[ deep voice ] hailing from another planet in an alternate dimension, a lone aviation ranger uses his skills of flying for the good of man's airwaves. [ normal voice ] hello? cape wrangler, you're going to kill me. come on, watch it. where are you going? what are you, union? [ deep voi ] his mission? friely flying. guy. whoa! what are you doing? get on a parachute!. [ normal voice ] hi, melody. let meuess -- you want to learn how fly. ere's a really good flight school out at hooks airport. you should go down and visit with an structor. hey, that's a good idea! better than this one. what are you gog to do today? i'm going to follow a chilhe masses. i'm going to fight the good fight. i'm going to stop injustice!

jeff? je-- first, you're going to have to decide what kind of pilot you want to . you got your traffic-watch pilots. you got your sky-diving pilots. you got your commercial pilots. there's one thin these pilots have in common -- they had to learn to fly. so we thought we'd get started where they got started. jeffery: is there anything you're watching out for? [ normal voice ] hello, there. we're here with ulrik laursen, a flight instructor. just call me rik.

i'm originally from copenhagen, denmark. and that's a danish name. how old do you have to be? that a good question. you have to be 16 to be a student pilot, 17 to be a private pilot, and 18 to be a commercial pilot. what happens if the engine stops, and you're in the air? well, if wre in a single-engine airplane, the plane can still glide really well. are actually some of the best gliders in the world. and if we're in a 2-engine airplane or more, we have more engines to keep flying. does every pilot learn how to fly with one of these kind of airplanes? not all of them. you can go to the air force or to the army or navy and learn how to fly there, and they use their jets. what about commercial pilots? do they just get right into jumbo jets? most of them started in a plane just like this. what about the guys who fly the space shuttle? most of those are military pilots.

how do you get started? first thing you do is sign up for lessons. and once you do that, you would take ground school, where you read the books and learn all the material there is to know. books? i really want to get in plane. you have to sign up for ground school first, so let's go inside, and we'll get you signed up. well, here we are, jeff. this is thclassroom where we teach people how to fly. what should i do if i wanted to be an airplane pilot? firsthing is stay in school d finish yr education. and while you're in school, check out books on flying. another thing you can do is go out to your local airport, see the airplanes, and talk to pilots. first one is aerodynamics. rik: although it looks like a toy, it's not quite toy. we use this to teach aerodynamics. one of the things we like to show is that there are four forces on aairplane. there's thrust, which is the engine,

and then we have drag, which slows it down, which moves the other way. then we have gravity, which is weight, and that pushes the plane down, just like it pushes us down. and then we have lift, which goes the other way. jeffery: i guess this is easier than going out to the plane and showing how all the levers work. rik: if we had to go out there it would take all day because we'd have to go from one wing to the other. you have the elevator right here, which we'll look at on the airplane, go up and down. and the rudder, which makes the plane go left and right. the forces of the engine, the forces of the thrust -- they all affect the airplane, just like the weather outside. the air blowing one way or the other wi affect the aerodynamics, too. rik: all right, we're at 1,600 feet. we're going to go ahea and level off here. is good eyesight important if you want to be a pilot? you don't have to have perfect eyesight. if you wear glasses, the authorities still allow you to fly.

do you really have to know about weather? there's quite a lot to know. we don't have to be meteorologists. we don't have to forecast the weather. we just have to interpret the weather because if a cloud has bad weather in it, you wouldn't want to fly close to it. man: winds calm, visibility 7 miles, haze. sky condition -- 10,000 scattered, 25,000 scattered. how do you get the weather reports? one of the things we can do is we can pick up the phone and call a flight service station, and they have briefers who are meteorologists, and theyell us the information we need.

i want to be able to impact a community, to reach back to where i came from, and pull some people up with me. my name is david, and i am your dividend. i've always wanted to go to college. that helps you evolve as a person. i just feel like that's my destiny. my name is queen, and i am your dividend. so you want to be an airplane pilo i don't think it is. there's a lot of training and procedur that keep us safe. have you ever had to change your flight path according to the weather? that happens quite often, actually. third one is navigation. what is navigation? navigation is all about where you are and where you're going, and i guess, also, where you've been.

