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00:01My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:06I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10I'm ready to press a button and watch all this thing start spitting and vomiting up the rubbish.
00:14I know you were good for something.
00:15Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:18I understand now why you travel with this.
00:20Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:24You look like a barber. Don't jab behind me.
00:26We gotta recover from that.
00:28Now get ready!
00:30To get dirty.
00:33Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:35Oh, crap!
00:36We go inside a water treatment plant.
00:38Oh, that's super comfortable.
00:39And you won't believe what's in your water.
00:42Hard water.
00:43Not good.
00:45And the equipment is just as dirty.
00:47Are we looking for clean or just cleaner?
00:50Cleaner!
00:50Are you mad enough? You have what it takes.
00:53We'll also launder some cold, hard cash.
00:56Clean money?
00:57As clean as it gets, huh?
00:58These dirty jobs are money in the bank.
01:01Begin.
01:02It's ten dollars.
01:03That's right.
01:04Ten.
01:05Ten clean dollars.
01:09Oh, God.
01:24You know, on my days off, I often fly out to Moorhead, Minnesota, on the spur of the moment.
01:30And hang out there with the folks at the public service department.
01:34While there, I especially enjoy visiting the water softening building.
01:39Boy, oh, boy, do I appreciate Moorhead.
01:44And really, who can blame me?
01:46Every time I come to this town, I'm overwhelmed by the friendliness of the people and their amazing drinking water.
01:53But don't take my word for it.
01:54Check out the plaques.
01:55You can see for yourself.
01:56Best in glass.
01:58Two years running.
02:02Very impressive indeed.
02:03It's not often you see trophies in a bathroom, but these guys are proud of their water.
02:09I can't blame them.
02:10I can't tell you what they do to the water to make it taste so daggone good.
02:13But I can only suggest to you that if you're having a difficult time swallowing the stuff in your glass,
02:20maybe you need Moorhead.
02:23Inside this building, behind this door, some say, lies the secret to Moorhead's award-winning water.
02:31Two 340,000-gallon water softeners.
02:35This one's operating right now.
02:37But the one on the right has been empty so that Moorhead's operations crew can perform some annual maintenance.
02:45So this is Jeff Wettstein.
02:47He's been here at the Moorhead water treatment plant.
02:50That's correct.
02:50For how long?
02:51Going on 36 years.
02:5336 years.
02:53And how much longer are you going to be here?
02:55Friday.
02:57So the newest guy in the plant is now standing next to the most experienced guy.
03:01And I want to stress, this is a water treatment plant, not a wastewater treatment plant.
03:05That's correct.
03:06That is correct.
03:07This is a big day for me.
03:09Jeff tells me Moorhead gets their drinking water from both the Red River and local wells that pump water out
03:14of the aquifer.
03:16Typically, the well water is probably about around 300 hardness.
03:20And the wells, or I mean the river, varies from 100 to 300, 400.
03:26And when we treat it, we'll bring it all the way down to about 90.
03:30And if you divide that 90 by 7, most people will grab the hardness.
03:34See, right there, just like that.
03:35It started off so well, but now I'm halfway through a mathematical equation, 390 and dividing.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Maybe I'll just hold my questions, learn as I go.
03:46That's the best way.
03:46If I leave here by the end of the day, just with an understanding of why hard water is hard
03:51and why soft water is soft and why people come to Moorhead for the best tasting water in Minnesota, I
03:55will feel as though I've completed some sort of symmetrical dance and I'll be okay with that.
04:00Sounds good.
04:02I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that for this whole process to move forward, that ladder needs
04:09to be over here.
04:10That is correct.
04:11Let's make that happen now.
04:12Okay.
04:13Let's do it.
04:14What is that stuff down there?
04:17That's what we call sludge.
04:19It's a lot of sand, mud, some of the chemicals that are left over from what we treated, you know,
04:25that are left over byproducts.
04:26Right.
04:26Basically, it's a sludge.
04:29But it's not the sludge in a wastewater treatment.
04:31No.
04:32No, not at all.
04:32Okay.
04:33It doesn't have its own name?
04:34It doesn't have, it's not a special type of sludge?
04:36No, not really.
04:37All right.
04:38Now, they're going to throw this rope at us.
04:39Do you want to catch it?
04:40I'd be thrilled to catch that rope.
04:42Why not push the ladder over?
04:44Well, it might not fall.
04:45It might.
04:47All right.
04:48Ready?
04:49Put it over the top.
04:52That's...
04:52There you go.
04:54Nice catch.
04:54That works.
04:56That's good.
04:56That's good.
04:58Now, we'll secure it so it doesn't slide either way.
05:04That's not even a square knot.
05:05Here, let me at least do something right.
05:08There you go.
05:09There you go.
05:10That's not it either, but that's close enough.
05:11Now, we'll proceed down the hole.
05:14Proceed down the hole.
05:15And you're the guys coming with?
05:17Yes, I'm Jason.
05:18You're Jason?
05:19Daryl.
05:19Jason and Daryl.
05:21J and D.
05:22All right, so we're going to be doing the actual work down there.
05:25Yep, we're going to be doing a little bit of maintenance, tearing apart the rake, and we've got a shaft
05:31that is a little egg-shaped.
05:33You've got an egg-shaped shaft?
05:35Egg-shaped shaft.
05:36That's too bad.
05:39So, now we go in?
05:40Yes.
05:41All right.
