who here has been to appalachia or from appalachia? i feel like people didn't clap. they don't want everyone to know. appalachia has a stigma on it. it's a very poor area of the country. it's also -- it's like the poorest white area in the country. in appalachia, not only is it poor, it's also in a very remote part of the country that it's hard to get to and isolated because it's in the mountains, which basically makes it the only poor neighborhood in america to never get gentrified. they will be poor forever because it's like they can't get there. does that make you sad?

everyone's like, this is getting into a weird place. i know. i like to take it to a weird place. my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i've made a living finding humor in parts of the america i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." after the first season of "united shades of america" i got a few suggestions from viewers about where they should go this season. by suggestions i mean people tweeting things like, you go to places like kamen, new jersey, san quentin and talk to black people but i bet you wouldn't get to appalachia and talk to white people. today i'm responding, oh, yeah, i'm going to appalachia. is it appalachia? maybe we should start right

there. w what do i call this area of the country? >> appalachia? >> where i'm from we say april lay cha, am i wrong? >> you sato mate toe addition. >> if i say appalachia, i'll look like i'm from here? for those like me who got a strong d-plus in geography, it belongs to a 13-state region along the appalachian mountain ring. it includes tennessee, and where i am now, the eastern part of kentucky. this is coal country. coal is one of the three things most people think about when they think about appalachia, along with abject poverty and the movie "deliverance". >> what stereotypes do people have about this part of the country? >> we're not educated. we don't have teeth. >> people think you're not educated and you don't have tooelt? >> the "deliverance" stereotype.

ding, ding, ding. you will find that -- >> let's be clear. it does exist. >> but on the whole, it's just good-heart people, you know. >> as far as the two other things people think about, coal is a dirty business is a dirty reputation that's become a dirty four-letter word. kids, cover your eyes. years of talk about alternative energy sources has slowly begun to turn into real action from solar panels on houses to electric cars on the street and to rumors that google is working on ways to power the city. these coal jobs aren't coming back. no matter what this -- >> coal is coming back, clean coal is coming back. 100%. as a nation we have been conditioned to believe povr sti exclusively a black or brown thing. one of the only things we're allowed to have for themselves. the thing when people say they

see no color, that's a neurological thing. the people of appalachia combine poverty with remote, difficult to access location, surrounded by mountains with no major industries in town or even near town. during the western expansion, the original settlers here used this very isolation to their advantage, taking pride in being self-sufficient and living off the land. what happens to the folks who live here now? are they bitter? do they see a brighter future? what do they i think of "rogue one"? i'll ask that off ka ra. i think the best way to go into the journey is to go into the belly of the beast. portal 31 was former miner and tour guide cody hall is taking me underground. not like my favorite band underground in the '80s but underground in a coal mine.

>> we're 400 feet back in the mine. >> when did you work in a mine? >> i lost my job in 2013. i went in when i was 22. going into the coal mines at 22, you make 50 grand. and around here -- >> that's a lot. >> i was making it. >> that's like puff daddy. >> right now our cameras have lights. would it have looked like this? >> no. >> what would it have looked like? >> just their headlamp. >> cool. it would be nice to if we could get the lights out to see how dark it would have been at some point. >> we can do is that. >> we don't have lights on our helmets yet but this is how dark it gets without the lights we had on in here. >> definitely. >> now if we turn our lamps on. this is what people were seeing? >> yeah. this is how you'd work. >> doesn't it -- don't know, make you feel like you're in a horror movie. >> yes. >> the first act of a horror movie? >> yes.

>> lights are back on because i couldn't take it. let's be honest. it's really dark and quiet and that weird temperature where it feels like a ghost is around. >> you hear things in here. you know, people lived and died in these moun is. >> okay, thanks for that. they were willing to risk death because for a while coal is where the money was. when coal skyrocketed, central appalachia went from farmers to main destination if you were an immigrant looking for a job. other than creating energy for electricity and heating, coal was essential for steel production and cement manufacturing. now with stronger regulations and a growing number of renewable energy alternatives, coal went from providing 50% of the u.s. electricity needs in the '90s to about half of that now. same kay corn rway corn rows di in the nba and they ain't coming back. >> this is more complicated. people don't think about it from the cultural side. what makes you proud to be from

