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Welcome to Front Street, Nome.

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This is Iditarod 1978.

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There's about 400 people
here in Front Street, Nome.

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Two mushers, Rick Swenson and
Dick Mackey are less than a

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mile from the finish line, the
end of the Iditarod trail.

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Oh, I can see the teams. They
are neck and neck by golly.

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From here Chris you
should have an awfully

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good view from your
vantage point.

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Dick Mackey right now is ahead.

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He is pumping furiously.

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The dogs are moving very
well down the front street.

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Dick Mackey is coming along.

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Tom, can you see them
any better now than I?

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Here comes the first dog, the
first lead dog, down the jute.

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And that indeed is number
13; 13 is Dick Mackey.

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They're both running.

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Rick Swenson maybe 4
feet behind Mackey.

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The dogs look awfully good.
Here comes Dick Mackey.

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The team is pulling up
almost neck and neck.

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And Mackey just, oh my God.

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Dick Mackey collapsed. There's
a crowd of people around Dick.

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Mostly photographers. His
son is with him right now.

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Dick Mackey, the winner of the
1978 Iditarod Trail Race.

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Official time is one second
apart between the two racers.

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It was 14 days, 18 hours,
52 minutes, 24 seconds.

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Just finished 1,049 miles of
an incredibly difficult trail.

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Lucky number 13. He did it.

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I remember like
it was yesterday.

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At 8 years old seeing dad
win really, really stuck.

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All I wanted to do
was be like my dad.

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I couldn't imitate him enough.

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3,2,1 Go!

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We're back at it again. Wearing
bib number 5, Lance Mackey.

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Back in 1978, father Dick won
the Iditarod by one second.

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Lance Mackey is on
his way to Nome.

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That's it. Hut, hut.
That's it gentlemen.

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When I was young
people would ask me

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'Are you related
to Dick Mackey?'

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It was a pretty big deal.

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Good job guys.

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Winning the Iditarod was
definitely my ultimate goal.

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It's a thousand miles over some

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of Mother Nature's
worst terrain.

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I just wanted to accomplish
what very few people have.

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The Iditarod is a 1,049
mile sled dog race

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across the arctic
wilderness of Alaska.

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More people have summitted Mt.
Everest than

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have successfully
completed the Iditarod.

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In 2013 Lance Mackey
attempted his 12th Iditarod.

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Hut.

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That's it. Good boys.

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Welcome to Nikolai Lance.

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Morning.

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I'll check your gear after you
park.

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That's beautiful. Hut, hut.
Alright.

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Lance Mackey is currently in
2nd place out of 66 mushers.

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Lance Mackey is 2013 Iditarod.
You're second into Nikolai.

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Are you feeling good
coming in here?

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I'm kind of shocked
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at and the way
they're performing.

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Have some straw.
It's much warmer.

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They're young yeah.

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So I'm just driving
this puppy team

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according to what I
think they're capable.

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Ah, shit.

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Knowing the trail
that you have left

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ahead of you, what's your plan?

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What's your goal then for
the rest of 2013 Iditarod?

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Right at the moment I'm thinking

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one checkpoint at a time,
one run at a time.

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You know? And just
kind of trying

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to stay, you know,
at the moment.

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Not thinking too far ahead.

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Whether we get there first or
twenty-first remains to be seen.

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It looks pretty
good at the moment.

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Lance Mackey in Nikolai.
Reporting for

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Iditarod 41; I'm
Laureli Kinneen.

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Hut. Come on there. Hut.

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That's it. Alright. Alright.
That a boys'.

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I tell people all the
time when they'd ask me

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'When did you start racing?'

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I say 'Before I was born.'

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He really did start mushing
before he was born.

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I was 7 months
pregnant with him when

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I was in the North
American Race.

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He had his little foot
right under my ribcage.

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And every time I'd
kick, he'd kick.

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And he was just
kicking his way out.

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He wasn't very big
when he was born.

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Oh, what a little
terror in there.

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Lance grew up in a dog lot.

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When he was old
enough to carry one

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of these little
kid's beach pails

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and a little shovel he'd be out
there and he'd give them food,

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or he'd haul water or whatever.

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As soon as he was old enough
I built Lance his own

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sled and sewed him up his
harnesses and stuff.

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He entered his first race and
he won it. I mean it was great.

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Every waking moment it was
something to do with dogs.

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Lance, are you going
to boot them all?

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Yeah.

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5,4,3,2,1 Go.

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Lance Mackey is on the trail.

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Finish line will be where the
banner is hanging up there.

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Other mushers always
at the house.

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Our house was a
congregating point.

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And he'd sit there and
listen to all of this

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conversation about dogs.

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It's hard to be in a room
like that full of people

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and not feel the excitement
that they're feeling.

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Or the energy that
they're feeling.

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And I want to be a part of that.

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At the time I didn't
know the significance

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of who was in my living room.

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Joe Reddington Sr. was
at our house a lot.

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That was Grandpa Joe.

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The Iditarod was
started because of

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a gentleman named Joe Reddington

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who saw the sled
dog disappearing

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from the native
villages of Alaska.

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And he didn't want it.

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He didn't want the sled dog
to disappear from the state.

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And so he started
this race to make

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sure that those
villages would keep the

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sled dogs intact and
that Alaska wouldn't

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lose that part of their history.

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Joe and I wrote down what we
thought the rules would be.

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The first one was that the
race shall start on the first

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Saturday of March at 10:00

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in the morning regardless of
weather.

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The Iditarod is a
thousand miles.

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And it starts in Anchorage and
it goes all the way to Nome.

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It goes up over the
Alaska range some of the

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tallest mountains and
peaks in the world,

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it goes through the cold
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it hits the Yukon River
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the Bering Sea Coast.

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The rules are pretty
bare bone jungle rules.

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No assistance. You can
come into villages.

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You can take advantage of
hospitality,

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but there's no pit crew.

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The winner will generally do
it in less than 9 days now.

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With mushers out on the
trail for 14-15 days.

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I've seen broken
bones out there.

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These people defy common sense.

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They defy the average
laws of toughness.

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The very first year
they didn't know

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if anybody would
even get to Nome.

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You know?

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And when they left
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if we'd ever see them again.

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I'm proud of the
fact that my dad was

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involved putting
this event together.

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This is Lance's second Junior
Iditarod. He is 15 years old.

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He's one of the famous
Mackey Iditarod clan.

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All Lance ever knew was
Iditarod. That's all he knew.

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Lance Mackey 1986
Junior Iditarod.

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Lance, congratulations.

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You did your best boy.

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Don't let nobody get
in front of you.

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Alright. Smile. The Mackey boys.

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Those two were always
up to something.

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What one didn't think
of, the other did.

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We couldn't get
away with nothing

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You know they always say
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you best believe they do.

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She would catch us
doing things sometimes

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that we weren't
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Sure enough, here she'd come.
It's mom.

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I started flying when I was big
enough to reach the pedals.

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Dick bought me an
airplane for Christmas.

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I just about killed
myself in it.

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I was safe. I mean I
never cracked one up.

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I didn't, you know,
I never had

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I went through the trees one
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Mom's always been more
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She always had short hair.
Kind of looked like a guy.

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She had no problem
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banging nails or whatever.

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She used to take us
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and just watch planes fly.

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Landing and, you know, touch
and go's and all that.

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And you know our big thing was
'What kind of plane is that?'

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I remember one day she took us
down to watch the airplanes.

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It was odd to see
mom drinking beer

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at, you know, 10:00
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And driving for one. You know?

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So something was up.
It was real quiet.

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I was sitting there watching
these damn airplanes take off.

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And she broke it to us that
her and dad was splitting up.

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He wouldn't be coming home.

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Dad and I just ain't - dad's not
going to live here no more.

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Well, what did we do? You know?

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How come dad ain't
going to live with

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us no more? Don't
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You know? And they were little.

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They don't understand.
Hell, I didn't understand.

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I had been with Dick since
I was 19 years old.

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What the Hell am I
going to do now?

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I didn't know.

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I just knew that my kids were
going to be with me. Period.

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I felt like my dad abandoned us.

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You know? He'd
send money for dog

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food or whatever occasionally.

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I say occasionally. He
probably did it every month.

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Mom used it for bills
if need be, you know?

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Hut.

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It was just a struggle.

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Hut.

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That's it, hut.

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They're coming.

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There he is. Woohoo.

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Welcome to McGrath man.

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How's it going?

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Pretty good.

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Thanks for your help
out here again.

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You bet.

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Hut. Let him go. Let him go.
Alright. Hut.

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Hey, get up there.

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Let me reach down there for
a second.

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There we go.

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Listen to me boys.

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Alright. Hut. Hut.

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I wished I'd a spent
more time with the kids.

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Hell, I was off work at-

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You get home from work, ya
eat, then you go run dogs.

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Okay?

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Then you feed them,
then you go bed.

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Then you get up the next day.

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When were you going to
spend time with your kids?

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Weekends? Okay. And what
did you do then? Dogs.

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You want to be a part of it?

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Come on kid. You know?

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That's just the way it was.

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I knew the personalities,
and quirks, and in and outs

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of my dogs better than I
understood my children.

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My dad was 80 years old before I

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went fishing or
hunting with him.

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Living in the state of Alaska?

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Are you kidding me?

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Soon as my kids were
old enough to walk

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I bought them a
fishing pole and gun.

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We went camping, we go
hiking, we go rafting.

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You know?

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I had to go Montana, buy
my dad a fishing pole,

248
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take him down to a river that
didn't even have a fish in it

249
00:17:46,450 --> 00:17:49,234
to get a picture of him
with a fishing pole, with me.

250
00:17:50,843 --> 00:17:52,554
I mean that -

251
00:17:56,226 --> 00:17:57,226
you know?

252
00:17:58,144 --> 00:17:59,230
And you know what he said?

253
00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:00,980
I reminded him of
that not too long

254
00:18:01,029 --> 00:18:02,323
ago and you know
what he told me?

255
00:18:02,632 --> 00:18:04,109
'I never been much
of a fisherman.'

256
00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:09,527
I don't give a shit if he ever
fished a day in his life.

257
00:18:09,566 --> 00:18:12,050
Teach your damn kids to fish.
You know?

258
00:18:18,605 --> 00:18:20,636
I still don't know
him the way most

259
00:18:20,685 --> 00:18:22,034
kids should know their father.

260
00:18:23,708 --> 00:18:26,292
You could sit here and tell
me that my dad was a good guy

261
00:18:26,341 --> 00:18:28,488
and he's just trying to make
a living and providing.

262
00:18:28,746 --> 00:18:30,366
You know whatever
the case may be.

263
00:18:32,616 --> 00:18:35,382
But none of that stuff
ever registered to me.