05:42Now, don't knock the cable from your head.
05:45Don't mock the cable?
05:46No, don't knock it.
05:47Oh, no.
05:48You can mock it.
05:49You get the cable.
05:50I'm a man.
05:51It's a good way to lose your balance and fall off.
05:54Right.
05:56Jeff says I'm descending into what they call the softening basin.
06:00You ever fall off in 36 years?
06:02Not me.
06:04Never once.
06:05Never once.
06:07Don't break your streak now.
06:09When the operation is running, they fill this basin with hard water, then add softening chemicals to it through that
06:15massive metal structure in the middle.
06:18Why all this leads to mud on the floor, I don't know.
06:21Oh, thanks.
06:22It's nice to have you back on the ground.
06:24Yeah, nice to be back.
06:26What are we standing in right now?
06:27This here is a mixture of calcium carbonate.
06:33It's when we add chemicals to the water, it precipitates out.
06:39Precipitates out?
06:40Precipitates out, so falls out.
06:42And it settles out as a blanket.
06:45Why didn't you just say falls out?
06:47Is it going to be one of those fancy days because we're on TV?
06:51And that's when the chemicals precipitate out.
06:56Jason says hard water has a high concentration of minerals, like calcium and magnesium.
07:01It's not harmful to your health, but it does make soap less sudsy.
07:06It clogs up plumbing.
07:07And again, this is this, probably hardened.
07:10Just hardened, yes.
07:12Softened water is water with some of these minerals removed.
07:15You can make hard water soft by adding lime and soda ash.
07:18These softening chemicals bind to the hard water minerals and fall to the bottom of the
07:23softening basin, the sludge.
07:25A muddy combination of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide.
07:31Then, this contraption, called a rake, slowly moves across the floor, pushing the sludge down
07:37the drain.
07:39Hard water.
07:40Not good.
07:42So what we'll let you do is just go wild on it and clean it up.
07:46Just this whole apparatus here?
07:48Yep.
07:49There's two of these rakes down here in the basin, and they both need some preventative
07:53maintenance.
07:54On this one, we're removing the 500-pound counterweight and a scraper arm.
07:59Hosing down the whole thing just makes it easier for us to work on the equipment, and it's fun.
08:04Are we looking for clean or just cleaner?
08:06Cleaner.
08:09We're getting pretty good there.
08:11And mostly we just want to expose the bolts?
08:14Yep.
08:15Exposed so we get a good look at everything that we are going to do some maintenance on.
08:20They empty out the softening basin once a year through maintenance.
08:24What do you think?
08:25That's good.
08:26Shut her on.
08:29Mike, we're going to have you start placing these 4x4s, and I'm going to pull that weight
08:34up so we can lift that weight up and take the tension off of that scraper arm.
08:39So we're kind of making a little platform for this heavy weight to sit on.
08:42So stick your 4x4 through here.
08:45Wait a minute.
08:45Maybe I'm just not seeing how those are going to be even.
08:49This gets a little tricky.
08:51Well, it's not really as scientific as I anticipated.
08:54The metal attachment coming out of the weight has been worn down over the years.
08:58It's got to be replaced.
09:02600 pounds of twirling death.
09:06All right.
09:07Now we're safe.
09:08Now we take the swing arm off of the rake.
09:10Okay.
09:12There we go.
09:12There we go.
09:13And send it up for maintenance.
09:15Then we go to the other side of the softening basin.
09:19All right.
09:19So we'll meet you over here.
09:21Here, there's an identical rake that also needs work.
09:24With this one, all we have to do is just take the wheel off.
09:27And detaching the wheel is as simple as removing a tiny pin.
09:31We should be done by lunch.
09:39We're not moving anything.
09:41As I can see, there's a little bit better way of doing that.
09:43Let's stick this one out.
09:46Pull the pin out.
09:49Look at that.
09:52That's frustrating.
09:53It is.
09:54This pin really needs to come out.
09:56We'll get it out.
09:57We'll get it out.
09:58Let me know because I'm not quite done with you just yet.
10:06Beautiful.
10:06Coming up.
10:07They're just going to turn the motor on, so we just have to step back.
10:10We do our darndest to put you to sleep.
10:12It's moving now.
10:14You're kidding me.
10:15This is as fast as it goes?
10:17And later.
10:18Now this is a whole new kind of filth.
10:21How dirty is your money?
10:22This is the filth that comes off of money.
10:26You'll be shocked to know what's jingling in your pockets.
10:28Clearly there's poo in here.
10:30Yeah.
10:30Human poo.
10:37So we're doing some maintenance on a water softening tank and its various moving parts.
10:42So as you can see, this wheel really wobbles where the other one did not.
10:47Years of muck and corrosion have taken their toll on the scraper arm, and it's time to give it a
10:53little TLC.
10:54Tap.
10:55This one's a little bit tougher.
10:57You can actually use the hammer to straighten this out.
10:58A little bit tougher than that last one?
11:00That last one stands right now as a monument of abject failure.
11:04Straighten it kind of like a nail.
11:07Look at that.
11:15It's all worn out in the middle.
11:17We've got to be replaced.
11:18So we got the wheel off.
11:20Now all we've got to do is pull the pins.
11:22Tell me when you have your...
11:23Damn it.
11:26That's all we want to do.
11:27We just want that right there out of the...
11:30Side cutters.
11:30Just the side cutters.
