59Okay.
16:00There you go.
16:01Coming up.
16:02If I wanted certain letters white.
16:03W-O-R-N-K.
16:04What do you mean backwards?
16:05Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
16:06Let me see.
16:07Put that on eBay maybe?
16:08It's backwards.
16:09He's not go.
16:10He's not go.
16:11He's not go.
16:12He's not go.
16:13He's not go.
16:14He's not go.
16:15He's not go.
16:16We're just going to throw the angel right in the fire?
16:17That's very Old Testament.
16:18A meeting with an angel that's less than heavenly.
16:19Is that the angel again?
16:20She's a thousand degrees.
16:21I just got touched by an angel.
16:23Now that I understood how silk's creating worked, it was time to experiment.
16:24If I wanted to just make something like this, I would just like to go.
16:25You're not go.
16:26He's not go.
16:27And later.
16:28We're just going to throw the angel right in the fire?
16:30That's very Old Testament.
16:31A meeting with an angel that's less than heavenly.
16:36Is that the angel again?
16:37She's a thousand degrees.
16:39I just got touched by an angel.
16:41Now that I understood how silk's creating worked, it was time to experiment.
16:52If I wanted to just make certain letters white, I would have to drag the thing just over
17:00these and then just over the K. That'd be pretty tough, wouldn't it?
17:03Yeah.
17:04I bet you can do it though.
17:05Oh yeah, I can do that.
17:06Yeah.
17:07Would you want white?
17:08Try, try.
17:09W-O-R and K.
17:10W-O-R and K in white.
17:13Yeah.
17:14Let it be backwards.
17:15It's okay.
17:16It's okay.
17:17I think it'll jump out.
17:18I think people will look at it and realize it says work.
17:20I can do that.
17:21Watch this.
17:22This is how you do it.
17:31I should get this E.
17:33You got it?
17:34Ha!
17:35Okay.
17:36This is a very limited edition.
17:52Dirty Jobs t-shirt and the letters work highlighted thanks to Rochelle's 14 years of experience.
17:58What do you see?
17:59Put that on eBay maybe?
18:00What do you think?
18:01No.
18:02Stupid.
18:03Yeah.
18:04Dumb.
18:05Not uh...
18:06It's backwards.
18:07But you know what I did?
18:08I tried trying.
18:09Yeah, you did.
18:10Did he not go?
18:11He no go.
18:12Come on.
18:13I think it's charming and collectible.
18:14Yeah.
18:15As are you.
18:16Thank you so much.
18:20You're okay.
18:21My name actually spells me, I work.
18:24Here, you take this.
18:26But don't throw it away.
18:27It's going to be worth something one day.
18:29I'm going to use it to sleep with.
18:31You what?
18:32I'm going to use it to sleep with.
18:34You're going to use it to sleep with?
18:35Yeah.
18:36You mean sleep in?
18:37Yeah.
18:38Very different.
18:39Sleep in.
18:40Sleep in.
18:41You're going to wear it?
18:42Yeah.
18:43You're going to wear my shirt as pajamas?
18:44Yeah.
18:45Try, try it.
18:46Try it.
18:47Me, I work.
18:48Backwards.
18:49Huh?
18:50Look at that.
18:51Look at that.
18:52I figure we can make a trade.
18:53I'd give you mine and I'd take this one.
18:55Oh, absolutely.
18:56You don't care?
18:57Fair is fair.
18:58It seems a more truthful shirt, anyway.
18:59Absolutely.
19:00And if you don't mind, I'll take a couple extra for the boys?
19:03Absolutely.
19:04I'm sure they'll enjoy it.
19:05Finally got a shirt with my name on it.
19:07Yeah.
19:08It's not fair.
19:09I'm sure you're going to wear it.
19:10You're going to wear it.
19:11I'm going to wear it.
19:12You're going to wear it.
19:13You're going to wear it.
19:14You're going to wear it.
19:15You're going to wear it.
19:16You're going to wear it.
19:17You're going to wear it.
