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00:00I'm 24 years old, and I have a business.
00:04I want to retire to 35.
00:06Oh yeah, I don't plan on working fast for you.
00:07We believe it's totally what the Lord wants us to do.
00:10Without the boom, it would be a lot more difficult.
00:12Too cool to start a fire, I'm burning diesel, burning dinosaur bone.
00:16The Bakken oil field, where business is booming.
00:20I take the river down to the still waters, and ride a pack of jobs.
00:25But is the boom about to go bust?
00:27We're all distracted now, holy sh**.
00:29What's happening?
00:30Contact is money in the bank, done.
00:33Clear as mud.
00:33You're in a boom, you're just one day closer to the bust.
00:38This could happen, yeah.
00:39I ain't scared of nothing, the hell with it.
00:41I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my, gonna break my rusty cage.
00:50I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my, gonna break my rusty cage.
00:59Liberty Oil Field Services was started in 2011 with five employees.
01:05In just four years, they've grown into one of the leading frack companies in the U.S., with 600 workers, making an average wage of over $100,000 a year.
01:16But Liberty's swift and impressive growth may be coming to an end.
01:20A 50% drop in oil prices in only six months has sent the entire industry reeling.
01:26CEO Chris Wright is visiting the Bakken.
01:29This visit up to the field is tougher than most, and it's gonna impact people.
01:34The biggest subject to discuss with everyone is gonna be, what does this downturn mean?
01:39What does it mean for everyone's jobs?
01:40What does it mean for activity?
01:41We're gonna keep drilling, are we gonna keep fracking?
01:44Today, he's visiting Patterson UTI Rig 286, a state-of-the-art showpiece Liberties leasing near Tioga, North Dakota.
01:52Despite some initial hiccups, consultant Doug Thornton has now molded his crew into a well-oiled machine.
01:58But Chris arrives with some tough news.
02:04They're shutting down the rig for four to six months, and everyone's being sent home.
02:09But we get the infrastructure done.
02:11It oil prices up another $10 or whatever.
02:14We'll be back at it.
02:15It's a hiatus, but it's not an end.
02:17Well, it won't be the first time, won't be the last.
02:19You know what we was getting into when we got into this business?
02:23When things are good, put your money away.
02:26Save what you can save, because you don't ever know when you might have to live off that for a while before things pick back up.
02:32The older guys have already learned.
02:34When you're in the boom, you're just one day closer to the bust, and when you're in the bust, you're one day closer to the boom.
02:39It's a cyclical business.
02:40Yeah, you get these new guys out here, you know, after two or three checks, they pull up brand-new Chevrolet pickups.
02:45You go, man, what are you doing?
02:47You know, I'm making plenty of money.
02:49Yeah, but, you know, we might not have another well to go to.
02:53Then what?
02:55It's the new guys that really get hurt bad.
03:01Despite Chris's years in the oil industry, doing business in the Bakken is a whole new beast.
03:07My 25 years in this cyclical industry running companies have never laid off one person.
03:14It's tough.
03:15Especially with gasoline.
03:16I don't like the feeling of it at all. Not at all. Not in the least bit.
03:22It's tough.
03:23Next up for Chris is a meeting with the Liberty frat crews, where he'll have to deliver more unpleasant news.
03:34The allure of the boom is particularly strong with young and driven entrepreneurs like Larissa Hurst and Haley Mint, one of the boom's more unique couples.
03:44I just started off a brand new company, worked my ass off trying to get things going, and then all of a sudden we don't get paid.
03:54Well, that ran me right into a brick wall.
03:56You're struggling to begin with, but then you just jump right in and buy a $40,000 truck with nothing to back you if something happens. You know what I mean? That's nerve wracking.
04:08Now, just weeks after putting everything on the line to expand their fleet, Mint Condition Trucking is on the verge of climbing out of the red for the first time.
04:17We ended up getting a truck when I said no, but right now, everything's going great.
04:25Aren't you happy you listen to me?
04:27I'll just get it out of the way. Haley was right and I was wrong.
04:31I'm just happy because I'm 24 years old and I have a business. I'm really positive and just letting it take its course now.
04:45Because what if it doesn't fit me? Remember...
04:48With Haley back to work full time, Larissa can finally focus on getting ready for the couple's next big life-changing event, a destination wedding in Mexico.
04:58I can't buy a new dress because it's in a specific color.
05:04I'll put it on and then I'll have you come help me.
05:07I know people say when you get married it changes for the worse and it screws everything up and people shouldn't get married, but I don't think that's going to happen.
05:15Ooh, that is pretty.
05:17I can't believe this fit. I just want to get something to suck this in.
05:21We can get a fat sucker.
05:22She is my rock and she's always there for the good, the bad.
05:27I'm hurt. She's right there by my side.
05:30Can we take a picture?
05:31Are you going to show Haley?
05:32No.
05:33I didn't know if it was the girl if you had to do the same thing.
05:37I don't even want to know what the world would be like without her.
05:40So I can't lose her.
05:42Who's ready to eat some sushi? Now that I know that my dress fits, I can go stuff my face.
05:46Ben Moorhead is a truck driver who relocated his family to Fairview, Montana from Phoenix, Arizona a year and a half ago.
06:00The dogs are hot. That's why they're called a hot dog.
06:03Hey, if you drop one, that one's yours.
