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Gold Rush - Season 16 Episode 18 -
Golden Goose, Wounded Moose
Golden Goose, Wounded Moose
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00:18the golden goose is here washed by number five right on new toys man new toys hopefully it
00:27lives up to its name I ordered a brand new plant the golden goose it's gonna do more yardage than
00:40any of the plants we have here it's gonna have a good recovery rate and it's brand new so it
00:44should
00:44have really good uptime it's coming a very good time because we have a lot of solution to do and
00:49this plant I'm sure it's gonna get the job done Parker Schnabel is trying to claw back lost time
00:56after pulling the plug on his biggest producing cut the golden mile his gold numbers have plummeted
01:04now to get back to full capacity he spent a million dollars on a new wash plant the golden goose
01:12I'm
01:13looking forward to getting that thing built and fired up get the ATM back up and rolling
01:20as far as firing a fourth plant up goes Lucifer is ready to fire back up but we're actually not
01:25going to we're gonna park it for the season we'll finish up on Dominion with the golden goose plus
01:32big red in the golden mile at his main property Dominion Parker is finally coming to the end of
01:40a three-week mission to mine out the golden mile they're just about done hauling all the pay out of
01:47the golden mile put it in big piles sluice the pile super simple what's the worst that can happen
01:56Parker's crew are removing the final bit of pay left in the golden mile and building two giant pay
02:03mountains 4,000 feet apart Parker has already got big red sluicing one mountain now he wants to clean
02:14out the cut fire up the golden goose and hit full tilt by the end of the week every rock
02:25truck is
02:25being used to try and get every single last bit of pay out of the golden mile we're gonna need
02:31to move
02:31really fast here that's for sure got a lot of pay still in the golden mile so we just got
02:37to focus on
02:38getting that out so we can start sluicing with goose you know it's a lot of work setting up a
02:43new wash
02:44plant and Parker wants this new plant sluicing yesterday well guys what do you say we put her
02:53together once this thing's good to go I think we got a job for the golden goose will come to
02:57the rescue
02:58yeah helping build the golden goose wash plant expert Jeff Turnell this plants got to run a lot
03:06of material there's a few upgrades that we've done we got the sluice run extensions that was an add-on
03:12that Parker wanted we've done some modifications to the deck to make it better to make it more
03:17efficient so it's faster in the field hey guys my plan right now is to lift the main plant up
03:25we'll put
03:25the skids underneath it and slam in the pins throw the hopper on and the bear and then it's just
03:30a
03:30bunch of little pieces to turn it into a plant sounds good get this thing shaking first attach
03:37the hydraulic skids the foundation for the 45-ton wash plant you can go off Jordy
03:47going up okay we're in the air guys this is one of the most stressful parts of the whole process
03:58you
03:59got a 45,000 pound plant here everything's hanging on cables bouncing off two different lifting devices
04:07the crane and the loader here trying to get these pontoons lined up you're talking less than a millimeter
04:15I'll be some happy when these pins are in and this thing is set on its own feet it's drifting
04:20so
04:21let's get her done I've had max weight for this crane to pick one end of this plant boom drifts
04:29when
04:29it's at max okay let's just not mess around and let's just put it under now okay there that's good
04:41damn it's right there where's that pin
04:46Jordan down just a smidge yeah a little more
04:54it's creeping quick oh yeah
04:59oh it's kind of a trying to line the pins up when it's drifting
05:05get ready hey guys we're lined up yeah hit it hit okay let's get this one in
05:22there it is that's outside but we're getting there let's try that there it is okay
05:32give that a hit perfect hard part done as Jeff and the mechanics bolt on the remaining wash
05:45plant pieces we are really up against it right now Parker's mining crew hustles pay a third of a mile
05:55to the giant pay mountain if we don't get all this payout on time then you know I'm sure Parker's
