1 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:06,540 ♪ 2 00:00:13,565 --> 00:00:16,533 Oh, yeah, this place was a-booming. 3 00:00:16,568 --> 00:00:19,847 You couldn't get through this town down there, 4 00:00:19,881 --> 00:00:22,056 but it's dead now. 5 00:00:22,091 --> 00:00:25,094 We had eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. 6 00:00:25,128 --> 00:00:29,063 Come on, everybody in here! Have a seat! Let's go! 7 00:00:29,098 --> 00:00:32,273 It's the same halftime speech every single week. 8 00:00:32,308 --> 00:00:35,587 ♪ 9 00:00:35,621 --> 00:00:38,452 There's so much negativity surrounding this place 10 00:00:38,486 --> 00:00:40,626 that no one ever focuses on the positive. 11 00:00:40,661 --> 00:00:43,215 They see us as ignorant or hillbillies. 12 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:47,185 Overdose capital of the East Coast. 13 00:00:47,219 --> 00:00:49,428 There's really more here than just poverty 14 00:00:49,463 --> 00:00:50,878 and illiteracy and drugs. 15 00:00:50,912 --> 00:00:53,260 There's a lot of good people here. 16 00:00:53,294 --> 00:00:55,745 When you walk on this field, you better have tunnel vision. 17 00:00:55,779 --> 00:00:57,264 Don't look left. Don't look right. 18 00:00:57,298 --> 00:00:59,093 You look at that scoreboard, 19 00:00:59,128 --> 00:01:01,268 and that shit burn in your heart, you understand me? 20 00:01:01,302 --> 00:01:02,959 We got some ground to make up, 21 00:01:02,993 --> 00:01:05,617 but once we make that ground up, we'll take off. 22 00:01:05,651 --> 00:01:06,756 Let's go! 23 00:01:09,448 --> 00:01:11,312 ♪ I took a walk through this ♪ 24 00:01:11,347 --> 00:01:14,488 ♪ Beautiful world 25 00:01:14,522 --> 00:01:19,596 ♪ Felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ 26 00:01:19,631 --> 00:01:23,083 ♪ Found something good in this ♪ 27 00:01:23,117 --> 00:01:25,844 ♪ Beautiful world 28 00:01:25,878 --> 00:01:31,677 ♪ I felt the rain getting colder ♪ 29 00:01:31,712 --> 00:01:35,025 - ♪ La, la - ♪ Sha la, la, la, la 30 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:36,924 ♪ Sha la, la, la, la 31 00:01:36,958 --> 00:01:40,859 - ♪ Sha la, la, la - Sha la, la, la, la ♪ 32 00:01:40,893 --> 00:01:46,002 ♪ Sha la, la, la, la, la 33 00:01:50,282 --> 00:01:53,699 ♪ 34 00:01:53,734 --> 00:01:56,461 New York City, where I live. 35 00:01:56,495 --> 00:01:58,359 And it's easy to think, 36 00:01:58,394 --> 00:01:59,981 having lived here nearly all my life, 37 00:02:00,016 --> 00:02:03,192 that this what America looks like, thinks like, 38 00:02:03,226 --> 00:02:05,366 that the things that are important to me 39 00:02:05,401 --> 00:02:06,885 are important to everybody. 40 00:02:06,919 --> 00:02:09,888 That anyplace else is "out there." 41 00:02:09,922 --> 00:02:11,269 Unthinkable. 42 00:02:11,303 --> 00:02:13,823 Maybe even unknowable. 43 00:02:13,857 --> 00:02:14,357 ♪ 44 00:02:28,838 --> 00:02:31,668 600 miles away from Midtown Manhattan 45 00:02:31,703 --> 00:02:34,326 is McDowell County, West Virginia. 46 00:02:34,361 --> 00:02:35,983 Another America. 47 00:02:36,017 --> 00:02:38,537 In the mind of many of my fellow New Yorkers, 48 00:02:38,572 --> 00:02:41,678 the heart of God, guns and Trump country. 49 00:02:41,713 --> 00:02:44,336 The existential enemy. 50 00:02:47,374 --> 00:02:49,238 ♪ 51 00:02:49,272 --> 00:02:55,105 ♪ There is a place on God's creation ♪ 52 00:02:55,140 --> 00:03:00,110 ♪ A place of beauty beyond compare ♪ 53 00:03:00,145 --> 00:03:06,116 ♪ Some people say it's almost heaven ♪ 54 00:03:06,151 --> 00:03:10,880 ♪ Look for me and you'll find me there ♪ 55 00:03:10,914 --> 00:03:12,847 My daddy always told me, you know, 56 00:03:12,882 --> 00:03:15,954 those tornados and hurricanes, they can't get to us. 57 00:03:15,988 --> 00:03:18,405 We're way down in these mountains, down in the holler, 58 00:03:18,439 --> 00:03:20,269 and these mountains protect us. 59 00:03:20,303 --> 00:03:23,789 Here, if you gonna see the sky, you got to look up. 60 00:03:23,824 --> 00:03:27,759 ♪ You can find me on the highest mountain ♪ 61 00:03:29,243 --> 00:03:34,041 ♪ You can find me in the black coal mines ♪ 62 00:03:34,075 --> 00:03:36,388 To think about, much less emphasize, 63 00:03:36,423 --> 00:03:37,700 with somebody who comes from 64 00:03:37,734 --> 00:03:39,633 five generations of coal miners 65 00:03:39,667 --> 00:03:41,807 in a place that looks like this 66 00:03:41,842 --> 00:03:44,879 is, to our enduring shame, unthinkable. 67 00:03:44,914 --> 00:03:47,261 Why can't these coal miners get retrained? 68 00:03:47,296 --> 00:03:50,091 Maybe put up solar panels for a living. 69 00:03:50,126 --> 00:03:52,887 Why would these conservative, deeply religious people 70 00:03:52,922 --> 00:03:56,477 vote for a thrice married billionaire New Yorker? 71 00:03:56,512 --> 00:04:02,276 Well, I went to West Virginia and, you know what, screw you. 72 00:04:04,036 --> 00:04:06,107 Here, in the heart of every belief system 73 00:04:06,142 --> 00:04:08,109 I've ever mocked or fought against, 74 00:04:08,144 --> 00:04:10,974 I was welcomed with open arms by everyone. 75 00:04:11,009 --> 00:04:14,806 I found a place both heartbreaking and beautiful, 76 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,913 a place that symbolizes and contains everything wrong 77 00:04:18,948 --> 00:04:23,470 and everything wonderful and hopeful about America. 78 00:04:26,231 --> 00:04:27,750 The town of Welch, 79 00:04:27,784 --> 00:04:30,994 known in its glory days as little New York. 80 00:04:31,029 --> 00:04:31,529 ♪ 81 00:04:37,829 --> 00:04:39,589 Welch is a very rural area. 82 00:04:39,624 --> 00:04:43,110 I mean, it's an hour away from Walmart, 83 00:04:43,144 --> 00:04:45,215 I mean, if that tells you anything. 84 00:04:45,250 --> 00:04:48,978 It's a real old, historic town built in the 1800s. 85 00:04:49,012 --> 00:04:51,325 The American dream in miniature. 86 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,535 A place where generations of immigrants and dreamers 87 00:04:54,570 --> 00:04:56,882 could work and lift up their family. 88 00:04:56,917 --> 00:04:59,540 The town of Welch, when it was booming, 89 00:04:59,575 --> 00:05:01,853 the sidewalks were so crowded 90 00:05:01,887 --> 00:05:05,166 there would be traffic backed up, like, a mile. 91 00:05:05,201 --> 00:05:08,238 You couldn't find a place to park. 92 00:05:08,273 --> 00:05:12,035 We had three hospitals, had the taxicab stand, 93 00:05:12,070 --> 00:05:14,659 had, like, three jewelry stores. 94 00:05:14,693 --> 00:05:16,488 It was just a wonderful place. 95 00:05:16,523 --> 00:05:18,801 The rest of the country took a lot of money 96 00:05:18,835 --> 00:05:21,044 out of these hills over the decades, 97 00:05:21,079 --> 00:05:23,702 billions and billions of dollars, 98 00:05:23,737 --> 00:05:25,635 and when it became cheaper or more convenient 99 00:05:25,670 --> 00:05:28,845 to pull the coal we needed to power our electrical grids 100 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,883 and to make our steel elsewhere, 101 00:05:31,917 --> 00:05:34,126 this is what was left behind. 102 00:05:38,130 --> 00:05:40,409 But this is not a poverty porn show. 103 00:05:40,443 --> 00:05:42,272 Do not pity the people here, 104 00:05:42,307 --> 00:05:43,929 who, despite what you may think, 105 00:05:43,964 --> 00:05:46,932 are not unrealistic about a return 106 00:05:46,967 --> 00:05:49,728 to the glory days of coal and better times. 107 00:05:49,763 --> 00:05:52,179 I drank coffee from the time I could walk. 108 00:05:52,213 --> 00:05:55,078 They put coffee in your bottle, coffee or wine. 109 00:05:56,977 --> 00:05:59,393 Linda McKinney is a true daughter of Appalachia. 110 00:05:59,428 --> 00:06:01,119 She raised her children here. 111 00:06:01,153 --> 00:06:02,879 Linda's husband, Bob McKinney, 112 00:06:02,914 --> 00:06:05,123 is a longtime mine safety inspector. 113 00:06:05,157 --> 00:06:07,263 Now, your family's originally from Naples? 114 00:06:07,297 --> 00:06:09,299 Is that right? Naples area? Yes. Yes. 115 00:06:09,334 --> 00:06:11,232 Came here in 1923 116 00:06:11,267 --> 00:06:12,779 trying to strike it rich in the coal mines. 117 00:06:12,786 --> 00:06:15,616 My mother died when I was five, 118 00:06:15,651 --> 00:06:17,515 so we went to live with my nonna, 119 00:06:17,549 --> 00:06:18,895 and the first day I was there, 120 00:06:18,930 --> 00:06:20,690 she pulled me up to a cook stove. 121 00:06:20,725 --> 00:06:23,037 This is the dish that my nonna cooked 122 00:06:23,072 --> 00:06:25,971 during hunting season with squirrels. 123 00:06:26,006 --> 00:06:29,699 These aren't squirrels. This is chicken. 124 00:06:29,734 --> 00:06:31,977 Dinner is a not untypical expression 125 00:06:32,012 --> 00:06:34,635 of hardscrabble Appalachian practicality... 126 00:06:34,670 --> 00:06:36,810 Now, I don't measure anything, 127 00:06:36,844 --> 00:06:38,467 so nothing has a recipe here. 128 00:06:38,501 --> 00:06:40,469 - And Neapolitan roots. - Basil. 129 00:06:40,503 --> 00:06:43,644 Home kitchen gardens, hunting, and gathering. 130 00:06:43,679 --> 00:06:46,440 This my dad would call piselles; it's peas. 131 00:06:46,475 --> 00:06:48,338 Ooh, making mama dance. 132 00:06:50,824 --> 00:06:53,585 Now, this is what I'm famous for in these parts. 133 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:55,587 Have you ever had spaghetti pizza? 134 00:06:55,622 --> 00:06:56,588 - Wow. - No, you haven't. 135 00:06:56,623 --> 00:06:57,624 Don't say you have. 136 00:07:00,868 --> 00:07:02,594 The tomato sauce was made 137 00:07:02,629 --> 00:07:04,665 with Joel's tomatoes at the food bank. 138 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:06,253 We harvested those yesterday, 139 00:07:06,287 --> 00:07:07,944 and I made spaghetti sauce. Wow. 140 00:07:07,979 --> 00:07:10,360 Nearby, Joel runs an organic 141 00:07:10,395 --> 00:07:13,605 hydroponic farm that supplies the local school system. 142 00:07:17,229 --> 00:07:18,990 The people here are very good. 143 00:07:19,024 --> 00:07:20,750 They'd give you the shirt off their back, 144 00:07:20,785 --> 00:07:24,961 come together in times of tragedy or anything. 145 00:07:24,996 --> 00:07:27,274 Christian values mean something here. 146 00:07:27,308 --> 00:07:30,035 They're practiced on the street and in the home. 147 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:33,349 Most of you have all got your potatoes, right? 148 00:07:33,383 --> 00:07:36,007 Linda runs Five Loaves and Two Fishes, 149 00:07:36,041 --> 00:07:37,836 a food bank that holds many of the lives here 150 00:07:37,871 --> 00:07:40,218 together during tough times. 151 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:43,842 16,000 people walk through these doors annually 152 00:07:43,877 --> 00:07:46,155 in a county of 20,000. 