06:05Tonight, Ben and his wife Phoebe are entertaining a visiting family member.
06:10Phoebe's grandfather is here from Phoenix, Arizona, so he's enjoying the cooler weather.
06:16Phoebe's grandfather is eager to see how the Bakken has changed the family he once knew so well back in Phoenix.
06:23My grandpa, I love very much. It's more of a friendship than a grandfather-granddaughter relationship, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I love that man.
06:32Grandpa Art has inadvertently walked into a contentious time in the Moorhead household.
06:38Financially, the boom has been good for the family, but Ben wants more.
06:43His plan is to strike it rich with an invention inspired by the boom, an anti-theft lockbox for big rigs.
06:50Phoebe is skeptical that Ben's idea will ever get off the ground.
06:55I thought you would have gotten more done.
06:57This is what I needed to get done.
06:59Because anybody can do this.
07:02Somebody's going to want to patent that thing.
07:04I'm patenting that thing.
07:05He's patenting it.
07:06It's going to be expensive for a patent lawyer.
07:08No, you get a patent.
07:09Yes, the patent lawyers are expensive, but he's trying to do it by himself.
07:13Okay, so if his idea is as simple as selling the idea, he patents it, sells it, that's it.
07:20We don't need a lawyer, right?
07:22Somebody else pays for the patent.
07:23All I need is a contract attorney making sure that I've got rights on automobiles,
07:27a retroactive what?
07:30Nothing.
07:31Nothing what?
07:32We're not moving forward until we get past that.
07:34It seems too complicated.
07:35Why does it seem complicated?
07:36It seems like you're expecting...
07:37I just think that you should take what you can get right now.
07:41We were dating for seven years before we got married, so I've seen a lot of failed ideas come through our house.
07:50If somebody offers you X amount of money, take it.
07:54If it's $100, it's $100 more than we had.
07:57Just do it quick.
07:58Get money and move on.
07:59I disagree with that.
08:01Do you disagree with that?
08:03I thought you weren't feeling well for a minute.
08:05Yeah, not just money, but he's got an emotional thing to it, too.
08:08He's going to make him feel good.
08:11It'll be fine.
08:12We'll be fine.
08:13Just go forward.
08:14He's like, I don't want it to be fine.
08:16I want it to be good.
08:17Right?
08:18My dad, you, you all have our brilliant men that come up with brilliant ideas,
08:24but nobody follows through the way they should.
08:26And Ben, unfortunately, is exactly like you.
08:29You're talking about follow through, but you want me to stop as soon as I make contact.
08:32Yes!
08:33That's not follow through.
08:34Contact is contact.
08:35This is follow through.
08:36Contact is money in the bank.
08:37Done.
08:38I have to give him the push every once in a while or he'll never get anything done.
08:43Ben, you don't have the wherewithal to do it all by yourself.
08:47You're going to have to bring some organization or some person in to make it happen.
08:52That's the way the system is here.
08:54Grandpa.
08:55I'm just saying, you can't do it all by yourself.
09:03Brooke Banks owns an online clothing boutique which caters to women in the Bakken.
09:07Since its opening several weeks ago, business has been booming.
09:12I'm super proud of her.
09:14She's super talented.
09:15If she wasn't a full-time mom and a full-time wife, she'd be very successful at the whole clothing thing.
09:22But the money that she makes off of the clothing will never be used to support the family.
09:27That's my gig.
09:28But Sean's gig just isn't doing the trick.
09:31He used to work full-time in the oil field, making $200,000 a year.
09:36But as a preacher, his salary is only around $35,000 a year.
09:41Hardly enough to live on in the high-cost Bakken.
09:44Rent alone eats up almost half his current income.
09:48The Bible says that if a man can't provide for his family, that he's worse than a non-believer.
09:53To make matters more difficult, after four years in Williston, North Dakota, Sean is further than ever from his goal of becoming a full-time pastor and evangelist.
10:03So if he could just be full-time to the ministry, he'd have a little bit more time to be able to study, a little bit more time to be able to meet more people.
10:13And then we'd have a little bit more family time.
10:16Wednesday is one of the three days that Sean's not at work in the oil patch.
10:22All day, he's out in his study, meeting people.
10:25And then we have Bible study in our home.
10:28We talked about the Abrahamic covenant, meaning he gets the sign of circumcision, the sign, the seal of the covenant.
10:34We'll explain that a little bit tonight, okay?
10:38Among those in attendance tonight is Sean's close friend, Kevin Gibbs, and his wife, Patty.
10:44Kevin and I became close because we're like-minded.
10:48He wants to live for Jesus. I want to live for Jesus.
10:51You don't meet a lot of people like that who want to just go all in for Jesus.
10:56As the study breaks up and night falls, Kevin tells Sean there's a business opportunity he'd like to discuss with him.
11:03Do you want to go to my study so we can talk about this?
11:06Yeah, we'll leave them alone.
11:08How long you'll be?
11:10Long.
11:12My wife and I's goal is to make sure that whatever pastor we happen to be under, that we make sure that they're doing what God has called them to do.
11:19And I think that we've created a means for him to do that.
11:23I believe that 1 Corinthians says that we take care of our pastor.
11:27My goal is for my pastor to be full-time as a pastor.
11:32Okay.
11:33So what I've started working with was starting another trucking company.
11:36I'm praying about it to see that your rent here, the business pays that through the church.