19:18I finally got a shirt with my name on it.
19:20There you go.
19:22I really appreciate it.
19:23Oh, thank you so much for coming.
19:24All right.
19:25You're welcome.
19:26Go easy on that shirt.
19:27I will.
19:28That might be worth something one day, too.
19:29I will.
19:30But not as much as this one.
19:31Mm-hmm.
19:39If you sometimes feel as though you've lost your marbles, don't worry.
19:42There's a place you can go to find them again.
19:45Reno, Ohio is the home of marble manufacturer J-Bo.
19:50J-Bo makes marbles for both collectors and industrial uses, such as inside spray cans.
19:55Marbles are made of recycled scrap glass.
19:58I rolled into J-Bo with the truck full of it and the folks over at Fenton Art Glass,
20:03where I had recently completed another dirty job.
20:06I've been instructed to meet Barsky by the crusher.
20:10That's Barsky.
20:11I'm going to assume he's standing next to the crusher.
20:15I'm going to offload my payload.
20:19Broken glass.
20:21There we go.
20:30Okay.
20:32I think we're here.
20:37And you must be Dave.
20:38I'm Dave.
20:39I'm Mike.
20:40How are you?
20:41How's it going, Mike?
20:42It's fine.
20:43Great.
20:44J-Bo, huh?
20:45Yeah, J-Bo Incorporated.
20:46What's J-Bo mean?
20:47John Arterbrite was named after him, you know, when they first started the business up.
20:51So the company makes marbles.
20:53That's it?
20:54That's it.
20:55How many marbles do you make here?
20:57Right now we're producing about half a million a day.
21:00We used to produce over four million.
21:02Four to six million a day.
21:04Are you...
21:05Seriously?
21:06Seriously.
21:07The first process we have here is to crush this glass.
21:09But you're going to crush this glass.
21:11Here we go, Mike.
21:12This is your hat.
21:13Safety glasses, which you're going to have to have.
21:15The hearing protection.
21:16That's a respirator.
21:17Do I need it on now?
21:18You'll have to have it on when you crush that glass.
21:21I can breathe, but I can't hear you.
21:22I can't see it.
21:23You've got to bring it down there.
21:25Mike, you've got to do it on the back.
21:27I just want to make a marble, man.
21:29I feel like I'm going in a nuclear reactor.
21:31Can you get it, Mike?
21:33Oh, yeah.
21:35J-Bo uses about two tons of scrap glass a day.
21:42They make marbles every day of the year except Christmas.
21:52That was horrible.
21:53That's the easy part.
21:54Where did it go?
21:55It's all right down here in the pan.
21:57Normally, you'd have a Ford truck to do this.
22:01Ha!
22:02I'm going to dump it.
22:03What you've got to do now is throw some of that in the tank.
22:08In there?
22:09Yeah.
22:10There it is.
22:11We're just going to throw the angel right into fire?
22:16Yeah.
22:17Hey, man.
22:18That's very Old Testament.
22:21Every 30 to 40 minutes, glass is shoveled into the 3,200 degree furnace.
22:29Hey, you've got to throw it in the hole.
22:30Oh, in the hole.
22:32Yeah, you've got to throw it in the hole.
22:34The molten material then flows into vats before being made into marbles.
22:38These marbles have a wide variety of uses, from the agitator and spray cans to restricting the flow of water in water tanks.
22:44They're even used in mausoleums to roll the caskets in and out.
22:51Hey, don't get carried away.
22:53If I finally found something I could do, I was kind of excited.
22:56Now we're excited.
22:57Now we're going in here.
22:59Coming up.
23:00Well, first we need to take this hand knife off and have it sharpened.
23:03Like a cigar cutter.
23:04Making little round things takes a sharp edge.
23:07A lot of patience.
23:08A little tedious, isn't it?
23:09I see why you only do this twice a month.
23:12And later.
23:13You don't want to get your rod stuck in that hole.
23:15If you stick your rod into a 3,000 degree hole unprotected, you're not the only one at risk.
