You look at that scoreboard, and that should burn in your heart. Do you understand me . We got some ground to make up. And once we make that ground up, well take off. Lets go. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la anthony new york city, where i live. And its easy to think, having lived here nearly all my life, that this is what america looks like, thinks like, that the things that are important to me are important to everybody. That every place else is out there. Unthinkable, maybe even unknowable. [ rain falling ] [ water rushing ] [ birds chirping ] anthony 600 miles away from midtown manhattan is Mcdowell County, West Virginia. Another america. In the mind of many of my fellow new yorkers the heart of god, guns, and trump country. The existential enemy. There is a place on gods creation a place of beauty beyond compare some people say its almost heaven look for me youll find me there alan johnson my daddy always told me, you know those tornados and hurricanes, they cant get to us. Were down in these mountains, down in the holler, and these mountains protect us. Here, if youre going to see the sky, you gotta look up. You can find me on the highest mountain you can find me in the black coal mines anthony to think about, much less empathize with somebody who comes from five generations of coal miners, in a place that looks like this, is to our enduring shame, unthinkable. Why cant these coal miners get retrained, maybe put up solar panels for a living . Why would these conservative, deeply religious people vote for a thricemarried billionaire new yorker . Well, i went to West Virginia, and you know what . Screw you. Here in the heart of every belief system ive ever mocked or fought against, i was welcomed with open arms by everyone. I found a place both heartbreaking and beautiful. A place that symbolizes, contains everything wrong, and everything wonderful and hopeful about america. Anthony the town of welch, known in its glory days as little new york. Josh welch is a very rural area. I mean, its an hour away from walmart. I mean, if that tells you anything. Its a real old, historic town, built in the 1800s. Anthony the American Dream in miniature. A place where generations of immigrants and dreamers could work and lift up their family. Alan the town of welch, when it was booming, the sidewalks were so crowded there would be traffic backed up like a mile. You couldnt find a place to park. We had three hospitals, had a taxi cab stand, had, like, three jewelry stores. It was just a wonderful place. Anthony the rest of the country took a lot of money out of these hills over the decades. Billions and billions of dollars. And when it became cheaper, or more convenient to pull the coal we needed to power our electrical grids, and to make our steel elsewhere, this is what was left behind. But this is not a poverty porn show. Do not pity the people here, who despite what you may think, are not unrealistic about a return to the glory days of coal and better times. Linda mckinney i drank coffee from the time i could walk. They put coffee in your bottle. Coffee or wine. [ laughter ] Anthony Linda mckinney is a true daughter of appalachia. She raised her children here. Lindas husband, bob mckinney, is a longtime mine safety inspector. Anthony now your family is originally from naples, is that right . Linda yes. Anthony naples area . Linda came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coalmines. My mother died when i was five, so we went to live with my nonna, and the first day i was there she pulled me up to a cook stove. This is a dish that my nonna cooked during hunting season, with squirrels. These arent squirrels. This is chicken. Anthony dinner is a not untypical expression of Hard Scrabble appalachian practicality linda now i dont measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. Anthony and neapolitan roots. Linda basil. Anthony home kitchen gardens, hunting, and gathering. Linda these my dad would call pisellis, its peas. Mm, making mama dance. [ laughter ] now, this is what im famous for in these parts. Have you ever had spaghetti pizza . No, you havent. Dont say you have. [ laughter ] the tomato sauce was made with joels tomatoes at the food bank. We harvested those yesterday and i made all the spaghetti sauce. Anthony nearby, joel runs an organic hydroponic farm that supplies the local school system. Sarah slone the people here are very good. Theyd give you the shirt off their back. Come together in times of tragedy or anything. Anthony christian values means something here. They are practiced on the street and in the home. Linda most of youve all got your potatoes, right . Anthony linda runs 5 loaves 2 fishes, a food bank that holds many of the lives here together during tough times. 