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>> 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 cheese. >> chef: venison and cheese. >> ashley: yeah. >> anthony: wow, nice selection. >> anthony: so everybody born and bred here? >> chase: i've lived in canada for a long time. i stayed in england for quite a while. sweden for quite a while. no matter how long i'm gone, i always come back. can't just load the jeep up with a bunch of guns and stay out there for seven days and, you know, you can't really do that an...

>> josh: welch is a very rural area. i mean, it's an hour away from wal-mart. i mean, if that tells you anything. it's 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 couldn't find a place to park. >> 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 ...

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 can't these coal miners get retrained, maybe put up solar panels for a living? why would these conservative, deeply religious people vote for a thrice-married billionaire new yorker? well, i went to west virginia, and you know what? screw you. here in the heart of every belief system i've 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...

One that slow me down ♪ take my troubles ♪ ♪ to the highwall throw 'em in the river ♪ ♪ and get your fill lord it's 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, you're pounding the hell out of them. >> adam ringer: actually built to be indestructible. >> anthony: indestructible? >> adam: yeah, that's 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...

>> coach larry: lord bless everybody that's going to the game, bless these young men and these young women as they cheer and as they play on the field. >> anthony: it's friday night. 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 else's families, ask after their kids by name, mixed couples are common. there's an easy familiarity between people here. >> announcer: the 2017 mount v...