23:20So Doug, you're saying this was hot in your foot?
23:22It's a little warm in this area.
23:31Hey, yo, Mike, Russ.
23:33Mike, how are you?
23:34Russ Moe.
23:35Russ Moe?
23:36Russ Moe.
23:37Russ Moe.
23:38Mike Rowe.
23:39Russ Moe.
23:40He's going to take over here and show you how to dress it.
23:42Russ Moe.
23:43Are you leaving me already?
23:44I'm leaving you.
23:45All right.
23:46We'll catch you later.
23:47Thanks.
23:48This is a...
23:49What do you call it, Russ?
23:50The marble machine.
23:51Really?
23:52Yeah.
23:53Is that the angel again?
23:57I threw an angel in there out there from the outside.
24:00Maybe she's magic.
24:01She come through.
24:02She's 1,000 degrees.
24:03Yeah.
24:04Up front?
24:05That's hot.
24:06I just got touched by an angel.
24:09No, actually, you touched the angel.
24:11What can I do to slow things down and get in the way?
24:14Well, first we need to take this head and knife off and have it sharpened.
24:17The knife in the marble machine will be used to cut the molten glass as it streams out to form the marbles.
24:23That's about a million degrees in there.
24:25Pretty close to 3,000.
24:27You say the knife.
24:28There you go.
24:29Oh, that's the knife?
24:30Yeah.
24:31Like a cigar cutter.
24:32This one will take it back and forth.
24:34Right?
24:35This way.
24:36This one.
24:37I got a piece of glass in my pants.
24:40Did you get the point?
24:41Yeah.
24:42Right there.
24:43That is annoying.
24:44Right where you don't want it.
24:45Did you get the point?
24:46Yeah.
24:47I got you the first time.
24:48I'm laughing at the inside so hard.
24:49Damn, you're fulsome.
24:55Sharpening a molten glass cutting knife is a little more exciting than watching paint dry,
24:59but not quite as thrilling as waiting for water to boil.
25:03A little tedious, isn't it?
25:04It is tedious.
25:05See why you only do this twice a month.
25:10I love the smell of that carbon.
25:11I was wondering what that was.
25:13Feel the middle part with your finger.
25:14Feel that sharp edge.
25:15I mean, not sharp like as my lock plate would be, but sharp enough to cut glass.
25:20Yeah.
25:21Now we need to take these back over and put them back on the machine.
25:24Use the butt end of this if you want since it's plastic.
25:29Okay, it fit back in there flush.
25:31Now what we need to do is open this tank up.
25:37Now isn't that full of molten glass?
25:40Yes.
25:41The glass that I shoveled into the furnace is now at 1800 degrees.
25:44And it has to flow out of a small hole in the bottom of the tank.
25:52I didn't know we were going to be that familiar with it.
25:56You don't want to get your rod stuck in that hole.
26:00No.
26:01You don't.
26:02You want to be careful not to get it too far up in there and get stuck.
26:05Right.
26:06Getting the molten glass out of the tank can take some effort because of what Russ calls rocks.
26:11That's what we like to see.
26:12The brighter the better.
26:13There's a big rock.
26:14See it right there?
26:15Yeah.
26:16Right.
26:17There's another one.
26:18Rocks are actually flakes of brick from the inside of the furnace that get jammed into the hole.
26:24These are called rocks.
26:25That's not melting obviously at the same temperature glass would.
26:27So it's in there like little things that will gum you up.
26:29Yep.
26:30Part of what makes Doug a good cameraman is his ability to sit or stand for long periods
26:42of time.
26:43But when called upon, Doug can also move very quickly.
26:46It's a little warm in this area.
26:48Wow.
26:49You all right?
26:50I've never seen you move that fast.
26:53And there's no louder or more urgent calling than a piece of molten glass burning through
26:57his shoe, his sock and down into his skin.
27:00So Doug you're saying this was hot?
27:02In your foot?
27:03Yeah.
27:04I pulled down out of that one.