16,000 people walk through these doors annually, in a county of 20,000. Bob gracious god, we just thank you for this day that were able to give food out again, this is not a regular giveout. Watch over us and protect us, help us to keep cool heads. Father, we pray over the food were about to eat, for the nourishment our body is blessed, in the name of christ, amen. Group amen. Linda this is our home. We love it here. Were very close to our church. Everybody knows everybody. Theyre all dying now, but were still hanging on, arent we, honey . Bob yeah. [ laughter ] anthony was there any sizable, italianamerican community here . Linda oh, yes, a lot of immigrants from Different Countries came here. Anthony still . How large . Linda no. Weve gone from what, 100,000 down to about 10,000. Bob down to about 10,00012,000. Joel in the county itself, as of the last census, so. Anthony those are some grim statistics. Linda yes. Anthony the coal that came out of this area built america, right . Linda yes. Bob Mcdowell County alone was called the billiondollar coal field. And the people that were in charge at the time didnt take advantage of all that money in case something did happen to the coal mine. Justin the cool thing is that West Virginia is developing a strong Entrepreneur Movement that a lot of people dont know about. Like with joey, he started a hydroponic growing. I mean, not blaming others for their problems, just trying to solve their own. A lot of people, its really doing a lot of good that we dont hear about. Linda this is our pumpkin pie cake. Have you ever had a pumpkin pie cake . Joel you probably wont like it, so ill take your spot. [ laughter ] bob we got spoiled. The last coal mines i worked at i made base salary was 94,000 a year. I also taught Vocational School and most of the kids i had said, well, i dont need this. Im going to go in the coal mines. Jina theres just an education piece there now that were trying to instill in some of the people that still have the mentality that coal is king. They dont leave off the hill from us until about 7 00 after practice, so they go through a lot. Anthony how many generations of coal in your family . Coach mike at least five. Anthony wow. Anthony coach Mike Anderson is second in command. Coal in anybody elses family . Yeah . Cole like trash man, thats a real common job in my family. Coach larry dont feel bad. Trash men make more money than teachers do, chavez. Anthony fred fat back minco, micah woogie mclaughlin, and cole chavo anderson are in many ways typical mount view players and students with the hopes and dreams of, well, any other high school students. Anthony homecoming. Coach larry it is. Anthony how big a deal is football in general, and this game, and what you guys do . Coach you know, a lot of these kids understand that there are not a lot of resources here. Before you can kind of feel the dreariness that kind of lingered around the community. But now, you know, with these boys winning, the work ethic theyre putting in, you can feel the support. You know, like, we did a few Community Outreach programs this summer. We went down to the park and they painted, and they feel it, they feel that sense of pride. Anthony how has this Football Program changed your life . Micah it gives me something to do to stay out of trouble. Coach mike some of these guys have changed 100 . They had no guidance, no discipline. They have outside forces that could be pulling them in a different direction. And they know how that life is going to go for them. And as a team in here relying on each other, their limits are out of this world. Anthony now in the past, you could get into high School Pretty sure that you were going to make big money working in coal. You dont have that kind of guarantee now. What do you see yourself doing in ten years . Fred journalism. Anthony journalism . Micah in ten years, i hope to be studying my phd and be a mechanical engineer. Anthony mechanical engineer . Micah yes, sir. Cole im definitely going to be a neuropsychologist. Anthony neuropsychologist . Cole yup. Anthony whats tougher, life or football . Group life, definitely. Micah theres no halftime in life. Theres no timeouts, theres no none of that. Fred that was a really good insight. [ laughter ] anthony love thy brother is one thing thats all well and good. But these guys want to win. They need to win. And everyone will be watching. But allstate actually helps you drive safely. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. 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The traditions of this place, the things we value whether they be family, interpersonal communication, not having cellphone technology to distract us, those types of thingssert sort of but up against americas progress and its why weve always been looked at as being backwards. It was always too easy to come gawk at West Virginia. Lazy depictions of stereotypical West Virginiaens, hillbillies and hicks to be pitied and made objects of laughter and derision. Youre going to see dirty faced kids barefoot on a front porch shaking linden b. Johnsons hand. Theres a lot more to appalachia than that. The accompanying press portraying the year as an incapable and bewildered helpless mass missed the basic character, the pride and selfrelying core of the people here. That damage is lasting. When you come in and keep tell s us how poor, fat, how all these things are, i think weve all felt at some point shame. What should people know about this area that they dont know theyre not getting . Its just how much that people in this area have been exploited. Nick the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. The coal and Timber Companies that started extracting and taking everybodys labor rights. Man i cant fight a big coal company, they got too much money. Elaine politicians from dc that can make a quick day trip down here and get a good sound bite. Trump who is a miner