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00:00The man, the myth, the legend, I think it was born to be a mountain man.
00:30A mountain man for more than half a century.
00:33I tend to live in the past.
00:36I was born 100 years too late and maybe 200 years too late.
00:41Tom Orr is a master of living off the land.
00:44When we first moved up here, there wasn't any jobs for a person to make a living up here.
00:51With skills perfected over a lifetime of lessons.
00:54You gotta keep pushing all the time to just survive out here.
01:00Hunting.
01:03Looks like a good one.
01:05Tanning.
01:06We've not got this.
01:09Trapping.
01:10That's a big set.
01:12These are hard won skills.
01:18But true mastery lies in passing them on.
01:21That's these beaver casters.
01:23It's a set gland.
01:25From Montana's Yak Valley, these are Tom Orr's survival secrets.
01:36From a life lived wild and free.
01:38I've lived the life that I wanted to live.
01:41And I'll be a mountain man until the day I die.
01:45What does it take for a modern day pioneer to thrive in the wild?
01:58The list is long.
02:00But it all begins with one essential skill.
02:06Hunting for wild game.
02:09Because in the mountains, those who can't feed themselves don't last long.
02:14After 40 years in the Yak Valley, I've learned some valuable lessons about life.
02:21Hunting is one of the major skills people need to know.
02:26And if you can't feed yourself, it's gonna be a little hard to live up here.
02:31A successful hunter must know their surroundings and be able to read the land.
02:39A skill Tom Orr forged through decades of harsh winters and deep snow.
02:44We're looking for a whitetail buck.
02:47We'll harvest 100 pounds of meat out of that.
02:51It'll feed Nancy and I into the spring, you know.
02:54Hunt after hunt has given him the knowledge and experience
02:58to turn even the toughest conditions into an advantage.
03:02The new snowfall on the ground, you can see where all the critters are moving at.
03:07A lot of scion, even some scrapes and stuff that I found.
03:10So that means the bucks are starting to come into the rut.
03:13So they're up moving more in the daytime and stuff rather than laying down in the day.
03:19The rut is breeding season.
03:22A prime window for hunters to secure their winter meat.
03:26They're a lot easier to hunt when they've got sex on their mind.
03:35There's a bunch of deer.
03:38Looks like they might come right through here.
03:42Here's a buck, here's a buck.
03:44Looks like a good one.
03:46On the left, right through the brush.
03:50Oh, they're all moving.
04:00Oh, they're all moving.
04:02Even when the shot is true, a buck on the run can still get away.
04:21Did I not hit that shot?
04:23I could check him out here.
04:31A lot of things run through a person's mind when you pull that trigger.
04:38And there's blood, yeah?
04:39Looks like we put a bullet in him.
04:42Oh, he splattered, didn't he?
04:43Makes a big difference to have a freezer full of free meat.
04:51There he is.
04:59All right, buddy.
05:00Sorry to do this to you.
05:01We needed you.
05:02We needed you.
05:03It'll feed Nancy and I for several months, you know?
05:06I mean, not only is there food, but there's a hide to tan that'll bring money.
05:11The antlers will make beautiful knife handles for my stone knife blades.
05:15It's a big benefit to us.
05:17Hunting's never a sure thing.
05:27It demands time, patience, and instinct.
05:32Over the years, Tom's found his edge in an age-old method.
05:37Handcrafted bows and arrows.
05:40I really like the bow hunt.
05:42I guess it's because of the primitive background that I'm interested in.
05:48There's a connection there that really appeals to me.
05:55The Kootenai tribe that originally settled the yak used wild rose stems to fashion arrows.
06:02Future arrow sheds.
06:04Because the wood is lightweight and pliable.
06:07You pick out the straightest-looking ones and you cut them.
06:12Montana has separate seasons for rifles and archery.
06:16Hunting during both can increase your chances of success.
06:20If you know how to handle each weapon.
06:23You want all your arrow shafts to be the same size around or else they won't fly the same.
06:30I use bare grease and heat and you heat these arrow shafts.
06:46And you bend them and hold them into place while they cool off and they'll actually straighten out on you.
06:53You see, you can find lots of old arrow shafts in museums that have the teeth marks still in them.
07:11After I get them straight though, then I have to deal with putting the fletchings on them.
07:19The feathers keep the arrow going in a straight line when it's fired from the bow.
07:24And then you have to put points on them and cut knocks on the ends of them.