153 00:07:46,189 --> 00:07:48,813 Gracious God, we just thank you for this day 154 00:07:48,847 --> 00:07:50,711 that we're able to give food out again. 155 00:07:50,746 --> 00:07:52,817 This is not a regular give out. 156 00:07:52,851 --> 00:07:54,784 Watch over us. Protect us. 157 00:07:54,819 --> 00:07:57,304 Help us to keep cool heads. 158 00:08:00,341 --> 00:08:00,841 ♪ 159 00:08:04,656 --> 00:08:06,727 Father, we pray over the food we're about to eat 160 00:08:06,762 --> 00:08:08,211 for the nourishment of our body. 161 00:08:08,246 --> 00:08:09,972 Just bless it in the name of Christ. 162 00:08:10,006 --> 00:08:12,146 - Amen. - Amen. 163 00:08:12,181 --> 00:08:12,681 ♪ 164 00:08:16,392 --> 00:08:18,843 This is our home. We love it here. 165 00:08:18,877 --> 00:08:20,430 We're very close to our church. 166 00:08:20,465 --> 00:08:21,535 Everybody knows everybody. 167 00:08:21,570 --> 00:08:23,019 They're all dying now, 168 00:08:23,054 --> 00:08:24,883 but we're still hanging on, aren't we, honey? 169 00:08:24,918 --> 00:08:26,920 Yeah. 170 00:08:26,954 --> 00:08:28,542 Was there any sizable 171 00:08:28,577 --> 00:08:30,544 Italian-American community here at some time? 172 00:08:30,579 --> 00:08:32,270 Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 173 00:08:32,304 --> 00:08:34,755 A lot of immigrants from different countries came here. 174 00:08:34,790 --> 00:08:36,446 - Still? How large? - No. 175 00:08:36,481 --> 00:08:38,034 We've gone from what, 100,000 to 10,000. 176 00:08:38,069 --> 00:08:39,588 100,000 down to about 10,000-12,000. 177 00:08:39,622 --> 00:08:42,694 In the county itself, as of the last census, so. 178 00:08:42,729 --> 00:08:44,696 Those are some grim statistics. 179 00:08:44,731 --> 00:08:46,456 Yes, yes. 180 00:08:46,491 --> 00:08:50,012 The coal that came out of this area built America, right? 181 00:08:50,046 --> 00:08:51,185 Yes. 182 00:08:51,220 --> 00:08:52,490 McDowell County alone was called 183 00:08:52,497 --> 00:08:54,016 a billion-dollar coal field, 184 00:08:54,050 --> 00:08:57,226 and the people that were in charge at the time 185 00:08:57,260 --> 00:08:59,918 didn't take advantage of all that money 186 00:08:59,953 --> 00:09:02,472 in case something did happen to the coal mine. 187 00:09:02,507 --> 00:09:04,854 The cool thing is that West Virginia's developing 188 00:09:04,889 --> 00:09:07,961 a strong entrepreneur movement 189 00:09:07,995 --> 00:09:09,928 that a lot of people don't know about. 190 00:09:09,963 --> 00:09:12,448 Like with Joe, he started a hydroponic growing. 191 00:09:12,482 --> 00:09:14,726 I mean, not blaming others for their problems, 192 00:09:14,761 --> 00:09:16,486 just trying to solve their own. 193 00:09:16,521 --> 00:09:19,420 A lot of people that's really doing a lot of good 194 00:09:19,455 --> 00:09:21,491 that we don't hear about. 195 00:09:21,526 --> 00:09:22,907 This is our pumpkin pie cake. 196 00:09:22,941 --> 00:09:24,633 Have you ever had a pumpkin pie cake? 197 00:09:24,667 --> 00:09:27,394 You probably won't like it, so we'll take your spot. 198 00:09:29,189 --> 00:09:32,951 We got spoiled. The last coal mines I worked at, I made- 199 00:09:32,986 --> 00:09:36,299 base salary was $94,000 a year. 200 00:09:36,334 --> 00:09:38,060 I also taught vocational school, 201 00:09:38,094 --> 00:09:39,751 and most of the kids that I had said, 202 00:09:39,786 --> 00:09:40,959 "Well, I don't need this. 203 00:09:40,994 --> 00:09:42,271 I'm gonna go in the coal mines." 204 00:09:42,305 --> 00:09:44,169 There's just an education piece there 205 00:09:44,204 --> 00:09:46,344 now that we're trying to instill in some of the people 206 00:09:46,378 --> 00:09:49,658 that still have that mentality that coal was king, 207 00:09:49,692 --> 00:09:51,660 and, you know, we don't doubt that, 208 00:09:51,694 --> 00:09:55,525 but we try to think outside the box and look at some other... 209 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,149 Some other opportunities that might be there. 210 00:10:01,152 --> 00:10:02,671 The job that I have right now 211 00:10:02,705 --> 00:10:04,534 is probably one of the best jobs around here 212 00:10:04,569 --> 00:10:08,677 other than the few guys that works at the coal mines. 213 00:10:08,711 --> 00:10:10,851 I operate this school bus. 214 00:10:13,889 --> 00:10:16,132 ♪ 215 00:10:16,167 --> 00:10:19,653 I mentioned God, and guns, and Trump. 216 00:10:19,688 --> 00:10:20,861 Get more physical! 217 00:10:20,896 --> 00:10:23,105 Let's go. Run! 218 00:10:23,139 --> 00:10:26,384 - But I forgot another big one: football. 219 00:10:26,418 --> 00:10:29,318 I was born and raised here. I've been here all my life. 220 00:10:29,352 --> 00:10:30,899 Played defensive end for Welch High School. 221 00:10:30,906 --> 00:10:33,149 Graduated there in 1976. 222 00:10:33,184 --> 00:10:35,324 The Mountview Golden Knights have long carried 223 00:10:35,358 --> 00:10:38,223 the mantle of the town as perpetual underdogs. 224 00:10:38,258 --> 00:10:40,501 Mostly the children of miners, 225 00:10:40,536 --> 00:10:43,056 many from very difficult situations at home. 226 00:10:43,090 --> 00:10:45,058 Why you walking? Hurry up! 227 00:10:45,092 --> 00:10:46,473 This week, it's homecoming. 228 00:10:46,507 --> 00:10:47,957 Whistle! 229 00:10:47,992 --> 00:10:49,683 Coach Larry Thomson has, of late, 230 00:10:49,718 --> 00:10:52,410 imposed some order and higher academic standards 231 00:10:52,444 --> 00:10:53,687 on the Knights. 232 00:10:53,722 --> 00:10:55,689 There are high hopes. 233 00:10:55,724 --> 00:10:57,415 ♪ 234 00:10:57,449 --> 00:10:58,927 Lord, thank you for this food we're about to receive 235 00:10:58,934 --> 00:11:00,418 for the nourishment of our bodies, 236 00:11:00,452 --> 00:11:02,385 and bless these young men and these young women 237 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:03,863 as they cheer and as they play on the field. 238 00:11:03,870 --> 00:11:05,699 In Jesus name I pray, amen. 239 00:11:05,734 --> 00:11:07,874 Amen. 240 00:11:07,908 --> 00:11:09,565 Let's go eat, man. 241 00:11:09,599 --> 00:11:11,981 Local boosters put together a pregame meal 242 00:11:12,016 --> 00:11:14,432 of ribs, baked potatoes, and chicken. 243 00:11:14,466 --> 00:11:16,047 These kids, you know, they got long days. 244 00:11:16,054 --> 00:11:18,919 They wake up 4:45 or 5:00, 245 00:11:18,954 --> 00:11:20,120 and they don't leave off the hill with us 246 00:11:20,127 --> 00:11:21,715 until about 7:00 after practice, 247 00:11:21,750 --> 00:11:23,268 so, no, they go through a lot. 248 00:11:23,303 --> 00:11:26,755 How many generations of coal in your family? 249 00:11:26,789 --> 00:11:29,033 - At least five. - Wow. 250 00:11:29,067 --> 00:11:31,587 Coach Mike Anderson is second in command. 251 00:11:31,621 --> 00:11:35,384 Coal in anybody else's family? Yeah? 252 00:11:35,418 --> 00:11:38,870 Like, trash man, that's a real common job in my family. 253 00:11:38,905 --> 00:11:40,354 Don't feel bad; trash men 254 00:11:40,389 --> 00:11:42,425 make more money than teachers do, Chavo. 255 00:11:43,806 --> 00:11:45,635 Fred "Fatback" Minko, 256 00:11:45,670 --> 00:11:47,223 Micah "Woody" McLaughlin, 257 00:11:47,258 --> 00:11:48,742 and Cole "Chavo" Anderson 258 00:11:48,777 --> 00:11:51,124 are in many ways typical Mountview players 259 00:11:51,158 --> 00:11:53,091 and students with the hopes and dreams 260 00:11:53,126 --> 00:11:55,645 of, well, any other high school students. 261 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:56,957 Homecoming. It is. 262 00:11:56,992 --> 00:11:58,492 How big a deal is football in general, 263 00:11:58,510 --> 00:12:02,135 and this game, and what you guys do? 264 00:12:02,169 --> 00:12:03,785 You know, a lot of these kids, they understand 265 00:12:03,792 --> 00:12:05,269 that there's not a lot of resources here, 266 00:12:05,276 --> 00:12:07,312 and before, you can kind of feel the dreariness 267 00:12:07,347 --> 00:12:09,590 that kind of lingered around the community, 268 00:12:09,625 --> 00:12:11,316 but now, you know, with these boys winning, 269 00:12:11,351 --> 00:12:13,042 with the worth ethic they're putting in, 270 00:12:13,077 --> 00:12:14,768 you can feel the support, you know? 271 00:12:14,803 --> 00:12:16,936 Like, we did a few community outreach programs this summer. 272 00:12:16,943 --> 00:12:18,834 They went down to the park and they painted, and they feel it. 273 00:12:18,841 --> 00:12:20,740 They feel that sense of pride. 274 00:12:20,774 --> 00:12:23,604 How has this football program changed your life? 275 00:12:23,639 --> 00:12:25,496 It gives me something to do, stay out of trouble. 276 00:12:25,503 --> 00:12:28,506 Some of these guys have changed 100%. 277 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:31,267 They had no guidance, no discipline. 278 00:12:31,302 --> 00:12:33,683 They have outside forces that could be pulling them 279 00:12:33,718 --> 00:12:35,271 into different directions, 280 00:12:35,306 --> 00:12:38,516 and they know how that life is gonna go for them, 281 00:12:38,550 --> 00:12:42,520 and as a team in here relying on each other, 282 00:12:42,554 --> 00:12:46,110 their limits are out of this world. 283 00:12:46,144 --> 00:12:48,250 Now, in the past, you could get out of high school, 284 00:12:48,284 --> 00:12:50,183 pretty sure that you were to make big money 285 00:12:50,217 --> 00:12:52,185 in... you know, working in coal. 286 00:12:52,219 --> 00:12:54,256 You don't have that kind of guarantee now. 287 00:12:54,290 --> 00:12:56,189 What do you see yourself doing in ten years? 288 00:12:56,223 --> 00:12:58,847 - Journalism. - Journalism. 289 00:12:58,881 --> 00:13:01,781 I hope in ten years, I hope to be studying my PhD 290 00:13:01,815 --> 00:13:03,023 and be a mechanical engineer. 291 00:13:03,058 --> 00:13:04,680 - Mechanical engineer. - Yes, sir. 292 00:13:04,714 --> 00:13:06,364 I'm definitely gonna be a neuro psychologist. 293 00:13:06,371 --> 00:13:08,097 - Neuro psychologist? - Yep. 294 00:13:08,132 --> 00:13:11,135 You know, what's tougher, life or football? 295 00:13:11,169 --> 00:13:13,171 - Life. - Life, definitely. 296 00:13:13,206 --> 00:13:15,035 There's no halftime in life. 297 00:13:15,070 --> 00:13:16,726 There's no time outs in life. 298 00:13:16,761 --> 00:13:18,452 There's no none of that. 299 00:13:18,487 --> 00:13:20,558 That was a really good answer. 300 00:13:22,249 --> 00:13:23,975 "Love thy brother" is one thing. 301 00:13:24,010 --> 00:13:27,807 That's all well and good, but these guys want to win. 302 00:13:27,841 --> 00:13:30,740 They need to win, and everyone will be watching. 303 00:13:30,775 --> 00:13:35,193 ♪ I make my home in mountain people ♪ 304 00:13:35,228 --> 00:13:36,954 Why are you dancing with them? 305 00:13:36,988 --> 00:13:39,819 ♪ My spirit flowing 306 00:13:39,853 --> 00:13:41,890 ♪ Through their veins 307 00:13:41,924 --> 00:13:44,306 ♪ My soul will live with them forever ♪ 308 00:13:44,340 --> 00:13:46,826 - One, two, three. - Family! 