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00:00My name is Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:06I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10We've got to climb in there.
00:12Oh, I don't have as much room as I thought.
00:14That's the worst job in the whole camp.
00:16Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living
00:19doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:23Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:30Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:31I mean, it looks sophisticated, but it's basically just crap.
00:34Just crap.
00:35Recycling is easy when it comes to cans and bottles and cardboard,
00:38but what about all that electronic equipment that's become obsolete?
00:42That's where Sims comes in.
00:44They recycle e-waste, from TVs and computers to cell phones and game consoles.
00:49We're basically just planning taking stuff apart.
00:51This is the best relationship I've ever had with technology.
00:53It's where high-tech meets low-tech and 36 rotary knives.
00:57I granulated all the material.
00:59Granulate, just like a fancy word for destroyed.
01:02Sure.
01:04And later...
01:05How can tofu be so popular and yet appear so disgusting?
01:08For the uninitiated, that may be the case.
01:10Tofu is low in fat and a great source of protein.
01:13It's also a cold, quivering, gelatinous blob.
01:15Liking tofu is a matter of taste,
01:17but from stirring and scooping gallons of glop
01:20to suffering searing heat...
01:22Oh, that's warm!
01:23...making it is a dirty job.
01:25Much pain.
01:26Much, much agony.
01:27Oh, God.
01:30A Luddite is a person who has choose the trappings of modern technology.
01:47I'm not a Luddite.
01:49Like you, I've come to rely on many of the niceties provided by modern conveniences.
01:54But here's the thing.
01:55I got a TV set and five remote controls.
01:58Don't know how that happened.
01:59None of the remotes work.
02:00TV drives me crazy.
02:01Plus, I got a computer that logs itself on and off as if by magic and loses important files.
02:07It's frustrating.
02:08I'm sure you feel my pain.
02:09And perhaps you can relate when I say that today I've come to Roseville, California
02:12to go inside of this innocuous-looking building behind me
02:16where they recycle technology.
02:18And I'm hoping to have a shot at maybe destroying
02:20some of the things that have been driving me nuts.
02:26Whether it's a TV, a computer, a cell phone, or any other kind of electronic device,
02:30people want the latest and greatest.
02:32Which leaves the average person with a collection of things that used to be the latest and greatest
02:37things that they now no longer use.
02:38And for SIMS Recycling Solutions, they process over 30 million pounds a year of these formerly
02:44latest and greatest things, otherwise known as e-waste, much of which gets recycled
02:49to go into the next batch of latest and greatest things.
02:52What's going on, Mike?
02:54You're Robert.
02:55Yes, sir.
02:56I'm Robert.
02:57I've heard nice things about you, Robert.
02:58Hey, thank you.
02:59Appreciate that.
03:00What are you doing to that thing?
03:01This here, I'm taking it apart.
03:02What is it?
03:03This is a monitor.
03:04A computer monitor?
03:05A computer monitor, yeah.
03:06We're basically dismantling, taking stuff apart.
03:09Anything you can turn on and off.
03:10On and off, exactly.
03:11Anything that runs with electricity, I believe.
03:13The work being done here at SIMS benefits the environment in two ways.
03:17It saves tens of millions of cubic feet in landfills that all this stuff would take up
03:22if it were just thrown away, and ensures that any hazardous materials inside the devices
03:27are disposed of responsibly.
03:29The safety thing here is kind of serious.
03:32It is one of our priorities.
03:33Once you walk through that door, safety's first.
03:35Okay.
03:36So if you don't do the work, nobody's going to yell at you as long as you're safe.
03:39Well, you got it.
03:40Yeah, as long as you're safe.
03:41Yeah, see?
03:42Okay, then.
03:43Maybe safety's...
03:44I know how it is.
03:45Safety's priority.
03:46How many people work here?
03:47There's quite a few.
03:48Never count at them.
03:50Never count at them.
03:51Huh.
03:52You'll find I ask a lot of pointless, irrelevant questions.
03:54Hey.
03:55One, ignore it.
03:56All right.
03:57No, no problem.
03:58I won't be the first.
03:59True enough.
04:00All right.
04:01Here we go.
04:02It's basically all these gold screws that we're trying to get out.
04:06Okay.
04:07Okay, once we do that, just kind of like bring this loose.
04:13This is a precious one here.
04:14Right.
04:15Then your team is all ready.
