- [Roland] Huh.

Get my screwdriver.

- [Floyd] Yep.

- What the (censored) did I do?

Give me the little wrench right there.

(wrench clunking) (traffic whooshing) (wrench clinking) (wrench tapping) (traffic whooshing) How ya gonna get outta here?

Probably better off going this way.

(Roland swooshing) Hey, film man, pull me up.

Can you clean my britches off all there, buddy?

(Roland vocalizing) - Oh, look at you.

(hand swiping) Roadside service call, Roland.

- Yeah.

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (engine rumbling) (engine rumbling continues) (wrench clinks) (engine humming) (turn signal clicking) See the cross?

- Yeah.

- Poor little girl.

(engine humming) I remember when they all die.

(engine humming continues) Four-year-old boy to 80 year old men.

I don't forget it, it's all up here.

Right here a guy got killed.

Well, nobody can say I didn't pay my way.

'Cause I paid my way, all the way.

Raised three kids, good, wonderful, wonderful kids.

I'm proud of that.

They don't smoke.

My grandkids are very special to me.

- [Dispatcher] 368 Venture.

- I never thought I'd see 'em.

I thought I'd die before that, you know.

Long time ago.

They pretty much told me I was gonna die.

I felt like I was gonna die.

- [Dispatcher] Probably 10-4 along First Padre.

- But... I fooled somebody.

(gentle music) They told me I'd never walk again.

"You're never gonna walk."

(dispatch radio beeping) I can a little bit, you know.

I'm not gonna run, but I can walk a little bit.

I can do my job, crawl underneath the car and get up.

(gentle music continues) - [Mary] You haven't left the house yet, have you?

- [Roland] No.

- [Mary] Start the Ford up and go get Connor.

- Oh my god.

- I'll go start the Ford.

- [Dillon] Who's Connor?

- Connor?

- [Dillon] Yeah.

- He's a FedEx driver, FedEx ground driver.

I've pulled him out like nine time already this year, nine or 10.

He's stuck again.

(pills clanking) So we gotta go get him, pull him out.

(pills rattling) This what keeps me alive, Dillon.

If it weren't for these pills, I wouldn't be here today.

- [Dispatcher] 95.

- Much as I hate to take 'em.

(Roland coughs) - [Floyd] Where's big guy stuck this time?

- Up by the airport.

Guy.

- [Floyd] So how does it feel to be a year older?

- I'm not a year older, I'm a day older.

(Dillon chuckling) - [Floyd] Well, you lived through the past year, right?

- I got my birthday today and I got another birthday coming up the 23rd.

- [Floyd] Uh-oh.

What's the other birthday about?

- The 23rd.

- [Floyd] What's it about?

- I've got two birthdays.

- Oh.

Doesn't that make you twice as old?

- I think so.

(traffic swooshing) (engine rumbling) - That puts me two miles from the other car I can borrow, okay?

You know, and then I can go back at 1:00 and deliver the rest of the papers.

(Mary laughing) I'll figure it out.

- Okay.

- You know how it is, Mary.

One day at a time.

(chain clunking) - Agh!

- Kids coming over tonight to see you?

Any of your kids?

- Nah.

Sara will drop off, probably, bring me my lemon meringue pie.

I get that every birthday.

(truck beeping) Mercedes won't come up because I ran over her swing set.

(swing set crunching) **** (Mary laughing) - [Passenger] She's got it all dialed in for so many years.

- Too many years.

- Yeah, right, yeah.

She's like, you know, she knows what she's doing and she's sick of doing it.

But we don't know how to do anything else, right?

- Oh, I know, I could think of other things I'd want to do, but- - Oh yeah, I know that, I know that.

- Unlike my husband, he doesn't know what he, he just wants to work.

Be a pain in my (censored).

(phone ringing) - Where the hell are you?

Where are you, Connor?

- [Floyd] So this happens kind of a lot?

- More times than I would like.

I can definitely tell you there was one week where they had to pull me out three days straight.

Yeah.

- I don't feel the right, I'm tellin' ya.

Getting a headache up here.

All right, Connor.

Where's the next place you're gonna get stuck?

- Who knows?

Hopefully not anytime soon.

- Flip a coin, huh?

- Yep.

- Want you guys to know there's something wrong with me.

I'm not feeling good.

- [Floyd] Well, if it ends up to be a short day, it ends up to be a short day, you know?

Sometimes that happens.

Nothing you can do, you know?

- You're working your (censored) though, don't try to get out of it.

- I'm not trying to get out of it.

- Ah, come on.

- No, you cut it out.

- Don't try to get out of that.

- I have some sympathy for you.

- It's so short.

- You don't like that neither, do ya?

- It's so short right now you wouldn't get nothing.

- God.

- So you better work.

- I thought he retired.

What happened?

- Oh, he's retired.

No, not really.

He retired retired but not retired.

- Does he have a truck?

- Oh yeah.

- Oh, okay, all right.

I never can tell.

I heard he would stop driving.

