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00:00This is my job.
00:03I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:07Oh, what are we putting a hole in the middle?
00:10Nothing.
00:12Oh.
00:12Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living.
00:15Yeah, I now work for you. You're my boss.
00:18You tell me what to do.
00:19Only today, huh?
00:20Maybe less.
00:22Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:26Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:33Coming up on Dirty Jobs.
00:35Well, we're going to shrink wrap a boat today.
00:37That's what I heard. Why do you do that?
00:39I take a pleasure cruise that's a pain in the butt.
00:42I liked it at first, but it's kind of miserable.
00:45Where freezing off my fanny.
00:46I think I fell in the water a little bit.
00:48And playing with fire.
00:49Sure.
00:50Are all just part of the job.
00:51Uh-oh, that was close.
00:53Then, reindeer.
00:58They may be Santa's little helpers.
01:00Okay, a little help.
01:01Yeesh!
01:02But, they can also kill you.
01:04Perfect.
01:05Up near the North Pole.
01:07Woo!
01:07I get some lessons in the care and feeding of these mythical creatures.
01:11Is this the part where you tell me they hate the color red?
01:14Yeah, you know that is right. I hadn't thought of that.
01:16Yeah.
01:19Oh, God.
01:20Ready to the snow and the snow.
01:22Ah!
01:24Ah!
01:24Ah!
01:25It's the day.
01:27Ah!
01:28Ah!
01:30Ah!
01:32Kind of looks like New Jersey, doesn't it?
01:34Just on the other side of the Hudson River?
01:36It'd be reasonable to assume that because we're in Manhattan Harbor.
01:40But, the thing is, Manhattan Harbor is not in Manhattan or in New York.
01:44It's in Dayton, Kentucky.
01:47Dayton, Kentucky was established in 1849.
01:50See?
01:50Back in 1849, it was cold in Dayton, Kentucky, and it's cold today.
01:56Here in Manhattan Harbor, I'm going to find a houseboat and wrap it up in plastic.
02:01I don't know why.
02:02I just know that we're not in New York.
02:03And it's cold.
02:05So, the Dirty Jobs producers told me to go see a shrink.
02:09It's only a matter of time, I suppose.
02:11So, I found one.
02:12One that charges by the foot, not by the hour.
02:15And there's no lying down on a couch.
02:17The job is working for the Land and Sea Collection of Cincinnati, Ohio, just across the Ohio River
02:22from Dayton, Kentucky.
02:23Shrink wrapping a houseboat to protect it from harsh winter weather.
02:27I'm not sure who these guys are, but I bet you're Mark.
02:29Hi, Mike.
02:30How are you?
02:30I'm great, thanks.
02:31How are you?
02:31Brian.
02:32Brian.
02:32Kenny.
02:33Kenny.
02:33Tom.
02:34Tom.
02:35Ron.
02:35Ron.
02:36Alan.
02:36Alan.
02:37Mark.
02:38Brian.
02:39Ron.
02:40Tom.
02:41Alan.
02:42Kenny.
02:43Ron.
02:44Kenny.
02:45Alan.
02:46Tom.
02:46Why is this called Manhattan?
02:48I really don't know, but it's been a marina for about the past 20 years.
02:52Why am I here?
02:53Well, we're going to shrink wrap a boat today.
02:55That's what I heard.
02:55Why do you do that?
02:56Well, you do it to protect it against the element, not only the regular airborne, but
03:01we're on a path of a local airport to keep some jet fuel off of it.
03:04What is it covered with, exactly?
03:06Basically, a plastic-type material that will shrink to size, and we have to build a superstructure
03:13in it to keep all the water always flowing off of it as well, too.
03:17Were you the boss in charge of the operation?
03:19I own the company, but I know very little about what we do.
03:22They try to keep it that way.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Well, I'll tell you what, then.
03:24Why don't you stand behind Tom there for a second?
03:26Tom, Tom, here's the one I can show you the most.
03:29You're going to be sort of bossing me around?
03:31That's going to be it.
03:32Which one are we going to be working on?
03:33We're going to do this one right here.
03:34It's a 42-foot tucker with a fly bridge on top.
03:38And when we get done with this one, we hope it kind of looks like that one.
03:41How long would it take you normally, if said?
03:44Normally, our crew here would be four to five hours to do this boat from start to finish.
03:50You realize it's going to take longer than that?
03:51Uh, yes.
03:53Is this a dangerous job?
03:55It can be.
03:56Why is that?
03:57First of all, on this thing right here, as soon as you climb aboard, this is a steel boat.
04:01You're going to find it is just absolutely slick as it can be.
04:05Of course, you're going to be using propane, okay, in an open flame.
04:08And then if we start to shrink from the inside, that torch burns a lot of oxygen.
04:13Next thing you know, you, you know, pass out, okay, so.
04:22Really?
04:23No, I'm not.
04:24I mean, come on.
04:26Yeah, this is, I guarantee you, my guys are going down.
04:29Okay.
04:30No doubt about it.
04:30I may not be a fortune teller, but three minutes and 17 seconds later, it turned out I had seen the future.
04:38Oh, jeez.
04:42So you used the camera to break your fall.
04:45That's a good one.
04:46Oh, no.
