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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.
00:09This one here may have bed bugs.
00:11Bad night's sleep.
00:12Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:15Definitely gonna have maggots on it, flies.
00:17Oh, that's a horrid smell.
00:19Oh, God.
00:20Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:24Now, get ready.
00:26Excuse me.
00:27To get dirty.
00:30Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:32Look at it.
00:33He's chewing right through the net.
00:34He's wanting a piece of you, sir.
00:35He's pissed off.
00:36Some animals are all bark and no bite.
00:38With alligator snapping turtles, it's just the opposite.
00:42Dr. Stan has made a career out of studying these endangered reptiles.
00:46You knew just when to get out of the way.
00:48And he lives by one simple rule.
00:50Keep your hands away from moving parts.
00:52What are you doing in a situation like this?
00:54Just hang on for dear life, I guess, right now.
00:57And later.
00:58That's a shame.
00:59San Francisco is on the cutting edge of recycling.
01:01Now they've figured out how to reuse one more thing.
01:03Toilets.
01:04That's right.
01:05That's bad poop.
01:07Never seen it done like that, have you?
01:09These receptacles have seen a lot of bodily fluids over the years.
01:12Oh, yeah.
01:13This one's full.
01:14Oh, dear.
01:15That's disappointing.
01:16But they're about to see some new ones.
01:18Sweat and elbow grease.
01:19One, two, three.
01:20Oh, God.
01:21Oh, God.
01:24Oh, God.
01:30Well, that's my ride for today.
01:39for today. It's a little boat, as you can see. Dr. Stan is backing it up here. And I don't have a
01:47whole lot of information yet, but I'm fairly certain that we're going to get in the boat and
01:51go look for snapping turtles. It's not the only boat. A couple other boats over there. We'll go
01:56around and do what we do. Now you know everything I know. I also know that we're in Arkansas at
02:04Jacksonport State Park, and we're gearing up to study these turtles with a professor from
02:09the Arkansas State University. So, this is Dr. Stan, and he's got a thing for turtles.
02:15Well, I study turtles.
02:16Snapping turtles.
02:17In particular, yep.
02:19Whereabouts do you do your work? Where do you study?
02:21Northeast Arkansas. That's my primary study area for these animals.
02:25And how long have you been studying the...
02:27Going on 38 years, something like that.
02:30So, you're about as close as I would imagine I could find to an expert in this field.
02:36Possibly. For at least this area.
02:38Okay.
02:39Well, I mean...
02:40I'm trying to make you an expert today.
02:42Yeah, well, good luck. This is a relatively short program, and...
02:44No, don't have enough time, huh?
02:47All right, so I'll be wearing one of these.
02:48Yes. You can take the tags off.
02:51Think safe. How about acting safe? Is that an option as well?
02:54No acting today. This is all real stuff.
02:56That's exactly right.
02:57There you go.
02:58I mean, if you're looking for a definition of realness, you've come to the right place.
03:04Mine's in the back.
03:05I'll get it on in a second here, and then launch.
03:08All right.
03:08I'm going to get that.
03:09We're going to get it on in a second.
03:11This may be too small.
03:13You think?
03:14Let me see.
03:14Now, well, now let's do the other one, too.
03:17Let's really do it right, Mike.
03:19Do I need to do this for you?
03:20Yes.
03:21Okay.
03:22You haven't done this before?
03:24Oh, yeah.
03:25No, I have.
03:25I just like to be looked after.
03:26Okay.
03:27Well, we're going to push you off and motor upstream.
03:31Perfect.
03:32Ready?
03:32Not yet.
03:33You better put that on.
03:34While you get the green, what's that signify?
03:36Well, see, I'm color matched.
03:40It's important to look good when you're conducting science.
03:45Let's go after snappers.
03:46Let's do that.
03:47Looking for turtles.
03:51Come with us.
03:52Macro what?
03:54Macrochiles.
03:55Macrochiles.
03:56Macrochiles.
03:56Temiciae.
03:58Macrochiles.
03:58Temiciae.
04:00Black River.
04:01Five miles.
04:02See you there.
04:03The alligator snapping turtles are the largest of all freshwater turtles in North America.
04:09Because of their dwindling numbers, they've been added to a list of endangered animals in Arkansas.
04:13And Dr. Troth has been monitoring its population for the last 15 years.
04:18What's in the cooler?
04:20Bait.
04:21No beer.
04:21No beer.
04:22No beer.
04:23We're on our way to Doda Creek, where the professor has already laid out some traps the previous day.
04:29Our job is to catch these turtles and classify them for monitoring purposes.
04:35We'll ease in there, and you'll see where the tie is.
04:39The net is tied to this.
04:40Yes.
04:41You're going to have to go up there and untie.
04:43There you go.
04:44So this is the first trap out of a series of?
04:47Twelve.
04:48Twelve traps, and we're in what?
04:50Dodo Creek?
04:51Doda.
04:51Dodo Creek.
04:52Dodo.
04:53Dodo.
04:53Dodo.
04:53Come on this side now.
04:54Left side.
04:55Yeah, you've got to get all the way over on this side.
04:57Oh, there you go.
04:57Oh.
04:58No, no, no.
04:59Don't bring it out yet.
05:00Oh.
05:01Okay, just keep coming.
05:02Keep coming this way.