04:16So you got different bins over here for just about everything.
04:19Pretty much.
04:20There's a lot of precious metals in these things.
04:22What kind of precious metals?
04:23Aluminum, copper.
04:24Once the monitor has been taken apart, the tube inside will be sent away, where it'll
04:29be melted down for its glass.
04:31The rest of the monitor will be sorted away into boxes to be recycled or ground up.
04:36So this is all going to get ground up.
04:38This is all going to get ground up.
04:39And like I said, our MSP will take care of the sorting.
04:42The MSP.
04:43That's a big machine.
04:44That's a big machine.
04:45Yeah, like all this aluminum here.
04:46Yeah.
04:47The green boards, the copper, and the steel will end up in one place.
04:51I mean, it looks sophisticated, but it's basically, by today's standards, it's
04:54just crap.
04:55Just crap.
04:56There we go.
04:57Oh, see this nip here?
04:58Let's take that off.
04:59That's going to stop you from doing it.
05:01Twist these out.
05:03Oh, you can't do that, Mike.
05:06No?
05:07No.
05:08Better have your gloves on.
05:09Oh.
05:10At all times.
05:11It's a pin in the bar, but I hope you didn't get that on camera.
05:13What's that?
05:14Take your gloves off.
05:15Oh, man.
05:16We've been bit by snakes and sharks.
05:19We don't give a crap.
05:20We don't give a .
05:21Robert.
05:22You know what?
05:23It's true, dude.
05:24It's true.
05:25It's the truth.
05:26You want to work here?
05:27No.
05:28No, I don't.
05:29It's the truth.
05:30All right.
05:32Rip it out.
05:35Rip it out.
05:50Rip it out.
05:52Rip it out.
05:55you ever hurt yourself doing this no no i want to go home with all in tech that's how i feel
06:05you save those yeah these go to our fine wire commodity
06:08you okay with that there you go
06:31between you and me this is the best relationship i've ever had with technology
06:35wow i really feel like i'm giving it back hey how many nights have i sat there looking at
06:39these things not knowing how anything works can't download my stupid songs
06:44hey mike sits there blinking at me mocking me now who's mocking who now
06:50oh we want this we got the yoke yeah where'd that thing go with the thing on the on the end of the
06:55thing that someone what do you call this thing that is a mexican bicycle it takes everything apart
07:05now you got to wiggle it out i see there you go if you're having a hard time i'm an expert
07:21hmm hmm all right that's uh
07:28do you want me to give you a hand there no no it's personal now robert that's personal you know how
07:32it gets man against machine all right i won't be mocked by technology when it's face down i hope
07:37you won't there you go who's laughing now okay you say we want to do a tv right yeah let's do a tv
07:47this is a good one here well apparently wasn't that good the vcr built right in there man i remember
07:54these came out that was like oh now it's just more electronic crap yeah
07:58yeah i'm sure i got something okay
08:05no no no go no i think it's this i think why don't we try these maybe those two up here could be
08:13come out no
08:14let's see here why don't we lay it sideways
08:27there you go see that mike i can't mess with that man
08:32nips play doctor here okay what you need what i need is a nurse can't help you with that
08:38whoop well well you gotta head start on that
08:47tuesday's at nine yeah i think we're way past the eject button at this point
08:52no just got the new eject button here yeah how's that work
08:55there you go i just want to say somebody else pick it up if you want to take apart a pc
09:10i mean we don't really look for much on those a pc yeah yeah just a battery
09:15like uh yeah show me a hard drive okay yeah let's do that that's good that'd be very satisfying to
09:22destroy a computer just to square up for all those times the computer has destroyed me
09:31we're looking for a battery battery here uh-huh hard drive uh-huh now if there were like sensitive
09:37information on this drive right i mean how do you know or how do they know this is a that's the wrong
09:42question to ask me here honestly that's why i'm here i forgot our personal mission we're not here
09:56to answer questions we're not here to solve the world's problem no no we're not here to we're not
10:00here to learn anything we're here to just take this apart actually any hard drives that are sold
10:07for parts are first wiped clean in a seven pass process using proprietary software
10:12crap anyway this is all wired this is a wire yeah that's a wire from one of your cd romps to
10:19it's technology honestly who cares i retract the question
10:26first rule that you have to follow when you're handling delicate computer equipment is to be very
10:31careful with it it's not a toy
10:43there we go you throw it in there
10:48coming up we're going to jump in our five screen underneath super granulator that's the biggest
10:52vibrator i've ever seen i hear you now there's a lot of stuff on the floor here small pieces of
10:56irregularly shaped very sharp steel yeah getting some bad vibrations from a machine that's not even