11:41So we give an offering to the church that would pay your rent.
11:44Right.
11:45I think that's biblical.
11:46Yeah.
11:47I'm sure that would help your all family out as well.
11:49Sure.
11:50Sure.
11:51It's a startling offer for Sean.
11:53The additional income could allow him to devote all his time to church and family and leave the oil field entirely.
12:00He's my spark.
12:01He's the one that will call me up and go, hey, what have you done to serve the kingdom today?
12:06And that's what I need.
12:08In exchange for his generous donation, Kevin wants Sean to be a spiritual overseer in his new company, providing guidance on how he should spend his money.
12:18I've been in the position before where we've made a lot of money.
12:21And when you're not used to having a lot of money, you spend a lot of money.
12:24I've never been in that position.
12:27So what I'd like to see from you, Sean, is someone that says, okay, let's get together and let's see where mine and Patty's relationship is, where our relationship is with the Lord.
12:35Really see how much you wanted to be involved in that accountability.
12:39He needs to be doing what he's doing full-time.
12:41So this business, don't tell him, but it's not for us.
12:45It was more for him and his family.
12:53Urged by her grandfather to be more supportive, Phoebe has joined Ben on an hour-long trip to a welding shop in Watford City, North Dakota.
13:02I think it's Ben's turn to get what he wants, because he works his butt off.
13:08If all goes well, Ben's anti-theft invention will move another step closer to becoming a reality.
13:14We decided to call an old boss of mine that owns a welding company and asked him if he could actually weld a real design.
13:23Rich?
13:24Rich?
13:25Yeah, I'm Rich.
13:26I'm Ben.
13:27Ben?
13:28Hi, Phoebe.
13:29Nice to meet you.
13:30Should Greg tell you about us coming by?
13:31Yes, sir.
13:32Okay.
13:33See this box?
13:34Yeah.
13:35Like this.
13:36It's an anti-theft device.
13:37This is just to show the operation of it.
13:39Okay?
13:40So you see, you've got your shifter.
13:41Ever been in a semi-truck?
13:42So it would be a bushing that comes up the shaft of the shifter, lays down, and locks.
13:48If you can't get to the transmission, you can't steal the truck.
13:51Yeah.
13:52Okay?
13:53But I don't have a brake press or any of that stuff.
13:56I can't build this at home.
13:57Okay.
13:58I think with this idea, I'm a little bit more on board with than the ones in the past.
14:04And I think that me pushing him to finish what he's trying to do will probably make it
14:11more likely to be successful than any other one he's had in the past.
14:16This is the most important thing.
14:18That is just getting that out of the way and hiding it behind this box.
14:22I'm going to put a locking mechanism in there that works like a vault.
14:25When you turn it, there's two bars that go this way and bars that go this way.
14:29If you had a hell of a lot of time and dedication, you could get into it, but you're probably
14:33going to get busted.
14:34Okay.
14:35Well, for the locking mechanism in this box, I'd say probably, total and all, probably
14:41about 560 bucks.
14:42About 560 bucks.
14:43Grand total with the lock?
14:44Yeah.
14:45Sold.
14:46Yeah, do it.
14:47Out of steel.
14:48Sounds good, man.
14:49I appreciate that.
14:50Not a problem.
14:51Cool.
14:52My ugly-ass mock-up gave him an idea, and I think he's going to build something awesome.
14:54Personally, I'm freaking excited about this.
14:55This is like step two or three in the process of actually getting something going that could
15:01be very lucrative.
15:03The prototype should be ready in a couple of days.
15:06I want to make as much money as possible.
15:07That's my responsibility as a husband and the father.
15:20To go along with their new truck, Haley and Larissa are also expanding the fleet at home.
15:26Lily, one of their three dogs, is pregnant.
15:30Lily is very, very pregnant.
15:32She could pop at any moment.
15:34We're excited for that.
15:36It's no coincidence that Lily's puppies have already been factored into the couple's
15:41rebounding finances.
15:42The last time she had puppies, she had 13 puppies.
15:45And then I sold them all.
15:47And I make pretty good money on them, because they're purebred, golden, champion bloodline
15:51dogs.
15:52And so that'll put a big, huge chunk down on the wedding.
15:55It sounds really bad that I got my dog pregnant to pay for a wedding, but it worked out.
16:00While Haley's off at work, Lily decides her puppies just can't wait any longer.
16:05Good job, Lily.
16:06Larissa's friend Ashley has raced over to the house to see if she can help.
16:10I don't want something to go wrong.
16:12I know.
16:13I'd be in big trouble if a puppy died.
16:16With their wedding expenses adding up fast, the number of puppies matters.
16:21We took her to the vet, and he said, for sure there's six, but he wouldn't be surprised
16:26if there's way more than that, because of how big she was.
16:28Each healthy, purebred puppy can net Haley and Larissa up to $1,000.
16:33Good job, Lily.
16:36It is.
16:38It is a puppy?
16:40Mm-hmm.
16:41Can you grab it?
16:42I don't know how big they are.
16:43Oh, it is a puppy.
16:44I don't know how to do this.
16:45I don't know how big they are.
16:46Okay, we need to get Haley on the phone.
16:48Haley?
16:49Yeah, can you hear me?
16:50Yeah, the first puppy's out.
16:53It's still in its sack, though, because she hasn't pushed it all the way out.