27:11I found out a little later what Doug was so upset about.
27:15It turns out that glass is just as hazardous in its molten state as it is in sharp broken
27:21pieces.
27:22That's what we're after.
27:24Much better.
27:25Time to make a marble.
27:29We each stay on the side Mike.
27:32There's going to be a stream of glass on the backside.
27:35It's going to go through there.
27:37This is all holes.
27:38There's holes underneath.
27:40Like what the heck?
27:42Get the head centered up.
27:44There are your marbles.
27:45Ah.
27:46So the blade that we sharpened over there for three or four hours is in between this guy
27:59and this guy.
28:00Yeah they're heading the block.
28:01And each time it passes it's just making a cut.
28:02Yeah.
28:03So they cool as they come I guess.
28:04Yeah.
28:05These are all bad ones.
28:06These are bad ones.
28:07There's our good ones.
28:08Pretty ingenious.
28:09Just give her a kick right there.
28:10Take it.
28:11I'll shake it.
28:12You don't have to worry about hurting it.
28:13I'll bring it over your way now.
28:14Very delicate adjustments I see.
28:16Yes.
28:17Coming up.
28:18Now we're going to go up the ladder here.
28:19It's better on top.
28:20Yeah.
28:21Put it in that front hole.
28:22Not so great from the side.
28:23Not so great from the side.
28:24You notice how hot it is right here.
28:25Oh yeah.
28:26It's been lobbing over here.
28:27Turned me into a heat shield.
28:28Oh yeah.
28:29Yeah.
28:30And later.
28:31That marble right there sold for $128.
28:32What makes that marble $128?
28:33The gold lux.
28:34Gold lux can make a marble beautiful and a marble maker miserable.
28:38Ah!
28:39Ah!
28:40Ah!
28:41Ah!
28:42Ah!
28:43Ah!
28:44Ah!
28:45Ah!
28:46Ah!
28:47Ah!
28:48Ah!
28:49Ah!
28:50Ah!
28:51Ah!
28:52Ah!
28:53Ah!
28:54Ah!
28:55Ah!
28:56Ah!
28:57Ah!
28:58Ah!
28:59Ah!
29:00Ah!
29:01Still burning!
29:02Ah!
29:03Ah!
29:04Ah!
29:05Ah!
29:06Ah!
29:07Ah!
29:08Ah!
29:09Ah!
29:10Ah!
29:11Ah!
29:12Likes to make footballs.
29:13They get hard to catch too.
29:14Yeah they are.
29:15Ah!
29:16Ah!
29:17There you go.
29:18No good.
29:19Marble quality control.
29:22That's a bad marble right there.
29:25Bad marble.
29:30We have no flow over there Mike.
29:31We got anything falling in that side bucket Mike.
29:32Oh yeah.
29:33No we got some good ones here.
29:34Bad ones here.
29:35Bad.
29:36Bad.
29:37Good.
29:38Very bad.
29:39Do you like mushrooms?
29:40I love mushrooms.
29:41Oh hey.
29:42Look at that.
29:43Marble BNA.
29:44In addition to spray cans and water tanks industrial marbles like these can be found in coal mines where they're shot out at high speed to knock down loose coal.
29:57Is this the right color for us?
29:58Do they look kind of blue or I mean?
29:59Sometimes they do go green but some customers prefer blue so we just try to keep them blue all the time.
30:04What if you want to make one with all the different colors swirling around in it?
30:05Classic?
30:06The classic.
30:07We need to be back there.
30:08Are they friendly?
30:09Of course.
30:10I think I'm going to go say hi.
30:11This was interesting?
30:12Yeah.
30:25I'll see you in a bit.
30:27All right man.
30:28Don't lose your marbles.
30:29No never.