11:02on it and this is potentially the most hazardous part of the day i think yeah i mean this stuff is
11:07really sharp and later you ever have a fingernail come off no i had my finger come give the finger to
11:14a person and you can count on getting it back give it to a machine and the response may be more
11:19cutting beautiful right nice yeah but you can only flip somebody off halfway now yeah
11:30you know what i want to do i want to see the uh i want to see this machine you've kept talking about
11:33what's it called uh the msp the msp uh metal separating process machine okay and what direction
11:38would i go to find that towards the east you're a dangerous man with the a lot of tools thank you
11:44for coming mike appreciate thanks for having us all right give that technology hell hey every day
11:50all of the pieces of metal and plastic that we separated will go to the msp to be turned into
11:55smaller pieces of metal and plastic much smaller i went to see ron who runs the msp to have a look
12:02inside of it while it was shut down for maintenance so that big blue machine is called a uh what's it
12:06called around a super grand granulator a super granulator yeah granulate all the material and is granulate
12:12just like a fancy word for demolish destroy sure yes how what part of the facility are are we in
12:20we're on the msp side what's msp mean yeah uh metal separation plant you don't see a lot of these signs
12:26but that's a good one obviously they're this thing is full of knives that rotate correct what what can i
12:31do first thing we do we lock out everything that we work on this is an example of how we've been locked
12:36down yes sir is this you a few years ago how would you describe the expression you've adopted here ron
12:41yeah i don't know it's it's a guy who says you know what i've i've locked this thing out i feel
12:45good about it what can i do first okay the first thing we're going to do is we're going to jump in
12:49our uh uh vibe screen underneath super granulator the vibe screen yeah come on man on it ron it's a
12:56vibe if you're making stuff up i mean i'm cool with it though it's a vibrator it vibrates that's the
13:01biggest vibrator i've ever seen yeah i hear you so i crawl into this area and i check to see that the
13:06mushes and the meshes yeah you'll be able to look up inside there and see it all right you trust me
13:12to perform a visual inspection oh sure unsupervised i got these yeah but uh these are protectors for
13:19anything that falls down it goes around your eyes sure you've never been hurt on the job no never now
13:27there's a lot of stuff on the floor here too i noticed you just have to move that anyway a little
13:31bit as you go it appears to be small pieces of irregularly shaped very sharp steel yeah so we
13:39usually we just push them off the side all right now do these these fog up oh yeah way more than the
13:44ones i had on yeah so even though they're safer there's a slight drawback yeah in the sense that i
13:50can't see through them sometimes you have to take them off clean them a little bit okay small price to
13:55pay for yeah total blindness if you need to inspect a critical part of a multi-million dollar machine
14:03who better to send in than someone with less than one day's experience makes perfect sense to me
14:08all right thank you belly first then wiggle around yep all right
14:16yeah this is potentially the most hazardous part of the day i think yeah i mean this stuff is really
14:20sharp you can just lie right on it not feel any better all right so i'm looking straight up and i
14:29see all sorts of uh circuitry and components jammed in here mike here's your camera oh thanks dude the
14:36screen is a lot like a colander that you'd use in a kitchen but instead of water it strains bits and
14:40pieces of recycled parts ron yeah i have located a uh a piece of the web here that i believe has been
14:48compromised okay doke seems like it's torn loose that one right there just a one hole huh yeah there's
14:56just one one bad area here okay we just inspect and then we take a note on it so if you're ready to come
15:04back on out all right nice little place in there huh yeah it's a it's a charmer here's a camera for you thank you
15:20don't go in there what might we do now hook it up our next stage is we're going to go up there and
15:33start doing our uh blade chains all right after you a long time ago a book was published called in the
15:39belly of the beast don't know if the author ever went inside a super granulator but if i ever finish
15:45working in the belly of this beast i may write the sequel why do you think we hire skinny cameramen
15:54what'd you do you just made yourself vanish all right take these ones off right here okay trigger
16:03now go ahead oh yeah i just tightened it didn't i yeah typical
16:07these are very heavy really heavy sit down on there yeah these things really do weigh about 100
16:19pounds each easy sims owns a total of three of these super granulators those also happen to be the only
16:25three in the entire world what we're doing now is cleaning the blades give you a little workout with that
