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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:05I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:11I can't tell the difference between dirt and crap.
00:13Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living...
00:16Stick it, stick it, stick it!
00:18...doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:22I'm gonna go ahead and push this over now.
00:25Now, get ready.
00:29Let's get dirty.
00:31That's 60 pounds of poop.
00:33Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:35It's off to the races.
00:37I'm getting tired.
00:38Nice job, boy. Nice job.
00:39And we help the horses with their continence issues.
00:42He appears to be wearing a giant diaper.
00:44Man, tea is terrible smelling stuff.
00:47Oh, we'll hit the locker room to get the inside poop.
00:51There you go.
00:52Okay. Sorry, pot.
00:53And the post-game show is full of...
00:56You know what?
00:57Oh, what a great way to cool off in the dog days of summer.
01:00A big tin of crap.
01:05Oh, God.
01:10Oh, God.
01:19Well, today I've come to Woodford County, Kentucky.
01:22Take a look around.
01:23You can probably guess why.
01:25Bourbon.
01:26Oh, yeah.
01:27You want bourbon.
01:29There is no place better on the face of the earth to come than Woodford County, Kentucky.
01:33In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I believe it's really the only place where you can get bourbon.
01:39I'm talking about Kentucky in general.
01:42Not sipping whiskey.
01:43That's next door up in Tennessee.
01:44That's something else altogether.
01:45I'm talking about bourbon.
01:48The kind they make locally right here in casks of newly charred oak.
01:54Oh, it brings out the flavor.
01:57Every single sip.
01:59An unexampled experience that will live in the reptilian part of your brain for time immemorial.
02:05They also have horses here.
02:08Somewhere.
02:11Truth be told, in Kentucky, the thoroughbred horse is a star athlete.
02:17And like all great competitors, what they eat can make the difference between winning and losing.
02:22So, here at the Kentucky Equine Research Facility, nutrition and exercise trials are conducted year-round
02:29to produce healthier, more athletic horses.
02:34Huh.
02:35All the horses apparently are inside.
02:38That explains things.
02:40This is Joe Pagan.
02:42And is there any bourbon here?
02:45Not right now.
02:47Maybe later.
02:47This is your facility?
02:48This is Kentucky Equine Research.
02:50Welcome.
02:51Indeed it is.
02:52And that's your official logo?
02:53That's right.
02:54That's a good-looking logo.
02:55That's the USEF.
02:56That's the United States Equestrian Federation.
02:58Oh, that's a different logo.
02:59Yeah, we're their nutritionist.
03:01So, you're in the business of what?
03:04Making specific types of food?
03:06Equine nutrition.
03:06We do research and consultation.
03:09So, we don't make the food.
03:10We advise people about how to make the food.
03:12So, you do things to feed.
03:14You give them to the horses you have here.
03:17And based on those results, you can make a recommendation to your clients.
03:20Exactly.
03:20Is there any bourbon in any of the food?
03:24Actually, there is a byproduct of bourbon in the food.
03:27Really?
03:27There is.
03:27Can you bring the whole bourbon thing, like, back around?
03:30Because, I mean, I know that Kentucky, I mean, to me anyway, it's bourbon and horses.
03:34But is there a link?
03:35The link is the ground.
03:37The limestone is good for growing grass that makes horses big and strong and good racehorses.
03:42Calcium?
03:43Calcium in the limestone, exactly.
03:45And the limestone is good to filter the water to make good bourbon.
03:49So, maybe if things go well today and we wrap up early, we could experience both of the things that
03:54Kentucky is so famous for.
03:56I'm pretty sure you can.
03:57That'd be good news.
03:58So, in order to know how the food is doing inside of the horse or how the horse is doing
04:03as a result of the food that you're recommending, is it blood work?
04:07Is it?
04:07There's several different things we can do.
04:09Some is doing exercise tests on our high-speed treadmill to see how it affects their athletic performance.
04:16Which he seems pretty happy about.
04:17Is that love in the air?
04:18Sounds like it, doesn't it?
04:19It could be anything.
04:21And some of it is done by actually testing the feed and determining its digestibility.
04:26Well, maybe you should tell me what's going on over here.
04:28Is it, what's happening?
04:30Is everything okay?
04:30I think that's a two-year-old thoroughbred.
04:32He's actually a horse we're going to test today.
04:34And these are two-year-old thoroughbreds that are destined for the racetrack.
04:37What's his name that we're going to test?
04:39Harry.
04:40Can I say hi right now?
04:41Sure, absolutely.
04:42Who's that talking to Harry?
04:43Harry, that is our veterinarian, Dr. Brian Waldridge.
04:48Brian?
04:49Nice to meet you.
04:50Nice to meet you.
04:51Hello.
04:52Hi.
04:52How are you?
04:53I'm Mike.
04:53Good.
04:54Hi there.
04:55What's your name?
04:56Catherine.
04:57Catherine?
04:57How did Harry get his name?
04:59When he first arrived, he had warts, but they grow out of it as a yearling.
05:03He had warts?
05:03Yeah.
05:04So after Hogwarts, Harry Potter.
05:07Oh, Hogwarts, right.
05:08That's better.
05:09Are you English?
05:09I am, yes.
05:10Congratulations.
05:12You're welcome.
05:13So, this is Harry.
05:14Yes, sir.
05:15All right.
05:17What are we going to do with Harry, exactly?
05:18We're going to have an intravenous catheter in.
05:20It's where he goes for his exercise test.
05:22We're going to measure blood lactate, which helps us to know how well he exercises.
05:26Where's the catheter go?
05:27It goes in his jugular vein on his left side.
05:30That's good news.
05:31Knowing the catheters can go virtually anywhere.
05:34That's a good one.
05:34Okay.
05:35Is it dangerous at all?
05:37Is it a...
05:37No, he's a pretty good horse.
05:39Pretty good.
05:39Pretty good.
05:40Okay.
05:41He's a male, so he's going to be a little bit tougher than your average.
05:44So the catheter goes in.
05:45We lead Harry to a treadmill.
