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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:06I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10You have to smile when you sit in my chair.
00:12You must smile.
00:14If you don't smile, you gotta go.
00:17Hardworking men and women who earn an honest living.
00:19Do you love a heart?
00:21Yeah, I told you.
00:23Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:27Mike, where are you?
00:28I'm right here, man.
00:29No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:37There you go.
00:39Ow!
00:43Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:45Make a halt.
00:45I'm coming at you.
00:47I take up a life of crime.
00:48I'm running.
00:49I did a bad thing, and I'm running.
00:51Finding, finding, finding, finding, finding, finding.
00:53To help train a pack of law enforcement bloodhounds.
00:56Look for tracks.
00:57Look for tracks.
00:59Unfortunately, a life on the lamb is not so lovely.
01:02I am so scared.
01:07And later, when the swamp creatures attack, I help fight back.
01:11We're going to be killing things today, no?
01:13Yes.
01:13What exactly is on our hit list?
01:15Melaleucas and Brazilian peppers.
01:17My weapon of choice.
01:19Great balls of fire.
01:22That's what you want to be doing.
01:40I got a letter the other day from a kid named Jimmy.
01:42Just 10 years old.
01:43He wrote, dear Mike.
01:44Have you ever been in jail before?
01:46You believe that?
01:4710-year-old kid asking me a question like that.
01:49Well, Jimmy, the answer is no.
01:52But I have thought on more than one occasion how interesting it might be to be on the lam.
01:58You know, a fugitive from the authorities out there alone, running for my freedom, being chased perhaps by a bunch
02:08of volunteers with their bloodhounds and hunted in pursuit.
02:12A sheriff.
02:14You're C.B. Wiley?
02:16C.B. Wiley.
02:17Are you a sheriff?
02:18Constable.
02:18As a constable, you are a guy who from time to time could find himself in pursuit of a convict?
02:23Yes, sir.
02:23We catch them.
02:24What is this group called?
02:26This is the Van Zandt County Bloodhound Team.
02:28It's comprised of about 40 people, volunteers.
02:32Both handlers and hounds learn the art of tracking people on this 200-acre game ranch in East Texas, where
02:39there's plenty of room for the dogs to follow their legendary noses.
02:43Wow.
02:43Their faces.
02:44They seem to have too much skin.
02:46This is the nature of the bloodhound.
02:48The scent comes off the ground.
02:49The ears kind of stir it up, and it comes up and falls into the pores and mixes with the
02:54sweat glands.
02:55Really?
02:55And as the results, you get smell.
02:57Is there a bloodhound here who's sort of the top dog?
03:01So to speak?
03:02It had to be Tucker right here.
03:03He's the top dog in a kennel.
03:05Tucker.
03:06How are you, big boy?
03:07Look at you.
03:09Look at his ears.
03:10That tells you his battle scars?
03:11Holy cow.
03:12So you're saying his ears are going to pick up my smell?
03:14Yes, sir.
03:15My smell is going to get absorbed into this fabulous, fabulous face, and then he's going to be on me.
03:21We have to worry about the wind and the scent, the temperature and all when we're working with dogs.
03:25Now, bloodhounds, I would assume, not just use for chasing down nefarious, ne'er-do-wells miscreants and whatnot, but
03:32really anyone.
03:33We go after lost children and missing persons, and we've chased some on wheelchairs and the rest homes.
03:39Just so I heard you right, we've got a team of bloodhounds chasing down somebody in a wheelchair, AWOL from
03:45a rest home.
03:45And there's lots of Alzheimer's patients that are in their rest homes that just wander off.
03:49Sure.
03:50And many of them are mobile with their wheelchairs.
03:53That's a heck of a thing.
03:54All right, so I got a 10-minute head start.
03:57This is the shirt I've been wearing all day.
03:59I'll leave this somewhere down the line.
04:00Anywhere you want to leave it.
04:01And Tucker's slobbered all over me.
04:03I get that sign of affection.
04:04That there is going to be a souvenir you can take with you.
04:08My sense of smell's not that great.
04:10It smells like regular old spit, Tucker.
04:13You really do look like every sheriff I've seen in a lot of movies.
04:16What's CB stand for?
04:17Could be.
04:19Can you say what we have here is a failure to communicate?
04:22Not necessarily.
04:23Good enough.
04:24I had to ask.
04:25All right, so I'm going to take off.
04:26You're going to follow me in 10 minutes, and we'll see if you can find me before the sun goes
04:29down.
04:30Get active.
04:30You know what I need?
04:31I need a camera, too.
04:32Ryan, let me have this to you.
04:34Just to heighten the sense of what's going on here, I'll be shooting myself on this thing as I run.
04:39People can see the sense of true terror in my face.
04:42Pretty terrifying, don't you think?
04:43Mm-hmm.
04:44It was rhetorical.
04:47You're a good-looking constable.
04:49I won't guess.
04:50Strother Martin's got nothing on you.
04:51All right, then.
04:52I'd love to chat, but I'm a fugitive.
04:55On the land.
04:56Make a hole, Ryan.
04:57I'm coming at you.
05:03I'm running.
05:04I did a bad thing, and I'm running.
05:0710 minutes!
05:08Oh, my crap.
05:12There's a problem.
05:13I don't know where I am.
05:14I should just go in that house.
05:16That would confuse me.
05:17Let's leave this right here.
