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Well, what have we got there?
Those aren't our trucks.
Looks like old Tony must be back in town.
Wonderful.
That's the boundary, as far as I can tell online.
I went and measured everything and mapped it.
I just knew that you had two-and-a-half of the thing, so I just put--
took two-and-a-half lf down.
Mm-hmm.
Did I up?
After more than two years, King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets, is moving back to the Indian River.
His first order of business, re-establish boundaries.
All right, yeah, 'cause I do want to make sure that
before we start here that that ditch is in the right spot, I think it is.
So if you think it's not, then...
If you feel like that's in the wrong spot,
then let's have that conversation.
The problem is that we're running out of ground to mine.
Twenty-six-year-old Parker Schnabel
started the season in a race to find new ground,
but the only Klondike claim he could lease is deeper than any he's ever mined before.
Five weeks in and over a million dollars in the hole,
he's not even halfway down to pay dirt.
The big push right now is Mud Mountain
and I'm a little nervous if this cut doesn't go well
just 'cause it's going to be a very expensive one,
but there's a lot going on.
We could have like 50 people working right now
and we would still be, I think.
And so Mitch is scrambling to get some more ground opened up at the airstrip.
One mile to the northwest,
Parker's tasked foreman Mitch Blaschke to keep the gold
coming in to pay for his gamble on Mud Mountain
by mining the last 22 acres of the airstrip cut leased from Tony Beets.
Yeah. Hey, man.
How's it going? - Good. How are you?
Not bad.
Look like, with Slucifer being the only plant
that's making any money right now, I don't want you
to get spread too thin, so I'll handle the stripping at Mud Mountain
and dealing with those guys.
Um, if you want to just take on the airstrip
and try your best to keep the plant running 24/7 and gold coming in,
you've got a lot of bills to pay
and I've got a lot of money to spend stripping.
I mean, Mud Mountain's a huge project
and definitely worth spending some money, so we'll try and make some here.
Yeah, you're the only one getting any bills paid. No pressure.
All right. Sounds good. Thanks, dude.
The airstrip produced quite a bit of gold for us last season,
and with all the money that's getting dumped into Mud Mountain,
Parker was thinking, "Hey, this is gonna be a pretty easy, uh,
way to make a quick buck."
Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?
Go ahead.
Things don't seem to be getting any easier around here.
I don't even think the Yukon knows what it's going to do
when it comes to weather, it, like, decides minute by minute.
It's the same saying we have in Vancouver.
If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.
I walked outside my trailer this morning and saw the snow falling,
uh, definitely not what we need right now.
We had an extremely cold winter in the Yukon
and actually had a hundred-year-record snowfall
and it looks like that's not giving up just yet.
After the spring thaw, the temperature has again
dropped below freezing.
We're trying to keep up with Slucifer.
Right now, it's going through three thousand yards of material per 12-hour shift.
We've got to get a stockpile, so we have enough pay dirt
to keep running 24 hours a day.
So Tyson and I are both running excavators here,
baling material as fast as we can.
But, obviously, not having Brennan here this year
is put a lot of stress on everybody.
At the start of the season, Mitch's co-foreman,
Brennan Ruautt, jumped ship to team up with Rick Ness.
Now, wash plant boss, Tyson Lee, is Mitch's right-hand man.
I've told you not to do it that way.
But last season, they locked horns.
If you're telling me you're cool with that setup
right there, you need to rethink your game, man.
Brennan and Mitch work hand-in-hand with each other,
so, so definitely... put a lot more pressure on me this year.
Hey, Tyson, hopefully, we'll have enough to keep this wash plant going
because it's definitely getting a little skinny over here.
We're going about scoop for scoop for a bath.
Don't say that too loudly, Mitch, the wash plant might hear you.
Mitch and Tyson are making the piles,
and I'm scooping and bringing them back to the feeder.
Operator Tatiana Costa, in the loader,
feeds 220 yards of pay dirt an hour.
Every day we're just spending just trying to get pay
and start getting the gold out and get money, money in the pocket.
You see that smoke coming off the teeth,
that's the frost right there that we're fighting.
Frozen stiff, my friend.
Nothing's thawing out today,
if anything, it's getting more froze.
It's definitely a struggle.
Just trying to keep up here, but the stockpiles, they're pretty much all gone.