05:47Harry runs.
05:48We take blood as he's running.
05:51Yes, sir.
05:52It's all getting very interesting.
05:54Okay.
05:55Well, I'll do whatever you allow me to do.
05:57We're going to clip...
05:58Start out with clip a small area so we can get that good and sterile, and then we'll
06:01scrub that up, and I'll have you do the scrub.
06:03Great.
06:05Now, we're just going to clip this, and then I'll have you do the sterile prep.
06:08So this is some antibacterial soap, and then we're just going to scrub in that area.
06:13And you want to start in the middle?
06:14Mm-hmm.
06:14Just work your way to the outside.
06:16All right.
06:16Harry, I think you'll enjoy this, actually.
06:18It should be very soothing.
06:20And then we'll do a block with some lidocaine so it won't feel when we put it in the catheter.
06:24I remember hearing lidocaine a lot on, I think it was Emergency 51 when I was growing
06:28up.
06:29So I do know some stuff about medicine.
06:31Good boy.
06:33And you've got constant kind of feedback, Catherine.
06:36This is going to be one clean area of operation.
06:39So now we're good and clean, and we'll insert the catheter.
06:42And I'll have you cut the sutures, because we're going to sew this catheter in, because
06:46it's going to move a lot now.
06:47You're going to sew the catheter under the skin?
06:49To the skin.
06:50I didn't realize it was minor surgery.
06:53Well, it sort of is.
06:54We'll do it sterilely, because we want to make sure we don't track any bacteria into
06:57the blood.
06:58Of course.
06:59Okay.
06:59So this is some saline that has some heparin in it, and the heparin stops the blood from
07:04clotting in the catheter.
07:05Heparin stops blood from clotting in the catheter.
07:08Did you know that?
07:08I did, yeah.
07:09You haven't learned anything yet that you didn't already know, have you?
07:12But I am nearly at the end of my internship, so.
07:14Oh.
07:15So you're pretty well up to speed on it.
07:16Nearly graduated.
07:17How long has your internship been?
07:19Twelve months, a year.
07:20Oh.
07:22I knew twelve months was a year, by the way.
07:25Twelve months?
07:26Yeah.
07:28As it were.
07:30So this is a catheter.
07:31It has two parts.
07:32Mm-hmm.
07:33The white part is actually the part that's going to stay in the horse.
07:35Mm-hmm.
07:48This must be a big treadmill.
07:50It is.
07:50It's really large.
07:51I mean, so it's not one of those elliptical ski things.
07:56Now, how would he do that?
07:57Yeah, Catherine.
07:58So I ask some stupid questions once in a while, okay?
08:00That's how I roll.
08:02And we'll put this in.
08:03So what we're going to do is we're going to hold the vein off so we can actually see that
08:07vein.
08:07And then we're going to go through that lidocaine gland.
08:10And there's the blood.
08:11You're in there, aren't you?
08:11And we're going to pick this up real quick because they can get air in their jugular vein
08:16and it goes to their brain and they go crazy.
08:18Crazy as in drop dead?
08:20I can.
08:20Sometimes they'll go blind.
08:22We'll have seizures.
08:23It's temporary, usually, except for the death part.
08:26Yeah, that has a way of sticking.
08:28This will allow us to be off the horse when we get our blood samples.
08:32So we're going to take this suture, which is loaded on a needle here, and we're just going
08:36to suture this to a skin.
08:38We're just going to take a little pinch of skin like that, and we'll tie that in.
08:44Oh, boy.
08:45Your voice is soothing.
08:46You should keep talking to him.
08:48I think he likes the accent.
08:49Cut both of those.
08:51Like so?
08:52Yes, sir.
08:53Oh, boy.
08:53Excellently done.
08:55Thanks.
08:57Now we're going to just get these little wings here.
09:00How much blood do you want to take from him?
09:02We'll take 15 cc's at a time, and we'll bleed him 10 or 12 times during the course of this
09:07trial.
09:07Wow.
09:08And now we're going to put a bandage over this.
09:10Just a couple times around will be plenty.
09:13Okay.
09:14That's it.
09:14Off to the treadmill?
09:15Yes.
09:16What do you say just, Harry?
09:17A little workout?
09:21It's time for Harry's big moment in the spotlight.
09:25But first, a pregame weigh-in.
09:271,190 pounds.
09:30There you go.
09:30Horses half a ton.
09:32Then, he's fitted with a wireless heart monitor.
09:35Don't skimp on the gel.
09:36That must be tightly cinched in.
09:38Tighter still?
09:39If he kicks you, then you went too tight.
09:41That'll be his subtle way of saying, no, no, thank you.
09:44And finally, training time has come.
09:46Right this way.
09:47Will he pass or just pass out?
09:49Doing good, Harry.
09:51Whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:53Coming up.
09:54Woo-hoo-hoo.
09:55She makes it exciting.
09:57Let the bloodletting begin.
09:58Man, this could go wrong in like 100 different ways, couldn't it?
10:00It could.
10:01Very quickly.
10:02And Harry gets a rubdown.
10:04Fit for a stud.
10:05You have to sponge him everywhere.
10:06Twigs and berries, too?
10:07Twigs and berries, too.
10:09I know it's weird.
10:10It's weird for me, too.
10:18Whoa.
10:18Harry, the horse, is about to have his blood tested to see how efficient he exercises.
10:24You're going to help.
10:25Dr. Brian is going to pull the blood off.
10:27You need to extract the blood when he's in a highly exercised state.
10:30Yes.
10:31Good.
10:34He's ready to run.
10:35Yeah, he's ready.
10:35How long will the horse run, Brian?
10:3720 minutes?
10:38About 20.
10:39About 20 minutes?
10:40Jenny's going to be coaching you through what you're going to be doing.
10:44Okay.
10:44You're going to be handing off Dr. Brian the syringes.
10:47It's an important job.
10:48He's going to be pulling off the blood.
10:50You have to have his neck syringe ready.
10:52Everything has to be right on time.
10:54We do it within 20 seconds.
10:55Okay.