05:19Uh-oh.
05:20Dogs.
05:22I'm going up this road here.
05:24See where it takes me?
05:27How do I look on the lamp?
05:29Oh.
05:32It's terrible.
05:33I'm tired already.
05:34As if I'm not in trouble enough, Dave has recruited his son, Cash Wiley, to join his posse.
05:40They're ready to go.
05:41They're ready to run.
05:42They're ready to do their thing.
05:44So, when I hit it, then find him, find him, find him, find him, find him, find him.
05:48CB has been training bloodhounds for over 35 years.
05:51He currently has 15 working hounds and works with 30 to 40 volunteer handlers.
05:58There are fences.
05:59Fences everywhere.
06:02And apparently animals on the other side of them, so that's a bad sign.
06:08That's a...
06:14Being on the run is exhausting.
06:16Now, y'all, look for tracks.
06:17Look for tracks.
06:18Dog, when you're right, it's got a hot nose.
06:21Good.
06:21Bloodhounds are a 1,500-year-old breed, first used by nobility to track deer, wild boar,
06:27and later man.
06:28Watch your legs.
06:29That would be me.
06:30And running through water does not always mean that you're not going to get found.
06:36What would I do if I were bear growth?
06:38Well, I'd say my only chance is to get out of the open.
06:44I've got to somehow find the woods, the cover of the trees, and then fashion a lean-to, perhaps,
06:51for matchsticks.
06:55So, do you think I should hide in this old little shed here?
07:02What have I got on top?
07:07I could potentially be up here and lie flat.
07:14Oh, man, I know they'd see me, though.
07:18Oh, crap.
07:22Yeah, I hear him.
07:24That dog got a trail yonder right now.
07:27They say a hound's nose is three million times more sensitive than a human's, and they can
07:32follow a trail up to 130 miles.
07:35Too far for this fugitive.
07:38I could hide in a duck blind, I guess, but it just seems pointless.
07:43Time's going down.
07:44Moon's coming out.
07:46I know they've got to find me, but at least I can see them coming from here.
07:51I should be able to.
07:52Oh, yeah.
07:53Maybe a tree.
07:54I could almost climb that.
07:56Now, you know what?
07:57Maybe I can.
08:00Okay.
08:02All right, man.
08:03Now we're talking.
08:06All right, so I'm up a tree.
08:08I don't think it's going to do any good.
08:10But I got up here, and I feel proud of that.
08:14They should be coming that way.
08:17Of course, what they could have done is just going back to the house, and they're all having
08:21a beer now, laughing.
08:25That wouldn't be funny.
08:27Watch the dog.
08:28CB tells me back in the early 1900s, a legendary bloodhound named Nick Carter
08:34tracked down over 650 criminals.
08:37One trail Nick followed was over 100 hours old.
08:41Hopefully, none of CB's dogs are as good as Nick.
08:44It's been 24 minutes since I left.
08:46If they waited for 10, that means they've been coming after me for nearly 15.
08:51They're probably going half the speed I was going, which means they should be here in five.
08:57I did that in my head.
08:59Watch your dog's nose.
09:01He's on a hot trail or not.
09:04I'm up a tree.
09:05Is that where he's at?
09:06Apparently, he spent some time in there because they went there.
09:10Often called a nose with a dog attached, the bloodhound is so accurate in its tracking
09:15that the trailing results are admissible evidence in a court of law.
09:19Hear him?
09:22I can hear him, which means they can smell me.
09:27All right, you can tell when you've got a good hot dog, his nose to the ground, running.
09:32Where would a convict be if he was hiding around here?
09:38Hunt him up.
09:38Hunt him up and lots of encouragement.
09:40Just look everywhere that you possibly can.
09:43Always be looking up in the trees.
09:46Uh-oh.
09:47Watch your dog's nose.
09:49And we don't know how dangerous this individual is, so...
09:52You want to borrow my hand cuff?
09:54I'm so scared.
09:58Trust your dog.
09:59Let him go.
10:02What do you think I can't stop?
10:04Come on.
10:05Stop that guy.
10:07Guess what?
10:08I just found two dogs that made a positive find.
10:12They're circling a tree right now.
10:15Convict.
10:16Do you want to come down out of the tree peacefully?
10:19Or do you want us to remove you?
10:21I'm a branch.
10:24I'm a branch covered with moss.
10:26Come down and we're going to shoot you out of the tree, one of the two.
10:28That seems extreme, Cash.
10:31I think they found me.
10:33Well, you got me.
10:34No doubt about it.
10:35You got me.
10:37I've never really had a chance, man.
10:39There's a guy on horseback.
10:40There's guys in ATVs.
10:41There's six dogs.
10:42Voila.
10:43There's Barski.
10:44Unbelievable.
10:45Who wants my camera?
10:47Chunk it.
10:47I'll catch it.
10:47I promise.
10:48It's coming right toward you.
10:49One, two, three.
10:51Oh!
10:52I caught it.
10:53I caught it.
10:54After a promise and everything.
10:55I promised.
10:56I caught it.
10:57We're still filming.
10:58That's exciting.
10:59Where's the big cheese?
11:00CB.
11:01That's what could be.
11:02Could be.
11:03You guys are basically on standby then?
11:0524-7.
11:06We go free anywhere.
11:07The reward's in your heart when you do that.
11:10Let me ask you something.