05:03Keep coming.
05:04Yeah, you stand down there.
05:05Keep coming.
05:06Wait a minute.
05:06Am I standing or coming?
05:07Keep coming this way.
05:08I'm walking this way.
05:09Come on.
05:09Okay.
05:10All right, now we're cooking.
05:12It caught some orange juice.
05:13That's called an empty net.
05:15Empty net.
05:16Now, at this point, we need to cut the bait off.
05:19That'd be this guy.
05:20Yep.
05:21He didn't do any good at all.
05:22You're a failure, plus you're in half.
05:24All right, I'll do the first one to show you.
05:28We'll put the bait we're going to save.
05:31We don't get any snappers.
05:34We're going to get snappers, by the way.
05:36That's a personal guarantee?
05:37Pretty much so.
05:38All right, we're 0 for 1.
05:40But hope springs eternal, and you can almost feel the optimism in the air.
05:44What do you think, Doc?
05:45Feel lucky?
05:47Feeling lucky?
05:48Yeah, this one's the one.
05:50Slowly.
05:51Oh!
05:51Well, you caught a whole fish and a turtle.
05:54All right, everything in.
05:55Everything in.
05:58Whoa!
05:59All right, this one is a young one.
06:01Yeah?
06:02About 10, 12 years old.
06:04Look at him.
06:04He's chewing right through the net.
06:05He's wanting a piece of you, sir.
06:06He's pissed off.
06:07I don't blame him.
06:08What's in his mouth?
06:10I mean, really, how dangerous is that?
06:12Well, I mean, he's not going to get to you, but...
06:14No, I mean, I'm not personally...
06:15I'm just, I mean, in terms of, like, real chomping.
06:18Yeah, these animals cannot bite a broom handle in half.
06:22I don't want...
06:22I don't suggest you tempting them.
06:25What would tempt a turtle like that?
06:27Well, I mean, putting your hand close to his head.
06:29That's the temptation.
06:30I don't want to sass him or anything.
06:32Okay, grab the rings again, Mike, please.
06:34Right, from the beginning.
06:35Yep.
06:35So these are...
06:36I didn't notice, but these...
06:37Each ring gets a little bigger?
06:38A little larger.
06:38Uh-huh.
06:39This is a double-throated net.
06:41Uh-huh.
06:41So they have to go through two barriers to get actually into the back of the net.
06:46Why do you make it hard for them to get in the back of the net?
06:48Well, it makes it hard for them to get out of the net.
06:50Of course.
06:50He doesn't have the ability just to, like, whip around, right?
06:53No, he's not going to twirl on you.
06:55Now he's...
06:56Now he's after you.
06:57So it's...
06:58Go get him behind the head.
07:00Oh!
07:03Like this?
07:03You got him.
07:04All right.
07:05Hold him up.
07:09Look at you.
07:10Aren't you handsome?
07:13That business on the tip of his tongue.
07:15That's the lure.
07:16Because these turtles are generally slower than fish,
07:19they use a little thing on the end of their tongue to lure the fish closer.
07:24What you going to do?
07:25I got to take a picture of the animal.
07:28Did you just take a picture of me or the turtle?
07:30Mostly the turtle.
07:31Why did I just feel like this turned into a vacation,
07:33and all of a sudden you're going to go home and start scrapbooking or something?
07:37Put this on that.
07:38eBay and sell it.
07:40Yeah, good luck.
07:42Look at him hanging on to that tree there, like a monkey.
07:44That's a great posture there.
07:46You like this?
07:47I'm liking it.
07:48What about the turtle?
07:49The turtle, he doesn't care.
07:53Now you've got to get that fish out of the net and throw it in this fish bucket.
07:57All right.
07:58All right.
07:59This is the way you handle the turtle.
08:01Uh-huh.
08:02Like that.
08:04Well, there seems...
08:05Sort of like that.
08:06Just...
08:07Go try it again.
08:12Head that way, preferably.
08:14Not toward me.
08:16Rather head toward you.
08:18Well, sure you would.
08:19Hey!
08:20Hey!
08:21Hey!
08:22Whoa!
08:23Just a second.
08:26Head off.
08:27Head off.
08:27You want his head off, or is he hatching?
08:29Nah!
08:29I'll take his head right off.
08:31I got it.
08:32I don't like the way he's looking at me.
08:33The jug goes in the bag there.
08:35Oh, be careful with the net now.
08:37Well, this is...
08:37He's standing in the net.
08:38I know I'm standing in the net.
08:44Okay.
08:45Jugs?
08:45The tongue is that lure that they use to attract the fish.
08:49Who are you talking to?
08:50Oh, I'm sorry.
08:51What?
08:51What's happening?
08:52Sorry.
08:53Here.
08:53Hold on.
08:54Now, keep your knee out of the way.
08:57Yep.
09:01All right.
09:02Uh-huh.
09:02Now that's how we do it.
09:04Okay.
09:05He seems to have assumed a fairly laid-back position.
09:08He looks like he's coming off a bender.
09:14Oh, my sauce.
09:15Are you taking notes?
09:16I really need you to help me.
09:17It's all up here, Doc.
09:20Can you take my pencil?
09:21Yeah, I did.
09:22I needed a souvenir, and I had to have it.
09:32Where could that thing have gone?
09:33Maybe I didn't take it out.