30:31this was uh interesting yeah i'll see you in a bit all right man don't lose your mark no never
30:39happen in 11 years
30:40hey yeah well that was quite a little adventure what we're doing here now is uh making them
30:50what we call contract round they're classic you know they're collectible type marble right now
30:55look at that look at the color what's like if you can get if you can get a marble
31:01look like that like that we do make a luxe marble luxe luxe gold luxe that's what this is right here
31:10we actually put that in the marble gold luxe yeah so it is an ore that is mined uh you know india
31:20south america that marble right there sold for 128 dollars for one marble what makes that marble
31:27128 dollars the gold luxe so what do you do with this now now we're going to put that in here with
31:33this one put some in there there's some other colors i've already mixed in collector marbles have
31:37multiple colors fused to their base now you're going to pour it in this go right in there the
31:42standard has five to six colors but some collector marbles use as many as ten colors now we're going
31:48to make these marbles i have to pour the colored glass into special holes at the top of the furnace
31:55three holes yeah put it in that front hole then i'll give you some we'll mix up one from the other
32:02two holes those are going to second hole yeah i came to realize that when you make marbles for a
32:10living your life revolves around a series of hot and dirty holes you're always either pouring stuff
32:15into one or taking stuff out of another while the colored glass was melting all right mike here we go
32:21now you're going to be up here with ronnie dave took me to where the base glass for the classic marbles
32:26gets put in the furnace every half hour or every 20 minutes depending on what size marble you're
32:31making right they're going to make a feel on these tanks now ronnie here he's going to take
32:36a load of rum for you show you how to do it ronnie hey how you doing mike i'm great man that's hot
32:42yeah a little bit a little bit two shovels of red goes over here two shovels of red on the right yeah
32:49classics use a high quality fusible glass at their base usually milk white sometimes red glass is added
32:59about a ton of glass makes 120 to 130 000 marbles you notice how hot it is right here oh yeah
33:06it's pretty warm turn me into a heat shield oh yeah how do we get it in there all right
33:13what you do is shove that in all right shove it in all the way all right jeez
33:21it's hot a little bit you can look in there and watch it melt
33:43having survived yet one more orifice in the glass oven it was back inside to another hot hole
33:52and another rod all right mike here's what i'm going to do now we're going to try to fly this
33:57piece of gold luck rod here this year gold luck yeah you're going to be the guy to fly the luck
34:02all right now what i want you to do i'm going to hold the torch yeah whenever i get this thing
34:08set up here right in here yeah like this uh-huh i want you to fly that there rod up in at an angle
34:16just where you can see it's starting to melt off the end of that put it right up in at the base
34:20push it right up in there okay right up there where my torch is hitting right up in the stream of glass
34:26there you go there you go right ahead in the fire all right oh i'm sorry but my hand's melting
34:32ah ah ah ah all right you can't you can't quit you gotta get going
34:36that's why i'm quitting my hand's on fire
34:40ah it's still burning
34:42it's like a million degrees man
34:49hey couple hundred get him another pair of gloves there you go
34:53yeah i'll put it right into the glass stream kind of hold it there now you can see the
34:58screen coming off of it yeah i'm going to push it right up into the base
35:02all right that's going to have a big hug of lutz in it that's good job good job mike
35:07there you go good job this is the color of marble you just put in there and made
35:14how do you know when you can see a marble that has the lutz in it yeah i usually have to wait
35:18until they cool down and that's 24 hours yeah it's going to take a while to get there
35:22all right well if you don't mind we'll stick around for a couple days
35:25okay yeah where to now now you're going over into the finishing part
35:30you must be linda no it's not linda what's your name it's linda oh she's a whiz i was about
35:48to apologize but you're messing with me and i haven't even sat down well that's all in a day's
35:53work so these are the marbles it looks like the ones that i made originally or i mean maybe not
36:00the same ones but you know they're cobalt blue yeah all right and what what exactly are you looking
36:04for well i was looking for these ones that's got cracks in i'm like this one right here
36:10then we have footballs that i'm like this a little carbuncle there that's no good
36:16so we have this one here is out around a little bit you can roll it in your fingers you can feel
