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Plumber. In this episode, Mike returns to Oklahoma, the site of the Catfish Noodler segment from the Worm Dung Farmer episode, from way back in 2003. Not only is he back, he's back on-site with Don, and since Noodling is pretty dirty, but it's a hobby and not a job, Mike is on a job this time. The job is plumbing - specifically replacing pipes under a house alongside Don. At least we didn't see a backup like we did on the Sewer Inspector episode. That wasn't just dirty. It was downright nasty.

Mud Driller. Next Mike heads to the Gulf Coast to make mud, which is then used to lubricate the drill on oil drilling rigs. This isn't just regular mud, it's special mud. They take varying amounts of ingredients to provide their customers with the properties they request and mix them up in a room-sized mixing drum to come up with, well, with mud. And anytime you have mud, you have one dirty job.

But before you can make the mud you have to clean the mixing drum from the prior batch. Apparently if the prior batch gets mixed up with the next batch it doesn't come out right. So they clean it out, saving every last drop. Then they fill it back up. With mud. It's just that the new batch might not be the same as the last one. So they start completely clean again, and the weight and viscosity have to be exact. Once the pit is clean, the chemicals come in and mix together to make the mud - which doesn't actually contain any dirt.

After the mud is mixed up, it's precisely sampled to make sure it's correct, and then it's sampled for viscosity and once that too is correct the mud is ready for shipping. Now the tank for shipping the mud has to be cleaned, for the same reason as the mixing tank had to be cleaned. Unfortunately this time you have to crawl into the storage container through a hole that probably was never meant to hold a person into a tank that is full of a nasty mess of mud, with little air circulation. This is one nasty job. Once this is clean, it's ready for the new batch of mud to be loaded.

Roughneck. Mike follows his shipment of mud to a drilling rig, where he helps a drilling contractor assemble the drilling rig in hopes of hitting oil. As it turns out, the oil is quite a ways below him, and it takes quite a while to put the whole thing together. A lot of work too.

First they check out the mud to make sure it's okay (they obviously didn't know Mike had already done this) and add some chemicals as needed to get it where it needs to be. Then they assemble the drilling rig in thirty-one foot sections. One thing about Mike, he sure shows his mettle. What other host would do that for 12 minutes, let alone 12 hours?