309 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,965 ♪ 310 00:13:47,999 --> 00:13:54,488 ♪ Appalachia is my name 311 00:13:54,523 --> 00:13:55,023 ♪ 312 00:14:19,030 --> 00:14:20,998 You're a badass. 313 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:25,623 Did you really just say that? 314 00:14:27,142 --> 00:14:32,595 Them boys say West Virginia girls are gold diggers. 315 00:14:32,630 --> 00:14:36,289 Them boys should know better, because in West Virginia, 316 00:14:36,323 --> 00:14:41,397 there ain't no gold, just black, black coal. 317 00:14:45,677 --> 00:14:48,301 And them girls, them West Virginia girls 318 00:14:48,335 --> 00:14:50,096 don't take no handouts. 319 00:14:50,130 --> 00:14:55,618 They got a living to make, and stripping is hard work. 320 00:14:55,653 --> 00:14:57,034 ♪ 321 00:14:57,068 --> 00:14:58,799 West Virginia was settled by people who were 322 00:14:58,828 --> 00:15:02,763 fleeing persecution, by homesteaders, 323 00:15:02,798 --> 00:15:07,389 people who just wanted to live their lives their own way, 324 00:15:07,423 --> 00:15:09,253 but the discovery of vast coal reserves 325 00:15:09,287 --> 00:15:11,841 and the big business that grew up around it 326 00:15:11,876 --> 00:15:13,843 changed everything. 327 00:15:13,878 --> 00:15:16,260 Boom, boom. 328 00:15:16,294 --> 00:15:18,745 Them girls shake it. 329 00:15:18,779 --> 00:15:20,160 Boom, boom. 330 00:15:20,195 --> 00:15:21,990 Them girls dance. 331 00:15:22,024 --> 00:15:23,681 ♪ 332 00:15:23,715 --> 00:15:25,855 Them boys know some of them West Virginia girls 333 00:15:25,890 --> 00:15:27,857 can't count, so they laugh 334 00:15:27,892 --> 00:15:30,757 and call them names like crazy, like whore, 335 00:15:30,791 --> 00:15:34,416 just after they take all their mineral rights. 336 00:15:34,450 --> 00:15:39,007 Boom, boom. She was wrong. 337 00:15:39,041 --> 00:15:42,665 Boom, boom. Forever gone. 338 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:45,703 Boom, boom. 339 00:15:45,737 --> 00:15:47,705 Them boys, 340 00:15:47,739 --> 00:15:50,639 them girls, 341 00:15:50,673 --> 00:15:53,607 them mountains, 342 00:15:53,642 --> 00:15:55,644 explode. 343 00:16:03,238 --> 00:16:03,738 ♪ 344 00:16:14,663 --> 00:16:17,286 What is right, what is wrong, 345 00:16:17,321 --> 00:16:18,391 what is mine, 346 00:16:18,425 --> 00:16:21,152 and what gets taken away. 347 00:16:21,187 --> 00:16:24,397 The town of War understands this dynamic well. 348 00:16:24,431 --> 00:16:26,502 It's a former coal and timber camp 349 00:16:26,537 --> 00:16:28,297 that has more than paid its dues. 350 00:16:28,332 --> 00:16:30,368 You can't go wrong with biscuits and gravy. 351 00:16:30,403 --> 00:16:32,060 Works for me. Biscuits, gravy, 352 00:16:32,094 --> 00:16:34,131 two eggs up, and a coffee. 353 00:16:34,165 --> 00:16:36,202 I'm a happy man. Yeah. 354 00:16:36,236 --> 00:16:38,480 The War Café is one of the few 355 00:16:38,514 --> 00:16:40,758 family owned businesses left in town. 356 00:16:40,792 --> 00:16:44,520 ♪ 357 00:16:44,555 --> 00:16:47,316 It's an obvious "New Yorker arrives in town" 358 00:16:47,351 --> 00:16:49,767 first question: why no cell service? 359 00:16:49,801 --> 00:16:53,357 I've been to the farthest regions of the Arabian desert. 360 00:16:53,391 --> 00:16:55,559 All I got to do is climb a dune, I'm gonna get three bars. 361 00:16:55,566 --> 00:16:57,740 I mean, the mountains, it's hard to get signals 362 00:16:57,775 --> 00:16:59,673 down into each individual valley. 363 00:16:59,708 --> 00:17:02,435 Nick Mullins is a former coal miner turned writer, 364 00:17:02,469 --> 00:17:04,609 working in public outreach trying to help people 365 00:17:04,644 --> 00:17:07,095 transition away from fossil fuel. 366 00:17:07,129 --> 00:17:10,063 Try calling an ambulance here and getting out of the county 367 00:17:10,098 --> 00:17:11,616 to the closest hospital. 368 00:17:11,651 --> 00:17:12,990 They don't deliver babies at the hospital 369 00:17:12,997 --> 00:17:14,274 in this county anymore. 370 00:17:14,309 --> 00:17:15,896 Elaine McMillan Sheldon 371 00:17:15,931 --> 00:17:18,278 is an Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker, 372 00:17:18,313 --> 00:17:20,798 born and raised in Southern West Virginia. 373 00:17:20,832 --> 00:17:23,249 If you were describing this area... 374 00:17:23,283 --> 00:17:25,527 Church going, it's a great part religious, 375 00:17:25,561 --> 00:17:26,976 gun rights, important. 376 00:17:27,011 --> 00:17:28,288 A lot of people of my ilk, 377 00:17:28,323 --> 00:17:30,083 that's not gonna resonate at all. 378 00:17:30,118 --> 00:17:31,636 In fact, it sounds threatening. 379 00:17:31,671 --> 00:17:33,286 Right, but both sides are saying the same thing. 380 00:17:33,293 --> 00:17:35,744 Both sides feel threatened by each other. 381 00:17:35,778 --> 00:17:37,228 - Right. - And I would say a majority 382 00:17:37,263 --> 00:17:39,299 of people that live in this region 383 00:17:39,334 --> 00:17:40,438 want to be left alone. 384 00:17:40,473 --> 00:17:41,819 The traditions of this place, 385 00:17:41,853 --> 00:17:43,331 the things that we value, whether that be 386 00:17:43,338 --> 00:17:45,823 family, interpersonal communication, 387 00:17:45,857 --> 00:17:47,665 not having cell phone technology to distract us, 388 00:17:47,687 --> 00:17:50,655 those type of things sort of butt up against 389 00:17:50,690 --> 00:17:52,243 America's idea of progress, 390 00:17:52,278 --> 00:17:54,211 and it's why we've always been looked at 391 00:17:54,245 --> 00:17:56,005 as being backwards. 392 00:17:59,043 --> 00:17:59,543 ♪ 393 00:18:04,704 --> 00:18:07,086 Being part of the media but living here 394 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,501 is a really big challenge 395 00:18:08,535 --> 00:18:11,262 because rarely people like myself 396 00:18:11,297 --> 00:18:13,299 actually are the ones that control our narrative, 397 00:18:13,333 --> 00:18:15,301 that control our story. 398 00:18:17,165 --> 00:18:21,514 It was always too easy to come gawk at West Virginia, 399 00:18:21,548 --> 00:18:23,032 to make it the poster child 400 00:18:23,067 --> 00:18:25,690 for whatever the agenda of the moment was. 401 00:18:25,725 --> 00:18:30,764 Lazy depictions of stereotypical West Virginians, 402 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:34,113 hillbillies and hicks tucked into isolated hollers 403 00:18:34,147 --> 00:18:37,806 to be pitied or made objects of laughter and derision. 404 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,533 If you Google Appalachia, to this day, 405 00:18:40,567 --> 00:18:43,052 you're gonna see dirty faced kids, 406 00:18:43,087 --> 00:18:44,951 barefoot on a front porch, 407 00:18:44,985 --> 00:18:46,953 shaking Lyndon B. Johnson's hand. 408 00:18:46,987 --> 00:18:49,714 There's a lot more to Appalachia than that. 409 00:18:50,750 --> 00:18:54,512 In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty. 410 00:18:54,547 --> 00:18:57,170 A good thing, yes? 411 00:18:57,205 --> 00:19:00,553 But the accompanying press tour portraying people here 412 00:19:00,587 --> 00:19:02,348 as an incapable and bewildered, 413 00:19:02,382 --> 00:19:06,904 helpless mass missed the basic essential character, 414 00:19:06,938 --> 00:19:09,631 the pride, and the self-reliant core 415 00:19:09,665 --> 00:19:11,011 of the people here. 416 00:19:11,046 --> 00:19:12,737 That damage is lasting. 417 00:19:12,772 --> 00:19:15,671 When you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat, 418 00:19:15,706 --> 00:19:17,466 how all these things are, 419 00:19:17,501 --> 00:19:19,503 I think we've all felt it at some point: shame. 420 00:19:19,537 --> 00:19:22,920 What should people know about this area that they don't know, 421 00:19:22,954 --> 00:19:24,853 that they're not getting? 422 00:19:24,887 --> 00:19:26,406 Well, I think it's been said, 423 00:19:26,441 --> 00:19:28,305 but it's just not been hit home. 424 00:19:28,339 --> 00:19:31,653 It's just how much that people 425 00:19:31,687 --> 00:19:34,173 in this area have been exploited. 426 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,387 ♪ 427 00:19:41,421 --> 00:19:42,836 The land agents who came in 428 00:19:42,871 --> 00:19:46,254 and bought up all the mineral rights. 429 00:19:46,288 --> 00:19:48,739 The coal and timber companies that started extracting 430 00:19:48,773 --> 00:19:50,112 and taking everybody's labor rights. 431 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,363 I can't fight a big coal company. 432 00:19:52,398 --> 00:19:54,331 It's got too much money. 433 00:19:54,365 --> 00:19:55,849 Politicians from D.C. 434 00:19:55,884 --> 00:19:57,610 that could make a quick day trip down here 435 00:19:57,644 --> 00:19:59,128 and get a good sound bite. 436 00:19:59,163 --> 00:20:01,441 Who is a miner in this group? Who is it? 437 00:20:01,476 --> 00:20:04,927 Stand up. You're all standing up anyway. 438 00:20:04,962 --> 00:20:07,136 - The drug companies. - 9 million pills 439 00:20:07,171 --> 00:20:08,931 in Kermit, West Virginia over two years. 440 00:20:08,966 --> 00:20:10,416 One pharmacy, 9 million pills. 441 00:20:10,450 --> 00:20:12,866 One pharmacy in a town of 372 people. 442 00:20:12,901 --> 00:20:14,937 There's some political figures that come through 443 00:20:14,972 --> 00:20:16,173 and say that they will try to get away 444 00:20:16,180 --> 00:20:18,217 from the mono economy of coal. 445 00:20:18,251 --> 00:20:20,771 The great issue confronting West Virginia in 1960 446 00:20:20,805 --> 00:20:22,290 is economic development. 447 00:20:22,324 --> 00:20:23,636 But by and large, 448 00:20:23,670 --> 00:20:25,154 the industry doesn't really want that. 449 00:20:25,189 --> 00:20:26,811 Why would they? 450 00:20:26,846 --> 00:20:28,392 If somebody can live here and make a similar living wage 451 00:20:28,399 --> 00:20:30,056 and not have to risk their life, 452 00:20:30,090 --> 00:20:31,644 then they're not going to. 453 00:20:31,678 --> 00:20:34,785 The other side of this is that Democrats, they don't take 454 00:20:34,819 --> 00:20:36,925 a lot of time to understand the problems here. 455 00:20:36,959 --> 00:20:39,721 I just want to know how you can say 456 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:42,724 you're gonna put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, 457 00:20:42,758 --> 00:20:44,657 and then come in here and tell us 458 00:20:44,691 --> 00:20:46,003 how you're gonna be our friend. 