here? >> what we have done for our country, and we helped the country move forward. >> coal is a dirty word. it's a literally a four-letter word. it means destroying the environment. >> that's why i lost my job. >> that's why you lost your job. >> basically. >> talk more about that. >> because of carbon emissions and whatnot. coal industry has been regulated to the point of death, basically. but i care about our environment. i don't want to live in a place full of toxic sludge. i don't want that. i just want a good job. that's it. >> that's it. which is everybody. we all just want good jobs. >> yeah. >> see, we want the same things. a good job, a family, a car, a house with a chocolate fountain. is that still possible arnold these parts without coal? >> kamau. >> you can just call me skid. >> all right. >> they said you were a big dude. you aren't, aren't you? >> a little bit. >> come on, i'lle show you around. >> fact is, there are still coal

jobs. about 56,000 nationally and 7,000 here in kentucky. >> whoa. >> feel the simulator base? >> yes. >> you're mining. >> training for these jobs is mandatory, even if the industry is way safer today than the 1920s when an average of 1500 people died yearly due to mining eplosions and collapses, so training and safety is what this is all about. >> got to back it up. >> that and my producer is get morgue footage for their collection of look at all the things kamau can't do. this is the kentucky coal academy, the yale of appalachia, or the harvard. i can't remember. >> where are we headed? >> this is our smoke mobile training simulation movement to simulate the escapeways of an underground coal mine. we'll let you train in it like the miners do on their annual refresher and see if you can make it out of the mine safe. what do you think about that? >> i feel like i can get it from here. i feel like i can do it.

i don't need to go in there. >> yeah, you got to go in there or you won't get your retraining. >> is this something every comb miner has to do or is this optional? >> it's not optional. it's state and federally required. that's one of the most important things a coal miner can learn, is the way to get out of that mine in case of an emergency. >> has anybody ever died in here when they were training? >> no. >> all right. >> not yet. >> yea. i can set a new record. >> miner's belt so carry stuff in and out, check. airline type breath mask that actually inflates, check. finally, the perfectly fitting hard hat. this hat is culturally biased against afros, sir. >> don't be scared. >> it's like snoop dog's trailer. >> you can see the yellow life line.

you can go right here. you want to follow this life line and escape the mine. mine fire. you doing okay? >> uh-huh. >> okay. congratulations. you just exited the mine. >> yea. >> okay. so maybe that only prepared me to escape from a winnebago. that said, the mines are obviously still an incredibly dangerous place to go. >> training side of it is the key. these miners are well trained, highly skilled. most of them are going to know what to do. >> as far as i know a lot more people were employed as coal miners. >> no question, we are in a downturn. >> this is the main industry of appalachia? >> it is. with the loss of jobs, it's devastating families and communities. we used to be the biggest industrial nation in the world. now everybody else is doing the work and we're outsourcing our jobs, so i'm concerned about the future. >> do you think there's -- this

is a viable region if there's no coal industry? >> well, that's a good question. weesh hanging onto the slim hopes that things will rebound, will turn around. there's not a lot else here, kamu. i'm telling you, there's not a lot else here. ♪

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all the black people must have gone on vacation at the same time. in harlan county, which has only a 2% african-american population, has a small town called lynch m. you heard me. lynch has a 25% african-american population. i'm headed to talk to some retired black coal miners in lynch, at the lynch colored school. i got to start with the obvious question. talk about being black and living in a place called lynch, if you travel around, that's got to be a conversation starter. retired coal miners, surprisingly there was one place everywhere was equal. people didn't realize a lot of black people lived here. talk about working in the coal mine. when you were working next to white people any problem? >> get in the coal mine, everybody is black. everybody dirty. we got to taking care of each other. >> a lot of racial differences

we think about, the racial strife -- >> you forget all that -- >> i want to liv, you want to live. i don't care if you're black or you're white. >> you could do what you wanted to. when you go under that ground, you hey, you got to be together and watch out for each other because that's the only way can you get in there and get out. big u.s. steel, they had the biggest mine in the nation. >> what years was that? >> '20s and '30s and '40s. it was a place to make a living but it was no money. it was scrip. >> which is corporate currency only used at coal camp. it was deemed illegal. like if the boss paid you in arcade tokens and you lived in the arcade. >> you had to spend it at the store. you couldn't take your money out of this area. >> really? >> it wasn't slavery -- >> but it wasn't much better. >> they'll pay you but you use the money on the plantation. >> you only use the money right here. >> this used to be a school.