11:11We normally don't do this, but if somebody wanted to donate to the Bloodhound, what do you call it?
11:16The Van Zandt County Bloodhound Team.
11:18Yeah.
11:18You got a website or something?
11:19Got a website.
11:20What's it called?
11:20Just go on there and go to Van Zandt County Bloodhound Team and you'll see eight or ten different listings.
11:24Van Zandt County Bloodhound Team.
11:26You'll see eight or ten different listings.
11:28Just Google Bloodhounds.
11:29Van Sam.
11:30Yeah, especially if you want to be found.
11:32Hell, if you don't, we're still going to find you.
11:33That's right.
11:34If you don't wish to be found.
11:35Stay on the sunny side of the law and keep the dirty side down.
11:39Coming up, I take an airboat ride deep into the Florida Everglades.
11:44Ah.
11:45Where I get a chance to really work on my chops.
11:49Use too much chemical over here, Mike.
11:51Take it out of my pay, Mike.
11:52Would you?
11:52Yeah, I will.
11:53Thanks.
11:54Thanks.
11:57Thanks.
11:58Thanks.
11:59Thanks.
12:04Boy, places like this make me nostalgic.
12:06Last time I was in a swamp, I think it was in Cut-Off, Louisiana.
12:11In fact, I'm positive because it was in Cut-Off, Louisiana where the crew and I got into an airboat
12:16to go get some alligator eggs.
12:19And, well, things went horribly wrong.
12:23As I recall, Barsky zigged when he should have zagged.
12:26And the airboat flipped over and about $100,000 worth of gear went into the mud.
12:31The crew is submerged.
12:33Most of the gear is ruined.
12:34One camera is working.
12:36That was the day I swore that I would never again get into an airboat with a television crew.
12:43Today, I'm going to get into an airboat with a television crew.
12:46In fact, we have a couple of airboats here.
12:50The TV crew in question is back here.
12:53We've got a couple of different agencies, I think, preparing to do a couple of different things.
12:58Something about non-indigenous invasive species descending upon the fair state of Florida.
13:05This is Mike.
13:06How are you?
13:06Hi.
13:07Great.
13:07Good.
13:08Who do you work for exactly?
13:09Aquatic Vegetation Control.
13:11Who else is here today?
13:12U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
13:14I got my crew members here.
13:17Men with knives.
13:18Gentlemen.
13:18Men with knives, yes.
13:20Can I have a look at that?
13:21Yeah, but careful.
13:22Look at that.
13:23So shiny and new and sharp.
13:24We're going to be killing things today, no?
13:26Yes.
13:26What exactly is on our hit list?
13:28Uh, melaleucas and Brazilian peppers.
13:31What's a melaleuca?
13:32It's an exotic tree that was brought into Florida.
13:35They were brought here in the early 1900s.
13:37The thought was that they would suck up the water so they could farm the land and basically destroy the
13:43Everglades.
13:44They weren't thinking ahead, so.
13:46Studies have shown people back in the early 1900s.
13:48Yeah, it wasn't too good of an idea.
13:50So, now we're out here getting rid of all of them.
13:54What's this guy's name?
13:55That is John Sullivan.
13:56He's a safety officer.
13:58Safety officer?
13:59Yeah.
13:59Are you a good safety officer?
14:00Yes, sir.
14:01All right.
14:01What's that guy's name?
14:03That's Brian.
14:03Are those earphones or do we got to get you to a doctor?
14:05I have the earphones.
14:06All right.
14:07Good news.
14:07This is Bobby.
14:08Carlos.
14:09Carlos.
14:09Giovanni.
14:10Giovanni.
14:11Luis.
14:12And what about the guy up there who looks like the king of the swamp?
14:15That's Jeremy Conrad.
14:16Hi, Jeremy.
14:16How's it going?
14:17All right, Mike.
14:18How about yourself?
14:18Lovely, man.
14:19What's your role here?
14:20Wildlife biologist.
14:22WB?
14:23WB.
14:23Good man.
14:24Oh, who's that?
14:25I'm Lisa Jamison.
14:26I'm the invasive species biologist here.
14:28Invasive species biologist?
14:30Yeah, I'm in charge of you, Mike.
14:32So, does that mean that you are invasive as part of the species?
14:36Absolutely.
14:37I see.
14:39The swamp here, obviously, is home to more than just invasive species.
14:42You must have all sorts of things in here that can make life miserable.
14:45Oh, yeah.
14:46There's bees, wasps, snakes, alligators, all the nice stuff.
14:51All right.
14:51So, we got one, two, three, four, five, six.
14:55We have seven airboats.
14:57Yes.
14:58Are you at all familiar with the airboat history on the show?
15:01Yes.
15:02I did see you flip over.
15:03All right.
15:04So, of the many goals we have today, of the many different organizations we have
15:08represented, I'm just throwing out there.
15:10It would be super great if you could keep my crew from plummeting into the ledge at you.
15:14We're going to keep you safe.
15:14We're not going to dump you over today.
15:16Okay.
15:17I promise you.
15:18To be fair, it really wasn't the fault of the guy who was driving the boat the last time.
15:21It was a crew member who crossed the axis, thereby compromising the gentle balance in the airboat to cause a
15:29problem.
15:29So, I mean, we've learned our lesson there.
15:31It was lost a few pounds since that fateful day, so we are guardedly optimistic as ever.
15:36All right.