We're not producing enough material here
to keep up with the wash plant.
The frozen pay is a challenge to dig out
and then needs to thaw before it can be run through the plant.
Hey, Mitch, so I'm probably just going to leave this right here
and let it thaw a little longer
because I'm not getting all the pay on it here.
I see you still got some froze up low spots there, too, huh?
Yeah, this whole piece needs to be gone over again.
Yeah. Land of frost out here.
This isn't working.
Hey, Tatiana, you got a copy?
What up?
Yeah, hey, that's going to be the last scoop.
We got to get some material stockpiled here,
so let's go ahead and I'm going to turn off the shaker deck
as soon as it clears.
That's the last one.
Okay.
It's crazy to be thinking that this is what normally
shuts us down at the end of the season, not the beginning.
Slucifer is Parker's only working wash plant.
Every hour it's down costs almost $4000 in unmined gold.
Look at the weather here, it's cold,
the ground isn't thawing like we need it to.
We just don't have enough thawed pay to be able to
keep things running here 24 hours a day.
So we're just going to run it on a night shift.
During the day, we're going to remove every bit of thaw that we can,
stockpile it, so we can try and get enough material
to be able to run this thing, 24 hours a day again.
And, uh, you know, we're not going to have as much gold at the end of the week.
We need sunshine and warm days here, thaw out some of this ground.
For almost 40 years,
Tony Beets has been snatching up
gold rich claims in the Klondike,
the Indian River is amongst the most profitable.
The king has more than 350 claims,
but before he can cash in at the Indian, he needs a water license.
Tony's only working wash plant
is at the Nugget Cut on Paradise Hill.
Lot of dirt to be moved.
The final decision on Indian River is due in four days.
To get a jump on the new operation,
Tony is moving his biggest machines to the Indian,
starting with a $1.1 million 950 excavator, the biggest in the Yukon.
To move his equipment, Tony's dropped 100,000
on a unique rear steer Columbia lowboy.
The 950 excavator weighs a 100 tons
and is way too wide for a standard lowboy.
It turns three-day operation into a one-day one.
Tony taps his two heavy load specialists,
youngest son Mike Beets and old hand Len Hoekstra,
to figure out how to drive the rear steer.
Unlike a standard lowboy,
the Columbia has steering at the front and rear.
Powered by a hydraulic motor and manually operated by levers,
it makes the lowboy more maneuverable than a fixed axle rig
on the mountain roads.
It needs precise coordination between the drivers.
You gotta slow down.
Len, slow down!
Slow down!
Len, slow the down!
I can't adjust that fast.
Stop! Stop! Stop!
He's going, like, fast
I can barely adjust in time.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. If I have time to adjust, it's not bad,
but when he's going 30, 40, I cannot keep up.
Slow the down!
He keeps going way too fast.
I cannot adjust fast enough.
- Stop, stop, stop, stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Stop, stop, stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
He has a bad habit of kicking up speed.
No [bleep], Len.
No communication!
drives like an idiot.
pisses me off.
On Paradise Hill, Tony Beets is preparing to move
millions of dollars of new equipment.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I thought you were playing around a little bit,
- see how would that go over I couldn't keep up.
Then I saw that you were...
Looking a bit, a little bit scared, so I thought...
I'm not scared. I'm holding on like,
- Yeah. - Just remember, no barking.
- Okay. - Well, it's, uh...
It's time to put the 56-year-old Columbia
to the test with the 100 ton 950.
- You guys ready back there?
Well, she's a heavy pull.
Yeah, yeah.
They also create a hell of a lot of drag.
There's so much that needs to be done right now.
Ex-special forces medic Fred Lewis has gambled
everything he owns on setting up a new operation in the Yukon wilderness,
40 miles from Dawson City at California Creek.
My job today is going to be removing this overburden,
trying to get down to that, uh, pay gravel so we can get to mining.
Four weeks into the season,
Fred's mined less than two ounces, and he recently received the news
that most of his trusted crew from last season won't be joining.
Pretty big bombshell dropped by my guys, you know.
I knew that a few of them wouldn't make it up here this season
because the Yukon is a huge commitment,
but most of my team is out and now the ones that are coming aren't here.
It's just me and JB, two Green Berets, and JB is not a minor.