264
00:18:35,769 --> 00:18:36,769
Hut.

265
00:18:38,744 --> 00:18:40,401
I think some of the
things I did back then

266
00:18:40,450 --> 00:18:42,249
was basically to try
to get his attention.

267
00:18:45,234 --> 00:18:49,195
The way Lance dealt was 'I'll
just turn into a little jerk.'

268
00:18:50,460 --> 00:18:52,804
You know? Because now I'm
pissed off at the entire world.

269
00:18:53,401 --> 00:18:55,073
I'm mad at mom, I'm mad at dad.

270
00:18:56,307 --> 00:18:57,557
I'm mad at life.

271
00:18:59,128 --> 00:19:01,190
Hut. Hut.

272
00:19:01,914 --> 00:19:04,885
Rebel is an understatement.
I went crazy.

273
00:19:05,167 --> 00:19:07,784
Doing stuff no parent would
brag about their kid doing.

274
00:19:08,976 --> 00:19:11,135
Come on, Hut, Hut.

275
00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:16,460
There was many weekends I’d get
put in jail for minor consuming.

276
00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,214
Drunk in public.

277
00:19:19,788 --> 00:19:21,796
I can get in trouble and
moms going to bail me out.

278
00:19:22,534 --> 00:19:26,205
I'll never forget one time
they called her and she's like

279
00:19:26,464 --> 00:19:29,557
'Let him sit there. I can't
take off work. I'll be

280
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there if I can get there,
when I can get there.'

281
00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,424
And they come back and
they told me that.

282
00:19:34,973 --> 00:19:36,827
'Sorry, you ain't
leaving today.'

283
00:19:37,713 --> 00:19:38,752
'What?'

284
00:19:38,901 --> 00:19:40,573
'Your mom said she
ain't coming.'

285
00:19:40,729 --> 00:19:42,955
And I'm like 'Bullshit.
Mom's coming to get me.

286
00:19:42,995 --> 00:19:44,002
She always does.'

287
00:19:44,421 --> 00:19:46,101
'Not this time boy.' You know?

288
00:19:47,994 --> 00:19:52,554
Three or four attempts at high
school and still a freshman.

289
00:19:54,301 --> 00:19:55,948
My mom knew that
there was something

290
00:19:55,997 --> 00:19:57,494
going on. Didn't
know exactly what.

291
00:19:57,543 --> 00:19:59,335
So she put me in a drug rehab.

292
00:20:00,112 --> 00:20:04,101
And the drug rehab
kicked me out.

293
00:20:10,143 --> 00:20:17,399
Hut. Yep, yep. Come on here.
Hut. Yep.

294
00:20:18,772 --> 00:20:19,772
Get up.

295
00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:26,266
Good to see you man.

296
00:20:26,315 --> 00:20:27,329
Good to see you.

297
00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:29,094
Win yourself some gold?

298
00:20:30,009 --> 00:20:32,149
Yeah. This is worth
the effort I think.

299
00:20:33,353 --> 00:20:35,554
You know the dogs deserve
it more than I do.

300
00:20:38,353 --> 00:20:43,194
Holy cow. He's been
in here about four

301
00:20:43,243 --> 00:20:46,663
hours now. He's still
trying to perform

302
00:20:46,712 --> 00:20:48,952
but he was just- come here.

303
00:20:50,827 --> 00:20:54,101
He wasn't so enthused
about this whole mess.

304
00:20:55,898 --> 00:20:58,538
I think maybe just a
good meal, a good rest

305
00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:03,218
and he might just be a
whole different dog again.

306
00:21:04,155 --> 00:21:05,726
You're not sure about
this stuff are ya?

307
00:21:10,249 --> 00:21:13,491
I got to run this team according
to what it's capable of doing.

308
00:21:13,531 --> 00:21:15,624
Not worry about what's
going on behind me.

309
00:21:16,578 --> 00:21:18,905
And if I happen to
get to Nome and

310
00:21:18,954 --> 00:21:21,741
there's nobody in front of me?
I won.

311
00:21:22,914 --> 00:21:25,241
Lance congratulations
on being the first to

312
00:21:25,290 --> 00:21:27,351
reach the halfway point
on the 2013 Iditarod.

313
00:21:28,007 --> 00:21:32,007
On behalf of GCI and Iditarod
committee it's my pleasure to

314
00:21:32,056 --> 00:21:37,351
present you with this year's
$3000 worth of gold nuggets.

315
00:21:37,609 --> 00:21:41,116
In addition to the gold nuggets
you'll get to keep this trophy.

316
00:21:41,547 --> 00:21:45,583
And we will also add your
name to the permanent halfway

317
00:21:45,632 --> 00:21:48,796
point winners list which is
in the Iditarod gallery.

318
00:21:49,562 --> 00:21:50,562
So-

319
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,030
Making sure you got
it all out of there.

320
00:21:54,515 --> 00:21:57,569
You get to take it home.
Congratulations.

321
00:21:57,618 --> 00:22:00,007
That's awesome. Thank you.

322
00:22:00,632 --> 00:22:02,312
Much as I'd love to
stand around and count

323
00:22:02,361 --> 00:22:04,163
them I'm going to
leave that up to you.

324
00:22:04,212 --> 00:22:07,023
I'm going to take a little,
I don't know, catnap.

325
00:22:09,125 --> 00:22:11,109
We'll see you gentleman shortly.

326
00:22:11,158 --> 00:22:12,158
You earned it.

327
00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:13,210
Thank you much.

328
00:22:13,242 --> 00:22:15,088
- Good luck the rest of the way.
- See you soon

329
00:22:15,137 --> 00:22:16,159
Good night lance.

330
00:22:16,781 --> 00:22:19,421
I've only slept one hour
since the starting line.

331
00:22:22,023 --> 00:22:23,952
I don't know how people
do this shit every year.

332
00:22:25,273 --> 00:22:26,921
Oh, that feels so good.

333
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,507
Yep. Haw. Haw.

334
00:22:37,328 --> 00:22:39,944
That's it. Alright. Alright.

335
00:22:41,351 --> 00:22:44,640
Thatta boys'. Good job guys.

336
00:22:47,114 --> 00:22:51,351
Good boys. Good boys.

337
00:22:56,812 --> 00:22:59,252
There. Mmm. Look at that.

338
00:23:00,453 --> 00:23:01,919
Oh, that looks good.

339
00:23:03,859 --> 00:23:05,392
How about you Reverend?

340
00:23:17,429 --> 00:23:18,538
Who you want to win?

341
00:23:19,468 --> 00:23:20,523
Who you want to win?

342
00:23:20,843 --> 00:23:22,148
I thought you were going to win.

343
00:23:22,249 --> 00:23:23,657
That's a good answer.

344
00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:51,866
Oh yeah. Nice.

345
00:24:16,085 --> 00:24:17,914
They stopped more on that run.

346
00:24:17,976 --> 00:24:20,484
And I stopped the whole
damn race combined.

347
00:24:22,226 --> 00:24:23,710
Okay. Good enough for me.

348
00:24:27,398 --> 00:24:29,065
I drop a dog in Iditarod.

349
00:24:29,828 --> 00:24:34,280
And when I leave he's the only
one barking and screaming to go.

350
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:36,882
Everybody else was
just, you know,

351
00:24:36,931 --> 00:24:38,304
got up and we marched
out of there.

352
00:24:38,353 --> 00:24:39,359
Yeah.

353
00:24:39,414 --> 00:24:40,819
I had to- before I
even left I went

354
00:24:40,868 --> 00:24:42,554
over and said goodbye
to him again.

355
00:24:42,611 --> 00:24:43,796
Just I'm sorry.

356
00:24:43,845 --> 00:24:45,734
You're the one that told
me you wanted to stay.

357
00:24:46,054 --> 00:24:47,804
Now you're tel- you know?
You're here.

358
00:24:47,851 --> 00:24:49,382
Now you're telling
me you want to go.

359
00:24:49,406 --> 00:24:51,210
Yeah. Racing anxiety.

360
00:24:51,257 --> 00:24:53,999
I was - he stood
up the whole time.

361
00:24:54,069 --> 00:24:55,452
From the time I
dropped him, until

362
00:24:55,501 --> 00:24:56,952
the time I left. He
never laid down.

363
00:24:59,171 --> 00:25:00,569
I felt so bad.

364
00:25:01,117 --> 00:25:02,317
What was his name?

365
00:25:02,343 --> 00:25:03,343
Doug.

366
00:25:05,065 --> 00:25:07,332
Oh man. Get some
sleep if you can.

367
00:25:07,503 --> 00:25:08,503
I don't know.

368
00:25:09,221 --> 00:25:11,135
I don't think I'll be here
long enough to sleep.

369
00:26:15,416 --> 00:26:19,799
When I was 15 mom was frustrated
and over her head on what to do.

370
00:26:19,848 --> 00:26:22,276
So she thought it would
be a great idea to

371
00:26:22,325 --> 00:26:24,869
send me to my dad's
truck stop in Coldfoot.

372
00:26:25,878 --> 00:26:27,869
Coldfoot is 65 miles above the

373
00:26:27,918 --> 00:26:30,026
Arctic Circle on the
Dalton Highway.

374
00:26:30,143 --> 00:26:32,846
And its claim to
fame is the Northern

375
00:26:32,895 --> 00:26:34,455
Most Truck Stop in the World.

376
00:26:36,643 --> 00:26:39,577
I had driven all the
way up from Wasilla to

377
00:26:39,626 --> 00:26:42,252
distribute these bear
proof garbage cans.

378
00:26:43,167 --> 00:26:46,377
I said 'You can't even get a
cup of coffee on this road.'

379
00:26:48,698 --> 00:26:53,682
A friend of mine owned a school
bus made into a kitchen.

380
00:26:54,721 --> 00:26:55,721
And I said

381
00:26:57,003 --> 00:26:59,305
'What do you think
if we was to take

382
00:26:59,354 --> 00:27:01,953
that school bus of
yours and go up

383
00:27:02,002 --> 00:27:04,582
there and we just
sell hot dogs, and

384
00:27:04,631 --> 00:27:06,299
soup and whatever
for the summer?'

385
00:27:07,342 --> 00:27:09,932
and we pulled in there
just dead tired.

386
00:27:10,034 --> 00:27:11,152
Got a few hours' sleep.

387
00:27:11,201 --> 00:27:12,705
Woke up the next
morning and there was

388
00:27:12,754 --> 00:27:15,619
100 trucks parked
in that gravel pit.

389
00:27:15,659 --> 00:27:17,701
Wanted to know when they
could get something to eat.

390
00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:21,111
And I went 'Ding, ding,
ding, ding, ding.'

391
00:27:21,315 --> 00:27:22,604
And we were off and running.