04:47Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
04:52This is our show.
04:53What do you think?
04:55I think it's going to be great.
04:56We're already down two cameras.
05:03Doug's first one went down.
05:04We lost the tape.
05:05The second one won't fire up, so we're all, we might actually wind up using some of Dave's footage in this one.
05:10Before we started wrapping, we had to remove items from the deck that would otherwise puncture the plastic when it shrinks.
05:16Doug, just so you know, that's, that's going to hit you in the head there.
05:19There you go.
05:26Next thing we're going to do is we're going to make like a tent across the top, and these right here are going to be your center pulls,
05:35and of course they'll just go down to the middle, and then we use the webbing there.
05:39They call it banding, okay?
05:41And we'll tie it off, and then we get that done, then we're going to have to do the bottom, right around the water's edge, okay?
05:49Right.
05:50And this is just called banding, Doug?
05:52Yeah.
05:52Mm-hmm.
05:52Are you dancing or what?
05:59Same on the other side.
06:02God!
06:04It's actually slippery and nice.
06:06Yeah, it is.
06:07We have to build a tent with a raised center in order for water to flow off the shrink wrap properly.
06:12If the boat was wrapped without a tent, the plastic would sag in places and collect water and possibly get punctured.
06:18I feel like I'm in a Marx Brothers movie.
06:19Ha, ha, ha, ha.
06:22Oh, that was close.
06:42what is that never seen that before have you no like that no no it was a slipknot that slipped
06:54the wrong way out of there no such thing as too fast hey nothing please don't work
06:59hell did i do that again yep god darn it
07:08down we go one way or another earlier tom's crew had tied looped pieces of webbing to the boat's
07:18handrail in order to hold the waistband which we were about to put on now you got to take this
07:23all the way around the whole boat through all the holes through all the holes this waistband is what
07:28will ultimately secure the wrapping onto the boat it's not unlike the waistband on a pair of trousers
07:33just a lot longer and just like that i'm covered the boys are covered we're about to cover a boat
07:41that's it you got am i imagining things or is it colder than it was moments ago older and the river's
07:46coming up you got okay what's this thing weigh ron 107 pounds super of the boats that are kept in the
07:56water year round forty percent are shrink wrap for winter once the plastic was draped on we had to
08:12attach it to the waistband by tacking it down with a heat gun starting at the back and working our way
08:17around all right so that it like a heat gun oh yeah yeah looks hot it's pretty hot when you heat this
08:27plastic you have to keep moving it's just like spraying paint you have to keep moving right if
08:31you stop just for a second you'll burn a hole in the plastic okay
08:33so it's that waistline that's right in between each side yeah the whole works is just being fused together
08:43yeah
08:44the shrink wrap has to be dry when the heat gun is used otherwise where there's water the gun
08:53will burn a hole through the plastic
08:55hey that's a great idea because all the hair has gone off the wrist
09:01so you don't want to stay on it too long because if you do see there that's bad
09:13coming up i burn the midnight oil inside the plastic bubble
09:26it's a pain in the ass huh honestly it really is
09:28but there's one little hitch
09:30i think i fused my ass to the deck
09:32after a little bit i passed out
09:33then up in santa country
09:38a case of mistaken identity
09:41well you look like an elf
09:42leads to a beautiful friendship
09:46for god's sakes man
09:47and a dirty job as well
09:50and you just shovel it in the back
09:51just don't
09:52of course no mike
09:54don't shovel it in the back
09:55put it in the cab
09:56i guess we're getting to the point where the rest of it we get from a boat
10:06yes
10:07we're gonna have to put the boat in the water
10:08in order to fasten the wrap to the waistband on the other half of this boat
10:13we're gonna have to take a ride in another smaller boat
10:15the water's not too deep and we're only a few feet from the dock
10:18but even so by law we have to carry life vests
10:22oh that's good doug yeah you definitely want to stand that's good
10:26a few weeks after we shot this story mother nature showed why it's an important job
10:33kentucky was hit by severe ice storms that left half a million people without electricity
10:37and parts of the state were declared to be disaster areas
10:40oh
10:43uh-oh
10:45oh well
10:45this is a little hole
10:46it'd be bad for this to drip on me wouldn't it
10:49yeah
10:49damn it
10:55oh
10:57so how do you like it this far
10:59i'll tell you honestly i liked it at first but it's kind of miserable
11:02i mean i've totally destroyed my back
11:04i think i've had some plastic melt in my hand
11:07and uh
11:08i think i fell in the water a little bit
11:10turns out i got more than a little bit wet
11:13a lot more
11:14give him a raise man give him a raise
11:26now the big guys we bring out the big heat and shrink this thing tight
11:30so you can't hardly see the flame when it's fast
11:33right but it's there so you got to kind of watch the plastic see what you're doing
11:37sure
11:43ron tells me that shrinking the plastic from the outside is easy the real challenge begins
11:49once we install this plastic door crawl through and start shrink wrapping from the inside
11:55i feel like i'm in a dream i gotta tell you man i'm not even sure i woke up today
11:59wet i'm cold
12:01i'm gonna wrap the boat in a condom and put a door in it
12:04just get weirder by the moment
12:07now i'm gonna go inside and do something with that
12:09to the roof of it
12:10we're gonna go on a front deck
12:12all right
12:13okay
12:17okay
12:17see you're on low
12:27see right there is what you want
12:42if it starts doing that right there then just keep moving
12:44it's tight enough you can tell because it ain't moving as much
12:55uh-huh
12:55see how tight that is over there that's not flapping look at this it's flapping
13:00right
13:00and they're doing the same thing on the outside as we are on the inside except they got the big one
13:05i'm just basically doing what he can't do
13:07you probably are sucking the auctions out of the air
13:09yeah
13:10yeah
13:11after a little bit you'll pass out
13:12this little flame thrower is burning up the oxygen faster than it's coming in through the door i made
13:22so i've got to pace myself with the work
13:25otherwise it's quite possible i'll end up extinguishing myself along with the flame
13:29these tight quarters there ron
13:31yeah i know it
13:32that gun gets heavy after a little bit of dinner
13:34it really does you know when you're wrapped up here like this giant burrito
13:38yeah yeah move your arms freezing sweating stuck i think i fused my ass to the deck
13:50it's very close I think i said that this giant burrito is full of functionality as well as it's handled as close as I go after that
13:59but it looks like you've got
14:03you'll never hear the thing actually
14:04didn't you want to flip up any time
14:04because you know English is whole thing about me
14:05and I'm not канале based on what you like
14:07it's much later
14:07is right
14:08I think there are some waiting to click to remove the gas
14:09It's one of those jobs where you don't really know when you're done.