09:36In all this excitement,
09:37I didn't know whether I'd taken this pencil out.
09:40Here it is.
09:43Out.
09:45So, next.
09:48Mike, are you watching this?
09:50I'm watching this.
09:52This out of the way.
09:54There we go.
09:55Now, he can get around on you.
09:57If he does, I'm not responsible.
10:00Don't worry.
10:00I would never blame you.
10:02All right.
10:03What I do is I embed the pit tag
10:05into the base of the tail.
10:08So, if there is a tag there,
10:13no ID found.
10:15Okay.
10:15I did hear a beep, though.
10:16Okay.
10:17Now, the first thing we want to do
10:20is take some measurements.
10:21You go from tip of the tail to nose
10:24or from butthole to, like, throat?
10:26Yes.
10:30All right.
10:30Remember, these are the most dangerous part of the turtle.
10:36The first thing we need to measure is the shell
10:38or the carapace of the turtle.
10:40Here you are.
10:40So, this is approximately a foot,
10:47maybe 13 inches.
10:50Did you take my, uh...
10:51Probably with that pencil.
10:53I think you did.
10:55No.
10:55What are you missing?
10:56The ruler?
10:56I'm missing the tape measure
10:59that I used to measure the turtle.
11:02What are you talking about?
11:03And, you know, I seem to have lost it.
11:07You know what?
11:07You read my mind.
11:12Coming up.
11:12Insert your finger and feel the penis.
11:15It's a single penis.
11:16Down in the mouth and other orifices
11:18on a job that truly bites.
11:22My man, later.
11:23If the water's turned off,
11:24how come there's water in that?
11:25Shortcut to the bathroom.
11:27So, maybe it's not water.
11:28Life may or may not be a bowl of cherries.
11:30This job is a bowl of something else entirely.
11:32I'm not even sure that's people poop.
11:34Kind of weird and petite.
11:36Well, maybe it's girl poop.
11:37You know what?
11:46Let's do it.
11:47Where are you sitting?
11:48I'm sitting here.
11:49Well, let's do it where you're sitting.
11:51Right there.
11:52You're going to have to get up, sir.
11:54He's 13 and a half inches.
11:56No, no, no.
11:57In metric.
11:58Screw metric.
11:59We're in America.
12:00Measuring these turtles helps the professor
12:03in determining their growth patterns.
12:05You're supposed to say that over
12:06so I don't forget it.
12:07252.
12:08252.
12:09And the sex, sir, is what?
12:11Whenever possible.
12:12No.
12:12You can insert your finger
12:14into the anus right here
12:17and you can actually feel.
12:19Would you like to do that?
12:21Yeah, I'll do it.
12:22You just focus on the anus.
12:24I'm definitely doing that.
12:27And the purpose here, I mean...
12:29Is to insert your finger
12:30and feel the penis.
12:32It's a single penis.
12:34You know, I'm thinking, Mike,
12:35maybe we ought to...
12:36Shouldn't ought to do it with this one.
12:37This is such a young male.
12:39Yeah, let's...
12:39Let's get a few years on it.
12:41Let's do it for a larger one.
12:42Next thing we need to do
12:44is be very careful to do this.
12:46Mm-hmm.
12:48Yes, Shazam.
12:49You see the carefulness now?
12:51I saw it in one of us, yes.
12:54You knew just when to get out of the way.
12:56The second he felt that,
12:57he came back with a purpose.
12:59Hold there.
13:00Right there.
13:00Right here.
13:01Oh, jeez.
13:02Look, he's just there.
13:05Got it.
13:0522 pounds.
13:07These guys can weigh up to 175 pounds.
13:10Shazam will live to be 70 years old.
13:12Not in the butt.
13:14The last thing we need to do
13:15is inject the pit tag.
13:17In all the way.
13:18Oh!
13:19Good Lord.
13:21See, maybe you should do the next one.
13:23Oh, no, I got him.
13:24I got him.
13:24You got him now?
13:26He can get his claws all the way back there.
13:28Yes, and that's the problem.
13:31All the way in.
13:36I think you're a pro now, sir.
13:38Here you go, my man.
13:40Are you normally alone when you do this?
13:42I usually have a helper.
13:44I'm like a helper.
13:46You're learning.
13:48Yes, I am.
13:49An apprentice.
13:49Perpetual apprentice.
13:53All right, so the next net then,
13:54I believe the current's got us.
13:55It's that way, right?
13:56Yes, sir.
13:58Two traps down, 10 more to go.
14:01You got three fish and two turtles.
14:03Once an alligator snapping turtle
14:04reaches a certain size,
14:06they really don't have any natural predators.
14:09However, the population size has dwindled
14:11as a result of loss of habitat
14:13and over-harvesting.
14:14Oh, man, we got a lot going on here, boss.
14:18Oh, he's big.
14:20That's a bigger one.
14:24Some of these have a stink on them.
14:26Yeah, they give off an odor.
14:30It's a scent,
14:31and especially during the reproductive season,
14:34if you hold the turtle sideways now,
14:36and up, right side up,
14:39right side up,
14:41shell up,
14:42right through here,
14:45there's a set of four glands.
14:47Here, here, here, and here.
14:49Turn it toward you now.
14:53This way, the other way.
14:56That's toward you now.