15:37At this point, it's all yours.
15:38I will follow you.
15:39Okay.
15:40We'll get on the boat.
15:41Get a life jacket.
15:42Some ear protection.
15:43Life jackets and ear protection, yeah.
15:45The Everglades, 1.5 million acres of majestic wetlands located in southern Florida.
15:54Our focus today, a protected area called the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
16:01Modest little show.
16:03A couple cameras, no big deal.
16:05A lot of moving parts.
16:07Potential for disaster.
16:09Very high.
16:11Very high.
16:13Today, we'll attempt to save this part of the world from the attack of the Melaleuca tree.
16:19The mission is as big as the landscape, and we've broken the budget to bring it to you, our dear
16:25viewer.
16:27We've got a bird in the air.
16:29We've got at least seven or eight boats.
16:31I think we're ready to go.
16:49Fortunately for all on board, Barsky behaved himself this time, and we arrived safely.
16:54But we weren't out of the woods yet, so to speak.
16:57See how this, the break in the water right here?
17:00Yeah.
17:01There's a little trail going straight down through there.
17:03That's made from an alligator.
17:05Anytime you see the grass, that's part it.
17:09This is where we're going to be working?
17:10This is where we're going to be working.
17:14Sure, it was dangerous.
17:15But fortunately, our crack pre-production team made sure our crew was comfortable,
17:19giving us skin-tight neoprene hip waders, often used for fishing in Alaska.
17:25Thus, perfect for the swamp.
17:27What's that?
17:29Oh, those?
17:30Those are sissy waders.
17:31For girls.
17:34Again, research department.
17:36Yeah, I recently...
17:37We have the wrong waders.
17:38Of course we do.
17:39I didn't even know we had a research department.
17:42Barsky.
17:44That is some look.
17:49Coming up.
17:50That's two down.
17:52Two down about a million to go?
17:53A couple million to go, yeah.
17:55Whoa.
17:55Oh, there it goes.
17:56That sucks.
17:57For the Dirty Jobs crew, it's a brand new place.
18:00That sucks.
18:02With the same old story.
18:03Sucks is a term we're familiar with on the show.
18:15Into the dangerous alligator-infested waters we sent our fearless cameraman, Doug Glover,
18:21who found not alligators, but four feet of muck and mud on the swamp floor.
18:28It's actually a little easier when you get in here towards the island.
18:30That's...
18:31That's...
18:31Sucks.
18:32Whoa.
18:33There it goes.
18:34That sucks.
18:36Sucks is a term we're familiar with on the show.
18:40We're going to be cutting in for these malalucas.
18:42That's all these trees right behind us right here.
18:44This is what we're going to go in and treat them.
18:46First, we've got to mix up the chemical that we're going to use.
18:49All right.
18:49It's right behind us here.
18:51Good stuff here.
18:51Here we go.
18:52Your glasses.
18:53Your safety glasses.
18:54Always have your glasses on.
18:56All right.
18:56John, you see me doing something stupid, sing out, okay?
18:58Yes, sir.
18:58All right.
18:59You see some cottonmouths or alligators, you know, don't be shy with that machete.
19:02And I can get to professional to put his glasses on.
19:05Would it be too much to ask to set an example, okay?
19:08You know, we have some full-grown children watching this show.
19:10Yes.
19:11Just like this.
19:12Like a big gulp.
19:13A big gulp of poison.
19:14We'll just pour that on in there.
19:16And the last thing that we're going to add is some blue dye.
19:20Why?
19:20So we can see the trees that have been treated.
19:23A little bit goes a long way.
19:24A royal blue, would you say, or more like a...
19:26A hairy blue.
19:27So we're going to fill up these spray bottles.
19:29We're going to want to leave them in that bucket, though.
19:31And you'll do the squeezing here?
19:32Yeah, I'll squeeze.
19:33You pump.
19:35Now we've got to show.
19:38Pump it harder, Mike.
19:39It's not coming out fast enough.
19:44No.
19:48Can you put the tops back on these bottles, yeah?
19:50Sure.
19:51Is this a safety violation, John?
19:53Just don't look into the nozzle.
19:56There's a rule.
19:56That's advice to live by.
20:00You guys want to grab your machetes?
20:02This is you, Mike.
20:03It's all sharpened and ready to go for you.
20:07All right, basically what we do,
20:09we line up north and south right here,
20:11and we're going to walk straight in there,
20:13kill all these Mal Lucas.
20:14We'll hop off the boat.
20:19Come on, guys.
20:24Oh, very, very spongy.
20:26It's a little spongy.
20:27I'm sinking, for real.
20:28Oh.
20:31So when you start to sink,
20:32hold on to your knees?
20:32Yep.
20:33Go to your knees.
20:34Yep.
20:34Go to your knees.
20:36I just don't, uh...
20:37How are you not sinking?
20:38It's pretty deep right here.
20:43Once you get into the land more over this way, Mike,
20:45it's a little easier.
20:49Starting over?
20:50Just follow behind me.
20:51Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
20:51We're going to go straight in here.
20:56Come on.
20:57Come on.
21:01Ah.
21:03Easy.
21:05It would be helpful to have, like, a scabbard, you know?
21:07Like, where do you put your, uh, machete?
21:11Yep.
21:11You hold it in your hand.
21:12All right.
21:12You can take it if you wanted to
21:14and put it in like this.