14:28I mean, to me, it looks like we're done.
14:29We have the shrink wrap on the boat, but we can do this a lot more.
14:33I can get back in the little boat again and do that more.
14:36I could slip and fall some more.
14:37We've made the point, right?
14:40Winter comes down here in the High River in Kentucky.
14:43Wrap up your boats.
14:44That's what you do.
14:45Okay.
14:45Any questions?
14:46Good.
14:52Tom, that is one unique environment.
14:54Okay.
14:54It's really a pleasure.
14:55Thanks.
14:56I've never been inside of a wrapped boat.
14:58How long is it going to take old Al there to finish?
15:00Oh, probably about another half hour, 45 minutes.
15:03All right.
15:03Well, I'd love to stick around, but I'm not going to.
15:05You've got to go.
15:06Come back again.
15:08Low center of gravity.
15:09Be careful, man.
15:10Water's absolute zero.
15:13Coming up, I meet some of the most fabled creatures on Earth.
15:16What makes reindeer different than just regular deer?
15:20But for some strange reason, the fabled creatures don't want to meet me.
15:24We're going to squeeze the reindeer and keep their heads sticking out.
15:27It's going to be great.
15:28Whoa, whoa, whoa.
15:29We're done.
15:30We're done?
15:30It's another fiasco.
15:32Look at me.
15:32Do I look dangerous in this thing?
15:34You look very obvious.
15:35Next.
15:35If I ask one more stupid question, I swear.
15:38Alaska, it may not be the final frontier, but the extreme forces of nature here can make
15:53it one of the most forbidding.
15:54And the ferocity of Alaska's carnivorous wildlife strikes fear into the hearts of all who dare
16:01to cross her unforgiving wilderness.
16:04Today, Dirty Jobs comes face to face with a creature of mythic proportions that symbolizes
16:10the very essence of Alaska's mystery.
16:18Yeah, that's a reindeer embroidered by hand on my crimson sweatshirt.
16:23Nice, huh?
16:24And check out the lid, also made by hand from a loyal viewer named Lorraine.
16:30Anyway, I've come to Palmer, Alaska today to learn all I can about reindeer and fashion.
16:37Haven't you heard?
16:40Red's the new black.
16:44About 42 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, you'll find the 60-acre Williams Reindeer Ranch,
16:50where about 130 reindeer frolic on the frozen tundra, along with assorted elk, moose, buffalo,
16:56and during tourist season, thousands of camera-toting looky-loos hoping to answer the age-old question,
17:02do reindeer really know how to fly?
17:07I was told we'd all be wearing the red sweatshirts.
17:10Well, we ran out.
17:11Yeah, this is Tom, and this is Brett, and this is Jake, and this is your place.
17:16It's the best I can do with a bunch of reindeer.
17:19How many reindeer you got here?
17:21Oh, I haven't counted for a couple of days, but I think there's about 130 or so.
17:26You think some more showed up in the interim?
17:28Well, you never know.
17:29You know, sometimes they get born, sometimes they die, but no one's died all winter.
17:34It's been a strange winter.
17:36With the conspicuous lack of death stalking the mountains here.
17:39We used to have predators, but they get a disease when they come around here.
17:44What's that?
17:44It's called lead poisoning.
17:45Oh, I see what you're saying.
17:46Lead poisoning.
17:47You're talking about shooting things.
17:49Yeah.
17:49I got you.
17:50You're not a predator, Mike.
17:51You can relax.
17:52Look at me.
17:52Do I look dangerous in this thing?
17:54You look very obvious.
17:55You know what?
17:56I retract the question.
17:57I want to focus on reindeer.
17:58What are we going to do to them today?
18:00Well, there's a group of them, a small group.
18:03I mean, are they groups or are they herds?