in this group . Who is stand up. Youre all standing up anyway. Anthony the Drug Companies . Elaine nine million pills in kermit, West Virginia over two years. One pharmacy, nine million pills. Anthony in a town with 372 people. I dont think people understand just how genuine and wonderful the people are in these mountains. You cannot talk about West Virginia without talking about coal, and coal is a complex issue here. And coal is a complex issue here. Tied into the cell tissue and family pride of the people who have worked in the mines for generations. Robie that coal mine is something else, you know, you gotta take care of yourself in there. Patrick graham that fan is blowing about 200,000 cubic feet of air into the mine. Fresh air. Robie when you go into that mine you dont know when you gonna live to see outside again. Patrick today, were going about 5,000 feet. Anthony 5,000 feet deep . Patrick yeah, oh yeah. [ thumping ] its a little bumpy ride in places. Anthony pat graham is the foreman at the pay car mine in kimball. Patrick watch your head. Patrick yeah. The average wage of a miner is 60 greater than the average wage of all labors in the united states. Thats pretty phenomenal. Its easy to see why people in Mcdowell County want mining jobs. Anthony im staying in a town nearby, welch. Theres no bar. Miner most of us just go get the beer, and head back on top of the ridge and drink it. Anthony wow. Miner 2 in the name of the father, wed like to gather here to thank you for this opportunity to support our families. Please watch after us, keep us safe while were underground working. Amen. Group amen. Patrick what do you got . Man 3 bear meat and chicken. Anthony oh, damn. Patrick i may just put my sandwich back here if you got bear meat. Anthony thats delicious. Do you think the country as a whole, do you think they understand the coal business at all . What coal mining is about . Richard no. Anthony they dont understand at all. Patrick when you travel from new york to here, whether youre on a boat, plane, train, or in the sky or driving on a car, its because of a mine. Anthony mining causes damage to the environment. Of this, there is no doubt. But what cannot be grown, must be mined. There aint no cellphones, for instance, without mines somewhere. Anthony does anybody think its going to come back, big time, like 30 years ago . Miner my personal opinion . Every time a republican is in there it goes up. Anthony right. [ laughter ] this used to be a solidly democratic state. What do you think made trump attractive . A city slicker, three times married. Richard thats easy for me. Hilary shows up here and she openly said shes going to put a lot of coal miners out of work. Wrong answer. Anthony how many kids you got . Miner i got three. Patrick six. Anthony if you saw your kids had other options, would you recommend that they join the Family Business . Group no sir. Anthony you would say no. Richard id about guarantee that everybody here, their dad who worked in the coal mines, probably told their son, dont go into the coal mines. Miner 2 thats what i was told. And thats what i told mine. Anthony yeah. Richard youre going to tell them, no, dont do it. But you know, if they do, youre going to be proud. Im proud. From the stickers we put on our buckets, from the stickers we put on our hats, to my coffee mug there, passed down. If i dont mess that thing up, if my son goes into the mines, thats going to be his. 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Early in the morning when the sun does rise layin in the bed with bloodshot eyes run me raggin but i dont fret cause there aint been one that slow me down none yet get me drinking that moonshine get me higher than the grocery bill take my troubles to the highwall throw em in the river and get your fill lord its a mighty hard livin but a damn good feelin to run these roads anthony so these things have to be durable to say the least . I mean, youre pounding the hell out of them. Adam ringer actually built to be indestructible. Anthony indestructible . Adam yeah, thats the plan. [ cheers ] joe pierce well, i guess we broke it. Anthony this bat shit crazy, vertical mad max drag race come Demolition Derby is called rock bouncing. Anthony keep my neck from bouncing around too much. Adam yeah and what its actually designed for is major collisions and it keeps your head from tearing off your body. Anthony adam ringer is a native son, jack of many trades, and a man whos all too happy to spend a day trashing some hills just to show me a good time. That moonshine get me higher than the grocery bill lord its a mighty hard livin but a damn good feelin to run these roads mo so that was pretty bad ass. [ laughter ] Eric Williams you got your frog legs, turtle patties. Anthony Eric Williams is a hunter and trapper who caught most of this meal wading waist deep in the swamp on his property. Eric you ever ate snapping turtle . Anthony oh, im not missing that. Eric smallmouthed bass, catfish barbecued and fried. Anthony wow, what a spread. Anthony trail riding, atvs, off roading, and the supporting industries are an up and coming thats why youve got to have a lot of horsepower. But too much power can get you in trouble also. Oh, yeah. House power is always good. Key to success but always fun. Mike hopefully you can come back and try the barbie jeep