06:02not going to be a very happy man
06:07oh it looks like the guys are moving golden goose already
06:13we are under a lot of pressure here the race is on we've got to get this payout as soon
06:18as possible
06:22we got to get this new plant together in record time
06:25we're dragging goose into place into its pad but they're still working on getting the payout of the
06:31golden mouth can't have that brand new wash plant sitting there doing nothing and we really
06:35need to get it catching some gold for us so we've got to get the payout of the hole
06:41start turning towards the front of the pad okay thanks John
06:48that's good keep going a bit more you got two feet on the other side
06:56that'll be good yeah oh thanks dude good work Taysom now we have a lot of pay stockpiled here for
07:05golden
07:06goose hopefully we can get it fired up here we're down a quarter of our sluicing capacity so we have
07:12no time
07:31to waste
07:32i'm happy as a pig to be honest with you life is good man
07:37king of the klondike tony beats is living high on the hog last week he blew past his 6 500
07:47ounce
07:48goal amassing 23 million dollars worth of gold and with over a month left of the season he still got
07:57big plans mike is losing from paradise hill in the end river in the corner cut here two plants
08:06losing away day and night it doesn't take much to make a fortune right now
08:11the most important thing you do in life is think of what comes next
08:17so peter's acquired all bunch of new property it's called wounded moose
08:23i paid four million bucks for it all total there is 213 flames that could set up to three generations
08:32there's nothing better than owning wrong happy days as they say happy days
08:43we have arrived at wounded moose i'm super excited
08:52so i did this one cut these people did but i mean you can see there is virgin ground over
08:59there
09:01in all reality i never thought it was gonna happen we paid a pile of money for it and i
09:06never even
09:07bothered testing it but for instance the thing is your neighbor only sells once so this go by quick
09:16wounded moose is four miles east from tony's indian river claims and just one mile south of the land
09:26he leases to his son kevin the 2400 acres of partially mined ground is a turnkey operation coming
09:35with a trommel excavators and a camp tony believes his new purchase could deliver up to 200 million
09:44dollars in gold but he hasn't tested it without no risk there's no gain either i mean if you don't
09:53do
09:53something stupid well you're never going to win now are you right so let's do some planning i'll see
09:59if we can find something so there's some junk laying around we'll send the crew in there to pick it
10:05all up
10:09yeah see there you go bedrock
10:13see that the fraction bedrock see that and there is the gravel right above it well you're going to take
10:21a fan that's where the good stuff is supposed to hide i just want to see did i screw up
10:27did i do it right
10:31you know what even be a better show now finally now wouldn't that be a bummer huh
10:53it'll be very interesting to see as to what we're going to get out of this pan
10:57tony beats has taken one of the biggest gambles of his life spending four million dollars on new ground
11:07wounded moose without testing it proof is in the pudding is never to say so we'll see
11:19i mean hello look at this look how fine that crap is look how much is there it is all
11:27over you see then
11:29i think if it was in las vegas that's why you call hitting a jackpot
11:34so it's very very exciting to take your first pan out of a piece of property like that
11:39and come up with that kind of gold yes sir it could turn out very well
11:51it's pretty exciting hi young lady hey guys
12:00there is plenty opportunity here i think
12:08so what do you think mike oh yeah there's lots to do here i'd like to get started here quick
12:13the
12:14previous owner stripped us already so i think what we're going to do is we're going to get heddled we
12:19quit sluicing with that on the hill and then we'll bring it over here do a little bit of sluicing
12:24down
12:24there see what kind of gold we're going to get out of there bingo cool that works out perfect
12:32so you're going to be stuck here for a little while young fella am i well you're up for running
12:39this one yes okay see on half of it we'll mine at 50 50.