18:05I guess it's a herd of reindeer.
18:06I'll call them gaggle if you want.
18:07I don't much care.
18:08Reindeers, plural, as well.
18:10It's improper to say reindeers.
18:12You're supposed to say deer if there's more than one.
18:15It's like moose.
18:15You don't say meese.
18:17So it's one moose, two moose, 20 moose.
18:20Yes.
18:20What makes reindeer different than just regular deer?
18:24They're the only deer that can live in the Arctic climate.
18:26We're not in the Arctic circle.
18:28No, this is a really hot place for them.
18:30What are we going to do today?
18:31How can I help?
18:32I mean, I really just want to learn.
18:34I want to become one with the reindeers, the deer with the rain.
18:37Well, you know, it's kind of tedious because every day we've got to go feed them.
18:41And the first thing is to go out in the field and get some round bales, bring them up here,
18:46put them in the grinder.
18:47Is he talking about hay?
18:49Yes.
18:49Round bales.
18:50Okay, right.
18:51Round bales of hay in there.
18:52All right.
18:52And then out of this grain bin, we're going to get six or eight buckets of grain.
18:58Brett here is an expert on our feeder.
19:00So you and I are going to do grain?
19:01You and I do some hay?
19:02You're going to do some hay.
19:03We're going to go out there and get the hay.
19:05We're going to come back and we're going to grind it up in the hay grinder right here.
19:07What do you actually do?
19:09I mean, do you do work at all?
19:11Well, I have three full-time jobs, feeding them and taking care of them all summer.
19:16And we have a tourist attraction here in the summer.
19:18And then I have a farm out at Point McKenzie where I make this hay.
19:22And then I have a small office in Eagle River, which is 25 miles the other way.
19:27What do you do in the small office?
19:29I'm a lawyer.
19:31Okay.
19:32Wrong show, Tom.
19:34Let's go get the hay.
19:35All right, dude.
19:35I'll do the buckets with the thing and I'll see you later.
19:37All right, sounds good.
19:38You work for a lawyer.
19:40Most people don't know it, but reindeer are actually domesticated caribou.
19:45Think of them as the cattle of the Arctic.
19:48Their hides are used for all kinds of clothing, pants and boots in particular.
19:52Their shin bones are used for fish hooks and other interesting things.
19:55And they taste pretty good.
19:57Their meat is low in fat and high in protein.
20:01In fact, some of Tom's reindeer will end up as steaks and sausages.
20:05So, tell the kids that this Christmas, along with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads,
20:11they can also look forward to visions of sausages landing on their rooftops.
20:16Ho, ho, ho.
20:18And this is what?
20:19About 1870?
20:20Pretty close.
20:21There's a little screwdriver you're going to see up here now.
20:24Now, remember we said everything's kind of old, so.
20:26Then there's a little ignition thing right down there.
20:29Stick it in there.
20:29There you go.
20:30And pull this little lever out, right?
20:33There we go.
20:38We're going that way?
20:39We're going to be going down that way, yep.
20:43A lot of times when we drive up next to this, that elk right there will come up and charge the fence at us.
20:49Who's that guy?
20:50His name's Eddie.
20:51He's a big ham in the summertime.
20:53He loves tourists.
20:54Well, Mike, we've got all these hay bales right here in the middle.
20:57You can pretty much just pick whatever one you want and we can get her out.
21:05There you go.
21:06Now let's see if we can go ahead and walk out with it.
21:09Let's go ahead and try to back up.
21:12This is here and that was there.
21:20Nice and slow.
21:21That way we get it up there no problem.
21:22Yeah.
21:24We'll pull right up next to that yellow bin there.
21:27So it's the idea to get this thing in the yellow tub?
21:30Yes, sir.
21:30That's what it is.
21:35Right about there.
21:36Now go ahead and push that one forward and drop your bucket.
21:38It's going to drop right in there.
21:41There it is.
21:42Look at that.
21:43Coming up, a wrangle rowdy reindeer.
21:46I would like to say that I've never been hurt by a reindeer or a horse.
21:50I'd like to say that too, but I'd be lying.
21:51Yeah, me too.
21:53And meet a reindeer rancher from Alabama.
21:55Come on, man.
21:56What do you do with reindeer in Alabama?
21:57Really?
21:57We help sign out.
21:59Uh-huh.
21:59You're just saying that because I'm dressed like a freaking elf.
22:02Jake tells me they don't feed their reindeer just plain old hay.
22:13They grind it up for them first and later mix it with beer mash and nutrient pellets.
22:20Should be going.
22:23We're probably going to have to go up there and persuade it a little bit.
22:25All right.
22:32Don't go push you too far.
22:34Yeah.
22:35That's why you don't put your hands in there.
22:39Whoop.
22:39Whoop.
22:40Now it's shooting out a bunch.
22:43That's what we want it to do.
22:44Oh, that looks like it's working.
22:45Yep, now it's working.
22:47Now we're going to go inside there and we're going to start picking that stuff out to the
22:50wall and just kind of let this do its thing.
22:53Gotcha.
22:54As you can see, it starts piling up.
22:56Well, when it does this, it starts falling out that way.
22:58We just kind of want to pull it back and even it out.