thing. Anthony guns are a fact of life around here. Whether as a means to defend your isolated home, get yourself dinner when theres no place else to get it, or just for the fun of shooting stuff. The feeling that gun ownership is an absolute right, immutable, and nonnegotiable runs deep here. Anthony everybodys backyard look like this . Ashley mcmillion ours does. Anthony justin and Ashley Mcmillion are the nice couple next door. [ rapid fire ] if unusually, heavilyarmed. Justin mcmillion our muzzle break is the only kind that actually reduces recoil, muzzle rise, and flash. Anthony they own jmac customs, a Home Business that designs and builds custom weapons and parts. Justin so this keeps you on target, makes sure that youre safe while youre shooting. Justin 3, 2, 1. [ rapid fire ] anthony now, to be clear, these are fully automatic firearms. They cannot be purchased legally by individuals anywhere. But as theyre in the business, these guys can apply for special, highlyvetted atf licenses for purposes of Product Development and testing. Anthony that was just really that was a lot of fun. Im a child, what can i say . Ashley who wants to blow up pumpkins . Justin just mixed up a binary explosive. Justin 3, 2, 1. [ rapid fire ] anthony whatever you feel about gun rights there is an undeniable visceral thrill to blowing shit up. People who like guns like them for a reason. Justin thats a whole lot of america right there. Anthony its not mine. [ laughter ] chef two choices venison or beef, with or without cheese. Anthony venison and cheese. Chef venison and cheese. Ashley yeah. Anthony wow, nice selection. Ashley only way to go. Anthony so everybody born and bred here . Chase ive lived in canada for a long time. I stayed in england for quite a while. Sweden for quite a while. No matter how long im gone, i always come back. Cant just load the jeep up with a bunch of guns and stay out there for seven days and, you know, you cant really do that anywhere else. Justin thats probably one of the greatest things about West Virginia. You know, we can enjoy whatever we want to enjoy. Im not trying to force my opinions on anybody else. That being said, we will defend ours. Ashley yeah, we will. Anthony i was guessing. Ashley yeah. Anthony i grew up in an environment, you see somebody at the super market carrying a hand gun, that would be cause for red alert. Do you think there can be Common Ground between somebody who grew up absolutely thinking guns are a bad thing . Justin i say no. Anthony okay, youre an honest man, i appreciate it. Justin im a responsible gun owner, why should i be crippled in what im able to do as far as protecting my family . Anthony look, i hear you. But theres a fair number of people in this world who are just, you know, too dumb to pour piss out of a boot. [ laughter ] i mean 90 old drivers in florida, they still got their license, but should they be driving . Ashley right. Greg a few years ago, my father was involved in a shooting at his pharmacy that he works at. Man came in, he had a weapon, my dad conceal carries. He has a license to conceal carry. He drew his weapon and fired. If they take guns away from lawabiding citizens, then its just going to be the criminals that have it. Anthony it should be pointed out, it has to be pointed out, faced head on, that shortly after we filmed here, a gunman in las vegas with a perfectly legal weapon fired off 1100 rounds in 10 minutes, wounding 422 people and killing 58. Shortly after that, 17 students were murdered in parkland, florida with legally purchased semiautomatic rifle. And the list goes on, with victims of Mass Shootings that have happened since this conversation measure in the hundreds. So there is that to think about too. Anthony i dont know whether the Founding Fathers anticipated the kind of firepower that were playing with today. We live in a different world. Anthony there are the nice people next door who like guns, and nfortunately, there seems to be a whole lot of people who arent nice at all. [ indistinct conversation ] [ gunfire ] [screaming ] painting be done. And stay done. Behr, ranked 1 in Customer Satisfaction with interior paints, and keeps all your doing done. Great paint, new low price. Starting at 24. 98. Exclusively at the home depot. Shaving has been difficult for me. I have very sensitive skin, and i get ingrowing hairs. So its a daunting task. Oh i love it. Its a great razor. It has that fence in the middle. It gives a nice smooth shave. Just stopping that irritation. That burn that i get is really life changing. Wow. We did it. We built the Fastest Network for the latest iphones. And the iphone xr, with a retina display that makes everything look incredible. Its like the perfect couple you know, the ones who look great in every picture. Like the ones who always make me feel like a before photo. Zoey and chris. Hey guys hey. Zoey and chris . How fun is that . At t has the fastestnetwork for the latest iphones. Get the mind blowing iphone xr on us when you buy the latest iphone. At t. More for your thing. Thats our thing. Anthony lola cline is a single mother of four children. And in many ways, emblematic of both the difficulties and inherent strengths of people around here. Anthony where do you find them . Trees or on the ground . Lola trees. Anthony mostly up in the trees. Lola squirrels are more like its a