12:49if my dad were to croak i'd be the one to take over operations here after years yearning to
12:56have his own mind you gave count a bunch of help getting him going so is anything you're going to
13:01help us with this season mike pushed for a chance to prove he could cut it as a mind boss
13:07let's get
13:08these two places here going first and then we'll talk but not making any promises until i have that in
13:13place right two weeks ago mike delivered 121.56 i've ran on the hill for 20 years now this is
13:29my chance
13:30to run my own mind this is coming out my pocket and more of it going back into my pocket
13:37i think mike will be happy with it well since kevin is all set up why not set up mike
13:42too
14:01easy on the turns please don't need to do that sharp thank you when we went away from tony we
14:07really wanted to show that we can run a gold mine on our own we did it for one year
14:12now we've got to
14:12make sure it's not just luck there is a chance we could have it all collapse on us you know
14:19a mile
14:20northwest tony's eldest son kevin beats is under pressure he's mined over two and a half million
14:28dollars in gold but with the season running out he needs more than double that to hit his 2 000
14:35ounce
14:35goal the main thing is that we keep the plant going 24 7 because this is what keeps us afloat
14:41but it is getting to the end of the season so we just got to do one last big push
14:46this is where it
14:48really counts obviously it's quite stressful at the moment but we're all doing our best some more than
14:56others hell yeah tavan was constantly whipping around like a headless chicken which is really hard on the
15:04equipment he kind of needs to learn that there's repercussions for some of his actions it's not
15:10good kevin do you copy kevin go for kevin tavan's going too fast in the loader seems to be a
15:20bit of a
15:20reoccurring problem rock truck driver ayla mitchin holds gold rich pay from the seven acre sphinx cut
15:291200 feet to the pay pile where loader operator tavan peterson feeds it into the plan
15:37i'm really enjoying it here at kevin's working hard running the loader as fast as i possibly can
15:44it's crunch time we gotta get as much done as we can
15:58i keep getting messed up that's not great why is it going so fast the pile is right there
16:08hey tavan tavan got a copy what's up you're gonna have to slow it down quite a bit okay you're
16:13going
16:13way too fast okay copy that thank you thank you uh i didn't think i was going too fast we're
16:26gonna have
16:26to fix this because we really don't have the margin and error for like someone beating the crap out of
16:31the loader and if that loader goes down the plant will be down for some time you can't have that
16:41uh really bums me out i was told to slow down i mean can barely even keep up to the
16:46plant
16:47i don't want to get fired again for something stupid like going too fast
16:54unfortunately we're gonna have to let you go tavan you just have a really attitude
16:58six weeks ago tavan was fired from parker's operation i've given you ample opportunity to
17:06do what is asked of you and you still do it tavan's way for not following instructions and running his
17:13loader too fast you boast about how many loads you can get in an hour who does that see right
17:20now you're
17:21still telling me that you're right get out of here go get out of here this is sad
17:37very frustrating it's not sinking in just unnecessary wear and tear on the engines
17:43and completely shred my transmission i'm gonna have to switch them out
17:53we really can't have a gold total jeopardized just by one guy going too fast
18:07so we got a bit of a problem tavan our loader operator has been speeding and he's been told many
18:13times to not it's not great you have to take him off take him off the loader put him on
18:21a truck yeah but
18:23who are we going to send to replace him we could train up aila kind of hesitant on aila the
18:32fact that
18:33we have to train someone up is cutting into our time for sluicing if tavan wrecks one of the machines
18:40well we'd be done for even longer so it's a choice it just sucks are you gonna spearhead this one
18:50yeah i'll take the lead and you train aila i think i can do that yeah well good luck ma
18:57'ams
18:59tavan can i see you by the office please yes i'll be right there
19:06let's go talk to the kid
19:13hey how's it going not great
19:17i heard you've been speeding in the loader i feel like i've been slowing down quite a bit though
19:25lately or you're going told about it you have to learn from your ups sorry it was just an adjustment
19:32coming from parker's where tyson trained us like to run the loaders as fast as possible so yeah but
19:38we're not at parker's anymore we're here like kevin beats claim and that's how we set it up so that
19:45you can go slow and easy okay so we're gonna throw you on the rock truck give you another chance
19:53well i appreciate the second chance don't up okay she can be a bit scary but this is a
20:03new mind that i'm working for so i'm gonna have to fit in or off i don't know
20:25here we go
