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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Kelli McEvers. |
| 0:01.2 | And I'm Chris Benderev. |
| 0:02.5 | And this is Embedded. |
| 0:04.6 | This is our last episode about coal and jobs. |
| 0:07.2 | So if you haven't heard the other ones, |
| 0:08.6 | go back and listen from the beginning. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, so remember Gary Dotson, the coal mine operator? |
| 0:15.2 | The last time we heard from Gary, he had a big decision to make. |
| 0:18.6 | Close down the business or invest in a bunch of expensive new equipment |
| 0:22.8 | he would need to keep going. |
| 0:24.4 | In one way, it just did not make sense for Gary |
| 0:26.8 | to spend a huge amount of money on his company right now. |
| 0:30.3 | He's still just a couple years away from 65. |
| 0:33.1 | And the company that he has a contract with to mine the coal |
| 0:35.6 | still does not pay him on time. |
| 0:37.9 | But one day this spring, Gary and his two business partners |
| 0:42.2 | walked into a bank and got a loan for more than $300,000. |
| 0:47.6 | And they put up their own houses as collateral. |
| 0:51.2 | Gary says he did it for one reason. |
| 0:54.3 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:56.8 | Because he just mentioned coal on television |
| 1:00.3 | and everybody had a different feeling about it. |
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