where you are, whe you're going, and even where you have been. if you're going to a specific airport, you want to make sure you get to that same airport. you look at the charts that show visual reference points. and it shows us landmarks that we can see from the air. we look outside, and we say, "okay, here's a road. "the road goes where we want to go, so we're going to follow this road." if the visibility's too low, we don't fly by visual cues. and they also show us navigation beacons. and we can head towards them. put simply, it's knowing which way is north, which way is east, which way is west, and whicway is south. and last but not least, all the regulations that we have to follow. this is unbelievable. look at all these rules! why are there so many rules and regulations? it provides everybody with the same operating guidelines so that everybody follows the same kind of procedures.

do they have to abide by these rules or their rules? when they're in our airspace, they do have to abide by rules here. do you have to know how to read to be a pilot? reading is a big part of it. you have to be able to read your textbooks. you have to be able to read the regulations and all your study materials. how does air-traffic control help you? and they have radar scopes. and on their scopes, they can see most of the airplanes. his function is to keep the planes from being at the same point at the same time, by giving them different altitudes and different courses. and they also know what our altitude is. on their radar, they'll see 1,800 feet. what's the most important thing about your job? i think the most important thing is to keep everybody safe. here it is. all right...radar... got it!

i'm a pilot now, right? wrong! first, you have to take three tests. wait. what tests? the first one's a written test. there's about 80 questions, and the good thing is, they're all multiple choice. the next thing is an oral test. you sit down with an examiner that the aviation authorities have sent from anywhere between two to four hours. once we do that test, what's the next one? the next one is the practical test. are we actually in the plane? that's right. and you're going to go with the same examiner, and he's going to ask you to do different maneuvers. and once you pass ose maneuvers and pass landings, then you are a pilot. is flying dangerous? i think if people don't follow the procedures and regulations that are established to keep everybody safe, then we start getting into dangerous situations. let's say i've taken the course and i've passed the tests. then i get to t in the plane, right? that's right. yes! oh, yes! plane!

yes, yes, yes! wait! no, no, no, no. you can't get in yet. we got to do a preflight. the plane's locked. we can't get in. [ no audio ] what? hold on. now, what did you say? i said we can't go before we do a preflight. what's a preflight? we check the whole airplane from the tail to the nose. what do we need preflight for? wouldn't you like to find any problems before you get in the air? this is our checklist, and this tells us everything that we have to do before we go flying and also while we're flying. and it has about eight pages in here, and we use almost all of it every time we go flying. where did you learn this whole routine? is this something in your training manual? this is something that everybody learns as a studentilot. i learned it as a student pilot,

so we make sure we do a good job. what's the hardest thing about flying? i think the hardest thing is learning to land. really? it's not taking off? no, taking off is fairly simple. all it is, is add power, pull back on the stick, and up you go. ? to the wild, blue yonder ? ? flying fast like a bird of prey ? that's better. rik: this right here is what's called a dme, which is distance measure equipment. this tells us how far away we are from a certain spot, in this case from the airport. we're just about 6 miles from the airport. jeffery: how fast are we going? right now, we're going about 100 knots, which is about 110 miles an hour. [ shouting ] why is the plane so loud? it can be very loud, especially in the single-engine propellers that we fly, but that's why we wear headsets.

ng. man: ...runway 17 right. am i a little under? yeah, but go ahead and keep descending. okay. we have to get below 2,000 feet. trying to keep going down a little? yeah, go down to about 1,600. that's when this one is in the 1,000, and this big hand's down here on the 600. u got about another 300 feet. all right. man: ...tower frequency warning... yes. what did you want to be when you were a kid? i've wanted to be a pilot since i was 8 or 9 years old. my dad works for an airline, i've always been around airplanes, and i love flying. rik, thank you so much for taking us up.

i'm anne. i'm a scientist. why don't you let me...