14:57Right inside the shell here,
14:59those glands are well-protected.
15:01Yeah, I'll say.
15:02I can't see them.
15:02They are epidermal glands,
15:04and so to get to them,
15:06one has to cut through the shell.
15:07All right.
15:08I'm not that curious.
15:09I don't want to cut him open.
15:09Look at the little things
15:12crawling on in there.
15:13All right.
15:15That's what we're after, Mike.
15:16We're after leeches.
15:18Oh, that's a tiny little leech.
15:19That's a very good find.
15:21Do it.
15:21That's where you keep the leeches?
15:22I'm trying.
15:23There we go.
15:24Got it.
15:25Look at that.
15:26He's already attached to me.
15:28Stop it.
15:31Come on.
15:33Maybe I ought to do the next one.
15:35You know what?
15:36You didn't even see the first one.
15:37You're in a leech right there on his head.
15:39Oh, be careful.
15:40Really?
15:40Oh.
15:41Yeah, what am I thinking?
15:42Oh, here's one on his tongue.
15:43I'll get it.
15:44You know what?
15:45Before we flip him over and do stuff,
15:46can I...
15:47Is his mouth open?
15:48Yes.
15:49Can you make him bite something?
15:50Yeah.
15:51Like something like this?
15:52That'll work.
15:54All right.
15:56Let's put it on in and...
15:57Okay.
16:05Okay, yeah.
16:06But you can see on the piece of wood,
16:08it didn't snap it in half.
16:11So it's a strong bite,
16:12but it's not so vicious it's gonna...
16:15Yeah.
16:16...tear through some...
16:17But he probably...
16:18He probably could.
16:19Yeah.
16:20He's not gonna let go, though,
16:21most of the time.
16:22Yeah.
16:22Okay.
16:23I'm gonna flip him over.
16:24That's the best way to have him.
16:25You may have to lengthen your cooler, though.
16:32I don't know.
16:33Ow.
16:35He's so damn big.
16:36Ow.
16:39Ah.
16:39Yeah.
16:41Ah.
16:42Stop.
16:43Okay.
16:44Ah.
16:46As long as it's got the net.
16:49Come on.
16:50Hey, don't do that.
16:52Okay.
16:52The best way to push the cooler out
16:55and you're good to go.
16:57Oh.
16:58Probably 100.
16:58325.
16:59Got me.
16:59Damn it.
17:00Got me, too.
17:00He got me.
17:03You read it.
17:05I read...
17:0739.
17:1039.
17:12Ow.
17:15Apparently she wanted to get in quicker.
17:17Coming up.
17:18Come on.
17:19He's got the fish, I think.
17:20Oh, he's got the fish in his mouth?
17:21He's got the catfish.
17:22Oh, man.
17:24Interrupting people while they're eating is rude.
17:26Doing it to a snapping turtle is impossible.
17:28Damn.
17:30Nature tooth and claw, baby.
17:31Could be worse again.
17:32Could be the catfish.
17:34And later.
17:35All right.
17:36No, not really.
17:37No?
17:37Not quite.
17:38Some people kneel to the porcelain god.
17:41I have my own method of worship.
17:43I don't want to do this.
17:44I don't want to do this.
17:44Where should the population be?
17:52As far as...
17:53I mean, size-wise?
17:54Thriving, yeah.
17:55Yeah.
17:56This is a very healthy population.
17:59Yeah.
18:00So we're getting all different sizes.
18:02And that's the important thing.
18:05Especially the little ones.
18:06That's really a key issue.
18:09Yeah, because you know they're breeding and you know they're doing their thing.
18:17What do you think, Doc?
18:18I'm going to say two.
18:19What's your gut tell you?
18:20Two turtles?
18:21Two big ones.
18:22Two big turtles?
18:23Yeah.
18:24I should get involved.
18:24Oh, you got three.
18:29No, that's a fish.
18:31Good grief.
18:35We're just getting tired today.
18:36We're just tired.
18:37The turtles are methodically kicking our butts.
18:39Pretty much.
18:42Just grab a leg if you need to.
18:44No.
18:45No, that's quaint.
18:48You're getting rough with them.
18:50Look at that.
18:52I'm on.
18:53Excellent.
18:54Let's go.
18:54Good job.
18:55Let go of the thing.
18:56Come on.
18:59He's got the fish, I think.
19:00Oh, he's got the fish in his mouth?
19:01He's got the catfish.
19:02Oh, man.
19:03So let's just take our time.
19:07Play with you.
19:08There you go.
19:10Let go of the thing.
19:12Oh, shit.
19:17Damn.
19:18Nature tooth and claw, baby.
19:21Crap.
19:22What are you doing in a situation like this?
19:23Just hang on for dear life, I guess, right now.
19:26Could be worse than you.
19:27Could be the catfish.
19:28I don't think I've ever brought one out like that.
19:30That's a new one for me right there.
19:32Gorgeous animals.
19:35What's that?
19:36Gorgeous animals.
19:38Gorgeous is not the first word.
19:39Popped to mind.
19:40But he's handsome.
19:43Man.
19:44All right.
19:45Nose down.
19:46Yeah.
19:47Oh, good one.
19:48I like that one.
19:49A little more dramatic than I thought, but it should be.
19:53But Mike, the best thing to do is ask for help with something like this.