what is it now? >> social club. a community building. >> a community center. >> all right. >> the blacks didn't have nothing. they was talking about tearing the building down. it had been closed a few years and so we asked for the school. >> is it still a place to hang out? >> this is the only -- >> still the only place black people come together. >> yeah, within 50-mile radius if we're having something, they come. >> so, for 50 miles this is the black head quarters? >> yeah. >> wow. >> i want to ask you about this. it says lynch klan threatened but they never showed up and a picture of you smiling. >> they didn't really know it was that many blacks living in this area. once they figured out, they called that off. people was up on their houses. they had shotguns. that's one thing about in this area, we watch out for each other, black, white, everybody. community worked together. it's just a good place to live, i think. >> all right.

before i go, can i check out the gym, the old gym? >> yeah. >> let's check that out. >> played a lot of basketball. that was the big thing here, basketball game. >> there's a stage over here. >> a stage there. >> bands, singles come in from all oefrt country here. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> any famous people? >> james brown. >> james brown? >> cab callaway. >> yeah. >> one of them old coal miners. >> when you're the only black hangout for 50 miles and there's a black people meeting going on, well, black folks just show up out of nowhere. it's like we sent up the black signal. >> so many people didn't realize black people had so much to do with coal mining. like everybody else, there's no history. >> that's important for people to know because i certainly didn't know it. >> in the state of ken condition, only two black schools and this is one of them.

>> only school got colored on the front of it. >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> on the front of it. i don't know if they had white schools up there or not. >> they can say school. >> they make sure we know. >> this is yours. you go here where it says colored on the front so you don't get con fuszed and wander to the white school. >> after only a day here, one thing is absolutely clear. lack of opportunities and concern for the future weigh heavily on everyone's minld. i chat with former coal unionizer. >> what do you love here? >> the people, we're clannish type people. >> did he say clannish? i'm having flashbacks. >> my mother lives here.

>> oh, clan with a "c." >> what are your thoughts about the coal mining industry in this part of the world? >> as far as i'm concerned, coal is on its way out. i mean, i don't believe coal's coming back. >> why do you think that is? >> because it's time for a change. sustainable energy, renewable energy. it's coming. i've seen my fathers literally smother to death. all these guys have given their lives for the coal industry. >> you think coal is hard on the community? >> yeah, with the mountain top removal and all this stuff. >> what carl is talking about is surface mining where you literally blow off the top of a mountain so you can drill into it for coal. in addition to the pollution in the air from, i don't know, blowing off the top of a mountain, the rubble is usually dumped into rivers and streams which sucks because rivers and streams are made of water, which we need to survive. the epa estimates mountain top

removal valley fills are responsible for burying more than 2,000 miles of vital appalachia water sources. >> they are destroying our water and everything. >> i come from berkeley, california. you're starting to sound like a hippie. >> that's kind of what i'm known as here. even my kinfolks call me a tree hugger. it's not that i'm against coal. i'm not. but i just try to tell them f we don't do something with our planet, man, we're going to destroy ourselves. and i got nine grandchildren, man, i'd like to see them have a little bit of fun like i did on this planet. >> yeah, you want them to have nine grandchildren and so on and so forth. >> that's right. they call us ignorant hillbillies but we got some smart people around here. >> you just used a word i wasn't going to use, the "h" word. >> that's just like the "n" word.

