All language subtitles for Weird.But.True.S02E01_English

CHARLIE: Hey, guys! Charlie
here. You know my sister, Kirby.
KIRBY: Hey!

CHARLIE: Did you know that a
recycled soda can be remade
into a new can and put back on

the shelf in less
than 60 days?

KIRBY: Or that Americans
use 2.5 million plastic
bottles every hour.

MIKE: And wait till you see
what we do with this goop.

CHARLIE: Ahh!
It's time for Weird but True!

(theme music plays)

KIRBY: Charles,
we gotta do something!

CHARLIE: Not a chance.

KIRBY: Not even like one piece?
CHARLIE: Not even one piece.

Guys, I'm glad you're
here because Kirby's
being ridiculous!

KIRBY: Charlie's
being ridiculous!

Check this out.

CHARLIE: You got any staples?

KIRBY: No, but
I have a paper clip.
CHARLIE: You hear that?

(screams)

KIRBY: Look out!

Charles? Charles?

CHARLIE: I'm okay!

KIRBY: We've been having
craft avalanches. Craftalanches.
CHARLIE: Small craftalanches.

KIRBY: And Charles won't
get rid of anything!

I've got to
destroy this stuff.

CHARLIE: What?
KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: Kirb.

Each one of these pieces
has a past, a story, how
can we get rid of it?

KIRBY: Easily.
CHARLIE: You know what?

I'm gonna prove to you that
each one of these super
awesome amazing pieces of

paper art are worth saving
because, today we're
unraveling the world of.

BOTH (off-screen):
Paper Recycling!

KIRBY: Great, another
craft to add to the pile.

CHARLIE: You have no respect
for paper crafts, Kirb.

Do you know where
this came from?

Do you know what paper is?

KIRBY: It's paper.

CHARLIE: It's much
more than that.

People have made paper out
of all sorts of things.

Like cabbage
and wasps' nests.

But the weirdest is probably
the fact that they used
to recover wrappings from

Egyptian mummies to
make wrapping paper.

Fortunately, since
then they've found
out that cellulose from

trees works best.

If you look at paper
under a microscope you'll
see a bunch of super,

super tiny strips
called "cellulose."

Cellulose is this material
that gives plants their
structure like celery,

or sunflower stalks, or trees.

And the cellulose in
paper comes from trees.

So, before this shark
existed, and before this
paper was even paper,

it all started as a seed that
found its way into the ground.

Two types of trees are
harvested to make paper.

Hardwoods, they're trees that
lose their leaves in the fall.

Or Softwoods, they have
needles or scales and
keep them all year long.

So maybe, that little
seed grew into a
big beautiful Aspen,

with white bark and
fluttery leaves.

Or a eucalyptus with
multi-colored peel-y bark.

Or maybe even a pine with
long needles and big cones.

And both of these types of
trees need to be harvested
before they can become paper.

Check this out.

KIRBY: We're hipsters!
CHARLIE: No, we're lumberjacks.

KIRBY: You need a man bun.
CHARLIE: No, I'm good.

KIRBY: So,
where are we anyway?

CHARLIE: Welcome to
Weird but True Forest.

This is where we grow
all of the trees that
we use to make the paper

for our craft projects.

And it looks like that
seed we planted grew
into a beautiful aspen.

KIRBY: See you later, tree!
CHARLIE: Kirby, wait! No, no!

We don't use axes to
chop down these trees.

We use awesome
equipment like this.

A chainsaw.

Or, even better.

(whirring)

One of these guys,
a mechanical harvester.

This thing is unreal.

It can chop down a
tree, de-limb it, and
cut it into pieces.

In like 15 seconds.

Then comes the skidder.

The skidder has a huge clamp
that bunches all the tree
trunks up and brings them over

to the log yard.

Where my favorite
machine comes into
play, the knuckle boom.

At the log yard,
the knuckle boom cuts the
logs into the correct length

and puts them
into neat piles for.

The truck.

(honk)

KIRBY: No cool name?
CHARLIE: Nope, just the truck.

(honk)

Which gets loaded up and
heads off to the paper mill.

KIRBY: Which is
where it gets torn apart and
pulverized into paper, right?

CHARLIE: Sure.
KIRBY: Neat.

CHARLIE: So, Kirb, can you
see how long this takes?

