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00:01My name's Mike Rowe. This is my job.
00:05I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:09Now we have a hindquarter. Yes, we do.
00:11Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:14Do you have any affection for these things? Not really.
00:17Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:21Beep, beep.
00:22Now get ready to get dirty.
00:26Crazy spin. Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:30It just seems like there are about a thousand things that could go wrong.
00:34I get pinned down in a rack of deadly machinery that's made for fun.
00:40Are we having fun?
00:42Then...
00:43These $120 balls.
00:44The pro shop guys...
00:45I don't want to go through one of your fancy expensive balls.
00:48Saw me coming.
00:49Don't worry, you're paying for it.
00:51And later...
00:52It's full of shark poo.
00:53The strange procedures...
00:55I can feel the poo coming through my jeans.
00:57...of a disgusting job...
00:58Dark poo.
00:59...make me very uncomfortable.
01:01Now if I can get you to cover off your balls.
01:07Oh, God.
01:08Dirty Jobs.
01:09Someone got to see.
01:10Oh!
01:11Oh!
01:13Oh!
01:14It's a dirty job.
01:16Oh!
01:16Oh!
01:18Oh!
01:18Oh!
01:18Oh!
01:20Oh!
01:21Oh!
01:22Oh!
01:24Oh!
01:38I'm so happy.
01:39I'm glad to be wearing a hat, the страшful little
01:42eyes...
01:43So, like how this is, I'll show you...
01:47Oh!
01:47... było, I can wear a shirt with Love
01:53for us to pursue something that is truly right up our alley.
02:13Figure it out?
02:14Yeah, we're here to bowl.
02:16Of course, you can't have fun on this job until you start working first.
02:21Here, for the record, is the Cloverleaf Family Bowler in Fremont, right, Steve?
02:26That's it. Fremont, California.
02:28And this is Steve, and you don't own the lane, but you're obviously the guy that takes care of everything?
02:33Yeah, I do the maintenance here.
02:34Great. And what does doing maintenance at a bowling alley really require?
02:39I mean, is it a full-time, ongoing, endless job?
02:42It's full-time.
02:43Is it fun?
02:44Yeah, it's fun. A lot of stress sometimes.
02:47You've got a lot of bowlers to keep happy, so, you know.
02:49How much stress can you have in a... I mean, really? Like, when you say stress, you're like...
02:53Stress, you have a machine go down, and a guy's got a string of strikes going.
02:56He wants to get up there and bowl, and I've got to get that machine up.
02:59Because he's got his rhythm and everything else.
03:01He can't change his lane. None of that.
03:03Yes.
03:03What's this thing?
03:05It's conditions our lane.
03:06It cleans the lane, and it'll oil the lane all in one shot.
03:10Why do you want oil on the lane in the first place?
03:12To protect the surface from the friction of the bowling ball.
03:15And to help the bowlers out.
03:17How does it help the bowler?
03:18Depending on where you apply the oil, it can create a path towards the headpin, which they're trying to hit.
03:23Our house pattern, it's a relatively easy pattern, and we do that day in, day out for the bowler,
03:29so they have the same consistent shot to bowl on.
03:32So you program the machine to put down the pattern you want, depending on the level of difficulty that the
03:37lane requires.
03:38Correct. Correct.
03:38That's all programmed.
03:39Is it the alley or the lane?
03:40It's the lane. We don't use alley anymore.
03:42This whole thing is an alley. No, it's not?
03:44It's a bowling center.
03:46What happened to alley?
03:47That's the 1950s.
03:50We use center.
03:51So nobody goes to the bowling alley anymore. They go to the bowling center.
03:54Yeah, cleaning it up.
03:55But there's still lanes in the bowling center?
03:56Yeah, yeah.
03:58You call them lanes.
03:59What do you think the next iteration of the nomenclature will be, vis-a-vis the name of the basic
04:05place?
04:06Emporium? You see a day when we have bowling emporium?
04:08They call them family fun centers and stuff like that.
04:12Yeah, yeah.
04:12Are there fun centers in this neighborhood not for families?
04:16I don't think so.
04:18No.
04:18You've got to be suspicious when you see a sign. It just says fun center.
04:21Yeah.
04:21It's like, yeah, they're expensive. Well, let's start then.
04:24Okay, so what we're going to do is just go ahead and turn it on.
04:26Uh-huh.
04:26And then since this is already pre-programmed, all we're going to do is put it on the lane, square
04:30it on the lane, and then it just takes off.
04:32Set it and forget it.
04:33Set it and forget it.
04:34All right. Now, there's no danger of this running over Barsky, right?
04:37No, not even.
04:38Because I would hate to apply it, Dave, with a level of challenging oil.
04:43Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's faster than this machine.
04:47I don't know. He's going to be walking backwards.
04:49We'll see.
04:49Okay.
04:50Now, go ahead and push it out on the lane.
04:52And these back wheels here, you want to go past the foul line. That's the black line right there.
04:55Okay.
04:56Now, push the handle as it takes off. That's it.
04:58Just like that?
04:59It's good to go.
05:00Oh, I could do this all day.
05:01Yeah.
05:01How'd they do it in the old days?
05:03They used to do it with a spray can.
05:05Uh-huh.
05:05And then they'd cross-drag it.
05:07Something tells me not everything here is this automated.
05:11No.
05:11How long does it take to do the whole fun center?
05:14Probably about an hour and 20 minutes to do the whole house.
05:17How long have you been doing this?
05:20About 32 years.
05:23How'd you get into it? I mean, how did bowling...
05:25Just grew up in a bowling center bowling as a kid.
05:28Fell into it and I've traveled putting machines in lanes and been here about 16 years.