- Well, he didn't work for a little bit, but he's back at it, but he isn't not spring chicken.

- No, no, no, no.

- He's a miserable (censored).

(Mary laughing) - Well.

(winch whirring) - Floyd.

Floyd.

Floyd!

(winch whirring) - Put the bed down.

- Roland, I got a slide.

- [Roland] Put down on it.

(winch whirring) - Everything I do is **** wrong.

Bull****.

(winch whirring) - See, I don't want it to go off that side.

That's what I don't want it to do.

(winch whirring) - Hold.

Don't need to hold the brake.

- I can try.

- No, it won't do any good.

- Yeah, 'cause this one's on there.

(winch whirring) (trailer clunking) (air hissing) There.

Well, that's one way.

All right!

(Roland coughs) (engine humming) - [Roland] Shut the door, please.

- Oh really?

Okay.

- Oh yeah.

- All right.

Just for a minute though.

(laughs) ♪ Do do do do do do do do I can't tell you that.

(Roland laughing) - You can't get it down at the Christmas tree shop?

- Nah, I gotta get it at Dollar General.

They don't have what I want down at Dollar Tree.

(traffic humming) (Roland coughs) (packages crinkling) (packages thudding) - [Floyd] Whoop.

That does happen.

That's not supposed to happen.

- Oh, thanks.

Gonna kill me with those.

- (chuckling) I hope so 'cause here's another one too.

- How much I owe ya?

- Happy birthday.

Don't worry about it.

- Well.

- Happy birthday.

- How many?

How many Slim Jims up there?

- How many are left?

- How many you buy?

- Double packs and there's- - Yeah, but how many were they?

- Five packs.

I don't know.

- I gotta know.

- Why?

- I'll pay you.

- Why?

It's a present.

- 'Cause I wanna pay you.

- Why?

- You ain't got the kind of money to waste on people like me.

- Well, then I won't tell you everything else I bought then.

(laughing) Let me see, I've got these new things by Slim Jims.

- Oh.

- Mild beef and cheese.

- Well, you like those anyway.

- Yeah, but what happened was I was right by the Slim Jim aisle, right?

- Yeah.

- And I'm like looking and they haven't had these before in there.

So I was like, "Well, that's new style so maybe I'll try it."

- What is it, sausage?

- It's what it looks like, don't it, but it's not.

It's mild beef and cheese.

- Huh.

- I don't know, that looks like a fan.

Let me see.

Oh yeah, that works.

- (laughing) Thank you so much, Mary.

I'm like, oh, I got 100 bucks.

- Look at that.

You done good.

- Well, you know I like- - You got enough for coffee?

- You want more?

- No, no.

You got enough for coffee?

- Oh yeah, I got... (Mary laughing) (engine rumbling) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) - [Mary] He doesn't get much, but Roland's legs.

(gentle music continues) He keeps Roland out of my hair, basically.

Otherwise we'd have to be together all the time.

I have to be his frickin' legs and I don't wanna be his frickin' legs.

Let him pick on somebody else.

(gentle music continues) (truck clunking) - All right, Floyd go in the house.

If I need ya, I'll come get ya.

Leave stuff here, it don't matter.

- Huh?

- You can leave the stuff here.

- Well, everything except for the drink.

I think I'm adding more ice to that.

- Well, take that in.

(chain clunking) (chain rattling and clattering) Oh, I can picture myself.

Years ago I was homeless.

I didn't have a home.

At nighttime, I'd sleep in a hallway.

Found some heated hallway somewhere.

Montpelier, I'd be... Sleep in a hallway, stay warm.

People come out in the morning, step over ya.

(fingers rubbing) So nothing given to me, I had to start from the beginning, work up.

Ah, depression, God.

This is a business you get depressed in pretty easy.

If it weren't for my wife, I wouldn't be here today.

(phone ringing) She pulled me through it, you know?

I was just talking about you.

(snow crunching) (door clunking) My little friend, Mary.

Had the opportunity to haul her parents' car just before Christmas (traffic whooshing) one year.

I brought it to their house and (traffic whooshing) house was pretty bare and it had... Didn't have nothing for... Just old clothes (traffic whooshing) cover up with.

There were three girls.

(traffic whooshing) Mary's the only one I remember.

I went out and bought 'em all Christmas dolls, you know?

Baby dolls, so they have something for Christmas.

Yeah.

A few years later, she graduated from high school.

Story changes, but story I heard, she was going over to get her prom dress and she never made it.

(traffic whooshing) She was killed right here.

So that means something to me, you know?

Wrecker drivers are tough, you know?

Stuff don't bother them.

So they say.

(engine humming) - Roland tell you any stories?

- [Dillon] He did.

- Scary, isn't it?

- [Dillon] Yeah.

(Mary laughing) But you've seen your fair share, huh?

- Oh, a few here and there.

I try to forget mine.

- [Dillon] How do you go about doing that?

- Just try to forget 'em.

I tried to forget Roland for years, but he's still here.