11:32Side cutters.
11:32That's what we need.
11:33Something to cut this thing on the side.
11:35Side cutters.
11:36That's what we need.
11:38Watch out.
11:44I have them.
11:45Because of a chemical reaction, over time, these pins become encrusted in calcium carbonate.
11:50I might as well have mittens on, I swear.
11:53It's like one of those carnival games that nobody wins.
11:57Step right up.
11:57Cut the cutter pin.
11:59Are you man enough?
12:00You have what it takes.
12:02It's just inconceivable.
12:05It's winning, Mike.
12:06It is winning.
12:07It's not even close.
12:09Calcium carbonate is the main component in things like pearls and the shells of marine
12:13organisms and certain types of rocks.
12:18In other words, it's really freaking hard.
12:26Is this really important?
12:29We'll be out of here by lunch.
12:31I mean, you got to keep a positive attitude, you know.
12:36Is this what you guys had in mind when you invited us here?
12:39Something like that.
12:43I wonder if doctors have days like this.
12:45I'm sure they do.
12:46They're wrestling over, you know, an unconscious body just trying to get their hands on the gallbladder or whatever it
12:50is.
12:54Oh, that looked promising, but no.
12:57Nothing.
12:57It did almost look promising.
12:58It did.
12:59It really looked like there was noise, movement.
13:03There it is.
13:05Very nice.
13:06That's good.
13:07We got it.
13:07That's good.
13:08Just like that.
13:09And now, we're going to walk away from this.
13:11We're going to walk away from this.
13:12Back to where we just were.
13:13Yep.
13:14To do something.
13:16We'll have to move this sweep a little bit.
13:17Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for.
13:20To see the powerful sweep do its thing close up.
13:24So, what we're going to do here is we're going to rotate it about 60 degrees.
13:29That sounds great.
13:30Do we push it or do you hit a button?
13:31No, they're just going to turn the motor on, so we just have to step back.
13:35Everybody in a safe spot here?
13:36Yep, because it's all going to go that way.
13:38All right.
13:39Go ahead and tell them to do it.
13:40Go ahead, Al.
13:41Three, two, one.
13:45It's moving now?
13:46Yep.
13:46It's moving now.
13:47You're kidding me.
13:53This is as fast as it goes?
13:55Well, no, you can turn the motor up even faster.
13:58Even faster than this?
13:59Yes, even faster than this.
14:01You can walk faster than this rig.
14:03Yeah.
14:05I can sleep faster than this.
14:09If the rig moves too fast, all the sludge will just pour over the top of the leading edge
14:14and won't get pushed into the drain hole, defeating the whole purpose of this machine.
14:32So, it's going to move all the way over there?
14:34Yep.
14:37Well, in a rough estimate, how long do you think it would take this to get over there
14:42at this speed?
14:43I mean, should we come back next week?
14:46I think he's turning it up now, so he's speeding it up.
14:52We're just going to wait a few minutes until this rake gets 60 degrees over in that direction.
15:00Shouldn't be but a minute.
15:05You want to race it?
15:07You want to race it?
15:15You're going in underneath.
15:17Underneath this?
15:17Yep.
15:18Inside.
15:19All right.
15:20Okay.
15:21So, you with us?
15:22When we come back, we're going in there.
15:24Got it.
15:25Coming up, we go inside the hatch.
15:28Oh, crap.
15:29And with friends like these, we need Zanimus.
15:35And later.
15:36It's Doug Glover's birthday.
15:37Oh.
15:38Shh.
15:38It's a surprise party for our director of photography.
15:40Is that it?
15:41Here we go.
15:41No, we're going to give him a clean one.
15:43We're going to give him dirty money.
15:44We typically don't pay him at all.
15:45Yeah.
15:54That big thing right smack in the center of the softening base and is called the hood.
15:59It is essentially a giant mixer.
16:02That's where the softening chemicals get added to the hard water.
16:06I'm going to crawl inside to do a little spring cleaning with Al and Nate.
16:11All right.
16:11So, that's the hatch.
16:12Or is it a manway?
16:13I hear them called both things.
16:15I call it a hatch.
16:16It's a hatch.
16:17It's a hatch.
16:17Okay.
16:18Al, what exactly will be happening?
16:20Once we get the hatch off, we're going to bring in a pressure washer.
16:25And Nate's going to guide you through some of the critical spots we need to clean.
16:30We're going to get dirty.
16:33Oh, crack.
16:35That's a good one.
16:37That's super comfortable.
16:39Right there.
16:43I got it.
16:47What the heck are we looking at?
16:48This is where all the chemicals end up mixing up.
16:51The water actually comes in through that pipe underneath that table there.
16:55Straight from the river?
16:56River and well water, yes.
16:59Chemicals come in through the pipes up in the ceiling.
17:02Right.
17:02Get mixed up in here.
17:04And then, as you can see, scales everything up.
17:09So, the job, then, is just to get all of this stuff, which is the calcium and the...
17:15Lime.
17:15Yep.
17:16Lime sludge.
17:18Magnesium, maybe?
17:19Yep.
17:20Mock.
17:21Any place you see it, we clean it all up.
17:24Is this about the right distance?
17:26Yeah, that should be good.
17:28And right up?
17:29Everywhere.
17:29Everywhere.
17:34That'll come in handy as a brace.
17:36Good.
17:41About 800 million gallons of hard water flow into this chamber every year and get mixed
17:47with softening chemicals.