So far, Fred only has one member of the crew on site,
his new mechanic, ex-Green Beret, JB Mayor.
Hey, JB. JB, do you copy?
Hey, Fred, it's JB.
I'm just getting ready to get this hole punched down to bedrock
and just can't help but think about the fact that we're out here
running this mine by ourselves, man.
Yeah, it's just the two of us, isn't it?
The two of us have got to figure out right now
how to get this mine site up and running as quick as possible,
so we're pulling in gold...
here and get moving.
Right now, though, we're going to have to make-do with it and get this done.
Tests show the best pay is on the north side of the claim,
but it's underneath a 60-foot pile of overburden.
I've got this massive pile that has to go.
Last year, Fred's neighbors stripped overburden
from the south side of the cut to the north,
leaving a 50-foot pile of worthless dirt on the part of the cut
Fred believes, is rich in gold.
He must now get the excavator on top of the pile
to pull the overburden out of the cut and expose the pay beneath.
Oh, holy It looks even worse from up here.
This terrifies me.
But, uh, JB, you used to drive tank.
It's more challenging than it looks.
Well, don't take this the wrong way, I don't want to watch.
Now, as long as I don't turn these tracks sideways
- and start doing that over there. - I don't wanna...
- I don't even want to know. - I'm good.
- Sliding it straight down was all right. - I don't even want to know.
Good luck.
The issue is all thisoverburden that was pushed up
wasn't pushed far enough apart.
So we're losing a lot of our pay,
so all this soil needs to be pushed up.
In order for that to happen, he's going to have to get
the excavator up on top and start pulling it up.
Oh! Come on, baby.
Come on, let me climb this hill.
M1 Abrams, armored personnel carriers, M88, recovery,
all of them track-operated, that was, uh, what I did for several years.
Come on, baby.
This is what happens when you tell a Green Beret to get to the top of the hill.
He's going to get to the top of the hill.
I don't know if I would do this.
I'm getting it so doggone close.
Holy
Ah, come on, don't slide, don't slide.
Reach out far, reach out far. Yeah, yeah.
Quickly, you're starting to slide, get it down.
There we go. There we go.
Damn it!
Oh...
Damn it!
Oh...
Hoo-hoo!
Come on, baby.
We're going to get this doggone thing.
At Fred's California Creek claim, operator JB
battles to get the 28-ton excavator up a steep bank.
We got to get the excavator up here
so we can start doing his work.
Green Berets never quit.
Roger that.
That's got a good grip right there.
Yes.
Oh, yes! Yes!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Oh, baby! Come on, baby!
You're almost there, buddy.
Don't lose it.
Whoa, baby. Come on, we got it, we got it.
There we go. There we go. You're so close, dude.
I think I'm down.
Oh, yeah baby.
- Whoo! Whoo!
All right, JB. You did it, man.
I thought you were going to kill yourself.
Holy
Oh, my goodness.
That was a wild ride.
I need a break.
I got to get my heart rate down.
I'm proud, dude. That... that... that took a lot.
That was pretty good operating right there.
That was cool, man.
- I'm going to let you get to work. - Yeah, sounds good.
Let's do it. All right, brother.
Okay, buddy.
That's your last scoop there, we're going to shut her down.
Well, the night shift's over.
Just about 7:00 a.m., we were running for the last 12 hours
and we're pretty much out of pay.
On Parker Schnabel's airstrip cut,
wash plant Slucifer is running at half capacity.
I wish I had enough dirt right now that
I can have this plant running 24/7,
but that's just not in the cards yet.
Three days ago, foreman Mitch Blaschke was forced to shut down
the day shift when he ran out of thawed ground.
The shutdown has already cost Parker over $140,000 in lost gold.
What's happening, Tyson?
How's it going, Mitch?
Oh, it's a fight down here, I'll tell you what.
Yeah, man, we have to figure something out.
They need the ground to thaw before they can mine it.
Yeah, I know we can't keep up with it right now.
So Parker's made it really clear he doesn't want to turn it off.
I mean, the only thing we can do here is
kind of totally change our mining game plan.
You know, we were originally going to do this in, in three setups, right?
Yeah.
And we've got it split through here, this is one,
this was going to be two.
And then number three is all back in here.
I really think if he wants to keep it running,
the only thing we can do is come in here to cut two
and start trucking strips off, I mean, just all the way around the outside
and probably, we have to come across the whole floor
depending on how much thaw there is
and just start hauling that over to set up one.