(laughing) (engine humming) You remember the ones that, I mean, maybe you didn't see anything, but you remember that incident.

Just sits in the back of your head, anyways.

Certain things.

I remember I told you the pickup truck went off the road and the girlfriend or wife or whatever got out and went to get help.

She said she didn't wanna leave because it was smoking.

He thought it was just steam and she ended up burning up and he ended up burning up in it.

Remember that one.

Remember exactly where I went with the rig too.

It's like, well, okay, whatever.

(gentle music) (Mary laughing) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (van clunking) (winch whirring) (chains clunking) (truck beeping) (truck beeping continues) - [Dispatcher] Lyndon.

One from the Northeast Kingdom.

They were on the... (truck beeping continues) He is looking to cut his wrists.

Police are gonna be on the way.

They are staging.

Michael said he was going to meet them outside and he does still have the razor blade with him.

- [Roland] Uh-huh.

- [Officer] 10-4.

(engine humming) (traffic whooshing) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) - Ah, God.

(gentle music continues) (bus scraping) - What?

- Balance me.

Let me get down here.

I wanna go down here.

Okay.

(engine rattling) (metal clanking) (gentle music) It didn't look very heavy, but with my problems I got, no back muscles, it's hard to lift it, you know?

Carry it, put it on the truck.

(dog snorts) (wind gusting) (collar rattling) Oh!

- [Mary] What took you so long?

- Oh well... Getting so old, all my hair fallin' out, legs don't move, I got no strength in my arms.

I ain't got a penny to my name since I married my wife.

You did one call today?

- [Mary] Yes, sir.

- One (censored) call.

- What'd you do today?

- [Roland] Three.

- [Mary] Well, not really.

You did not, don't lie.

- I did.

- Nope.

- [Roland] Took the pickup to the body shop.

- [Mary] That was just finishing my job.

- [Roland] I did David Slade.

And I did a junker.

- [Mary] That one doesn't count.

Beavis.

- If it don't count, don't grab the money when I bring the check home.

- [Mary] Good luck with that one.

Yes!

Son of a (censored).

- [Roland] You won something.

- I won the metal detector.

- [Dispatcher] Respond to 1090 Morgan Road in Wheelock for an untimely.

Again, repeating for Lyndon rescue.

Respond to 1090 Morgan Road in Wheelock.

A wife has come home and found that her husband possibly has passed away.

The time is 17:36.

- [Mary] Awful dark.

- Untimely?

- 17.36.

- [Mary] Where now?

(dispatcher vocalizing) - I expect you to call someday.

- [Mary] You think I'm gonna call or just bury ya?

- Just bury me?

(Mary laughing) Wouldn't give me a marker?

- [Mary] Nope.

- You can't make a cross or something?

- [Mary] Nope.

- You cheap (censored).

(Mary chuckling) (dispatcher vocalizing) - [Computer Voice] You won the medal detector.

And no shuffling because it's numbers.

There's everybody's name.

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(metal clanking) (winch whirring) (engine humming) (gear selector clanking) - People say, "You ain't disabled."

I say, "What do you mean I ain't disabled?"

"Why you still working?"

That don't mean I'm not disabled, you know?

I have a hard time doing things that other people do, but I still work.

I imagine a lot of those people that are disabled could still work.

Well, here we go.

Ah.

(truck beeping) Who in the hell put in the snow bank?

- [Nurse] Look at your inner ear.

(device beeping) There we go, 97.

- They told me it's old age.

- Yeah.

- I come up here two or three times.

"No, it's just old age."

It wasn't.

They could have took me off that medication.

I wouldn't be this way.

You know?

And no, I didn't sue either.

I didn't have time to sue.

I ain't gonna live long enough to sue anybody, you know?

They got all kinds of money, they can keep fighting me off, you know?

I'd be dead long time before I'd win anything.

- [Dillon] But you wanted to, kind of?

- Well, I don't know.

I'm not a suing person.

I learned that from my mother.

(staff speaking faintly) Had a brother get killed, brother and three cousins got killed at a railroad crossing.

My mother could have sued, but she said, "No, I'm not gonna sue anybody 'cause every time I spend a dollar, it would remind me of my son."

- [Nurse] Wanna come with me now, Roland?

- Where are we going?

- Across the hall.

Gonna lock ya in another room.

- Will I be safe?

- Yep.

- Aah.

Hello.

- [Doctor] Hello.

- [Roland] What's up?

My blood pressure not too bad?

- [Doctor] Not too bad.

Not enough for me to wanna add another pill.

- [Roland] Okay, good.

- [Doctor] I did look at that.

Yeah, I think we're okay.

I know how much you hate taking pills.

(chuckles) (winch whirring) - And that's what I said to the nurse, I said, "I don't know.

I think there's something going on, but I'm not sure.

I don't know.

And if I don't know and I've been there forever, they sure as hell ain't gonna know.

(laughing) I knew something was up, but I wasn't sure if it was in his head or not.