23:08I think I get the idea.
23:10Yeah, you definitely got the one-on-one on the hay grinding.
23:13All right.
23:13So I think we can shut this down and wrap this up and we'll show you what it takes to
23:18feed them now.
23:19Now we're actually going to feed reindeer.
23:21Yes, sir.
23:22After you.
23:25We're going to come over here to our feed truck.
23:27As you can see, it's...
23:28What the heck happened here, man?
23:29Isn't it time to seriously consider an upgrade?
23:31I think it is, yeah.
23:33This thing's been pretty trustworthy until this morning.
23:35What happened this morning?
23:36Well, this morning the starter decided didn't want to start it no more.
23:39Will you jump it or you pop the clutch?
23:41Well, we're probably going to pull you behind my black truck over there and pop the clutch
23:46and see if we can get her to fire her off.
23:47I'll sit here and prepare myself.
23:49All righty.
23:50Okay, I'm prepared.
23:52Why we don't use the truck that seems to be running perfectly fine instead of the broken
23:56down bucket of bolts I'm sitting in is a mystery.
24:00I've been in some crappy trucks.
24:04There's another one.
24:05All righty.
24:05All righty.
24:09I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
24:14Go ahead.
24:17Yeah, baby.
24:18Go ahead on.
24:19Oh, yeah.
24:20Oh, listen to that thing purr.
24:23Like a kitty.
24:24So if it dies, we'll do this again.
24:29We'll probably have to do it again, yes.
24:31It should stay running.
24:32Yeah, it sounds like it.
24:33The beer mash is up here in the garage and we'll layer it in the bed of this truck.
24:37We'll throw in some beer mash and we'll put in a layer of pellets.
24:40So we got hay, we got pellets and we got mash.
24:42And mash.
24:43Exactly how it goes.
24:44And then we'll get to the reindeer.
24:45Then we'll get to the reindeer.
24:46You got to wonder if feeding the animals a beer byproduct makes them somehow more entertaining
24:56for the tourists to watch.
24:58It'd be fun to see if we ever actually get to the feeding.
25:02Found the truck's off.
25:04Yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to start without pulling it.
25:06We thought we had an ignition wire off, but...
25:09And I have another problem, Mike.
25:11What's your problem?
25:12We got a vet over here.
25:14We need some help over there to get deer tested.
25:16So we can come back and feed later?
25:18Yes.
25:19We're going to sell these deer.
25:20They're going to Alabama and I kind of got to get this job done.
25:23You're selling reindeer to Alabamians?
25:25Yeah.
25:25I sold over 300 animals into 23 states.
25:28It's my business.
25:29Where is the vet?
25:30Over there at the squeeze chute.
25:33Are you coming with?
25:34Yes.
25:34The squeeze chute?
25:35So their heads are going in and we're going to hold them?
25:37We're going to squeeze their body and keep their heads sticking out.
25:40We're going to squeeze the reindeer and keep their heads sticking out.
25:43It's going to be great.
25:46This is our handling facility.
25:49They're just standing there waiting for us to put them through the chute
25:51so we can catch them and test them for diseases and draw blood and whatnot on them.
25:56They've got weapons, but they're not dangerous.
25:59These are yearlings.
26:00They were born in April of 2008.
26:03And on an average, they weighed about 10 to 15 pounds.
26:08Jeez.
26:09And they're quick.
26:11Is this the part where you tell me they hate the color red?
26:15Yeah, you know that is right.
26:16I hadn't thought of that.
26:18The horns do appear sharp.
26:20I would like to say that I've never been hurt by a reindeer or a horse.
26:24I'd like to say that too, but I'd be lying.
26:26Yeah, me too.
26:27Let's go this way now.
26:28Any time you're perforated by anything, it's almost always a bad sign.
26:34This is Patrick.
26:36He's a gate man.
26:37And he's going to hold the deer.
26:39And so we get just one at a time in the squeeze chute.
26:42There are eight inches of foam on each side with this real coarse plastic here.
26:47Gotcha.
26:48And that holds the deer.
26:49And you are?
26:50Sabrina Holland.
26:51I'm the veterinarian that's working with the reindeer today.
26:54This is Larry here.
26:55What is it?
26:56Larry.
26:56What about it, Mike?
26:58Where are you from?
26:59Alabama.
27:00Well, that's what I heard.
27:01A guy from Alabama.
27:01So you're the one buying?
27:02I'm buying some reindeer today.
27:04Come on, Mel.
27:04What do you do with reindeer in Alabama?
27:05Really?
27:06We help sign out.
27:07Okay.
27:08We exhibit them with sign out.
27:09You're just saying that because I'm dressed like a freaking elf.
27:12Well, you look like an elf.
27:16I'm having a day, Larry.
27:17I'll level with you.
27:18All right.
27:18So you're buying reindeer.
27:20And what are you looking for specifically in these reindeer?
27:23Young ones that we can train.
27:25We hook them to the sleigh.
27:26Fly.
27:28Mike.
27:29I'm trying to go with the metaphor, man.
27:31Hey, you're going to see one fly today.
27:33I guarantee.
27:33I'm sure you'll fly right through me.
27:35All right.
27:36And, S.H., specifically, you'll be doing what?