459 00:20:46,037 --> 00:20:47,487 I don't think people understand 460 00:20:47,522 --> 00:20:48,833 just how genuine and wonderful 461 00:20:48,868 --> 00:20:50,421 the people are in these mountains, 462 00:20:50,456 --> 00:20:52,458 people who have just worked all their lives 463 00:20:52,492 --> 00:20:56,496 and who've sacrificed so much for their families. 464 00:20:59,534 --> 00:21:01,018 ♪ 465 00:21:01,052 --> 00:21:02,571 You cannot talk about West Virginia 466 00:21:02,606 --> 00:21:04,780 without talking about coal, 467 00:21:04,815 --> 00:21:07,990 and coal is a complex issue here, 468 00:21:08,025 --> 00:21:11,304 tied into the cell tissue and the family pride of the people 469 00:21:11,339 --> 00:21:15,274 who have worked in the mines for generations. 470 00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:17,690 ♪ 471 00:21:17,724 --> 00:21:20,209 Yeah, man, that coal mines is something else, 472 00:21:20,244 --> 00:21:23,005 you know, boy, you got to take care of yourself in there. 473 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,699 That fan is blowing about 200,000 cubic feet of air 474 00:21:26,733 --> 00:21:29,218 into the mine... fresh air. 475 00:21:29,253 --> 00:21:31,048 When you go in that mine, you don't know 476 00:21:31,082 --> 00:21:33,533 whether you're gonna live to see the outside again. 477 00:21:33,568 --> 00:21:34,068 ♪ 478 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:57,488 Today we're going about 5,000 feet. 479 00:21:57,523 --> 00:21:59,248 5,000 feet deep? 480 00:21:59,283 --> 00:22:03,632 Yeah, oh, yeah. 481 00:22:03,667 --> 00:22:06,739 It's a little bumpy ride in places. 482 00:22:06,773 --> 00:22:08,741 Pat Graham is the foreman 483 00:22:08,775 --> 00:22:10,570 at the Pay Car mine in Kimball. 484 00:22:10,605 --> 00:22:12,469 Watch your head. 485 00:22:12,503 --> 00:22:13,003 ♪ 486 00:22:16,783 --> 00:22:20,511 This particular mine is a metallurgical break hole. 487 00:22:20,546 --> 00:22:22,133 - So this is full of steel? - Yes. 488 00:22:23,618 --> 00:22:27,242 The average wage of a miner is 60% greater 489 00:22:27,276 --> 00:22:30,418 than the average wage of all laborers in the United States. 490 00:22:30,452 --> 00:22:31,936 - Wow. - That's pretty phenomenal. 491 00:22:31,971 --> 00:22:35,181 It's easy to see why people in McDowell County 492 00:22:35,215 --> 00:22:36,769 want mining jobs. 493 00:22:44,293 --> 00:22:45,571 ♪ 494 00:22:45,605 --> 00:22:47,780 I was staying in a town nearby, Welch. 495 00:22:47,814 --> 00:22:49,402 There's no bar. 496 00:22:56,305 --> 00:22:57,928 Wow. 497 00:22:57,962 --> 00:23:00,102 Heavenly Father, we'd like to gather here to thank you 498 00:23:00,137 --> 00:23:02,691 for this opportunity to support our families. 499 00:23:02,726 --> 00:23:04,244 Please watch after us and keep us safe 500 00:23:04,279 --> 00:23:06,557 while we're underground working. Amen. 501 00:23:06,592 --> 00:23:08,594 Amen. 502 00:23:08,628 --> 00:23:10,112 ♪ 503 00:23:10,147 --> 00:23:12,632 - What do you got? - Bear meat and chicken. 504 00:23:12,667 --> 00:23:14,220 Oh, damn. 505 00:23:14,254 --> 00:23:15,877 I may just put my sandwich back here 506 00:23:15,911 --> 00:23:17,741 if you got bear meat. 507 00:23:17,775 --> 00:23:19,225 ♪ 508 00:23:19,259 --> 00:23:20,882 That's delicious. 509 00:23:20,916 --> 00:23:22,297 Do you think the country as a whole, 510 00:23:22,331 --> 00:23:23,988 do you think they understand 511 00:23:24,023 --> 00:23:26,474 the coal business at all, what coal mining's about? 512 00:23:26,508 --> 00:23:27,889 - No. - No. 513 00:23:27,923 --> 00:23:29,331 They don't really understand at all. 514 00:23:29,338 --> 00:23:30,961 When you travel from New York to here, 515 00:23:30,995 --> 00:23:32,618 whether you're on a boat, plane, train, 516 00:23:32,652 --> 00:23:33,853 or in the sky or driving on a car, 517 00:23:33,860 --> 00:23:35,483 it's because of a mine. 518 00:23:35,517 --> 00:23:38,934 Mining causes damage to the environment. 519 00:23:38,969 --> 00:23:41,281 Of this there is no doubt, 520 00:23:41,316 --> 00:23:44,077 but what cannot be grown must be mined. 521 00:23:44,112 --> 00:23:46,355 There ain't no cell phones, for instance, 522 00:23:46,390 --> 00:23:48,357 without mines somewhere. 523 00:23:48,392 --> 00:23:50,946 Does anybody think it's gonna come back big time, 524 00:23:50,981 --> 00:23:52,465 like 30 years ago or... 525 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,192 My personal opinion, every time a Republican 526 00:23:55,226 --> 00:23:56,745 is in there, it goes up. 527 00:23:58,471 --> 00:24:01,267 This used to be a solidly democratic state. 528 00:24:01,301 --> 00:24:03,131 What do you think made Trump attractive: 529 00:24:03,165 --> 00:24:05,858 a city slicker, three times married? 530 00:24:05,892 --> 00:24:08,032 - That's easy for me. - Yeah. 531 00:24:08,067 --> 00:24:10,828 Hillary shows up here, and she openly said 532 00:24:10,863 --> 00:24:13,831 she's gonna put a lot of coal miners out of work. 533 00:24:15,419 --> 00:24:16,938 Wrong answer. 534 00:24:16,972 --> 00:24:18,387 How many kids you got? 535 00:24:18,422 --> 00:24:19,630 - I got three. - Three? 536 00:24:19,665 --> 00:24:21,390 - Six. - Four. 537 00:24:21,425 --> 00:24:23,358 If you saw your kids had other options, 538 00:24:23,392 --> 00:24:26,188 would you recommend that they join the family business? 539 00:24:26,223 --> 00:24:28,674 - No, sir, no. - You would say no. 540 00:24:28,708 --> 00:24:30,676 I would about guarantee if everybody here, 541 00:24:30,710 --> 00:24:32,332 their dad who worked in the coal mines 542 00:24:32,367 --> 00:24:34,852 probably told their son, "Don't go into the coal mines." 543 00:24:34,887 --> 00:24:37,648 - That's what I was told. - That's what I told mine. 544 00:24:37,683 --> 00:24:38,891 - Yeah. - I mean, you're gonna 545 00:24:38,925 --> 00:24:40,375 tell them, "No, don't do it," 546 00:24:40,409 --> 00:24:42,515 but you know, if they do, you're gonna be proud. 547 00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:43,861 I'm proud. 548 00:24:43,896 --> 00:24:45,200 From the stickers we put on our buckets, 549 00:24:45,207 --> 00:24:47,658 from the stickers we put on our hats, 550 00:24:47,693 --> 00:24:49,660 to my coffee mug there, passed down. 551 00:24:49,695 --> 00:24:52,352 I don't mess that thing up, my son goes into the mines, 552 00:24:52,387 --> 00:24:54,251 that's gonna be his. 553 00:24:54,285 --> 00:24:56,667 When and if you retire, what would you like to do? 554 00:24:56,702 --> 00:24:58,048 Where would you like to go? 555 00:25:07,782 --> 00:25:08,282 ♪ 556 00:25:27,491 --> 00:25:30,080 ♪ I'm a stone's throw from the mill ♪ 557 00:25:30,114 --> 00:25:33,566 ♪ And I'm a good walk to the river ♪ 558 00:25:33,601 --> 00:25:36,293 ♪ But my working day is over 559 00:25:36,327 --> 00:25:39,434 ♪ We'll go swim our cares away ♪ 560 00:25:39,468 --> 00:25:43,680 It's so easy from afar to say that coal's time here 561 00:25:43,714 --> 00:25:45,889 has come and gone, 562 00:25:45,923 --> 00:25:49,271 that we should let the miners move, find some other work. 563 00:25:49,306 --> 00:25:50,618 What other work? 564 00:25:50,652 --> 00:25:53,413 This state's biggest employer is now Walmart. 565 00:25:53,448 --> 00:25:56,416 ♪ I've seen my share of trouble ♪ 566 00:25:56,451 --> 00:26:00,559 ♪ And I've held my weight in shame ♪ 567 00:26:00,593 --> 00:26:05,460 ♪ But I'm baptized in your name ♪ 568 00:26:05,494 --> 00:26:07,255 ♪ Lovely Lady May 569 00:26:07,289 --> 00:26:10,430 Whatever your views, respect these people, 570 00:26:10,465 --> 00:26:14,055 what they do and what they've paid. 571 00:26:14,089 --> 00:26:15,090 Ladies and gentlemen... 572 00:26:35,283 --> 00:26:35,783 ♪ 573 00:26:40,495 --> 00:26:43,532 Ready, set, go! 574 00:26:52,576 --> 00:26:54,371 ♪ 575 00:26:54,405 --> 00:26:57,857 ♪ Early in the morning when the sun does rise ♪ 576 00:26:57,892 --> 00:27:00,377 ♪ 577 00:27:00,411 --> 00:27:03,518 ♪ Laying in the bed with bloodshot eyes ♪ 578 00:27:03,552 --> 00:27:06,038 ♪ 579 00:27:06,072 --> 00:27:09,213 ♪ Run me ragged but I don't fret ♪ 580 00:27:09,248 --> 00:27:11,388 ♪ 581 00:27:11,422 --> 00:27:14,771 ♪ Cause there ain't been one slow me down none yet ♪ 582 00:27:17,187 --> 00:27:20,224 ♪ Get me drinking that moonshine ♪ 583 00:27:20,259 --> 00:27:22,882 ♪ Get me higher than the grocery bill ♪ 584 00:27:22,917 --> 00:27:25,298 ♪ Take my troubles to the high wall ♪ 585 00:27:25,333 --> 00:27:28,474 ♪ Throw them in the river and get your fill ♪ 586 00:27:28,508 --> 00:27:30,856 ♪ Lord it's a mighty hard living ♪ 587 00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:34,411 ♪ But it's damn good feeling to run these roads ♪ 588 00:27:34,445 --> 00:27:37,586 So these things have to be durable, to say the least? 589 00:27:37,621 --> 00:27:39,519 I mean, you're pounding the hell out of them. 590 00:27:39,554 --> 00:27:41,418 They're actually built to be indestructible. 591 00:27:41,452 --> 00:27:43,489 - Indestructible. - Yeah, that's the plan. 592 00:27:43,523 --> 00:27:45,180 ♪ 593 00:27:45,215 --> 00:27:47,700 Yeah! 594 00:27:47,735 --> 00:27:49,806 Well, I guess we broke it. 595 00:27:51,255 --> 00:27:53,050 This bat-shit crazy, vertical, 596 00:27:53,085 --> 00:27:55,708 Mad Max drag race come demolition derby 597 00:27:55,743 --> 00:27:58,090 is called rock bouncing. 598 00:27:58,124 --> 00:27:59,850 Keep my neck from bouncing around too much? 599 00:27:59,885 --> 00:28:01,749 Yeah, and what they're actually designed for 600 00:28:01,783 --> 00:28:03,336 is major collisions, 601 00:28:03,371 --> 00:28:05,822 and it keeps your head from tearing off your body. 602 00:28:05,856 --> 00:28:08,894 Adam Ringer is a native son, jack of many trades, 603 00:28:08,928 --> 00:28:10,619 and a man who's all too happy 604 00:28:10,654 --> 00:28:12,863 to spend the day trashing some hills 605 00:28:12,898 --> 00:28:14,382 just to show me a good time. 606 00:28:14,416 --> 00:28:17,178 ♪ Get me drinking that moonshine ♪ 607 00:28:17,212 --> 00:28:20,181 ♪ Get me higher than the grocery bill ♪ 608 00:28:20,215 --> 00:28:22,873 ♪ Lord it's a mighty hard living ♪ 609 00:28:22,908 --> 00:28:25,945 ♪ But a damn good feeling to run these roads ♪ 610 00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:27,464 ♪ 611 00:28:27,498 --> 00:28:30,467 - So that was pretty badass. - Yeah. 612 00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:32,780 ♪ 613 00:28:35,817 --> 00:28:39,718 ♪ 614 00:28:39,752 --> 00:28:43,894 All right, you got your frog legs, turtle patties. 615 00:28:43,929 --> 00:28:45,724 Eric Williams is a hunter and trapper 616 00:28:45,758 --> 00:28:47,380 who caught most of this meal 617 00:28:47,415 --> 00:28:50,314 wading waist deep in the swamp on his property. 618 00:28:50,349 --> 00:28:52,661 - You ever ate snapping turtle? - Oh, I'm definite... 619 00:28:52,696 --> 00:28:54,215 I'm not missing that. 620 00:28:54,249 --> 00:28:57,977 Small mouth bass, catfish, barbecued and fried. 