20:02But since you can't get any help, sit, sit, and relax.
20:08Yeah.
20:09You have a big turtle.
20:12And it doesn't want to let go, but you go grab it behind the head now and lift fast and hard.
20:21Lift fast and hard, I'm lifting.
20:22Oh, you big turtle.
20:24He's enormous.
20:26He's the largest turtle in the land.
20:30Crap.
20:31Let's just sit down here for a second.
20:35Let's just sit down.
20:37Man.
20:38I feel like I have taught my apprentice well today.
20:43Yeah.
20:44And now you're cooking.
20:46I gotta say, I like the big ones better than the small ones.
20:49And we're not going to measure this animal.
20:52We're going to put him in.
20:54Let him go.
20:55Okay.
20:56Well, this seems a fitting place to say goodbye.
20:59Well, I've enjoyed it today.
21:00This has been a great experience for me.
21:04I had a heck of a time.
21:05I hope he had a good time.
21:07Him, I think, probably not.
21:09The fish didn't do well today.
21:10No.
21:12It's the perfect exit for our show.
21:14Gentlemen.
21:20See you next time.
21:23Well, today I've come to a little town outside of San Francisco to say goodbye to the Schlage Lock Company.
21:30Schlage used to have this whole area here.
21:32And they made locks, oh, since 1929.
21:36But the world changes.
21:38And now there's been some outsourcing in the global economy and blah, blah, blah.
21:42So they're doing a lot of their business overseas, which means the old facility outside of San Francisco has to go the way of the dodo.
21:50And as much as I would like to be back there right now, pretending that I know how to operate that machine, turning big rocks into little rocks.
21:57That's not my mission today.
21:59I'm here for the toilets.
22:02Dora?
22:03In here, Mike.
22:04Oh.
22:07This is a...
22:09That's a shame.
22:10You're tearing toilets out of the ladies' room?
22:12Yes.
22:13Why is it the ladies' room always looks worse than the men's room?
22:16Oh, I don't know, Mike.
22:17What is it with you women?
22:18Oh, I don't know, Mike.
22:21What do you got there?
22:22I got the reds.
22:23All right.
22:24Your job is to go through this building and take all the toilets out?
22:26Take all the toilets out.
22:27It's nice.
22:28It's kind of pink in here.
22:29Or chiffon, maybe.
22:31It's tasteful.
22:33Um, is this complicated?
22:36Uh, no.
22:36Actually, it's really easy.
22:38We're going to show you, right?
22:41I would think so, yeah.
22:42That's kind of, you know, that's what I do.
22:44I show up, I learn stuff, rip out a toilet, go home.
22:48Try and forget about it.
22:50All right.
22:50Move on.
22:51Okay, we'll start over here on this one.
22:53That's fine.
22:54Whatever you want to do.
22:58So pretty much...
23:00Wait a minute.
23:01If the water's turned off, Dora, how come there's water in that?
23:04Yeah, maybe, you know, when it was shut down, people working in here, you know, shortcut to the bathroom.
23:09So maybe it's not water.
23:11Uh, yeah.
23:12It might not be water.
23:16This is going to be tricky.
23:18How?
23:20Well, not a lot of room in a stall, really.
23:23No.
23:24How many bolts hold the thing under the wall?
23:26Four.
23:27So you took two off on that side?
23:29Two off on this side, and then I got two more on the other side.
23:32All right.
23:34Ouch.
23:34I'll figure it out when I get down there.
23:37Okay.
23:39You don't need to have a go with it.
23:43These nuts have a fancy name?
23:46Stinky.
23:46I'm just working on the stinky nuts.
23:52I see it's spinning, but how far in do they go?
23:56They go pretty far in there.
23:59Be careful.
23:59You know, you want to make sure that when you're pulling it out, you're pulling it out slow, especially with that stuff in there.
24:07Oh, yeah.
24:07This one's full.
24:09Oh, dear.
24:11That is disappointing.
24:13Coming up.
24:15Ah, crap.
24:16That's what I've done.
24:17I bowled him over in the ladies' room, but now it's time to quit stalling.
24:21He's a little more familiar.
24:22And work on my stand-up routine.
24:24Easy, huh?
24:25Men are always easier.
24:27We're always less complicated.
24:29And later.
24:30Hey, last time I saw you, you were riding shotgun on a garbage truck.
24:33Yes, sir.
24:35I'm back together with an old friend, picking up right where we left off.
24:38Where you at, Mike?
24:39I'm coming.
24:40I heard that before.
24:42Toilets are heavy.
24:52All right.
24:56No, not really.
24:58Not quite.
25:01Yeah.
25:08Yeah, some of them will get stuck like that.
25:10Jesus, you're not kidding.
25:13You got it in there.
25:17You need to hold it?
25:18Well, yeah, if you can hold it up there with...
25:22Sure.
25:23I see.
25:24Bend over.
25:25Okay.
25:32Oh, yeah.
25:33We got it.
25:34There we go.
25:34Okay?
25:34All right.
25:41All right.
25:44What do one of those things weigh?
25:45Oh, probably like 20, 30 pounds.
25:48No way.
25:49Not that heavy.
25:49That's 40, 50 pounds.
25:51Oh, let's see.
25:54Yeah, it's about 20, 30, 40.
25:5650, 60, maybe?
