even by a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new book no doubt the most impressive u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than they got people to do it. don't believe. still believe there's a dream where you can still believe. it's like a gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush. or is fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for

months he hears about the boom happening in williston. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i only get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who had been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat like bof a and all you have to do is go out

there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars there's a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. we're in an inhospitable land full of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including boredom emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that has motion this within its history and past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers with the goal of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and

a real without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never custom made. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by for. the first came up here in the spring of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was going to stay in a wholesale it was like one hundred dollars and i was an ok hundred dollars a day seven days only seven hundred dollars on a course of a whole week and so i just came to the conclusion you know what i get me a van fix it up so that you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just on the way on housing and stuff like this. is my first and then. it work. and that's because the. jury cannot

survive very long winter temperatures sometimes drop of minus twenty. for the time being that's he's ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to. make shift housing his men camps lined up by the hundreds on the edge of town for close to two he says. these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty lots of them i work for mit the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an

area that had less than one percent unemployment. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance after the first year i was very playable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had to hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign oil dependency. america would. well it's on mother for energy.

i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i needed to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drive a truck so i chose to drive truck. i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the morning and i were till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i

. it's mentally. not only my. physically fatigued. but it's a mental fatigue. this is the moments that i like the best. reached down enough to see everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away it's. i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have the.

sure. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with three hundred fifty pound guy. friends are. joining me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watches the hawks. prosecution will need to become almost. a full focus on. where you push us the threat of fines. by the number one place you do i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on that i need him in cold blood to know through security jenison knows where to put your hand on that business models he was my american corporations jadhav was incomplete please sold on couldn't matilda's it as an abuse. scene and the solution.

lies up an association. that i noticed when he saw his it is just somebody that deleted data and investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. running around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not a good life. and my children have had some some problems so i spent a lot of money on my children and cumulated debt so. the original plan was to come up here for six months and get out of debt but as i came up made money paid off some bills there were other things.

happy birthday celestial. six six stitches yes. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial well i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. already of you. i usually park the truck come back to the trailer here it a frozen meal. throw in microwave sit down to need it and. if we're not too tired. my roommate nial have a bowl of ice cream and and watch part of a d.v.d.

on the laughter. but most of the time it and go to sleep i don't take a shower every night because we don't shower well there's a shower in the trailer but there's no running water. and. she. just has not solely attract unoiled workers. it was an opportunity for people like jeff and constance to change their lives and to open a small business. before i moved to austin i was in the health care industry and then a hospital administrator for several years in kansas. my project was going to live and i wanted to be with my family first and i remember talking to some people was talking about wilson about north dakota and this oil boom there's a lot of oil out here and there's

a lot of jobs you know one of opportunity for business willesden seemed to have the best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there must have been at least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe if you don't shop the work so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and go back home they don't think we're like that and i think that's one of the reasons we're that's it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community these supported us the definitely did to help the south. we are current of it and will always contributed.

to. be a good day to day. a lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't have a donut shop they haven't had one for over eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend till four and. they come into my shop all its high school board was wow go zones. there are more families there are coming to my list and now i go pick up the land and school and i see other kids you know on the asian kids african hispanic you know it's a good sign that the community is growing. healthy with you know a little. crack

lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. he is right out of options in his home town and has decided to settle for willis and he knows he will not see his wife and two kids for several weeks. long hours behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting used to it but i still like a brother be home. craig is the way he's usually gone he'll be anywhere from about four weeks to this last one was eight weeks really. we didn't see him for about eight weeks and then holcomb

home for about a week or so i think it's been hard for the kids because. they were told me that they feel like it's a broken home you know it's almost like we're divorced because we see so little of each other so it's just been really hard for them this is very similar to moving out a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come back and you see the family for a short period of time and then take off on your ship again your it's a great analogy it's exactly where it's why. we've all talked about this and i think we could do with a little less so that he could spend more time with us and be more of a family. so i think i would rather have that happy family over here some of the stuff that we transfer died for us that watching my kids grow up it's difficult until it's almost five years now there's no doubt about it but it's just it's what we have to do.