20:29hey tyson have you got a copy tyson yep go ahead india yeah that is the last of the pay
20:36out the golden
20:37mile i've just handed it over right on nice work you killed it sluice baby sluice parker's crew has
20:46finally mined out dominion's golden mile wash plant big red is already sluicing one giant pay
20:54pile from the cut put it in there just put it down now parker's eager to make up for lost
21:02time
21:03just fling that man really and get the fastest wash plant in his arsenal the golden goose running the
21:12newly finished second pay pile
21:17there's a lot going on up here right now at the old golden mile we're digging a ditch up the
21:24up the
21:25valley so that the new plant can get water and we're trying to get the water to come like several
21:30thousand feet upstream which is a pretty big feat it's like we're compensating for probably 15 feet of
21:37just like elevation in the valley the other problem is that setup is very high so i don't know how
21:44much
21:44water pressure we're gonna be able to push that far up there
21:49to supply water to the golden goose parker and his crew face two obstacles
21:56first he needs to finish a 100 foot deep ditch from an old pond
22:02to link it to the goose's new intake pond and fill it second install a hose from a pump up
22:11to the
22:11wash plant's 160 foot high pad if all goes to plan and the water pressure is sufficient
22:19parker's new million dollar plant will fire up for the first time
22:29all right i think that looks pretty good
22:35hey caden go ahead and let that water rip and see if we've got a enough drop here and we
22:41can get this
22:41plant fired up i'm just getting ready to let some water in to the pond area
23:09it looks like this is working
23:20next mechanics alec kelly and liam pukula press on with the last stage of the new plant setup
23:30it's dragging uh golden goose's water line in place here
23:38it is a long run up to the plant the main concern we're going to be having is if we
23:45can't
23:45get enough water going to goose then we're not using it to its max potential and we're not going
23:51to be able to run the yardage parker wants this might have just been all for for nothing
23:56we just got the suction basket into place and we'll be pumping water to the plant shortly
24:02we'll see if she pumps water i hope it does
24:12hopefully nothing goes wrong because we got to get this thing fired up yeah i'll send water on your
24:17call okay a lot of our season is riding on this right here is the plant going to be able
24:23to do what
24:23we need it to ready when you are buttercup
24:29okay water pump is loading up
24:34you nervous i'm nervous do you see the air coming out of it
24:37dust come on you thing come on oh yeah
25:04all righty india want to start feeding here we go first scoop in the goose hell yeah it's exciting
25:33good job guys congratulations on your new purchase i mean i'm just glad it worked yeah me too
25:44so what did you want to go for yardage on this like 220 yards an hour 30 230 okay i
25:55just want to smash
25:56through that pile
26:06what i just put it up a little more it's 270 yards an hour what's the point of having a
26:11brand new plant if
26:12you're not going to like thunder it that wasn't what i was going to say but yeah yeah
26:21oh
26:22something sounds weird
26:25oh
26:28oh the belt's dry okay there's obviously a problem here
26:43oh
26:44oh boy
26:46ellen
26:47oh no
26:49stop running around you got a bar one right there
26:57it's got a big monster here it's a frozen ball of some sort
27:06there you go from that side yeah oh yeah there you go
27:23parker's golden mile operation is back running two wash plants
27:29and with the golden goose running full throttle he's got a shot at hitting his 10 000 ounce target
27:38this new plant's really nice we've got a mountain of pay back there to run
27:43that is close to a thousand hours of sluicing and there's not much more than a thousand hours
27:48left in the season so now it's time to sprint to the finish line
28:18i'm gonna pull out harold's take it up and put it on a truck mike beats is finally in the
28:27driver's
28:27seat having earned father tony's trust on paradise hill he joins older brother kevin in being given a
28:36piece of the beats empire the sprawling indian river property wounded moose yeah it's good enough
28:43gentlemen aye aye captain mike's first mission safely transport wash plant harold 40 miles from
28:52paradise hill to his new claim it's just gotta come up the ground and then i drive the truck
28:58underneath it i'd be laughing that's it nothing super complicated
29:04colby can you hop on the forklift please helen get in on the other side
29:11widen your forks all the way many things can go wrong
29:16i don't plan for what's wrong i plan for getting it done right up
29:27go
29:37the loader for some reason won't lift beyond a certain point that doesn't make any sense even slightly
29:44because that thing has more power than that thing len do you copy len i don't know what's wrong
29:51yeah and the worst part is it's not even a lifting issue something is locking it out
29:55it stops at the exact same spot every time no power at all right the math don't math right