392
00:27:22,917 --> 00:27:24,680
We developed a little town.

393
00:27:24,729 --> 00:27:27,346
We had a post office.
We had a store.

394
00:27:27,393 --> 00:27:31,291
We had a bar. We had
overnight facilities.

395
00:27:31,370 --> 00:27:34,770
Not to mention a restaurant
for truckers and etc.

396
00:27:37,768 --> 00:27:40,924
By the time I got up there it
was still a work in process.

397
00:27:41,448 --> 00:27:43,330
He's right in the middle
of building a business

398
00:27:45,454 --> 00:27:47,986
with 50 employees or
however many he had.

399
00:27:48,589 --> 00:27:50,424
And all of a sudden
he's got to be a dad.

400
00:27:51,784 --> 00:27:54,384
No, I was more like
another employee.

401
00:27:57,697 --> 00:27:59,541
500 trucks through there a day.

402
00:28:00,432 --> 00:28:04,549
I learned a lot of things
but I was also unguided.

403
00:28:04,909 --> 00:28:06,846
I'd do whatever I
want pretty much.

404
00:28:07,753 --> 00:28:10,721
When you're trying to build
something like Coldfoot,

405
00:28:11,026 --> 00:28:13,393
you know, it's 24/7.

406
00:28:13,479 --> 00:28:14,596
You're just going

407
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,236
And so as long as we were under
the radar we were golden.

408
00:28:19,995 --> 00:28:23,080
I would go out with a bucket
of water and a squeegee when

409
00:28:23,129 --> 00:28:25,932
they pulled in and washed their
windows and their lights.

410
00:28:26,323 --> 00:28:28,354
And I found out which one
would give me a Bud.

411
00:28:28,728 --> 00:28:30,322
Or something else.

412
00:28:31,190 --> 00:28:32,964
Pretty soon I'm spending
all my money doing

413
00:28:33,013 --> 00:28:36,127
the same shit that I
was doing in Wasilla.

414
00:28:36,182 --> 00:28:37,709
Just took me a little
longer to figure

415
00:28:37,758 --> 00:28:39,643
this whole system out. You know?

416
00:28:41,385 --> 00:28:44,486
Dad was just getting into the
tour companies running up there.

417
00:28:44,956 --> 00:28:49,906
And I remember him offering
me a job as a baggage

418
00:28:49,955 --> 00:28:53,440
carrier for the tourists
coming off the buses.

419
00:28:56,034 --> 00:28:57,135
Are you kidding me?

420
00:28:57,799 --> 00:28:59,205
I would never do that. You know?

421
00:29:00,964 --> 00:29:03,080
I'm a carpenter, I'm
this, I'm that.

422
00:29:03,129 --> 00:29:05,361
But I'm not a baggage bus boy.

423
00:29:06,442 --> 00:29:08,143
He just kind of looked
at me like 'I'm

424
00:29:08,192 --> 00:29:10,223
handing you a start
to a goldmine.

425
00:29:10,674 --> 00:29:11,986
This could all be yours.'

426
00:29:14,096 --> 00:29:17,851
And I just gave him the bird
and packed my shit and left.

427
00:30:06,307 --> 00:30:10,033
Hut. Hey. Hey.

428
00:30:11,174 --> 00:30:14,674
That's it. Good boys. Alright.

429
00:30:17,784 --> 00:30:18,784
That's it.

430
00:30:20,713 --> 00:30:21,713
Good job guys.

431
00:30:29,751 --> 00:30:31,088
How many dogs we got?

432
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,026
Not enough. 11.

433
00:30:34,669 --> 00:30:37,286
My run from Eagle
Island up to Kaltag

434
00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:39,622
was as slow as I've ever done.

435
00:30:41,651 --> 00:30:45,283
And for whatever reason it's
the speed they want to go now.

436
00:30:49,674 --> 00:30:51,932
What do you say boy? Hmm?

437
00:30:52,128 --> 00:30:55,002
I've been breathing cold
air on an exposed tooth.

438
00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:57,510
I was eating fudge and
it had nuts in it.

439
00:30:57,987 --> 00:31:00,212
Not the most pleasant feeling.

440
00:31:00,878 --> 00:31:01,994
At least I saved my tooth.

441
00:31:02,087 --> 00:31:03,594
Almost swallowed the damn thing.

442
00:31:07,175 --> 00:31:09,690
I've been dealing with
my teeth for years now.

443
00:31:10,167 --> 00:31:12,627
Oh, pretty hard to get to
a dentist at the moment.

444
00:31:13,901 --> 00:31:19,994
I just need some Advil
and a tall Crown Royal.

445
00:31:20,783 --> 00:31:22,056
Okay. That will work.

446
00:31:25,229 --> 00:31:29,353
Ah, everything feels so good.
I don't know what to tell ya.

447
00:31:29,525 --> 00:31:31,783
I'm sure it probably does.

448
00:31:31,838 --> 00:31:36,400
Just take one tablet by
mouth six to eight hours.

449
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,720
Thank you.

450
00:31:38,228 --> 00:31:42,028
My teeth are falling out. My
toes black with frostbite.

451
00:32:01,533 --> 00:32:03,876
Lance? Stu's on the
phone upstairs.

452
00:32:03,963 --> 00:32:05,861
He said he had something
to talk to you about.

453
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:06,931
Who?

454
00:32:06,963 --> 00:32:07,963
Stu.

455
00:32:08,322 --> 00:32:09,392
About my other dog?

456
00:32:09,455 --> 00:32:11,251
I don't know. You'll
have to call him.

457
00:32:40,877 --> 00:32:43,541
Hello Stu? This is Leslie
from Kaltag. Is this you?

458
00:32:45,033 --> 00:32:48,260
I have Lance here. Could
you take the call please?

459
00:32:54,213 --> 00:32:55,478
Doc, how you doin?

460
00:32:58,205 --> 00:33:00,072
Yes sir. Tell me the news.

461
00:33:11,434 --> 00:33:12,759
Oh boy.

462
00:33:18,438 --> 00:33:19,438
Are you there?

463
00:33:20,213 --> 00:33:21,213
Hello?

464
00:33:24,713 --> 00:33:25,713
Lost him.

465
00:33:28,352 --> 00:33:31,306
Okay. Well he's
alive but barely.

466
00:33:32,322 --> 00:33:33,548
He has an ulcer.

467
00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:37,400
He lost a lot of blood.

468
00:34:47,330 --> 00:34:48,863
There you go precious.

469
00:34:52,416 --> 00:34:54,908
Can you show them how
it's done Rev? Hmm?

470
00:35:05,321 --> 00:35:06,321
Alright.

471
00:35:10,314 --> 00:35:11,767
Hut, come on there. Hut.

472
00:35:14,236 --> 00:35:15,267
Thatta boy.

473
00:35:18,775 --> 00:35:19,775
Alright.

474
00:35:20,854 --> 00:35:21,854
Thatta boy.

475
00:35:24,009 --> 00:35:25,009
Alright.

476
00:35:59,471 --> 00:36:02,871
When I left my dad's truck
stop in Cold Foot I was

477
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,487
pretty adamant about not
going back to my mom's.

478
00:36:07,041 --> 00:36:09,455
I didn't have any money. None.

479
00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:12,314
I had nowhere to go.

480
00:36:16,971 --> 00:36:19,392
I ended up getting a
job down in Kodiak.

481
00:36:21,338 --> 00:36:22,738
Working in a Cannery.

482
00:36:26,166 --> 00:36:27,751
My first real job.

483
00:36:32,729 --> 00:36:35,874
Kodiak was one of the
biggest boom fishing

484
00:36:35,923 --> 00:36:37,908
towns in the state of
Alaska at one time.

485
00:36:38,971 --> 00:36:41,314
And yeah, there was
millions of dollars coming

486
00:36:41,363 --> 00:36:43,197
in and out of there
in months at a time.

487
00:36:47,143 --> 00:36:50,072
I ended up getting a job on the
boat they called The Mariah.

488
00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:52,955
I'll never forget getting
out in the middle

489
00:36:53,004 --> 00:36:54,441
of the Bering Sea
when it's pitch

490
00:36:54,504 --> 00:36:56,129
black in the middle of June.

491
00:36:56,424 --> 00:36:57,613
You can hear the wind.

492
00:37:00,598 --> 00:37:01,918
There's a snow squall.

493
00:37:02,738 --> 00:37:04,543
The seas about 35 feet.

494
00:37:05,105 --> 00:37:06,675
We're not getting a
whole lot of sleep.

495
00:37:07,761 --> 00:37:10,043
We are getting our
asses handed to us.

496
00:37:11,879 --> 00:37:14,410
I went up by the wheelhouse
where nobody else could see me.

497
00:37:14,459 --> 00:37:18,824
Out in the blunt of the storm.
I knew I was dying.

498
00:37:19,332 --> 00:37:20,613
I wasn't coming home.

499
00:37:21,004 --> 00:37:22,347
And I sat there and cried.

500
00:37:24,215 --> 00:37:27,107
I got my shit together and
I went back down,

501
00:37:27,676 --> 00:37:31,990
finished out the trip and I made
like $5500 bucks that month.

502
00:37:33,267 --> 00:37:34,372
I was rich.

503
00:37:34,957 --> 00:37:38,597
Holy shit. $5500 bucks?
For a month?

504
00:37:39,668 --> 00:37:42,629
Oh, I forgot all about
how miserable it was.

505
00:37:42,692 --> 00:37:44,949
And how cold it was. And
how tired and how hungry.

506
00:37:45,504 --> 00:37:48,270
Oh, buddy. I'm going back now.

507
00:37:51,739 --> 00:37:54,129
I could hardly get a dishwashing
job but now I could

508
00:37:54,178 --> 00:37:57,066
go and make $50,000-$60,000
grand in no time?

509
00:37:59,684 --> 00:38:02,080
Then it was also justifiable
to come back to town

510
00:38:02,129 --> 00:38:04,651
for three days and spend
$2000 bucks partying.

511
00:38:05,581 --> 00:38:06,965
I was hooked right there.

512
00:38:11,035 --> 00:38:13,574
It got worse and worse with
the more money I made.

513
00:38:13,623 --> 00:38:15,480
And the more people I met.

514
00:38:17,742 --> 00:38:21,938
It wasn't a healthy lifestyle.

515
00:38:34,673 --> 00:38:35,673
How you doing?

516
00:38:38,883 --> 00:38:40,227
What you think Big Al?

517
00:38:40,822 --> 00:38:41,822
There you go.

518
00:38:44,150 --> 00:38:45,501
You a handsome boy, huh?

519
00:38:45,610 --> 00:38:47,821
You a handsome boy. Yeah.

520
00:38:48,994 --> 00:38:51,060
That's nice. Hold on a second.

