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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 don't 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: i'm definitel...

Create something like a lemon pie and you don't 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 we're harvesting in west virginia, and what's west virginia seeing from that? probably a guy that got about $2 a pou...

>> it's 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 everybody's labor rights. >> man: i can't 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. you're all standing up anyway. >> anthony: the drug companies? >> elaine: nine million pills in kermit, west virginia over two years. one ph...

>> alan: the town of welch, when it was booming, the sidewalks were so crowded there would be traffic backed up like a mile. you couldn't 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...

>> that's why you've 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 there's 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 non-negotiable runs deep here. >> anthony: everybody's backyard look like this? >> ashley mc...