05:34Are you any good on the lanes?
05:36Nah.
05:36No?
05:37I don't bowl.
05:38Only 32 years.
05:39Yeah.
05:40I think the viewer now understands the device.
05:44Yeah.
05:45Goes up and comes back.
05:46Well, we can come back here and I can show you what I do every day.
05:49All right.
05:49It gets pretty noisy.
05:55Behind that wall is an armada of machines and moving parts which return the balls to the
06:00bowlers, assort and organize the pins and rally information to the scoring boards.
06:07Always 10 pins on the deck, on the pin deck, and then there's always 10 pins on the top.
06:11So if they throw a strike, that thing's ready to spot a new deck.
06:15Right.
06:15A new rack of pins.
06:16What's the first thing you do, basically, is in the course of maintaining?
06:20My maintenance is watching these things run.
06:23I just write down what we have to change.
06:26That is my kind of job.
06:27Let's watch it.
06:28The funny thing is that most bowlers have no idea of all the activity that goes on behind
06:33the scenes.
06:34It just seems like there are about a thousand things.
06:37There's a lot of parts that could go wrong.
06:39Oh, yeah.
06:40Yeah.
06:40On this machine, there's a lot.
06:43And Steve is the wizard of Cloverfield Family Fun Center.
06:48He is the mastermind, keeping everything running back here so that all the fun can happen out
06:54here.
06:55In our endless quest to bring you more new and exciting and meaningless shots, we've put
07:00a camera inside of a bowling pin.
07:01So the best way to demonstrate maybe the pinpoint of view would be to see this thing get placed
07:08in there.
07:10How's that?
07:12All right.
07:12So if you were a seven pin at the Family Fun Center in lane number one, your life would
07:21look a little something like this, I suppose.
07:22Ryan, go ahead up there and throw a ball.
07:24Try and hit something if you can.
07:26He's hitting something.
07:29Oh!
07:29He took out the seven.
07:30He took it out.
07:31Nice, right?
07:33Nice.
07:39That's actually an incredible shot.
07:44I haven't had this much fun as a cameraman ever.
07:48There you go.
07:50Such a trippy shot.
07:52Got it?
07:59Well, I guess we can go to work.
08:01Number eight, was it?
08:02Lane eight.
08:03We're going to replace this conveyor belt here.
08:06This belt brings the pins back to the back of the machine so it can go up the elevator
08:10to the front.
08:11So it gets worn on the sides?
08:13Yeah.
08:14Sometimes they'll wear on the side or they'll come apart at the seam.
08:17Mm-hmm.
08:18We're going to take this assembly out.
08:19This guy?
08:20Yeah.
08:21So what you've got to do is drop your curtain.
08:22There's a little spring pin that you pull back.
08:25You mean right there?
08:26Yeah.
08:26That's the pin.
08:27Pull that in.
08:28Then it should drop down.
08:29There you go.
08:30Sure does.
08:31Yep.
08:31Just like that.
08:32I'm going to disconnect this shock right here.
08:34We're going to take those three bolts and we're just going to take this whole assembly
08:37and slide it forward.
08:40This shock, three bolts.
08:43You've got to work them both at the same time?
08:45Yeah.
08:45Hold one side, turn the other side.
08:57Yeah.
08:57I can't reach that.
08:59I do need a ratchet.
09:00Yeah.
09:01You're going to need a nine-sixteenths for that.
09:02Okay.
09:04Oh, crud.
09:05What?
09:05The welded nuts on this side are broken off, so we have a nut on this side.
09:09You're going to have to hold the nut on this side.
09:11Oh.
09:11While you're turning.
09:12Oh, that's going to be extraordinarily awkward.
09:14Yeah, you've got to put your arm in an awkward place.
09:16Hmm.
09:17It could be said that there's nothing easier than turning a couple of nuts and bolts.
09:21However, the pin-setting machine is an amalgamation of twisted metal and cramped spaces.
09:27See that top nut.
09:27There you go.
09:29Come on.
09:32Shoot.
09:33I didn't mean to drop that.
09:34I'll spare you the details.
09:36But in order to dismantle this beast, you need to be part mechanic, part contortionist.
09:41Where the heck did it go?
09:44What was I just working on?
09:45Was it this one?
09:47The top one?
09:51The top one.
09:53All right.
09:55Now what we want to do is we want to loosen that nut.
10:01But you're going to have to hold the wrench on the other side.
10:04Oh, God, that routine again.
10:05Yeah.
10:06We don't have too many machines like this.
10:08No.
10:09I only see about a thousand.
10:13See that nut down there?
10:15Yeah.
10:15That's the one you want to break loose.
10:17So when you say break it loose, you mean violently just smack on it?
10:20No, just break the nut loose.
10:21Just turn the nut.
10:22Turn it towards me.
10:23Well, this is just impossible.
10:25You just holding it with your hand or using a wrench?
10:27I was trying just with the hand, but that was pointless.
10:30No, it's not going to work at all.
10:32Coming up.
10:33Do they both have to come out?
10:34All three do.
10:35Bad news, dude.
10:36I turn a 10-minute job.
10:38How many threads are on that bolt?
10:39I honestly don't know, but it's a magic bolt.
10:42Into a half-day nightmare.
10:45That's okay.
10:46Is it okay?
10:47At this point in time, yes.
11:00It's just too hard to hold on to everything when you're in a cramped area like that.
11:04I get it.
11:06Oh, Troy.
11:07Almost never see that happen.
11:10I do believe your camera just fell in half.
11:15Oh, you hear that?
11:16Did it fall?
11:17That was the sound of another nut.
11:20Well, you should have all of them off.