521
00:38:53,540 --> 00:38:55,873
Much easier if you
do it yourself.

522
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,610
He just wanted some company.

523
00:39:04,758 --> 00:39:07,109
When I got here Larry asked
me if I wanted a piece of it.

524
00:39:07,158 --> 00:39:09,414
I didn't know he was going to
go make them bring it down.

525
00:39:09,705 --> 00:39:11,563
Oh yeah. Just came
out of the oven.

526
00:39:11,759 --> 00:39:12,759
Oh, it's hot.

527
00:39:14,064 --> 00:39:15,970
Doesn't get any better
than that right there.

528
00:39:16,025 --> 00:39:18,774
I'm not sure how many people
got pizza brought to them.

529
00:39:19,150 --> 00:39:22,157
It's been a Hell of a welcoming
committee everywhere I go.

530
00:39:22,595 --> 00:39:25,149
You're biggest fan here has
got a surprise for you.

531
00:39:25,345 --> 00:39:26,345
Moose jerky.

532
00:39:26,394 --> 00:39:27,461
Oh, look at you.

533
00:39:27,501 --> 00:39:28,701
And smoked salmon.

534
00:39:29,009 --> 00:39:30,610
Thank you.

535
00:39:31,111 --> 00:39:33,649
We're twins. You're missing
the same tooth I am.

536
00:39:40,712 --> 00:39:42,227
I don’t have many
teeth as it is.

537
00:39:42,290 --> 00:39:44,313
It sure sucks not
having another one.

538
00:39:49,736 --> 00:39:51,923
Maybe I should just go
have a liquid diet.

539
00:39:54,697 --> 00:39:57,220
That would take care of my
tooth problem wouldn't it?

540
00:40:36,283 --> 00:40:37,546
You're almost there.

541
00:40:38,009 --> 00:40:39,892
It's been the slowest trip ever.

542
00:40:39,941 --> 00:40:40,941
Yeah.

543
00:40:40,970 --> 00:40:44,610
I mean speed wise.

544
00:40:44,659 --> 00:40:46,009
I mean I don't know
if we're still

545
00:40:46,058 --> 00:40:50,134
on day 9 or something
at the moment.

546
00:41:00,955 --> 00:41:02,165
There you go.

547
00:41:09,822 --> 00:41:11,288
I bet you go to sleep.

548
00:42:02,586 --> 00:42:05,132
I ended up meeting
this gal, Tonya.

549
00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:08,665
We were both on a
dead end street

550
00:42:08,688 --> 00:42:10,907
with dead end relationships.

551
00:42:12,673 --> 00:42:14,329
She had three small kids.

552
00:42:16,446 --> 00:42:19,040
I needed somebody to help
me straighten out my life.

553
00:42:19,782 --> 00:42:22,680
She needed to have a father
figure around for the girls.

554
00:42:23,899 --> 00:42:25,352
We felt we could
help each other.

555
00:42:32,032 --> 00:42:33,625
Three months later
we got married.

556
00:42:36,074 --> 00:42:37,926
We're starting over. Let's
start over somewhere

557
00:42:37,975 --> 00:42:39,801
completely different
where we know nobody.

558
00:42:41,228 --> 00:42:43,399
Not a clue in what the
hell was going to happen,

559
00:42:43,855 --> 00:42:45,446
how we was going to
make it even happen.

560
00:42:45,547 --> 00:42:47,391
We're going to drive until
we're out of money.

561
00:42:47,446 --> 00:42:49,211
To a place where we
don't know anybody.

562
00:42:50,523 --> 00:42:52,102
That took us to the
Kenai Peninsula.

563
00:42:53,199 --> 00:42:55,577
We set up camp. We made a big -

564
00:42:55,923 --> 00:42:57,571
more or less a house
out of blue tarps.

565
00:42:57,626 --> 00:42:59,758
Put the tent inside
the blue tarp.

566
00:43:00,063 --> 00:43:02,960
Found an old couch, an old
piece of carpet at the dump.

567
00:43:04,282 --> 00:43:07,147
Every single day we'd
build a campfire.

568
00:43:07,389 --> 00:43:08,538
That was how we cooked.

569
00:43:10,306 --> 00:43:13,086
But it was going into winter.

570
00:43:13,556 --> 00:43:16,181
It was getting kind of cold. We
don't really have nowhere to go.

571
00:43:16,230 --> 00:43:18,127
We damn sure ain't staying
in a tent all winter.

572
00:43:19,431 --> 00:43:20,805
I didn't have a chainsaw.

573
00:43:21,001 --> 00:43:23,508
I didn't have a nail or
hammer, nothing like that.

574
00:43:24,009 --> 00:43:25,172
But I had a handsaw.

575
00:43:26,287 --> 00:43:29,029
And I went over and started
cutting trees down by hand.

576
00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:31,482
We're building a
house right here.

577
00:43:32,177 --> 00:43:33,584
Not sure exactly
what kind of house.

578
00:43:33,633 --> 00:43:35,729
But we're going to have it
right here. We're going to

579
00:43:35,778 --> 00:43:37,466
use these stumps as
part of the foundation.

580
00:43:37,670 --> 00:43:38,670
I'm hustling.

581
00:43:38,826 --> 00:43:42,060
Anything and everything I
possibly can for a $20 bill.

582
00:43:43,332 --> 00:43:45,287
I just stuffed the
walls full of old

583
00:43:45,336 --> 00:43:47,521
clothes that we got
at Salvation Army.

584
00:43:48,389 --> 00:43:50,201
I'd stop at the dumpster
every single day.

585
00:43:50,570 --> 00:43:53,498
I found a wood stove,
I found tires.

586
00:43:53,545 --> 00:43:55,396
I mean all kinds of
things I could use.

587
00:43:56,079 --> 00:43:57,451
Things were just
flowing together.

588
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,349
Well, then I got this
harebrained idea.

589
00:44:01,568 --> 00:44:04,334
'Man, I'm going to have to
get a couple of dogs again.'

590
00:44:05,732 --> 00:44:07,904
It seemed like maybe
a matter of a week

591
00:44:08,537 --> 00:44:10,638
and I had 2, 3 dogs
in the backyard.

592
00:44:11,256 --> 00:44:13,826
Next thing I know I
have 20 dogs now.

593
00:44:14,881 --> 00:44:16,841
The dogs I got were
all leftovers.

594
00:44:17,037 --> 00:44:19,529
Dogs that came from the
pound and off the streets.

595
00:44:19,912 --> 00:44:23,107
Misfit dogs that
nobody else wanted.

596
00:44:23,781 --> 00:44:26,380
It was stupid cause we're
barely feeding ourselves.

597
00:44:27,914 --> 00:44:29,662
That winter there
was a little local

598
00:44:29,711 --> 00:44:32,630
sprint race track
on the peninsula.

599
00:44:33,795 --> 00:44:36,607
The first time I went down there
the people in the neighborhood

600
00:44:36,656 --> 00:44:40,279
said 'Man this is one of the
most jalopy teams I ever seen.'

601
00:44:41,672 --> 00:44:44,334
I had all their rejects and
I ended up beating them.

602
00:44:45,877 --> 00:44:48,576
I was back the next weekend,
and the following weekend.

603
00:44:48,625 --> 00:44:50,146
And I raced every weekend.

604
00:44:51,139 --> 00:44:52,740
I told Tonya one day

605
00:44:54,148 --> 00:44:56,060
'I'm going to run the
Iditarod next year.'

606
00:44:56,897 --> 00:44:59,990
This is the start
of Iditarod 29.

607
00:45:01,583 --> 00:45:05,357
Lance Mackey on his way to gold.

608
00:45:09,904 --> 00:45:13,865
The first 20 years of my life I
put my parents through hell.

609
00:45:16,621 --> 00:45:18,615
I finally realized that
life's too damn short

610
00:45:18,664 --> 00:45:20,216
to be screwing up.

611
00:45:21,351 --> 00:45:24,576
I want my dad and my mom to be
proud of the things I'm doing.

612
00:45:25,274 --> 00:45:27,807
And not be ashamed
and disappointed.

613
00:45:30,098 --> 00:45:31,263
They called me from McGrath.

614
00:45:32,490 --> 00:45:34,701
and man he was on
top of the world.

615
00:45:34,904 --> 00:45:37,763
'Mom, I am having such a
good time at -' you know.

616
00:45:37,812 --> 00:45:38,995
On and on and on.

617
00:45:40,045 --> 00:45:41,873
Just everything was good.

618
00:45:51,006 --> 00:45:52,841
He got to Kaltag and
he called me again.

619
00:45:54,436 --> 00:45:58,427
And he said 'I don't know.

620
00:45:59,013 --> 00:46:00,716
I don't know if I'm
even going to make it.'

621
00:46:06,717 --> 00:46:09,247
I remember going from Kaltag to
Unalakleet.

622
00:46:10,499 --> 00:46:14,763
And I heard these
wolves behind me.

623
00:46:16,958 --> 00:46:20,200
Yep. Hut. Hut. No. No.

624
00:46:20,310 --> 00:46:21,856
Maybe I was hallucinating
I don't know.

625
00:46:21,888 --> 00:46:23,688
Cause I never did see them.
I remember turning

626
00:46:23,737 --> 00:46:25,825
around real fast.

627
00:46:26,982 --> 00:46:29,747
My eyes went dark and I
hit the deck basically.

628
00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:33,122
I didn't know exactly
what had happened but

629
00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:34,747
I was not feeling right.

630
00:46:36,638 --> 00:46:42,052
Since he was a little, little
boy never ever complained.

631
00:46:42,966 --> 00:46:45,372
He had strep throat one
time with a 105 fever.

632
00:46:46,161 --> 00:46:49,473
'How do you feel Lance?' 'Fine.'
I knew something was up.

633
00:46:50,910 --> 00:46:52,731
Prior to going into the race

634
00:46:53,638 --> 00:46:55,302
I had this little
lump on my throat.

635
00:46:56,248 --> 00:46:58,997
They kept telling me that
I had this abscess tooth.

636
00:46:59,505 --> 00:47:01,098
Gave me some pain
killers and some

637
00:47:01,147 --> 00:47:02,895
antibiotics and
sent me on my way.

638
00:47:05,263 --> 00:47:08,614
As I continued to Nome things
started growing rapidly.

639
00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:11,677
It went from the size
of pea to the size of

640
00:47:11,726 --> 00:47:14,286
softball in just a
short couple of weeks.

641
00:47:21,701 --> 00:47:24,841
But I pushed on and I
made it to Nome with

642
00:47:25,333 --> 00:47:27,075
with this thing growing in my
throat.

643
00:47:27,124 --> 00:47:29,567
Not knowing that it was
ultimately cancer.