So instead of taking it in three bites, we're pretty much going to be
making zone one and two one zone?
I mean, we just need more surface area, right?
Yeah.
Because if we're only getting a couple of inches of thaw a day
and this isn't enough, this is going to double the amount.
Mitch has divided the airstrip cut into three zones.
Each has been stripped of overburden, and as they mine each one out,
they plan to move the wash plant to keep it close to the pay.
Because zone one is frozen, he can only remove one inch of pay per day as it thaws,
so he must also open up zone two
to expose more ground to the sun to get enough thawed pay to the plant.
But this means he will have to truck pay twice
as far wasting time and doubling his fuel bill.
- Parker doesn't want to wait. - Yeah.
So if you just want to start, let's start pulling material off cut two.
We'll get the trucks down there
and we'll just start trucking it over
and hopefully, we can get enough dirt to keep Slucifer running.
Other than that, it's sit and wait.
And you and I both know that, that doesn't work for Parker.
It's up to us to put some gold on the table.
- Sounds good. Thanks, man. Yeah.
We've got all hands on deck down here at the airstrip today.
And when I say that, I mean it.
We've even got Parker Schnabel himself in a rock truck out here
and moving material and trying to get ahead of this thing down here.
You know, I think one of the toughest things about mining
is definitely just being away from home.
My daughter is a year-and-a-half now,
and you know, the only time I get to see her is about right before she goes to bed
is when I get back to the yard, get some reception there
and then I'm able make a phone call.
So, it's definitely not the same as, you know, being...
being together.
Quicker we get through all this ground means
the sooner I can get home, uh, to my wife and daughter.
We've been scratching around all morning
and we've been able to pull some thawed pay.
We've got a stockpile here,
we're ready to fire Slucifer back up.
The crew now has enough dirt stockpiled
to run Slucifer 24 hours a day.
And we worked on getting all the frozen areas exposed
so we can get this ground thawed and get it through the wash plant.
Tell you what, it's a good feeling to be washing rocks
and making some money.
We need everyone on the same page and everyone working as a team,
and that's exactly what we're doing right now.
Get that gold in the jar.
Hey, Fred.
I'm thinking, by Friday we can have...
most of this is going to be done.
We just need to go full steam ahead and push as hard as we can.
Fred Lewis and Green Beret JB Mayor are clearing overburden
to get down to pay dirt on Fred's 92 acre claim.
JB and I are just going to have to tag team off each other
and get this done.
After three days, they've stripped half of the area.
Tests showed it had the best gold.
Damn it!
Holy This entire ground is frozen.
This is going to take me forever.
This is gonna the entire season.
I'm going to have to do this to every piece of ground I have.
If I go a little deeper...
Nah!
Nope.
All right.
Hey, JB, uh, I need you to come over here, we got a major issue.
Roger that, Fred. I'm en route.
Dude.
Man, oh, man.
Check this out. This is permafrost.
This is definitely not frost.
Well, the biggest problem is the 220.
- This is to feed our wash plant. Yeah.
It doesn't, it doesn't have the power to get through this ice.
Wow.
And my thought was, we just get all this overburden out,
but it's taken me so long.
- I mean, it's solid ice, dude. - Look at that.
Holy cow.
This is the enemy right now.
Wow.
I mean, this ain't frost, bro.
This is like three feet of ice.
- Yeah. - This is permafrost.
I'm looking at this right now like a bank vault that we have to crack.
It's all over and we can't get it to any of the gold.
I'm not kidding. I could hear you just slamming that ice, man.
That's incredible.
I mean, we need a dozer.
And the only thing I can think of is Brendan has a dozer.
I think we're going to have to go meet the neighbors, man.
Maybe convince him to let us borrow it.
Yeah, sounds good.
- We'll make it happen. - You got it, dude.
ground.
You know, I'm not going to lie right now, I'm pretty pissed off.
Uh, we don't have the right tools to hit this creek
and I've got to crawl to the neighbors and hopefully,
win over some hearts and minds.
But at this point, this is my only option.
I'm not letting this ground declare war on me and not fighting back.
How's it going?
- Hey. - Hey.
22-year-old Brendan Clayton has mined the ground
next door to Fred's claim for the last five years.