11:22There you go.
11:24That's your head.
11:25Get it out of the road.
11:29And again, there's nothing wrong with the thing we just pulled out.
11:31It's the carpet under it.
11:33Whenever we turn the lane on, even if nobody is bowling, this carpet always runs.
11:39It's always running.
11:40It's always running.
11:41All right.
11:41And an issue that we occasionally have when bowlers are bowling, a pin will lay right in here.
11:48Sometimes gets stuck in there, and then it'll block the path of the ball.
11:52Now we have to clear that pin.
11:54If that rudder arm doesn't kick it out, that's one of our small little hiccups that we have
12:01that we have to clear as mechanics to get to the bowlers retrieve their ball back.
12:05I get the message.
12:06So now that assembly's got to come out.
12:08Yeah.
12:09This, this, that assembly's coming out, this plate's coming out, and then there's a roller
12:13back here that's going to come out.
12:14Okay.
12:15You're going to use a razor knife, and you're going to use this pry bar, and you're going
12:22to use two little quarter-inch bolts.
12:25What we're going to do is we're going to pry this back.
12:27See all that crap right there?
12:28Uh-huh.
12:28That's just shavings of this carpet.
12:30So that's just the carpet wearing down.
12:32That is the carpet wearing down.
12:34How long did you train for this?
12:36What, what, what is the syllabus like for a bowling alley mechanic?
12:39Learn as you go, and you, you know, you just train with other mechanics, and, you know,
12:45they have schooling.
12:47They must.
12:48I mean, this is really...
12:49The manufacturer of these machines do have schooling.
12:51A two-week course.
12:53But there's nothing like...
12:54A two-week course?
12:55Yeah.
12:56You're not going to get it all in two weeks, so...
12:58Yeah, and you know what?
12:59I'm going to have to beat that down with a hammer.
13:00Yeah, let me beat that down.
13:02It's just, see, this is the kind of tool I can understand.
13:04I don't know, the 9-16ths and all that other stuff.
13:06The more I worked with Steve, the more I realized there's really very little science or accuracy
13:10to this job.
13:11In fact, sometimes you have to literally get the proverbial square peg into a round hole.
13:16You've got like a pin problem or something.
13:23There you go.
13:24So you really wanted it beaten down.
13:25Yeah.
13:26Not the gentle nudging that I was doing.
13:29All right, so now this is going to go in here.
13:32Fly back on that.
13:33There you go.
13:34Now you can just slowly let go of it.
13:36There you go.
13:37All right.
13:37That's it.
13:38The tension is off the belt.
13:39And if memory serves me right, you're going to hand me something very sharp right now,
13:42and I'm going to start cutting the carpet.
13:43All you need to do is just cut it right down the middle.
13:45This show gets nominated for an Emmy every year for cinematography, but we never win.
13:49We never, ever win.
13:51And this year's going to be different.
13:52We've got one, two, three, four.
13:53We have six cameras, essentially, all pointed at a razor.
13:59All right, this is a big moment, guys.
14:01We're actually going to cut the carpet.
14:02One chance.
14:05Uh-oh.
14:06Oh, it's working good.
14:12There we go.
14:13Okay.
14:13Now you can get out.
14:14Oh.
14:16I've done ten of these in one day.
14:18Really?
14:19Yep.
14:19I've done none of these in four hours.
14:23Getting dirty.
14:24Here's another meaningless piece of crap I believe the viewer is going to need to see.
14:29A lot of grime.
14:30Looks like underneath every refrigerator and old sofa I've ever owned.
14:34The only time we really clean underneath is when, uh...
14:38Company's coming?
14:39Yeah.
14:40Oh, God.
14:42That's it.
14:43All right.
14:45Now what?
14:46That's called our front roller, the roller in the front.
14:48Oh.
14:49I see.
14:52Okay.
14:57Okay.
14:57All right, the front roller.
14:58That's the bounce plate.
15:00This roller here is in the back.
15:02Hence the back roller.
15:04Rear roller.
15:06Okay.
15:07Okay.
15:07Do they both have to come out?
15:08All three do.
15:10That's bad news, dude.
15:13You're lucky, though, because trying to take this stuff out with the carpet intact is a
15:17lot harder.
15:17So you're actually having an easy day.
15:19I was just about to say, this is some real amazing fortune coming my way.
15:24Sure.
15:24You're going to have to climb in there, take a 5-16th bolt off.
15:28A 5-16th bolt off of the paddle, which is now attached to the rudder.
15:32Correct.
15:33Which is oriented inside of the ball exit.
15:35As I crawl over the rear roller and lie backwards on the bounce board, I stick my head into the
15:42ball exit.
15:43The rudder arm in that ball exit that you've got to pop off.
15:45This guy will go on the top like this.
15:47Yep.
15:48You tighten it.
15:49Of course.
15:50Why would I?
15:53I just can't get much torque on this thing, you know?
15:55There's no range of motion.
15:58It makes you want to cuss.
16:00Honestly, I had to do one of these yesterday.
16:02Mm-hmm.
16:02And I was cussing because I was saying, you know, why couldn't it happen today so you could
16:07have took care of it for me?
16:10Serious.
16:21How many threads are on that bolt?
16:22I honestly don't know, but it's like, it's a magic bolt.
16:26It's a miracle bolt.
16:28Look at this.
16:28It's like the breads and the fishes.
16:30It's a New Testament bolt.
16:35The more you unscrew it, the more threads are become.
16:37It's endless.
16:39It's...
16:42Okay.
16:43Oh.
16:43That's okay.
16:45Is it okay?
16:45At this point in time, yes.