07:32I usually paint all my arrows also.
07:36The color makes it a little easier to find your arrows, especially in this snow condition.
07:40Tom's homestead is surrounded by the Kootenay watershed, an intricate river system that attracts wildlife year-round like elk and deer.
07:51And where, over the years, Tom's perfected his archery skills.
07:55There's quite a few deer that move through here.
08:01So, I'm gonna go check this out.
08:08Fresh tracks there.
08:14Fresh snow makes tracking easier, but it can also make sneaking up on prey a lot harder.
08:21The snow kind of crunches, and them deer will hear that noise.
08:29And their first thing is to get the hell out of there.
08:36I've gotta get within 20 yards with a bow in order to even take a shot.
08:43And you gotta make a good one.
08:51That is a buck taxi going on down towards the river.
08:57Tracking is a really neat deal if a person really knows what they're doing.
09:03Tells you a whole bunch about the animals.
09:06Every little track has its own little story.
09:08Finally, there was a buck.
09:29God, that sucker.
09:30My arrow fired straight and true.
09:39And I hit him.
09:41Oh, sorry about that.
09:43And we've got meat in the frying pan.
09:47No one more can I say.
09:48Nestled deep in the northern Rockies, Montana's Yak Valley is one of the most remote pockets of wilderness in the country.
10:01While its natural resources are abundant, surviving here requires determination and skill.
10:07Something Tom Orr has honed since he and his wife Nancy moved here more than 40 years ago.
10:18We needed some way to make a living up here.
10:22While Tom quickly perfected his hunting skills, it didn't put any money in his pocket.
10:28Learning how to tan hides was critical to his staying power.
10:33The problem being you couldn't make enough money by selling the raw hides to the fur people.
10:40There just wasn't enough money in it.
10:42And so when that started happening, we started tanning the furs that we caught.
10:53Tanning's been probably the biggest thing for us up here as far as making a living.
10:59All this started when I bought a $3 book.
11:03In 1973, Tom discovered a 16 page $3 book on the shelves of an old trading post.
11:12Inside, he found the secrets of the ancient art of brain tanning.
11:17A technique that Native Americans have used for centuries.
11:21But becoming a master tanner didn't happen overnight.
11:25This was a very hard road for me to learn, you know, through that one little $3 book.
11:31After I learned, I started teaching and tanning to lots of people.
11:36But one of my favorite students had been Sean McAfee.
11:42Several winters ago, Tom taught his friend and business partner Sean McAfee the secrets to his trade.
11:49And the first step to tanning any hide is to harvest the brains.
11:54I've got two skulls, and we're going to take the brains out.
12:01Tom often uses the brains of mule deer that he harvests in the fall.
12:06The oils that are in the brain softens the skin until it's broken down and soft.
12:13What a doctor we'd make, huh?
12:17Oh, yeah.
12:18Lobotomy.
12:20Bam!
12:22They're going to take a while to thaw these suckers.
12:25The active ingredient in animal brains is an oil called lecithin that softens and seals the hide.
12:40It takes about six ounces of brains to tan and scan.
12:47All right, this is what it'll take.
12:52Round and round and round it goes. Don't smell bad if you hold your nose.
12:58Once the hide is fleshed.
13:08With brain tanned skin, the epidermis is taken off.
13:13That's the layer of skin that's underneath the hair.
13:17It's soaked in the brain solution.
13:20And Tom's learned the hard way that every pore and fiber must be fully saturated to craft leather strong enough to last generations.
13:28You can go to a museum and you can find a 200-year-old war shirt that's been brain tanned and that's still soft and flexible and tough and tight.
13:39All right, gotta make sure all these brains all soak in and we stick the ringing stick.
13:47And we're gonna get rid of all this excess water.
13:56Ring it.
14:02Is that considered to be rung?
14:04Yeah, that's pretty well rung.
14:06And then we'll finish your rep.
14:07Let's do it.
14:10While Tom's tanned nearly every critter in the yak from muskrats to wolves,
14:15one of the biggest challenges he's ever tackled is a bison hide.
14:20Buffalo hides are a big, big project compared to deer skins.
14:26But they're worth it. I love what they're doing.
14:29Each bison hide can fetch up to $3,000 if tanned correctly.
14:34But the process is labor-intensive and they're always a gamble.
14:39The hide only fetches top dollar if it's tanned with the fur intact.
14:44The thing I've got to do is just shave it all down and thin it so there's just enough hide to hold the hair on.