(engine humming) Apparently, it wasn't in his head.

(Mary chuckling) - I didn't think I was gonna live.

I thought I was gonna die, you know?

No doubt about it.

Especially when they put me in a nursing home.

I know what I told her, I said, "I don't wanna go to a nursing home, Mary."

"Well, why?"

"You know why.

I'll walk in there, I'll get, I'll go in, but I won't be coming back out, you know?"

- They said, "He can't go home unless you have help at home."

I said, "I don't have help at home.

I don't have enough help at home to do this."

"Well, then I guess he's going to the nursing home."

- That's the way I went in and out a couple times, that door.

Not good.

I feel kind of funny being here.

Like I say, it was the last place I thought was gonna be, you know?

- What I had to tell him to go, I said, "You're not going in as the nursing home.

You're going in to be rehabbed.

You gotta be able to move.

If you can do that, then you can come home."

- Even I didn't realize how sick I was.

Doctors told me afterwards they never thought they'd see me again.

So I think I know how it feels to come close to dying.

Maybe I am dead, I don't know.

(brakes squeaking) Are you God?

Are you the devil?

Am I still alive?

Ah, hell.

(engine revving) That's one home I don't wanna go back to.

(engine rumbling) (engine rumbling continues) It was hard, I couldn't even pick up the hook.

I couldn't pick up the hook to hook it onto the car.

My arm wouldn't support it.

I was just that weak.

You know, I couldn't reach over very far.

Couldn't stand up, put the chain on it, you know, it was just terrible.

Just terrible.

You feel like a half a man.

Did I ever get depressed?

Yeah.

Number of times.

She was hiding all the guns in the house.

She didn't know what I was gonna do, you know?

She'd go and I think she was surprised every time she come back that I was still here, you know, talking.

- And I came home one day and the phone rang and this woman says, "Roland, what do I owe you for that today?"

- [Dillon] What do you mean, "What do you owe him?"

- He had gone out and done calls when he wasn't supposed to be driving and she was calling to get a price and he got caught 'cause I answered the phone.

And now she got off the phone I went in and I said, "So how many calls have you done when I've been out of town?"

"Who said I done any?"

I said, "I was just on the phone."

"Oh."

I said, "You're not supposed to be driving."

"Well, somebody will take care of 'em.

You were busy."

My (censored) word.

- [Dillon] Yeah, he's a (censored).

- Huh!

- If this girl here didn't show me the love, I would've done it.

I know how much she loves me.

- There he goes again.

(laughing) You talk yourself into that all the time, don't ya?

- I'm being truthful, Mary.

- You must be.

Did I tell you that, though?

You think I would've showed up every day at the (censored) nursing home?

Probably not.

I just tried to make sure Tina didn't come see ya.

(Mary laughing) (engine rumbling) (thoughtful music) (truck squeaking) (engine rumbling continues) Okay.

Don't you dare, Roland.

I'm not doing this again.

- [Roland] I'm not getting out again.

- Well, you're not (censored) going up in there.

When I came down, he was laying right in the middle of the road right there.

- [Roland] My leg got caught underneath the wheel, pulled me off.

I could feel the tire chugging up against me, you know?

I couldn't do anything.

I was caught.

And then you got the pictures of the rest of it.

You got the arm, the scars.

(somber music) (somber music continues) My stubbornness comes from the fact I wanted to be successful.

I wanted to not be somebody, but be better than what some people are, you know?

That stubbornness... When we had our first child, we picked her up in the hospital.

I think we had, was it $600?

- $600 in the checking account.

- Between us.

We didn't have a couch.

- We didn't have any furniture.

We had a bed.

That's all we had.

- We went down and bought a couch and a chair and they were the ugliest (censored) things you ever saw.

- Had 50 bucks left in a checking account after we bought the furniture.

- It wasn't much.

- It something like that.

Don't worry about it.

We'll be all set.

- Yeah.

And we did make it.

She took the baby with her in the car in the wrecker when she had to go somewhere.

(engine humming) (Mary laughing) - I was in the truck the day I got out of the hospital.

So, Mercedes was born on Monday.

I was in the truck on Wednesday when I got out of the hospital doing a call.

(chain clanking) It's almost like the old (censored) frontier woman, you know, had to (censored) plow the field, give birth in the (censored) field.

(laughing) Not quite the same, but that's what I was doing.

- Go by the couch buddy, please.

Over by the couch.

You can play with the dinosaurs over there.

- Bring the whole thing with you.

- He is mad.

He wants to be involved.

And I did cheerleading, but I can tell you on less than one hand how many times like my parents were at any of those things just because they were always working so it was very different for that.

- Yeah, and that's something that I, I mean, I definitely, you talk about me being always gone to my kids' stuff.

That comes from the fact that my parents were always busy and I remember like dad talking about like working the morning of my wedding (Mercedes laughing) and I remember saying, "If you don't put the answering machine on and closing, then don't even bother coming."

- 45 years towing.