16:49And behold the sounds of Steve's standards dropping.
16:53There you go.
16:55That's right.
17:01Okay, that's a paddle off a rudder inside a ball exit at the end of a bowling alley.
17:07I mean lane.
17:07Bowling center.
17:08And a fun center.
17:10Right.
17:11Welcome to the family fun center.
17:13Are we having fun?
17:15Coming up.
17:16Now we pop the whole thing up.
17:17Easy as pie.
17:18Pop it.
17:18When Steve said, pop it.
17:21Whoa.
17:22Oh crap.
17:23He must have been referring...
17:26To my blood vessels.
17:35You get so excited when we see different kinds of dirt, Steve.
17:38You'll have to forgive us.
17:40Yeah.
17:41It's like the stuff you get out of Barsky's belly button.
17:44If you were inclined to look.
17:46Think of all the DNA, man.
17:48All the crap from people's hands flying down the alley.
17:52You find fingernails.
17:54What?
17:54You know the fake fingernails.
17:56Especially a lot of long ones.
17:57We'll see them under here sometimes.
17:59This is actually a fingernail off of an enormous woman.
18:03That's part of a bowling ball.
18:05Oh is it?
18:05Yes it is.
18:06Oh.
18:07So yeah, bowling balls just shatter.
18:09I like my story better.
18:11How big would a woman have to be to have a fingertip this size?
18:15She'd have to be pretty big.
18:16She'd have to be 40.
18:17I don't think we have house shoes that can fit her.
18:20Counterclockwise would break it loose.
18:22Clockwise, that's this way.
18:24Is that counterclockwise?
18:25No, that's a clock.
18:26That's right.
18:27Sorry, I was thinking of a digital clock, I guess.
18:29For what seemed like an eternity, we removed roughly one billion nuts, bolts, screws and parts.
18:35And a fair chunk of my dignity.
18:37Anything else I should do while I'm in this dignified posture?
18:40Turn around and come and do this side.
18:43I don't find a nickel for every time I've heard that.
18:51Two more over here.
18:58It's hard to believe all those threads are necessary.
19:02You could use a power tool.
19:05Now we pop the whole thing up?
19:07Easy as pie?
19:07Pop it.
19:08Either side.
19:09You can't go over this.
19:11You gotta go under this.
19:12Oh, okay.
19:12And you just kinda...
19:13There you go.
19:16Oh, crap.
19:17Ah, pin!
19:18Come up this way.
19:19Now take it from here.
19:20Now you're gonna take that roller out.
19:22Ah!
19:24Yeah, I'm okay.
19:25Okay.
19:26Ah!
19:27F***!
19:29F***!
19:33F***!
19:35F***!
19:37F***!
19:37F***!
19:37F***!
19:38F***!
19:40F***!
19:41F***!
19:41There we go!
19:42Perfect!
19:4732 years doing this?
19:49Yep.
19:49Started when I was 18.
19:52It's kept you youthful.
19:55It's kept you young, man.
19:56But you're 50 years old.
19:57Me?
19:58Yeah.
19:59Yeah.
19:59Holy crap, no way.
20:01I am.
20:02You look pretty good.
20:04You guys need a moment alone?
20:05I said she was crazy.
20:08Do not turn your back on him, man.
20:11He gets crazy around pins.
20:13When we come back after lunch, we're gonna put everything back in.
20:16Gonna lay down some carpet.
20:18Gonna be a lot of yelling and screaming.
20:19Maybe some blood.
20:20And, um, and yeah, that's what we'll do.
20:23All right.
20:32Yep.
20:32Just like I remember it.
20:33Yep.
20:35Where were we?
20:38We were in the ball exit?
20:39All right.
20:40So there's something about a hinge.
20:41Oh, hey, what about that flashlight?
20:43Is that thing still...
20:44Yeah, that's a bright one.
20:45Oh, that's...
20:46Oh, look at that thing.
20:47After lunch, as our food was digesting and our bowels, we did what anyone would do.
20:53Squeeze five grown men into a confined space and work.
20:57Yeah.
20:58So you're gonna want to set that end of the roller right in there, aren't you?
21:00No, we gotta put the bounce...
21:01We gotta put the bounce board inside the carpet, and then we put the bounce board and the carpet
21:06in at the same time.
21:07Oh, my God, that's gonna be a hassle.
21:09You're gonna have to straddle it and set it down.
21:11There's not much room.
21:13No, there's not.
21:13Go a little further.
21:14All right.
21:15Okay.
21:17I'm gonna lay that down like that.
21:20You can't stand on it.
21:21You know what?
21:22I...
21:22I need to levitate somehow.
21:25If I can't stand on it, I'd do something like this, maybe.
21:38That's it.
21:38Mm-hmm.
21:39Lift that up.
21:40It just seems very, very unlikely.
21:46Let me come this way.
21:47There is a different way to do this.
21:51As you're going in, turn it.
21:57There you go.
21:59Okay.
22:00Super awkward.
22:02Super awkward.
22:03You actually have to get inside there and straddle it like that.
22:06Sure you do.
22:07And just lift it up between your legs and turn it.
22:08Mm-hmm.
22:09And watch your head, because those cross members are...
22:11Oh, really?
22:12I hadn't noticed that just as the blood was starting to clot.
22:15They're not forgiving.
22:16What is the ideal height for a family fun center technician?
22:22Five-five.
22:24Mm.
22:25Come up and over.
22:28Okay.
22:29Mm-hmm.
22:30There you go.
22:31Yeah.
22:31You're close.
22:34Oh.
22:35Mm.
22:36Oh.
22:39Now the trick is you've got to get that carpet underneath that.
22:45I think we're done.