21:15Uh-huh.
21:15It'll stick right into the ground
21:16and get your way out.
21:18All right.
21:20Here we go.
21:21This is a Malaluca, Mike.
21:22Now, Mike, the tree killer,
21:23had no mercy for me and the crew.
21:25While we waddled and stumbled our way to solid ground,
21:29he was wasting no time.
21:30We wouldn't want to just chop it down
21:32and knock it over.
21:33No part of the tree can touch the water at all.
21:35Why?
21:36Because they'll just grow back again.
21:37You mean the tree itself in the water?
21:40If we were to chop this off right here,
21:42Uh-huh.
21:42fall the tree over right there,
21:44it would grow back.
21:45From this, from there, or from where it falls?
21:47From where it falls,
21:48where the stems go into the water.
21:51All right.
21:51We're going to want to make a ring
21:53all the way around the tree
21:54and then spray the chemical in there.
21:58So you want to take it from this side?
22:00Yeah, you can do that.
22:01Just be careful.
22:03You want to make a straight ring
22:04all the way around the tree
22:05the same way I made that cut right there.
22:07Right.
22:07That's good.
22:08I'm going to want to take your bottle
22:09and get it all the way around the bottom there.
22:14There you go.
22:14That's good.
22:15So we'll come right back through here.
22:18That's good.
22:19And you have your bottle.
22:20That's two down.
22:22Two down about a million to go?
22:23A couple million to go, yep.
22:26Oh, jeez.
22:26That's terrible.
22:27As long as it's going to die,
22:28that's all we care about.
22:30Dead Maluka.
22:31Not the kind of tree you want to carve,
22:33you know,
22:35MR and SD in or anything like that.
22:36Yeah.
22:37Yeah.
22:40It's endless, man.
22:42You need a bigger crew.
22:43We have five crews out here,
22:44six guys on each crew every day.
22:46I mean, it just seems like
22:47if you're looking for job security,
22:49you know,
22:49we're going to be here a while.
22:50They say these trees
22:51can have two million seeds on them.
22:53I wonder they're everywhere.
22:54And once we start killing them,
22:55it triggers them to drop all their seeds.
22:58Who's paying for all this, by the way?
23:00Federal government.
23:01Stimulus money.
23:02Stimulus money.
23:03Right.
23:04Actually, that is what we're using right now.
23:06Well, let me get stimulated then.
23:08See, you got these little ones growing around it.
23:10You want to make sure you get it out
23:12all the way by the roots.
23:14There you go.
23:17This whole thing's moving, man.
23:18Yeah, it's all connected to each other.
23:20It's a peat base underneath here.
23:23It's very deep.
23:24I think it's about 14 feet,
23:26if I'm not mistaken.
23:27Bounce with me, man.
23:32I might be able to knock the tree over.
23:34The whole dang on thing.
23:35It just seems like you could pull the whole tree over.
23:37Yeah.
23:37When we have bad windstorms,
23:39a lot of these trees do fall over.
23:48Trapoline.
23:49Yeah.
23:50It's a lot of fun.
23:51Yeah.
23:51It's not a lot of fun.
23:54Coming up.
23:55Sacrifices need to be made.
23:57Oh, shit.
24:01And later, I got all fired up.
24:04You're going to let my candle most of the ignition?
24:05Oh, that's good.
24:17If you just joined us, we're killing Malalucas.
24:19This is Mike.
24:20He's holding some poison.
24:21Tell me again about the poison real quick.
24:23It's a mixture of 40% glyphosate,
24:2610% hermazapyr,
24:27and water.
24:29This is a machete.
24:30We're making circular rings around the trees,
24:33which are originally home in Australia, I believe.
24:36Australia, right.
24:37Brought here in the south of Florida
24:40to soak up the water in the Everglades.
24:42It was a dumb idea from the start,
24:43and now they're out of control,
24:45so we're killing them.
24:46You go crazy on this.
24:47Okay, Mike.
24:48I'll walk further into the bush here.
24:55All right.
25:01That's not even a maluca.
25:05Malaluca.
25:06That cold.
25:11See, here's the problem.
25:12I want to be able to swing my machete like a grown-up,
25:16but I got this guy.
25:17He's indigenous,
25:19so he's in my way.
25:21This is non-indigenous.
25:22That's what I want.
25:24But here,
25:24see what I'm dealing with?
25:26You can't...
25:28You can't get any action on it.
25:31So...
25:33Sacrifices need to be made.
25:36I'm just bending it.
25:46Whoa.
25:48I'm branching out.
25:53I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
25:55All right.
25:56How's that look over there, Doug?
25:57Look like I got it.
25:58I can't tell.
25:58I got a little spot right here.
26:00Right here?
26:00Yeah.
26:01Yeah, put your finger back there for me.
26:02Yeah, it's been a while
26:03since one of your fingers fell off.
26:05There you go.
26:06God, that's ugly.
26:07Ugh, embarrassing.
26:08I think if I could just cover it with blue poison,
26:10nobody will know.
26:16Just killing a tree.
26:18Shouldn't be but a second.
26:26Use too much chemical over here, Mike.
26:29Oh, is that right?
26:29Yeah.
26:30Chemicals just waste it there.
26:31Take it out of my pay, Mike.
26:32Would you?
26:33Yeah, I will.
26:34Thanks.
26:37You didn't cut through the cambion either.
26:39Oh, boy.