? you're gonna hear what i say... ? i love taking stuff apart and building new things out of it. anne: pal's my most advanced annedroid. [gasps] this is awesome. ? oh ? anne: you haven't seen anything yet. announcer: give your cardboard box another life. it's me, arty! come see what i collected from the creative galaxy in my idea box. would you help me make art? ? each one of our journeys ? ? keeps us young ? hey, i have an idea! ? we'll never get older... ? arty: go be amazing! amazing! announcer: give your cardboard box another life.

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and you probably watch your local news. have you ever thought about the work and preparation that goes into making a wscast? there are directors, producers, camerapeople, and others working hard to get you the story. and probably the occupation that works the hardest bringing you the news is a reporter. today we have jeannie ohm, a reporter here at kprc news. jeannie: i'm a general assignment reporter, meaning i cover news of the day or wtever happens to be happening that day. e ening of a store, or maybe a missing child, or going out to an amusement park. are there certain types of reporters who handle certain pes of news? there are different reporters for different types of stories. jeannie: when you start as a reporter, you start as a general assignment reporter because that lets you get the pulse on different things in the community.

of the news operation. do you watch the news? i do because i want to see what's going on in the community as well. while i'm out working all day, i don't have a chance to see what else happened that day. over here is where all our producers sit. a lot of people aren't aware of what a producer does. they pretty much stay in the newsroom, but they're responsible for pulling together everything that's going on with the different reporters -- basically pulling together an entire newscast. whose job is it to assign you your stories? then i'll suggest it,or, if you, this is pretty much the center of our newsroom. it's the assignment desk. they're always on the phone, once they hear aut it, they pass it on to the reporters is it dangerous to be a reporter? for example, if there's a fire,

ght spread, we have to stay back. we're also getting calls from viewers who are saying, "can you help me this is what's going on." when did you know th you wanted to become a reporter? it was really in college when i had a lot of internships. working at radio stations and tv stations, i got an idea that that's what i wanted to do. i could be in an office building, interviewing someone there, or i could be at the scene of a fire. it's anytime you're away from the newsroom. that's what being out in the field means. it can be difficult because a lot of times maybe you're waiting around for someone to show up. and sometimes it's hot, but you're sitting in a car. you have to wait till someone shows up because you're really trying to meet people and hear their story. what's the difference between a reporter and an anchor? a reporter is out in the field, as i mentioned. we're the ones gathering stories, interviewing people.

to stay inside and make some phone calls, but it's really running out the door. if i wanted to become a reporter, how should i go about it? most important thing -- internships. when you're in high school or college, call around to your local radio station, local tv station. just ask. they're not paying you. you can learn how the business works and really give you an idea -- "is this what i want to do?" do you havto know much about makeup? jeannie: reporting isn't about wearing the latest fashions, but you want to look as professional as possible so people pay attention to what you're saying. do you have a boss? actually, i have several different bosses. for example, when i write a script, there's someone that has to read over my scripts and approve it before it goes out on the air. and then another boss who makes sure that i am doing my job and making sure my reporting is as fair and easy to understand as possible. and as you know, this is television,

put words and video together. this is where we keep all our tapes for each day. this is what we call the raw tape. when i go out, i meet you for the first time, we have the camera rolling the whole time. but afterwards, you have to condense whatever is on here onto another tape. this is what we call a typical rundown. this is for our 5:00 news and our 6:00 news. see how it says the run time -- 15 seconds, 20 seconds? look at this story. it's only gointo be a minute, 25 seconds. a lot of people don't alize we'll have 40 minutes of tape. we've got to put that down into one minute, 30 seconds. that's not a lot of time. what do you not like about your job? i have to wait till people call me back, and until they call me back, i have to sit there, and i don't know if i'll have a story that day. whose job is it to condense a story? it's my job as well as the photographer. i'm the one writing the stories, but he's the one -- or she's the one --

the hardest job of being a reporter is finding out what not to use, because i've got great interviews here, i've got great video. but my job is to pick and choose what i can eliminate, and what's really important so people will undstd. how many stories do you cover in a day? i usually cover about two different stories a day. it's really my job to find out what's on the tape. it's the photographer's job to record everything on tape, but it's my job to pull sound bites for each story. so what is the next step for getting a story on the air? i usually go back to my computer if i'm in the newsroom, and i'll start writing down and get a sense of how to put together my story. the toughest part for me is starting to write. and these, you can see, are all my notebooks. this is where i write down everything that's on the tapes.