25:5770, 100?
26:01Want to do another one?
26:02Yeah.
26:03I mean, what else would we do, right?
26:04We're in a bathroom.
26:10Yeah.
26:11Yeah.
26:11Yeah.
26:11Yeah.
26:15Good job.
26:19Well done.
26:21And then we, uh...
26:21Got like...
26:22Don't tell me.
26:23Then we do it again.
26:24Right.
26:30Is it stuck?
26:31Yeah.
26:34Oh, jeez.
26:35I dropped my nut.
26:36Look at this, a butt.
26:42Somebody crapped so hard, they blew a button out.
26:49What are the odds of that?
26:51You ever had to go so bad, you lost the button?
27:03Whoops.
27:04Ah, crap.
27:06What I've done.
27:06Wow.
27:12Never seen it done like that, have you?
27:14Uh-uh.
27:15Lifting it up from the lid like that?
27:17Does it make you angry when guys leave the seat up?
27:23Oh, yeah.
27:23Does it?
27:24Oh, yeah.
27:24What is with women?
27:25Why do they get so angry about that?
27:27Oh, because when I'm...
27:29I don't know what to respond to that.
27:31No, I...
27:32I don't know what to respond to that.
27:34I really want to understand.
27:35I mean, I've been yelled at all my life for leaving the seat up.
27:38And I've never understood it because it just seems like in the scheme of things,
27:41one of the easiest things in the world to do when you walk in the bathroom is...
27:45And then you sit down and you do your business.
27:47But women look at you like you're...
27:49I don't know.
27:50Like you're a mass murderer if you leave the seat up.
27:53Well, I'd be pissed off when any of my kids leave the seat up,
27:57especially when I'm in a hurry and I got to use the bathroom.
28:00There have been occasions in the middle of the night when I've gone in there
28:02and I've left the seat up for me and I've sat down.
28:05For half a second, it does feel like the world's coming to an end,
28:08like you're going to fall straight through to China.
28:14Now, that one's full of human, uh...
28:16What you call, uh...
28:18Do-do?
28:19Do-do's good.
28:20Yeah.
28:20Looks like somebody's been smoking in there, too.
28:23Look at...
28:23Well, what else would you do?
28:24If you're going to crap in an empty bowl,
28:26you might as well kill yourself with a cigarette.
28:29You ready?
28:32I don't want to do this.
28:35That looks like it's been in there a while, too.
28:38I'm not even sure that's people poo.
28:40Look at that.
28:40It's kind of weird and petite.
28:42Well, maybe it's girl poo.
28:43I'm not used to...
28:44I haven't seen...
28:44You know what?
28:45I haven't seen...
28:47I haven't seen a lot of girl poo.
28:50Ah, doggone it.
28:52That is disappointing.
28:53Eh.
29:02Can I just tear it off the wall?
29:04Tear it off!
29:04That's right.
29:21Ah, it's bad poo.
29:24Woo!
29:26Oh, yeah.
29:29Oh, yeah.
29:30That's how we do it on dirty jobs.
29:39We've taken out seven toilets.
29:41We've learned a lot.
29:42I've learned that to get a toilet out,
29:44you need to...
29:44You need to do this.
29:47Now,
29:48ma'am,
29:49I'm going to follow you to the men's room.
29:50All right.
29:52After you.
29:53If there's a cameraman in your way,
29:55knock him over.
29:55Oh, yeah.
30:04Just a little more familiar.
30:08This place is really falling down,
30:10to tell you the truth.
30:13All right.
30:14So these,
30:15we got our standard...
30:16stand-up urinals.
30:18Mm-hmm.
30:19You know,
30:19why don't they have these more?
30:21I always wanted one of these in the house.
30:25Wouldn't you like that?
30:26You're a married woman, right?
30:27No.
30:27No?
30:29Would a man in the house
30:30be so much more convenient
30:31to have one of these?
30:32Yeah, I imagine so.
30:34Yeah.
30:35One for him,
30:36one for you.
30:38All right.
30:39These come off very easy.
30:41These are...
30:42much easier than the last ones,
30:44than taking out those toilet seats.
30:46Mm-hmm.
30:50Easy, huh?
30:56Just a cake.
30:58Men are always easier.
31:01We're always less complicated.
31:03We stand here,
31:05do our thing.
31:07Easy to put on,
31:08easy to take off.
31:10What is that hung up on?
31:13There we go.
31:16Okay.
31:18There.
31:18There's a certain predictability
31:20to the job after a while.
31:22Mm-hmm.
31:23Glad I got some help today.
31:26When do you get the bill?
31:27Mm-hmm.
31:30Coming up.
31:32This is gonna be fun.
31:33Breaking up
31:34with a bunch of
31:35not-so-deer Johns.
31:36Oh!
31:37Don't lose your day job, Mike.
31:39And later.
31:40This I've got some time in.
31:42The last time I scooped the toilet,
31:43I had to use a garden trowel.
31:45This is more like it.
31:46Keep your bucket flat.
31:48Don't tilt it down.
31:48Just keep it flat.
31:49Just keep it flat.
31:50All right.
31:51People give me the keys to anything.
32:01Last one.
32:06Now we take them from the floor
32:07to that dumpster?
32:09Yep.
32:09Just one at a time?
32:10How do you do it?