17:49So, is that the right idea?
17:50That is the perfect idea.
17:52Okay, great.
18:04How's it going?
18:05Good.
18:18Oh, that's much better.
18:32Dirty enough for you?
18:36So, these are the things through which the chemicals fall.
18:38The mixing action of the water coming up and hitting the table comes up right from where
18:45you're standing, and then the motion stirs and mixes everything up.
18:49So, this is like the very middle of the mixing bowl, right?
18:52The stuff comes up underneath.
18:54Well, these are our veins, and these spin.
18:57Oh, what does it say to clean it up?
18:58Okay.
19:07Even though it's a harsh environment inside of the mixer, Al and Nate are pretty much okay
19:11with it.
19:12I'm pretty much okay with it.
19:13But the cameras, they are not okay with it.
19:17Especially Troy's.
19:28Are you still able to see anything through your lens, Marlene?
19:31Because I have a feeling.
19:32Troy, can you see anything at all?
19:33I can barely see it all.
19:35Our cameras are essentially useless, so I think we've proved our point.
19:38To get the best tasting water in Moorhead, a couple of otherwise reasonably sane guys
19:46have to crawl to the center of the middle?
19:48Yep.
19:48Middle of the softening base.
19:51Got the idea?
19:52You got the idea?
19:54Troy, I would prefer to end the show with you standing here, looking somewhat woefully over
20:00there.
20:01I know you get the idea.
20:12Every now and then I'll get a letter from somebody who says, hey Mike, I still like
20:17the show, but it seems like you're just not getting as dirty as you used to.
20:21Got one the other day from a guy named Frank who said that very thing.
20:25So my message to you, Frank, is that don't take this the wrong way.
20:34And so, surprise, surprise, as it turns out, turning river water into drinking water is
20:40a little more complicated than I thought.
20:42But I think it's safe to say that if you want to enjoy the cleanest, best tasting drinking
20:49water in Minnesota, you got to be willing to get a little dirty.
20:51So, let's hear it from Moorhead.
20:56What do you say, Troy?
20:58A little Moorhead for you?
21:00Enjoy it.
21:01You burned it.
21:05Coming up, big surprise.
21:07In the heart of San Francisco, we find dirty money.
21:10Can you just admit that St. Francis was laundering money in 1938?
21:15Washing, cleaning.
21:16No, we were not laundering.
21:19And later.
21:20Whoa, don't be losing it.
21:22Josie will know.
21:22I bring a new meaning to the term, loose change.
21:25We have to account for every quarter.
21:27Oh, crap.
21:28This one's dirty now.
21:37In the heart of San Francisco, lies the exquisite St. Francis Hotel.
21:43For over 100 years, this hotel has been known for its unique, one-of-a-kind guest services.
21:51Back in the 1930s, a guy named Walter used to wash the money at the St. Francis Hotel here
21:56in San Francisco.
21:56After that, a guy named Arnold started washing the money.
21:59And then a few years after that, a guy named Robert started washing the money.
22:03Today, a girl named Lori washes the money at the St. Francis Hotel.
22:07To my knowledge, they're the only hotel in San Francisco who washes their money.
22:11I don't know why they do it.
22:13I don't even know if it's a dirty job, but I'm going to find out.
22:16I have many questions.
22:18In an orange jumpsuit.
22:23I'm jaywalking.
22:27Hi, Raquel.
22:28Good morning.
22:30Hey, Gary.
22:30How are you?
22:31Good to see you.
22:31Ernesto, nice to see you.
22:33Hello, Mary.
22:33Linda, good to see you again.
22:35Hi, Cole.
22:36Asusena, it's wonderful to see you.
22:37Hi, Kendall.
22:38It's been a while.
22:39Kim, good to see you.
22:40I get around.
22:44Lori.
22:45Yes.
22:45Nice to see you.
22:46Nice to see you.
22:46How's everything?
22:48Everything's great.
22:48Is it really?
22:49I'm going to clean some money.
22:49Thank you, first of all, for the jumpsuit.
22:52I had your name put on it.
22:53Yeah.
22:54I see you also had my name put on yours.
22:56Just in case.
22:57Show them.
22:58No, no.
22:58Take your name off.
22:59Today we're all Michael.
23:00Yes, we are all Michael.
23:02All the time.
23:03This is the official cashier at the hotel.
23:07Right.
23:08All right.
23:08Hi, Josie.
23:09Hello.
23:09How's it going?
23:10Good.
23:10It's good to see you.
23:12So what exactly happens here, and why is the cashier so far down the hallway and out of
23:18sight?
23:19Well, we want to keep her protected.
23:20We don't want anyone to come in and, you know.
23:22Help themselves to money.
23:23Right.
23:24Help themselves to money, and Josie stays behind a locked door here, so.
23:27You feel protected?
23:29Very.
23:29Yeah?
23:30I like your pendant.
23:31Is that an owl?
23:32Yes.
23:32Are those diamonds?
23:34Yes.
23:34Lots of diamonds.
23:35Wow.
23:37You know, I keep an eye on the cash back there.
23:39I don't know where she had an owl diamond from.
23:40Look, she's got diamonds all over there.
23:42She's doing all right.
23:43It's good to be the cashier.
23:45Okay, so you pick up money here.
23:48We've got to get some dirty coins.
23:50Why are you washing your coins?
23:51Because they're dirty.