26:41Oh, I didn't cut through the cambion?
26:42What happened, Mike?
26:45Huh.
26:47Just one spot.
26:48The rest of it's okay.
26:49Yeah, but that one spot,
26:50the whole thing will grow back, right?
26:51Well, the whole side of the tree will grow back,
26:53and then eventually the whole tree, yep.
26:54Yeah, well,
26:55that's a spectacular failure on my part.
26:57I apologize.
26:58That's okay.
26:59It's my fault.
27:00I'm supposed to be the supervisor.
27:01I failed in my teachings.
27:04Well, that's big of you to admit.
27:05I was thinking the same thing.
27:06I just didn't want to say it.
27:14That's okay right there.
27:16Now, the truth is,
27:17we could do this all day.
27:18In fact, these guys do this all day,
27:19but we got big plans.
27:21We want to get to the next stage,
27:22which is burning whole groves of these things.
27:25But you can't burn
27:25until you go through
27:26some safety protocol.
27:28So we're going to go back,
27:29get safe,
27:30put on our flame retardant stuff,
27:31and then start throwing firebombs around.
27:34Jones.
27:36Slice of heaven, man.
27:38Oh, here we go.
27:41Same way that we came out, Mike.
27:42Shoot.
27:43You remember?
27:45Oh.
27:46I got it, Mike.
27:47Here.
27:47Yeah, thanks.
27:48You got it.
27:54Hey, Matt, machete.
28:09What did you think, Mike?
28:11Everything the brochure promised.
28:22We're just getting a like, Dan, too.
28:25Oh, there goes Ryan.
28:27Oh, there goes Dan.
28:30Think like.
28:33And just when you think it's over,
28:35one word,
28:37barsky.
28:43Is this not the credit roll at the end?
28:45No, this is pretty much the middle of the piece.
28:48Oh.
28:51Oh, man.
28:52This is what we call content.
28:54Try the other side.
28:56It looks,
28:57it's probably shallower over there.
29:00Nice move.
29:02Very rare to see that outside the Olympics.
29:05After Barsky gathered what was left of his dignity,
29:08we traveled what seemed like a few hundred more miles
29:11back to the shore.
29:20We said a fond farewell to mild-mannered Mike
29:22and a big hello to Jovial John,
29:25the man who likes to play with fire.
29:29I'm going to be your burn boss today.
29:31Rancher firing boss.
29:32You want a list?
29:33Basically,
29:34I should just do whatever anybody tells me to
29:36at any point.
29:36That'll work.
29:37All right.
29:40Smokes.
29:41Holy smoke.
29:42That's funny.
29:43I didn't even remember.
29:44The ignition plan.
29:44We're going to let Maya candle most of the ignition.
29:46Oh, that's good.
29:47Super safe.
29:50So we've got the Green Dragon device,
29:52which will shoot a ball about 400 feet,
29:54a flaming ping pong ball.
29:55And we've got a hand launcher
29:58that's kind of like a pump shotgun
29:59that'll shoot a flaming ping pong ball
30:01about 50 feet.
30:02And then we've actually got a pistol
30:04that'll shoot a flare a couple of hundred feet, too.
30:06So we'll let you play with all those today.
30:08Excellent.
30:08It'll be fun.
30:09Good.
30:14Covering 1.5 million acres,
30:16the Everglades were established
30:18as a national park in 1947.
30:20The area is home to more than 300 species of birds
30:23and over 1,000 species of plants.
30:25Of these plant species,
30:27over 20% are non-native or exotic invaders.
30:39I'm not sure what's more frightening,
30:40setting a field of sawgrass and melaleuca trees on fire
30:44or the firefighters who enjoy lighting the fires.
30:49But, hey, they're the professionals.
30:51They know what they're doing.
30:52And besides, we're surrounded by miles and miles of water.
30:56It's probably perfectly safe.
30:58I think.
30:59Well, here we are in the middle of,
31:01I'm going to go ahead and say nowhere.
31:03That's pretty much it, yeah.
31:04We've got the one, two, us, four, five, six, seven, eight boats.
31:09We've been in this river of grass now
31:12for at least a half hour.
31:14Yep.
31:15And if you've never ridden on an airboat before,
31:17it's pretty much just a wham!
31:19You know, only louder than that.
31:21Times eight.
31:21But we're here, and this is Jerry.
31:23Yes.
31:23And this is Miranda.
31:25And, uh, Jerry, you got the gun?
31:27It's on the other side.
31:28Oh, okay, it's over here.
31:29Miranda's got the gun.
31:30All right, can somebody explain to me,
31:32and since, Miranda, since you touched the last,
31:34how this works?
31:36It's ping-pong balls that have potassium permanganate,
31:39and they release, when you release the trigger,
31:42it injects it with the antifreeze.
31:44You're going to fire it out into the marsh,
31:45and in about 20 seconds, it sets off a flare,
31:48and it catches the grass on fire.
31:49Gotcha.
31:50The wind takes it the rest of the way.
31:51So all I have to do is pull the trigger?
31:53Nope.
31:55Turn it around.
31:55You don't want to point it at yourself.
31:56Oh, that's the business end?
31:57Yeah, that's the business end.
31:59Well, that's awkward.
32:00Yeah.
32:02Well, that's good.
32:04You pull it back, just like a shotgun,
32:06let it flip forward, trip the spring,
32:08and the ball injects and shoots out.