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i was so happy to stumble into that black people meeting in the middle of appalachia. i'm sure they had to overpay black performers to play in lynch. do you want to play in a black club? yeah, where is it? lynch. i don't think so. i'm good, i'm good. there's no one word that con jurors up appalachia image other than moonshine. as notorious as bonnie and clyde, as noticer orious as jes james, hooch is part of the experience. as a black man voluntarily entering a town called whitesburg, i could use a drink.

i went to kentucky distillery. . >> just making a little liquor today. >> for those who are not initiated, what's in moonshine and whisky? >> moonshine is a lot better. >> you might be biased about that, but, yeah, yeah. why is it better? >> the difference is most whiskys and stuff is aged in a barrel. none of us stuff is aged in a barrel. >> is it illegal to make moonshine in your house? >> when you convert that mash to liquor, that's the illegal part. >> when cole is talking about mash, he's saying corn and water is mash. to this add a little sugar, yeast, throw it in a hot sxot after while you get moonshine. after you drink moonshine, you think, hey, is that horse talking smack about me? you don't know me. >> why is that part illegal in your house? >> they can't tax that. it can't be taxed.

so, it all boils back to the government getting nir part. >> the government is like, wait, that's not fair. want our part. >> good old uncle sam. in 1791 alexander hamilton decided to impose a luxury tax on whisky, which the people did not take too kindly to because they just left another country because of taxes. also, they like drinking whisky. avoiding those taxes led to the term moonshine. they made whisky by the moon. the. >> how important is moonshine to the culture of being from this part of the country? people think about this area as being coal mines. does that have this level of importance? >> i think so. a lot of people still do this. >> what do you like better, working in a coal mine or making moonshine? >> making moonshine by far. everybody that comes in wants to do this but you're going to get to try this today. >> all right. >> all right.

we're going to take a little off the still. not too much. >> i appreciate this is about as much as i can take. >> all right. whoa! hey! good morning, america. how are you? wow. even before it went in my mouth i was like, why are you yelling at me? >> this is before it's cut down and filtered and cleans you out. just cleans you all the way down. >> feel clean. feel like if i drink that whole thing i'll start fighting crime. >> glad you liked it. >> now i have a smooth 11:00 a.m. buzz going, how about ginseng while it may make you think of china, there is over 1,000 tons produced in america annually. ginseng is as american as apple

pie. am i repeating myself? >> you go past the strip job, it will grow on the edges of that. >> ex-coal miner donald has brought me out to the cumberland mountains to find another way locals are using the either to make money. ginseng. i that's what do you, you grow ginseng? >> i hunt ginseng. >> who plant it back there originally? >> god. >> it's from here? >> yeah. >> ginseng is wild. >> i associate ginseng with asia and china? >> the southeastern part of kentucky and these mountains we're supposed to have the best ginseng. sells for the highest prices. >> the best ginseng in the world comes out of eastern kentucky. >> supposed to. supposed to be the most potent. i brought some. >> this always looks illegal. >> yeah, it does. we can take it out of the bag. you want to take it out of the bag? >> yeah.

if you grew this on your property -- >> you'd have to guard it because people will steal it. >> why are they doing that? >> tough times. a lot of guys is on drugs. >> it seems like such a gift to this part of the world that there's things growing in the woods is valuable. >> it's something for you to get out and make some money. >> get out and make money. >> all have you to do is be responsible. because the economy got hit so hard, people are now irresponsible. >> yeah. the laid off coal mine put a lot of people in the mountains, it sure did. we went from probably 18 mines in this town to three. we went from 1500 employees to 150 people working in this town. yu come back to cumberland in fife years and you'll be lucky if there's a gas station here, man. i'm a fourth generation coal miner, that means for four generations we've doug coal in these mountains and then they want to tell us we can't dig coal no more. i'm all about the environment and the clean air. i think you could figure out a way to burn coal clean. >> yeah, yeah. >> you know what i'm saying?

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been a lot of news people rolled through here and take out the image of beattyville the poorest town in the country. people are suspicious. what are your thoughts on that? >> its home. no matter what we have or don't have, it's always going to be home. in a small community like us that's been going downhill for 40 years, a lot of people draw money from the government, no jobs leads no no money which leads to depression, which leads to drugs or alcohol. you know, we just have 35% of our high school kids graduate. >> wow. sothing to do.e leave to find i want young people to stay. i want them to find jobs and be with their families. just like i want my children to be with me. i ran for mayor back in 2010. and i got beat by a handful of votes. >> thaul all you have here is a handful of votes. >> absolutely. i'm proud of who i am. i'm proud of my mother. she has a sixth grade education. she's hooked these home cooked meals. she has taken care of me for 33