27:39Yes.
27:39My job is to test the reindeer for brucellosis and tuberculosis to make sure that they can get
27:46their proper health paperwork to go to Alabama.
27:48What are the odds of us actually getting one of these beasts in here for up close and personal
27:52encounter?
27:53Well, what we say is, we're ready.
27:59Coming up, I discover a bad haircut can make a reindeer see red.
28:03Oh, sorry.
28:04Sorry.
28:05Oh, jeez.
28:05Look out.
28:07Then.
28:07Give her a jerk and see what happens.
28:10I get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
28:12And a little speed.
28:12Speed to test drive a rare, classic truck.
28:17That's how we do it.
28:19Whee!
28:27Here she comes.
28:28Oh, jeez.
28:28You're ready.
28:29Oh.
28:32There.
28:32There you got her.
28:33Not yet.
28:34Now we got her.
28:35What do you do here, Tom, to make sure it stays there?
28:38That?
28:38Whoa.
28:39No, no.
28:40It's the other way, I think, right?
28:41It's broken right now.
28:42Oh, it's broken?
28:43Broken, yeah.
28:44That does make it exciting.
28:45Yeah.
28:46Last time I played with it, it went down on it.
28:49It's just getting near stuff and it breaks.
28:51All right, so that's number 866?
28:54866.
28:55What you doing?
28:55You taking blood?
28:56I am.
28:57Mm-hmm.
28:57Got to find it first.
28:59There we go.
29:01Is that the jugular?
29:03That's what we're hunting for here.
29:05There we go.
29:07Sometimes can be a little challenging because of all the hair.
29:11And the way that they might tense their muscles up and close off the jugular vein.
29:18Now, as far as drawing blood from an animal, how does a reindeer rate?
29:22One is the most difficult and ten is the easiest.
29:25It's probably a three or a four.
29:27Yeah.
29:27Easy there, buddy.
29:33This is the tuberculin.
29:37I'm going to draw up a tenth of a cc.
29:39And we're going to inject in the hide.
29:44Are your fingers in his mouth, Larry?
29:45Yep.
29:46You can control them with that bottom chin a little easier.
29:49They got teeth in there?
29:50Little gristles.
29:51They're not too bad.
29:52You want to try?
29:53No, but I will.
29:54We good?
29:56All right.
29:56Off they go.
29:58We'll see about having you draw blood.
30:01I think we're ready.
30:02Okay.
30:02We're ready.
30:06Uh-oh.
30:06I haven't seen this move before.
30:08All right.
30:08Good.
30:09Okay.
30:10Now, you can actually, if you want to look, you can see the jugular pulse right there where
30:14the hair is moving.
30:15Really, the hair grows this direction.
30:17So, really, the jugular vein is up here.
30:20Okay?
30:20So, put your finger just, your thumb just above mine and push.
30:24And then I'll strum it.
30:25Can you feel it hitting your finger?
30:27Yep.
30:27Okay?
30:27So, that means that now you know where it's at.
30:29So, now you know that it's directly above your thumb, right?
30:33So, just be real still there.
30:34Don't move.
30:35So, I don't actually dently stick you and draw blood from you.
30:39Yep.
30:39There we go.
30:40Pull it out.
30:41Let go.
30:41We're done.
30:42You're in that piece of cake.
30:43Yeah.
30:43And where's the blood going to go?
30:44The blood is going to go in a tube to be tested for brucellosis.
30:50That's right.
30:50You told me that before.
30:52Again, it's all part of my testing process.
30:54If I get the same answer twice, I know you're being honest.
30:56Okay.
30:57And then we're going to take your clippers in your other pocket.
31:02Oh, clippers.
31:03Clippers.
31:04And we're going to clip a very small area right up next to the hide.
31:12There you go.
31:13Okay.
31:13Now we're going to take this tuberculin.
31:15We're going to inject this.
31:18There you go.
31:19All done.
31:21And off you go.
31:22All right.
31:23Let's go to that one.
31:23It's got to watch your face that sometimes don't.
31:26Come around with the antler and pull your eye out.
31:28Catch you right here and pull you around.
31:31That would hurt.
31:32Well, you don't want it up your nose either.
31:34Or get caught in your ear.
31:35Nope.
31:36Anybody orifice.
31:37Any orifice you typically want to keep the reindeer antler out of.
31:41Yes.
31:46Good.
31:47Yeah, this is.
31:50Fly away.
31:51Uh-oh.
31:52Things didn't go well, Mike.
31:53Come here, baby.
31:55Oh, there you go.
32:00Could I?
32:01You want to catch this one, Mike?
32:02I think so.
32:03Okay.
32:04Get him the big one.
32:05Oh, jeez.
32:07Well, somebody has to reach in there and pull him out.
32:10Who could we get?
32:11You're doing pretty good there, Mike.
32:12Don't eat.
32:13Okay, a little help.
32:15Oh, look out.
32:17Perfect.
32:18Oh, jeez.
32:19Look out.
32:19Oh, jeez.
32:20Sorry.
32:20Sorry.
32:20Sorry.
32:23Whoa, whoa, whoa.
32:28We're done.
32:29We're done?
32:29Yeah.
32:30Okay.