It started as a seed.

From seed to tree.

Picked by the
mechanical harvester,
dragged by a skidder,

chopped by the
knuckle boom, carted away,

pulverized into
paper and what?

We just cut it up,
slap it onto a super awesome
amazing shark and then what?

Just throw it away?

KIRBY: Pretty much.

Do you hear that?

CHARLIE: Hit the deck!

KIRBY: Charlie!
CHARLIE: What?

KIRBY: I don't care if it's
gone through the knuckle bloom
and the vehicle chopper,

but I'm sick of
these craftalanches.

We have to get rid of stuff!

CHARLIE: Give me
one more shot!

KIRBY: No!
CHARLIE: One more shot!
KIRBY: Fine, one more shot.

CHARLIE: You're
gonna like this.

Here, put this on.

Hold this.

KIRBY: What is this for?

CHARLIE: I dub thee
the Ruler of Rubbish,
the Sultan of Scraps,

the Duchess of Debris.

KIRBY: It's truly an honor.

CHARLIE: You're Queen of
the Garbage now, Kirb.

And I'm gonna show
you your kingdom.

You know that tree
farm we used to own?

KIRBY: Yeah?
CHARLIE: Well, it's
not a tree farm anymore.

Well, now it's a dump,
because people throw
out so many things.

It's your dump, Kirb.

Because you love
garbage so much.

You're Queen of the Dump.

KIRBY: You're being dramatic.

CHARLIE: The
drama is real, Kirb.

The US is the number one
trash producing country
in the whole entire world.

Each year, every single
one of us throws out around
1,600 pounds of garbage,

which is about the same weight
as a mature Holstein cow.

Moo.

KIRBY: This is ridiculous.
CHARLIE: It's your dump, Kirb.

KIRBY: What's that noise?
CHARLIE: Oh, is that today?

It's a garbage funeral.

To commemorate
this year's garbage.

You guys are gonna have
to excuse me, I'm expected
to talk at these things.

(moo)

Whew.

(sobbing)

Hello everyone,
we're gathered here today

to remember our fallen
heroes, this year's garbage.

First, our diaper brothers,

protecting the booties of
babies across this country.

16 billion diapers are
thrown out each year.

Diapers. Rest in peace.

(sobbing)

1.6 billion pens.

Some of them probably
half full of ink.

Pens.

Rest in peace.

And finally, the reason
why we're all here today,

500,000 trees
cut down each week

for our Sunday papers.

They were big trees.

With big pretty leaves.

And now, they are gone.

Trees.

Rest in peace.

(sobbing)

KIRBY: Rest in
peace. Wait, what?

Charles!

This is ridiculous.

CHARLIE: What?

KIRBY: I would
never sponsor a dump!

This sign is ridiculous.
Where are the scissors?

CHARLIE: Uh, I think
they're, um, I'm not sure.

Fine!

KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: Fine!

Do whatever you want
with all this stuff, Kirb.

Toss it, throw it out.

I can't live with that guilt.

Goodbye, shark.

I always knew your
awesomeness wouldn't last.

KIRBY: Yeah! Yeah!
Victory! Victory!

It was nice knowin' ya, shark!

CHARLIE: You okay, Kirb?

KIRBY: Yeah,
I'm fine, but. We're not
gonna throw away the shark.

CHARLIE: What do you mean?

KIRBY: We're
gonna recycle him.

CHARLIE: Isn't
recycling a sham?

KIRBY: A sham?
CHARLIE: Yeah, like pretend?
KIRBY: A sham?

CHARLIE: Yeah, like
something that is not what
it is purported to be.

KIRBY: Charles, let me
hit you with some facts.

People of the dump,
this is your queen, Kirby.

I know this
trash is upsetting.

It smells gross.

CHARLIE: 16 billion diapers!

KIRBY: Yeah, but
there's another way.

Recycling.

MAN (off-screen):
Is that real? It's a sham!

KIRBY: It's not a sham.

Charlie, posters!

It takes about $70
to burn a ton of trash,

it takes $50 to send
it to a landfill like this.

But it takes only
$30 to recycle it.

Take an aluminum can.

Recycling one aluminum
can can save enough energy
to power a TV for three hours.

People of the dump,
I implore you, recycle.