10:55And you have to hand him two tubes within 20 seconds.
10:58Okay.
10:59But one at a time?
11:00One at a time.
11:00Exactly.
11:01I'm sure it'll all be made clear as we start doing it.
11:04Okay.
11:04Ready to start?
11:06All right.
11:06Starting.
11:10So we do five minutes of walking, two minutes of trotting, two minutes of cantering.
11:14Once we start getting up into the higher speeds, it'll only be one-minute intervals, so it gets a little
11:18bit faster.
11:20That wireless monitor we fastened to Harry is sending its signals to this watch, so we can constantly monitor his
11:26heartbeat.
11:27So he went from 47 to 66 already, so he's moving along.
11:33I'm probably at 72 just standing here.
11:36Terrible.
11:37The first syringe I receive is called bad blood.
11:41It's only bad because it's blood that's been sitting in the catheter.
11:45It's got to be cleared, then discarded.
11:48Next, I take a syringe of what we're after, fresh blood that accurately represents Harry's current state.
11:56We put this into marked vials to be taken back to the lab.
12:00Got this?
12:01Good job.
12:03And ready?
12:03Next one.
12:08164.
12:09It's in a hurry.
12:13We're getting tired.
12:22All together, Harry will donate 20 vials, or one pint of blood, for the cause.
12:27All to measure his lactate level.
12:30Lactic acid is a waste product that forms in the muscle when it's fatigued.
12:35The faster a horse can run with lower blood lactate, the more fit the horse.
12:39Now we only have one minute in between.
12:41One minute.
12:42Holy cow.
12:43That's a lot of pressure.
12:44A lot of pressure.
12:48Right there.
12:56Hi.
12:58Come on up to the pad.
13:02Man, this could go wrong in like a hundred different ways, couldn't it?
13:05It could.
13:05Very quickly.
13:07Not to worry.
13:08I'm on the scene.
13:13201.
13:13Let's go on.
13:14Let's pass.
13:20Woo-hoo-hoo!
13:21She makes it exciting.
13:23All that screaming.
13:24Harry is now running at 25 miles an hour.
13:27He'll cover the equivalent of 3.2 miles when he's finally finished.
13:36Brian's pretty cool.
13:38Coming down.
13:40Hey, you're right.
13:41Stuff happens fast.
13:42So this is the cool down?
13:44Yes.
13:45You're sweating, Henry?
13:47I don't blame you.
13:49I'm exhausted.
13:53Nice job, boy.
13:54Nice job.
13:55Harry's morning workout is behind him.
13:57To the right?
13:58No, to the left.
13:59I had a 50-50 shot.
14:01But we still have to take one more vial of blood before he's through.
14:06I'm not getting a lot, but maybe there's not a lot to get, huh?
14:10He drained him of blood.
14:12You're all out, brother.
14:13Sorry.
14:14Then it's time for a relaxing sponge bath for the horse.
14:19You start on the top.
14:20Work your way down, right?
14:21Exactly.
14:22Twigs and berries, too?
14:23Twigs and berries, too.
14:24They get sweaty just like the rest of it.
14:26Yeah, tell me about it.
14:28There you go.
14:29I know it's weird.
14:30It's weird for me, too.
14:31The old tail in the face.
14:32I don't take that personally.
14:33I don't think you're doing a good job.
14:34He's not liking that.
14:35He's trying to bite me.
14:36Oh, I know you want the English girl, but sorry.
14:38You got me.
14:39Finally, Harry has fed a gooey electrolyte mix to replenish any sodium, potassium, or calcium he burned during the test.
14:47I know you've done this before.
14:49I have a little bit of practice.
14:51Uh-oh.
14:52The key drops.
14:53Tastes good.
14:54Does it?
14:55I'm going to try.
14:59It doesn't taste good at all.
15:01That was a straight-up lie right there you hit me with.
15:04It smells good anyway.
15:06Nope.
15:06Doesn't smell good either.
15:07Salty?
15:08Smells like salt.
15:08It's very salty.
15:10Did you want some more of this?
15:12Coming up under the towel, it's dying time!
15:16They'll call me the lord of the horse flies for nothing.
15:19Die!
15:19These flies are fast.
15:20Some of the fastest I've seen.
15:23Fast like a racehorse.
15:25Oh, tough day to be a fly and I broke my hat.
15:28And later, I get fresh with Pi the horse.
15:31And get what I deserve.
15:33There we go.
15:34Doesn't get much fresher.
15:43Good old Harry the horse is resting comfortably after his exercise routine.
15:47And now we'll head to the lab to test his results.
15:49Yes.
15:50On the treadmill.
15:51This is the lab?
15:51This is the lab.
15:53We centrifuge all of our own blood samples and we are able to run our own glucose and lactates.
15:59And that's what we're testing today is lactate.
16:01Is this what this is?
16:02Yes.
16:03This is the 2300 STAT+.
16:05Yes.
16:06And that does what?
16:07That measures glucose or lactate.
16:10Okay.
16:10But first we need to put on our lab coats.
16:13All right.
16:15This is a girl's lab coat.
16:16Well, there are a bunch of girls that work here, so.
16:18I've seen that.
16:20I can't even button it.
16:21I don't have any practice buttoning from the left.
16:24God.
16:26Why am I even buttoning it?
16:27What are we, we're centrifuging.
16:28You're good.
16:29You're good.
16:29Okay.
16:30All right.
16:30So, we're going to go and we're going to place the blood samples in the centrifuge.
16:34I'm going to follow you.
16:35Okay.
16:35So, this is the centrifuge.
16:36Mm-hmm.
16:37So, first you need to turn it on.
16:38And there's a little switch in the back.
16:48Okay.
16:49Go ahead and lift up the lid.
16:51We can fit eight tubes in there.
16:53It smells funny.
16:54It's like plastic.
16:55It's got that new centrifuge smell.
16:58All right.
16:59Okay.
16:59These are double.
17:00We pull one to sample and then one is a spare.
17:03Mm-hmm.
17:03Just in case anything happens.