16:31no no no no no no no bad that's a knife
16:38it's like the cleaning at the dentist except in this case the one crying in pain is the dentist instead
16:43of the patient these things what do you call these those are uh those are called our knives our brick
16:51knives so the brick knives alternate yeah and this leading edge the sharp part stays really super stable
16:58that's what all the bolts are accomplishing and when this thing starts to rotate then every time it
17:03passes it's just you know it's very little so it's like the width of our putty blade right here
17:10right bam so so this should be going in like that right so if we got that clearance we're really good
17:16you get more and the material stays in there longer yeah so in the end you just your hard drives
17:21and your monitor everything everything is being reduced to that thickness coming up long process
17:27huh not just long mind numbing tedious and ultimately self-defeating an impact wrench makes
17:32its greatest impact on its operator we're almost done you just say that's all the demoralized apprentices
17:38who show up unannounced and later you can't eat raw soybeans soybeans contain a chemical product
17:44trypsin inhibitor basically it'll give you gas i got gas clearing the air on the science of tofu making
17:53this is where you make it possible not to make your customers fart uncontrollably yeah you can put it
17:59that way oh i did
18:07you're gonna hear it run when we're done here i'm gonna look forward to that
18:09i was telling you earlier that this process is a bit like a cleaning at the dentist if we follow
18:15that metaphor this would be the equivalent of rinsing out the mouth it would be so bad to drop one of
18:21these on your foot oh it wouldn't feel very good only instead of a cup of mint flavored water there's
18:26an impact wrench takes about a hundred times longer and there's no soothing music playing long process huh
18:32not just long mind numbing tedious and ultimately self-defeating
18:35we're almost done really you just say that's all the demoralized apprentices who show up on an
18:45house if i'd known what i was doing we'd have been done already how did i know that i don't know
18:50what's doing what anymore i'm just doing what you're telling me to do because after some more
18:55wrenching and sweating i asked ron to show us how a pro does it man ron i tell you what that was not
19:11as advertised before i leave today i i'd love to be around you when you turn this thing on or better
19:17let maybe you'd let me yeah hydraulic pumps yeah and then uh rotor and then clutch drive hydraulic pumps
19:26yep rotor bam and then clutch drive right there you go rotor yep you hear that let's try
19:37go ahead no one's allowed near the msp when it's running lest they get too granulated but i was okay
19:47with that i'd had a score to settle with technology for some time and now finally i got nether one for
19:55my journal tonight all right i appreciate it all right take care all right thank you got a dirty hard
20:01drive come and see ron he'll clean it for you i don't have a lot of rules on dirty jobs but i do
20:10have a policy and it goes like this keep your complaining to yourself i'm gonna go ahead and
20:16suspend that policy for just a couple of minutes and and be honest with you about something i don't
20:20want to go to work today i'm in pain i'm in pain from top to bottom i'm in a level of agony right
20:27now that i honestly don't remember experiencing in the last ever really we're in hawaii you know
20:34and it's and it's beautiful it's a sunday you should probably have the day off but don't have time for
20:39that as soon as i landed i watched windows 500 feet in the air suspended in a little bosun's chair
20:47strapped in with a harness using muscles i didn't even know i had oh i woke up yesterday
20:54in just this whole new dimension of discomfort brushing my teeth walking around getting out of
20:59bed it all hurts so what did i do i got on a jet ski with the rest of my crazy crew and we went
21:05bounding around honolulu harbor look it was great fun but again it's like all the bouncing and the
21:11jostling and it just hurts now okay i don't have any bruises to show you but it really really hurts
21:18i can show you this about a month ago i smashed my finger right here and the nail is growing back
21:24the old one fell off so i can't grab anything with my left hand in my right hand look at this
21:28the ropes from the window washing tore blisters open my calluses coming off it hurts it hurts to grab
21:34things with either hand and it just hurts to move around and if i had a sick day i'd take it but i
21:39can't because barsky has assured me that the only body part i'll be using today at the uh aloha tofu
21:46factory incorporated is my tongue barsky of course is a known liar but doesn't hurt
21:56so let's see what happens
21:59ow crap
22:06it's no accident that aloha tofu has thrived in hawaii tofu is a dietary staple in many asian cultures
22:13and many hawaiian residents serve asian americans the company now produces over a million pounds of
