Discover
You know the old saying “dull as dirt”…wrong! In Las Vegas we’ll see how thousands of tons of dirt transform a stadium into a Supercross course, and in New Jersey we’ll slog into a secret bog to collect the special mud that every major league team relies on to give extra grip to baseballs. Then, we’ll join in the down and dirty fun of mud wrestling at a state fair in Hawaii. In Tucson we’ll see how modern adobe and stunning rammed-earth homes are made. To farmers, “dirt” is “soil” and in a teaspoon of healthy soil there are more living organisms than people on our planet. We’ll find out where they came from at a sprawling potting soil facility in central California where huge earth moving equipment adds tons of dried kelp, bat guano and other ingredients to dirt. At exclusive spas we’ll watch patrons submerge in mud. Finally, we’ll visit the Tide detergent factory–why? To get the dirt out, of course.
Original Release
01/14/2008
US Release
01/14/2008
Cast
Name | Character |
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Fred Caudill | Self - Quality Assurance Manager, Calgon Carbon |
Pamela Conrad | JPL / Self - Astrophysicist, NASA |
Bruce Dale | Self - Professor, Chemical Engineering, Michigan State |
Alex Figge | Self - Driver, Pacific Coast Motorsports |
Mark Filowitz | Self - Vice-Chair, Chemistry, CSU Fullerton |
Daryl Hill | Self - Media Relations, Basin Electric |
John Jacobs | Self - Plant Manager, Antelope Valley Station |
Steven Jones | Self - Staff Scientist, Senior, NASA / JPL |
Herbert Lapidus | Self - Inventor, Odor-Eaters |
Katherine Legge | Self |
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Fred Caudill | Self - Quality Assurance Manager, Calgon Carbon |
Pamela Conrad | JPL / Self - Astrophysicist, NASA |
Bruce Dale | Self - Professor, Chemical Engineering, Michigan State |
Alex Figge | Self - Driver, Pacific Coast Motorsports |
Mark Filowitz | Self - Vice-Chair, Chemistry, CSU Fullerton |
Daryl Hill | Self - Media Relations, Basin Electric |
John Jacobs | Self - Plant Manager, Antelope Valley Station |
Steven Jones | Self - Staff Scientist, Senior, NASA / JPL |
Herbert Lapidus | Self - Inventor, Odor-Eaters |
Katherine Legge | Self |
John Ludlow | Self - Carbon Fiber Technical Consultant, Zoltek |
Bob O'Brien | Self - Senior Vice President, Calgon Carbon |
David Seeber | Self - Vice President of Manufacturing, General Pencil Company |
Lloyd Sherr | Narrator / Self - Narrator |
David Tomanek | Self - Professor of Physics, Michigan State University |
Katie Weissenborn Vanoncini | Self - President, General Pencil Company |
Eric Watson | Self - Plant Manager, Zoltek Corporation |
Roy Wilkerson | Self - Crew Chief, Pacific Coast Motorsports |
Peter Yacoe | Self - Plant Manager, Calgon Carbon Corporation |
Alexander B. Rubinow | Carbon-Based Lifeform |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Don Cambou | Executive Producer |
Paul Dzilvelis | Producer |
Tim Knauff | Producer |
Anthony Lacques | Producer |
Ron Nelson | Producer |
Caleb Roehrig | Producer |