16:57How do we know if we need to break the sack ourselves?
17:00There's so much road construction, it probably won't even make it.
17:03Everything I'm reading says don't, like, grab the puppy on your own.
17:07Yeah, I wouldn't.
17:08Come on, Lily.
17:10She's trying.
17:11Get your baby.
17:12The baby's trying to breathe.
17:15I'm just going to keep rubbing its belly.
17:18Where are you going?
17:19Lily, get your baby.
17:20Get your baby, Lily.
17:21I'm rubbing its belly.
17:22It's breathing.
17:23It's breathing.
17:24I'm going to start crying.
17:26She licking it?
17:27She has another one coming, I think.
17:33Here, Lils.
17:34Good girl.
17:35I knew this was going to happen.
17:37I knew that these puppies were going to come when Haley was gone.
17:41When we last saw the Men of Liberty Oil Field Services, they were fracking these two wells outside of Williston, North Dakota.
17:56It's a tough job with grueling hours in one of the roughest climates in the U.S.
18:01Rest and relaxation time are well earned.
18:04And for the Men of Liberty, this is where they spend it.
18:08We're at the Judson Executive Lodge in Williston, North Dakota.
18:11It's the man camp that Liberty has exclusively from Target Logistics.
18:15When I come back here to camp, you know, part of me goes, oh, man, I'm back at man camp.
18:20But the other part of me feels like home because it is a home.
18:24It's pretty much like a college dorm or, you know, military barracks.
18:28We'll take you this way and we'll show you where I lived for two weeks and where Travis lives for two weeks.
18:33Not in the same room.
18:34It's like MTV Cribs.
18:36Come on.
18:37It's small, but it's comfortable.
18:39It's got all amenities at home.
18:41Flat screen TV, DVD player, bathroom, shower.
18:45So it's pretty convenient.
18:46This is pretty much, this is home.
18:49Despite the cozy lodgings, work hours are long and the lifestyle is full of challenges.
18:55So that alarm clock goes off maybe at 2.30 in the morning.
18:58Get up, you shower, you get your gear ready to go.
19:01You exit that door, you might be out there for, you know, a 12-hour shift or 24-hour shift.
19:05You don't know.
19:06This is experiencing a completely different lifestyle and it's not for everybody.
19:11What Liberty has done here for us is pretty amazing.
19:13Each giving us our own little oasis, so to speak, you know, to come back after a long day of work.
19:18It's pretty important, going back to the man camp, of having something like this here for us.
19:23This is our chow hall.
19:24This is where all the crews come to eat.
19:26A lot of guys living in man camp probably gained 15 to 20 pounds in the first year working here.
19:32This is all fresh every day that they put out for us.
19:34That's a heart attack waiting to happen right there, but it is good.
19:38Ice cream machine, and that is pretty much, I think, the devil made that.
19:41So they get some big poker tournaments coming in and out of here.
19:44These guys are making oil-filled cash and they might as well blow it somehow up here, right?
19:48The devil got another one.
19:49Yep.
19:50Guilty.
19:51Check this out.
19:52I don't know one man camp that has a video game room.
19:59We're working hard now.
20:00I mean, a lot of guys don't put a nest egg away.
20:03And you'd be crazy not to to make the amount of money we're making up here.
20:06I want to retire at 35.
20:08Oh, yeah.
20:09I don't plan on working fast for you.
20:10American dream, right?
20:11Retire, have a lot of time, have a lot of money to do something with that time.
20:16But with oil prices plummeting, those dreams stand on shaky ground.
20:21Liberty CEO Chris Wright is in town to meet with all the frat crews.
20:26What's said at this meeting could change everything.
20:30After two long days of waiting, oil truck driver and amateur inventor Ben Moorhead is about to see his latest idea become a reality.
20:43I just got off work and got a call from Rich who said that everything is pretty much done.
20:48I'm way excited.
20:49This is a cool thing.
20:51The arrival of a locking mechanism has been delayed, but the rest of Ben's custom-made anti-theft device is ready to go.
21:00What's up, man?
21:01What's up, buddy?
21:02How you doing?
21:03Good.
21:04So that's it?
21:05That's it.
21:06There she is in all her glory.
21:08Oh, that's freaking sweet.
21:11Everything on this thing is 100% handmade, baby.
21:14Nice.
21:15So that would lock it in.
21:17Yep.
21:18That locks it in like we discussed, the lever.
21:20Just fold it up, lay it back down.
21:22Goes right back down.
21:23Yep.
21:24She's complete minus the lock.
21:26Which is going to go right here up on top.
21:29And we'll be able to get into it.
21:31And if they try tearing into this thing, this is stainless.
21:33Yeah.
21:34So they can't use a cutting torch or nothing.
21:36Nice.
21:37Could you make this for less than $150?
21:40First time building something, it's hard.
21:42Oh, yeah.
21:43It's always hard.
21:44Starting from scratch.
21:45But if you have something that you can follow, you could knock these out, you know, for probably
21:48around $100.
21:49Nice.
21:50I like it, dude.
21:51I just wanted something to function.
21:53You made it pretty.
21:54It's better than my cardboard box.
21:56Yeah, a little bit.
21:57By at least a little bit.
21:59How much?
22:00Your skills are all right.
22:01A little bit of work you might make for yourself.
22:03Yeah, exactly.