30:02change the plan i don't have time to around with it get another forth lift over here and we're
30:07gonna lift it with that we'll get this done that's good up
30:26go go go
30:29keep it coming just back it up back it up
30:36good
30:41a little bit of trouble getting her on but she'll be going to wounded moose here soon
30:45good to see her go or she'll be useful at least
30:52i think i'm good to go so let's see if we can get it out of here driving harold to
30:57its new home
30:59experienced trucker len hoekstra
31:11i'm excited to set up a new mind let's see how everything goes
31:21really
31:24i thought we were good for a couple years okay it kind of really sucks but yeah thanks for the
31:32news i
31:32guess okay bye
31:35len do you copy len do you copy yes i do we got some bad news
31:42so you need to turn around with that truck all right now mike monica tony come to the cook shack
31:51right now i
31:52need to talk to you about something you're not gonna like it
32:09hey hey hey guys hello what was your panic lady
32:14well it's not good news after taking a phone call mini beats has called an emergency family meeting
32:25so you were gonna sluice on one of the most well we'll go in that direction yeah
32:32i was talking to the girl that does the licensing for us and she told me
32:39but we have no water license on that one
32:44i thought we did nope this is so stupid why are we just finding this out now like what happened
32:52i honestly was under the impression there was a three four year license on it
32:56you were as well yeah i really didn't realize it wounded moose has a water license under the previous
33:05owner's name until 2027 but the official paperwork has not yet been transferred to the beats family
33:14without it all mining is off limits no use crying over spilled milk they say it is what it is
33:22man
33:22it would be nice to sluice there just to see what was in there and see whatever we bought
33:27but that is not gonna happen i've got no license in the meantime we might as well go make some
33:33money
33:33what do you think yeah okay bye bye guys
33:41mike's dream of striking out on his own has hit a major roadblock until the family gets a new water
33:50license
33:56i up but on the end of the day there's more gold here so let's go get that it's all
34:03gotta do
34:06every time i try to do something to get my own place it always always comes to a dead stop
34:14uh
34:31mike's dream of running his own mind might be wrecked but 40 miles away it's a painful experience
34:40his big brother kevin is determined to stop tavin from torpedoing his rock truck rock truck rock truck
34:53i don't want to seem like a complainer i mean i just feel like the most useful place for me
35:00is not in a
35:00rock truck i was doing really good on the plant and then they put ala on the plant that's not
35:07fair
35:08at all i'm happy for my own opportunity just trying not to pick up bad habits from tavin ala has
35:17now
35:17been promoted to loader operator duties and is responsible for feeding the plant with pay i feel
35:25a little bit blessed to be trusted by kevin and faith to learn one this piece of equipment and two
35:31being
35:32trusted to feed the plum
35:38demoted tavin can only look on as he holds dirt to the wash plant's pay pile
35:46it's david how do you feel about being disciplined like that
35:52yeah it definitely sucks
35:54i mean we're not allowed to go fast which i think is absurd
35:57sometimes i'll be going 10 and i'll be told to go a little bit faster and then sometimes i go
36:0415
36:04and i got told to slow the down and that i'm going way too fast
36:10sucks being a little guy on the totem pole all right
36:16i thought i was gonna get to learn a lot working here but i haven't really learned
36:23anything i mean i've learned what not to do in the cut
36:27lots of what not to do in the cut because in my mind it doesn't feel like we have a
36:32mine plan they
36:33come every day and it's like what are we doing i don't know we'll figure it out we're gold mining
36:37we're
36:38not just digging holes and making rock quarries it's not our operation so just run with it
36:48yeah it's just hard i really enjoy kevin he's a great guy but hey she'll just like glare at me
36:54but
36:55everybody says that that's just how she is
37:05chavin come up to the staging yard immediately
37:12these are not really fun conversations to have
37:33am i getting fired so you've been reprimanded this week yeah
37:41so like i heard you kicking us on the radio sorry
37:54if this is a strike two strike three you're out yeah this is the last month almost i just need
38:03you
38:03to like basically man up being adult yeah yeah thank you
38:19i really hope that message got through them because otherwise he's going to be gone
38:26that was intense oh i definitely thought i was getting fired that was a terrible feeling that's for
38:34sure
38:36any more cups and i'm getting canned
38:44hey kev just reprimanded taven this is the second violation in one week told him to basically smarten
38:51up or um cheer out pretty much already behind the eight ball kevin and faith can't afford any more