23:52We want our guests to have clean money.
23:55There it is.
23:55Now we're just here to get the money from Josie.
23:57Give us the quarters first.
24:00Oh, you have a case.
24:02I'm teaching you how to coin wash.
24:03That's the idea.
24:04That's right.
24:04I'm your apprentice today.
24:05That's right.
24:06I'm cheap labor.
24:08St. Francis operates the only coin washing service for its guests in the world.
24:13Now, are these new coins?
24:14These are old, dirty coins.
24:15Old, dirty coins.
24:16Although they wash only coins, they do wash every denomination of coin.
24:21Today, it's quarters.
24:22This is $220.
24:23$230.
24:24$230?
24:26So, recount.
24:26You've got to make sure you get it right.
24:27Will you recount?
24:28The cashier's going to make sure you have the proper amount.
24:30One, two.
24:31Over the course of a year, the hotel will wash over $74,000, which amounts to 612,000 coins.
24:39$20,000, $21,000, $22,000, $23,000.
24:42You were right.
24:43Yeah.
24:43We have to sign for that money, so we have to be really careful if it's the right amount.
24:46I would think so.
24:48Thanks, Jesse.
24:49I'll be back with clean money.
24:50Yes, sir.
24:51All right, so are we going this way?
24:52We're going up.
24:53We're going into the coin room.
24:53This will be...
24:57Just keep going, guys.
24:58You're doing good.
25:08It's going to be one of those segments, just so you know.
25:11Well, good. It's awesome.
25:11Good.
25:12You're all sweaty already.
25:13I am sweaty.
25:14Let's go for it.
25:14All right, okay, so now we've got to unroll that money.
25:16All right, we'll unroll the money.
25:17Okay, let's grab this chair.
25:18I'll take a chair.
25:19Let's sit down right here.
25:19Get out of my way, you guys.
25:21Uh-huh.
25:21Okay.
25:22My crew is in the way.
25:23Yeah.
25:24All right, so now we're going to unroll the money.
25:27Okay, where's your box of money?
25:28My box of monies.
25:29All right.
25:30Okay, so, hold on.
25:32Mm-hmm.
25:32We're in a closet, basically.
25:34Right, we are.
25:34All right, so you guys...
25:35A big closet.
25:36Is this where the money has been washed for these many decades?
25:40Yes, this has been the room.
25:42Washing room.
25:42Mm-hmm.
25:43Who is that?
25:45Arnold.
25:45Arnold Batliner.
25:47He was the second coin washer here.
25:49Right, because it was Walter that was first in 1930-something?
25:5238.
25:53Mm-hmm.
25:5338.
25:53And why did Walter or the hotel decide back then to begin washing the points?
25:58The jam at that time, Donald London, wanted to do a wow factor for the guests.
26:04And at that time, the women all wore white gloves.
26:07Mm-hmm.
26:07And he noticed that they were laundering their white gloves, being in downtown Union Square.
26:12They'd go out shopping and have their dirty coins.
26:14Mm-hmm.
26:14So he decided to launder the money so that their gloves wouldn't get so soiled.
26:22Did you just admit that St. Francis was laundering money in 1938?
26:26Washing, cleaning.
26:27No, we were not laundering.
26:31My gross, serious journalist getting to the heart of the story that really.
26:36You're taking and you're dissecting my conversation.
26:39So.
26:40I was just repeating it.
26:41Yeah.
26:41I heard you.
26:41In 1938, we were laundering money.
26:43We were washing it.
26:44Yeah.
26:44We were washing it.
26:45I'm just saying.
26:46I didn't, you know.
26:48I barely had to ask.
26:49Right.
26:50She's just...
26:51I'm cutting loose with all my information.
26:53I'm waiting to confess.
26:54All right.
26:55Okay.
26:55So we have a pail full of money.
26:56Mm-hmm.
26:57Mm-hmm.
26:58Now what?
26:59Ready?
26:59I'm ready.
27:00Okay.
27:01So what we're going to do is we're going to pour it in here with these BBs.
27:04To pour your dream money.
27:05Just regular old BBs?
27:06Just buckshot BBs, right?
27:08Now the BBs polish it and the soap cleans it, so.
27:11These BBs clean the coins by bouncing off of them and knocking off the zinc oxide, which
27:17causes the tarnish.
27:18Now was this thing created specifically for its intended purpose?
27:20This was a silver polisher back in the 30s when everything was made of silver.
27:28Mm-hmm.
27:28So we would polish silverware and that kind of stuff in this originally.
27:33Pour our dirty money in there.
27:35How many BBs would you say right here?
27:39Thousands.
27:40I'm just messing with it.
27:41I believe I can make Doug cry today.
27:43Really?
27:43It's Doug Lover's birthday.
27:45Oh.
27:45Okay.
27:46My birthday's on Saturday.
27:47Is that right?
27:47You guys should get to know.
27:48This is Doug's birthday.
27:49This Saturday?
27:50This Saturday.
27:50The 19th?
27:51Yeah, man.
27:51Oh, my God.
27:52Here we go.
27:52No, we're going to give him a clean one.
27:54Give him dirty money.
27:56Shucks.
27:57What are you thinking?
27:57We typically don't pay him at all on this gig, so, you know, play your cards, right?
28:02That's so bizarre.
28:03That's your birthday, too.
28:04A shiny quarter.
28:05No, it's filthy.