22:46Yeah.
22:48The U.S. Bowling Congress sets the standards for the sport.
22:51A typical bowling pin is made from maple wood coated with plastic,
22:55stands precisely 15 inches high,
22:57and weighs between 3 pounds 6 ounces and 3 pounds 10 ounces.
23:00A lane is built from a mix of pine and maple wood
23:03and measures 60 feet long from the foul line to the head pin.
23:11Pull your foot out and sit on the pin deck,
23:13and I'll get this set down there.
23:16Okay.
23:18I'm going to put my butt right here between 7 and 10.
23:20Okay.
23:23I can't wait to see how you do this.
23:26I'll get the other side on.
23:27You did?
23:28I'm just about there.
23:32Okay.
23:33I'm helping.
23:35We're there.
23:36Yeah?
23:36Good and done.
23:37Good work.
23:38So what we're going to do now,
23:40you're going to bolt the bounce board down to those support brackets.
23:44Mm-hmm.
23:45So you need a washer and a nut?
23:47Yeah.
23:47Which side goes down, by the way?
23:49The one with the little ridge on it, right?
23:52That goes down.
23:53That's down, right?
23:59Things went back together a lot quicker than they came out,
24:01which was good.
24:03Unfortunately, there were other unexpected complications.
24:08Oh, Steve, I got bad news.
24:27Chinese chicken salad.
24:29God, that's awful.
24:31And just like that, the show's priorities shift
24:34from getting the job done
24:36to getting some fresh air as quickly as possible.
24:40Geez, no kidding, man.
24:42Time for a diaper change.
24:45Ow.
24:46Now what we do?
24:47There we go.
24:49There.
24:50All the way through here.
24:51Let me put the front roller in, okay?
24:53Let me try.
24:54It's this thing here, Steve,
24:55that has to go right there.
24:59I'm scared, Steve.
25:01I need the hammer.
25:04Now I'm really scared.
25:06The crew were like rats on the Titanic,
25:08heading for higher ground.
25:11Steve and I pressed on,
25:13but believe me, we weren't far behind.
25:16It's my feel.
25:18Yep.
25:22Oh, look at that.
25:25That's when you know you're done.
25:27Yeah.
25:34Ooh.
25:36Don't go in there.
25:38Do not go in there.
25:41Turn it on.
25:42I'll let you do the honors.
25:45There she goes.
25:46That's good to go right there.
25:48So this is our look behind the scenes
25:51at a family fun center.
25:53That's it.
25:54Not a bowling alley.
25:56Fun center.
25:57Not bowling lanes,
25:58but a fun center.
25:59That's correct.
26:00Is there a pro shop here?
26:03It's up front.
26:05Okay.
26:06I just thought maybe we could nose around,
26:07make some pins,
26:08make some balls,
26:08do something like that as well.
26:09Sure, sure.
26:10They could probably put you
26:11into anything you need up there.
26:15Howdy.
26:16Hello, Mike.
26:17Welcome.
26:17Jack, right?
26:18Jack.
26:19That's my son-in-law, Scott.
26:20Nice to meet you, Mike.
26:21Scott, good to know you.
26:23So, I'm not much of a bowler.
26:25I'll be honest with you.
26:26You need help?
26:27Yeah.
26:28We'll try to get a ball
26:29that will do its utmost
26:31to help you out.
26:32That's what I'm looking for.
26:33Maybe something about this big.
26:35We already sold that.
26:36Oh, did you?
26:37Yeah.
26:37That's unfortunate.
26:38Well, look,
26:39I don't need to be a pro,
26:40but I would like to bring my game
26:42up a notch or two.
26:44I think the first step
26:45would be to custom drill
26:46and to fit you.
26:47So you actually drill the balls here
26:49and this is...
26:50That's where you are
26:51going to drill the ball.
26:53I get to drill the ball in good.
26:54The last 70 people
26:55that I've drilled a ball for
26:56have shot 200
26:58and I don't want to break my streak.
27:00You're talking, Jack,
27:02as though you're a guy
27:03who has bowled a bit
27:05over the years.
27:06It started in 1956.
27:08No kidding?
27:09Yep.
27:10In Los Angeles.
27:11The big...
27:12These pins
27:13or the little guys?
27:14No, the big pins.
27:15Yeah.
27:15But they did have
27:17pin setters.
27:18Mm-hmm.
27:19The league that I bowled
27:20where people set the pins
27:21by hand.
27:22Sure.
27:23Are you still bowling?
27:24You're still out there
27:25doing it?
27:25Yeah, once a week.
27:26Good for you.
27:27The ball that I thought
27:28might work for you
27:29would be...
27:32The ball that says
27:33the freeze.
27:34The freeze?
27:34Yeah.
27:35I thought maybe
27:36that would be a good ball.
27:37We also have
27:38the black and silver.
27:39Oh.
27:40Or the red and black
27:42at the very top.
27:44Now, what are these balls
27:44that I see right here?
27:45These are $120 balls.
27:46Right.
27:47Maybe we should...
27:48Why don't we use
27:48a cheap ball?
27:49I don't want to go
27:50through one of your
27:51fancy, expensive balls.
27:52Well, don't worry.
27:53You're paying for it.
27:54Oh, we are?
27:55Okay.
27:56Well, then let's go ahead
27:57with the platinum ball.
27:58I figured you'd also get
27:59a triple ball bag.
28:02Shoes.
28:02And a pair of
28:04$190 shoes.
28:07We're going to use this
28:08to measure your thumb,
28:10size of your fingers.
28:11Okay.
28:12There's something oddly
28:13disturbing about two grown men
28:14measuring my fingers.