. do you have to go to college if you want to be a porter? you really do, and i think that's because you ha to have a good, solid education. and it doesn't matter if you study journalism or communications in college. what you really have to work at is how to finish a task, how to research a project. that's what reporting is all about, and you can learn those skills studying anything in college. melody: so a computer is really essential in your work? jeannie: ithe sense that this is where i can get the latest information. you can get a lot of resources for your stories there. but sometimes when i'm out in the field, it comes down to writing with a pen and paper. what happens if the story is too far away? if it's too far away, they'll usually take that into consideration -- our assignment desk -- and they'll plan ahead and say, "jeannie, come in early." so you'll have to drive two hours out of your way. if they're interested, they will make us go there whetr it's driving or taking a plane.

that's always a challenge because every day, you have a new topic. and then is a complicated story, trying to make it as simple as possible so everyone can derstand it. unlike a newspaper reporter, a tv reporter only has one chance to do t story right. because if you're ttg at home, you're working on something else, you only might cat part of the story, so it's reallymportant for me to say a story as clearly and as fairly as possible so people can understand it. to become a reporter, you need to study... do you have to research what you're reporting? yes, because every day i might be doing a different topic, so i've got to know what the issues are. even though you saw my desk in the newsroom, this is really where we put together our stories because a lot of times we don't have time to drive back to the newsroom. so they bring a truck to our location. everything you can do in the station,

i was in the beginning, just because i really didn't want to make a mistake, but after a while you really do get used to it. do you want to try, melody? sure! this is melody young saying goodbye from kprc. we just found out what it's like to be a reporter. how did i do? perfect. woman: hamilton was adopted from a rescue in 2008. he's quite the pug about town. he knows he's a pretty big deal. how could you not love him? woman: i rescued toast from a shelter in 2011. i love toast because she's a lazy diva. [camera's shutter clicking] toast makes me laugh. [snoring] [laughs] when i walked into the shelter, i knew she was special. [toast snoring] i'm anne. i'm a scientist.

? you're gonna hear what i say... ? i love taking stuff apart and building new things out of it. anne: pal's my most advanced annedroid. [gasps] this is awesome. ? oh ? anne: you haven't seen anything yet. announcer: give your cardboard box another life. it's me, arty! come see what i collected from the creative galaxy in my idea box. would you help me make art? ? each one of our journeys ? ? keeps us young ? hey, i have an idea! ? we'll never get older... ? arty: go be amazing! amazing! announcer: give your cardboard box another life.

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k took me up in this plane that had two sets of controls, so i was actually able to fly the plane myself for a little bit. you could actually feel the plane reacting to the wind. are there a lot of rules? there's hundreds of them. you wouldn't believe homuch it takes to become an airplane pilot. you have to learn about weather and things called aero...aero... aerodynamics. yeah! that's the word. by the way, what's it like becoming a news porter? i think the most important thing he viewers. it's not enough to just let them know what happened. you have to make sure they understand. it's your turn. oh. ehh. whoo!

[ humming ] jeff, what are you doing? nice to see the parole hearing went through. as you know, i am a financial genius, so i thought i'd save a few extra ducats by fashioning my own clothes. i found a little string, tape, and i'm roughly hewing them together all day long. hold on, martha stewart. you need more than a needle and thread to make clothes. you need a needle? you need a plan! i'm going to visit with architects, and together, we'll design my dream home! ha! nonsense! self-reliance, i say. look at this. think of all the money you save if you let me do it. i'll just put these things together, and you'll have that house in no time. i'm going to go visit with john and suzanne. here's the card of a great tailor

you need a zipper? all the buildings we see every day? who thought of the design? and who decided what they should be made of -- wood, brick, or metal? should they be tall... or short? big or small? these are questions that an architect has to answer every day. today we'll find out just what it takes to become an architect. not only are they architects,