32:11Uh, just one at a time.
32:13Hey, hey.
32:24Ready?
32:25Yeah.
32:25Give me a hand.
32:26One.
32:27They told me I might see you around here.
32:33How you doing?
32:34I'm all right.
32:34How you doing, Mike?
32:35I'm good.
32:35Good to see you.
32:36LJ3.
32:38You know this guy, too?
32:39No.
32:40LJ, this is Dora.
32:41Dora, how you doing?
32:42Good to see you.
32:43LJ.
32:43Little buddy, my last time I saw you,
32:45you were riding a shotgun on a garbage truck.
32:47Yes, sir.
32:49On one of our very first shows,
32:50I met LJ3 while collecting trash
32:52in San Francisco's Chinatown.
32:54Oh, you go ahead there, LJ.
32:56I'll catch up.
32:57What are you doing now?
32:58Roll-off.
32:59Recycling.
33:00You're driving?
33:01You're the toilet driver?
33:03Yes, sir.
33:04Today.
33:04I'm going to take my guy up here
33:07and go get the rest of the toilets, all right?
33:09All right.
33:10You take a break?
33:11Sounds good, yeah.
33:11Take a break.
33:12I'm that tight.
33:13You were awesome.
33:15Still got the muscles?
33:16I still got it.
33:18Yeah, man, I remember you running me
33:19up and down the steps, too,
33:20a couple of years ago.
33:22Yeah.
33:22You got your other can, Mike?
33:24I'll see you downstairs.
33:25How you doing, Mike?
33:27I'm coming.
33:27He's wearing me down.
33:29Two at a time.
33:30Oh, come on, Mike.
33:31It's not that bad.
33:32I think they're good.
33:33Where you at, Mike?
33:35I'm coming.
33:36I heard that before.
33:43Oh, there you are.
33:45I'm coming.
33:46Let me grab one of those for you, Mike.
33:48All right.
33:55Toilets are heavy.
33:56That's got me.
34:06Oh, Mike, you're cheating.
34:08Here, buddy.
34:09Let me help you.
34:10Wow.
34:11There you go.
34:12Oh, boy.
34:16God!
34:17You got yours, Mike?
34:18I got it.
34:18You sure, Mike?
34:19I'm sure.
34:20I got it.
34:20Oh, baby.
34:21Can't talk.
34:21Got to keep moving.
34:22Hate to show you up.
34:23Got you.
34:25Oh, wait a minute.
34:26That's bull crap.
34:27We're going to do this all lumberjack.
34:28Oh, Mike.
34:31God, that sticks.
34:32I'll be back to help you, Mike.
34:34Uh-huh.
34:35Hate to show you up, Mike.
34:40Oh, there he is.
34:41One, two, three.
34:44There you go.
34:45So, that's like decades of pee right there.
34:53Hit me in the face.
34:54All right, where about you?
34:55Decades.
34:56It smells all right.
34:57It doesn't smell that great.
34:59We're upwind.
35:00That's important.
35:02Yeah.
35:02Go ahead.
35:03Take your breath.
35:03Yeah, I'm going to do that.
35:05LJ's going to get the truck.
35:06I'm going to breathe in that super special smell of ammonia.
35:12Just an undercurrent of poo.
35:15It's spring in San Francisco.
35:26Turn sideways, Mike.
35:28The cable goes in easier.
35:30All right.
35:31If you haven't noticed, every single thing on the planet gets recycled nowadays.
35:36We're going to follow him over to the dump, see these toilets off, and be there to witness
35:42their final goodbye.
35:45Let's go, Mike.
35:52We're on our way to a recycling plant called Sustainable Crushing.
35:56It's on the cutting edge of the recycling industry.
35:58In fact, they took five years to develop the technology, which crushes porcelain into tiny
36:04pieces for reuse.
36:05And since LJ and I have a truck full of toilets, I'd say we were in the right place to, well, take
36:14a dump.
36:15This is the point of the day where we turn big toilets into little tiny pieces of toilets.
36:25Yes, sir.
36:26With the plastic, where the plastic needs to go.
36:29Let's go in here.
36:30Yeah.
36:31And what about rubber?
36:32Rubber, we're going to plastic.
36:33All right.
36:34This is rubber.
36:34Yeah.
36:35Plastic.
36:36Anything metal goes to the gray.
36:38Right.
36:42This is going to be fun.
36:49Smells like peas.
36:50I thought the purpose of the crushing machine was to crush it.
36:58It is.
36:59Why are we crushing it?
37:00We're trying to spare the parts that we can spare by crushing up what we can.
37:04By hand.
37:14Nice windy day.
37:15I'm trying to stay upwind.
37:18Oh!
37:20Don't lose your day job, Mike.
37:23Coming up.
37:24Keep one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake.
37:27And that's how my grandmother used to drive.
37:28Porting the former potties to a crushing finale.
37:31It'll eat concrete, asphalt.
37:34It evens only eat a few pieces of steel.
37:36Today it's eating toilets.
37:43So, uh, what happens now?
37:46We have a machine to our left here.
37:48But you pick this porcelain up.
37:52Grind it through the machine.
37:53Does it go in that machine there?
37:54Yeah, it's going to go in the conveyor belt.
37:57For a little ride.
37:58I'm going to go see who's got the keys to the machines.