(engine humming) I don't really recommend that for anybody.

I missed a lot in my time.

(truck clunking) Kids' birthdays and Christmas parties, Halloween.

I missed all that, you know?

(engine humming) But I got grandchildren now, so I make sure I find time for them.

(winch whirring) How you doing?

You selling any cars?

- Yeah, it's been a good day.

Three or four out so far.

I got another one coming in.

- Really?

- So, yep, pretty good day.

It's been a good month.

- Still making good money then.

- Well, that's the goal.

- When he was born, the doctor accidentally cut into his head, left a scar.

The joke was all through school, if he was having a hard time in school, I go see the teacher, I say, "You know, he's got that scar on top of his head."

"Oh, really?

What's that for?"

I said, "He's got a metal plate in his head.

He's had a rough time, but we just keep passing him along."

- Now look at me now.

I can listen to radio stations if I turn my head just right.

- Yeah.

(both laughing) - [Dillon] Would you say he had a lot more normal of a life than you did?

- Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty much paid for everything he had.

Sent him to college, we paid for it.

Paid for his rooms and stuff and bought him a house.

Bought him a brand new truck.

We've done a lot for him.

And look what we've got now.

A good kid.

- But that's because they were doing stuff for us.

I mean, that's why they were working was for us.

- Yeah, like we all logically understand it.

- Yeah.

- But we also like know the emotional side of it too.

(engine humming) (truck rattling) (engine humming continues) - I said, "What are you driving?"

"A bulldozer."

I said, "What?"

- Yeah, a guy left me up in the woods and I didn't have no place to go.

It got about 3:30 in the morning so I drove it right down the highway and stopped down at Johnson's.

I says, "The only man I know who would call me would be Roland."

So I called Roland and he says, "What, are you drunk, Rocky?

And I says, "No, I'm not drunk.

I need the dozer back Monday morning to do the mill yard."

And he says, "Boy, I hate to run dozers on my aluminum bed."

But he says, "Give me a few minutes.

This is not going to be cheap."

But he says, "I'll come and get you."

I says, "I don't care what it's gonna cost, Roland, just get me home."

Sure enough, he come and he picked me up.

- [Roland] I got stories about everybody.

- [Rocky] Yeah.

(Roland chuckling) - [Onlooker] What truck is that?

- Toyota Tundra.

(gentle music) - [Onlooker] (vocalizing) What did we get?

(friend laughing) (gentle music continues) - 165.

You going that cheap?

(person laughing) Well, most people would've quit a long time ago, you know?

There's not many people that, even at my age then, that is doing this kind of work, you know?

And now I'm 76.

That's almost 80 years old!

Ah, you know.

People get out of that work before that.

My buddy Wayne, he had to quit.

One day he couldn't walk.

And I thought I had the same thing that Wayne had.

- [Betty] How are ya?

I'm doing good.

- [Roland] Look at that son of a... - [Mary] That's what he does all day long.

- [Roland] How you doing, old man?

- Bring you a chair.

- Sittin' right here in the (censored) wheelchair.

- We used to go to a lot of the towing meetings all over the place.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Used to ride with Wayne.

I had to stop for my health.

I kept sliding off the seat.

- Yeah, God and sandpaper and there.

- Well, you shouldn't have Armor Alled the (censored) seat.

Armor Alled the thing, I can't sit there.

He call me sandpaper.

(all laughing) - You ever try to pull your pants with one hand?

(all laughing) - [Betty] Are you recording all that stuff?

- I can't even pee with one hand.

(all laughing) - Oh, I can't either.

She gives me hell because I pissed on the floor in there the other day.

- [Betty] It's time to sit down on the toilet.

- [Roland] That's a young fella there, huh?

- [Wayne] Yeah, that's a... Wrecker Master, Lamoille County.

(all laughing) (Wayne burping) There, can you read that writing?

- To our past due credit customers.

When you die, please let us be your pallbearers.

We carried you so long that we would like to finish a job.

- Yeah.

(all chuckling) - I told Wayne, I asked Wayne to be my pallbearer when I croaked.

- [Betty] You'll have to write on his lap in the wheelchair.

- Yeah, then he lost his legs, so.

(Betty laughing) I say my prayers every night.

- Oh good.

- Not for me, but for my children, you know?

- [Betty] Yeah.

- They're doing real good.

Douglas got two beautiful daughters.

God, they're so beautiful.

- [Betty] Yep.

- Because his girlfriend's beautiful too.

- Where in the hell they got all their looks from you?

- [Betty] They get 'em from Mary, tell him.

- Anybody ask you for your (censored) two cents?

- Yeah.

(Betty laughing) - [Betty] That's the way they talk.

- You hear that (censored)?

(all chuckling) - [Betty] They've always done that.

- Oh, well.

- Sandpaper.

(all chuckling) - [Roland] Now that I know you're alive, I'll probably see him more often.

I didn't wanna- - [Betty] If you're down this way, stop in 'cause he just sits in here.