- Maybe you could help me out a little bit. - Yeah, shoot it away.
Right now, the big question I have is permafrost.
Okay.
- Seems to me that that place is completely frozen. - You're froze out.
It's not happening. But I see you have a dozer.
I do. I do have a dozer. Yes.
So, um, I hate to be the neighbor that comes
and ask for a favor right off the bat,
but maybe you guys would let us borrow it.
- Now, I don't have a good budget... - Right.
I don't want to be a freeloader, so I'm kind of along the lines
of thinking of a bartering system
or something I can help you guys out with.
Well, I could use your rock truck probably here,
and maybe we could do some trading and figure it out.
Okay, yeah. I could definitely offer my rock truck
if you could let me use your dozer.
I'll help you out if you help me out, that's perfect.
- Sounds like a deal to me. Sounds like a deal. - Appreciate it, brother.
- Well, can we look at your dozer? - She's over there.
- Let's go have a look. - Yeah, yeah.
How old is it?
Uh, 2008.
Oh, yeah.
She's a beast.
Here we go.
All right, pretty cool. This is pretty much, uh, saving my day right now.
The D8 has a five-foot ripper shank
designed to tear through concrete.
Coming home, JB.
- Hey, I see you. - Yeah.
Look what I got. - Whoo-hoo!
He's letting us borrow it.
We're going to owe him some stuff in return.
That's a beast.
We only have it for a few days, so you and me...
Let's make it happen. -...we're going to be working nonstop.
We've got 24 hours of daylight, so.
- Exactly. - Yeah.
I'm going to get to work. - All right. Right-o.
Right now, we're severely shorthanded.
A mine site is not meant to be run by two dudes.
We can't do this all alone.
We need the extra guys up here,
but trying to throw a quick right hook with this permafrost.
We're coming back swinging.
Round two's going to us,
and we're going to keep throwing punches, so we're pretty stoked to be out here
right now with my boy, JB, two Green Berets
running a mine site, no big deal.
This is how it's supposed to be.
Preparation for-- everything goes to Scribner, to the engine.
Tony Beets is on the brink of
reopening his Indian River operation, a move that could
earn him almost ten million dollars this season.
In anticipation of his water permit being issued today,
Tony's sending truckloads of equipment to the claim.
Right in the sand, eh?
Couldn't have done it any better.
I don't know how much piece of equipment we're going to move.
We already got three holes in Indian, there are three rock trucks
already in the Indian, so it keeps adding up and adding up
till Tony says it's enough.
Tony, do you copy?
Hey, you want to come to the office,
we need to call the water board.
After two years of waiting for his license to be approved,
it's the moment of truth.
What did they say?
Oh, lord.
And you're moving all the... the equipment as well.
No.
Well...
I know.
Yeah. I know.
Well, I'll talk to the kids.
I mean, they're going to be disappointed as well.
Yeah.
Bye.
Just hours ago, the King of the Klondike
was poised for a record season,
now, his plans have been blown apart.
Well, yes.
Come on, internet.
Hi.
What's going on, chiggy?
Is that dad?
Man, she looks like she's getting bigger every day.
She is.
It is so crazy.
Yeah.
She learns new things every day.
Well, I wish I was there, babe.
I know. I'm glad we're able to FaceTime.
We miss you a lot.
Yeah, she definitely doesn't like to sit still.
All right, babe. Well, I can tell you got your hands full.
We miss you.
I miss you, too.
Can you wave bye?
Oh, yeah. There we go.
- Bye. - We love you.
Well, you know, it's not much, it's a blurry, you know, video chat,
but it's definitely a whole lot better than not seeing them.
And, you know, we got a lot of work to do here,
uh, but it's nice to know everything is going good at home
and, uh, just can't wait to get home and,
and see my wife and my daughter.
We're one day closer.
Whoo-hoo! I'm gonna do some donuts.
We've broken up all the permafrost we need,
that's no longer an issue, which is fantastic.
Three days ago, Fred Lewis and his one-man crew
hit permafrost and borrowed a dozer from his neighbor to rip it,
now, four acres of pay is almost ready to run.
This is really great of Brandon to let me use it.
Definitely was not expecting to get this much work done
in this short period of time with this dozer.
So this is an absolute game changer
and, uh, I'm not going to lie, it's pretty much saved our season.