621 00:28:58,012 --> 00:28:59,668 Wow, what a spread. 622 00:28:59,703 --> 00:29:03,120 ♪ 623 00:29:03,155 --> 00:29:05,433 Trail riding ATVs, off-roading, 624 00:29:05,467 --> 00:29:07,331 and the supporting industries 625 00:29:07,366 --> 00:29:09,678 are an up-and-coming play for tourism in this state. 626 00:29:09,713 --> 00:29:11,784 There are thousands of miles of trails 627 00:29:11,819 --> 00:29:14,960 running through the hills in places like this. 628 00:29:14,994 --> 00:29:17,065 Anybody with any off-road vehicle can come: 629 00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:19,240 dirt bikes, four wheelers, mega trucks. 630 00:29:19,274 --> 00:29:21,242 King Knob Motorsports Park, 631 00:29:21,276 --> 00:29:23,692 owned by Mike Hanson and Amber Williams. 632 00:29:23,727 --> 00:29:26,109 Do they have to sign a release before they come on? 633 00:29:26,143 --> 00:29:27,524 - They do. - Yeah, that's smart. 634 00:29:27,558 --> 00:29:28,628 Yeah. 635 00:29:28,663 --> 00:29:30,285 We actually climb stuff that's vertical. 636 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,011 - Straight up? - Yep. 637 00:29:32,046 --> 00:29:34,842 Yeah, this race this weekend, the last 30 feet of the hill, 638 00:29:34,876 --> 00:29:36,844 the second hill, was actually vertical. 639 00:29:36,878 --> 00:29:38,217 You had to hit it with enough momentum 640 00:29:38,224 --> 00:29:39,218 to skip up over it and land on top. 641 00:29:39,225 --> 00:29:40,606 - Wow. - Yeah. 642 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,049 That's why you got to have a lot of horsepower. 643 00:29:42,056 --> 00:29:43,367 But too much power can get you 644 00:29:43,402 --> 00:29:44,810 in a lot of trouble also. Oh, really? 645 00:29:44,817 --> 00:29:46,198 - Oh, yeah. - Exactly right. 646 00:29:46,232 --> 00:29:48,372 Horsepower's not always the key to success, 647 00:29:48,407 --> 00:29:50,650 but it's always a lot of fun. 648 00:29:50,685 --> 00:29:53,032 Hopefully, you can come back and try the Barbie Jeep thing. 649 00:29:58,900 --> 00:29:59,400 ♪ 650 00:30:10,878 --> 00:30:13,363 Guns are a fact of life around here. 651 00:30:13,397 --> 00:30:16,366 Whether as a means to defend your isolated home, 652 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,746 get yourself dinner when 653 00:30:17,781 --> 00:30:19,472 there's no place else to get it, 654 00:30:19,507 --> 00:30:21,750 or just for the fun of shooting stuff, 655 00:30:21,785 --> 00:30:24,581 the feeling that gun ownership is an absolute right, 656 00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:28,688 immutable and non-negotiable, runs deep here. 657 00:30:28,723 --> 00:30:30,898 Everybody's backyard look like this? 658 00:30:30,932 --> 00:30:32,969 - Uh... - Ours does. 659 00:30:33,003 --> 00:30:34,763 Justin and Ashley McMillion 660 00:30:34,798 --> 00:30:36,248 are the nice couple next door... 661 00:30:37,939 --> 00:30:40,079 If unusually heavily armed. 662 00:30:40,114 --> 00:30:42,047 Yeah! 663 00:30:42,081 --> 00:30:43,980 Our muzzle brakes are the only kind 664 00:30:44,014 --> 00:30:45,326 that actually reduce recoil, 665 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,259 muzzle rise, and flash. 666 00:30:47,293 --> 00:30:50,503 They own JMac Customs, a home business that designs 667 00:30:50,538 --> 00:30:52,781 and builds custom weapons and parts. 668 00:30:52,816 --> 00:30:54,922 So this keeps you on target and makes sure 669 00:30:54,956 --> 00:30:56,364 that you're safe while you're shooting. 670 00:30:56,371 --> 00:30:57,579 You put the mag in. 671 00:30:57,614 --> 00:30:58,891 - Safety off. - Safety off. 672 00:30:58,926 --> 00:31:01,549 You got it. All right. 673 00:31:01,583 --> 00:31:04,586 Three, two, one. 674 00:31:06,726 --> 00:31:08,349 Now, to be clear, 675 00:31:08,383 --> 00:31:10,420 these are fully automatic firearms. 676 00:31:10,454 --> 00:31:13,181 They cannot be purchased legally by individuals 677 00:31:13,216 --> 00:31:15,114 anywhere, 678 00:31:15,149 --> 00:31:16,736 but as they're in the business, 679 00:31:16,771 --> 00:31:18,462 these guys could apply for special, 680 00:31:18,497 --> 00:31:20,292 highly vetted ATF licenses 681 00:31:20,326 --> 00:31:23,019 for purposes of product development and testing. 682 00:31:23,053 --> 00:31:25,297 That was just really... That was a lot of fun. 683 00:31:25,331 --> 00:31:27,368 I'm a child. What can I say? 684 00:31:27,402 --> 00:31:30,302 Who wants to blow up pumpkins? 685 00:31:33,339 --> 00:31:35,928 Just mixed up a binary explosive. 686 00:31:35,963 --> 00:31:39,069 ♪ 687 00:31:39,104 --> 00:31:40,484 Some are small, and some are big. 688 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:42,072 You only know when you shoot it, so. 689 00:31:42,107 --> 00:31:44,972 Ooh, a surprise! I love surprises. 690 00:31:45,006 --> 00:31:48,423 Three, two, one. 691 00:31:51,185 --> 00:31:55,154 Whatever you feel about gun rights or access to weapons, 692 00:31:55,189 --> 00:31:57,156 there is an undeniable, 693 00:31:57,191 --> 00:31:59,745 visceral thrill to blowing shit up. 694 00:31:59,779 --> 00:32:03,576 People who like guns like them for a reason. 695 00:32:03,611 --> 00:32:05,958 That's a whole lot of America right there. 696 00:32:05,993 --> 00:32:06,959 Yeah, not mine. 697 00:32:08,857 --> 00:32:12,482 ♪ 698 00:32:12,516 --> 00:32:16,279 Venison or beef, with or without cheese. 699 00:32:16,313 --> 00:32:18,281 - Venison and cheese. - Yeah. 700 00:32:18,315 --> 00:32:20,110 - Wow, a nice selection. - The only way to go. 701 00:32:20,145 --> 00:32:21,629 That's what I'll have. 702 00:32:21,663 --> 00:32:23,458 Heavenly Father, we bow in your presence. 703 00:32:23,493 --> 00:32:24,977 We just thank you for this day, 704 00:32:25,012 --> 00:32:26,213 and most of all, we just thank you 705 00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:27,462 for the liberties and freedoms 706 00:32:27,497 --> 00:32:29,361 that our country provides 707 00:32:29,395 --> 00:32:30,362 and you have provided. 708 00:32:30,396 --> 00:32:32,364 - Amen. - Amen. 709 00:32:32,398 --> 00:32:34,366 So everybody born and bred here, or... 710 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,782 - Lisa's from California. - Mm-hmm. 711 00:32:36,816 --> 00:32:38,501 So when you came here, that was the first time 712 00:32:38,508 --> 00:32:39,743 you shot a gun, wasn't it? Yeah. 713 00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:41,994 Show him your arm. 714 00:32:42,029 --> 00:32:44,479 Yeah, show him your tat. She got an AK tat. 715 00:32:44,514 --> 00:32:46,481 AK tattooed on her arm. 716 00:32:46,516 --> 00:32:48,345 I lived in Canada for a long time. 717 00:32:48,380 --> 00:32:50,037 Stayed in England for quite a while. 718 00:32:50,071 --> 00:32:51,624 Sweden for quite a while. 719 00:32:51,659 --> 00:32:53,695 No matter how long I'm gone, I always come back. 720 00:32:53,730 --> 00:32:55,904 You can't just load the Jeep up with a bunch of guns 721 00:32:55,939 --> 00:32:58,631 and stay out there for seven days and, you know... 722 00:32:58,666 --> 00:33:00,668 You can't really do that anywhere else. 723 00:33:00,702 --> 00:33:02,007 That's probably one of the greatest things 724 00:33:02,014 --> 00:33:03,498 about West Virginia. 725 00:33:03,533 --> 00:33:06,743 You know, we can enjoy whatever we want to enjoy. 726 00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:10,126 I'm not trying to force my opinions on anybody else. 727 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,059 That being said, we will defend ours. 728 00:33:12,093 --> 00:33:14,647 - Yeah. - I was guessing. 729 00:33:14,682 --> 00:33:16,235 Yeah. 730 00:33:16,270 --> 00:33:17,926 Look, I grew up in an environment, 731 00:33:17,961 --> 00:33:21,240 you see somebody at the supermarket carrying a handgun, 732 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:24,726 that would be cause for red alert. 733 00:33:24,761 --> 00:33:27,833 Do you think there can be common ground between somebody 734 00:33:27,867 --> 00:33:30,939 who grew up absolutely thinking guns are a bad thing? 735 00:33:30,974 --> 00:33:32,527 I say no. 736 00:33:32,562 --> 00:33:34,177 Okay, you're an honest man, and I appreciate it. 737 00:33:34,184 --> 00:33:35,254 Why do you... 738 00:33:35,289 --> 00:33:37,360 I'm a responsible gun owner. 739 00:33:37,394 --> 00:33:40,673 Why should I be crippled in what I'm able to do 740 00:33:40,708 --> 00:33:42,537 as far as protecting my family? 741 00:33:42,572 --> 00:33:45,264 Look, I hear you, but there's a fair number of people 742 00:33:45,299 --> 00:33:47,611 in this world who are just, you know, 743 00:33:47,646 --> 00:33:49,786 too dumb to pour piss out of a boot. 744 00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:52,754 You know, 90-year-old drivers in Florida, 745 00:33:52,789 --> 00:33:55,343 they still got their license, but should they be driving? 746 00:33:55,378 --> 00:33:57,276 - Right. - A few years ago, 747 00:33:57,311 --> 00:33:58,795 my father was involved in a shooting 748 00:33:58,829 --> 00:34:00,969 at his pharmacy that he works at. 749 00:34:01,004 --> 00:34:02,454 A man came in. He had a weapon. 750 00:34:02,488 --> 00:34:03,696 My dad conceal carries. 751 00:34:03,731 --> 00:34:05,077 He has a license to conceal carry. 752 00:34:05,112 --> 00:34:06,596 He drew his weapon and fired. 753 00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:08,805 If they take guns away from law-abiding citizens, 754 00:34:08,839 --> 00:34:11,187 then it's just gonna be the criminals that have it. 755 00:34:13,637 --> 00:34:15,087 It should be pointed out... 756 00:34:15,122 --> 00:34:18,297 It has to be pointed out, faced head-on... 757 00:34:18,332 --> 00:34:20,299 That shortly after we filmed here, 758 00:34:20,334 --> 00:34:23,785 a gunman in Las Vegas, with a perfectly legal weapon, 759 00:34:23,820 --> 00:34:27,548 fired off 1,100 rounds in ten minutes, 760 00:34:27,582 --> 00:34:32,967 wounding 422 people and killing 58. 761 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:35,418 Shortly after that, 17 students 762 00:34:35,452 --> 00:34:37,420 were murdered in Parkland, Florida, 763 00:34:37,454 --> 00:34:41,009 with a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle, 764 00:34:41,044 --> 00:34:43,805 and the list goes on, with victims of mass shootings 765 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,153 that have happened since this conversation 766 00:34:46,187 --> 00:34:47,637 measured in the hundreds, 767 00:34:47,671 --> 00:34:49,949 so there is that to think about too. 768 00:34:49,984 --> 00:34:51,848 I don't know whether the founding fathers 769 00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,092 anticipated the kind of firepower 770 00:34:54,126 --> 00:34:55,403 that we played with today. 