17:04Oh, so all that pressure out there, all that screaming you were doing for the...
17:07The second one really was not.
17:09But, okay.
17:09No, I understand.
17:10It's important in case one were to break.
17:12So, just pull.
17:14That's interesting.
17:15What's...
17:15We are...
17:16This is separating.
17:17That's why we need to get it spun out pretty quickly.
17:19The blood is separating.
17:20Yes.
17:20What's the yellow stuff?
17:22That's going to be plasma.
17:23That's just all red blood cells, though.
17:25Yeah.
17:25Okay.
17:26So, just fill it up as far as you can.
17:29All right.
17:30Go ahead and close the lid and lock it down.
17:32Okay.
17:32Now, you're going to set the timer for about seven and a half minutes or so.
17:36Seven minutes left.
17:37Okay.
17:38So, what do you want to do for seven minutes?
17:42I don't know.
17:43Wait.
17:48Look at that fly.
17:49Watch him.
17:50Watch him.
17:51Watch him.
17:53Oh!
17:54Tough day to be a fly and I broke my hat.
17:58You're kidding.
17:59Where is he?
18:02Damn, I hate these things.
18:04These flies are fast.
18:05Some of the fastest I've seen.
18:06Is that one?
18:07You're going to have to die!
18:10Step that way just a little bit.
18:12Under the towel.
18:13On the cabinet.
18:16It's...
18:16Die in time!
18:17Right by the centrifuge.
18:18Careful you don't unbalance the centrifuge.
18:21I don't want to unbalance anything.
18:25Unbelievable.
18:26Hey, there he is.
18:28So, I'll kill anything right now.
18:30Just kill him!
18:31Oh, dude!
18:31Under your knee.
18:32Don't tell him if it lands on me.
18:35Julian, these things are fast, I've got to tell you.
18:38Fast like a racehorse?
18:40Look, I tore him in half.
18:41I'm going to need a new hat.
18:44Oh, good job.
18:48How much time we got?
18:50About two minutes.
18:52I think this bell is going to ring any second.
18:55All right.
18:56In fact, I'm going to hold my breath.
18:58And I bet it's going to ring before I have to breathe.
19:00Okay.
19:00You want to do it with me?
19:01Okay.
19:02Ready?
19:02Ready.
19:04Oh, Judy.
19:21You're slobbered.
19:22I can't remember the last time I've held my breath, okay?
19:28I think you've cheated anyway.
19:29You've talked.
19:30I can hold my breath and talk at the same time.
19:32That's pretty challenging.
19:33Rub my belly, pat my head, you name it.
19:35That wasn't a request, by the way.
19:36I was just simply saying that I'm capable of doing a series of things.
19:39All right.
19:40And that thing is still spinning.
19:41Look at that go.
19:42It's like some sort of centrifuge.
19:44Tick.
19:44Is it wrong just to reach in and stop it?
19:46Yes.
19:47Why?
19:47Because you can damage the motor.
19:49Never mind my hand, right?
19:50Who cares about Mike's hand?
19:51Just don't hurt the motor.
19:52Exactly.
19:55We want them to check and make sure that it's separated out all right.
19:57Oh, that's the goal to separate, of course.
19:59Yes, this is the plasma, and then this is the red blood cells.
20:03Plasma is the yellow liquid component of blood in which the red blood cells are suspended.
20:07So if you want to take those out and put those in there.
20:10Do you care about the order?
20:11No.
20:13All right.
20:14That's one way of doing it.
20:15You said you didn't care about the order?
20:16You're right, I did.
20:17I like to mix it up a little bit.
20:18Why does everything have to be in such a line all the time?
20:21It doesn't.
20:21We're going to pull off the plasma, and we're going to put them into these microcentrifuge
20:25tubes.
20:26So we're testing lactates.
20:28We don't want to go anything above four millimoles per liter of lactate when we're training them.
20:34What's a millimole?
20:35It's a measure.
20:37I've never heard of millimole before.
20:38Millimole.
20:39It's a unit of measure.
20:41I know, but is it like, look at the size of that millimole over there, or is it more like,
20:45has anyone seen the millimole?
20:46It would be very small.
20:48All right.
20:48I'll show you just a graph of Harry's last treadmill test.
20:52This is his lactate in millimoles per liter.
20:55Whatever those are.
20:56And this is his speed.
20:58So the faster he runs, you can see the lactate increasing.
21:03Yes.
21:04We want to train him so that we don't go above four millimoles per liter of lactate.
21:08He's getting anaerobic here, right?
21:10He's getting fatigued.
21:11His muscles are getting tired.
21:13And so this will determine?
21:15This is getting them prepared to go to the racetrack and go to the races.
21:19Okay.
21:20But to find Harry's results, we'll need to pull off the separated plasma from his blood
21:25sample.
21:25You just want plasma.
21:26Yep.
21:27So you're going to stick it in there.
21:28Mm-hmm.
21:29So maybe just a little bit more.
21:31Right now the people at home are crazy.
21:32Honey, get in here.
21:33He's got a pipette.
21:35The goal of this whole trial that we're doing with these two-year-olds is to see if we can
21:42manipulate ways to make them faster.
21:45You ride?
21:46I do ride.
21:46Yeah?
21:47Yeah.
21:47I play polo.
21:48How long have you been playing polo?
21:50Not very long.
21:51I've only been learning for...
21:52It's hard.
21:52Yeah, it is hard.
21:53Yeah.
21:54And the horses, too, could drown.
21:56You've got to be so careful with them.
21:58With the plasma separated from the blood, we can now take our samples to be measured for
22:02lactate levels.
22:04We'll test his baseline sample first.
22:06I'll show you how to do it the first time.
22:07All right, great.
22:08Okay.
22:08So I'm going to push sample.
22:09Mm-hmm.
22:10And I'm going to wait.
22:10There's a sipper needle that comes down that's going to suck a very, very small amount out of this
22:15tube.
22:16And you only want to go in about three millimeters, just enough to get the end of the needle in
22:22there, basically.