waiting game. Find us a place and see and watch for movement. Anthony she and her best friend, leshawna huff, hunt together, raise kids together, and do their best to get by in a changing world that can get very hard. Anthony when did you first go hunting, how old were you . Lola my grandpa took me when i was about six. I just love this place. Drema lester my mom, she used to cook squirrel gravy. Anthony lolas neighbors name may be drema lester, but everybody here calls her ma. Drema 58 years, i was born and raised here. Producer you ever think about leaving . Drema no. Anthony biscuit. Leshawna homemade biscuits, homemade gravy. Lola fried taters. Anthony fried potatoes, excellent. Leshawna dear lord, we come to you this day to thank you for this food and bless the hands that fixed this food. And thank you for each and every living day. Amen. Group amen. Drema and thank you for letting us meet more friends. Lola yes. Anthony well thank you for having me. Anthony youre working on a farm nearby, is that right . Lola yes. After strip mines are done here, the lands usually just useless. So, were trying to make a purpose. Pumpkins, watermelon, were just trying to figure out what will grow on it. Anthony so there is life after coal . Lola theres life after coal. So what do you think about that squirrel . Anthony oh man, its good. Lola its good, aint it . Anthony thank you. Drema they call it wild and wonderful West Virginia. Anthony it is. And, your girls are how old . Lola my girls are nine, eight, six, and three. Anthony taught any of them to shoot yet . Lola yeah, all of them can shoot. Anthony all of them . Lola all of them. They think their mommy is a big hero, too, cause she killed that big buck last year. Anthony yeah. How big was this thing . Lola 250, it weighed 250 lbs. Anthony you dragged that thing out of the woods yourself . Lola mhmm. Anthony dress it . Lola yes. Anthony cook it . Lola yup. Leshawna we dont rely on nobody. Lola yup, there aint nothing i cant do, and if i dont know how to do it, ill learn were not a bunch of pregnant women barefooted with no teeth. I got all mine, you see . Anthony whats the best thing about living in this area and whats the worst thing . Leshawna the best thing is the people here. Lola theres probably nobody in these hollows that i couldnt go say, hey, im hungry, would you fix me a sandwich . anthony and worse thing . Drema see somebody thats on pills. Or drunk. Or out here just fighting. Anthony what can you do . Drema pray for them. Thats all we can do. Oh, eliza oh, eliza little liza jane low battery sound. Do you want a charge . Yeah battery charging. Thank you so much. Battery charging. Mike costello these right here, theyre called woodmetal. Theyve got a really nice, kind of aromatic quality to them. With the pawpaws, its better if you can kind of like feel them, see if theyre ripe. Anthony americas forgotten fruit, the pawpaw. Forgotten when most americans stopped going to the forest for their food. But in West Virginia, they were never forgotten. Mike so thats a pawpaw ice cream with some candied wildflowers, and then this is an oldfashioned vinegar pie. Its in a class of pies called desperation pies that try to create Something Like a lemon pie and you dont have lemon juice. What do you do . Put some vinegar and some nutmeg together and you get that same kind of tang. Anthony appalachia has a rich and deep culinary culture. Increasingly fetishized, riffed on, appropriated for the genteel tastes of a hipster elite willing to pay big bucks for what used to be, and still is in many cases, the food of poverty. Mike we see that ramps are selling for 30 a pound in new york city that were harvesting in West Virginia, and whats West Virginia seeing from that . Probably a guy that got about 2 a pound. Emily hillard it becomes just another extractive industry like coal or timber. And you sort of start to see that anthony thats the story of West Virginia. Emily yeah. Anthony chef Mike Costello and partner amy dawson are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciate it, and paying off locally for the region it originated in. Lost creek farm is their place. And the nucleus of that effort is the garden. Amy we have two different varieties that we are picking today. The one are the logan giants. Lou this seed is logan giant seed. Theyre an heirloom strain of beans and ive had these seeds for 40 years. Ive saved these for 40 years. Mike this guy down at the end of the table, lou, is in his 90s, he said its important for somebody to carry on these traditions, and gave me his stock of heirloom beans this year. Anthony this is what heirloom looks like outside of holy foods. Bloody butcher corn, fat horse beans, candy roaster squash and homer fikes yellow ox heart tomatoes. Mike nice and soft and its like a really sweet green tomato. Anthony these ingredients define a near lost time and flavor. Mike weve got some sweet corn chowder. Next, weve got these crackers, theyre broken communion wafers. You know, the way that appalachian food has always worked is you work within your means and you create something pretty special out of what you have at your disposal. Weve kind of suffered from this in a way. It created this sort of rush towards the middle class and a rush toward the perception that were better than the food that we used to have to eat. John