771 00:34:55,438 --> 00:34:58,096 We live in a different world. 772 00:34:58,130 --> 00:35:01,168 There are the nice people who live next door who like guns, 773 00:35:01,202 --> 00:35:04,343 and, unfortunately, there seem to be a whole lot of people 774 00:35:04,378 --> 00:35:07,760 who aren't nice at all. 775 00:35:09,452 --> 00:35:12,006 Get behind cover! 776 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,941 - Oh, my God, oh, my God! - Go back, go back! 777 00:35:17,805 --> 00:35:21,188 One would hope there is at least some middle ground. 778 00:35:21,222 --> 00:35:22,672 Oh, my God. 779 00:35:34,062 --> 00:35:34,562 ♪ 780 00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:41,173 They call this Burning Fork Holler. 781 00:35:41,208 --> 00:35:43,037 What is a holler? 782 00:35:43,071 --> 00:35:47,317 I mean, it's spelled "hollow," but it's pronounced "holler." 783 00:35:47,352 --> 00:35:53,358 A holler, to me, is where everybody is united. 784 00:35:53,392 --> 00:35:55,877 Everybody sticks with one another 785 00:35:55,912 --> 00:35:58,052 and takes up for one another. 786 00:35:58,086 --> 00:35:58,586 ♪ 787 00:36:07,268 --> 00:36:10,168 Lola Kline is a single mother of four children, 788 00:36:10,202 --> 00:36:12,929 and, in many ways, emblematic of both the difficulties 789 00:36:12,963 --> 00:36:16,208 and inherent strengths of people around here. 790 00:36:16,243 --> 00:36:18,348 Where do you find them? In the trees or on the ground? 791 00:36:18,383 --> 00:36:20,937 - Trees. - Mostly up the trees? 792 00:36:20,971 --> 00:36:24,389 Squirrels are more like- it's a waiting game. 793 00:36:24,423 --> 00:36:28,082 Find us a place to sit and watch for movement. 794 00:36:29,152 --> 00:36:31,430 She and her best friend, LaShawna Huff, 795 00:36:31,465 --> 00:36:33,674 hunt together, raise kids together, 796 00:36:33,708 --> 00:36:36,090 and do their best to get by in a changing world 797 00:36:36,124 --> 00:36:38,679 that can get very hard. 798 00:36:38,713 --> 00:36:42,407 We got to keep our eye out, too, timber rattlers. 799 00:36:42,441 --> 00:36:44,443 They good eating, rattlesnake? 800 00:36:44,478 --> 00:36:45,962 I've never ate one. 801 00:36:45,996 --> 00:36:48,102 I seen a rattlesnake coming this way, 802 00:36:48,136 --> 00:36:49,966 and I go that way. 803 00:36:51,485 --> 00:36:53,452 When you'd first go hunting, how old were you? 804 00:36:53,487 --> 00:36:56,214 My grandpa took me when I was about six. 805 00:36:56,248 --> 00:36:58,802 I just love this place. 806 00:36:58,837 --> 00:37:01,391 Having a bad day, you can always go up in the mountains. 807 00:37:01,426 --> 00:37:03,635 All that changes. 808 00:37:08,018 --> 00:37:08,518 ♪ 809 00:37:32,871 --> 00:37:33,371 ♪ 810 00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:45,918 My mom, she used to cook it and fix squirrel gravy. 811 00:37:45,953 --> 00:37:48,438 Lola's neighbor's name may be Drana Lester, 812 00:37:48,473 --> 00:37:50,958 but everybody here calls her Mom. 813 00:37:50,992 --> 00:37:53,823 58 years. I was born and raised here. 814 00:37:53,857 --> 00:37:56,204 Do you ever think about leaving? 815 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,172 No. 816 00:37:58,206 --> 00:38:01,209 She often cooks and helps look after the kids. 817 00:38:01,244 --> 00:38:02,832 Biscuit? Homemade biscuits. 818 00:38:02,866 --> 00:38:04,489 Homemade gravy. Fried taters. 819 00:38:04,523 --> 00:38:06,042 Fried potatoes, excellent. 820 00:38:06,076 --> 00:38:08,976 And Lola does her best to look after her. 821 00:38:09,010 --> 00:38:11,530 That's what people do in the hollers. 822 00:38:11,565 --> 00:38:13,049 Dear Lord, we come to you this day. 823 00:38:13,083 --> 00:38:15,293 Thank you for this food and bless the hands 824 00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:16,846 that fixed this food. 825 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,297 Thank you for each and every living day. Amen. 826 00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:23,715 Amen, and thank you for letting us make more friends. 827 00:38:23,749 --> 00:38:25,544 Thank you for having me. 828 00:38:25,579 --> 00:38:28,720 Mmm-mmm. I've been waiting all day for this. 829 00:38:28,754 --> 00:38:30,404 Are you working on a farm nearby, is that right? 830 00:38:30,411 --> 00:38:31,654 Yes. 831 00:38:31,688 --> 00:38:33,380 After strip mines are done here, 832 00:38:33,414 --> 00:38:34,691 the land's usually- 833 00:38:34,726 --> 00:38:36,624 I mean, it's just useless. 834 00:38:36,659 --> 00:38:38,661 So we're trying to make a purpose. 835 00:38:38,695 --> 00:38:40,318 Pumpkins, watermelon. 836 00:38:40,352 --> 00:38:42,906 We're just trying to figure out what will grow on it. 837 00:38:42,941 --> 00:38:46,254 - So there's life after coal? - There's life after coal. 838 00:38:46,289 --> 00:38:48,395 For about eight years, I worked on strip mines. 839 00:38:48,429 --> 00:38:50,466 I could probably get a job now, 840 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:52,039 but I don't want to mess up a good thing. 841 00:38:52,053 --> 00:38:53,848 So what do you think about that squirrel? 842 00:38:53,883 --> 00:38:55,505 - Oh, man, it's good. - Good, ain't it? 843 00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:57,093 Thank you. 844 00:38:57,127 --> 00:38:59,578 They call it wild and wonderful West Virginia. 845 00:38:59,613 --> 00:39:02,685 It is. And your girls are how old? 846 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,551 My girls are nine, eight, six, and three. 847 00:39:06,585 --> 00:39:08,035 You taught any of them to shoot yet? 848 00:39:08,069 --> 00:39:09,719 - Yeah, all of them can shoot. - All of them? 849 00:39:09,726 --> 00:39:11,176 All of them. 850 00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:12,867 They think their mommy's a big hero too 851 00:39:12,902 --> 00:39:14,766 because she killed that big buck last year. 852 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,595 Yeah, how big was this thing? 853 00:39:16,630 --> 00:39:18,597 - 250. Weighed 250 pounds. - Yeah. 854 00:39:18,632 --> 00:39:20,703 You drag that thing out of the woods yourself? 855 00:39:20,737 --> 00:39:22,290 - Mm-hmm. - Dress it? 856 00:39:22,325 --> 00:39:23,602 - Yes. - Cook it? 857 00:39:23,637 --> 00:39:25,604 - Yep. - We don't rely on nobody. 858 00:39:25,639 --> 00:39:27,081 Yeah, there ain't nothing I can't do, 859 00:39:27,088 --> 00:39:28,635 and if I don't know how to do it, I'll learn. 860 00:39:28,642 --> 00:39:30,747 We're not a bunch of pregnant women, 861 00:39:30,782 --> 00:39:32,784 barefooted with no teeth. 862 00:39:32,818 --> 00:39:34,613 I got all of mine, you see? 863 00:39:36,339 --> 00:39:38,893 What's the best thing about living in this area, 864 00:39:38,928 --> 00:39:40,964 and what's the... What's the worst thing? 865 00:39:40,999 --> 00:39:44,312 The best thing is the people here. 866 00:39:44,347 --> 00:39:46,798 You always got somebody that has your back, no matter what. 867 00:39:46,832 --> 00:39:48,903 Like, I couldn't move away from here. 868 00:39:48,938 --> 00:39:51,630 I'd be so sick. Homesick. 869 00:39:51,665 --> 00:39:52,969 There's probably nobody in these hollers 870 00:39:52,976 --> 00:39:54,875 that I couldn't go say, 871 00:39:54,909 --> 00:39:57,774 "Hey, I need... I'm hungry. Would you fix me a sandwich?" 872 00:39:57,809 --> 00:40:00,639 And the worst thing? 873 00:40:00,674 --> 00:40:04,919 See somebody that's on pills, 874 00:40:04,954 --> 00:40:08,647 or drunk, or out here just fighting. 875 00:40:13,825 --> 00:40:17,173 - What can you do? - Pray for them. 876 00:40:17,207 --> 00:40:20,452 That's all we can do. 877 00:40:20,487 --> 00:40:22,972 ♪ Oh little Liza 878 00:40:24,525 --> 00:40:26,596 ♪ Oh little Liza 879 00:40:26,631 --> 00:40:28,874 ♪ Little Liza Jane 880 00:40:33,361 --> 00:40:35,156 ♪ 881 00:40:36,882 --> 00:40:38,746 ♪ Tell me how you want it baby ♪ 882 00:40:40,955 --> 00:40:42,750 ♪ You know I need you baby 883 00:40:42,785 --> 00:40:44,752 ♪ Grant my wishes 884 00:40:47,168 --> 00:40:48,938 ♪ Shots off to you wanna roll with the fellas ♪ 885 00:40:48,963 --> 00:40:50,482 ♪ Shakin' the ish, the hips all that ♪ 886 00:40:50,517 --> 00:40:52,622 ♪ Like that, make it hard to fight back ♪ 887 00:40:52,657 --> 00:40:54,935 For years here, the base was what was called 888 00:40:54,969 --> 00:40:56,315 a West Virginia Democrat: 889 00:40:56,350 --> 00:40:58,490 hard line on the second amendment, 890 00:40:58,525 --> 00:41:00,216 religious, but pro-union, 891 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:02,701 with a record of voting reliably blue. 892 00:41:02,736 --> 00:41:05,877 Those days are gone. 893 00:41:05,911 --> 00:41:07,844 You know, I'm a high school dropout. 894 00:41:07,879 --> 00:41:09,777 Military, you know, I was... I'm a veteran. 895 00:41:09,812 --> 00:41:13,505 There is a smell in the earth itself here in West Virginia 896 00:41:13,540 --> 00:41:16,474 that, when I was away, when I was in the army, 897 00:41:16,508 --> 00:41:18,821 that your soul rots away. 898 00:41:18,855 --> 00:41:20,685 It feels like you can't smell it, or you look up 899 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,550 and you see the sun all the way set. 900 00:41:23,584 --> 00:41:26,000 Here it disappears around 4:00. 901 00:41:26,035 --> 00:41:29,314 Allen Lardieri is a former tanker in the U.S. Army 902 00:41:29,348 --> 00:41:33,076 and what he calls Constitutional Conservative. 903 00:41:33,111 --> 00:41:35,665 He is solidly pro-Trump Republican, 904 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,219 however distant from Mr. Trump's New York City 905 00:41:38,254 --> 00:41:41,326 background and gold-plated lifestyle he may be. 906 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,742 You'll see a lot of parallels in rural West Virginia 907 00:41:43,777 --> 00:41:45,744 that you see in the inner cities. 908 00:41:45,779 --> 00:41:48,229 I see a lot of parallels to places I've been. 909 00:41:48,264 --> 00:41:49,886 School districts that are starved. 910 00:41:49,921 --> 00:41:51,336 - That's right. - Opioid addiction. 911 00:41:51,370 --> 00:41:52,337 Teenage pregnancy. 912 00:41:52,371 --> 00:41:53,752 Food deserts, you know, 913 00:41:53,787 --> 00:41:55,264 where there ain't nothing but fast food. 914 00:41:55,271 --> 00:41:58,585 Exactly. Okay. Yeah. Where's our Whole Foods? 915 00:41:58,619 --> 00:42:00,172 It's non-existent, sir. 916 00:42:00,207 --> 00:42:05,453 Why would West Virginia overwhelmingly go for a guy, 917 00:42:05,488 --> 00:42:09,078 Donald Trump, who's never changed a tire in his life, 918 00:42:09,112 --> 00:42:11,080 who sits on a gold toilet? 919 00:42:11,114 --> 00:42:14,773 Yeah, everybody else talks around this, whatever. 