644
00:47:35,289 --> 00:47:37,919
The doctor he just looked at
me and said 'Lance I'm sorry.

645
00:47:40,029 --> 00:47:42,536
And I am telling you
straight up, it's serious.'

646
00:47:45,604 --> 00:47:48,325
There was really a slim chance
that I would pull through this.

647
00:47:48,374 --> 00:47:50,192
It was wrapped around
some of the main things.

648
00:47:50,232 --> 00:47:52,044
Cutting of the
circulation to my brain.

649
00:47:54,146 --> 00:47:56,510
You know, I mean every
time I turned around they

650
00:47:56,559 --> 00:47:58,389
might as well have been
talking Japanese cause

651
00:47:59,278 --> 00:48:00,684
I wasn't understanding
these terms.

652
00:48:00,733 --> 00:48:03,020
And all the things that they
said was not going to happen.

653
00:48:03,068 --> 00:48:04,997
Or the things they said I
wouldn't be able to do.

654
00:48:05,286 --> 00:48:07,052
You know? I wouldn't
ever race dogs again.

655
00:48:07,107 --> 00:48:09,059
I probably wouldn't have
any use of my right arm.

656
00:48:09,396 --> 00:48:13,816
I could be mentally
challenged afterwards

657
00:48:13,865 --> 00:48:15,716
because of the whole operation.

658
00:48:16,161 --> 00:48:18,466
I mean all these different
things were just like,

659
00:48:19,126 --> 00:48:20,708
phew, right over my head.

660
00:48:28,810 --> 00:48:31,895
Family and friends all got
together at his moms house.

661
00:48:33,566 --> 00:48:35,356
Trying to be cheerful you know?

662
00:48:35,779 --> 00:48:39,700
But it was a pretty
tense evening.

663
00:48:45,005 --> 00:48:46,139
That was awful.

664
00:48:56,130 --> 00:48:59,044
I just gave him a great big hug.

665
00:48:59,638 --> 00:49:00,669
We all just kind of

666
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:03,122
went through the motions until

667
00:49:04,076 --> 00:49:06,476
it was time to go
to the hospital.

668
00:49:16,341 --> 00:49:18,028
Nothing ever really sank in

669
00:49:18,896 --> 00:49:21,184
until I was laying
on that hospital bed

670
00:49:22,091 --> 00:49:24,723
just fixing to go into
the doors to go surgery.

671
00:49:25,802 --> 00:49:27,778
And they said

672
00:49:28,646 --> 00:49:30,255
'You need to say goodbye
to your family.'

673
00:49:33,382 --> 00:49:37,115
And, I mean I remember just
starting to cry profusely.

674
00:49:37,747 --> 00:49:39,419
Cause now all of
sudden it made sense

675
00:49:39,468 --> 00:49:41,161
that I might not be
coming out of this.

676
00:49:55,630 --> 00:49:59,192
The doctor finally
came out and said

677
00:50:00,169 --> 00:50:02,239
he looked me right in
the eye and he said

678
00:50:03,177 --> 00:50:06,356
'Well he ain't pretty
but I got it all.'

679
00:50:12,990 --> 00:50:14,456
Yep, that was relief.

680
00:50:24,591 --> 00:50:27,411
The dogs, they absolutely
knew that I was sick.

681
00:50:28,495 --> 00:50:30,364
I missed them and I needed them.

682
00:50:32,201 --> 00:50:35,395
On the weekends my wife and
my kids would come to see me,

683
00:50:35,865 --> 00:50:37,919
they would sneak a dog or
two into the hospital.

684
00:50:38,747 --> 00:50:40,723
The first time it
happened I cried.

685
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,341
Then I couldn't wait for
it to happen again.

686
00:50:43,654 --> 00:50:45,614
And I cried even harder
the second time.

687
00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:49,880
The radiation treatments they

688
00:50:49,919 --> 00:50:51,200
were fixing to give me were
gonna

689
00:50:52,021 --> 00:50:54,442
not only kill the saliva
glands but there would never

690
00:50:54,491 --> 00:50:57,622
be enough saliva produced for
protection for my teeth.

691
00:50:57,958 --> 00:51:00,263
And inevitably they'd be
rotten and falling out.

692
00:51:00,943 --> 00:51:02,770
Shit their only teeth.
Take them. You know?

693
00:51:07,755 --> 00:51:09,822
Main artery showing in my neck-

694
00:51:09,871 --> 00:51:12,192
very, very vulnerable
to scratches.

695
00:51:13,318 --> 00:51:14,380
They told me flat out

696
00:51:14,419 --> 00:51:16,748
'If you get a tree
branch that pokes you

697
00:51:16,796 --> 00:51:19,395
in the neck and pops that open
you're going to bleed to death.

698
00:51:19,997 --> 00:51:21,540
If you get a dog
that jumps up on

699
00:51:21,589 --> 00:51:23,097
you, and scratches
you with a toenail

700
00:51:23,146 --> 00:51:25,966
real bad, and pops that open?
You're going to bleed to death.'

701
00:51:27,061 --> 00:51:28,325
I was warned.

702
00:51:28,521 --> 00:51:29,721
In fact I was told

703
00:51:30,115 --> 00:51:31,663
not to ever race
dogs again because

704
00:51:31,685 --> 00:51:33,302
I'm setting myself up for,

705
00:51:34,074 --> 00:51:35,874
you know, death basically.

706
00:51:39,420 --> 00:51:40,553
But I'm stubborn.

707
00:51:41,474 --> 00:51:43,645
If I fall off my sled I'm
going to have a smile

708
00:51:43,694 --> 00:51:45,684
on my face doing
something I love to do.

709
00:51:46,521 --> 00:51:48,333
Don't tell me I can't
run the Iditarod again,

710
00:51:48,382 --> 00:51:50,083
don't tell me I can't
get up and walk now.

711
00:51:50,132 --> 00:51:51,333
Don't tell me I can't.

712
00:51:51,872 --> 00:51:52,872
No, I remember

713
00:51:54,029 --> 00:51:56,552
telling him, don't worry about
the dogs' dude. I got the dogs.

714
00:51:58,240 --> 00:51:59,645
I'll take care of the dogs.

715
00:51:59,958 --> 00:52:02,059
And he wouldn't have
no part of that.

716
00:52:02,224 --> 00:52:04,801
He was like 'No.
I'm going to get

717
00:52:04,850 --> 00:52:06,036
out of this treatment today,

718
00:52:06,085 --> 00:52:07,377
and we're going
to the peninsula,

719
00:52:07,426 --> 00:52:08,653
and I'm going to run dogs.'

720
00:52:13,932 --> 00:52:15,380
I thought he was an idiot.

721
00:52:15,482 --> 00:52:18,667
But I also knew that
that was really

722
00:52:18,716 --> 00:52:20,396
the only thing
keeping him going.

723
00:52:23,951 --> 00:52:25,284
The dogs needed me.

724
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:28,708
And I needed them
at the same time.

725
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,809
When I was a little boy
my dad said 'If you

726
00:52:34,858 --> 00:52:37,857
tip over you don't just let go.
You hang on.

727
00:52:39,146 --> 00:52:41,223
There's going to be bumps
and bruises along the way.

728
00:52:41,591 --> 00:52:43,497
If you fall off
your sled you get

729
00:52:43,546 --> 00:52:45,973
up and get back on it.
Keep going.'

730
00:52:50,050 --> 00:52:53,510
I drew bib number 13 in 1978.

731
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,596
For the '78 race.

732
00:52:55,995 --> 00:52:57,917
It was my 6th attempt.

733
00:52:58,995 --> 00:53:02,417
Years later here comes Lance.

734
00:53:02,886 --> 00:53:05,901
Bib number 13. His 6th attempt.

735
00:53:07,269 --> 00:53:10,917
Lucky position number 13.
Lance Mackey.

736
00:53:11,058 --> 00:53:12,932
I feel I'm indebted to my dogs.

737
00:53:14,175 --> 00:53:16,049
And I'm going to
do my best to pay

738
00:53:16,098 --> 00:53:17,901
them back for changing my life.

739
00:53:18,753 --> 00:53:21,979
Lance Mackey on his way to Nome.

740
00:53:22,847 --> 00:53:25,049
I believe we got a second
chance at life for a reason.

741
00:53:27,089 --> 00:53:28,422
This is the reason.

742
00:53:32,792 --> 00:53:33,792
Let's go.

743
00:53:52,808 --> 00:53:57,628
We barely got going and
we had a major setback.

744
00:53:57,706 --> 00:53:59,870
Right down the creek.
Right on the ice.

745
00:54:00,253 --> 00:54:01,331
Did he miss it again?

746
00:54:01,433 --> 00:54:03,667
Look at that ice. That's
just nasty looking.

747
00:54:03,956 --> 00:54:05,689
That's a tough area there.

748
00:54:06,855 --> 00:54:09,104
On the second day of
racing Lance broke

749
00:54:09,153 --> 00:54:11,901
the runner off the
back of his sled.

750
00:54:13,058 --> 00:54:15,815
So basically he's on one runner,

751
00:54:16,276 --> 00:54:18,846
navigating some
really dicey trail.

752
00:54:19,753 --> 00:54:21,049
That was a close call.

753
00:54:21,112 --> 00:54:23,594
Okay I'm imagining he's really

754
00:54:23,643 --> 00:54:25,198
thinking 'Man, I'm
glad I made it.'

755
00:54:25,511 --> 00:54:27,120
That could have been dicey.

756
00:54:29,316 --> 00:54:32,385
He bounced like ricochet rabbit
through the Dolsal Gorge.

757
00:54:32,542 --> 00:54:34,057
It's a notorious canyon.

758
00:54:35,386 --> 00:54:36,846
It was a hell of
an accomplishment

759
00:54:36,895 --> 00:54:38,557
just making it with
good equipment.

760
00:54:43,011 --> 00:54:44,906
When I saw the
runner broken on his

761
00:54:44,955 --> 00:54:46,920
sled and him riding
on one runner,

762
00:54:47,477 --> 00:54:51,203
I just went 'Oh, I'm
so sorry Lance.

763
00:54:51,704 --> 00:54:53,156
I guess this ain't your year.'

764
00:54:53,196 --> 00:54:56,000
And I fully expected
him to scratch.

765
00:54:56,180 --> 00:54:59,812
Because going down the Dolsal
Gorge on one runner is asinine.

766
00:55:01,383 --> 00:55:02,650
One freakin runner.

767
00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:07,031
I had it all bolted into there.

768
00:55:07,094 --> 00:55:09,602
This is so -

769
00:55:13,860 --> 00:55:15,195
It was working pretty good.

770
00:55:15,250 --> 00:55:17,584
It actually held
up by 2 ½ hours.