14:51When this hide come the other day, of course it was all covered with meat and fat and gristle.
15:00Tom uses the same brain tanning solution on bison hides as he does on deer.
15:04But it requires a lot more.
15:08Fortunately, his wife Nancy also knows the secret recipe.
15:13A woman with a bucket of brains, huh?
15:15Right. Smart woman.
15:16What a girl.
15:17I'm just about ready for them brains.
15:22All these brains have to soak all the way through the whole hide, all the way to the hair.
15:28Once it dries out, we're gonna cut the hide off the frame.
15:33Well, she's coming.
15:42All right, we're getting right here.
15:48The skin is always stiff from tanning.
15:50But for Tom to sell it, it has to be broken in.
15:55All right.
15:57So now I just gotta work it over a disc blade.
16:02The disc blade breaks down and softens the skin so it can be folded and worn.
16:07And the bigger the hide, the more effort it takes.
16:10Most tanners don't have a very long life of tanning.
16:16Usually their shoulders go out on them from working hives and pull out and stuff.
16:21So there aren't very many old tanners.
16:24I'll bet I'm one of the oldest going here, really.
16:29Wow.
16:31Whew.
16:32I think we did it.
16:34I think we did it.
16:37There wasn't no spots on it where the hair slipped out.
16:45So I think we've been a real success.
16:50Now I can get after all the other stuff I've gotta do.
16:54I mean, you gotta keep pushing all the time to just survive out here.
17:00But at least we're living here in the woods doing what we wanna do.
17:04We wanna do.
17:13In the rugged wilderness of western Montana, survival isn't given, it's earned.
17:20One meal.
17:22And one pelt at a time.
17:27For the mountain men who carved a life out of this land over a century ago.
17:31Trapping wasn't just a trade.
17:34It was a way of life.
17:35And when Tom Orr put down roots here as a young man, he quickly honed the skill that has sustained frontiersmen for generations.
17:42Back in Illinois before I moved here, I started beaver trapping.
17:50There were lots of beaver back in Illinois.
17:51In the Kootenai National Forest and we have two million acres of land.
17:58You gotta try to make that animal put his foot within an area like that.
18:06Yeah, that was one of the things I had to learn to do to make a living out here.
18:11I make good money off of beavers though because of all the things I do with the animal after I trap them.
18:20So beavers are real good for me.
18:22Beaver are beneficial to the ecosystem.
18:26But if the population gets out of control, they wreak havoc by damming up streams and destroying trees.
18:35Fortunately for Tom, his relentless dedication to the craft earned him a reputation as one of the best trappers around.
18:43Because he put in the long hours and mastered a skill few could rival.
18:47Lots of hard work involved with traveling. I mean, it's hard going.
18:56One winter, he braved the treacherous North Fork of the Yak River.
19:04Chasing a nuisance colony that promised a big reward.
19:09But it required that he put every trick he'd mastered to the test.
19:14All right, this is the trickery of the whole deer right here, boys.
19:23And this is what the beavers do.
19:25They come up on the bank.
19:27They'll grab a bunch of grass and mud off the bottom.
19:30They'll put it up here on the edge like this.
19:33And then they'll climb up on top of it.
19:34And they'll excrete this beaver castor onto it.
19:39Well, this beaver castor that I'm using here is from a different place.
19:46The castor gland on the beaver is used to mark territories.
19:51About the same kind of deal as a dog coming up and peeing on your tire.
19:57So now the beavers that live here, they'll come swimming along and they'll smell that.
20:03They got hell of a noses on them.
20:05He'll come here to check out this new guy in town.
20:10Piss him off. He'll be mad.
20:11He'll come and investigate it and I bet you we'll have a beaver here.
20:21You can see the beaver dam here.
20:24Right in the middle of it is what they call the crossover.
20:28That's where the beavers cross the dam if they're going to go down below the dam.
20:32And it's usually a pretty good place to put one.
20:33This is what they call a dive stick.
20:46The object of it is is the beaver will dive underneath these sticks which will put him right into the trap.
20:53And the trap will clamp on him like that and kill him.
20:56That's the object of the 330 counter bear it's called.
21:00Safety off.
21:03All right it's ready to fire now.
21:07With fresh sign all around Tom knew it was time to strike.
21:12So he set every trap in his arsenal and let them soak overnight.
21:19We got one boys.
21:22Success.
21:24We got a beaver.