32:10Where's the trigger?
32:12Test burn.
32:13Oh, there it is.
32:14We're going to have to drop a lot of balls, Miranda.
32:16Can you handle all your balls?
32:18Well, I mean, how many balls would you say
32:19we're going to be handling?
32:204,000.
32:21You handled 1,000 balls before?
32:234,000.
32:244,000.
32:25You've handled 4,000 balls?
32:26In a day.
32:27No problem.
32:29Busy girl.
32:30Here you go.
32:32Don't hit anybody.
32:33Pull it back and there you go.
32:35Oh, see that?
32:37See, he's going to handle 4,000 balls in a day.
32:41That is called a green dragon.
32:43Oh, my goodness.
32:44And that's the other little toy we're going to use today.
32:46This shoots the balls about 400 feet,
32:49and then you can just sit here and squeeze the trigger
32:51every time you want to fall apart.
32:51This is almost too good to be true.
32:53This is really the job?
32:54And you get to get dirty.
32:56All right, then.
32:58We need to start moving.
32:59That seems to be working, yeah.
33:00We seem to be in a line of fire.
33:02No, and we might be stuck right here, so we, uh...
33:04Oh, that's definitely awesome.
33:08Wildfires, especially on windy days,
33:11can travel in excess of 20 miles an hour.
33:14Not a comforting thought
33:16when you're a sitting duck
33:17in the middle of grassland.
33:19We got too many people on the boat.
33:21Start throwing them off.
33:22We're coming.
33:23God.
33:24We're back to get out and look.
33:43Start moving.
33:47You make it exciting, John.
33:49Try it.
33:51Every day's an adventure.
33:52We start moving?
33:53Yep, we're about to start moving.
33:55And I just keep my finger on the trigger?
33:56Keep your finger on the trigger.
33:57Keep firing.
33:58So you'll be shooting balls long range.
34:00Jerry will be shooting them short range.
34:02Super.
34:02Yeah.
34:03And we'll set some fire.
34:04Looks like we already got it going.
34:06Mike, the balls are in your hands.
34:07Go.
34:08That works.
34:10All right, y'all ready?
34:20We'll fire these balls
34:22and create an entire line of fire
34:23that follows us up the fire line.
34:43This team of firefighters travels throughout central
34:46and southern Florida
34:47and burns about 80,000 acres of land every year.
34:54Believe it or not,
34:56these controlled burns are conservation efforts.
34:58They burn off the invasive species
35:00in order to preserve the natural habitat of swamps.
35:05Miranda, how did a nice girl like you wind up, you know?
35:10Fire?
35:11Yeah.
35:11My mama says the same thing every day.
35:13Tears her heart up.
35:15You know, fighting a fire on the water.
35:17Yeah.
35:18Green stuff burns,
35:19and it can burn with water standing.
35:20Isn't that cool?
35:21No one believes that.
35:23Oh, I'm believing it.
35:25The world of fighting fires,
35:27how unique is it?
35:29Very.
35:29Very.
35:30Very unique.
35:31You see it here,
35:32you see it at Everglades National Park,
35:34and that's about it.
35:35So if we do our job right,
35:36by the end of the day,
35:37we will have burned, what, 6,000 acres?
35:396,000 acres.
35:41See, you're doing a good job.
35:42Look behind me.
35:43You know, right now we're in grass,
35:45but there's young Melaleuca seedlings
35:47all out through here.
35:48And with this fire,
35:49we're taking those out.
35:50And we're also trying to get the seed
35:52that the Melaleuca dropped.
35:54Because those things can live,
35:55like, for years, right?
35:56Yep.
35:56Mm-hmm.
35:57So, you know,
35:58we'll cut down some of the dead Melaleuca
36:00today with the fire,
36:01but the main thing we're after
36:02is the young sprouts and the seed.
36:03If we can take that out,
36:05we won't have to have people out here
36:07walking around again in six months
36:08spraying more chemicals.
36:10That's a good goal,
36:11because I did that this morning.
36:12Yeah, that's an ugly job, isn't it?
36:14Now, listen,
36:15if you have your choice
36:16to stand in there with a machete
36:17whacking away all morning
36:18getting soaked or...
36:21Much better.
36:22That's what you want to be doing.
36:25Little did I know
36:26that all this time
36:26I'd actually been working
36:27with small artillery.
36:29Imagine my surprise
36:30when Miranda broke out.
36:32The black suitcase.
36:35Coming up,
36:36party games.
36:37You can play in the swamp.
36:40Come on, man.
36:42Let's see if we can get in fast.
36:44Oh, you're already open.
36:45Turn everything into a competition.
36:48Go!
36:49Go!
36:59Holy smokes,
36:59that looks like a real gun.
37:01Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
37:02And now I understand
37:03why John has that distinctive laugh.
37:05Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
37:08All right, yeah, yeah.
37:09Tell me more about this.
37:11These are sausages.
37:12They're flares.
37:13Uh-huh.
37:14And they're doing
37:14the same thing you've got.
37:16The difference is
37:16and why these are becoming
37:17so popular,
37:18this is $10 apiece.
37:20Uh-huh.
37:20Those are what?
37:2050 cents apiece?
37:2120 cents apiece.
37:22Yeah, a lot of those
37:23go in the water.
37:23These are 10 bucks?
37:24Uh-huh.