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>> you can't even let your own friends into your house. in the past two months i let friends move in who have tooken everything i have. >> people who you thought were your friends? >> why are you talking to us today? people don't want to -- >> i'm ready for a change. i'm ready for this place to be changed. nobody's going to step out of their comfort zone or, you know, like right now, i'll get called a rat or something. >> really? >> i'm up here -- >> we are talking in front of where you live. i see a couple people lean out and look and go back in. is it normally this quiet or is it because we're here? >> it's normally this quiet. nighttime is when it turns on. >> what happens? >> the walking dead come out. >> really? >> yeah. >> how do you deal with that? >> what can you do? stick to yourself? >> if there were no drugs, you could make a life? >> i feel like a town could use you to lead to new changes but because of the lack of jobs and

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after daying being out in the mountains, i knew i was missing the comforts of he. cap s i found a warehouse that houses an art studio, recording studio, tattoo parlor, and praise black jesus, a coffee shop. i want to meet one of the brave people to open something within 70 miles that offers mocha and sweet, sweet wi-fi. >> i'm dustin. >> kamau. this is your coffee shop? >> yeah, this is the art factory. >> it's a great spot. having been traveling around appalachia the last few days, i

saw this place, i was like, is that a mirage? this feels like a coffee shop you'd see in san francisco or portland or new york. >> they do country very well here. but they do too much, so i'm from here, but i wanted something more urban. >> so, why do you think its important to open up a coffee shop like this here? >> the industry is change. we're close to tourist area. red river geororge. my target was to accommodate them. if we can pull in the tourists, we can help this town survive. >> how long have you been here? >> a year. >> have you always lived here? >> i lived in japan. we moved back here. i looked around and thought, there's a lot of potential here. >> wife from japan, i got to talk to her. >> hi. >> she does all the baking and pastry making. >> nice to meet you. you make the food? >> yes. >> from scratch.

>> before we began, she told me she was nervous because her english wasn't very go. i told her we could do it in japanese, she said no. >> i'm from osaka, japan. >> do you like it here? >> yeah, because my home time is really busy, beattyville has very few people. nice nature. >> there's somebody for everybody. i thought her english was great. i want to make sure she felt good about it? >> yes. >> good. >> thank you. >> is tourism the hope for this area? as soon as i walked outside, i met lona. >> what are you doing out here? >> i'm rock climbing. >> now, what is it about this part of the country that has good rock climbing? >> this place is a well known destination. what's great about this place is sand step and its really steep so you can climb on rock that's like parallel to the ground bought you're on large holds. >> the rock is like this and

you're on the underside? >> yes. >> how are you not falling through? >> you're on a rope. i fall all the time. that's also what's nice. when you fall, you fall in the air. if you're face climbing, you fall down into the rock. can you push yourself. >> i don't like any of that. >> guess what i'm going to do? yep, rock climb. why? because i'm a host of a tv show and that's what a tv host does. you have a scene someone mentions you don't like, a producer tells you you can do it so you can overcome a life-long fear on live tv for the world to ridicule and watch. helping me out with that is craig bentley ateautiful red river gorge. how long has rock climbing been part of the tourism people that climbed it and didn't make it. >> blown out, a lot of traffic here. along the proliferation of

climbing gyms. it's fun, it's challenging. >> yeah. >> as you'll see. >> down there you said there will be a beginner wall. >> yes, this is our beginner wall. this is the one we use. >> this one right here? >> mm-hmm. >> where is the remedial wall? >> i think those are in day cares, things of that nature. >> i see what you're saying. rock climbing is not something i thought of. >> no, many people didn't. i grew up in the coal business. i have family that still works in the coal business. as tourism expanded here, we're really busy here. this is a sport climbing mecca. >> seems is like a lot of living out here in this part of the country is using what the earth gave us. a some of that is coal that's under here and some of that is just climbing the mountain as it is. the mountain said, hey, climb me. and you like, all right. >> there aren't that many things to do. >> not a lot of restaurants or nightclubs or movie theaters. it's like, well, time to climb this wall again. this is the big movie in town.

