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their efforts to overcome the struggles. >> now, before i come to you, andrew, we have a part from the film of one of the stories that you guys told, one of the boys' stories you told.ç let's listen to a little of that. >> this is dylan mcsorley. you might not know me but i'm your son with shannon arnold. just would like to see you sometime and stuff but i'll be in orleans friday, if you would like to come, i'm playing basketball with medora high school. >> this is about a lot more than basketball. that's just heartwrenching stuff. this town i mentioned in the beginning, this is a town that just struggled economically, it's struggling overall, it's struggling to stay up with the times. it's struggling to keep its kids there, struggling obviously on a
>> i want to -- we got about a minute left. this is important. the kids obviously are the centerpiece in both heartwrenching and kind of an inspiring way. what do these kids want? do they want what any kid from any town in america wants, what i wanted growing up which is to star on my basketball team? what is it that you guys -- you weren't there for two weeks. you were there for a year. you know these families in some do these kids really w out of their high school life and their life more broadly? what do they hope for? what can they hope for? >> it's something i talked a lot with kids like dylan and rusty rogers and robbie armstrong. i think what they want is opportunity. these are great kids who are just passionate kids. they fight so hard to overcome some really great odds that are stacked against them and they want the chances that people have anywhere. they're hard workers.