21:26Ooh he's a big one.
21:28Nice head catch.
21:31That was that submerged trap with the dive stick.
21:35So he had to dive down and swim through it.
21:38That's close to 50 pounder.
21:40He's a big one.
21:42But that wasn't the only beaver Tom caught that day.
21:46Ha! He got a beaver.
21:47Ha! He got a beaver.
21:55Hallelujah!
21:57We caught some beavers.
22:03All right.
22:05We got five beaver.
22:07That's as many beaver as what I've ever caught in one day I think.
22:11All right.
22:13That's success.
22:18Hunting and trapping are vital survival skills in the mountains.
22:24But since the earliest mountain men blazed trails west, self-sufficiency was just as essential.
22:32With trade goods often scarce, they relied on their own resourcefulness, learning crafting techniques from Native American tribes.
22:40Skills that became a way of life, just as they have for Tom and Nancy Orr.
22:48How you doing there?
22:50Good and about got one then.
22:52Okay.
22:53We've learned over the years that the furs and stuff that we trap, we go ahead and tan them and usually make stuff out of them so we can make a better profit on what we catch.
23:07Trapping and tanning is kind of a thing. We've got to take our furs further than just to the furrier. I mean, if we just sold our furs to the furrier, I think we'd be starving.
23:26What have you liked making the best?
23:30Well, I kind of like doing the bows. That's kind of a neat thing to do. A couple pieces of wood. And hopefully it all works out to where it all comes together.
23:44Crafting a handmade bow is a test of patience and precision.
23:57Every curve, grain and fiber must be carefully shaped to create a weapon that is both powerful and resilient.
24:05Few possess the skill to craft a bow entirely by hand, because mastering the technique takes years.
24:12With the bow making, first you have to come out with the piece of wood that you're going to make the bow out of. You start with a log and you split it into pieces.
24:25You've got to trim it all down to shape it into the shape of the bow. And it's just a complicated thing to do.
24:33Many seasons ago, while working on a custom bow commission worth $1,000, it took Tom more than 24 hours just to hone the raw piece of wood into shape.
24:48Well, I make my bow out of wood like the old people did.
24:56Nancy then helped him reinforce the bow by adding deer sinew, a tough fibrous tissue that Tom harvests near the spine of the animal.
25:03And the sinew reinforces the bow.
25:06The sinew is used for thousands of years as a sewing thread. There isn't hardly anything else in nature that is as strong as what sinew is.
25:19Tom's signature wrap on the bow is made from the skin of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake.
25:31It's been an old day and an old night deal here for the last couple of nights.
25:36The bow that I made is called a recurve bow.
25:47The final step is to attach the bow stream crafted from durable hemp fiber.
25:54It's about a 40 pound draw.
26:01Then comes the moment of truth.
26:06All right, here we go here.
26:19From the time I was a kid, I was dreaming of bows and arrows, running around with traps and stuff.
26:26I was probably born 200 years too late and I'm still trying to live in the past, you know.
26:31All right.
26:32But bows aren't the only thing Tom crafts by hand.
26:37One of his best selling items is a pair of beaver hide mittens that can more than triple the profit from a single pelt.
26:44The pattern that we have is an old Eskimo pattern.
26:49The person that wanted the mittens wanted them with beaver fur back.
26:54But the palms of them are going to be made out of moose hide.
26:58So the fur will be on the outside of the mittens.
27:01All right.
27:02This will be the back of the mittens we're cutting out now.
27:17Fur is warm.
27:19That's all there is to it and that's why we use fur.
27:23Fur is a mountain man's material of choice.
27:27But making a clean cut through a dense hide like beaver takes a sharp blade and a steady hand.
27:34Turned out pretty nice.
27:36Now all we got to do is connect them all together.
27:39Once again, deer sinew is the threat of choice.
27:50That takes patience.
27:53But patience is a virtue.
27:55Patience is a very good thing to have.
27:57Looks like we're about all done here except just trimming these welts, huh?
28:08Turn that inside out.
28:10Nancy's got a real good eye for detail and stuff too.
28:14She'll go through it and pick out any bad spots.
28:17She keeps me on the stick.
28:20Ooh, that's nice.
28:25All right.
28:28They look nice, Tom.
28:29You did a great job.
28:31All right.
28:32Come get some coffee.
28:34There's just something about the past that appeals to me and how these primitive people did the things they did, the way they did them.