28:16It's hard to know
28:17what you're doing, Jack.
28:18There you go.
28:18Oh, this one.
28:19About like sizing her
28:20for a ring.
28:21That's never happened
28:22to me, Jack.
28:23All these years.
28:24You believe that?
28:25No, I don't believe that.
28:26She's never proposed.
28:28So we've got the size
28:29of your thumb,
28:30the size of your fingers.
28:31Now we have to measure
28:32the distance between
28:33thumb and the fingers.
28:35We're going to double
28:37check the span that we had.
28:39You ever meet anybody
28:39with a thumb that big?
28:40Just out of curiosity?
28:41I think we drilled
28:42one this morning.
28:43You're kidding.
28:44What kind of creature
28:45is that,
28:45walking around
28:46with a thumb like that?
28:47So put your fingers in
28:48and your thumb
28:49all the way in.
28:50How many hands
28:50have been in these holes?
28:51How many fingers
28:52have been in here
28:52over the years,
28:53you're thinking?
28:54In five years
28:54that we've been open,
28:55I would say
28:569,000 bowling balls.
28:58I mean,
28:59is there a dirtier hole
28:59on the planet
29:00than the hole
29:01in a bowling ball?
29:02A public bowling ball,
29:03I mean,
29:03just out there
29:04for anybody
29:04to stick their hands in
29:05that comes in
29:06off the street?
29:06I wouldn't do it.
29:07I wouldn't do it.
29:08I mean, really,
29:08you think about it, right?
29:10There are hundreds
29:10and hundreds of people.
29:12And you know
29:12what they do
29:12with their hands
29:13constantly?
29:13They're people.
29:14They're picking
29:15and scratching
29:15and they're in the hole
29:17and then one
29:17after the next
29:18and the next.
29:19It's got to be,
29:19I wonder if tests
29:20have been done
29:21on the stuff
29:22that's living
29:22inside a bowling ball hole.
29:25I would probably
29:26say not.
29:27Moving right along here.
29:29Coming up,
29:30you're on a team.
29:31What's it called?
29:32Tutti Frutti,
29:33what a booty.
29:33It's the battle
29:34of the bowling booties.
29:36That's what we're
29:37talking about.
29:37You are kicking my butt.
29:39You're booty.
29:40Yes.
29:50Now, Mike,
29:50what we have here
29:51is our drilling press.
29:53This is what's going
29:54to drill the two finger holes
29:57and a thumb hole
29:57in the ball.
30:03About like so?
30:04That's good.
30:05Because we have
30:05to move the ball
30:06this way.
30:08Set to go.
30:10Yeah.
30:10We'll turn on our pump.
30:12Same depth?
30:13Yes, sir.
30:15Two and a quarter.
30:16Good.
30:16Two and three eight.
30:18Good.
30:19I can live with that.
30:20Yeah, you're throwing it.
30:29What'd you do in life
30:30when you weren't bowling?
30:31What'd you do for money?
30:32Truck driver.
30:33Yeah?
30:33That's where I learned.
30:34But you stopped
30:35by the lanes
30:35on the way home.
30:36I always knew
30:37where every lane was
30:38and every city I went to.
30:40Now, is it...
30:41I was just talking
30:41to Steve back there
30:42and I called it an alley
30:43and he looked at me
30:44like I had two heads.
30:45It's not a bowling alley
30:46anymore?
30:46No.
30:46Now it's called a center.
30:48What the hell's going on?
30:50A fella can't have a beer
30:51and throw a few frames
30:52with his buddies
30:52anymore at the alley?
30:54Sure.
30:54At the center.
30:55The center?
30:55If you go back
30:57far enough in time,
30:59the bowling alleys
31:00were usually men only
31:05because I remember
31:06when my father bowled
31:07and the women
31:08were not permitted
31:09to go in.
31:10Remember what?
31:11Those were the...
31:12chauvinistic.
31:13Those were bowling alleys.
31:15I thought you were
31:15going to say
31:15the good old days.
31:16No.
31:17No, no, no.
31:18He ain't saying that.
31:20I'm not trying
31:21to start any fights.
31:22No.
31:25There you go.
31:26There you go.
31:27Just like downtown.
31:28I guess I should go
31:28see if it works, huh?
31:29Good idea.
31:36You look like
31:37you kind of know
31:37what you're doing.
31:38But this lane
31:39is a little funky, so...
31:40Well, if that lane
31:42feels funky,
31:42it's probably because
31:43I was working on it
31:44all morning.
31:44Who knows what
31:45I got on it?
31:46I'm like...
31:47You're Jennifer.
31:49It's nice to meet you.
31:50What do you think
31:50of my ball?
31:51It's pretty good.
31:52Nice ball.
31:53Yeah, thank you.
31:53Just made it.
31:54Custom and everything.
31:55Awesome.
31:56I'd like to try it now
31:57for the first time.
31:58You can do it.
31:59You can evaluate
31:59my technique
32:00on this first one.
32:05Get one at least.
32:07All right, three.
32:08That's not very good.
32:09I got four.
32:10Did I get four?
32:11You did get four.
32:12Well, that's 25%
32:13better than I thought.
32:14So, is this where you bowl?
32:16I do.
32:16Yeah?
32:17Bowl here.
32:18I've been bowling here
32:19since I was 11.
32:20You're on a team?
32:21I am.
32:21What's it called?
32:22It's actually
32:23Tutti Frutti Whatta Booty.
32:25That's the team name.
32:27Is that okay to say?
32:29No, no.
32:29Listen, I've said
32:30much worse than booty
32:31or Tutti and Fruity.
32:33Tutti Frutti Whatta Booty,
32:34and how many are on the team?