- [Roland] Well, I didn't know if he got Alzheimer's or what happened to him.

- [Betty] No, no, just his balance.

- [Roland] He ain't called me for 100 years.

- Well, get right after him.

See ya, Roland.

- See ya.

- Stop working.

Time to retire.

(gentle music) (Roland chuckling) - Good.

(chain clanking) You ain't got no gloves on, Jeremy?

Wanna pull that cable out for me?

Pull out hard.

Right behind that front wheel.

(cable clattering) A little bit more.

Okay, good.

You know, I broke both my hips.

- [Jeremy] Oh yeah, I know.

I'm surprised you're still doing this.

- I gotta go back in through here.

Ah, can't retire.

I ain't got money yet.

(laughs) - Need help?

- Aah!

I broke my hips.

I broke my back, everything.

I'm still moving, a lot slower.

(hood clunks) Now steer for me.

- Okay.

- Okay?

(engine humming) When you get it up there, leave it neutral.

Come back this way, Jeremy.

(winch whirring) Turn the wheel this way.

Okay.

(winch whirring) That's good.

- You know, I think that he's been through a lot of things in his life, coming from a place where he was one of multiple children and growing up poor, you know, he really was.

He was, you know, very much about making sure that we had a better life than he did.

Like he's always been that way.

He's always been like, "You're gonna go to college.

You're gonna get an education.

I didn't finish my education.

You know, I want you to work hard, but I want you to have a family."

He never thought that he worked hard enough to provide for his family when all he did was work.

You know what I mean?

(engine humming) - Everybody say, "When you gonna quit?

When you gonna retire?"

Not until I can't move anymore.

Then maybe I'll retired, but I wanna go till I'm 80 years old, but I don't think I'm gonna make that.

(engine humming) - [Mary] He thinks he's gonna get a pop.

Come here, butthead.

- I can be faster.

- [Mary] Okay.

(upbeat music) (Mary laughing) - Ow!

(upbeat music continues) Hey-yah!

Ow!

(upbeat music continues) Yah!

Stop it.

- This is my home.

- What?

- This is my house.

- Ha, ha, ha.

- Well, it's not my house, but it's my home.

(Mary chuckling) She's proud of herself.

When I met her, she couldn't buy a dollar sandwich.

Now look what she's got.

Now I can't buy a dollar sandwich.

(Gryffie vocalizing) She got all the money.

- I think I might go nuts off the grid, but a little reprieve off the grid for a while would be really nice, where the phone didn't work, nobody to bug ya.

You know what I mean?

- [Dillon] So when you think about, do you think about retiring?

- All the time, what are you talking about?

All the time.

Doesn't work though.

What am I gonna do?

I got plenty of things I could do.

I always got something to do.

You ready, Freddy, Joe, Pete and Eddie?

We're headed.

(laughs) No, Sugar, you're staying here.

(engine humming) - My wife's getting all, she's getting kind of burned out, you know, doing the same stuff, she does it, but I can tell that she'd rather be doing something else, you know?

(engine humming continues) She'd rather babysit my grandchildren, you know?

- When I was little, my mom used to have like calendars of meal planning.

Like, you know, like this is what we're having every night.

Like I saw those.

And she used to like make our Halloween costumes, and like when she got married, she made like my dress and her dress and like, you know, she was very crafty.

She also baked cakes.

She did cakes for our birthdays and all of that stuff, so like I think that she was more, she was more able to do that like creative side of herself.

Like, I don't know, more of a, I guess a traditional mom, right?

Like, you know, making dinner and planning birthday parties and making Halloween costumes, like a traditional mom back then.

- Okay.

(winch whirring) (truck creaking) Spin 'em.

(hammer clanking) (cable zipping) God.

(phone tone vocalizing) Where are you stuck?

(engine humming) 2848 Sugarhouse Road?

2948.

All right, I'm right in the middle of a bad one right here, so you gotta give me a few minutes, but I'll get there eventually.

Okay, bye.

2948.

Connor.

(door clunks) (engine revving) Help me a little!

(engines revving) (tires whirring) (trucks clunking) (truck beeping) Now keep it in the driveway.

- Yeah.

- [Mary] Look at this.

(Mary laughing) Oh, (censored) Connor, you're such a dits waddle.

(winch whirring) - That's good.

- [Mary] Don't get her stuck, baby.

(both laughing) - Like I said, I try not to.

Trust me, I try not to.

(Mary laughing) (winch whirring) (truck crunching) (snow crunching) - I got plenty of things I'd like to do.

Would I get my (censored) out of the chair and do them?

Probably.

But with the way this things is, every time I have my mindset on doing something, Roland calls and needs help or Roland... You know what I mean?

It's one of those things where you always, something's always going on.

Either somebody calls and need to go out and get 'em.

Roland calls, you need to go out and get his (censored), whatever, you know?

It always seems to happen that way if I make any plans in my head of things I wanna get done.

(gentle piano music) - I said I have to drive 12 miles to get the truck.

Okay.