Recycling is new meaning.

Recycling is new life,
recycling is rebirth!

(cheers)

MAN (off-screen): How?
KIRBY: What?

MAN (off-screen):
How does it work?

CHARLIE: Huh.
That's a good question.

KIRBY: I'm glad you asked.

Because I have the perfect
place to show you. C'mon!

We're off to Tyrone,
Pennsylvania for a
behind-the-scenes look at

paper recycling.

Pennsylvania's known
as the Keystone State and
home to the first library

in the United States.

Weird but True.

CHARLIE: Hey, guys.

We just made it here to
Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where
we're hanging out at the

American Eagle Paper Mills.

KIRBY: We're gonna get a
hands-on look as to what these
guys could turn our crafts

into if Charles lets us recycle
them. Let's check it out!

CHARLIE: Hey, Mike
it's nice to meet ya!

MIKE: Hey, welcome to
American Eagle Paper Mills!

KIRBY: We're so
stoked to be here!

CHARLIE (off-screen):
Mike Grimm.

Paper recycling guru.

And the guy in charge of
this entire paper mill.

His favorite
Weird but True fact is.

MIKE: Not all paper is
made out of wood fiber.

US currency is made
out of cotton and linen.

This mill is 100% recycled.

CHARLIE: So, you don't
make paper with any trees?

You make paper
with this stuff?

MIKE: Absolutely.

CHARLIE: Where does
this all come from?

MIKE: A recycling bin.
That's where it all starts.

Ice cream containers,
old magazines.

That type of product
gets organized into
different waste streams.

So each of these bales are
different waste streams.

KIRBY (off-screen): So,
this is where it all begins?

MIKE (off-screen):
Exactly. This is the
start of the process.

Everything that you
see here will be gone
this time tomorrow,

and it will be replaced
by other fiber.

CHARLIE: How much
paper do you make a day?

MIKE: We make about
300 tons of paper a day.
CHARLIE: 300 tons of paper?

MIKE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: A giraffe is one ton,
so that's like 300 giraffes

worth of paper comes
through this a day.

Can a person tell
the difference between a
recycled piece of paper,

and a piece of paper
that comes from a tree?

MIKE: No, absolutely not.

CHARLIE: So, that's
something that's always
confused me though.

Like, what sorts of
things are you allowed
to recycle and what

aren't you allowed to recycle?

KIRBY: Good evening,
folks and welcome to another
episode of, Can It Recycle?

You know our three rules.

If it's covered in
food, goop, or film,
it cannot be recycled.

Alright, let's
bring him out, folks.

Our first contestant,
Charlie, from Chattanooga.

CHARLIE: Yay! Hey!

KIRBY: Welcome, Charlie,
are you ready to tell
us, "Can it recycle?"

CHARLIE: Yes!

KIRBY: Alright, fire
up the conveyor belts,
Let's see the first item.

Newspapers?

CHARLIE: Um. Um. Yes.
KIRBY: Correct. Colored paper?

CHARLIE: Yes.
KIRBY: Correct.

This is a tricky
one. Food container?

CHARLIE: Uhm. No.
KIRBY: Correct.

It is covered in food,
so unless you clean it
out, it cannot be recycled.

Moving on. Pots?

CHARLIE: Uh, yes.
KIRBY: Pan?

CHARLIE: Uh, yes.
KIRBY: Motor oil?
CHARLIE: Uh, no.

KIRBY: Correct, it's covered
in goop so unless you bring
it to a special location,

it can't be recycled.

Time for the lightning round!

Let's see what
he's got! Bottles?

CHARLIE: Uh, yes.
KIRBY: Glass jar?
CHARLIE: Uh, yes.

KIRBY: Soap container?
CHARLIE: Yes.

KIRBY: He's done it folks!
CHARLIE: Yay!

KIRBY: Charlie has told
us, "Can it recycle?"

Let's see what
he's won, Jimmy.

JIM (off-screen): Your
very own at home recycling bin!

Good for paper or plastic!

KIRBY: Tune in next week on.

BOTH: Can it Recycle?

KIRBY: Have a
good night, folks!

CHARLIE: What's this?

MIKE: This is a pulper.

KIRBY (off-screen): Pulper?
MIKE (off-screen): This is
the first part of the process.