22:04All right.
22:05Sounds good.
22:06All right, dude.
22:07I really appreciate it.
22:09All right, buddy.
22:10See ya.
22:11Ben may have proven to himself that he can follow through on his dreams.
22:15But with the lock still missing from his invention, he'll be showing Phoebe at another incomplete
22:21prototype.
22:22Oh, I'm excited.
22:23I'm way excited.
22:24This is a cool thing.
22:26I think Phoebe's probably pretty excited to see it.
22:28I'm not afraid of her criticisms provided she knows what she's talking about.
22:32So maybe I'll get a criticism, maybe not.
22:41After a long talk with his friend and parishioner, Kevin Gibbs, Sean heads back to the house
22:51to tell his wife about the offer that could change their lives.
22:54Kevin just said, we're going to start this business.
22:57He's going to pay the rent basically for us, which again would be ginormous.
23:01And we didn't ask him to.
23:03He came to us.
23:04It's an absolute blessing for me.
23:06It strengthens our faith that God's raising up people to help support us.
23:10If this offer plays out the way Sean hopes, it could be the key to answering all of his
23:16prayers.
23:17What's up?
23:18Kevin wants to support us with his business deal.
23:23He wants to support what we pay for rent, he's going to offer.
23:27He's going to support the whole rent.
23:30It's going to be huge for us because you know how much our rent is.
23:35So we're closer to being full time.
23:40And it's all God.
23:42I'm a little overwhelmed.
23:45I mean that's huge.
23:48Obviously Wilson runs huge.
23:50I just think it's so amazing that just with certain trials going on right now, like that God did that.
24:00It could be in the next month that we could be full time, which would be awesome.
24:05We're getting closer.
24:07So can we pray for them real quick?
24:10Yeah.
24:13Lord, I just, I thank you so much.
24:15It's super exciting to see how God's working, how he answers prayer.
24:18And it's just testimony on how he's real.
24:21But it's overwhelming his love for us that he would send the Gibbs and put that on their hearts for us.
24:28It's an answered prayer.
24:45Having already missed the birth of Lily's first two puppies, Haley races home from work to help with the rest of the litter.
24:51Lily girl.
24:53Hi baby.
24:54Maybe it changed real quick.
24:57It took her forever to get that second one out.
24:59Oh, that one's going to look just like you, Lils.
25:01Oh!
25:06They're all going to homes.
25:08But you're not keeping any of them?
25:10One of them.
25:11No.
25:12Just one.
25:13That's not the deal.
25:14Yeah.
25:15This house is way too small.
25:17But Lily said she wants to keep a daughter.
25:19No.
25:20Yeah, she did.
25:22Each healthy pup will be used to offset the cost of the couple's upcoming destination wedding.
25:29Something's coming out.
25:31Here it comes.
25:32But it's purple.
25:33Oh my goodness.
25:35That's a puppy, babe.
25:38How is it that dark?
25:40Oh my goodness, it's black.
25:43How does she have a black one?
25:45What?
25:46Is it?
25:47That is rare as all rare can be.
25:48It is black.
25:49Google that.
25:50Flat coat, golden retriever.
25:51There's such a thing as a golden retriever that's black.
25:52It could happen due to a recessive gene that goes way back.
25:54To me, if I saw that, I would think that it wasn't bred with the purebred.
25:57You know what I mean?
25:58But she was.
25:59They say black golden retrievers go from a thousand dollars and up.
26:03Another black one.
26:04What in the world?
26:05Are you sure Biscuit's the dad?
26:08Larissa calls the breeder to find out if Lily was paired with the wrong stud.
26:09If the puppies aren't purebred, Haley and Larissa's investment will go back.
26:10You know what I mean?
26:11What?
26:12What?
26:13What?
26:14What?
26:15What?
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26:37And Larissa's investment will fall short, leaving them with thousands of dollars in unpaid
26:41wedding bills.
26:42But if they are, each black puppy could be worth hundreds of dollars more.
26:47Lily's having black puppies.
26:50Are you kidding me?
26:52No.
26:53There's no way she was with another dog, right?
26:56Isn't it just Biscuit and Lily?
26:58Yeah, yeah.
26:59Yeah.
27:00So I can...
27:01No, no.
27:02Yeah, no.
27:03The dog's around.
27:04Yeah, I think it's just really, really rare.
27:06Yeah, I think it's just rare.
27:08Make sure...
27:09The next puppy is also black.
27:11But something's wrong.
27:13That one's not breathing.
27:15Give me a...
27:16Give me that thing.
27:17Still got a saccharide, doesn't it?
27:20Lily, you gotta get this one.
27:22Hey.
27:23Pay attention here.
27:24Is it moving now?
27:25No, it's not.
27:27It's not doing anything.
27:29Babe, you need to really make sure that the baby's breathing.
27:33That one's not breathing.
27:34Then you need to do something.
27:36Is it moving now?
27:37No, it's not.
27:38CPR in newborn puppies.
27:43Clear the airway.
27:44Hold the puppy's head downward to allow gravity to help drain fluid from the mouth.
27:49It's just limp.
27:50Babe, it's really not doing anything.
27:52Can you pump its chest a little bit?
27:57That's another thing it's saying to do.
27:59Yeah, there's zero life in it.
28:01I don't know what to do.
28:03I think it's been too long.