39:01hiccups with crew if they are to hit their 2000 ounce goal we are near the end of the season
39:07and we
39:08don't have much time you sideways we want to make sure that this operation is going somewhere this week
39:14we're going to need a big a gold total fingers
39:33is
39:33you
39:34how is you how are you not too bad
39:41there's some yellow there's some yellow there yeah kevin and faith are running out of time
39:47to hit their 2000 ounce season target it is kind of a shame that we had to deal with all
39:52this
39:52taven this week yeah he seemed apologetic he said he'll do better so we'll see how it goes yeah well
40:01it's gonna be his catchphrase oops sorry yeah all stuff going in the office
40:07i see more gold has come in hopefully a little bit faster than the bills are taking it out um
40:12not
40:12really no it's not an encouraging face things are getting pretty bad and see what we get all right
40:24kevin has three weeks of gold to weigh up and needs 400 ounces if he has any hope of reaching
40:33his goal 70 80 90 95 110 160 70 90 200 220 223.85
40:51worth nearly 800 000
40:57it's not great 72 ounces a week that is a little bit lower than
41:02expected
41:05what does that bring our total to just under a thousand ounces
41:10i wonder if two thousand ounces was a bit much i think maybe we bit off a bit more than
41:16we could
41:16chew i'll have to go look at our books see where we're at hopefully it's not too bad
41:27see what we can get all right i'll clean up
41:39so
41:43hi guys
41:45long time no see
41:48so mike i thought we were gonna be neighbors yeah i i thought that too but
41:53there's no water license on the ground so i can't i can't do anything there that sucks
41:59you didn't realize that
42:03next year despite the setback it wounded moose and being four million dollars down
42:11tony still has a full week's gold haul from his indian river and paradise hill claims
42:17how are your cleanups looking uh not too bad i got some uh nice nuggies which is rare for the
42:26hill
42:27so should we weigh it all up then sure all right we got find a lot
42:33we got sluice a lot a lot of sluicing eh bring it on as they say what do we got
42:42for sluice a lot
42:45first the indian river's corner cut 60 70 80 last week tony pulled in 625 ounces from his two mine
42:56sights to cruise past his 6 500 ounce season goal 200 200 and 218.74 it's a good week wall
43:12it's all good
43:13let's see what the final lot found 40 80 90 100 120 130 170 180 200 210 220 230
43:31237.58 that's awesome
43:37we still have some more left boop boop let's see how much the hill weighs in
43:43okay fry your chuck let's go
43:4880 90 100 110 120 130 170 180 230 230 240 250 250
44:02258.98 that's pretty good huh a 715 ounce two and a half million dollar week
44:12takes his season total to 7 333 ounces worth nearly 26 million dollars nice load see how far we're
44:23going to get with it this year that came up pretty nice though mike huh yes i think so
44:28hopefully everything keeps running who knows where it's going to go hey
44:41hey hey howdy howdy howdy yo yo what up hey how's it going well hopefully there's a lot of gold
44:50in
44:51there and it's going really good little does parker know the king of the klondike is hot on his heels
44:58just 33 ounces behind him but with four wash plants running parker has a chance to pull clear
45:05again we got the goose going huh that new wash plant's pretty sweet looking yeah and it's like
45:12fired up real smooth i hope it's a good plant because you know the goose that's not a name that
45:18really demands authority or you bring a loaf of bread every time you go do a cleanup
45:28a buddy of mine suggested the name
45:31i don't really like the name
45:32so it's gg the supermodel yeah
45:37well you want to see how we did yeah all right i'm curious start with gg
45:42start with we don't have gg yet she hasn't been running long enough
45:45it's fine stay tuned but we got the golden mile big red golden mile to hit his 10 000 ounce
45:54target
45:55parker needs to average 440 ounces a week
46:0220 40 80 100 130 140.7 nice that's all right that's good for big red yeah
46:14all righty let's see how bob did in the bridge cut for the last month wash plant bob's gold haul
46:21has been hovering above 100 ounces a week got 20 40 80 100 120 127.4
46:39bob's still boring yeah i think it's the name man
46:42yeah could be worse
46:46all right roxanne roxanne sluiced all week at kennan stewart's and needs to deliver 172 ounces to keep
46:56parker on track we got 40 50 60 90 110 130
47:12we got 153.2 sick once gg gets in back into the mix it'll be good yeah throw that in
47:21then we're
47:21back in the big numbers again well last week it was 317.25 ounces and this week is 421.3
47:31so yeah we're
47:33going up worth one and a half million dollars our season total seven thousand seven hundred and eighty
47:40seven point one we've got to break eight next week yes let's hope for a warm fall yeah no
47:47no all right thanks guys thank you chris
47:53i'm really happy with four plants back up and running you know things are looking up i think that
47:58um i do think we've got a real shot at making this happen
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