28:42What a neat way it is for me to be able to try to eke out a living doing the same thing.
28:48Deep in the remote wilderness of western Montana, the land is quiet, but peace is never guaranteed.
29:04Here, survival is a daily battle.
29:06And the shadow of predators loom large at every turn.
29:09For more than 40 years, Tom Orr has faced this unforgiving landscape and been tested time and time again.
29:21Yeah, living here in the woods like this has really sharpened my way of life.
29:30That's one of the things about living out here.
29:34We have to deal with the predators.
29:39One winter, the bears got way too close for comfort.
29:43We had a black bear break into the tanning shed though one time and went right through the window.
29:50And what a mess he made of that place.
30:01After several days away from his homestead, Tom was returning with a fresh elk hide.
30:12Wow.
30:15Only to find the remnants of an incursion that he had never expected.
30:20Look at this.
30:23What a mess.
30:29There's frames broken and holes and hides.
30:33Skins are torn up and ripped and lots of skins are ruined.
30:44Black bear hair.
30:47That's what it was.
30:50We've had bears come onto the deck and stuff, but we've never had one actually break into the shop before.
30:57This is definitely a black bear.
30:59The thing that probably brought the bear in in the first place was these two fresh skins that had been set here.
31:06Because they still had blood in the hair and they weren't frozen, so the smell was still good on them.
31:13And he must have just smelled it.
31:15Bears are one thing you don't want to have coming around because they make a habit of it.
31:20But if they come to your place one time and get some free cow, they'll normally come back.
31:28Damn that bear.
31:30Damn that bear.
31:32In the aftermath of the break-in, Tom and his friend Will Stringfellow got to work bear proofing the tanning shed.
31:41With an added layer of plywood, a reinforced security system, and a specially designed unwelcome mat.
31:51With your nails?
31:52Yep.
31:53Just for a little added insurance, we're going to drive a bunch of nails through boards, and we're going to put it underneath the window and underneath the door.
32:02I believe that's going to work, Tom.
32:16Looks pretty good to me.
32:18Let's see what this looks like.
32:20Oh!
32:21Oh!
32:22I believe that'll do it.
32:23Yep.
32:24Really?
32:25I sure wouldn't want to step on it.
32:27Ooh, that's sharp.
32:29Ooh!
32:30Well, that should keep him off.
32:32That should be scary.
32:33That'll be great.
32:34He won't be able to stand on that for very long.
32:39Well, looks like that should work, huh?
32:49Hopefully, between all the new locks and the border top window, we can keep this damn bear out of the shop.
32:55All right.
32:56Good deal, Tom.
33:00This is a place that we live in the wilderness, and we need to accept or expect all the things that may happen to us here.
33:15We've got lots of bears and lions and stuff.
33:19One of our biggest predators is the wolf.
33:22Hunted to the brink of extinction, wolves were reintroduced to Montana in 1995.
33:31As their numbers increased, so did the challenges they posed to those living in the wild.
33:37Every winter since, Tom Orr has gone head-to-head with the apex predator, sometimes within feet of his own doorstep.
33:44The population keeps growing, and we're the ones that need to manage the amount of wolves that we have.
33:56I'm licensed by the state of Montana to trap wolves.
34:03One winter, with wolves surrounding his homestead, Tom pushed back.
34:08I love wolves, but I'm gonna do all I can do to protect whatever I have to protect from.
34:15Laying traps strategically around his property and checking them daily.
34:20That wolf tracks there.
34:30Hoping to restore the balance.
34:35Don't move.
34:36We've got a wolf.
34:39When you see that you've got a wolf caught in a trap, the first thing you want to do is kill it.
34:45There wasn't time to think, I just shot.
34:57When you walk up to an animal in a trap, or an animal that could bite you,
35:02you ought to make sure that the things are gonna be running your way, not the animal's way.
35:08Hey!
35:15He's dead.
35:16Actually, trapping the wolf, it was a big experience for me.
35:32I still respect the animals, but I think it was looking for an easy meal.
35:38We don't want anything to go to waste, so we might as well keep the hide.
35:44If any of them have to go, it's the ones that come around people.
35:49It made me feel good, at least, about being able to keep them off my place.
35:55This is my home, this is where I live, and I'll protect it with my life.
35:59As time marches on, Tom makes use of every moment he's got left in the mountains.
36:12And while he might not be working his trap line like he used to,
36:16he's doing everything he can to leave a lasting legacy.