22:23Just put the tip in.
22:24You want to put just enough so that that is in the plasma.
22:28Okay?
22:29So I'm going to push sample again and wait for it to pull away.
22:31So that's all it needs for what we took?
22:34It's really simple.
22:34This machine does everything else for us.
22:37So it's giving us our lactate level, which is one millimole per liter.
22:42Okay.
22:43And then we have one more.
22:44We've got the 12.
22:44That's what we would expect his highest lactate to be.
22:47Right.
22:47So what would you guess?
22:48At 12 meters per second on his last treadmill touch, which was 30 days ago, he was above
22:54eight.
22:54All right.
22:55Let me spell it out.
22:56A month ago, same horse was running about 12 meters a second.
23:00And when he hit that speed, he's very high.
23:04He's over eight.
23:05So is there anything we're hoping for?
23:06We'd like to see it come down from that.
23:09That means he's getting more fit.
23:10Let's look for a 7.4 or something like that.
23:12Yeah.
23:12It'd be huge.
23:13Okay.
23:13It's ready to sample.
23:14This goes in past the bubbles and that goes there like that.
23:18Dude.
23:19When we give this data to Dr. Pagan, he'll graph on where their heart rates were at the
23:24time that their lactates were at like ideal level.
23:28So we would try to train him around that heart rate.
23:31Well, that's how they exercise you at the fancy clubs.
23:33Exactly.
23:34You get your target heart rate and then you maintain it.
23:35From this, we would develop a target heart rate to train him at.
23:39What do we know?
23:40So this one was 8.97.
23:43So he was still about the same, which means maybe that's about as fit as we can get them
23:48on the treadmill.
23:498.97.
23:51Okay.
23:52Well, I think we get it.
23:55Coming up, if you're still awake, nice day.
23:59For analyzing the poop.
24:00Yes, Marvin, it's yours.
24:02Then watch it come out again.
24:03It's the three horsemen of the apucalypse.
24:05Oh, it's really warm in there.
24:08That's 60 pounds of poo.
24:09Save the pooping machine.
24:11It's okay.
24:11I mean, look, poo is the glue that holds us together.
24:14You know, everybody poops.
24:22So far, we've sucked the blood from a running horse.
24:26That's interesting.
24:27And spent a few riveting hours in the lab analyzing the data.
24:31But collecting training data on these thoroughbreds is only part of the story.
24:35The main focus here is on nutrition.
24:38And the only way to figure out what should go into a horse is to carefully study what comes out.
24:43Well, we're at Marvin's house right now, obviously.
24:47And I'm joined again with Jill-Anne and Catherine.
24:50And what I'm told are several jugfuls of Marvin's pee.
24:53Yeah.
24:54Catherine, why are we collecting Marvin's pee?
24:56So we can analyze it for minerals.
24:58And the goal, of course, of analyzing Marvin's urine is to find out what he should be eating or maybe
25:04what he's eating too much of.
25:05They're on a digestion trial right now where we're feeding them a yeast.
25:08What the heck is Marvin doing?
25:10He's showing off for the cameras.
25:12He's doing that in spite of the fact that he appears to be wearing a giant diaper.
25:15Yes.
25:15Catherine, why is he wearing a diaper?
25:16So we can do total collections of feces and urine.
25:20Marvin's been peeing inside that thing all day?
25:22He has.
25:22Is it a diaper?
25:23Diaper?
25:24We call it a nappy.
25:25Do you call it a nappy because that's what it is?
25:27Or you just made up a name for the diaper?
25:29Well, I think in Europe they would call diapers nappies anyway, right?
25:32Oh, do they?
25:33Yeah.
25:33Well, how long will Marvin's humiliation last?
25:36Usually about five days.
25:37So for five days you have to walk around peeing and pooping in this apparatus.
25:44And how often do you clean it?
25:45Three to four times a day.
25:47All right.
25:47Now, what just happened there?
25:48He just took a drink.
25:49We don't collect any of that slobber, do we?
25:51No.
25:52All right.
25:52Obviously I'm delaying the inevitable.
25:53Why don't we go ahead and get his pee and his poo?
25:57As you can feel right now, if you want to pull on it, it's pretty heavy.
26:00That's a full nappy.
26:01Yeah.
26:02Oh, yeah.
26:02So there is a little screw cap right here.
26:05Yeah?
26:05You need to unscrew.
26:06We have to weigh this, so we don't want to lose anything if we can help.
26:09Ugh.
26:10Man.
26:11Tea is terrible smelling stuff.
26:13Man.
26:13Oh, dear.
26:15You're also going to have to massage the bladder to kind of squeeze it out of there.
26:20Ah, daggone it, Jillian.
26:21No matter how much you shake it, these last couple of drops.
26:26Ah.
26:27Oh.
26:29There we go.
26:29Dear me.
26:31So you can go ahead and screw the cap back on the bladder.
26:33Cap back on the bladder.
26:35And then we're going to remove the nappy from the horse.
26:37Oh, gosh.
26:38I wish you could smell my hand.
26:39I do.
26:39I wish you could just...
26:40I just wish I could reach into your living room with my hand and just rub it right under
26:44your nose.
26:45I wish I could.
26:46Pants are too long for this job, too.
26:48We sometimes bull roll our pant legs up to do this.
26:51Super, super great tip.
26:53Just about an hour too late.
26:54Just...
26:55Yep.
26:55And you're going to have to slide it out between his legs.
26:57All right.
26:58Pull it out of there.
26:59Ah, that's one disappointing bar boy right there.
27:00Okay, now we're going to take it out here.
27:02Uh-huh.
27:02I'm going to turn Marvin loose for a little bit.
27:04Turn him loose?
27:05Yep.
27:05In the stall?
27:06Yeah.
27:07You're free, Marvin.
27:07Enjoy those 15 square feet.
27:09So you ready to empty the poo?
27:11Yes, I am.
27:12I'm ready to do that.
27:13Easiest way to do this is to grab onto these straps here.
27:17And you're going to tilt it over top of the bucket and try to shake it out of that tail
27:21hole area.