jennings yeah, i think we were taught a lot to be embarrassed of our, you know, hillbilly past, you know . I remember coming home from school and my dad having hogs head on the Kitchen Table making headcheese and sauce like, i wouldve been mortified if somebody came over and saw that. Josh bennett a friend of mines grandmother once told me, you know we used to make this cause we were poor, now me make it cause its effing good. [ laughter ] anthony oh, whats that . Mike this is some buttermilk fried rabbit, rabbit that we raise here at the farm. Anthony oh, yes. Mike a little bit of chow chow, some fresh maple syrup. Mike is it gross that we slaughter rabbits right behind us . Anthony yeah. Anthony oh, which am i drinking here . The old school cider . Josh we actually came across a recipe from 1822 with elderberry and cider. And um, its a native plant here so, we put a little bit in there to see what it would do and it came out wonderful. Anthony youre using only West Virginia apples . Josh i am only using West Virginia apples. Anthony that cant be costeffective. Josh its not. It can and cant be. Anthony nobody is talking about money at this table. [ laughter ] josh this is another thing for me. We are often talked about as being this impoverished state. We are rich, i mean, as could be, in food and the things that we make as a culture and as a community. Mike you know you look at something as simple as these pole beans. It took a community to save that seed. You know every time we put food on the plate, theres a story about the way that people have always kind of bound together to survive. 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Homecoming. The Summers County bobcats versus the mount view Golden Knights. And for the citizens of welch, and Mcdowell County, this is a very big deal indeed. [ laughter ] anthem singer what so proudly we hailed. Anthony Everybody Knows everybody elses families, asks after their kids by name, mixed couples are common. Theres an easy familiarity between people here. Announcer the 2017 Mount View High School homecoming queen is [ cheers and applause ] coach larry bang, bang on three. One, two, three. Team bang, bang. Coach larry get there [ cheers and applause ] anthony so very much West Virginia tradition. Coal mining and the military. Monica barner yeah, for 10 and a half years, navy. We don been around about. Anthony youve been around. And back here . Monica back here. Anthony monica barner is a mount view alum. Her husband sly is a coach. Her sons elijah and eliki are on the team. Her daughter alicyia is a cheerleader. So its personal for her. Monica born and raised here, went to school here, wouldnt have it any other way. Coach come on, man. Announcer a 78 yard run. Monica come on. [ cheers ] monica oh my. Come on boys get your head in the game. Anthony garnet edwards jr. Is a former mount view player who went on to play college ball. Garnet in this state of West Virginia, we got two things going on for us. Thats church and sports. Now if we lose the game, its like losing our best friend. Monica come on, boys. Right here, stop him. Stop him. Garnet shucks. Announcer pass is complete, for the score. Announcer so we come to the end of the first half, the bobcats 20, the Golden Knights nothing. Coach larry fellas. I just want you to play hard. I just want you to play hard and make smart decisions. Daddy worked like a mule mining pike county coal he messed up his back and couldnt work anymore he said one of these days youll get out of these hills daddy, ive been trying i just cant catch a break theres too much in this world i cant seem to shake [ cheers ] announcer touchdown. Monica there you go. Coach larry lets go, lets go. See the ways of the world will just bring you to tears keep the lord in your heart youll have nothing to fear live the best that you can and dont lie and dont steal coach larry its time to turn up and go to another level fellas. Its time. Lets go. Keep your nose on the grindstone and out of those pills daddy, ive been trying i just cant catch a break theres too much in this world i cant seem to shake coach larry there you go announcer touchdown coach larry this is the game. We win or lose on this play. [ cheers ] coach larry oh, shit. [ cheers ] [ cheers ] coach larry hell of a job, young man. Coach larry youre never going to forget this ball game. Whenever youre in a bind, stuck in a corner, you know what im saying . Fight through it. Fight your way out of it. And anything you do in life, in school, in football. As long as you got me and these coaches, this community, thats all you need. Team yeah sarah slone i grew up here, got married here. Its home. Mom oh my goodness, there he is. Im so proud of you. Dad so proud, so proud. Anthony what are any of our hopes and dreams . A roof over our heads, some security, maybe even some happiness for our children. We all have that in common. Richard rushbrook i wish yall could come down here and see us, and when yall do, i hope yall enjoy it. Anthony this is america. And if you cant embrace it, no matter how bitterly and fiercely we may disagree, there is no hope for any of us. Carlton ive been living here 65 years. I wouldnt trade it for nothing. I guess ill be here til they cut the lights out. Player mount view on three. One two, three. 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