What we do is we
take the waste paper.

We put a bale or two in.

And we put water in
and we mix it up.

And it's like a big garbage
disposal or a blender.

We put the waste paper
in it and we blend it
back into a pulp slurry.

CHARLIE: So is there a
big blade at the bottom?

MIKE: There's a big auger
in there that spins.

And it chews it all up.

It's a combination of
the mix of all the fibers
of the waste paper.

CHARLIE: Alright, Kirb.

So, could you imagine
our awesome shark just
being plopped into here,

spinning around and being
chopped up in the bottom?

MIKE: We can chop your
shark up just beautifully.

KIRBY: So good.

CHARLIE (off-screen):
It still looks pretty
gross, I'm not going to lie.

What's the consistency now?

MIKE: It's like a
massive spitball.

CHARLIE: Can we feel
some, can we grab some?

KIRBY: Oh, it's
super wet. Yeah, yeah.

CHARLIE: Eww.
KIRBY: Nasty.

There's green, there's gray.

MIKE: That's the imperfections
that we have to work with.

CHARLIE: Weird but True,
40 million tons of

paper products are
recycled every single year.

That weighs
approximately as much as
500 Washington Monuments.

MIKE: Cleaning the
goop is the next step.

CHARLIE: So all the little
specks in that goop,
this is what takes it out?

MIKE: Exactly. When it gets
here we inject air into it.

So the air creates bubbles,
and the bubbles collect the

dirt that's
inside of that goop.

And it floats to the top.

It gets vacuumed off,
and it pulls all the
dirt out of the pulp.

CHARLIE: This is like the
missing ingredient that lets
you guys do what you do.

This makes it so you
can reuse everything.

MIKE: Exactly, this
is very specific to a
recycling operation.

Yeah, that's the dirt
that we're pulling
out of the paper.

KIRBY: Oh! It looks
like toothpaste almost.

CHARLIE: Yeah,
it's toothpaste.

MIKE: Yeah, It's sticky.
Yeah it's like toothpaste.

KIRBY: So, once the
imperfections are taken out
and sucked up to these tubes,

where does that stuff go?

MIKE: Yeah, that
gets collected.

We take that and we use that
for land reclamation work.

So we could spread that
on old mining sites.

KIRBY: Nice.
MIKE: Or properties that
need to be built up.

CHARLIE: So, even
the sludge, you guys are
using for something else.

MIKE: That's correct.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Okay,
guys, we'll take a quick break

and when we come back,
it's goop to paper.

KIRBY: Weird but True.

CHARLIE: So, this is
the big step, right here.

MIKE (off-screen): This
is called the machine room.

Every paper mill in the
world has a machine room.

All the hard work we put
into cleaning the pulp
ends up at this room.

Our primary machine makes a
150-inch-wide roll of paper.

The paper travels down
the machine at about
1,800 feet a minute,

from the time it starts
until it's on the reel
takes about 30 seconds.

CHARLIE: 30 seconds?
KIRBY: Whoa!
MIKE: Right.

KIRBY: So, it enters as liquid
and then 30 seconds later,

it's paper.

MIKE: Yeah, you're correct.

KIRBY: How is the
liquid taken out?

MIKE: The head-box puts the
pulp out onto a wire and
the wire's like a screen.

As it goes down the wire,
more and more water come out.

When it gets to the
end, it goes through
a series of presses

that squeeze the paper.

Then, it goes through
a drying section.

We use steam to superheat the
paper and then it evaporates
the water out of the paper.

It's a continuous process.

If the machines are running
well, they never shut off.

They take reels of paper off
the back end all day long.

KIRBY: That's sweet.

CHARLIE: So, if you
had to break them down
in the simplest parts,

over there we saw it
getting chopped up
in a big old slurry.

Right over here, they
take out the ink and
finally, in this part.

MIKE (off-screen): Then
you take the water back out.

KIRBY: So at this point it
pretty much looks like paper.

CHARLIE: And the cool thing
is you can follow the same
process that these machines

take, to make paper at home.

My dear sister Kirby's coming
over tomorrow to make crafts.

So I thought I'd make some
homemade paper beforehand.

So we could have a
stress-free crafternoon.

First, let's put together
our paper-making device.

We're gonna take our
brownie tray and cut a
hole right in the bottom.