27:22I think it already came out of the tail hole.
27:24So keep this kind of over top of the bucket.
27:26Oh, I see.
27:27That tail hole.
27:27And you want to tip it up and you're going to kind of shake it in there.
27:29I got it.
27:30I got it.
27:31Yes, Marvin, it's yours.
27:33Then watch it come out again.
27:34And then we wipe them out.
27:36We clean these once a day.
27:37Uh-huh.
27:38So you basically just have to wipe everything up, make sure you get everything out of there,
27:41and then wipe all where it's messy.
27:45Where it's messy?
27:46This is the bladder area.
27:47We don't want poop to get into his urine.
27:49So you're going to have to stick your finger in there.
27:51Oh, come on.
27:53Don't make stuff up.
27:54No, I'm serious.
27:55If it's clogging, the urine will overflow and go onto the floor.
27:58Look, I'm a good sport.
27:59I'll do whatever you tell me.
28:00But, I mean, gloves?
28:02I see them all over the place.
28:03Well, we usually wear gloves when we mix the, when we mix up the poo,
28:07but this, we're usually in, you know, in the middle of doing something.
28:10Okay, no, that's fine.
28:11I just, I'm just asking because I'm curious.
28:14Okay, let's go ahead and have a poke around there.
28:17Nope, nothing blocking up the urine hole.
28:20Thanks for the thorough check.
28:21I believe you, there was, I don't believe that was necessary, actually.
28:25Now you want me to just wipe all this stuff?
28:26Yep, swipe it all up.
28:27Well, what are the odds of getting some more towels?
28:29Could you spare a square, one at a time, really?
28:32Well, you probably won't need any more than that.
28:34I mean, I don't want to get personal, but one square at a time?
28:37Is that basically how you roll?
28:39I gave you three.
28:41Well, I had to ask for all of them.
28:43We're trying to be, like, environmentally conscious here, too.
28:46Yeah, yeah, there's been a real run on paper towels.
28:50Cleaning the nappy thoroughly ensures that the next load of poo won't be contaminated.
28:55And once we got Marvin's nappy back into place, he was good to go.
29:00Nice day.
29:02For analyzing poo.
29:04But first, the poo has to be sifted before it goes to the lab.
29:08We're testing the yeast supplement.
29:10Uh-huh.
29:11Basically, yeast benefits the good microbes in the hindgut.
29:15We've got three horses on this trial.
29:17One horse is the control, so it's not getting anything.
29:20Mm-hmm.
29:20And then the other two are on different amounts of the yeast.
29:23Okay.
29:24We'll be testing the fecal pH because the yeast should make the pH in the manure go up a little
29:29bit.
29:30But we have to mix all this up first.
29:31So all these little balls have to be broken down because this is 24 hours worth of poop.
29:36This is a full 24-hour cycle?
29:37Yes.
29:38For Ralph?
29:39That's 60 pounds of poo.
29:41He's a poochie machine.
29:42Ralph is a monster.
29:44All right.
29:44So right now, all we're doing is...
29:46Right now, all we're doing is mixing it.
29:47Is this.
29:48You've got to rub it together.
29:49Sure you do.
29:50Yeah.
29:50Sure.
29:51Yeah.
29:52And make sure you go all the way to the bottom.
29:54Oh, it's really warm in there.
29:56It's just Ralph has just left such a prodigious load.
30:00A little bad during allergy season when...
30:02Yeah, especially if you're allergic to crap.
30:05Yeah.
30:06Nightmare.
30:06It's okay.
30:07I mean, look, poo is the glue that holds us together, you know?
30:09Exactly.
30:10Everybody poops.
30:11Yes.
30:12But not like Ralph.
30:14Nobody poops like Ralph.
30:16How are you doing?
30:17Are you pretty well mixed?
30:18Oh, gosh.
30:19This poops.
30:20I've turned these into snowflakes.
30:22We're going to...
30:22We have a tin, so this is going to go in the pan.
30:26It's like a little Italian restaurant to go, I think.
30:29Yeah.
30:29We pretty much just want it to be kind of level with the top.
30:32And then you kind of want to kind of press it down so that it's flat.
30:35Yeah, just kind of press it in there.
30:37Get it pressed to the corners.
30:38Yeah.
30:40Uh-huh.
30:40I feel as though mine is filled.
30:42I think you're right.
30:43Then we take them into the feed room and we weigh them.
30:47All right.
30:47All right.
30:48And then we put them in the freezer.
30:49All right.
30:49So we're going to weigh the poo.
30:52Look at all these freaking flies.
30:54God, son of a gun.
30:55Look at them.
30:56They're drawn to this stuff like flies to crap.
30:59I hate these things.
31:00Okay.
31:01All right.
31:01The next step is to weigh them.
31:03We just take this one.
31:04We know that the tins weigh approximately 0.14 grams.
31:08Did you say not point?
31:09Not.
31:10Not?
31:11Like zero?
31:11Yeah.
31:12Cheasing.
31:13No one says not over here.
31:14That's awesome.
31:15So we put this on.
31:16Uh-huh.
31:16And weigh it.
31:17So that one weighs 8.82.
31:19So that's a little bit heavy.
31:21Normally we aim for approximately 500.
31:24I went too much.
31:25Somebody write that down.
31:27This is a...
31:27Pies.
31:28Pies.
31:29This is light as a feather.
31:30This is going to be...
31:3245-ish.
31:33Oh, we're a little bit under.
31:34Who did that one?
31:38You want me to go just jam some more in there?
31:40You can do.
31:41Okay.
31:43I thought gloves were for girls.
31:46That's hard, man.
31:48You are a cold, cold English woman.
31:50The outside.
31:52Gloves are for girls.
31:53He's right.
31:54Put a little Ralph in here.
31:55Screw everything up.
31:57Eventually, each sample is weighed and recorded.
31:59Okay, what was Ralph?
32:00It's a horse.
32:01Big son of a gun.
32:02Crap like a monkey.
32:030.9.
32:04Then, they're covered up for storage.