22:18tofu annually so this is paul uyahara and he is the proprietor of the tofu place yes tofu is made from
22:27soybeans soybeans soybeans yes and that's now the extent of everything i know about tofu okay well then
22:33we'll get you educated how can tofu uh be so popular and yet appear so disgusting
22:39well i suppose for the uninitiated who haven't grown up with it that may be the case however
22:47for a lot of people it's it's more like a staple oh it's very healthy right it is because suey beans
22:51are super healthy yes but there's no getting around the fact that in its finished state it does resemble
22:57a quivering mass of suspicious gelatin yeah i i do have to admit to that yeah it's not a fruit it's a
23:03vegetable well beans so i guess right um or yeah a legume yeah we're going to be putting these dried
23:10soybeans and setting it up to a holding tank do we just grab them or do we have a forklift or what
23:15do we do we grab them with our hands now i'm afraid my hands are killing me maybe gloves yeah yeah
23:22i'll take gloves if you go we're taking all these 20 bags a thousand pounds so the first step is to
23:30move half a ton of beans basically yes okay i'll follow you all right well we're going to use a
23:38blower you don't have to carry them oh i thought you said by hand yeah we're going to dump them in
23:42that that's huge right there oh we're here yes that's the best news i've gotten so far i'll start
23:48it off how's that good good plan and then um we'll get you going then we'll get it going all right and
23:52then they're going to be beans flying around here like you haven't seen in a long time that's well
23:56like we see every day oh okay coming up what is this called that whole process of opening the bag
24:03there's some special weave it's got to be a bean bag that's not a chair a doll or a toy huh son of a
24:09gun but a real pain in the neck demon thread curse this mystery and later we want to separate out
24:17the slime milk that's what we use to make the food and the salad this is going to pigs yeah food that's
24:24fit for a pig it's not bad for tv host either if i were a pig i'd be going crazy right now
24:36so just want to cut that
24:38and it comes right off so that's a soy bean that's a soybean
24:46yeah okay it hurt to touch a soybean
24:54what is this uh called that that whole process of i mean in the bag well no i mean it looks very
25:02there's some there's some special weave it's got to be because you clip the wrong one and nothing happens
25:08huh son of a gun so you got to cut the white one and the red one yeah
25:17so it's just the white one yeah all right now don't tell me okay
25:23don't tell me i'll never learn
25:28very mysterious look at that it won't
25:30pull the white one but no no the white one's not working the suey beans will get blown up to a
25:40larger vat where they'll soak overnight now i ought to be able to grab the white and pull it right
25:46you think you just cut it then pull it but there is there's a real
26:09mystery surrounding this weave that's the white one there but look it's not free from the red one
26:17demon thread curse this mystery all right oh i rattled a magic weave yeah yeah that's great big big
26:27journal entry tonight
26:31you ever have a fingernail come off uh no i i had my finger cut off though
26:40okay you win i don't think it showed that i didn't even notice let me see there's no fingernail to cut
26:45off how did it happen actually one of these you lost in this not in this one it was a different
26:51machine but yeah basically the same idea but clean cut right beautiful right yeah but i mean you can
26:59only flip somebody off halfway now yeah it's not as effective it doesn't have the same impact that's
27:05how you really shut me up i complain about a broken fingernail and he goes yeah but you know
27:12just like that i'm an idiot okay so uh why don't we turn it back on and start dumping sure we can do that
27:21oh just like that oh yeah oh yeah it's all coming together for me
27:34yeah five more
27:37because land is so scarce in hawaii there are no soy bean farms here so paul gets them shipped in from
27:43michigan i'm sorry paul all right it's only about three dollars worth it you just let the beans go
27:55down just make sure you don't stick your hand in there i got it and uh cut it up cut it off
28:03don't say cut it off
28:04and these are how big they get so they they basically double in size size of the beans
28:13those beans we put in yeah they get soaked overnight in water that's what they look like
28:20and you can't eat raw soybeans so don't don't stick that in your mouth yet what would happen
28:26nothing will happen but raw soybeans contain a chemical product
28:30trypsin inhibitor yeah that interferes with digestion basically it'll give you gas
28:39i got gas and then it cooked here right this what this does the cooking makes that
28:45trypsin inhibitor ineffective basically it neutralizes them so this is where you make it possible for the
28:52suey beans not to make your customers fart uncontrollably yeah yeah you could put it that way i suppose oh i did