28:12Hayley, it's nothing that you did.
28:14She's having another one.
28:19Can you grab that one?
28:20Yeah.
28:21It's trying to breathe.
28:22She had two of them at once.
28:27The puppies continue to be born throughout the long night.
28:30Eleven in total, with one more stillborn makes for nine healthy pups.
28:37For these enterprising boomtowners, that's at least $7,500 in wedding bills paid off.
28:43So what do we have?
28:44Four females and five males.
28:46And six of them are black.
28:49That's an extra $300 per pup than what we were expecting.
28:54But before they can count their profits, the girls still have to confirm that the black pups are purebred.
29:01Just got to do DNA tests.
29:03Got to wait patiently for four weeks.
29:13The history of oil in North Dakota is a cycle of booms and busts.
29:18But ranching has been a constant for over 150 years.
29:22Hey girls.
29:26Few have been impacted by the boom more than the Bakken's farmers and ranchers.
29:30Some like it, some don't.
29:32But they all have an opinion.
29:34Vonita and Pete Best believe it's made running their ranch more difficult.
29:39It's the traffic and getting things to and from the locations that seems to create a fair amount more of disruption than just what happens on the production site.
29:48So you've driven on these red roads and they're surfaced with scoria.
29:51And scoria is essentially burnt coal.
29:54As the trucks travel across it, it creates a fair amount of dust.
29:57The trucks, they'll just smash the rocks down and it turns into dust.
30:01And I don't know.
30:02It's kind of hard to know if that's doing any long-term damage to the cattle.
30:07But I can't imagine it's good for their teeth to be eating grass that's got dirt on it.
30:12The bests are third-generation ranchers.
30:15So are the Hansons.
30:17Marty Hanson and this is my son Cory.
30:20I have farmed out here at East Williston all of my life.
30:24And now he's going to take a farm over.
30:26And we're really glad that's going to happen.
30:30Like many farmers in the region, the Hansons have profited from the boom in multiple ways.
30:35Oil companies buy their water for fracks, lease their land for infrastructure,
30:40and pay them royalties for the minerals below.
30:43All this revenue is given the Hansons the financial security needed to pass the farm onto a fourth generation.
30:50You know, without the boom, it would be a lot more difficult.
30:53Let's just put it that way.
30:54This made the decision fairly easy.
30:56And it's a positive for us.
30:59I know there are people that are dead set against it.
31:01We've been lucky to work with some good people.
31:03We were pretty much a dying farm community.
31:07And now we've grown, what, four times the size.
31:11And there's just a lot of work for people.
31:13While the Hansons have profited handsomely from the boom,
31:16some farmers who lease their land, like Frank LaPelle, don't.
31:20We started building this place together here about six years ago.
31:24And I've been just inundated with oil wells all the way around my place.
31:29Well, that first oil wells that came in here, it was far enough away from my house.
31:33It didn't really bother me too much.
31:34But it was in the pasture, at least.
31:36Frank has three wells to the north of his house.
31:39Since they're not on the land he owns, they're a nuisance instead of a source of revenue.
31:44The same is true for the four wells to the east.
31:48They're coming through my yard 50, 60 miles an hour and nobody's slowing down.
31:52And there's as much disrespect to the actual owners of the land and the people living here that is, it just makes them mad.
32:00But volatile oil prices might literally change the landscape.
32:05Back in the early 80s when we had the mother boom that time and the price of oil went down to $18,
32:10it was like somebody shut the light switch off and went home.
32:13I mean, it went overnight. It was done.
32:15This could happen again.
32:17Rancher Scott Fladeland and Fred Evans hope it doesn't.
32:22They've used oil revenue to bring stability to the unpredictable business of raising cattle.
32:27It's made our life a whole lot easier.
32:29We were able to get rid of a whole bunch of debt that we had that would have took
32:34probably an additional 20 years to get rid of.
32:39This cattle market is good right now, but you just about know it ain't going to stay there forever.
32:44She isn't going to be here forever.
32:45No.
32:46I used to say we hadn't had an average year for about 60 years, but I don't think we ever have had an average year.
32:51It's always too hot, too cold, too wet.
32:54Like the Hansons, boom revenue has given Scott and his family the financial security to keep ranching.
33:01Yeah, ever since I was a young kid, ranching was always a dream of mine.
33:06I'm able to do that here now.
33:08Our future of Diamond J Ranch here looks pretty promising now.
33:13Things have changed quite a bit.
33:15We feel like we're moving ahead pretty good right now.
33:18With the oil activity in the area, it's made the opportunity to work the next generation in,
33:24where before, I don't know how we did it.
33:36Invention! Invention!
33:38Dad's coming home with the invention!
33:40Yay!
33:43Ben Moorhead is about to unveil his new anti-theft prototype to his family.
33:48Though he and the boys are thrilled, Phoebe has yet to be impressed by Ben's progress.
33:55Oh my God!
33:56That looks real!
33:57It is real!
33:58That is the prototype.
33:59The only difference is it's on a display stand, so this will actually be on the floor.
34:04There you go.
34:05Look at this.
34:07Did they make it like that for you?
34:09Yeah, they customized that for me.
34:11But this lifts the bushing, drops it right back down into the box, closes, locks.
34:18Right.
34:19Okay.
34:20So they're just going to drill a hole right here?
34:21Yeah, there'd be a lock right here.
