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Season 1

  • S01E01 Paper Maker

    • January 9, 2007

    Matt Rogers explores the Concrete Mat Sinking Unit that helps prevent bank erosion along the Mississippi. He heads to the Sweden to use the Rammer Hammer to break ore in the Aritc Circle. Matt also learns to make paper at the world's largest paper mill.

  • S01E02 Wind Mill Factory

    • January 16, 2007

    Matt Rogers catches a pass on the one-of-a kind retractable football field at the Arizona Cardinals Stadium. He rides aboard the largest dump truck in the world. Matt also helps to assemble one of world's the largest windmill turbines.

  • S01E03 Largest Telescope

    • January 23, 2007

    Matt visits a vertical motion simulator, a blast hole drill, and the Largest Binocular Telescope.

  • S01E04 Giant Tree Spade

    • January 30, 2007

    Included: tire recycling in North Carolina; the largest concrete structure ever made in Washington State; a 93,500-pound giant tree spader.

  • S01E05 Swing Bridge

    • February 6, 2007

    Host Matt Rogers checks out the Evolution locomotive in Erie, Pa.; a dredger on the Mississippi River; and the Spokane Street swing bridge in Seattle.

  • S01E06 Really, Really Big Show

    • February 13, 2007

    The Goodyear Blimp; a trash compactor in California; Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Cirque du Soleil Big Top

    • July 18, 2007

    As the second season begins, Matt Rodgers helps to put up Cirque Du Soleil's big top; shoots the rapids at the U.S. National Whitewater Center to train Olympic kayakers, and assists the Navy in moving a fleet of Hummers via one hovercraft.

  • S02E02 Bellagio Fountain

    • July 25, 2007

    A visit to Las Vegas to see how massive amounts of dirty laundry are cleaned. Also: turning sand into glass.

  • S02E03 Whale Shark Rescue

    • August 8, 2007

    Host Matt Rogers helps in the rescue of two whale sharks and assists in transporting them to an aquarium. Also: how Las Vegas hotels clean their enormous loads of dirty laundry.

  • S02E04 Ski Dubai

    • August 15, 2007

    A trip to the Middle East to see the world's tallest building and biggest indoor skiing venue. Also: building and installling a 50-foot fossil burner.

  • S02E05 Man Made Islands

    • August 22, 2007

    Matt visits a solar field in New Mexico; examines the canal bridge in Magdeburg, Germany, a half-mile structure over the Elbe River where ships can travel when the water level in the river is too low; and assists in the construction of a man-made island.

Season 3