36:22it's out around and then we have these candy kisses in there if it feels out around if it's oblong like
36:30football if it's a candy kiss or if it's cracked it goes like this one right here is cracked
36:35that's a different most certainly cracked yeah coming up marbles are getting to me i fight to keep
36:43a grip physically and mentally uh-oh crap losing your marbles and later i can tell you right now that
36:51marbles not for sale that's going in my collection dave's marble collection is huge but there's always
36:57room for one more i made a priceless marble as far as i'm concerned it's priceless that's a beautiful
37:01gold box this is off off its round don't we call it off the round
37:14i don't understand how you can go so fast i can't even i'm scared to let any of them go they all look
37:26a little wrong to me good marbles get boxed and shipped while bad ones get a second chance
37:31they're melted down along with other scrap and used again how many boxes are you expected to
37:36complete in a day well today we've probably done 75 a piece i've done this many
37:44see you're behind on us yes i am
37:48i'm all about the quality over here i'm going one at a time
37:59see i can tell this one's probably not round by the way it's not rolling toward me
38:05i see i see a snowman
38:07sound insanity
38:11there are 96 marbles to the pound and a fast sorter can go through 3 500 pounds in one day
38:20put that another way if you're good at this every three days you're handling over a million marbles
38:25that is how linda rolls the marbles are getting to me surely not i think i filled up my first box
38:33i think i over filled it put it on the skin behind you
38:37uh-oh crap
38:46losing your marbles
38:49they are long long gone
38:54somebody get a shot of these two see my cameraman see the lengths they'll go to to get an interesting
39:06shot this is almost full i might as well finish before we go
39:09there we go good okay okay put your plug in or else we'll have marbles over for and we'll be on our butts
39:18when we come back through here conscious of quite an image linda yep quite an image all righty
39:24following you all right after sorting the industrial marbles linda showed me how to make
39:29my own custom marbles yep all those things what's on them these materials got the presidents on them
39:36no you know you got dwight d eisenhower you got nixon lieutenant commandment yeah this
39:42which thou shalt not commit adultery yeah figures that's the one i picked
39:49well that'd be good because it's the color of snot
39:53this would be good because the world has many shades of gray yeah but this is nice because it's brown
40:01color of dirt yeah right okay you can start printing marbles then
40:13all right now we're ready to start stamping them
40:21and we'll stamp and see what we've got here okay
40:26the printer can stamp up to 500 marbles a day the marbles are then brought to an electric kiln for firing
40:32that is pretty trippy i don't know what he's gonna say but i think they look pretty good
40:48what do i know when i was a kid i had friends with some pretty impressive marble collections but
40:55nothing prepared me for the size and variety of dave's personal stash he has almost a million marbles
41:01and like snowflakes no two are alike
41:06man behind the desk how you doing mike you finally get it wrapped up huh well i was under the watch
41:12fly of linda for the last couple of hours and uh i wanted to bring you what we did oh hey well we'll
41:19set them things up gotta cook them now okay now these are the things that what we made when i when i
41:24last saw you these here they're still warm these are the marble sheer that uh they're not warm man
41:29well they're maybe a little hot but takes you know usually 24 hours for them to cool down to where
41:33you can actually get all the stencil but you want to come in like this year one see is one of them
41:38where we put the gold luxe in well i can tell you right now that marble's not for sale
41:42that's going in my collection really because that's just a little bit of solid gold right there
41:47i'll be hard pressed to find another one but that perfect a gold lust for what you put in out there
41:53i made a priceless marble uh as far as i'm concerned it's priceless that's that's a beautiful
41:57gold luxe you can't have them you're the no no i don't want it i just want to i just want to
42:03keep the memory of maybe the premier marble connoisseur on the planet telling me that i made a
42:07marble he'll never sell that that's got that there one's going in my collection you can check
42:11on that one all right well there's no accounting for taste dave but i tell you i appreciate you
42:15having us out today it's been an education i've burned myself three times met some nice people
42:20thank you thank you sir my dad said never trust a guy with a clean desk so i'm uh thinking i can trust
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