Coming Soon: Coal Stories
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🗓️ 30 April 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers. |
| 0:01.4 | And in our next few episodes, |
| 0:04.4 | we're going to spend some time in cool country. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the best people in the world right here. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm totally convinced about that. |
| 0:13.8 | The people have never left the year 1980. |
| 0:16.0 | Everybody still live in like nothing's changed. |
| 0:18.5 | And I love it. |
| 0:20.5 | See, that's the problem with the co-minors here. |
| 0:22.6 | You've got paid a lot of money for doing a manual labor job. |
| 0:26.1 | And now that that's going to go away, |
| 0:27.8 | can you have overextended yourself financially? |
| 0:30.5 | First of all, drag your eyes into one of these coal mines. |
| 0:33.5 | There's 36 inches high and crawl around on the hands |
| 0:35.8 | and knees for 10 hours a day. |
| 0:37.4 | And then tell me you don't deserve what you get. |
| 0:40.6 | There's nothing here. |
| 0:42.2 | It's slowly done. |
| 0:44.6 | How does that feel? |
| 0:47.0 | I'd scare the shit out of you. |
| 0:48.7 | If you don't want me saying that. |
| 0:50.2 | I mean, you get a job, you keep it, |
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