Jimmy Butler and friends tour a Murano glass factory in Venice, watching a master blower work a 2,000°F furnace using techniques from 295 AD. A family workshop has made chandeliers for five generations, with a small one selling for €40,000.
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I look like a fuck. Huh? Damn, that don't even sound right.
I just blew a fuck.
Damn. Oh, oh wow. That was so unnecessary.
You did not have to swing it like that.
Woo!
We're going to visit the Galápagos Islands in the northern Atlantic, leaving from here, from San Martín. We're going to Murano, that is the glass factory island. We're going to see a glass factory. It will be a bit hot inside, so be prepared. We'll see how the glass moves, is made since centuries in Venice.
I got so fucking hot down there.
Buongiorno!
Give us some of that sea breeze.
I told you. Hey, my brothers!
Look! Yeah!
Texas. United States, baby.
We in here. Hold on, don't hit the gas. I'm over here on Instagram. Hold on now.
Glass factory. Fanzo, get up. Entering the Murano Glass Factory. Let's do this.
This is the new Murano Gallery. This is the factory in here.
Maybe they will let me make some glass. You never know.
So during the week, he works with the team, his family team. This is one of the families from Murano Island because it's a co-op Murano. So there are other families around. His family produced from 5 generations of traditional glass chandelier. 2,000 Fahrenheit is the oven in front of you. So it's powered by gas and air compressed. They own it all, 24 hours, yes. 2,000 Fahrenheit is the oven in front of you.
Terracotta balls.
Yeah. The glassblowing technique, which is the one that we're going to see now, is the first technique introduced in Murano back in 295, so 1,000 years ago. Murano is the name of the island. That's the reason why the name of the glass is Murano, because historically, back in the time, they start to produce in Venice, and it's because the houses used to get burned quite often, they moved the communities into the island. So today, the name of the brand is Murano glass. Just catch the glass from the oven, so right now it's just very, very hot, the glass. Looks like the consistency of honey, you know? Ah.
Very, very soft.
[MUSIC] Called silica.
Silica. Silica sand, yeah.
This is the glass before the fusion. So let's see the second technique.
Second technique?
Yes, he's going to make a little horse by hand.
A horse? Yeah, he's making a horse.
I'm a pony.
I'm a pony.
I'm a pony. Oh, you in the game.
Very fast.
Very fast?
Okay.
I got one ball?
Right.
Continuously?
Continuously.
As fast as I can?
As fast as you can.
Oh.
He just did it.
I look like a [MASKED]. Damn, that don't even sound right.
I just blew a [MASKED].
Damn. Oh, oh wow, that was so unnecessary.
You did not have to swing it like that. Yeah, don't break— go put that in there, go break it.
My man.
Grazie.
With, uh, all the famous glass in the world, we got here— that's a glass lava lamp. 10 bottles of cologne mashed together. We got here, which is a Marquette color vase. Then we got the blue Free Willy sculpture. We got a big-ass red sperm cell. We need to get that for Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. Yeah, the initials are DTRJ. Dwayne 'V-Rock' Johnson. Jimmy Butler Iii.
Johnson.
You know who that is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
What you do is, I saw him do it. What you do is, I saw him do it. You do this, and then I would pick you up and drop you.
How much is this chin to lift?
Chandelier.
A lot. A lot? Rob, get away from the chandelier, man.
A small one is running for €40,000. For a small one.
€40,000 for a small chandelier?
Less than this house?
€40,000? Oh, so you're just gonna sit next to the most expensive thing in the room? Oh, you got it like that.
Okay.
You said it's worth—
Uh, more than what you worth? If you came back and became Bill Gates? All these are your art. Like we're saying, American, you're a talented motherfucker.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, so I see what y'all did. Y'all did all exotic ones, then you got the basic American lamp.
Yeah.
Handle it right. Okay. Somebody on some freaky shit. I don't know what kind of party they think this is. They shit is out.