32:31Oh, big boy.
32:32Thanks for your help, Mike.
32:33No, are you kidding me?
32:34It's my pleasure.
32:35My pleasure.
32:36If I'm ever in Huntsville, I'll come looking for you.
32:39Good enough.
32:40I'm going to go feed the rest of these things now.
32:42I think that's where I left off.
32:43Right.
32:44So, Brett, you'll be assisting now in the second attempt to feed the reindeer.
32:48Yeah.
32:50Give her a jerk and see what happens.
32:52Go time.
32:53And a little speed.
32:54That's how we do it.
33:05I have to keep my foot on the gas.
33:09Going to stall.
33:14All right, guys.
33:15Let that foot commence.
33:20I have nine layers of clothes on.
33:23If I fall down, I'm like that kid in a Christmas story, man.
33:26I'll lay there like a slug.
33:29Uh-oh.
33:30Now we just take these and just do that number back here.
33:34Yep.
33:35Ain't got to be perfect.
33:37Good.
33:38Take one of these, guys.
33:44And then we get to have fun with shovels.
33:46This is the beer mashed with the beer sucked out of it.
33:48This is the spent grain, yeah.
33:51What's the thought process about feeding an animal a kind of grain with no nutrients in it?
33:55Well, it's more of a filler.
33:57These pellets, they hold all the nutrients that the animals...
34:00We might as well feed them sawdust.
34:02Yeah, I don't know, huh?
34:03You got an iron...
34:04You got an aluminum shovel anywhere.
34:05I'll trade you.
34:06Really?
34:07You want to...
34:07You bet.
34:08I'll even...
34:09You can go ahead and get started.
34:10Let me grab another shovel.
34:12And you just shovel it in the back?
34:13Yep.
34:14Of course.
34:15No, Mike.
34:15I'll shovel it in the back.
34:16Put it in the cab.
34:18Do that.
34:18Or maybe put it in the gas tank.
34:19That'd be good.
34:20If I ask myself one more stupid question, I swear...
34:24Coming up.
34:25Woo!
34:26They tell me feeding is the easy part.
34:28Come on, reindeer.
34:29Yeah, well, that's easy for them to say.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:31Come on.
34:32Come on.
34:32Come on.
34:32Come on.
34:33Come on.
34:33Come on.
34:34Come on.
34:35Come on.
34:35Come on.
34:41Wrestling reindeer and shoveling beer byproducts into a beat-up truck while wearing an elf outfit.
34:47That's a new one.
34:49I'd say we're about ready for another layer.
34:52Oh, the hay again?
34:53Yeah.
34:54The layering of hay, beer mash, and nutrient pellets creates sort of a perfectly balanced reindeer lasagna.
35:01All right, I think we've got about as much as we're going to get out of this bad chicken.
35:08Well, I'm no reindeer ranch expert, but it seems like the entire operation depends on popping the clutch to keep a beat-up truck going.
35:16That's right.
35:19Thanks, Jake.
35:20All right.
35:20All right, we've got a lot going on right here.
35:23Doug has screwed this thing into the dash, and Brett, I mean no offense, but I think this $400 camera is worth more than your whole truck.
35:32I believe you're right.
35:33All right, we also have a helicopter up there.
35:36We've got a bird in the air, and we've also got a couple of birds in the back squatting on the food.
35:41Think the reindeer ever see anything like this?
35:43No.
35:44I just want to feed them, man.
35:45Just tell me where to go next.
35:46That first gate, that's the one we'll go out.
35:52And the goal is to get these reindeer running through the gate?
35:55Just go out and kind of do a big loop.
35:57You mean around them?
35:58Right in front of them right here.
35:59That way they see the truck because they know it.
36:05One more loop around.
36:06One more loop just to let it over serious?
36:08Yep.
36:08And then head straight on through that gate into that next pen.
36:12Now what was the point of doing that?
36:13Showing the reindeer we're out here.
36:15All right.
36:16Now they know to follow us.
36:17If I'm a reindeer at this point, why am I following the lunatics in the truck?
36:21Because we've got the food.
36:22Oh, of course.
36:23If you want to eat, you better follow us.
36:26They're not really following us, are they?
36:28They took too direct of a route.
36:30Let's go ahead and feed out, and then we'll go chase them out here.
36:34This little feeding ritual happens twice a day on the farm.
36:37Rain or shine, sleet or snow, the animals have to get fed.
36:42Did it just get colder?
36:43I think so.
36:46So now don't you want your own herd of reindeer?
36:50All right.
36:51So one more pass, back where we were.
36:53Are we still going to try and get them to follow us?
36:54Yep.
36:54Or get behind them and kind of...
36:56Just kind of come up as close as you can to them.
36:58Get them to follow us.
36:59All right.
36:59That's the deal.
37:03Come on, reindeer.
37:04Get right up close to them.
37:11They're just too scary.
37:13Well, get behind them.
37:14Yeah, that might work.
37:15At this point, it's worth a try.
37:17Go on, reindeer.
37:20Move out.
37:21Move out right there.
37:21Move.
37:23Whee.
37:25Get out.
37:25Get out of here.
37:28Hold on.
37:29Move out.
37:31They ain't listening.