38:01All right, so these would be the machines, and I'm assuming you're the guys that run them?
38:04Yeah, I'm Doug.
38:05Doug, I'm Mike.
38:06Robbie.
38:07Robbie.
38:07Nice to meet you.
38:08This I've got some time in.
38:10The old Bobcat.
38:11Literally minutes of experience I can bring to the, uh, bring to the proceedings.
38:15This?
38:16I don't know.
38:16What is this?
38:17It's a 988H.
38:18And I can scoop them up in this?
38:20Yep.
38:21And take them up to the hopper?
38:22Put them into this.
38:23We're going to put them into this.
38:24Scoop them up in this, put them into this, and then this goes up into that.
38:27Yes, sir.
38:28The 988H.
38:30Yes, sir.
38:31What's the H stand for?
38:32It's the series number on the piece of equipment.
38:36Sure it doesn't stand for something?
38:37I was told it stands for, holy crap, that's a big machine.
38:40And I'm not so sure.
38:41I'm with you.
38:42I'm with you.
38:43The big old 988H is going to come over.
38:55Keep your bucket flat.
39:18Don't tilt it down.
39:19Just keep it flat.
39:20Oh.
39:20Just keep it flat.
39:21All right.
39:25You ready for the big one?
39:40Oh, no.
39:41Oh, yeah.
39:42Yeah?
39:42I think you are.
39:44I've inspired this kind of confidence?
39:46Yeah.
39:47It's hard to believe.
39:48Yeah, it really is.
39:50Same thing, just a little bigger.
39:51This thing probably costs hundreds of dollars.
39:56About three quarters of a mil.
39:58That's all.
40:00People give me the keys to anything.
40:06All right.
40:06That'll probably be good right there.
40:08He can get the rest.
40:08Stop right there.
40:09All right.
40:11Power up, baby.
40:13Keep one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake.
40:16And that's how my grandmother used to drive.
40:18Then let's go ahead and hoist it up a little.
40:20That's good right there.
40:21Goal is to miss the bobcat.
40:22Miss the bobcat.
40:23Miss the bobcat.
40:25All right.
40:25Now, I bet I could lift that car up.
40:27Yes, you could.
40:29But let's don't do it today.
40:31All right.
40:31A little bit more throttle.
40:33This recycling plant that I'm about to dump my load into is like no other plant in the United States.
40:39It's one of a kind and can crush 850 tons per hour.
40:44That, my friends, is a lot of crappers.
40:47There you go.
40:49You got my job.
40:49I think let's go to the next stage.
40:51What is the next stage?
40:52Next stage is going to be to fire up that plant and produce you some three-quarter inch material.
41:03Here comes your stock.
41:04Here it comes.
41:04Go up into the screen.
41:10Go across the screen into the crusher.
41:14Then I'll size it down to three-quarter.
41:16And you guys designed it?
41:17Yep, Robbie was really into it and Chuck Berry.
41:23That's it.
41:24Three-quarter inch minus.
41:25Three-quarter inch minus.
41:28That means everything that's coming through here is what?
41:30Three-quarter to minus the sand.
41:32It'll eat concrete, asphalt, rock.
41:36It even is known to eat a few pieces of steel.
41:39Today it's eating toilets.
41:43It's been a lot of fun.
41:45I appreciate it.
41:46Yeah.
41:47Robbie?
41:47Our pleasure.
41:48LJ, always a pleasure.
41:49Thank you, brother.
41:51Doug?
41:52Thanks for letting me drive the big boys.
41:54You're welcome.
41:55Our pleasure.
41:56My only final question is, is there a toilet around here?
42:01Right over this way.
42:06Well, we've come to that point in the show where I have to try and find a new and exciting
42:10way to get you to go to discovery.com forward slash dirtyjobs to suggest my next dirty adventure.
42:15To do that today, I'm going to attempt to get a llama to instruct you to do that very thing.
42:20Dave, of course, is going to help.
42:22Dave, you ready?
42:23Proceed.
42:26Please go to discovery.com forward slash dirtyjobs and suggest my next dirty adventure.
42:37Please go now, as quickly as possible.
42:40I'd be eternally grateful.
42:41Honestly, it's come to this.
42:43You know what I'm saying?
42:45A llama, Dave, doing stuff that I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to be doing.
42:50You, going to the computer, discovery.com forward slash dirtyjobs, right?
42:54You can do that, right?
42:56Dave, you can stop now.
42:59Yeah.
43:02That serves him right for being covered with snot.
43:04Have you done your homework?
43:06That's the best part of this job.
43:08You don't have to do homework, Dave.
43:09There's no upside in studying.
43:10The dumber I am, the more brilliant you appear.
43:12My job is to make you look as intelligent as humanly possible.
43:15I don't ever sweat that hard to take these seats off.
43:22You hate to see people sweating when they're sitting on the toilet.
43:24I mean, if you break out into a sweat while you're having a seat here, that's just, you need to see a doctor.
43:29I mean, if you're looking forward to seeing you, you're doing the best part of this job.
43:30Take care.
43:30And just look forward like this.
43:32I can take care for gaining some heart.
43:34I mean, if you're dealing with two demons together.
43:35Take care.
43:36Yeah, let's go ahead.
43:37Okay.
43:38Yeah.
43:38You guys have to do homework.
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