34:22That's where the install is going to go on at.
34:26I think it's awesome, babe.
34:27Sweet!
34:28Like it looks like it's actually in a truck.
34:31Right.
34:33I think the prototype is awesome.
34:35It's way more than I was expecting.
34:37I'm way proud of Ben.
34:39Okay, now I have a question.
34:41Sure.
34:42Remember when I was in the truck with you and I did a whole lot of moving from the front
34:46to the back and all that stuff?
34:48Wouldn't that be the reason why people didn't buy it?
34:51I'm not afraid of her criticisms provided she knows what she's talking about.
34:55Oftentimes when I bring up an idea like this, she has a rebuttal, but it's simply because
35:01she doesn't quite know the industry the way I do.
35:03Do you remember moving around that stick trying to get to the back?
35:06No, the stick was like right up front.
35:08For you, it's over closer to the driver.
35:10You're not worried about that though?
35:11No.
35:12At all?
35:13No, not at all.
35:14I would be worried about it as a passenger.
35:16How many passengers are in trucks?
35:18I'm just exhilarated.
35:19My mind is going a million miles an hour.
35:22What do I do next?
35:23What is going to be the next step that I trip over essentially?
35:26Because I know I'm going to.
35:27For Ben the dreamer, whose biggest wish is to make a better future for his family, the boom
35:33has paid off in more ways than one.
35:36With some hard work and a little luck, that's our ticket to a private jet.
35:40It looks really good, babe.
35:41I'm proud of you.
35:43Last night, the banks received a potentially life-changing offer from fellow churchgoer,
35:55Kevin Gibbs.
35:57But today, Sean and Brooke are taking a closer look at the realities of that opportunity.
36:04Did you guys go over a set amount that you would be making?
36:07He talked about covering rent.
36:09For your paycheck, rent would be covered?
36:11Right.
36:12But you're getting a paycheck from Basin, so...
36:14Working for Kevin is really not working for Kevin.
36:18I'm just keeping him accountable and I'm helping him out.
36:20There's a lot of money to be gained, but the role of a spiritual counselor is somewhat hard
36:25to define.
36:26I'm just saying, if you're working for somebody, whether it be a friend or not, I just thought
36:30you'd be comfortable with getting, like, a paycheck for your hours.
36:33Right.
36:34You need to think of Kevin's money as just being a part of the offering.
36:38If he covers rent and our offering stays low, we still won't be able to pay bills, is
36:42all I'm saying.
36:43So why is that?
36:45Okay.
36:46It's becoming clear that Kevin's offer won't let Sean quit his job in the oil field.
36:51At least, not yet.
36:53I just want to teach the Bible.
36:56I just want to tell people to devote themselves to reading the scriptures.
37:00Okay.
37:01So it's not like Kevin or Basin.
37:04It's, do we want to do Basin four days a week or do we want to do Basin two days a week
37:09plus Kevin's gig?
37:11It's full time equals whatever it takes to be full time.
37:19Clear as mud.
37:20That's about it.
37:21That's about it.
37:22Yeah.
37:23That's about it.
37:28We don't have to leave until 7.30.
37:31You don't need to take two hours to get ready either.
37:34Well, that's the difference between me and you.
37:38Right now, Larissa and I are getting ready for our engagement photos.
37:43Our wedding date's 12, 13, 14.
37:45I don't know.
37:46We've been pushing back photos because I've been at work.
37:48And finally it's going to work out where we can go get our pictures taken.
37:50And we're kind of excited.
37:52She's inside getting ready right now.
37:55Like I said, we're excited.
37:57We bought cool little props and stuff for the pictures.
38:00So it'll be interesting.
38:01We have wifey signs.
38:03And then we have a heart.
38:04And I don't know what.
38:05They're putting something in the heart.
38:07And we're going to hold that up.
38:08I don't know what they have all planned in there.
38:12I was going to wear it down, but it's too hot and frizzy.
38:14Don't put it up.
38:15Okay, get out.
38:16Wear it down.
38:17Get out.
38:18Give me a kiss.
38:19Are you sweating?
38:20Do you want me to go get you another fan?
38:21I'm sweating balls in here.
38:24After all the stress of the last few months,
38:26Haley and Larissa finally have the time to reflect on their lives together so far.
38:31Look at what me and Larissa have accomplished.
38:36We've accomplished so much in this past almost two years that a lot of people don't accomplish
38:43when they're 30 years old.
38:45You know, our home, our dogs, our business.
38:48We have our struggles, but I think it just makes us that much stronger.
38:53Things are, you can't say perfect because nothing's perfect, but I'm very thankful for what I have.
38:59Act like you love me or something.
39:01Sorry.
39:02It boils down to the oil field.
39:04Like, this has given us the opportunity to, you know, do as we want.
39:09It hasn't been easy for this unique couple, but their eyes are fixed firmly on the future.
39:15Well, first of all, I'm going to be marrying the love of my life.
39:18Second of all, we have all these goals that we want to achieve.
39:22We're going to get ourselves out of debt, buy a chunk of land, build a shop, get a bigger house, start a family.
39:28That's what I'm looking forward to.
39:30I would say in the next three years, I'll have all that.
39:33It tickles.
39:34If I were to tell someone 10 years ago this is where I'd be today, they would laugh in my face.
39:39No one ever pictured myself being with Haley, you know, owning a trucking business.