Job done.
Whoo!
What's up?
What is up, JB?
We're getting it done, man.
How fun is this, huh?
- Man, it's great. - Two dudes in a mine, all by ourselves.
- Man, it's awesome. - Yeah, yeah.
But I think, like, we've... we've definitely gotten a good handle of this,
- but we need more men. - Yeah.
I've got... I've got two guys I'm working on getting up here.
Um, I don't know if you remember Stuart from last season.
Yeah, yeah. Pretty much the only guy that's coming back this year.
Okay. Yeah.
Uh, he's a really great dude, probably one of my most loyal friends, hard worker.
Yeah.
Um, then I'm bringing my son up, Christopher.
He's... he's 21, just got out of the army.
Kind of has a chip on his shoulder.
He's a hard worker.
- Yeah, he just got a lot to learn. - Can he take orders from you?
That's the question.
Yeah, I don't know, but I feel like, uh, push him a little bit,
give him some leadership skills, and give us a chance
to work as a family, too, it'd be kind of cool, but...
- Yeah, I look forward to meeting him. - Oh, you're going to like him.
You're going to like him, but I'm going to try to mobilize these guys
and get them up here as soon as possible, because...
Sounds good. Yeah. Good deal.
Hey, Dozer.
Are you on a golf ball hunt?
How are you doing, young man?
Fine.
There's Dozer on a golf ball hunt.
You might as well hit him a ball, huh?
At Scribner Creek, the Schnabel crew gathers for the weekly gold weigh.
What's happening, boys?
Hey, Mitchell. - Howdy?
How's it going?
I guess it all depends on how much gold you tell me we have.
That's going to depend on how good we're doing.
Yeah.
Let's go weigh some gold.
Sounds good.
Let's see what you got.
With Mud Mountain still not stripped,
Parker is dependent on the gold Mitch and Tyson
mined out at the airstrip cut to pay his bills.
But the plant was down for 36 hours.
Let's go ahead and count it out, Mitch.
All right.
So we're hoping for over 200 with our runtime.
Okay.
All right, we got 20, 50,
a 100, 120,
150, 180,
200, 220,
234.60.
Worth over $420,000,
and beating the season average by 23 ounces.
Well, that's not bad, especially, when you take out in layers.
I like it being consistent, that's good.
- Yeah. - Exactly 2.2 ounces an hour almost.
And that's roughly what we were doing last year.
Yeah.
That's some good-looking gold, Chris.
- Very clean... I did clean it.
So another 230 ounces in this clean up,
what's that take us to for the season?
So we're about 656.45 ounces.
Nice.
We're getting there, you know.
If you guys can... I know you're battling.
I was trying to remember when the last time I sat in a rock truck was,
and it made me, kind of, it made me miss being in machines a bit, but...
That was pretty awesome you jumped in there and helped, man.
- We needed it. - Alrighty.
- Let's put this away. Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
You know, over 200 ounces and now we had some struggles this week,
lots of frozen ground, we had all hands on deck.
We even had Parker Schnabel himself out in a rock truck.
And if that's what it takes to put gold on the table, that's what we're going to do.
So what's the news? What's happening? What's the latest?
Seriously?
And nothing.
- Well, it's meant to be. I don't know. - Yeah.
Can we weigh some gold, please?
Yeah, this much.
Yep.
His 9000 ounce goal is history.
But just to pay for the equipment he bought,
Tony needs over 200 ounces a week.
Y'all ready?
Okay.
10, 20,
40, 50, 70, 80,
90, 100,
120, 130, 160,
180, 190, 200,
210, 220, 225,
227.34 troy ounces.
It's not too shabby.
Worth over $400,000
and a 100 ounces more than last week.
Like dad says, better than nothing.
- Well, it's not more but it'll pay some bills.
Yeah, I don't think it makes a little dent.
Yep.
Make it happening?
Okay, we'll see you guys in...
It sucks about the Indian, though.
At least, the one good thing is
the gold ain't going anywhere.
We will somehow make up here, down the hill, I guess.
Well, you don't have a choice, you just keep plowing through it.
I'm not going to lay awake from it, let me put it to you.
I know...
I don't think there's much that'll keep you up at night.
No, there's isn't very much that does that to me anyway.
I could keep him up at night.
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