771
00:55:19,157 --> 00:55:21,094
See when I got it done
I was making the joke

772
00:55:21,143 --> 00:55:23,375
'I don't need another sled.
This will make it to Nome.'

773
00:55:24,305 --> 00:55:26,727
Right. Oh what a wreck.

774
00:55:27,094 --> 00:55:28,578
I imagine he's really
going to be glad

775
00:55:28,627 --> 00:55:30,037
he got through here
in the daylight.

776
00:55:30,086 --> 00:55:31,172
Oh yeah.

777
00:55:35,391 --> 00:55:38,015
That's it. Alright. Hut, hut.
That a boy.

778
00:55:38,063 --> 00:55:40,951
When you leave Rohn for
the next 90 miles these

779
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,564
are the toughest miles
that the race knows.

780
00:55:43,613 --> 00:55:44,851
I mean it's up and down.

781
00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:47,680
And it's ice, it's rocks, it's
dirt.

782
00:55:47,846 --> 00:55:50,978
It's holes, it's tussocks.
It's the fair well burn.

783
00:55:51,025 --> 00:55:52,025
It is hell.

784
00:55:53,197 --> 00:55:55,197
For him to go out there
with one runner - people

785
00:55:55,246 --> 00:55:57,137
didn't know if he was going
to get there safely.

786
00:55:59,257 --> 00:56:02,072
Oh man. I wiped out a couple
times coming through the Dorsal.

787
00:56:02,541 --> 00:56:04,798
So just from that one runner.
You know? There's no -

788
00:56:05,299 --> 00:56:08,679
you take a turn. You know how
sometimes you power slide.

789
00:56:08,728 --> 00:56:11,861
And there's no runner
there to keep it. Wham.

790
00:56:14,088 --> 00:56:15,861
I managed to make it to Nikolai.

791
00:56:15,924 --> 00:56:18,337
There was two sleds sitting
there that belonged

792
00:56:18,386 --> 00:56:20,212
to people that had
scratched in the race.

793
00:56:20,447 --> 00:56:23,611
One guy said 'Yeah, you
can use my sled. $3000.'

794
00:56:24,307 --> 00:56:25,900
Well that wasn't going to work.

795
00:56:26,447 --> 00:56:29,439
The other person said flat out
'No, you're not using my sled.'

796
00:56:29,994 --> 00:56:33,103
I just realized right then and
there that a lot of these people

797
00:56:33,152 --> 00:56:37,055
that I called my friends were
nothing more than competition.

798
00:56:39,054 --> 00:56:41,900
We put the word out that
I needed a sled and I

799
00:56:41,949 --> 00:56:43,823
had a sled waiting when
I got into McGrath.

800
00:56:44,315 --> 00:56:48,713
Took me about 15 minutes
is all to switch my sleds,

801
00:56:48,762 --> 00:56:51,822
snap the dogs, put a few booties
on and head down the trail.

802
00:56:52,229 --> 00:56:53,229
Thanks guys.

803
00:56:54,338 --> 00:56:57,182
There's quite a bit of activity
at this checkpoint tonight.

804
00:56:57,447 --> 00:56:59,633
Lance Mackey in here about 8:30.

805
00:56:59,682 --> 00:57:01,580
He switched out his
sled, headed out.

806
00:57:02,088 --> 00:57:04,650
Lance Mackey, man is
he ever moving good.

807
00:57:07,315 --> 00:57:10,250
That one in the lead,
Larry, he's you

808
00:57:10,299 --> 00:57:11,791
know really the
heart of the team.

809
00:57:12,042 --> 00:57:14,393
Larry's real serious,
figures it out.

810
00:57:14,784 --> 00:57:15,885
Knows where they're going.

811
00:57:16,003 --> 00:57:18,025
Lance always said he's
the brain of the team.

812
00:57:18,091 --> 00:57:20,322
He says Larry is
smarter than he is.

813
00:57:22,956 --> 00:57:24,689
The dogs are exceptional.

814
00:57:25,268 --> 00:57:28,869
The only problem I have is
keeping - taking care of myself.

815
00:57:29,143 --> 00:57:32,885
Look at that finger.
Oh, it just kills me.

816
00:57:35,417 --> 00:57:38,350
He's had constant
problems from radiation.

817
00:57:38,604 --> 00:57:40,041
Nerve damage.

818
00:57:41,104 --> 00:57:44,371
I mean how many people go
from one doctor to the

819
00:57:44,420 --> 00:57:47,775
next bugging - begging
to get a finger cut off?

820
00:57:49,322 --> 00:57:51,697
I had some side effects from
the cancer. No doubt about it.

821
00:57:51,831 --> 00:57:53,541
And one of the main ones is the

822
00:57:53,590 --> 00:57:55,768
circulation in my
toes and my fingers.

823
00:57:56,135 --> 00:57:58,229
My index finger on
my left hand got

824
00:57:58,278 --> 00:58:00,400
to be very painful all the time.

825
00:58:00,470 --> 00:58:03,455
So I went to the
doctor and I asked

826
00:58:03,504 --> 00:58:05,299
him if he could
remove my finger.

827
00:58:06,354 --> 00:58:07,775
He said 'Well let
me tell you what.

828
00:58:08,362 --> 00:58:10,135
You gotta think about
this a second. It's

829
00:58:10,184 --> 00:58:11,932
not an octopus leg.
It won't grow back.

830
00:58:12,018 --> 00:58:13,861
And once it's gone
it's gone for good.

831
00:58:14,393 --> 00:58:15,932
You still want to
do this?' I said

832
00:58:16,112 --> 00:58:17,635
'Chop it off' basically.

833
00:58:18,729 --> 00:58:21,799
Lance Mackey is now
40 minutes behind

834
00:58:21,892 --> 00:58:24,613
which is a lot different
than we saw yesterday when

835
00:58:24,662 --> 00:58:27,658
we estimated he was like
2 1/2 -3 hours behind.

836
00:58:28,417 --> 00:58:33,369
Momentum and times have really
changed in this 2007 Iditarod.

837
00:58:34,034 --> 00:58:35,388
He's really booking.

838
00:58:38,823 --> 00:58:43,229
It wasn't until after
he left Unalakleet,

839
00:58:43,276 --> 00:58:46,479
or maybe even when he got
to Shaktoolik to Koyuk that

840
00:58:46,732 --> 00:58:49,529
'Hey, he might pull this off.
I gotta get there.'

841
00:58:49,608 --> 00:58:51,570
Here's a look at the actual
leaderboard right now.

842
00:58:51,619 --> 00:58:53,635
Lance Mackey is on the attack.
He's in first place.

843
00:58:53,776 --> 00:58:55,752
Lance Mackey going after it,
huh?

844
00:58:55,917 --> 00:58:58,783
Lance Mackey, the
leader of the Iditarod.

845
00:58:59,135 --> 00:59:00,672
Man is he ever moving good.

846
00:59:02,144 --> 00:59:03,601
He's really putting
the hammer down.

847
00:59:03,650 --> 00:59:04,953
He isn't playing cat and mouse.

848
00:59:05,002 --> 00:59:07,869
He's just saying 'I'm going
to take this race over.'

849
00:59:11,846 --> 00:59:13,744
The only thing that keeps
really running through

850
00:59:13,793 --> 00:59:14,885
my head is my dad.

851
00:59:15,346 --> 00:59:17,261
I don't know anything
else in the world

852
00:59:17,310 --> 00:59:18,995
that I could do to make
him any more proud.

853
00:59:24,487 --> 00:59:28,065
I got to Cape Nome, which is
10 miles outside of Nome,

854
00:59:29,221 --> 00:59:30,775
up on this little mountain.

855
00:59:32,089 --> 00:59:34,924
And I knelt down in front of
each one of them one at a time.

856
00:59:35,982 --> 00:59:39,346
And I just thanked them from
the bottom of my heart.

857
00:59:39,838 --> 00:59:43,213
Told them how proud I was, what
they were about to accomplish.

858
00:59:44,143 --> 00:59:46,572
I made it up to Larry, who
was in the lead of course.

859
00:59:47,132 --> 00:59:48,986
He was the last one I talked to

860
00:59:49,035 --> 00:59:50,572
cause I had the
most to say to him.

861
00:59:51,729 --> 00:59:53,529
And I looked him in the
eye and I said 'Larry,

862
00:59:54,495 --> 00:59:57,682
I know you know where we're at.
We've been here several times.'

863
00:59:58,510 --> 01:00:00,861
I said 'I don’t
know if you realize

864
01:00:01,385 --> 01:00:03,424
that we're going to be
here first this time.'

865
01:00:04,221 --> 01:00:08,455
Larry looked over at me and
got this smirk on his face.

866
01:00:08,815 --> 01:00:12,377
Gave me kind of a one
eye 'Yeah dad, I know.'

867
01:00:14,250 --> 01:00:16,055
His chest puffed out.

868
01:00:16,717 --> 01:00:20,648
His head came up real high, and
his tail came up in the air.

869
01:00:21,407 --> 01:00:25,532
And for the last 7 miles he
just strutted down to Nome.

870
01:00:51,657 --> 01:00:53,258
Lance Mackey whipping
up the crowd.

871
01:00:53,329 --> 01:00:56,071
Clapping both his hands as
the chute closes behind him.

872
01:00:56,157 --> 01:00:59,224
He's in the chute. Coming
up past City Hall.

873
01:00:59,946 --> 01:01:03,063
Lance Mackey and his
comeback kettle coming back.

874
01:01:03,509 --> 01:01:06,508
This is Lance Mackey,
your Iditarod Champion.

875
01:01:06,557 --> 01:01:08,118
Yeah!

876
01:01:19,438 --> 01:01:20,782
Life just changed.

877
01:01:24,860 --> 01:01:26,024
Yeah!

878
01:01:31,649 --> 01:01:33,125
You guys are incredible.

879
01:01:37,173 --> 01:01:38,173
I so love you.

880
01:01:40,681 --> 01:01:43,008
Why is it so important
to the Mackey family?

881
01:01:43,274 --> 01:01:45,196
Why has this event
become so much

882
01:01:45,245 --> 01:01:47,430
about your family
in its definition.

883
01:01:47,954 --> 01:01:49,290
Well it's our lifestyle.

884
01:01:49,321 --> 01:01:51,743
It's something we
breathe, eat and sleep.

885
01:01:51,782 --> 01:01:54,102
I mean this is what we do.
You know?

886
01:01:54,151 --> 01:01:56,094
My dad got me hooked
on this sport.

887
01:01:56,868 --> 01:01:59,944
I'm so proud of him
not being a warrior

888
01:01:59,993 --> 01:02:01,938
or a line cook, or
something like that.