32:35Three on a team.
32:37So, that's a three booty?
32:40Yeah.
32:41Really?
32:42I have a bigger booty.
32:45Okay.
32:46Well, is this a bigger booty
32:48something you can use
32:49to your advantage
32:49in bowling?
32:51Yeah.
32:52If you could stop it
32:53while you're going there.
32:54Well, it's that whole momentum.
32:57Yeah.
32:57Force equals mass,
32:58times acceleration.
32:59There's a lot of science
33:00in bowling, obviously.
33:01It is.
33:01Right?
33:01It is.
33:03All right.
33:04Well, show me what you got again.
33:06I'll try.
33:06I'm going to watch
33:06the Tutti Frutti Whatta Booty technique.
33:14Oh!
33:15Look at that.
33:16When you throw it,
33:17you're throwing straight.
33:18You're just right there.
33:19If you would churn your hand
33:21about 12 o'clock,
33:23where your thumb's pointing
33:24to 12 o'clock,
33:25and just throw it like that,
33:27you get a little rotation.
33:29Oh, my.
33:31Ah!
33:34Taking the gloves off.
33:37You are kicking my butt.
33:39I think you mean
33:40your booty.
33:42Your booty, yeah.
33:43You know the old saying,
33:44pride cometh before the fall?
33:46Well, my research indicates
33:47it's absolutely true.
33:50Woo!
33:54Oh.
33:58One is better than none.
34:01Nobody likes a show-off there, Jen.
34:06Big spare.
34:07Big.
34:08Oh, that's disappointing.
34:11Oh, ho, ho, ho!
34:14Wow.
34:16Oh, my.
34:17That's what we're talking about.
34:22Come on, now.
34:23Who's your daddy?
34:25Oh!
34:26Ooh!
34:27Interesting juxtaposition.
34:28Yes.
34:29All right, I'm going to knock
34:30all these down again.
34:30Okay.
34:32That would help if you were up.
34:34Oh, it's your turn.
34:35Yeah.
34:35Oh, I see.
34:35Please proceed.
34:37I didn't realize you had
34:38knocked all your pins down.
34:40No.
34:42Unlike some.
34:43Nooner!
34:47What do you say?
34:48Tootie-fruity, what a booty.
34:49That's what they say.
34:52Good shot.
34:54Ooh, you're a good teacher.
34:56I'm getting better.
34:57Easy release.
34:58And watch the fun.
34:59I don't even have to look at that.
35:01I don't even have to see what happened.
35:02Although, I must admit,
35:03I am curious.
35:04Oh, strike!
35:04That's so crazy.
35:05What are the odds of that?
35:06I can't be stopped.
35:09Hello?
35:13Very impressed.
35:20Watch this.
35:38There's a better way
35:39to end a mediocre,
35:42to better than an average episode
35:43of Dirty Jobs.
35:44I don't know what it is.
35:45Except to thank you so much.
35:47No problem.
35:47For all your instruction.
35:48I try.
35:49I'm going to walk away
35:50and look at my strike
35:52and try and remember
35:53all that I learned here today.
35:56You did an excellent job.
35:57In fact, I take it back.
35:58I'm not leaving.
35:59I'm just going to sit here
35:59and keep watching.
36:01Please proceed.
36:05Clean up on aisle four.
36:08Coming up,
36:09I demonstrate what the birth
36:10of a full-grown human
36:12might look like.
36:22My goodness.
36:23You know I love to get mail,
36:25but honestly,
36:26some letters are better than others.
36:27And this one,
36:28boy,
36:29is a keeper.
36:30It's from Jasmine,
36:32and she writes,
36:33Dear Mike,
36:34My name is Jasmine.
36:36I'm 24 years old,
36:37and I am a professional dancer.
36:39My girlfriends and I
36:40love your show
36:41and usually watch
36:42the repeats together
36:43after our shift
36:44at 2 a.m.
36:46Tiffany and Brenda
36:47have a serious crush on you,
36:49even though you're older
36:50than their dad.
36:52I think you're pretty cool, too,
36:53but that's not why I'm writing.
36:55I'm writing because
36:55I can't stop thinking
36:57about your cameraman,
36:58Doug.
37:02I like men
37:02who are tall and pale
37:04and not afraid
37:04to try new things.
37:06I can't help myself.
37:07Every time I see Doug
37:08climbing into a crevice
37:09or descending into
37:10some hole or another,
37:12my little heart
37:13positively skips a beat.
37:14Here's my question.
37:15Once,
37:16you showed some footage
37:17of Doug
37:18climbing into a
37:19blue capsule of some kind.
37:21What was that thing?
37:22I keep watching the repeats,
37:24but I can't find
37:24that segment anywhere.
37:26Tell me, Mike.
37:27Was I dreaming?
37:28Was I hallucinating?
37:29Please,
37:30show me more Doug.
37:32Gratefully,
37:33Jasmine.
37:35P.S.
37:35While you're at it,
37:36more Troy would be good, too.
37:38What can I say?
37:39I have a soft spot
37:39for pale men
37:41with big cameras.
37:43You guys,
37:44look at you go.
37:45This is fantastic.
37:47Jasmine, no,
37:48to answer your question,
37:49you weren't dreaming.
37:50I don't know
37:51if you were hallucinating
37:51or not,
37:52but what you saw
37:53actually did air
37:54very briefly.
37:56In order to get
37:57the best possible shot now,
37:58Doug has decided
37:59to dig a hole
38:01into the shark crab
38:02and bury himself in it.