what makes you want to do this? like what do you get out of it? >> like physicists who didn't want to work on their math, you get lost in that. you work on these things and you get lost in that and you don't have to worry about day-tday and other things that you maybe have to ponder. >> let's say i wn't here, you get tall way up ther >> tha is the goal. sometimes you have to work it. sometimes it takes a while. >> thanks for showing is it to me. take care. wrap it up. that's it. good luck, buddy. that was great, craig. i'll see you next time. yeah, i wish. this is like the early days of batman, it looks like. it feels tight. is that the way it's supposed to feel? should i be taking my blood pressure. i know it's my job to keep you all entertained. and i take that seriously. at least as seriously as my health insurance says i can. now that we elected trump president, this is a public service. learning how to climb up a wall might be a useful skill for a lot of people.

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it was pretty. i was like ah! for your enjoyment. for your enjoyment. yeah. if there's one thing i've learned since i've been in beattiville is they may be down but they're not out. like they're not even outside. where is everybody? >> it's a small town. everybody knows everybody, but it's like family. maybe dysfunctional at times but at the end of the day everybody cares about each other and we'll do what we have to do to take care of each other. >> hope lives in this town, and city council member missy bei y talked about the future plans. are we in downtown beattyville. >> where all the action happens. >> the city's buzzing. >> there was a time when there were two new car dealership and a bus lane downtown. >> right here? >> yeah. probably the '70s. >> that was a bustle era, thanks to disco.

>> not so much bustle anymore. >> yeah. economic downturn hits a place this small pretty hard. >> absolutely. but we're trying to capitalize on the fact that this place is gorgeous, red river gorge, natural bridge. there's people coming in from not all over the country but all over the world. we have to figure out how to offer them what they want. places to eat, places to go at night, for live music. >> downtown is we just walked through downtown and this is -- >> not happening. >> this is like 5:00 at night. and most downtowns there's traffic and lots of noise and activity. >> right. >> how close do you think you are to bringing the bustle back to downtown beattyville? >> i wish i could say the next five years, but i have to be realistic. i don't really know. it may take longer than that. it may be 20 years. we may be here in our wheelchairs one day having the conversation. come back for the visit. but i'll invite you to come back every year and check it out.

>> we'll check it out. >> because you're tourists, right? >> that's right, that's right. >> bring those dollars to our downtown. >> i've left like $3.50 in the coffee shop. i mean three dollars and fifty sce cents. >> you have to come back. >> that doesn't look like a novelty sign. >> that's probably real, yes, pawn shop. >> who is wearing masks? >> well, it could be winter. >> okay. >> it gets very cold. we have a lot of snow sometimes. >> it gets mask cold? unload your gun and remove your mask. let's keep moving. i have to admit i have live in a lot of poor neighborhoods and poor cities that were economically challenge katie. this doesn't feel bad. >> right. it's not perfect. i don't want to -- you know, but it's not terrible. >> no. >> maybe we as a country need to count our blessings because

there's a lot of stuff going on in this world that's terrible. and we have it really good. >> i'm happy that you're here, happy that you're working hard to keep your community going. and it's an important thing in communities like you to take the lead and work hard to keep it to make things good. >> thank you. it's certainly a team effort. i cannot take the credit. there's so many people that work really hard doing this on a daily basis and that care, you know? >> thank you. >> promise me you'll come back. >> look, i'm not going to lie. i had a lot of preconceived notions coming into my visit here, but as always seems to happen, whether it's in the country, at a barbecue or a coffee shop, when you sit down with someone and listen to their story, all those preconceived notions fall away. and in appalachia, i mean, appalachia, with all its issues front and center, once you actually sit and look around, you see what the people who live here see, a region that's one of

the most beautiful places in the country. full of people just looking to be a part of the evolution of this nation and not forgotten because of it. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. for real, many of us maybe haven't forget about puerto rico until hamilton. lynn manuel put puerto rico back on the map where it belongs. puerto ricans are american citizens. yep, yep, yep. three people. everyone else, convince me. let's pull up wikipedia. pull the screen down. american citizens can't vote for the presidency. they've got 3 million people on that island. we could have used those votes, you know what i'm saying? just to win more.