920 00:42:14,808 --> 00:42:16,948 This man talks just like us, 921 00:42:16,982 --> 00:42:18,708 like how we talk to each other in the mines. 922 00:42:18,743 --> 00:42:20,952 It ain't pretty. It's straight talk. 923 00:42:20,986 --> 00:42:23,126 Well, you know, they say he tells it like it is. 924 00:42:23,161 --> 00:42:25,128 I don't know... I don't know that that's true. 925 00:42:25,163 --> 00:42:26,682 He says outrageous things. 926 00:42:26,716 --> 00:42:28,124 I guess that's refreshing. Oh, yeah. 927 00:42:28,131 --> 00:42:29,401 You know, I gave up on political saviors 928 00:42:29,408 --> 00:42:30,789 a long time ago. 929 00:42:30,824 --> 00:42:32,480 I believe it's naive to go ahead and say 930 00:42:32,515 --> 00:42:34,337 that I think that there's gonna be one individual, 931 00:42:34,344 --> 00:42:35,622 especially in government, 932 00:42:35,656 --> 00:42:37,382 that's gonna turn everything around. 933 00:42:37,416 --> 00:42:39,591 Trump can bring change, and it's very quite simple. 934 00:42:39,626 --> 00:42:43,215 His offensive, incendiary nature 935 00:42:43,250 --> 00:42:45,252 can send a word out to these assholes... 936 00:42:45,286 --> 00:42:48,496 I'm sorry... these individuals that so called represent us 937 00:42:48,531 --> 00:42:49,946 in congress, senate, whatever. 938 00:42:49,981 --> 00:42:52,155 If people get frustrated enough, 939 00:42:52,190 --> 00:42:55,262 they're gonna put somebody in there that's not like you. 940 00:42:55,296 --> 00:42:56,988 You know, what I hope that things 941 00:42:57,022 --> 00:42:59,956 have come out of this is national dialogue. 942 00:42:59,991 --> 00:43:02,959 We have to start talking. We have to do it. 943 00:43:02,994 --> 00:43:04,961 If he'd stop tweeting from the toilet at 4:00 944 00:43:04,996 --> 00:43:06,749 in the morning, I'd feel a lot more comfortable, 945 00:43:06,756 --> 00:43:08,910 you know what I'm saying? A little impulse control, dude. 946 00:43:24,394 --> 00:43:24,894 ♪ 947 00:43:33,990 --> 00:43:35,675 These right here, they're called wood nettle. 948 00:43:35,682 --> 00:43:40,203 They've got a really nice kind of aromatic quality to them. 949 00:43:40,238 --> 00:43:42,205 ♪ 950 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,173 With the pawpaws, it's better 951 00:43:44,207 --> 00:43:45,968 if you can kind of, like, feel them, 952 00:43:46,002 --> 00:43:47,625 see if they're ripe. 953 00:43:47,659 --> 00:43:51,352 America's forgotten fruit: the pawpaw. 954 00:43:51,387 --> 00:43:53,216 Forgotten when most Americans 955 00:43:53,251 --> 00:43:55,529 stopped going to the forest for their food, 956 00:43:55,563 --> 00:43:58,843 but in West Virginia, they were never forgotten. 957 00:43:58,877 --> 00:44:02,881 So that's a pawpaw ice cream with some candied wildflowers, 958 00:44:02,916 --> 00:44:05,056 and then this is an old-fashioned vinegar pie. 959 00:44:05,090 --> 00:44:08,162 It's in a class of pies called desperation pies 960 00:44:08,197 --> 00:44:10,233 that try to create something like a lemon pie 961 00:44:10,268 --> 00:44:12,166 and you don't have lemon juice. What do you do? 962 00:44:12,201 --> 00:44:14,065 Put some vinegar and some nutmeg together 963 00:44:14,099 --> 00:44:16,377 and give it that same kind of tang. 964 00:44:16,412 --> 00:44:20,036 Appalachia has a rich and deep culinary culture, 965 00:44:20,071 --> 00:44:22,245 increasingly fetishized, riffed on, 966 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,593 appropriated for the genteel tastes of a hipster elite 967 00:44:25,628 --> 00:44:29,080 willing to pay big bucks for what used to be, 968 00:44:29,114 --> 00:44:31,979 and still is in many cases, the food of poverty. 969 00:44:32,014 --> 00:44:34,602 We see that ramps are selling for $30 a pound 970 00:44:34,637 --> 00:44:37,536 in New York City that were harvested in West Virginia, 971 00:44:37,571 --> 00:44:40,056 and what's West Virginia seeing from that? 972 00:44:40,091 --> 00:44:43,266 Probably a guy that got about 2 bucks a pound. 973 00:44:43,301 --> 00:44:45,993 It becomes just another extractive industry. 974 00:44:46,028 --> 00:44:47,823 - Right. - Like coal or timber. 975 00:44:47,857 --> 00:44:49,196 And you sort of start to see that with foods. 976 00:44:49,203 --> 00:44:50,473 That's the story of West Virginia. 977 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,034 Yeah. 978 00:44:52,068 --> 00:44:54,450 Chef Mike Costello and partner Amy Dawson 979 00:44:54,484 --> 00:44:57,729 are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciated 980 00:44:57,764 --> 00:45:00,939 and paying off locally for the region it originated in. 981 00:45:00,974 --> 00:45:02,700 I also have some buttermilk poached trout 982 00:45:02,734 --> 00:45:05,047 that we're gonna put on there with some pickled rhubarb. 983 00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:06,738 Yeah, it'll be good. 984 00:45:06,773 --> 00:45:08,050 They run a traveling kitchen 985 00:45:08,084 --> 00:45:09,534 that brings local ingredients, 986 00:45:09,568 --> 00:45:11,122 Appalachian recipes, 987 00:45:11,156 --> 00:45:13,952 and the stories behind them around the state. 988 00:45:16,437 --> 00:45:19,440 Lost Creek Farm is their place. 989 00:45:19,475 --> 00:45:22,236 ♪ 990 00:45:22,271 --> 00:45:25,067 A working farm they're rebuilding by hand. 991 00:45:25,101 --> 00:45:27,483 ♪ 992 00:45:27,517 --> 00:45:30,658 And the nucleus of that effort is the garden. 993 00:45:30,693 --> 00:45:33,040 ♪ 994 00:45:36,078 --> 00:45:39,495 ♪ 995 00:45:39,529 --> 00:45:41,635 We have two different varieties 996 00:45:41,669 --> 00:45:43,154 that we're picking today. 997 00:45:43,188 --> 00:45:44,638 The one are the Logan Giants. 998 00:45:44,672 --> 00:45:46,985 This seed is Logan Giant seed, 999 00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:50,057 and they're an heirloom strain of bean, 1000 00:45:50,092 --> 00:45:51,990 and I've had these seeds for 40 years. 1001 00:45:52,025 --> 00:45:54,096 I saved these for 40 years. 1002 00:45:54,130 --> 00:45:55,925 This guy down at the end of the table, 1003 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,824 Lou, is in his 90s. 1004 00:45:57,858 --> 00:45:59,163 He said it's important for somebody 1005 00:45:59,170 --> 00:46:00,792 to carry on these traditions 1006 00:46:00,827 --> 00:46:03,519 and gave me his stock of heirloom beans this year. 1007 00:46:03,553 --> 00:46:08,110 This is what heirloom looks like outside of Holy Foods. 1008 00:46:08,144 --> 00:46:10,906 Bloody Butcher corn, 1009 00:46:10,940 --> 00:46:12,839 Fat Horse beans, 1010 00:46:12,873 --> 00:46:14,495 Candy Roaster squash, 1011 00:46:14,530 --> 00:46:17,291 and Homer Fike's Yellow Ox Heart tomatoes. 1012 00:46:17,326 --> 00:46:19,984 Nice and soft, and it's like a really sweet green tomato. 1013 00:46:20,018 --> 00:46:23,608 These ingredients define a near-lost time and flavor. 1014 00:46:23,642 --> 00:46:25,472 This is an Italian heirloom beet that 1015 00:46:25,506 --> 00:46:27,501 was brought to West Virginia by an Italian immigrant, 1016 00:46:27,508 --> 00:46:29,372 so it's, like, it's called a Chioggia. 1017 00:46:29,407 --> 00:46:32,617 The story of hardship and resourcefulness. 1018 00:46:32,651 --> 00:46:35,723 We've got some sweet corn chowder. 1019 00:46:35,758 --> 00:46:38,726 We're gonna just, like, drizzle a little bit of this 1020 00:46:38,761 --> 00:46:40,487 nettles and wild apples. 1021 00:46:40,521 --> 00:46:42,938 Next, we've got these crackers. 1022 00:46:42,972 --> 00:46:44,802 They're broken communion wafers. 1023 00:46:44,836 --> 00:46:46,734 You know, the way that Appalachian food 1024 00:46:46,769 --> 00:46:47,943 has always worked 1025 00:46:47,977 --> 00:46:49,289 is you work with within your means, 1026 00:46:49,323 --> 00:46:51,049 and you create something pretty special 1027 00:46:51,084 --> 00:46:52,844 out of what you have at your disposal, 1028 00:46:52,879 --> 00:46:55,467 and we've kind of suffered from this in a way. 1029 00:46:55,502 --> 00:46:58,229 It created this sort of rush towards the middle class 1030 00:46:58,263 --> 00:46:59,817 and a rush towards the perception 1031 00:46:59,851 --> 00:47:01,232 that we're better than the foods 1032 00:47:01,266 --> 00:47:02,647 that we used to have to eat. 1033 00:47:02,681 --> 00:47:04,021 - Mm-hmm. - Yeah, I think we were taught 1034 00:47:04,028 --> 00:47:05,546 a lot to be embarrassed 1035 00:47:05,581 --> 00:47:07,341 of our, you know, hillbilly past, you know? 1036 00:47:07,376 --> 00:47:08,756 - Oh, absolutely. - Right. 1037 00:47:08,791 --> 00:47:10,268 I remember coming home from school and my dad 1038 00:47:10,275 --> 00:47:11,545 having hog's head on the kitchen table 1039 00:47:11,552 --> 00:47:13,347 making head cheese and sauce, like, 1040 00:47:13,382 --> 00:47:15,556 I'd been mortified if somebody came over and saw that. 1041 00:47:15,591 --> 00:47:17,765 Yeah, a friend of mine's grandmother once told me, 1042 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,795 "You know, we used to make this because we were poor. 1043 00:47:19,802 --> 00:47:22,736 Now we make it because it's effing good." 1044 00:47:25,532 --> 00:47:27,775 - Ooh, what's that? - This is some 1045 00:47:27,810 --> 00:47:29,363 buttermilk fried rabbit, 1046 00:47:29,398 --> 00:47:30,599 rabbit that we raise here on the farm. 1047 00:47:30,606 --> 00:47:31,918 Oh, yes. 1048 00:47:31,952 --> 00:47:35,783 A little bit of chowchow, some fresh maple syrup. 1049 00:47:38,821 --> 00:47:41,272 ♪ 1050 00:47:41,306 --> 00:47:43,688 Is it gross that we slaughter rabbits right behind us? 1051 00:47:43,722 --> 00:47:44,792 Yeah. 1052 00:47:47,485 --> 00:47:50,522 This is some venison harvested from the woods here. 1053 00:47:50,557 --> 00:47:53,560 It's got a wild chicory root rub to it. 1054 00:47:53,594 --> 00:47:55,769 ♪ 1055 00:47:55,803 --> 00:47:58,806 Some chanterelles and sorghum syrup and some wild pears. 1056 00:47:58,841 --> 00:48:00,567 Wow. 1057 00:48:00,601 --> 00:48:02,569 Mike and Amy's friends are a cross section of people 1058 00:48:02,603 --> 00:48:05,192 invested in West Virginia's potential. 1059 00:48:05,227 --> 00:48:06,573 Which we've been drinking here, 1060 00:48:06,607 --> 00:48:08,299 the young or the old school cider? 1061 00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:11,958 We actually came across a recipe from 1822 1062 00:48:11,992 --> 00:48:13,891 with elderberry and cider, 1063 00:48:13,925 --> 00:48:15,547 and it's a native plant here, 1064 00:48:15,582 --> 00:48:18,757 so we put a little bit in there to see what it would do, 1065 00:48:18,792 --> 00:48:20,242 and it came out wonderful. 1066 00:48:20,276 --> 00:48:22,485 You're using only West Virginia apples? 1067 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,453 I am only using West Virginia apples. 