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♪ [ radio chatter ] ♪ >> patrick: today, we're going about 5,000 feet. >> anthony: 5,000 feet deep? >> patrick: yeah, oh yeah. [ thumping ] >> anthony: pat graham is the foreman at the pay car mine in kimball. >> anthony: so this is for steel? >> patrick: yeah. the average wage of a miner is 60% greater than the average wage of all labors in the united states. that's pretty phenomenal. it's easy to see why people in mcdowell county want mining jobs. ♪

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. >> anthony: dinner is a not untypical expression of hard scrabble appalachian practicality -- >> linda: now i don't measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. >> anthony: -- and neapolitan roots. >> linda: these my dad would call pisellis, it's peas. mm, making mama dance....

Pumpkins? ♪ >> justin: just mixed up a binary explosive. ♪ some are small, and some are big. >> 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: that's a whole lot of america right there. >> anthony: it's not mine. [ laughter ] >> chef: two choices: venison or beef, with or without cheese. >> anthony: venison and d chees. >> chef: venison and cheese. >> ashley: yeah. >> anthony: wow, nice selection. >> ashley: only way to go. >> anthony: so eve...

Helpless mass, missed the basic essential character -- the pride and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. >> elaine: when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat -- how all these things are -- i think we've all felt it at some point. shame. >> anthony: what should people know about this area that they don't know, that they're not getting? it's just how much that people in this area have been exploited. [ bells ringing ] [ machines whirring ] >> nick: the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. the coal and timber companies that started e...

>> nick mullins: i mean, the mountains -- it's hard to get signals down into each individual valley. >> anthony: nick mullins is a former coal miner turned writer. working in public outreach trying to help people transition away from fossil fuel. >> elaine: try calling an ambulance here and getting out of the county to the closest hospital. they don't deliver babies in the hospital in this county anymore. >> anthony: elaine mcmillion sheldon is an oscar nominated documentary filmmaker born and raised in southern west virginia. >> anthony: if you were describing this area -- church-going is a g...