37:25So you want to put these
37:26right in the thick of...
37:27You want to make
37:28every shot count.
37:29Three quick launch
37:30or throw stubby.
37:32Barski, didn't I see
37:33this exact thing printed on your back of your pants? I saw a real quick
37:38launcher throw stubby. It's a pet name for sausage lovers around the
37:45world.
37:49Nice. Perfect. That's what we were talking about. They light off a little faster than
37:55these balls do which is one of the advantages to them. You really should
38:00write the training manual, I swear. Yeah. Look at what we did. How many more of the
38:05sausages you got? Oh, full bag. Oh really? You wanna go? Yeah, let's have ourselves a cookout.
38:47Damn, what about a fire in the hole? Fire!
38:52Fire, girls. Just get down in front for a little while and uh... Where she is? Yeah. All right. Maybe
38:58you and I, we'd never do anything together. Throw her home. Throw her home.
39:00Throw her off the boat. You know? It's been a shame. All right. Well, we'll just sit here with the
39:03explosives. Teamwork!
39:07This is your pressure here. We've set it at about 60 right now. Yeah. Well, it was at this point
39:11that Jerry, right there on the left of your screen, came down to check things out, holding the sausage gun
39:17and evidently an itchy trigger finger. Because suddenly...
39:22Oh! What the hell was that? Good hit. Ow! Oh, that is gonna go off. It's gonna go on fire.
39:27The poop has hit the fan. Don't worry, it's only in a bag of dynamite. Sorry about that. Totally in
39:32the bag of balls.
39:33Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Sausage power is not to be trifled with.
39:40Yeah, the smoke's on the horizon, which means there's fire on the horizon. We've stopped here to take a break.
39:46Uh, Jones has wrapped their microphones in rubber gloves. Why is that, John?
39:52Well, we're fixing to get wet.
39:53And tell me why we're gonna get wet on purpose?
39:55Well, uh, part of our, uh, standard basic firefighter training is learning how to get in fire shelters.
40:01So, uh, Miranda's volunteered to show us how to get into a fire shelter in the water.
40:06Can you swim?
40:07Do a little shake like that.
40:11You always want your feet to be oncoming fire.
40:14That way, uh, theoretically, the heat gets your feet and not your head.
40:19Come on, if it's so close to burn your feet, isn't it gonna go right over you?
40:21Our purpose is to, uh, trap breathable air so that a firefighter can survive being overrun by fire.
40:28It's a baked potato.
40:29Step inside.
40:30Yeah.
40:32Wrap yourself up in it.
40:34And then, the coup d'etat.
40:38Ooh!
40:39Come on, man!
40:42Ready?
40:45Let's see if we can get in fast.
40:47Well, come on.
40:47You gotta turn everything into a competition.
40:51I thought you said you're supposed to lie there, John, until your instructor's come out.
40:55I'm the one that's going to instruct you to come out.
40:57So, I had to get out.
40:59No, seriously, this fire was coming.
41:01Now, would my feet want to be...
41:02Put your feet down there.
41:04Step in.
41:05Step in.
41:06Like this.
41:08Hold your corners down.
41:09Hold on a second.
41:10Hands out.
41:12Perfect.
41:13Now, pull this one up over your head.
41:15On three.
41:16One.
41:17Wait a second.
41:18Wait a minute.
41:20You gotta hold your breath because we're going into water.
41:22One.
41:22Two.
41:23No, wait a minute.
41:24Don't go now.
41:24I like to count the other way.
41:26Let's go three, two, one.
41:28Ah.
41:28Go!
41:30Oh!
41:31Oh!
41:33Oh!
41:34Parasites.
41:35Crap, this...
41:36You know what?
41:36It would be terrifying, I have to admit.
41:39I have to admit.
41:40I don't think they ever tested it.
41:43Oh!
41:44Yeah, it's an alligator-infested swamp.
41:46There's fire coming.
41:47What an irony that would be, to get eaten alive in your fire shelter.
41:50Come on, alligator.
41:51All right, brother.
41:52High five.
41:52You did it.
41:53Actually, this was really instructive.
41:55I mean, really.
41:56We learned so much.
41:57You know?
41:58I don't know what exactly.
41:59We would have good guns, knives, fire.
42:03Chemical burns.
42:05It was fun.
42:06It was good fun.
42:08You're not like the other girls.
42:10Thanks for playing.
42:11Yeah, yeah.
42:12It was great fun.
42:14Hey, now, now, wait a minute.
42:16We have to fold these back up and put them in the packages?
42:18Because that would suck.
42:20That's the worst part.
42:28I have some bad news.
42:31We've been asking for our dirty jobs ideas for a long time.
42:36You know we have.
42:37And we got them for a while, but now we're not getting them anymore.
42:41We went to discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:44I didn't see anything.
42:46I'm worried sick.
42:47If you could just go there and suggest an idea for our next dirty jobs.
42:55It's discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
43:00That'd be great.
43:09Ralph has some nice to meet you.
43:11You have the demeanor of a man in charge.
43:13Do I really?
43:13You have the man in charge.
43:16But you got more lines here than the other guys.
43:18So I figured.
43:21Oh!
43:21I caught it.
43:22You dropped my camera, man.
43:23I did not drop your camera.
43:25Just the part on the top that films your mark.
43:29I didn't drop the camera.
43:30The camera didn't hit the ground.
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