28:07That's not a clean quarter.
28:08Okay, dump him in there.
28:09All right, so he's all going.
28:15This is the original cleaner.
28:17The original, like, here since 1930?
28:19Yeah.
28:20Really?
28:20Yeah, yeah, seriously.
28:21God, this stuff is amazing.
28:22You can never, you never run out of it.
28:23No, you never do.
28:24It's good stuff.
28:26Cover your coins on the top, just on the top there.
28:29This is Doug's birthday present, so let's get all the poo off him.
28:33All right.
28:34Is there poo on money, you think?
28:35There could be.
28:36There is.
28:37It's potential.
28:38That's why we're going to clean it.
28:39All right, so now we're going to add some water.
28:41We're going to cover that.
28:42Something in here makes me want to sneeze.
28:44Heads up, John.
28:45Heads up, John.
28:46Uh-oh.
28:47Bless you.
28:48Oh, my goodness.
28:49Now we really have to clean that money.
28:53Bless you.
28:54Oh, my goodness.
28:54It's, it's, it's...
28:56Yeah, it's the borax.
28:57We're going to seal it up.
28:58Oh, yeah, this is, um...
29:00This goes like this.
29:01Oh, well.
29:02Can borax kill you?
29:03I don't know.
29:04I'll let you know.
29:05I hope not, being this is my job these days.
29:08Yeah, well, it's, it's like every couple of years you guys cycle, cycle in a new one,
29:12so.
29:12Yeah.
29:13Heads up.
29:13That guy right there, he was actually 28 in that picture.
29:17Borax took him.
29:18Let's get this money rolling, because it takes a couple hours.
29:21Push it down over the top of this.
29:22Lock these down.
29:23So take this, all right?
29:25Yeah, I got mine.
29:27Is yours locked?
29:28Mine's locked.
29:28Oh.
29:28Push it off the down.
29:29Okay, now you're locked in.
29:31Okay, so close your lid.
29:33Silver washer.
29:34Okay, so now push the start button.
29:37That's the start.
29:38There you go.
29:40We wait a couple hours.
29:41We wait a couple hours.
29:41That's cool.
29:45In 1792, the first U.S. Mint was built in Philadelphia.
29:48Today, the U.S. Mint maintains facilities in Philadelphia, Denver, West Point, San Francisco,
29:53and Fort Knox, and produces more than 80 million coins a day.
30:01All right, then.
30:03Just as we left it, although it appears to be oozing.
30:08Why is it oozing?
30:09It's removing the dirt and bacteria that is built up on those 50 coins.
30:14And as we've learned, I think like 12% poop.
30:17Yeah.
30:17Something like that.
30:18Yeah, so we really want to get rid of that.
30:20So hit the stop button.
30:22Okay, that's the start.
30:25Hit the right button, Mike.
30:27All right, so now we're going to check out our coins.
30:33This is what you have.
30:34That's just the bubbling borax.
30:37Mm-hmm.
30:38We're going to get rid of some of that foam.
30:40Like a latte.
30:41Mm-hmm.
30:41Beautiful.
30:42You did a good job.
30:43Yeah, I hit the start button and walked away for two hours.
30:45I was brilliant.
30:46And then look at how beautiful these are.
30:47Holy crap.
30:48I've never seen quarters that clean.
30:51So now our job is to separate them from all those BBs.
30:55Okay?
30:56So what we want to do is take a scoop, and we're going to rinse it.
30:59Oh, I can do that.
31:00Yeah, and then you're going to take it and put it in here to rinse some better.
31:05Now this is a whole new kind of filth.
31:08This is the filth that comes off of money.
31:11Yeah, oh yeah, right there.
31:13Yeah, that's good.
31:14That, I mean, I dare say that, well, clearly there's poo in here.
31:20Yeah.
31:20Human poo.
31:21The question is, how many different countries?
31:24Well, I wasn't even going to go there.
31:25I was going to go with people, but you've made it a whole global disgusting issue.
31:29This is an international hotel, okay?
31:31You know, this is an international show.
31:33We could have poo on my finger right here from Moscow.
31:36Easily.
31:36We could have poo from Dar Salaam, from Dublin, from Dresden, from Down Under.
31:43We really could.
31:44Serious poo.
31:47Every week, the hotel removes over two gallons of this poo-laden gunk.
31:52Shake them.
31:53Get all your water out so you don't make a mess on the floor.
31:56All right, then we take the, okay, got the clean money?
32:02It's as clean as it gets.
32:03Okay, that's good.
32:03Take it over here.
32:04You're going to dump it in this meat roaster to remove the rest of the BBs, okay?
32:12See how some are still remaining in there?
32:13Yeah, always a couple hangers.
32:15Yeah, all right, now take this pan and just kind of shake it.
32:17Okay.
32:23Nice.
32:25Oh, don't be losing it.
32:26Josie will know.
32:27I'm sorry.
32:28Remember, we have to count this many.
32:29No, I totally do.
32:30We have to be responsible for it.
32:31No.
32:32Yeah.
32:34Oh, crap.
32:37This one's dirty now.
32:39Throw it back in.
32:41Yeah, we need to wash that.
32:43Another two hours?
32:44No.
32:45Yeah.
32:46All right.
32:56That's enough.
32:57Okay.
32:58Now we're going to dry those coins under these heat lamps.
33:01Pour them all out there.
33:07Okay, so while that's drying, you can go over and scoop some more.