29:01after the soybeans are cooked into a slurry they're sent to a separator where the solid
29:05material is squeezed out we want to separate out the soy milk that's what we use to make cold food
29:10and the solids you get sent to the pig farm so this is really step 3a yeah basically i mean
29:17because it's the the process by which the liquids and the solids are separated that's right you can
29:23eat this i could yeah you can get where it's hot yeah it's kind of hot oh yeah you're sensitive aren't
29:29you it's especially hot and an open wound
29:33if i were a pig i'd be going crazy right now yeah sure you would be during this process about half
29:43of the soybean goes to waste and the other half is made into milk and that milk is used to make tofu
29:51mike this is the heart and soul of our operation where we make the tofu this is john hi john hi
29:58he's making tofu right now no i don't want to disturb him so this is where the uh milk that
30:04was separated begins to i mean is it like cheese is it curdling yeah yeah that's that's kind of what
30:09it is we had a combination of calcium sulfate and you got it the magnesium chloride basically it's
30:17it's a sea water without the water and salt what is in sea water without water and salt yeah whatever
30:24it's left over oh you want to try something yeah yeah you mean taste it sure sure yeah
30:30it's like salt but it's not salt it's sea water with the salt and the water gone like nothing i've
30:41ever tasted i don't even know how to describe it it tastes like magnesium with a little chloride
30:51coming up no no you cannot hold you can you hold only one hand yeah one hand yeah over right here all
30:57right some jobs are one handers others take two why one hand why not two hands you can do both
31:03two hand up and sometimes even that's not enough but one hand more easy yeah three hands be a dream
31:16this is uh when it's solidified and how close is this to being
31:22set oh it's it's already pretty much set so john what's this this is a look like a filter yeah
31:35a filter is used to catch any leftover soybean pulp how long you been here john 20 years 20 years
31:42you still like it loves it you can't get enough of this place this goes on yeah yeah i now work for
31:51you you're my boss you tell me what to do only today yeah only for the next two minutes yeah yeah that's
31:59it maybe less this goes in here yeah yeah yeah yeah all right this side this side yeah
32:13cannot
32:15what's that you're good no come on i feel like i'm messing up no no you're okay how's it look
32:21i don't know how i gotta wait and see on the next stage what it's how that worked out i see you can
32:31save it if it's under mixed you can't save it if it's over mixed that's fine okay that might need
32:37some more mixing and some saving you want to start scooping in there that sounds great okay after the
32:42tofu is set it needs to be scooped into molds while it solidifies uh-huh we should be we have to mix
32:48together yeah then put it up yeah it's the bottom scoop from the bottom yeah because everything from
32:55the bottom yeah the powder the nigari everything from bottom yeah we have to get it up yeah
33:03you want to walk this side first yeah okay it's cooked okay no no you cannot go you can only one hand
33:10yeah one hand yeah okay over right here all right how many now five oh i didn't know i was supposed
33:25to count you have to count how many go in 14 yeah 14 but the first one you go eight and go eight
33:32eight and eight yeah i think that was five yeah
33:37six
33:40six yeah why one hand why not two hands you can go two hands i see got burns yeah uh much pain much much
33:53agony need two hands but one hand more easy yeah three hands be a dream there's four oh that's warm warm
34:04one hand over there two two over here yeah two two over here
34:16one hand over here
34:21one two two two and three why didn't i just put ten in the first one
34:33i don't know
34:33i don't know so that's ten yeah why didn't i just put ten in there right in a row oh that's well yeah
34:42with the wood over here too the wood holding over here
34:48put holding in the bar in the barrel the foot holding in here
34:51it looks like you're going to be 12 in here now
35:16there's going to be 12 in that one too i'd have put in 12 in all one time what do i know
35:26what do i know i'm just a simple idiot barely counts as well
35:29perfect perfect okay one more over here sure
35:46all right good job thanks
35:48it's beautiful and perfect
35:57coming up what are we doing before this private banking i've been an electrician i've done carpentry
36:02i've driven forklift we're trading in a blue collar for a white one hang on to the old shirt you never
36:08know when you might need it again so you're a guy in financial services who has fallen back on the
36:12ability to pay the bills with your hands correct
36:21are we going to do another one no yeah you can do another one up to you
36:27what i'd like to i'd like to understand why we just didn't put 14 in there and then 14 in here