39:44And their journey together has only just begun.
39:48There's no doubts.
39:49We'll be 80 years old, wrinkled up and sitting in a rocking chair at our house.
39:55Haley Mint and Larissa Hurst were married in Cancun, Mexico on the 13th of December, 2014.
40:02After debating whether to say yes or no to a crucial job offer, Sean surprises his family by picking a third option.
40:18The Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight.
40:21We've prayed a lot about it and we want to be obedient and we want to walk by faith.
40:25And we're going to move back to Washington.
40:30We're moving because we believe it's totally what the Lord wants us to do.
40:35So we just want to be in his will and we want to be obedient to what he's doing.
40:39Yeah, we know that we need to go back.
40:42To some, the Banks family's decision may seem inexplicable.
40:47Sean agrees.
40:48So, at least from the outside in, it makes no sense for us to leave.
40:53But I can't deny what God has continually put on my heart.
40:57You know, I'm sure it didn't make sense to Abraham when God said leave everything that you've ever been a part of
41:02and go to a country where you don't even know where it's at and just start walking.
41:05And I just want to be obedient to that.
41:08Life is too short to not serve Jesus.
41:13The reason I know that the Lord, the Spirit, has told me to go back to Seattle
41:17is because it's not something that I would do in my flesh, meaning in my own natural ability.
41:22If it was up to me and Brooke, we'd stay.
41:25We have a church here. It's just getting started.
41:28We have friends here.
41:30Our whole married life has been in North Dakota.
41:33I proposed to Brooke, unfortunately, over the phone in North Dakota.
41:43We don't want to leave. We love the people here.
41:46Brooke's business is taking off here.
41:48There's a lot of people who are buying your clothes.
41:52Their plans to leave the Bakken have come so suddenly
41:55that Sean barely has time to tell his friend, Kevin Gibbs,
41:58they won't be going into business together.
42:01It would have happened if we would have stayed here.
42:04So, it was just a good reminder for me that the Lord is the one that provides.
42:08And we don't have to just struggle and struggle and try to stay afloat.
42:12And we can't breathe. We can't breathe on our own strength.
42:15So, here we go.
42:20The end of their time in Boomtown
42:22marks the closing of a major chapter in the bank's life.
42:25Leaving will not be easy.
42:28I'm really excited to see what God is going to do in Washington,
42:31but really obviously sad that I'm knowing that I'm taking the last steps
42:36on North Dakota ground probably forever.
42:39I think I'll be extremely sad when I drive away.
42:43You know, we love our church.
42:45We love our people.
42:46The people will be the hardest part.
42:48And I tend to not be an outwardly emotional person,
42:51but when Isaiah and I drive away Monday, I'm sure it'll be tough for me.
42:55Pack them to U-Haul and we're not coming back.
42:58I would like to think that I have poured my heart and soul into this place while I was here.
43:09Liberty's CEO, Chris Wright, is in the Bakken, facing some of the toughest challenges of his career.
43:16Well, nobody wants to go home.
43:18The price of oil has plunged 50% in the last six months.
43:22Chris has already had to shut down their drilling rigs,
43:25and now he's about to face anxious workers on their frat crews.
43:31A nervous group of crew chiefs await their CEO's arrival.
43:35Hedge funds start going broke, banks stop loaning money for exploration, and game over.
43:43I think I've said it before, if the trucks ain't making it noise, ain't nobody making any money.
43:47That's all there is to it.
43:50The guys are just now showing up from their post-shift meeting.
43:52They're going to be in there in a minute.
43:53One of the concerns from them is the price of oil versus the layoffs.
43:57Other companies are doing this.
43:58Our goal, our simple business goal here, is not one person, not one person who works hard and gives it every day at Liberty is going to lose their job.
44:08But we are going to freeze wages for this year.
44:13The net profit of Liberty this year will probably be zero.
44:17It will probably be a negative number.
44:19You know?
44:20And does that mean this is a terrible year and this is awful?
44:23No, it doesn't.
44:24It means we're in a cyclical business.
44:26There are times where, you know, prices are high, business is good.
44:30There are times when it swings down.
44:32This business has always been that way and it always will be that way.
44:37This isn't a downturn because what we did didn't work or it sucked.
44:41It's that it was too damn good that we produced so much oil is what's caused this downturn.
44:46We're all distracted now.
44:47Holy s**t, what's happening?
44:49You know, and I get that.
44:51But we've got to not let that take away from the focus on if we bring it and we kick ass every day, we're going to be busy.
44:59We are going to be busy.
45:01Our culture is looking through these cycles and thinking our success of the business is having great people and great people who work hard every day and great people who are loyal to our company.
45:11We'll make less money.
45:12We might not make any money this year.
45:14But when we look at it over the next few decades, it's the right decision for us.
45:18I didn't graduate from business school.
45:20Maybe that's obvious.
45:21The pioneering spirit that created this unprecedented boom is fighting to see it continue.
45:28The story of the Bakken has already claimed its place in American history, but only the future will tell whether these are now its final pages or just the end of chapter one.
45:39It's when the price sold is zero dollars a barrel, that's when I'm going to get alarmed.
45:45But for the time being, I ain't scared of nothing.
45:47The hell with it.
45:48We're just going to keep rocking and rolling for as much as we can.
45:50That's all there is to it.
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