36:20Well, I know that I'm a dying breed.
36:23With the things that I've learned, I feel like I should pass them on.
36:29And I try to pass them on whenever I can.
36:32A legend in the Yak Valley, he's taught many a thing or two about trapping and tanning.
36:39But one of his favorite students by far has been 12-year-old Hank McAfee.
36:44One of the highlights of my life here has been teaching Hank how to do all this stuff.
36:52He's my star student at the time.
37:00Three winters ago, Tom taught Hank a skill that helped men settle the West.
37:06How to skin a beaver the way trappers did when pelts were as good as gold.
37:13All right.
37:14What is that for?
37:16This is our beaver skinning trough.
37:19This is where we put our beaver when we skin him.
37:21Like an operating table.
37:23Yeah.
37:24Why don't you grab that beaver and stick him in this trough?
37:26It's real important to pass the knowledge on how there aren't going to be no trappers
37:33if you don't teach the kids how to do it, you know?
37:36Then we've got to have trappers.
37:38The first thing we're going to do is go around, well, four legs.
37:43And not only that, but we're going to cut his tail right off.
37:48Are we both going to be using knives?
37:51Well, no, probably just one of us will be.
37:54Okay.
37:55Hank, he's into this, I think.
37:59Are we going to skin the guts out too?
38:01I hope that we're going to try not to cut the guts.
38:04Yeah.
38:05But I didn't want to stick a knife in his hand and just turn him loose because beaver are
38:11real, real hard to skin.
38:14But watching me gives him some idea of what to do when the time comes for him to get out
38:21there and be doing it himself.
38:24You grab that beaver.
38:26Yeah.
38:27And a boy.
38:30Back when I really first started, I was pretty much self-taught.
38:34It's neat if you have somebody to show you.
38:37It takes them so damn long to learn because it took me.
38:42All right.
38:44We got him.
38:45What's the next process now?
38:46We're going to take him out and put him on the flushing block and scrape the meat and
38:51fat off.
38:52You can see the interest that boiled up in the kid.
38:55All we got to do is just finish teaching him a few more things and we'll have you.
38:59All right.
39:00We'll take this out and we'll get it a little cleaner.
39:14All right.
39:15We got him.
39:16We got him.
39:17We got him, honey.
39:18We're going to take him now.
39:19We'll put him on a hoop.
39:21Tom is my favorite teacher because he's this really crafty guy.
39:30He's super cool to hang out with.
39:32We did it, didn't we?
39:34Yeah.
39:35It's really neat to have somebody young like that that is interested.
39:39I mean, most kids, they're doing their whatever they call telephones or whatever.
39:48You know, most kids don't even know what trapping is.
39:54I mean, you know.
39:55Passing down the old ways to Hank is just part of the legacy Tom's work to preserve.
40:01But to see the full weight of his years in the mountains, you head to the Willow Bend
40:06trading post where he sells his goods.
40:09You know.
40:11Okay.
40:12Mm-hmm.
40:13Always love coming in here.
40:14Well, this place gets better all the time.
40:15You know what?
40:16That's where his hands have left their mark on every square inch.
40:29Rough-hewn beams, hand-carved tools, and custom gear built to last through a hundred winters.
40:37It's more than a place to barter.
40:39It's a living museum of mountain craftsmanship.
40:43Each piece telling a story of survival, patience, and pride.
40:50I think we better go home and do more work.
40:54All right.
40:55Sounds good.
40:56All right.
40:57You still got stuff to do.
40:59All right.
41:00All right.
41:01We've got a good life.
41:02We've got a pretty damn good life.
41:03If this ain't living, you kick me out.
41:06I've been a mountain man for a long time now.
41:17And I've been very happy with what my life has been.
41:22Well, hell, I have success right there.
41:24If you're happy with what you're doing, you can ask for more than that.
41:28I'll be a mountain man until the day I die.
41:35I'm such a few weeks for you.
41:36It's not only one day.
41:37It's so hard to get the hell out of here.
41:38Let's do that.
41:40You know, it's easier.
41:41I'm like, what the thing is.
41:42It is too hard to get the ball out of here.
41:43And you can trust it.
41:45And you do nothing else.
41:46You know, it's much better.
41:47It's a perfect melody.
41:48It's a perfect melody.
41:49Beautiful melody.
41:50Me just can't get the sound of a thing.
41:52It's a perfect melody.
41:53It's a perfect melody.
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