33:10Look how much dirt just comes off those coins.
33:13I have a dirty job.
33:20Down here, we have quarters that have fallen through, and we need to get them.
33:24So we have to account for every quarter.
33:26All right.
33:31I mean, you guys really do have one of the cleanest hotels in the city, but this one little
33:35area right here, deep in the back, an absolute cesspool.
33:39Keep the hose in the...
33:40Oh, sorry.
33:41Now we'll be clean.
33:42I got excited again.
33:43Okay.
33:44Look at my shoes.
33:45Man, these are brand new.
33:46Here, ma'am.
33:46Okay, you're dripping on the floor.
33:48Oh, you're losing all your BBs.
33:48I'm losing my BBs, too.
33:49Yeah, grab the magnet.
33:50Is that a magnet?
33:51It is a magnet.
33:52This is amazingly effective, actually.
33:54Yes, it really is.
33:55It doesn't even move up like that.
33:55I know.
33:56They're pretty.
33:57They're like little...
33:57It can be a sculpture.
33:59It could be.
34:00They're like a great cluster.
34:01Mm-hmm.
34:02This is like a really cool version of...
34:06Let's call it the St. Francis Rorschach test.
34:09There we go.
34:10Right?
34:10What do you see?
34:13I know you're enjoying that gathering of the BB.
34:17I really am.
34:17Those coins are going to be so hot, you won't be able to touch them.
34:20Oh, come on.
34:20How hot can a coin get?
34:21Hot.
34:22Super hot.
34:23It really does look like a bunch of grapes right there.
34:26It's gorgeous, yeah.
34:27You're doing a really good job.
34:29Maybe you'll have a new job when this one's finished.
34:32It's a very important job, too, because you really don't want to leave those laying around.
34:36Yeah, the whole thing could turn into a Buster Keaton movie.
34:39Somebody walks on those things.
34:40Something could seriously happen.
34:41Right.
34:42We're going to put a whole little bit on those.
34:43We're big on safety around here, too.
34:45You really have to get over and turn those lamps off, because those coins are going to be hot.
34:50Dang it!
34:51Okay.
34:55Those are lava hot.
34:57Yeah, I told you.
34:58I mean, these things, like, too bad of a SUV.
34:59I told you we can tattoo you with one.
35:01I know.
35:02Turn your lamps off so they cool down.
35:03They're hot.
35:04They're like the surface.
35:04Oh, you have to put them.
35:05There's a sun right now.
35:05Yeah, there's a switch.
35:06Okay.
35:07All right, now we're going to have to roll them.
35:10Roll them?
35:10Yeah, we're going to have to roll them and give them back to Josie, remember?
35:13No.
35:14Coming up, the count comes up short.
35:16Mike, did you process that?
35:18Seriously, who loses 10 points?
35:19Do you want me to lose my jaw?
35:21I might get fired.
35:22Now I get the pat down.
35:23Do what you have to do, but I'm pretty sure I'm clean.
35:26What the heck?
35:33Now we're going to have to roll them.
35:35Roll them?
35:35Yeah, we're going to have to roll them and give them back to Josie, remember?
35:38No.
35:39Do you have a rolling machine?
35:40I have a rolling machine.
35:41That's perfect.
35:42There is a little issue with the rolling machine.
35:44The counter is no longer working.
35:47Of course not.
35:48Of course not.
35:48It's old.
35:48We had something built in the last two centuries.
35:51All right, so count out $10 worth of quarters.
35:54Put them in here.
35:55That's $40?
35:56$40.
35:57Now, if you've watched Dirty Jobs for any length of time,
36:00$34, $35, $36, $37, $38,
36:02you know that counting and sorting is not my strong suit.
36:06That's easy.
36:07$25 in a box?
36:08$25.
36:08Whether it was marbles, clams, tiny baby crickets, potato chips, dirty diapers,
36:15the results are always the same.
36:16Oh, man, that's $20.
36:17My bag's a mess.
36:20I think I overfilled it.
36:21Losing your marbles?
36:23Not like that.
36:24Oh, my God.
36:26Well, I was five.
36:27A brown derby for Doug.
36:28There's 40.
36:29Random cricket count.
36:30Yeah, shoot, I lost count.
36:32Red just flipped.
36:33Uh-oh.
36:34Oh.
36:35Oh.
36:37And so, with history as my guide,
36:39I began sorting $230 of quarters.
36:42Oh, the irony.
36:44Put these clean coins back into circulation.
36:47This is the crimper to close your roll.
36:50Now we take a coin rolling paper.
36:52Uh-oh.
36:53Make sure that's up.
36:55That's going to go in there.
36:56Hold that.
36:57No, not all the way because you have to hold it.
36:59All right?
36:59Now this gets kind of tricky.
37:00I'm going to turn this on.
37:01Your quarters are going to fly through there and go down in there.
37:03But you have to kind of put your finger up and down inside that hole.
37:07Sweet.
37:07To make sure that the coins fall flat.
37:10Okay.
37:11Okay?
37:16Now put that just gently inside there and let it crimp.
37:20That wasn't gently.
37:20You just said gently, but you jammed it in there like it was a golden spike.
37:24All right.
37:25There you go.
37:26You have your first clean roll.
37:28All right.
37:28Mm-hmm.
37:29So the other side comes pre-crimped.
37:31Right.
37:32And then we crimp it here.