ers, or the marriage? definitely careers. john took a long time convincing me to marry him. is it fun working together? fun... we spend a lot of time trying to figure out who's the boss. if there's one type of structure that you could build, and that would be the only thing that you could build for the rest of your life, what would it be? pizza stands. what about you, suzanne? i'd have to take the self-interest approach n house, which i think is where my interest in architecture began. when did you know that you were going to be an architect? i can't remember wanting to be anything other than an architect. melody: how often are you able to design whatever you want? like, a client will come to you and say, "i want you to build my house, "and i don't have any specific idea of what i want it to look like." i'm waiting for that client. suzanne: you have to talk to the client,

he program is, and really build what they're asking for. melody: do you design buildings for your friends? yes. suzanne: one of the key things that we are licensed for is to make sure that our buildings are safe. the first architects were probably sumerians. they were building the world's first cities 5,000 years ago. do all architects use blueprints? blueprints are a tool that was used a long time ago to convey information about how to build a building from the design and hand it off to a contractor to build it. these are blueprints of a set of drawings that were done in 1939 for a theater building which we put an addition onto. melody: if you don't use blueprints, what do you use now? we still print our drawings. this drawing, for instance, was done on a computer. so what happens if a building is more than one story?

there's different information given. we have a site plan showing the location of the building on the site. does where you build a building make a difference? yes. it always matters where you build a building. in our cities, we are more constrained as to where we can build. you wouldn't want to put a factory next to a house. architects think not just about the individual buildings, but about how all the buildings go together. melody: were you taught to do this in school? part of this is what you learn when you start working. what if someone from russia made a blue line just like this? would you be able to understand? but i was going to talk about metric. i was going to talk about metric! do you always agree with each other? no. that would be boring. you think i don't know about metric? you've never done a building in metric. okay, ask him. there would be a lot of similarities to these drawings.

ld need an interpreter for that, but the dimensions we'd be able to understand. in our country, we use feet and inches, but in most of the rest of the world, drawings are dimensioned in metric. do you have to be good at math? it helps to be good at math, because we add up dimensions, we have to figure out proportions of things.

woman: hamilton was adopted from a rescue in 2008. he's quite the pug about town. he gets invited to a lot of parties. he knows he's a pretty big deal. how could you not love him? so you want to be an airplane pilot. are these the models that you use? re different study models that we used for a residence. do you always build models first? that really depends on how complicated the project is. sometimes, to get an accurate idea of what things look like three-dimensionally, a model is really a good way to develop that idea. these are some study models that we've done for various projects over the years, and we use these to illustrate to clients what the different possibilities are

ensional building is going to look like. and this is a birdhouse. how long does it take to build a model? most of these little study models that you see here probably took not more than a day to build. occasionally, we build models that take quite a bit more to build. there are professional model builders who do nothing but build very fancy models. those models could cost upwards of $100,000. do you have to be a good artist to be a good architect? although we use a lot of computers today, our initial ideas we always use a lot of loose-sketching techniques to get the ideas out quickly. it doesn't necessarily mean you have to be able to draw very well. i have the worst handwriting of anybody in the world. this is a very early sketch that was done on yellow tracing paper, which is real flimsy paper. and then we can print it on our xerox machine.

so that those builders who do build the buildings know what to do. there are lots of sets of drawings that go to a lot of people over the course of the project. is it your responsibility to bring all these people together? that's one of the key things that architects do is to coordinate all the people that are needed to work on a project together. do you have to get along with other people? it's really important to get along with other people. this is a really simple building. if we were talking about a fairly complex building, we could have hundreds of sheets of drawings in this set. so what are the tools that you use? i think john has some really antique tools that we got in italy. this is a set of drawing instruments.