889
01:02:01,962 --> 01:02:03,743
I don't know if I'd
follow in his footsteps.

890
01:02:04,024 --> 01:02:05,735
This is my passion.

891
01:02:05,860 --> 01:02:07,571
And it is very important for us
to be

892
01:02:07,620 --> 01:02:09,016
for me
to be successful.

893
01:02:09,110 --> 01:02:11,071
And make my father proud.
You know?

894
01:02:11,649 --> 01:02:13,532
Lance, your father is not here
tonight.

895
01:02:13,595 --> 01:02:16,157
If he was, right now, what
would you say to him?

896
01:02:17,133 --> 01:02:18,415
I don't know if I could talk.

897
01:02:22,508 --> 01:02:23,866
He'd be a proud man.

898
01:02:24,868 --> 01:02:26,258
No prouder than your mom.

899
01:02:29,353 --> 01:02:30,977
He ain't no prouder
than your momma.

900
01:02:31,024 --> 01:02:32,758
Dreams do come true momma.

901
01:02:32,938 --> 01:02:35,079
He ain't no prouder
than your mom.

902
01:02:35,134 --> 01:02:39,071
I know. I'm so happy to see you.
Oh my God mom.

903
01:02:46,212 --> 01:02:48,375
I can't believe it.

904
01:02:57,751 --> 01:02:59,954
It was a vision with a dream.

905
01:03:05,212 --> 01:03:09,000
Oh, I did it. They did.
They did it too.

906
01:03:09,087 --> 01:03:10,420
Lance will check in.

907
01:03:15,532 --> 01:03:17,883
Oh, it feels so good.

908
01:03:27,759 --> 01:03:31,055
Oh my God. My son
just won this thing.

909
01:03:35,376 --> 01:03:36,555
That was the best -

910
01:03:38,415 --> 01:03:41,993
that was the best win, I think,
in the history of Iditarod.

911
01:03:47,704 --> 01:03:49,360
I was just in the
middle of getting

912
01:03:49,409 --> 01:03:51,032
comfortable and undressed when

913
01:03:51,081 --> 01:03:52,710
I seen the door
come open and him

914
01:03:52,759 --> 01:03:54,016
come through the front door.

915
01:04:18,587 --> 01:04:22,250
He said 'I've always wanted to
be like my dad and now I am.'

916
01:04:22,688 --> 01:04:25,696
That was pretty special.
Yeah. Yeah.

917
01:04:28,719 --> 01:04:32,319
It was cool standing there
as I'm answering questions

918
01:04:32,368 --> 01:04:34,790
to look over and see
that smile on his face.

919
01:04:35,384 --> 01:04:36,450
The whole time.

920
01:04:38,079 --> 01:04:42,016
And I knew that I'd done
what I'd set out to achieve.

921
01:04:42,071 --> 01:04:44,579
And that was to make
my parents proud.

922
01:05:26,649 --> 01:05:29,249
He's a guy that didn't
get any respect

923
01:05:29,298 --> 01:05:30,649
leading up to the day he won.

924
01:05:30,688 --> 01:05:32,532
And then he still had
trouble garnering

925
01:05:32,716 --> 01:05:35,382
respect from his peers
once he did win.

926
01:05:35,696 --> 01:05:38,594
The first thing that the
competitors were saying was

927
01:05:38,626 --> 01:05:40,559
'Oh, he got lucky. Oh, it was a

928
01:05:40,608 --> 01:05:42,813
fluke. That will
never happen again.'

929
01:05:43,212 --> 01:05:45,290
You know? Really?

930
01:05:45,892 --> 01:05:47,805
Why can't you just come
up and congratulate me.

931
01:05:47,844 --> 01:05:49,930
Tell me good job instead of
making all these excuses

932
01:05:49,979 --> 01:05:51,980
why it happened, why
you couldn't do it?

933
01:05:52,418 --> 01:05:53,879
And that's exactly
what was going on.

934
01:05:53,934 --> 01:05:55,441
And all that did was
just piss me off.

935
01:05:56,106 --> 01:05:58,137
Really? Watch this.

936
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,762
3,2,1 Go

937
01:06:04,879 --> 01:06:09,379
Champion, Lance Mackey from
Fairbanks, on his way to Nome.

938
01:06:09,582 --> 01:06:12,230
2,1 Go!

939
01:06:12,340 --> 01:06:16,801
The Denali Park Champion Jeff
King on his way to Nome.

940
01:06:17,410 --> 01:06:19,754
Jeff was the team I had
to beat to win the race.

941
01:06:24,223 --> 01:06:25,793
I don't care who
wins the Iditarod.

942
01:06:26,059 --> 01:06:27,551
They have to outrun
Jeff to do it.

943
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:30,176
He is the best in the world.

944
01:06:30,692 --> 01:06:34,027
And we pretty much dominated
the race from the very get go.

945
01:06:35,308 --> 01:06:38,113
He knew Jeff was faster.
And his team was better.

946
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,105
And Jeff was toying with him.

947
01:06:41,629 --> 01:06:44,230
Everything I was doing he
seemed to be doing as well.

948
01:06:46,863 --> 01:06:48,228
If I stopped, he
was going to stop.

949
01:06:48,277 --> 01:06:50,365
If I went to sleep, he was
going to go to sleep. If I

950
01:06:50,414 --> 01:06:52,051
fed my dogs, he's
going to feed his dogs.

951
01:06:54,724 --> 01:06:56,965
He realizes that King
is just dogging him.

952
01:06:57,442 --> 01:07:00,113
He's going to dog him and dog
him. Let him break trail.

953
01:07:00,387 --> 01:07:02,347
Just be his shadow.
And then in the last

954
01:07:02,457 --> 01:07:05,043
100 miles of the race he's
going to take control and win.

955
01:07:07,832 --> 01:07:10,269
He's been doing this since
he started racing. You know?

956
01:07:10,301 --> 01:07:12,574
Hang back, hang back and
catch you on the coast.

957
01:07:12,623 --> 01:07:14,180
And you never see him again.

958
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,801
We both knew it was going to
come down to the two of us.

959
01:07:18,850 --> 01:07:23,332
And trail times were giving
me a slight advantage.

960
01:07:23,410 --> 01:07:27,137
But enough of this letting you
leave an hour ahead of me.

961
01:07:27,176 --> 01:07:28,504
I'm going out right behind ya.

962
01:07:30,371 --> 01:07:32,621
Hut. I kept thinking
'How am I really going

963
01:07:32,670 --> 01:07:34,512
to outrun a team that's
faster than me?'

964
01:07:35,932 --> 01:07:38,097
I knew I had to do something
to shake him a little bit.

965
01:07:41,793 --> 01:07:43,527
Elim's the last opportunity.

966
01:07:44,121 --> 01:07:45,816
It was pretty much
the end of the line.

967
01:07:45,865 --> 01:07:48,402
Okay. Welcome to Elim.

968
01:07:48,588 --> 01:07:49,658
How's it going?

969
01:07:49,707 --> 01:07:50,722
Alright.

970
01:07:50,981 --> 01:07:52,519
Planning on sleeping
a little bit?

971
01:07:52,590 --> 01:07:53,832
Couple hour's maybe.

972
01:07:56,957 --> 01:08:03,457
Okay. Good then. Okay. Okay.
Plan on staying?

973
01:08:03,629 --> 01:08:05,563
I'm only going if he's going.

974
01:08:05,754 --> 01:08:07,590
Uh, he plans on
staying a little bit.

975
01:08:07,707 --> 01:08:08,707
Okay.

976
01:08:11,801 --> 01:08:17,988
I'm not sure exactly what to
say to him at this stage.

977
01:08:19,770 --> 01:08:21,769
I'm not going to
congratulate him yet.

978
01:08:24,207 --> 01:08:28,488
He's finally done. He finally
knows I'm going to beat him.

979
01:08:28,942 --> 01:08:30,738
And he's just going
to hold on to second.

980
01:08:32,621 --> 01:08:33,621
Rockstar.

981
01:08:33,934 --> 01:08:34,934
Likewise uh?

982
01:08:35,231 --> 01:08:37,582
He's just going to basically
throw in the towel.

983
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:43,269
I go in, I drank two big
family size cups of coffee.

984
01:08:44,387 --> 01:08:45,855
Then I went and laid down.

985
01:08:47,285 --> 01:08:48,988
He went and laid
down by the door.

986
01:08:49,668 --> 01:08:53,668
Put in some headphones and
went to sleep that fast.

987
01:08:59,784 --> 01:09:01,941
If anybody asks- I'm
still laying down.

988
01:09:02,504 --> 01:09:08,418
Hey. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on. Come on.

989
01:09:11,606 --> 01:09:12,872
Alright. Kill that.

990
01:09:16,129 --> 01:09:17,738
Hut, hut.

991
01:09:20,223 --> 01:09:22,362
When my eyes opened and
I made eye contact

992
01:09:22,411 --> 01:09:23,887
with some of the
people in the room,

993
01:09:24,998 --> 01:09:28,113
they looked like they had
seen a mass murderer.

994
01:09:29,067 --> 01:09:32,043
And I realized I had been duped.

995
01:09:36,215 --> 01:09:38,058
There's quite a crowd out
here as you can hear.

996
01:09:38,090 --> 01:09:39,863
Very boisterous for 3
in the morning but

997
01:09:39,912 --> 01:09:41,691
that's not stopping
the gold rush city

998
01:09:41,740 --> 01:09:44,690
from welcoming Lance
Mackey to Nome for

999
01:09:44,739 --> 01:09:47,035
the second time in a
row in first place.

1000
01:09:49,863 --> 01:09:51,551
His lead dogs
crossing right now.

1001
01:09:51,770 --> 01:09:56,519
Lance Mackey, your 2008 Iditarod
Sled Dog Race Champion.

1002
01:10:06,409 --> 01:10:08,573
If you're going to
dream, dream big right?

1003
01:10:11,362 --> 01:10:12,932
Thank you Lance. Good
luck in the race.

1004
01:10:12,981 --> 01:10:14,182
Thank you. Have a great night.

1005
01:10:14,198 --> 01:10:15,198
Thank you.

1006
01:10:15,245 --> 01:10:16,245
There you go.

1007
01:10:16,995 --> 01:10:18,057
Thank you.

1008
01:10:18,106 --> 01:10:21,073
My pleasure. Thank you ladies. I
appreciate you being out here.

1009
01:10:21,362 --> 01:10:24,706
This race wouldn't be Iditarod,
I think, without Lance Mackey.

1010
01:10:24,917 --> 01:10:27,964
How you doing young lady? You
excited about that Iditarod?

1011
01:10:28,034 --> 01:10:29,729
I knew you when you were nobody.

1012
01:10:30,956 --> 01:10:32,651
Come on now. I've
always been somebody.