37:33It's $10.
37:34That's right.
37:35Ten.
37:36Ten clean dollars.
37:38Big head.
37:39And so began the long process of rolling $230 worth of clean quarters.
37:45Okay.
37:46I'm ready for my next one.
37:47All right.
37:4827, 28, 29, 42, 36, 37, 22, and 43.
37:57One of them got cockeyed in the roll.
37:59Okay.
38:02Oh, doggone, same thing happened again.
38:04Oh.
38:04Got a sleeper on his side.
38:05This might be a full-time job if you were doing it.
38:09I know.
38:10There'd be no time for spa treatments.
38:13That's right.
38:14There might be an extra one in there.
38:15I can't be sure.
38:17I don't know.
38:17Oh, we have to be sure.
38:19Okay, now let's prep the composite.
38:20Okay, good.
38:22Hit me.
38:30That doesn't look like enough.
38:31It's not enough.
38:32What the heck did you do?
38:34Some might have gotten away.
38:36But I don't think I threw anything.
38:38Oh, where'd that come from?
38:41I think Josie would be mad.
38:44All right, there's 40.
38:48All righty.
38:49Now, somewhere between all the clinking, cleaning, sifting, drying, counting, frilling, and crimping,
38:56we made a massive miscalculation.
38:59Okay, we only have 29.
39:02We're off by 11.
39:03I lost 11 quarters somewhere.
39:04There's one right down there.
39:06Okay, good.
39:07So now we're off by 10.
39:10Where could they have gone?
39:13Mike?
39:15I mean, seriously, who loses 10 quarters?
39:16Do you want me to lose my chop?
39:18No, I don't.
39:19I might get fired.
39:20Oh, I doubt it.
39:22All right, well, what are you doing?
39:23Chew it out, baby.
39:24How did you do that?
39:25I don't know.
39:26Oh, my God.
39:27You lost 250.
39:29Did you pocket some?
39:31We're under strong security here.
39:33I'm going to do what you have to do, but I'm pretty sure.
39:35I'm clean.
39:35What the heck?
39:36I'm going to pat it down for quarters.
39:38Now what?
39:40If we suck it up, we take back, you know, $2.50 short and see what she does.
39:45Oh, jeez.
39:48Joe's, we're going to turn these in.
39:49We just cleaned them all.
39:52All shiny and new.
39:54Let me see.
39:56Wow.
39:56Just the way I go.
40:05Check out the crimping, Joe's.
40:07He did a really nice job, huh?
40:09Yes.
40:10Mm-hmm.
40:10Wow.
40:11Mm-hmm.
40:11Oh, wow.
40:12And that was faster.
40:13Yes, he was doing a really good job.
40:15I like to keep things moving along.
40:17He's pretty efficient.
40:19Effective, I prefer.
40:20Oh, effective.
40:20He's effective.
40:22More than efficient.
40:23Two, four, six, eight, ten, 100.
40:29Two, four, six, eight, ten, 100.
40:35And those are right there and that should be it.
40:37Okay.
40:38All right.
40:38$230.
40:39What's that?
40:40$230.
40:41Can't turn it.
40:42What'd she say?
40:42$230.
40:43$230.
40:44Perfect.
40:44Then we're good then.
40:46You're welcome.
40:46Okay.
40:47Thank you, Joe.
40:47Thank you, too.
40:48Okay.
40:49Of course, I was short $250.
40:50Actually, because of my counting prowess, I think those missing coins were actually included
40:55in the rolls I turned in.
40:56But the Weston St. Francis has a policy
40:59not to publicly embarrass B-List TV hosts.
41:02Thank you for visiting.
41:04You're welcome.
41:04You're always welcome.
41:05He's going to do the pennies tomorrow.
41:07That's a lovely Al pendant again.
41:08You really are.
41:09People are going to be wanting that all over the place.
41:10You should give me one more.
41:12One more pendant.
41:13One more.
41:14One more good luck charm.
41:15One more.
41:16Okay.
41:16And you are a delight.
41:17Thank you so much.
41:18At least now I know my true value.
41:20Next time.
41:21Okay.
41:22You're very welcome.
41:23All right.
41:23Well, there you go.
41:24And so after a day of cleaning money,
41:27it turns out that laundering money
41:29isn't as hard as I thought.
41:31Bringing new meaning to the term
41:33dirty job.
41:36Some ideas for dirty jobs come quickly.
41:39Others just take forever.
41:42Personally, I haven't had one in many, many years.
41:44They all come from you.
41:46So if you wouldn't mind,
41:47discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
41:50Send me an idea
41:53before I totally run out of juice.
41:57Discovery.com forward slash
42:01dirty jobs.
42:02How long will you be in here?
42:05How deep is the ocean?
42:07How high the sky?
42:08I said you look great.
42:09Marlene, get a shot of Troy's face
42:11if you wouldn't mind.
42:13That's how I want to remember you.
42:16Marlene's only been
42:18on the show now for
42:20a couple of weeks.
42:22I'm still getting broken in.
42:24I mean, she's a camera woman
42:26of great experience, but
42:27is this about as filthy
42:28as you've been in a while?
42:30Yes.
42:31That's good.
42:31That's she's a lot of people saying
42:32that's why I can't believe her the
42:32nothing, she's got.
42:32I mean, she's kind of a man
42:32I'm sorry.
42:32But I'm going in.
42:32After she, I'm Gar
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