32:06Do you want a pair of scissors or...
32:08I mean, they're scissors for girls.
32:09What do you think?
32:10Do we use those?
32:11Or do we just chew through them?
32:12I'm sure this is what the makers of Reynolds Wrap had in mind
32:14when they were hoping to see their product featured on the TV.
32:18Yeah, I think I used that once to wrap up a tin full of crap.
32:21Finally, the packs of poo are stored in the fridge.
32:23This is poo corner.
32:26Freezing the samples ensures their freshness
32:28when they finally get to the lab.
32:30Oh, what a great way to cool off in the dog days of summer.
32:34A big tin of crap.
32:38The average thoroughbred produces around 30 to 40 pounds of fresh poop per day,
32:4465 to 75% of which is water.
32:47The specific amount per day depends on the amount of food the horse is eating,
32:51the digestibility of the feed,
32:52and the water content of the poo.
33:01Here's the bottom line.
33:03For accurate test results, the key is fresh poo.
33:07And it doesn't get any fresher than our next test.
33:10The pH testing involves not only all of the poo from the three animals
33:14that we've collected and sorted and frozen,
33:18but this thing again, I haven't seen one in a while,
33:20but we go in to pull the freshest of fresh samples?
33:23Yes, most reliable to get it fresh.
33:25Why do we do it?
33:26Because it wouldn't be as fresh as possible, so it's not exposed to air,
33:29so it's the most reliable to get it out of the horse
33:31rather than collect it off the ground.
33:33Even like right now, if we were to catch it coming out,
33:36it still wouldn't be as pure?
33:38As pure.
33:39Okay.
33:40Now you're all set.
33:41What it is, just rub that around on your fingers a bit.
33:43You know, just a couple of fingers,
33:45and then just to get the horse used to the idea.
33:47Let the Boy Scouts be prepared.
33:49It only needs a couple nuggets of manure.
33:51Right.
33:53And you're right-handed, just slip on in there,
33:56and I can get on the other side and get the tail for you.
33:58That'd be great. Thanks.
33:59Once again, you get the plum job up there by the head.
34:03All right, just to...
34:05They didn't know you were there.
34:05Oh, I'm here. I'm right here. I'm in this area.
34:08And just wrist-deep.
34:10Should be enough to get it.
34:13Whoopsie-dice. There we go.
34:15The hard part's getting in.
34:17Isn't it always?
34:18In the next 30 years.
34:29There you go.
34:30Okay.
34:30Sorry, pie.
34:31A couple of balls.
34:33There we go.
34:34Just settle for one?
34:35Yep.
34:35One will be...
34:36That's a good size one.
34:37Doesn't get much fresher.
34:39Okay, right now,
34:40Catherine is calibrating the pH machine.
34:43A lot of pretty colors.
34:44So I'm calibrating for acid, so pH 4, and the neutral, and then pH 10, which is alkaline.
34:52So it measures if something's acidic or alkaline.
34:56Okay.
34:56pH that's too low causes colic or laminitis, meaning a horse can't digest its food properly,
35:02leading to maladies such as split hooves.
35:05So now you're going to start taking some poo, and you want to measure out 50 grams of poo
35:10into that cup.
35:11And you want to be very precise, like, but it pretty much needs to be 50.000.
35:17I pulled darn near, very close to 50 grams of poo out of pie.
35:21Talent right there.
35:23Still need just a bit more.
35:26Half a gram?
35:27Yep.
35:28Okay, that's a little bit too much.
35:30One-tenth of a gram too much?
35:32Yes.
35:32You're strict.
35:33Yes.
35:34It needs to be very precise.
35:36Okay.
35:37We try to get it as close as possible, because if we start...
35:39No, we're going to get this to 50.
35:40We're going to get it as close.
35:4150 point.
35:42Ought, ought, ought, ought, ought, ought, ought.
35:44Okay, you're still going to want to take out just a little sliver.
35:47I'm looking for a piece of poo, roughly a tenth of a gram.
35:50You're looking for in the hundredths.
35:52What she said, it's not that at all.
35:53It's more like a hundredth of a gram.
35:55Forty-nine point, nine, seven, two, nine.
35:57You can get closer than that.
35:59You can get it within, like...
36:00Yeah, I'm going to.
36:01I told you, I'm going to get it.
36:02I'm not leaving until it's 50, ought, ought, ought.
36:04Forty-nine, nine, seven, eight, oh.
36:06So close.
36:07That's pretty close.
36:08I don't think so.
36:09We've made this thing a really personal kind of odyssey.
36:12Fifty point, zero, zero, seven, six, nine, six, eight, six, seven.
36:17It's getting lighter by the second.
36:18I think it might be dehydrating now.
36:20That's an interesting theory, Joanne.
36:23God, I'm a hundredth of a gram over.
36:24You're pretty close.
36:25Yeah, I realize that, Joanne.
36:27We can let that slide.
36:28We could, but we're not.
36:30You made your point earlier, and now we're going to see this thing through.
36:32We're looking for, what is it, a hundredth of a gram now?
36:35You're looking for in the thousands.
36:37It's the idea of a microscopic turd that'll get us where we need to be.
36:42Look at that.
36:43Yeah, I think this is pretty good.
36:45Oh, I think so, too, but it doesn't seem to be all zeros.
36:48Oh, boy.
36:49Four, nine, nine.
36:50This is where we're really close.
36:51I think that's as good as we're going to get.
36:53Don't tell me what to do.
36:55Now the more I put in, the lesser it gets.
36:57This is truly some magical poo.
36:59I think it's drying out as we speak.
37:00You're not allowed to make that point anymore.
37:04It's so light, it won't even fall.
37:06It's hovering.
37:07I'm dropping magical pieces of hovering poo.
37:10Oh, oh.
37:11Hold everything.
37:13Watch it, Troy.
37:14Watch it.
37:15It's evaporating.
37:16Look at it go.
37:17Joanne, come here.
37:18Be with me when this happens.
37:19Be with me.
37:21Watch it.
37:22Look at it.