1013
01:10:32,706 --> 01:10:34,221
Shut up and give me a kiss.

1014
01:10:34,683 --> 01:10:36,963
Lance Mackey and his
comeback kettle.

1015
01:10:37,050 --> 01:10:40,073
Coming back for a 3rd
consecutive victory.

1016
01:10:40,144 --> 01:10:45,854
This is Lance Mackey your 2009
Iditarod Champion. Lance Mackey!

1017
01:10:48,011 --> 01:10:51,206
I didn't really think all this
was going to become of it.

1018
01:10:51,316 --> 01:10:52,346
I honestly didn't.

1019
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:55,495
I'm not just running
dogs to become

1020
01:10:55,544 --> 01:10:57,378
noticed and to win the Iditarod.

1021
01:10:57,427 --> 01:10:59,378
I love spending
time with the dogs.

1022
01:10:59,417 --> 01:11:01,674
I love Alaska and I
love the people in it.

1023
01:11:04,307 --> 01:11:06,588
I was down at the local
hardware store the other day.

1024
01:11:06,737 --> 01:11:09,065
A teenager was working in there.
And

1025
01:11:09,815 --> 01:11:11,549
I bought something
with a credit card.

1026
01:11:11,610 --> 01:11:13,182
She said 'Dick Mackey.

1027
01:11:14,394 --> 01:11:15,838
Are you related to Lance?'

1028
01:11:16,784 --> 01:11:20,698
And I says 'Yeah. I'm his dad.'

1029
01:11:21,151 --> 01:11:22,253
'Oh cool.'

1030
01:11:22,901 --> 01:11:25,088
And she says 'Did
you run dogs too?'

1031
01:11:27,667 --> 01:11:30,018
A historic finish for 2010.

1032
01:11:30,081 --> 01:11:34,338
Four for Lance Mackey. The only
musher to do so back to back.

1033
01:11:34,643 --> 01:11:36,260
I drew the right number.
Number 49.

1034
01:11:36,309 --> 01:11:38,143
This is representing
the whole state of Alaska

1035
01:11:38,192 --> 01:11:39,971
and the people
who believe in me.

1036
01:11:41,853 --> 01:11:45,260
You've done something that
will never be repeated son.

1037
01:11:51,339 --> 01:11:53,471
Four in a row will
never be done again.

1038
01:11:53,511 --> 01:11:55,292
This is the greatest
accomplishment

1039
01:11:55,341 --> 01:11:57,643
that this sport has
ever, ever seen.

1040
01:11:58,136 --> 01:11:59,932
And it's the greatest
accomplishment

1041
01:11:59,981 --> 01:12:01,184
that this sport will ever see.

1042
01:12:01,308 --> 01:12:03,348
Ever. Period. Done.
End of story.

1043
01:12:03,397 --> 01:12:04,965
The greatest thing has
already happened.

1044
01:12:06,669 --> 01:12:08,027
Okay. Come eat. Come on.

1045
01:12:09,434 --> 01:12:10,723
- Hi.
- Hello

1046
01:12:10,997 --> 01:12:12,645
- You're eating. I know.
- Not yet

1047
01:12:13,019 --> 01:12:16,407
Well, I'm sorry.
No, it's just you

1048
01:12:16,465 --> 01:12:18,246
gotta say no. but after me okay?

1049
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,676
- Thanks Lance.
- You're very welcome.

1050
01:12:21,208 --> 01:12:24,559
It's nonstop. Everybody
wants a piece of him.

1051
01:12:25,036 --> 01:12:27,769
I think success always
comes at a price.

1052
01:12:27,934 --> 01:12:31,606
His marriage to Tonya probably
is a casualty of the success.

1053
01:12:31,981 --> 01:12:33,065
Welcome to the Iditarod.

1054
01:12:33,114 --> 01:12:35,385
What a hero I'm going
to be when I go home.

1055
01:12:39,395 --> 01:12:40,551
Lance Mackey.

1056
01:12:40,879 --> 01:12:42,324
This is a name you
should remember

1057
01:12:42,373 --> 01:12:43,902
if you're interested
in dog mushing.

1058
01:12:44,044 --> 01:12:46,777
Look over here to the right,
the man himself is going to

1059
01:12:46,826 --> 01:12:49,676
be our guest today during the
time that you're on shore.

1060
01:12:50,184 --> 01:12:51,738
Small little test.

1061
01:12:51,997 --> 01:12:53,559
When you get done
with your vacation,

1062
01:12:53,608 --> 01:12:55,021
you go home and see your dog,

1063
01:12:55,294 --> 01:12:56,850
lock it in the closet
with your husband

1064
01:12:56,899 --> 01:12:58,246
or your wife for about an hour.

1065
01:12:58,637 --> 01:13:00,590
Then go back to see which
one's happy to see ya.

1066
01:13:02,364 --> 01:13:04,090
Lance Mackey.

1067
01:13:06,809 --> 01:13:07,988
I call him Hollywood.

1068
01:13:08,184 --> 01:13:10,074
But if there was one
thing that would get his

1069
01:13:10,123 --> 01:13:12,441
attention more than
anything- ice cream.

1070
01:13:12,481 --> 01:13:14,281
Oh, he found the ice cream.

1071
01:13:15,802 --> 01:13:17,918
I started racing dogs even
before I was even born.

1072
01:13:18,167 --> 01:13:20,090
When I went to school I had a
knife and a lighter

1073
01:13:20,139 --> 01:13:21,145
in my pocket.

1074
01:13:22,294 --> 01:13:25,817
He is a lover this boy. He's
done this once or twice.

1075
01:13:26,043 --> 01:13:27,606
Here want some water?

1076
01:13:29,489 --> 01:13:31,996
He can't drink water
out of a bowl.

1077
01:13:32,028 --> 01:13:33,278
He'd think he was a dog then.

1078
01:13:44,145 --> 01:13:45,895
I spent, you know, a fair amount

1079
01:13:45,944 --> 01:13:48,614
of time fighting
with my ex-wife.

1080
01:13:49,063 --> 01:13:52,063
And I would get on a
sled and go for a ride.

1081
01:13:52,434 --> 01:13:55,481
And five minutes after I left
the yard normally I was fine.

1082
01:13:56,152 --> 01:13:59,231
Dogs didn't care about what
kind of argument I just had. Or-

1083
01:14:00,418 --> 01:14:02,535
you know? I understand
dogs a lot more.

1084
01:14:03,233 --> 01:14:04,660
I don't understand people.

1085
01:14:04,966 --> 01:14:06,535
It's been easier for
me to communicate

1086
01:14:06,584 --> 01:14:08,558
with dogs pretty
much all my life.

1087
01:14:11,957 --> 01:14:14,269
I'm more comfortable doing
this kind of stuff than being

1088
01:14:14,318 --> 01:14:17,222
surrounded by a bunch of people,
and buildings and cars.

1089
01:14:17,801 --> 01:14:21,800
Living in the woods would
be just fine by me.

1090
01:14:43,449 --> 01:14:45,049
It's warm out huh guys?

1091
01:14:48,723 --> 01:14:52,097
I think that's everybody.
That's everybody.

1092
01:14:57,144 --> 01:14:58,785
You live in Fairbanks?

1093
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:01,160
How'd you know that?

1094
01:15:01,480 --> 01:15:02,705
Musher update.

1095
01:15:02,754 --> 01:15:05,886
They got all the musher's
pictures up at the school.

1096
01:15:05,935 --> 01:15:07,933
And they say where you
live and everything.

1097
01:15:07,980 --> 01:15:10,160
It says you're around year 50.

1098
01:15:10,223 --> 01:15:12,634
What? You knew?

1099
01:15:12,674 --> 01:15:13,689
I forgot.

1100
01:15:13,736 --> 01:15:16,070
No. It didn't say
I was around 50.

1101
01:15:16,127 --> 01:15:17,127
I forgot.

1102
01:15:17,307 --> 01:15:18,307
No.

1103
01:15:20,658 --> 01:15:22,360
No. She's older than I am.

1104
01:15:23,088 --> 01:15:24,228
In dog years.

1105
01:15:29,844 --> 01:15:31,416
Ah, you make me laugh.

1106
01:15:52,736 --> 01:15:54,072
You know at one
point in the race,

1107
01:15:54,330 --> 01:15:55,955
I really thought I
could win this thing.

1108
01:15:58,205 --> 01:16:00,251
But hey, you know, you're
not going to win them all.

1109
01:16:06,748 --> 01:16:12,240
Lance finished 19th
in the 2013 Iditarod.

1110
01:16:22,830 --> 01:16:25,408
I'm not going to say I wouldn't
want to win the Iditarod again.

1111
01:16:25,457 --> 01:16:27,376
But it wouldn't change
anything if I did.

1112
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:29,634
There we go. That's it.

1113
01:16:30,025 --> 01:16:31,830
I just want to go have
fun with my dogs.

1114
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:35,892
Thatta boys. Good job.

1115
01:16:38,736 --> 01:16:43,119
How about you old man?
Want some? Hey big Zippo.

1116
01:16:46,307 --> 01:16:49,798
Hi pretty girl. You
get some loving too.

1117
01:16:50,283 --> 01:16:51,439
I didn't forget you.

1118
01:16:57,096 --> 01:17:02,119
Alright munchkins. Alright
little munchkins.

1119
01:17:06,775 --> 01:17:12,541
They're all my best friends.
Every single one of them.

1120
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,814
Billy Badass. Billy Badass.

1121
01:17:21,705 --> 01:17:23,251
There's nothing
else in the world

1122
01:17:23,300 --> 01:17:25,119
that matters when I'm with them.

1123
01:17:40,361 --> 01:17:42,345
Most people think we're
alone when we're out there

1124
01:17:42,394 --> 01:17:44,064
in the middle of nowhere.

1125
01:17:46,190 --> 01:17:48,384
There's nothing
more enjoyable than

1126
01:17:48,433 --> 01:17:50,541
being out with
your best friends.

1127
01:17:53,674 --> 01:17:55,751
That's it. That's it.

1128
01:17:56,908 --> 01:17:58,306
That's my boys.

1129
01:18:07,955 --> 01:18:09,259
It is all about the dogs.

1130
01:18:10,394 --> 01:18:13,689
As long as my dogs are happy
and healthy I'm golden.

1131
01:18:59,268 --> 01:19:01,533
I know you haven't had
enough attention today.

1132
01:19:02,197 --> 01:19:04,345
I know you haven't had
no attention today.

1133
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,462
Yeah, you silly boy.
So sorry boy.

1134
01:19:12,611 --> 01:19:13,945
Yeah. Little boy.

1135
01:19:47,267 --> 01:19:48,267
Is that all?