38:04We were at
38:05Mandalay Bay,
38:06which is in Vegas,
38:08and we were in an aquarium
38:10called the Shark Reef,
38:11and we were cleaning
38:11a shark filter,
38:13which was full of
38:14shark poo.
38:15What you saw
38:16was Doug
38:17crawling into that filter
38:19to set up the shot
38:20so I could come in.
38:21The actual footage
38:22never aired
38:23because we didn't have room
38:24for it that year
38:24in Shark Week,
38:25but since you ask
38:26so nice,
38:27and since you have
38:28a thing for big pale men
38:29with giant cameras
38:31who roll around
38:32in poo
38:33from other species
38:34from time to time,
38:35who am I to deny you?
38:38Here's Doug again
38:39with me this time
38:40doing what we do.
38:42All the water
38:43from our 1.3 million
38:45gallon shark tank
38:46gets filtered
38:47through the sand,
38:48and the sand catches
38:49all the tiny particles,
38:51fish poop, waste,
38:52anything else
38:53we don't want in there.
38:55How often
38:56are they clean?
38:58They're usually clean
38:59about once a year.
39:01My job is to get
39:02under a layer
39:03of shark poo
39:04to extract a sample
39:05of sand.
39:06If the sample shows
39:07the clean sand
39:08below the shark poo
39:09has been damaged,
39:10it'll have to be replaced.
39:12However,
39:12before I could do my job,
39:14Doug had to do his.
39:16And so once again,
39:17we begin another chapter
39:19in the dance
39:19I like to call
39:21Glover crawls
39:22through an impossibly
39:23small hole.
39:24We've seen him do it
39:25before countless times.
39:27He slides in feet first.
39:29He had an option.
39:30He could have gone head first,
39:31but being a man
39:32of experience,
39:33he's chosen to lead
39:35with his posterior.
39:37Doug Glover's a big man,
39:38bigger than you would think
39:39on television.
39:40He's skinny,
39:41but he's got a thickness
39:42to him.
39:42But his bone structure
39:44is like that of Gumby.
39:45So as you can see,
39:46he can twist and turn
39:47and basically sort of
39:49morph into any shape
39:51he wants.
39:52He's a shapeshifter
39:52is what he is.
39:54Doug Glover,
39:55the shapeshifter.
39:56Just so everybody
39:57understands,
39:58this is fish scales
40:00and basically
40:01shark poo.
40:03Yeah.
40:04Yeah.
40:08Yeah.
40:09I can feel the poo
40:10coming through my jeans.
40:12Not my poo.
40:15Ugh.
40:21Now what?
40:22Just work my way back?
40:23Yeah,
40:24kind of squiggle
40:24your way back.
40:27Ugh.
40:34How you doing?
40:35Well,
40:37I'm basically jammed
40:38in here like a sausage.
40:39I'm covered with poo
40:41and you want me to tunnel
40:43down right about here?
40:44Right about there
40:45will be good.
40:46Don't you guys wear
40:47some kind of
40:47protective clothing?
40:49Isn't there some sort of
40:50special
40:51shark
40:52poo garment
40:53you've devised?
40:55Usually we wear
40:56a wetsuit.
41:01Whatever.
41:02You see any beach
41:03colored sand yet?
41:04Not yet.
41:05No,
41:06it's still pretty thick
41:07with the poo
41:07with the poo
41:07at this point.
41:10Okay,
41:11we're getting,
41:12I'm getting
41:12into actual sand
41:13down here.
41:20Okay,
41:20Chris.
41:22Yeah,
41:23that's actually great.
41:24Actually great.
41:27Now,
41:28if I can get you
41:28to cover up
41:30your hole
41:33we'll be good.
41:34Reasonable,
41:36reasonable request.
41:37White sand
41:38back on the bottom?
41:39Yeah.
41:43Say,
41:44Chris?
41:45Yeah?
41:45Is there anything else
41:46I can do for you
41:47or the sharks
41:47while I'm,
41:48while I'm in the
41:49toilet here?
41:51No,
41:51you know what,
41:52I think that'll
41:52about do it.
41:53Great.
41:55Okay.
41:57Kathy Rigby.
42:12Thanks,
42:12Chris.
42:13No problem.
42:14Thanks for pulling me
42:15out of the shark poop.
42:16You're a nice fella.
42:17Thanks for doing that
42:18for us.
42:19Ah,
42:19happy to help.
42:20Almost forgot Doug.
42:22Wouldn't want Jasmine
42:23to get worried.
42:29Good,
42:30you stink.
42:36Thanks,
42:37Adam.
42:37I should warn you,
42:38I'm trained
42:39in the art of hypnosis
42:40and right now
42:41you are entirely
42:42under my spell.
42:44Do as I ask.
42:45Go to
42:46discovery.com
42:47forward slash
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42:49and suggest
42:50my next
42:50dirty adventure.
42:52Don't be a chicken.
42:54Don't get cocky.
42:56Do it now.
42:57Discovery.com
42:58forward slash
42:59dirty jobs
43:00and we'll be birds
43:01of a feather.
43:04This is how we make you
43:05think we did something
43:05incredible,
43:06but what we do
43:07is we rig this thing
43:08with a couple of these
43:08cameras.
43:09I'm going to throw it
43:10and then we're going to
43:10cut in the edit
43:11and you're going to see
43:11the pins exploding
43:13and it'll look like
43:13we did something truly,
43:15I mean,
43:16really phenomenal.
43:17like Emmy.
43:18Emmy worthy, yeah.
43:19Yeah.
43:27Two days, Ryan?
43:28Two and a half days.
43:29Two and a half days.
43:32Go get your camera.
43:33Two and a half days.
43:33Two and a half days.
43:34Two and a half days.
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