36:34okay i'll try one more time yeah let you see one more time okay i try one more time okay okay okay
36:42no no i didn't i just thought he'd tell me
36:49he want to try one more time you're the boss you tell me what do i do what you do
36:56not as well and not with any level of comprehension yeah okay
37:04okay now we're gonna mix this this is the uh sodium fluoride or the magnesium sulfate
37:17no no no no don't put it i'm just messing with you in yeah in
37:24now where's that crazy spanker yes this thing
37:31ow ah it hurts the hand oh boy i don't know what i'm doing here but i'm mixing her up okay
37:37enough you know enough good this can go here no no one more time
37:47so all problems are communication problems john
37:49uh-huh how do you feel that's the pain a lot of pain there a lot of pain in the open wound
37:55yeah both with your hand both it yeah yeah look at that yeah look how surprised you sound
38:01the right the left the right the left oh
38:04both it
38:06look at that i can do this backwards
38:08good good good now yes yeah stop stop yeah stop the cover
38:22this is more better this is better yeah than that yeah the first one you met yeah the second one
38:28this looks good yeah this one more better okay maybe this is super good i don't know what's your
38:33last name bo peel bo john go mike roe that john is a good worker thank you that really is i'm not
38:45sure you understood everything i said uh that might be warm it's not more than warm what's the difference
38:53between sympathy and empathy you may or may not have sympathy for someone as you watch him burn his hands
38:59making tofu but you will definitely have empathy for him after you burn your own leg by accident on a
39:05soybean boiler just ask barsky stop the burning process here you go here give me this great you're like that
39:17okay all right great
39:19this stuff might hurt you it's all chemicals
39:35the holes are going completely through my fingers
39:39it gets gradually pressed down the line 10 presses gradually increasing pressure right until it pops out
39:45on this side so we have one ready right here once the tofu has been fully compressed and solidified
39:51it's ready to be cooled down and cut into package-sized pieces now what we need to do is we need to move
39:56this into our cooling pan a cutting board is used to hold the tofu in place you gotta flip it over there
40:03all right yeah uh-huh and then it's dropped into the water to cool what's your name chris chris mike
40:11all right so you're gonna place it just like a quarter of an inch right there a block of tofu yields
40:1836 pieces itself for about three dollars each at the supermarket and then push it push the board down
40:24and toward you so that it so the tofu keeps going there you go so it goes through here under water these
40:32guys pluck it out down there correct then it goes in that machine over there which seals it from there to
40:38the supermarket how long you been doing this three weeks three weeks yeah how's it working out
40:44i like it so far what are we doing before this private banking i've been an electrician greenhorn
40:52electrician i've done carpentry i've driven forklifts i've done quite a few things so you're a guy
40:59who was making his living in financial services and now has fallen back on the ability to pay the bills
41:05with your hands correct i can introduce you to about four million of my friends
41:13good luck man nice meeting nice meeting you too
41:19well there it is for the last uh 60 years or so the aloha tofu factory has been delivering a high
41:26protein staple to the island locals and from every indication they'll be doing it for the next 60
41:31years or so of course i'll always remember this place as the house of mystery and pain from the
41:37enigmatic soybean bags held together with that magical thread to the blisters i have on my right
41:44hand now exacerbated by the chemical healing ointment currently covering barsky's second degree wound yeah
41:53it's an ironic injury for dave one that brings me a certain satisfaction since he lied blatantly to me
42:00when he told me i'd be relying primarily on my tongue this afternoon so as he leaves the aloha state
42:05with his ironic injury i leave with firm tofu suey bean curd cake a little something for the road
42:15you know me i like it dark i like it foggy i like it wet and i absolutely love it dirty so you can
42:25imagine when i come to a place like this i get all misty problem is i can't come back once i've
42:34been here so i need you to help discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs if you know it someplace
42:40dark and wet dirty that'd be great doesn't even have to be dark just wet and dirty doesn't even have to
42:48be wet but it's got to be dirty discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs help me see the light
42:58show's over there
43:03that's not a koala bear no that's not a koala bear but whatever it is it's doing something to this
43:07tree that's inappropriate there's really no other tv show i could work on with a face like this uh
43:25that's not a pop of zits
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