1068 00:48:24,487 --> 00:48:28,836 - That can't be cost effective. - It can and can't be. 1069 00:48:28,871 --> 00:48:31,667 Nobody's talking about money at this table though. 1070 00:48:32,875 --> 00:48:34,981 This is another thing for me. 1071 00:48:35,015 --> 00:48:37,010 We're often talked about as being this impoverished state. 1072 00:48:37,017 --> 00:48:40,918 We are rich, I mean, as can be, in food and the things 1073 00:48:40,952 --> 00:48:44,335 that we make as a culture and as a community. 1074 00:48:44,369 --> 00:48:45,992 When you're living on the land 1075 00:48:46,026 --> 00:48:47,786 and doing what your ancestors did, 1076 00:48:47,821 --> 00:48:51,169 you feel a connection that you can't get anywhere else. 1077 00:48:51,204 --> 00:48:53,068 You know, you look at something 1078 00:48:53,102 --> 00:48:55,415 as simple as these pole beans. 1079 00:48:55,449 --> 00:48:57,486 It took our community to save that seed, 1080 00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,833 and every time we put food on the plate, 1081 00:48:59,867 --> 00:49:01,524 there's a story about the way 1082 00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:05,252 that people have always kind of bound together to survive. 1083 00:49:08,807 --> 00:49:09,307 ♪ 1084 00:49:17,575 --> 00:49:18,075 ♪ 1085 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,376 The people around this fire 1086 00:49:25,410 --> 00:49:27,861 are looking hopefully to the future. 1087 00:49:27,895 --> 00:49:30,726 They are friends. They are interdependent. 1088 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,901 A community. An economy. 1089 00:49:33,936 --> 00:49:34,436 ♪ 1090 00:49:51,712 --> 00:49:55,026 ♪ 1091 00:49:55,061 --> 00:49:57,408 Lord, bless everybody that's going to the game. 1092 00:49:57,442 --> 00:49:59,513 Bless these young men and these young women 1093 00:49:59,548 --> 00:50:03,207 as they cheer and as they play on the field. 1094 00:50:03,241 --> 00:50:04,760 Lord, guide us to victory this evening, 1095 00:50:04,794 --> 00:50:08,246 keep everybody safe to and from the game. 1096 00:50:08,281 --> 00:50:09,420 In Jesus' name I pray. 1097 00:50:09,454 --> 00:50:12,043 - Amen. - Amen. 1098 00:50:12,078 --> 00:50:13,493 ♪ 1099 00:50:13,527 --> 00:50:16,047 It's Friday night. Homecoming. 1100 00:50:16,082 --> 00:50:17,773 The Summers County Bobcats 1101 00:50:17,807 --> 00:50:19,947 versus the Mountview Golden Knights. 1102 00:50:19,982 --> 00:50:22,019 - Hey, I love you, man. - I love you too. 1103 00:50:24,090 --> 00:50:27,093 And for the citizens of Welch and McDowell County, 1104 00:50:27,127 --> 00:50:30,234 this is a very big deal, indeed. 1105 00:50:32,098 --> 00:50:33,927 ♪ 1106 00:50:33,961 --> 00:50:35,273 Hi. 1107 00:50:35,308 --> 00:50:38,449 ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ 1108 00:50:38,483 --> 00:50:41,728 Everybody knows everybody else's families, 1109 00:50:41,762 --> 00:50:44,627 asks after their kids by name. 1110 00:50:44,662 --> 00:50:47,734 Mixed couples are common. 1111 00:50:47,768 --> 00:50:50,633 There's an easy familiarity between people here. 1112 00:50:50,668 --> 00:50:54,085 The 2017 Mountview High School 1113 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,812 Homecoming Queen is... 1114 00:50:58,503 --> 00:50:59,987 Bang-bang on three. One, two, three. 1115 00:51:00,022 --> 00:51:01,127 Bang-bang! 1116 00:51:01,161 --> 00:51:02,783 Get down! 1117 00:51:05,855 --> 00:51:06,822 Get down. 1118 00:51:06,856 --> 00:51:07,356 ♪ 1119 00:51:11,516 --> 00:51:13,484 So very much a West Virginia tradition, 1120 00:51:13,518 --> 00:51:15,313 coal mining and the military. 1121 00:51:15,348 --> 00:51:17,246 Yeah, here for 10 1/2 years. 1122 00:51:17,281 --> 00:51:18,903 Navy, but I've been around and back. 1123 00:51:18,937 --> 00:51:21,008 You've been around and end up back here. 1124 00:51:21,043 --> 00:51:22,389 Back here. 1125 00:51:22,424 --> 00:51:24,667 Monica Barner is a Mountview Alum. 1126 00:51:24,702 --> 00:51:27,014 Her husband, Sly, is a coach. 1127 00:51:27,049 --> 00:51:30,742 Her sons, Elijah and Eliffe, are on the team. 1128 00:51:30,777 --> 00:51:33,297 Her daughter, Elisa, is a cheerleader. 1129 00:51:33,331 --> 00:51:34,815 So it's personal for her. 1130 00:51:34,850 --> 00:51:37,577 Born and raised here, went to school here. 1131 00:51:37,611 --> 00:51:40,166 Wouldn't have it no other way. 1132 00:51:43,859 --> 00:51:47,932 A 78-yard run. 1133 00:51:53,351 --> 00:51:57,321 - Oh, my. - Loose pigskin. 1134 00:51:57,355 --> 00:52:00,462 Come on, boys, get your head in the game! 1135 00:52:00,496 --> 00:52:02,533 ♪ 1136 00:52:02,567 --> 00:52:05,536 Garnet Edwards Junior is a former Mountview player 1137 00:52:05,570 --> 00:52:07,607 who went on to play college ball. 1138 00:52:07,641 --> 00:52:09,126 In the state of West Virginia, 1139 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,162 we got two things going on for us: 1140 00:52:11,197 --> 00:52:13,060 that's church and sports. 1141 00:52:13,095 --> 00:52:16,374 Now, if we lose a game, it's like losing our best friend. 1142 00:52:19,929 --> 00:52:21,345 ♪ 1143 00:52:21,379 --> 00:52:23,174 Go, D! 1144 00:52:23,209 --> 00:52:25,072 Hey, you got it, you got it! 1145 00:52:25,107 --> 00:52:26,384 Stop him, stop him! 1146 00:52:26,419 --> 00:52:27,903 - Oh, shucks. Oh. - Oh. 1147 00:52:27,937 --> 00:52:30,077 - Pass is complete. - Come on, man. 1148 00:52:30,112 --> 00:52:32,045 Fourscore. 1149 00:52:32,079 --> 00:52:32,579 ♪ 1150 00:52:41,123 --> 00:52:43,919 The Bobcats 20, the Golden Knights nothing. 1151 00:52:43,953 --> 00:52:44,453 ♪ 1152 00:52:51,616 --> 00:52:53,342 Fellas... 1153 00:52:57,346 --> 00:53:00,591 I just want you to play hard. 1154 00:53:00,625 --> 00:53:03,110 I just want you to play hard and make smart decisions. 1155 00:53:06,148 --> 00:53:06,648 ♪ 1156 00:53:11,222 --> 00:53:17,055 ♪ Daddy worked like a mule mining Pike County coal ♪ 1157 00:53:17,090 --> 00:53:20,956 ♪ He messed up his back and couldn't work anymore ♪ 1158 00:53:20,990 --> 00:53:23,614 ♪ He said one of these days 1159 00:53:23,648 --> 00:53:26,548 ♪ You'll get out of these hills ♪ 1160 00:53:26,582 --> 00:53:29,378 ♪ 1161 00:53:29,413 --> 00:53:33,727 ♪ Daddy I've been trying I just can't catch a break ♪ 1162 00:53:33,762 --> 00:53:36,523 ♪ There's too much in this world ♪ 1163 00:53:36,558 --> 00:53:38,560 ♪ I can't seem to shake 1164 00:53:38,594 --> 00:53:39,094 ♪ 1165 00:53:51,435 --> 00:53:54,161 - There you go. - Let's go, let's go! 1166 00:53:54,196 --> 00:53:57,164 ♪ 1167 00:53:57,199 --> 00:53:59,270 ♪ See the ways of this world ♪ 1168 00:53:59,305 --> 00:54:02,756 ♪ Will just bring you to tears ♪ 1169 00:54:02,791 --> 00:54:04,758 ♪ Keep the Lord in your heart ♪ 1170 00:54:04,793 --> 00:54:07,002 ♪ And you'll have nothing to fear ♪ 1171 00:54:07,036 --> 00:54:09,142 ♪ Live the best that you can 1172 00:54:09,176 --> 00:54:11,006 ♪ And don't lie and don't steal ♪ 1173 00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,863 It's time to turn up a whole nother level; it's time. 1174 00:54:12,870 --> 00:54:15,286 ♪ Keep your nose on the grindstone ♪ 1175 00:54:15,321 --> 00:54:17,668 ♪ And out of the pills 1176 00:54:20,222 --> 00:54:21,396 Yeah! 1177 00:54:21,430 --> 00:54:22,845 ♪ Daddy I've been trying 1178 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,192 ♪ I just can't catch a break 1179 00:54:25,227 --> 00:54:29,438 ♪ There's too much in this world I can't seem to shake ♪ 1180 00:54:29,473 --> 00:54:31,509 - There you go! - Touchdown! 1181 00:54:31,544 --> 00:54:33,960 Whoa! That's a good move! Yeah! 1182 00:54:33,994 --> 00:54:35,410 ♪ But I remember your words ♪ 1183 00:54:35,444 --> 00:54:38,516 ♪ Lord they bring me chills 1184 00:54:38,551 --> 00:54:41,450 ♪ Keep your nose on the grindstone ♪ 1185 00:54:41,485 --> 00:54:43,280 ♪ And out of the pills 1186 00:54:43,314 --> 00:54:47,284 ♪ Keep your nose on the grindstone ♪ 1187 00:54:47,318 --> 00:54:48,595 Clock! Clock's running! 1188 00:54:48,630 --> 00:54:49,130 ♪ 1189 00:54:54,187 --> 00:54:55,706 This is the game. 1190 00:54:55,740 --> 00:54:57,604 We win or lose on this play. 1191 00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:00,435 Let's go, Mountview! 1192 00:55:03,369 --> 00:55:06,889 Oh, shit. 1193 00:55:12,550 --> 00:55:13,050 ♪ 1194 00:55:32,536 --> 00:55:33,036 ♪ 1195 00:55:50,450 --> 00:55:52,797 Good job, young man! 1196 00:55:56,111 --> 00:55:59,183 Good job, coach. Good job. Yes, sir. 1197 00:56:01,219 --> 00:56:03,567 We will win! 1198 00:56:03,601 --> 00:56:06,363 ♪ 1199 00:56:06,397 --> 00:56:08,399 You're never gonna forget this ball game. 1200 00:56:08,434 --> 00:56:10,290 Whenever you're in a bind, you're stuck in a corner, 1201 00:56:10,297 --> 00:56:12,783 you know what I'm saying, fight through it. 1202 00:56:12,817 --> 00:56:14,405 Fight your way out of it. 1203 00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,407 In anything you do in life, 1204 00:56:16,442 --> 00:56:19,790 in school, in football, as long as you've got me, 1205 00:56:19,824 --> 00:56:22,620 and these coaches, this community, that's all you need. 1206 00:56:22,655 --> 00:56:25,934 Yeah! 1207 00:56:27,487 --> 00:56:29,282 I grew up here. 1208 00:56:29,316 --> 00:56:31,871 Got married here. It's home. 1209 00:56:31,905 --> 00:56:34,736 Oh, my goodness, there he is! Oh, I'm so proud of you! 1210 00:56:34,770 --> 00:56:36,910 There's more here than just poverty 1211 00:56:36,945 --> 00:56:38,325 and illiteracy and drugs. 1212 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,569 There's a lot of good people here. 1213 00:56:40,604 --> 00:56:42,329 We all do care about each other. 1214 00:56:42,364 --> 00:56:43,986 So proud, so proud. 1215 00:56:44,021 --> 00:56:46,920 What are any of our hopes and dreams? 1216 00:56:46,955 --> 00:56:49,820 A roof over our heads, some security, 1217 00:56:49,854 --> 00:56:52,443 maybe even some happiness for our children, 1218 00:56:52,478 --> 00:56:55,653 the opportunity to be proud of something, 1219 00:56:55,688 --> 00:56:57,344 we all have that in common. 1220 00:56:57,379 --> 00:56:59,657 I wish y'all could come down here and see us soon, 1221 00:56:59,692 --> 00:57:02,902 and when y'all do, I hope y'all enjoy it. 1222 00:57:02,936 --> 00:57:06,008 This is America, and if you can't embrace it, 1223 00:57:06,043 --> 00:57:10,496 no matter how bitterly and fiercely we may disagree, 1224 00:57:10,530 --> 00:57:12,981 there is no hope for any of us. 1225 00:57:13,015 --> 00:57:15,362 I've been living here 65 years. 1226 00:57:15,397 --> 00:57:17,434 I wouldn't trade it for nothing. 1227 00:57:17,468 --> 00:57:19,953 I guess I'll be here till they cut the lights out. 1228 00:57:19,988 --> 00:57:22,335 Family on three. One, two, three. 1229 00:57:22,369 --> 00:57:24,544 Family!