Don't be cutting me off.

I heard all that.

I'm gonna undress you.

I'm gonna undress you and throw you in a snowbank, cool you off.

Go pull somebody out.

(gentle piano music continues) If we can get up there.

Road's not plowed.

I say prayers every night, even my own prayer, you know.

I say, "Good night, Charlie."

That's my brother, Charlie.

I say, "Good night, Mom, Dad, Shirley, Gene, Peggy, Charlie.

Love all you guys."

Ask God to protect my children, Mercedes, Douglas, Sara, my wife.

I don't ever pray for myself but- - Jesus Christ.

- I pray for them.

Is that over there?

That it over there?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(gentle piano music continues) (engine revving) (tires whirring) - How long is Gryffie gonna be there?

That's wonderful.

No, I can't get into the guy's yard and the other people, listen to me!

The other driveway I was in was the wrong one, and he's all upset, says I (censored) his driveway.

He wants to come back and plow it.

So you can't get the four-wheel drive over here 'cause you got Gryffie.

(engine humming) - This is our first winter off grid, so it's been tough.

I'm out of gas, I'm out of water.

- I can't make the corner.

I can't back in.

What the (censored) am I supposed to do?

Hope you're recording all that (censored).

I don't know, Mary.

- [Mary] So whatever you wanna do, we'll have to... - I'm trying to think what I wanna do.

Just go take a left.

You, Dillon.

Wanted to give ya a good story.

This better than I wanted to give ya.

(engine rumbling) - [Mary] Un (censored) believable.

(gentle piano music) Oh, it's in the right position.

It's all (censored).

- [Roland] I know that, honey.

You keep telling me that.

- [Mary] Turn your wheels the other way.

No, left.

Okay.

- [Friend] Turns right to ice when you spin a little.

- [Mary] Yep.

Hold it right there.

- Don't worry about me.

- Wait!

Oh my god, he's such a (censored).

Yes, I said that.

Let's see if we can get our (censored) in there.

(engine rumbling) (piano music continues) (trucks clunking) (engine rumbling) (piano music continues) Can't go (censored) anywhere.

Take that camera and shove it somewhere.

Got a shovel?

(piano music continues) (shovel scraping) (piano music continues) (shovel scraping) - [Roland] Great.

- Where you going?

- She's stuck.

- [Dillon] Why do you think that?

- She is stuck.

- Oh, she just called?

- [Roland] Yeah.

(truck rumbling) (piano music continues) - [Dillon] What the (censored)?

- Jesus Christ, Mary.

(truck beeping) I said, "Take a deep breath.

Take a deep breath."

- He kept telling me to breathe.

Shut the (censored) up.

(laughs) Shut the (censored) up.

It's not doing me any good to breathe.

I don't wanna breathe right now.

I just wanna cry.

(laughing) That's not me.

- Yeah.

I've seen ya cry before, but ain't no fun seeing ya do that.

You should have listened to your father.

(Mary laughing) - He's up there going, "See, told ya."

(laughing) - Father told her to stay away from me.

Stay away from that guy.

She didn't listen.

- Maybe it helped they didn't get married till I was eight.

- Yeah.

(Sara laughing) Yeah.

- I don't know.

It's true though.

- Whatever- - They been together a long time.

- That bond is, yeah.

- She's my rock.

Many years ago I said, "You know, Mary, you need a place to stay, you can stay at my house, but we're only friends."

"All we our is friends," I said.

"Oh, okay."

But then, after a while, these friends had a baby, but they're still friends, but now they got a baby.

Two or three more years, they had another baby.

Well, I guess it's time to get married, so friends got married and we had one more.

I couldn't ask for anything better.

She's a crazy girl, I mean, she goes out there, many times we were outside at two or three o'clock in the morning, 20 below zero working on a truck.

She'd jump right in, work on it, change tires.

She's a hell of a worker.

(Mary vocalizing) When she was six months old, I had her up on my roof of my big house down there.

She's up on the roof trying to stuff a stove pipe down through the chimney.

I had a chimney that weren't too good.

She was trying to stuck, stick it down through there, at six months old, I mean a baby, six months pregnant up on that peak of that roof.

How many girls can I get to do that?

But she did it.

One of a kind.

(Gryffie yells) - What?

- Hey Tracy, congratulations.

- You saw it the same as I did, didn't ya?

- I thought you said, "Don't say nothing."

- Yeah, but you already said it.

(laughing) - [Voice On Computer] Everyone that won 100, we had Dawn, Pam, Trish, Sarah, Kathy, Kathy Marie.

- She's all wound up.

- Aah!

- All right, this is it for things that are here.

See, there's another cake I made.

I made all the kids' cakes for a while.

I made that too, by the way.

- [Dillon] Geez, when did you have time to do all this?

- [Mary] Well, back in these days, I wasn't driving the truck so much, was I, Roland?

- [Roland] No.

- [Mary] These bring back memories, Roland, holy mother.

- [Roland] Well, keep 'em to yourself.