We're gonna take the screen
and cut out a nice covering.

It's a nice screen.

You know, the kind that your
parents put up in the summer.

We always play
outside in the summer.

Sometimes with paper.

Now we'll grab some
tape and tape our screen
to the bottom of the tray.

Some people might
use glue, we use glue too,
but today we're using tape.

Every letter we give
to our mailman Bob is
always handmade paper.

Bob really loves it.

Now let's prepare
our paper goop.

First, fill it up about a
third of the way with water.

Now come the paper scraps.

A little more water and
we're ready to blend.

You know, I remember
when I first met Kirby.

She was a baby and just born
in the hospital, but I knew
when I met her that we would

make a lot of paper together.

Pour a thin layer of
goop right on the top.

Now is my favorite part.

Really squish out
all of that water.

Pop out the screen.

We're gonna let
this dry overnight.

KIRBY: Wow!

CHARLIE: If I made crafts with
homemade paper like this, I
would never throw them away.

KIRBY: Maybe.

CHARLIE: Homemade paper
to treasure forever.

Back to the mill.

Weird but True, if
we recycled half of the paper
in the entire world it's been

estimated that it would save
a forest the size of Maine!

That's why recycling's
so important, so let's
find out how it finally

all comes together.

Woooo!

KIRBY: Woohoo.

CHARLIE: It's hot.
KIRBY: It's hot.

CHARLIE: These barrels
are full of pressurized steam,

so the paper's
wrapping around them,

and rolling all
the way through here.

And it's evaporating
the water in the paper.

KIRBY: 212 degrees.
CHARLIE: It's so hot.

KIRBY: This part's cool.

This is like a giant
iron that flattens it all
to the same thickness.

CHARLIE: This is the last
part right here, this
big machine slices it up.

So it starts in a roll,
and this chops it up
into the smaller bits.

KIRBY: 30 seconds.

CHARLIE: And that paper
at the end that doesn't
quite make the cut,

they throw it
back into the goop.

KIRBY: See, Charles, paper
recycling makes total sense.

CHARLIE: It's finally
coming together, Kirb.

KIRBY: But uh how
you feeling about HQ?

CHARLIE: Uh we gotta
deal with the craftalanche
issue back at Headquarters.

So uh, we'll see
you guys there soon?

Awesome, see you in a bit.

See you later, Mike!

KIRBY: Thank you!

Weird but True.

CHARLIE: Hey guys,
welcome back to HQ.

Kirby and I are
finally on the same page.

We're recycling
all of these crafts.

KIRBY: I don't think
I can do it, Charles.

Each one has a memory.
I can't throw 'em out.

CHARLIE: Kirb, Weird but True,
the average American uses
seven trees worth of paper and

paper-related products
every single year.

Also Weird but True,
we're not normal.

We're pretty abnormal.

We make five-foot-tall
paper mache sharks.

So I can only imagine
how many trees we used.

I've realized that I
can't live with that
blood on my hands.

KIRBY: I think it'd be sap.

CHARLIE: Sometimes,
to save a tree.

Ya just gotta let go.

Today. We recycle.

KIRBY: Charles,
noooo! Sorry, man.

I just couldn't let you do it.

CHARLIE: Hey,
no complaints from me,
look how much room we got.

We got rid of so much stuff.

KIRBY: Hey, you ever
thought of using something
other than paper?

What'd they use before?

CHARLIE: Parchment.
KIRBY: What's that made out of?
CHARLIE: Sheep.

(baahs)

KIRBY: Gross.

CHARLIE: Yeah,
it took like 300 sheep
to make a single book.

(baahs)

KIRBY: Never mind.
CHARLIE: Maybe recycled
paper will do the job?

KIRBY: I'll tell
the boys at the dump.

We make trash sculptures now.

(moo)

CHARLIE: Alright guys,
it looks like we got a
new project on our hands.

But thanks so much
for stopping by and
helping us learn about

paper and recycling.

KIRBY: If we all recycled
our newspapers, we'd save

250 million
trees every year.

CHARLIE: That's
a lot of trees.

Come by again when we discover
more things that are weird.

KIRBY: But true.
CHARLIE: We'll see you
soon! So, sculptures.

KIRBY: Sculptures.
CHARLIE: What do you use?

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