and him had just lost his job in the oil business when he met us and constance the couple was charged by the courage of a little power of this young man ready to do anything to save his family from misery. since then adam spends all his nights eating donuts. and doing three jobs right now working every day. trying to get some money i want to read ok. i got to grows two daughters i want something better form where we lived in southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's about a crime. gangsters and so the north dakota a be a better place to raise a family. is

a lot of resources here and you've got the salvation army and they feed you here at the methodist church over it lutheran church down there. but i get food from work too at the donuts trying to send all my money home for my wife to pay the bills and rent it's enough to get by you know just be the rich you know pay one hundred a week guy me understand i have a family he wanted to say one hundred twenty five but he's got it down to a hundred a week. the american dream is that you can always chase i really believe that even during the recession there were still opportunities for each is going to look for you got to be overwhelming or move to change that to get going and go go do it. now a lot of people don't do that but the ones they do with usually come out ahead

wrong. because our country is never the stable across the whole it's very rare to have all fifty states well it's also rare to have all fifty states to poorly so we're always moving around that's part of our national character it's always find new opportunities wherever they may be. what i do here pretty much is remodeling homes and handyman work fixing other people's mistakes and other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it keeps me real busy. i bill out usually about sixty hours a week i can easily put in a twelve hour day no promise you have to run you know my go to bank post office go see clients check on supplies orders stuff a lot of running around to do i love to work how i am a workaholic there's no doubt about it the money's nice but i like to work just the way my family is.

these are some of the old cattle pens in corrals here some of the fallen apart completely but this is where they bring in the cattle to brando and have the calves i have the vets work on them and stuff but now i can see it i don't use it anymore . it was kind of a tough life i mean you lose cattle they die and the winners and so on the hot summers and you know drought you just don't know what's going to happen gamble every year they never made a lot of money doing it most are ranchers and farmers but they really don't want to do that anymore because they've got the palms down there that they can make money off of. and the oil's put a lot a lot of money into her pocket so now they can do what they want you know take it easy work whatever they want to do so it's not as risky life's not as risky as you used to be.

that or. you don't meet many people that are from. when i'm talking to a bunch of people i don't know and they say we're you from i say here and they go what. most people that lived here then they were dismayed to see this many people coming lot of people made a lot of money so i mean they like that the older folks that lived here on a fixed income renting an apartment they went from three hundred a month two thousand a month and rent so they're gone. i remember the first time i drove out to the place and i was eighteen miles about and i counted

fifty or oil rigs that i could see from the road and that's when it started getting crazy i thought you know the oil companies for the most part they're good until we start thinking that they can power right over here because they're big and powerful . one thing they do do and i asked them when they came out the first time they always send a woman along with the group to comes out and i asked him straight out i said is that because we will shoot a woman he said you know. we never walk in the house now i go take the key out. all the time that my pickup relock in the house would have alarm system in the house would change it just about everything. going to get my mail. now or

get more and more neighbors. it's not the country anymore like it used to be. a lot of these are people that have moved in with the oil. there is no place to buy in town they bought a lot so what here probably three four acres lots and bills out here. for man are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four have different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the lists do not shoot around a corner. what

politicians do to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to lie to the press this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. to. best suit. my body told me that i belong with the boys but my thoughts my mind with that belong with the girls. i would rather have surgery stubs to be of any particular. person's doctor. i was born a male had a sex change when i was thirty years old. i've now been living as a woman for twenty eight years and i fully recreate this. problem should have gone

away from by now but they hadn't so these surgeries are nothing more than plastic surgery i've had several female to male friends and you look at it and you just go oh god you paid for that it's horrible nobody can change genders it's impossible. is delusional it's a mental illness. this is now one of my confession from my flesh she shall be called woman pushy was taken out of. sweden look said from monumental shift to the right so those exit polls from the general election predict record lows for the political establishment big gains for unto my grand populist parties. a second wave of andi migrant demonstrations

hits eastern germany this time over the death of a twenty two year old in the city of curtain with afghan the migrants say to be in fall. in are a few of the week's top stories british authorities released photos of two men they claim carried out the poisoning of former russians.