37:23Look at it, Troy.
37:23Stay with it.
37:24Ready?
37:26Grab it, grab it.
37:28What do you mean, grab it?
37:29Grab it.
37:29Oh, no, no.
37:30We saw it.
37:30That's good.
37:31At least we saw it.
37:32Did you see it?
37:32Did you see it?
37:33Did you see the zeros?
37:34Did you see it?
37:35Now that we have exactly 50 grams of poo, the next step is to mix it with distilled water.
37:41Measure out 150.
37:42No problem.
37:44What is distilled water exactly?
37:45It's water that's been distilled.
37:47You know, honestly.
37:50Do you want me to measure out?
37:52No.
37:53I'm sorry.
37:54No, I don't.
37:54Do you want me to draw a line on it?
37:55Would that be?
37:56No.
37:56No?
37:57Okay.
37:58You definitely can't pour any of that back into the bottle.
38:00What's going to happen?
38:01Distilled water police going to come, rough me up, take me downtown.
38:04That's 150.
38:06Coming up.
38:06You're going to put pies, poo that you pulled out of his rear end.
38:09Join us in the kitchen as we make a smoothie with poo.
38:13A poofy.
38:15It's like wheatgrass.
38:16This is probably the stuff they serve in the club.
38:18Jokes on everybody.
38:27Who would have thought that in order to properly test the pH levels of horse poo,
38:31you'd need access to common kitchen appliances.
38:35Now you're going to take your blender.
38:37You're going to put pies, poo that you pulled out of his rear end into there.
38:42And then rinse out that cup.
38:44Make sure you don't have anything left in there.
38:46Look, it's really clinging to the wall there.
38:51So, get off.
38:52Get off it.
38:54Get off of it.
38:55It worked hard to get you.
38:58Every little gram is one clean cup.
39:03Okay.
39:04Now you want to blend it.
39:05Oranges, bananas, nothing else goes in here?
39:07No, that's for later.
39:09Maybe some bourbon.
39:10Yeah.
39:11Poo and bourbon.
39:12Maker's skid mark.
39:15It's not bad.
39:16That was pretty good.
39:17It's not bad.
39:17That was pretty good.
39:17It's not bad.
39:18Yeah.
39:26All right.
39:27All right.
39:28Now you're going to dump all that poo so that we can stick the pH meter in there.
39:34It's like wheatgrass.
39:35This is probably the stuff they serve in the club.
39:37Jokes on everybody.
39:40What about all this stuff that's left behind?
39:43Can you tap the bottom on there?
39:45I'll tap the bottom, sure.
39:48I always wait to be asked first.
39:50Not the kind of thing you just do.
39:53Is that sufficient?
39:54Yeah.
39:55We just need to be able to get the pH meter in there now.
39:58We're just going to stick this in, right?
40:00Yep.
40:00Stick that in.
40:01Not touching the bottom.
40:03No.
40:03I'm going to push hold.
40:04It is 6.76 is the pH.
40:08The pH in this perfectly mixed blend of poo and distilled water is 6.76.
40:14Yep.
40:15All right.
40:15The information gathered here is shared with 40 different equine feed companies on six continents,
40:21improving nutrition for horses worldwide.
40:24So.
40:24Okay, good.
40:25Yeah.
40:26So that's it for pH.
40:27Oh, thank you.
40:28Okay, I'm staying standing.
40:29That's enough.
40:31So we're done?
40:32We're done with the pH.
40:34Yeah.
40:34So what we know then is that Pi's poo, when 50 grams of it is precisely mixed with 150
40:43milliliters of distilled water, the pH of it is essentially right on neutral.
40:49Just below.
40:50Yeah.
40:50And because Pi and his diaper represent a control group of sorts, that's exactly what you wanted
40:56to see.
40:56Exactly what we expected to see.
40:58All right.
40:58So now, the only thing left to do is do something with the urine.
41:02Yes.
41:03All right.
41:04You just want this shaken?
41:06Shaken, not stirred.
41:07After the urine is thoroughly mixed.
41:09That's probably good.
41:11It's poured into a container we can work with.
41:13All right.
41:14Then poured into a graduated cylinder, exactly 150 milliliters.
41:20Right on the line.
41:22Impressive.
41:23The best.
41:23I'm impressed.
41:24It's perfect.
41:27It's peeping.
41:28Then, it's poured into an even smaller container.
41:32Every last drop.
41:34There.
41:35And finally, stored in the refrigerator to be sent to the lab.
41:39Once again, another freezer full of urine.
41:43You want to put it up here?
41:43Yeah.
41:44Good?
41:44That's good.
41:45All right.
41:46All that's left to do is the dishes.
41:51Is this going to the dishwasher as well?
41:53No, this is it.
41:54This is one blender you want to be fairly thorough with.
41:57Have you honestly ever seen anybody get closer to 50.0000?
42:03Honestly?
42:04Yeah.
42:04Yeah.
42:07You said honestly.
42:09Really hard to believe.
42:11I'm going to stop with the honesty.
42:13How about that?
42:13Yeah, let's just, it's enough.
42:16All right, the rest is on you.
42:17All right.
42:18Thank you again.
42:19Absolutely instructive.
42:20You're a delight.
42:21Thanks for putting up with us.
42:23No problem.
42:24And keep the shirt.
42:24Yeah.
42:25And my hat.
42:26And your broken hat.
42:27Just look at that look.
42:28I'm going to enjoy this for...
42:31Ask me if I'm coming back here.
42:33I'll give you a hint.
42:36No.
42:38It made me very dizzy.
42:45Well, we're pretty much at the end of our rope here with the whole dirty job idea thing.
42:50If you've got one, discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:57You'll really get my goat.
43:08Did Mike leave?
43:09Yeah, he couldn't take the smell, man.
43:10Sorry.
43:11Oh.
43:12Gee, that's too bad.
43:13Yeah, I'll take that.
43:14Sure.
43:14Thanks, man.
43:15No worries.
43:28It's time for you guys.
43:31You didn't work hard enough today.
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