and make lines with. these are dividers that architects would use for measuring and repeating certain dimensions over and over again. there are parts here that convert these into compasses for drawing circles, and these are the tools that architects used for probably 500 to 1,000 years, up until very recently, when the computer came into the forefront hich people design. this is an adjustable triangle. you use this when you're drawing by hand. this allows you to change angles. underneath here is a parallel bar. these things are -- what a lot of people call rulers, we call architect's scales. they have certain types of dimensioning -- 1/4 of an inch equals a foot, 1/8 of an inch equals a foot, and so on, and these allow us

to what it would be at full scale. how long did it take you to master using all these different tools? those are things that you learn to use pretty well while you're in school. how long do you have to go to school? well, it varies, depending upon the kind of degree that you get. architecture is a discipline that has so many things we have to learn about. this is something that's called an electric eraser. we use this a whole lot. in fact, if you look around our office, almost every single pencil that has an eraser on the end has had the eraser erased off, because suzanne erases just as much as she draws. this is a 3-d representation of the floor plan that we were looking at before -- the office layout. so are you actually designing on the computer? we like to think that the design is never finished until you're actually finished building the building, because there's always opportunities to change and improve things as you go. what happens if a client comes in

and it just won't work? sometimes what they want to do isn't going to work, and it's our job to try to ease them into doing what will work. what do you do if someone doesn't like your ideas? find out what about it they didn't like, and make it fit what they want it to fit. but there might be other cases where a client might dislike something that they just had not seen before, and with some explaining it better, they may end up liking it. to an architect? we learn a lot of history while we're in school, and we use it every day. do you have to read a lot to be an architect? you have to read prodigiously. what does "prodigiously" mean? prodigi-what? "prodigiously" means "a lot" -- all the time. this is some of our reference material.

ry. if i want to become an architect, what do i have to do? john: be prepared to spend a lot of time studying and a lot of time interning before you become licensed. architecture is an interesting profession because there's an opportunity to keep growing in it throughout your career. i like that i get to be involved with a lot of different activities during each day. i get to be creative sometimes, i get to talk with people on the phone, i get to work in a nice office with interesting people, and i have a lot of fun. thank you, suzanne, and thank you, john. we really appreciate you guys showing us what it takes to be an architect.

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i'm anne. i'm a scientist. why don't you let me... and me... help you out? ? you're gonna hear what i say... ?

[gasps] this is awesome. ? oh ? anne: you haven't seen anything yet. announcer: give your cardboard box another life. it's me, arty! come see what i collected from the creative galaxy in my idea box. would you help me make art? ? each one of our journeys ? ? keeps us young ? hey, i have an idea! ? we'll never get older... ? arty: go be amazing! amazing! announcer: give your cardboard box another life. you know, i've heard that clothes make the man. i don't know about that, but i know that a man who makes clothes is called a tailor. today, we've got a tailor who's so famous he's only got one name. his name's marco. let's go meet him.

how do you get clothes that may not fit one person to fit? that's where i come in -- alterations. what's an alteration? an alteration is where you alter a garment to fit the customer. tape measures, chalk, rulers, sewing machines, needles. can you make an outfit out of raw materials? yes, you can. how did you know that you wanted to be a tailor? i kind of fell into it. i like to dress well, is one thing. was your family in the business? yes, third generation. how long have you been tailors? well, my grandfather, my father, and now myself. do you make clothes for your friends? i have a lot of friends that ask me to. do people still sew by hand? don't people just use machines now? things that are required to do by hand, a machine can't quite get within the fabric. i know that in other occupations, such as auto mechanic, you have to start out as an apprentice. is that true in tailoring as well? yes. were you an apprentice? i was. what's the first thing you learn as an apprentice? to sweep the floor.

at would i have to learn how to do? sweep the floor. okay. great. okay, marco, i know how to sweep now. what's the next thing i'm going to learn? the thimble. how do i learn how to use a thimble? stick it on your... middle finger. now, if you notice, that's an open end. why is that? this classifies it for being a male thimble. women's thimbles are enclosed. marco, who is this gentleman that's teaching me to put this thimble on? this is the master tailor, marco perez, senior. ah! so this is your dad. yes. that's how you learn to hold your thimble. you'll grab your finger -- the needle in this one -- and of course you'll keep it close to you here, and when you sew, you push up,

you said you didn't become a tailor until you were 20. you look pretty young. what did you do before that? delivered pizzas, sold cars. how long did it take you to learn how to use a thimble properly? it took close to about a year. i thought a tailor just used a needle and thread. i figured maybe some scissors, but look at this -- e cutting devices, and is this really something you need? yes, it is. does it matter what kind of material you use to make a suit? no, it doesn't matter what kind of fabric you use. measurements stay the same. when you're done finishing the garment on a pair of trousers, you use these scissors here to cut little zigzags. what are the zigzags for?