- [Mary] You love every (censored) minute of it.

- [Roland] I don't want those (censored) things.

♪ I don't need no memories ♪ You got me ♪ You don't need no memories - [Mary] Gator Land, Sea World.

♪ All they do is make me sneeze ♪ - [Mary] Sea world.

Hm.

(engine humming) (engine humming continues) (engine revving) - [Friend] Wanna come from that side?

- [Roland] I don't know.

You got any hooks on that?

(engine revving) - Now, why would I do that?

- 'Cause it's all zeros then you could be on your way.

- I haven't drank (censored) in 30 years.

- I'll see ya up.

- Okay.

(engine humming) - [Friend] Get a look at this.

- [Roland] Brr.

- [Friend] Yes, old man.

- [Friend] (laughing) I love you, Roland.

- You do, huh?

- Yeah.

My guardian's gonna come up and give me money tomorrow.

- Yeah?

- And I swear to God, I'll look you right up and I'll pay you.

- You will, huh?

- Yeah.

- [Roland] You got a phone number?

- [Friend] Have I ever let you down?

- [Roland] Have you got a phone number?

- I'm not gonna be able to come home for a while.

- Yeah.

- [Charles] Can't take a chance.

- My little old bones are getting tired.

(gentle music) But you see that snow out there coming down?

Years ago, I couldn't wait for it to snow.

That meant business.

Get your wrecker started.

Out we go.

I see that snow out there now, I'm pretty comfortable right here.

I don't give a (censored), you know?

I get a call, I go on it.

If I don't get a call, I'll sit right here.

(engine humming) - My parents' relationship has kind of like done this like my entire life.

You know, like there's been some hot moments where you're like, "Oh."

And then, you know, definitely mellowed out, but I think as Dad's gotten older and faced challenges, you know, there was more, you know, like dose of reality there.

You know, like not gonna live forever kind of thing.

- Mm-hmm.

- I don't know.

- [Mary] Hey, penis bobenis.

- Now what?

- [Mary] I said okay, penis bobenis.

You're taking care of those.

I'm going out to car (vocalizing) you.

Give that to me.

Now.

Give it to me now.

- [Roland] You get no.

There.

You'll never take it out of there.

- [Mary] I'll slap you upside the head and you'll just die.

- You ain't been in no- - One!

- [Roland] You ain't been in those pants for so long.

- [Mary] Two!

(both vocalizing) (Mary laughing) How many times you gonna (censored) around?

(Roland laughs) - Wasn't it St.

J?

- Yeah.

- No way, what the hell is going on here?

- [Mary] (laughing) It's all in the paper if you learn to read.

- Well, you got me going 10 different directions.

Huh.

- Whoo.

- I gotta go, buddy.

I gotta go, sweetheart.

(engine humming) Oh yeah, see, I gotta get done pretty soon.

I gotta do what's best for her, you know?

(engine humming continues) Everything she gets, every good thing that she gets, she deserves it.

- And he says, "You know, you're gonna quit this.

If I die, you're gonna quit."

I might, more than likely I will, but I might just do the money-making calls, be around for accidents and stuff, you know?

I keep one truck.

I don't know.

It depends on what else I'm doing, you know?

And how old I actually am when he keels.

(Mary laughing) That's if the miserable SOB goes first.

Never know.

You gonna cut this out when I say I, nevermind.

(laughing) Oh, my (censored).

- [Dillon] Whatever you wanna say.

♪ It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ ♪ A beautiful day (Mary laughing) (engine humming) - I'm pretty much satisfied that I've done what a person's supposed to do and that's provide for their family.

(engine humming continues) Can't do any more than that.

My time shall pass.

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) - [Roland] All right.

We were never much of- - Imagine it's a little hot.

- [Roland] Mary and I both same way.

We didn't depend on anybody.

- Independent.

- We didn't wanna bother anybody, you know?

We do it all ourselves, all we could do.

We didn't want anybody to give us any handouts or anything.

Some people got all kinds of friends.

"We'll be there for ya."

We didn't have that.

(doors clunk) (gentle music continues) (engines rumbling) (gentle music continues) (engines rumbling) (gentle music continues) (engines rumbling) (gentle music continues) (engines rumbling) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) ♪ You don't know how much it hurts me ♪ ♪ To see an angel cry (singer vocalizing) (singer vocalizing) ♪ And he begged me not to leave him ♪ ♪ Just the way he's doing now ♪ Now he's begging to another ♪ With that same hurt in his eyes ♪ ♪ He don't know how much it hurts me ♪ ♪ To see an angel cry ♪ I didn't know how much I loved him ♪ ♪ Till he turned and walked away ♪ ♪ I didn't know how much I hurt him ♪ ♪ Till I saw him him here this way ♪ - Couldn't do it without me.

Miserable.

- I can't do it without you.

(Mary laughing) Oh, no, no.

I could do without some of you.

- Well, what's now?

- I can't do without you.

- (laughing) What's new?