37:32Like any other situation, when reason fails, the only thing left is running and jumping
37:38and yelling and screaming.
37:40Holy crap.
37:41Oh, no.
37:42I stalled.
37:43Now we're screwed.
37:44Uh-oh.
37:45Yeah.
37:45All right, man.
37:55You drive.
37:55Good, man.
37:58Figure a ridiculous sweatshirt might actually come in handy.
38:03I've done a lot of ridiculous jobs the last five years.
38:07This one's up there.
38:08Woo-hoo!
38:09Woo-hoo!
38:15They don't want to cooperate with us.
38:23I think I can get behind them.
38:25I got my magic red sweatshirt.
38:26All right.
38:27We can do it.
38:29Jones, maybe you should drive.
38:37Jones isn't used to driving with his gear on.
38:39Or driving a garbage can with wheels that stalls a lot.
38:51Apparently, our pilot took pity on the pathetic sight he was witnessing below,
38:55decided to give us a hand.
39:02Oh, he's good.
39:03He's very good.
39:04He's very good.
39:09If I was one of those reindeer, I'd be crapping up with snow.
39:18Chopper pilot is money.
39:20He's carving them out of the herd, four or five at a time, running them into the pen.
39:24That's what we're talking about.
39:26Got some of them.
39:27I think that's enough.
39:29Uh-oh.
39:29Yeah.
39:30But before you can say reindeer can fly, they escaped back into the field.
39:35Hey, what happened?
39:37They're all out there now.
39:38We lost them all.
39:42So the deer, we just rounded up, just ran out.
39:45Well, yeah.
39:46They just left.
39:47Well, just so you know, this happens with us a lot, but this is the part of the day where suddenly...
39:52Well, we left the gate open, I think, down there.
39:54The gate was left open after all of the trouble.
39:57The reindeer, we got them in, and now they've run back out.
40:00All of this effort was for want because those deer went back and joined the herd again.
40:05Because someone forgot to lock the gate.
40:07That's correct.
40:08Someone, and I'm not going to name names, Tom, but someone...
40:11I heard you name Tom.
40:12I'm not going to say, I'm not going to point anyone out, but, you know, the owner, the proprietor.
40:17Yeah.
40:18That guy.
40:19That guy.
40:20Okay.
40:21He's the one who probably...
40:22The story is not out on this particular case.
40:23The guilty party is at hand, and he is currently on the TV.
40:29So we have nothing to do now.
40:31That's correct.
40:33There's a lonely moose looking to kiss you.
40:36Did you get her name?
40:37Yeah, Denny.
40:39Apparently, Denny the kissing moose has a thing for showbiz types.
40:43He made a few moves on Troy, but Denny's not really in the facial hair.
40:46Word gets around fast on the ranch, and even Dolly the buffalo wanted it on the action.
40:54Then, when Denny the moose heard there was a show host with a ripe banana, well, it was all over.
41:01This is Denny, huh?
41:02Yeah.
41:02How's it work?
41:03What do you do?
41:04Put it in your mouth.
41:04He'll take it out of your mouth.
41:05See him come up like that?
41:07He'll come right up like that and take it out of your mouth.
41:09And I just hold still?
41:10Yeah.
41:11Will there be tongue involved?
41:12No.
41:13Not unless you don't lose your tongue.
41:16Here.
41:18Oh, there he is.
41:22Have there enough for you?
41:24Oh, yeah.
41:25They always come back for more.
41:26For God's sakes, man.
41:28Call me.
41:30All right, look, if this was ever a cue to say goodbye, this is goodbye.
41:32I'm going to thank you once again.
41:34I sincerely appreciate your hospitality.
41:36Well, thank you.
41:37I'm pleased that you had the opportunity to come to Alaska and see how things can get really screwed up.
41:43As evidenced by my lovely top.
41:48Oh, I think that's a good shirt.
41:50Can I keep it?
41:51Maybe we need to arbitrate and mediate the price on this.
41:55You know, I don't care how far north you go.
41:57A lawyer's a lawyer.
41:58And a dirty job guy is really dirty.
42:04Are you still talking?
42:06About you, sir.
42:07This is my show.
42:08Beat it.
42:09Well, it's my farm.
42:11Why don't you beat it?
42:11I'm grunting for worms.
42:18It's true.
42:20It's a way to get worms to the surface.
42:22Sell them for bait.
42:24Crazy job, but it's real.
42:25Know how I know about it?
42:27Fellow wrote in.
42:28Said, hey, Mike.
42:29You want to grunt for some worms?
42:31I said, sure.
42:33Next thing you know, I'm driving a stake into the ground.
42:36Pulling a piece of iron over the top.
42:38Vibrating worms to the surface of the earth.
42:43How weird is that?
42:45Discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
42:48You got something that's this weird?
42:51I'd like to know about it.
42:52Discovery.com forward slash dirty jobs.
43:08Cowboy handles cows, right?
43:14Yes.
43:15So you're a deer boy.
43:18You handle deer now.
43:20I'm a deer boy.
43:22That's right.
43:22I'm a deer boy.
43:42I'm a deer boy.
43:44Bye.
43:45Bye.
43:45Bye.
43:47Bye.
43:50Bye.
43:51Bye.
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