ou notice this end -- it's sort of coming loose. absolutely. hey, wait a second. what is this? have you got some kind of mint here? it's not soap or anything. it's what you call wax -- tailor's chalk. and you use this just to mark a line? yes. and through here, we either guide ourselves on folding the fabric or sewing a straight line. so you're going to make an alteration to these pants right now? take us through it. what are you going to do? the customer wanted cuffs. do you ever make mistakes? yes. do you have to start all over with a different pair? no. you try to go back and correct the mistake you make. how do you get the chalk off the clothes? the chalk is removed by heat applied by the iron. he wanted 1 1/4-inch cuffs, so we must mark 1 1/4 inch from the length of the pant -- right here... we go down one more, another 1 1/4 inch, and the remaining part where we are going to cut,

we can always lengthen this much. one side, and on the other. lifting the trouser... there you go. do you have to go to school if you want to be a tailor? you don't necessarily have to go to school, but education is very important. we see that the lines are straight. the lines are marked. and from there, we can go to the sewing machine and put the pants together. it was taught to me by my father, marco senior. he's a master tailor. is this only for hemming, or can you do other things with it? yes. it's only for hemming. you can do trousers, dresses, skirts. what it does, it sews the fabric without you seeing the stitches. do you still use a thimble? tailors use thimbles every day. since this is a blind stitch, does it matter what sort of thread you use? it's always important to go by the same color as the fabric.

catch your thumb in there? no. oh, no. it was so fast. and if you notice, on this side you cannot see the stitch. no, you sure don't. we're about to stitch the cuff, folding straight on the line to give it the final detail... [ sewing machine whirs ] ...making sure it's 1 1/4 inch. here, we prepare the pants to get pressed. and as you notice, the fabric just falls into place. fold it, and you press it. you said you hardly ever make any mistakes, but these are obviously mistakes. what's going on over there? oh, no, they're just sitting on top of a bucket. i hope. just cross your right leg over your left knee. there you go. position your hands.

okay, right here. now, this will give you enough energy throughout the whole day to stay at this position and not get tired. i have to take my needle and put it in there. all right. there you go. we've got sweeping, thimble, thread, posture -- what's next? the sewing machine. what's the most important thing about your job? satisfying the customer. always without thread. foot lift. that raises that up? absolutely. now, you would do this with your right knee. do you have to know a lot about math? some math is recommended, because you do use a ruler and some multiplication tables, geometry. very slowly, now, with your foot, press down. [ sewing machine whirs ]

g test. you want to take control. once you have control at a certain speed, keep that pace. do you make your own clothes? i do make my own clothes. okay, i got it. and one or two other measurements that are very important is the actual length of the jacket. get it from the top of your neck -- right up there? yes, right back there -- to right underneath the -- that's 29 1/2. oh, sorry. here, again, we have 22 1/2 for your sleeves. okay, marco, i think i know just about everything i need to know. i'm going to actually tailor my own suit. i'm going to go ahead and try on a couple things. you tell me what you think.

oh, yeah. this is it, marco. thank you so much for teaching me what it's like to be a tailor. i'm going to show that melody young who's what. i really don't think you -- it takes years to become a tailor. ha ha! whatever, marco! you are such a kidder! this is great! thank you so much. i'll see you next time, you guys. i'm anne. i'm a scientist. why don't you let me... and me... help you out? ? you're gonna hear what i say... ? i love taking stuff apart and building new things out of it. anne: pal's my most advanced annedroid. [gasps] this is awesome.

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[toast snoring] so like i was saying, architects and tailors are very similar in that they both need plans or patterns to get to a finished product. and sometimes they need to make adjustments during the course of their projects to meet their clients' needs. speaking of "fit," is that the suit you were making? yeah. what do you think? i think you need to go back to the drawing board. it's a little husky, but i think i'll grow into it. [ alarm sounds ] ooh.

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