Dirty Jobs

Mike finds out what happens to old mattresses after people throw them out.

High-rise window washer, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)

Toilet Crusher & alligator snapping turtle researcher

Mike works at the country's only Dromedary camel dairy.

Mike recycles computers before heading to Hawaii to make tofu.

Mike goes to Jonesboro, Arkansas to perform dung beetle research. Then he heads to Williamstown, West Virginia to try his hand at making glass art.

Mike journeys to Wenatchee, Washington to help maintain a hydroelectric dam. Then he explores a fish bypass system where he catches and tags fish and winds up wading through a pool of fish poop.

Mike reflects back on his more hazardous apprenticeships and makes a case for safety.

Mike goes to Kentucky to try his hand at shrink-wrapping a houseboat. Then he heads off to Palmer, Alaska to spend a day working at a reindeer farm.

Mike goes to Hawaii to learn how to make dirt shirts at The Original Dirt Shirt Company. Then he heads off to Reno, Ohio to learn how to make marbles.

Mike becomes a specialty fireworks technician in Addison, Pa. and then helps examine a cow with a hole in its stomach at Arkansas State University.

Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempt to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempt to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.

Mike goes to work at a cricket farm in Augusta, Georgia and later becomes a camel rancher at the Oasis Camel Dairy in Ramona, California.

Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami.

Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the 12 maintenance crew.

Mike creates some concrete counter-tops and fire pits in Moss Landing, California and then reminisces about the scariest job he's ever done.

Mike visits a bone black plant in Michigan and then talks about his five dirtiest jobs.