Uh, society. I'm tired of 'em.
That's why I came down here,
so I don't have to put up with anybody.
And now you are in here with me
all the time now, so what the ?
You know, it's the worst, and I'll throw y'all's ass in and be done.
But I guess I invited y'all down here, so it's a little different.
Yeah, hell yeah.
It's time to have peace and quiet in my cave again.
It'll be a great relief to see y'all roll down the road,
but I'll probably miss you for a little while.
At least till I get my first nap.
In the age of technology,
the electrical grid is expanding,
and the world is getting smaller.
For some, finding peace of mind
means hiding out where no one thinks to look.
To escape, they redefine off the grid.
On the edge of civilization,
the most difficult time of the year is beginning.
As temperatures quickly drop,
those outside the grid are making preparations.
Winter is coming,
and when the freeze hits,
they must be ready.
In the Ozarks, you never know what the weather's gonna be.
It's gonna start snowing, you know, snow me in for months.
There might be a bear that'd want to move in one of my caves
with me, or, you know, wildcat, panthers.
Once winter hits up here, I'll be up here by myself.
Nobody will be able to get in up here.
I have to plan for the worst.
For nearly two years,
Joe Ray has made his home within a labyrinth of caves,
below the grid, in north central Arkansas.
During winter in the Ozark Mountains,
strong cold fronts can bring snow, sleet, and ice to the region.
We'll go up here and check out the stockroom
to see what all is left.
To prepare, Joe must stockpile supplies
crucial to his survival.
Got kerosene, got the coal oil for my lamps.
This one's about half empty, a third of the way.
That one's empty.
I've got batteries, not a whole lot.
I need to restock this, because these go fast down here,
because you have to run your lights all the time down here, so.
I've got some starting fluid here to help me get fires going.
I got some white gas here, about a quarter of a gallon.
I might try to bring two gallons of it back
and maybe a gallon of lamp oil.
At the end, I also have to, you know, get groceries and stuff.
It's gonna require a trip to town to restock here.
I don't... Going to town is not really something
that's really high priority on my list,
but I have to go, so, I've got to get to it,
and fill this place back up, so I'll be ready for winter.
Yep, let's hit the trail, and, uh...
It's that time of the year again.
Come winter, the weather gets real cold.
I don't want to lose my life.
So I'm gonna kind of hole up someplace and tough it out.
Beyond the grid,
Bear Claw lives a nomadic life in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains,
moving his camp with the changing seasons.
During winter here, temperatures frequently dip below zero.
In the wintertime, survival out here, it's a serious thing.
To endure the cold, Bear Claw must retire his teepee
and relocate to an insulated wood cabin.
It's real important for me to lay in supplies
before the weather turns bad.
Before this migration, he prepares enough ammunition
to hunt and defend himself in the months ahead.
What I do is take a ladle.
Oh, I got various lead weights.
Once it heats up, I think it'll melt them a lot faster then.
So why don't we go ahead and try that?
It's only hot when I touch it.
I like to take my knife
and trim the round ball down a little more.
And I just like to take a file and touch 'em up,
to make 'em nice and round.
This is actually a precision powder measurer,
and that is actually 80 grains of black powder that's going in here.
You know, this is a simple thing that's been going on
for hundreds of years.
With more than 200 round balls,
Bear Claw has enough ammunition for the colder months to come.
I got to take that canvas down.
And after packing up the rest of his gear,
the migration to his winter camp begins.
My home is wherever the sun goes down.
That's where my home is.
I've got that urge to wander, and I'm gonna keep it.
Well, I reckon it's time to ride off into the sunset.
That's a good boy.
Come on, Sozo.
Come on.
Experience here of living here is no joke.
In a typical winter, we get hammered with snow, sleet, hail.
You know, you look at that lake and then you picture all that wind
coming across that wide, open surface.
14-foot waves crash into these harbors and bays out here.
Two years ago, I had to rescue people who had trees on both sides of 'em.
For the past 15 years,
Dan Burton has made his home in the middle of Lake Michigan,
outside the grid on Beaver Island.
You spend a lot of time getting ready.
I got to make sure we have some protein.
Out here, winter hits hard,
freezing the lake with temperatures well below zero.
In preparation, every year, Dan aims to stockpile
125 pounds of meat before the first snowfall.
Ah, you know,
a flock of turkey maybe that's just kind of hunkered in, in this wind,
that's kind of bunkered in back here, maybe a partridge.
It's the opening week of bird season, small game season.
So if it's in season, it's open season.
You know, one thing about walking through the woods like this is,
you know, eventually,
you're gonna kick up a partridge and you're gonna hear it.
They just kind of make a hard flutter sound,
like a little heartbeat sound, and nine times out of ten,
I can get Titus to kick that bird up for me.
It's a little bit breezy.
The tops of the trees are kind of slapping,
but every now and then, that sometimes, that works in your favor.
Did you hear that?
One just flew from right over there, just to the east of us.
And he just kind of skimmed this opening, right here.
So, I'm gonna just try to walk real slow here for a minute.
We'll see if he jumps for the tree.
She's right up there. She's sitting right on a tree limb.
She sees Titus.
Oop, there he goes.
There he goes.
He's thinking about going.
Whoo!
Got 'em, Titus.
There, that's always a good feeling.
I don't mind a little ringing in the ear
when you get to walk up and grab a bird.
Oh, yeah.
Little partridge.
On Beaver Island, Dan Burton's begun a mission,
to stockpile 125 pounds of meat before the first snowfall.
With this partridge, the harvest is officially under way.
Beginning of the season, and got one partridge, you know,
this is the time of year where you fill your freezer, you know,
so you can't waste any time.
You just got to keep on going.
Once you get into that breastbone, see it?
Right there.
Just stay right in front of it.
You got something even better than squirrel.
It's always hard the first time of year when you start getting game
and not, you know, eat a little bit of it right away.
This might just become chicken and dumplings tonight, who knows?
I love living up here, but when it snows here,
everything can change in a night.
You go to bed, and a storm hits
and it blankets everything with six foot of snow.
It gets a little overwhelming.
There's so much that needs to be done.
You're humping, you know, three seasons out of the year
just to prep for winter.
Above the grid,
Doc and Jeanny Leverett make their home 25 feet off the ground,
in the trees of Onion Creek, Washington.
Every winter, before the first frost,
Doc and Jeanny winterize their tree house compound
to combat the elements.
Winter's on its way, and we need to get ready.
Oh, I got it, I got it here. Ouch!
I'm sorry.
I needed to make room for it, I'm sorry.
That's all right.
I need a little sense knocked into me anyway, right.
Okay, yup.
Hay is a good, good insulator for what we need it for,
and it's inexpensive.
You know, it's kind of a pain in the ass to do, but it's cheap.
You always think you're ready,
and then be like, you know, what, the last week or so,
you see it up on the mountains, you're like,
"Oh, man. We're not ready."
Being naked walls, this keeps us definitely warm.
Um, it's worth it.
It's such a small space, so our heat source,
it puts out amazing anyway,
but this, this helps hold it in a little longer.
It can get pretty cold.
Believe it or not, I'm actually allergic to the cold.
I have a condition called cold urticaria where I break out.
What happens is, my body produces so much histamine,
I break out in welts.
My throat can close.
They're huge welts, too, and they itch.
It's like having, you know, a million mosquito bites on you,
or flea bites, and you just can't stop it.
I have an EpiPen for it, just in case for emergencies,
but I do have to be careful.
You know, I'm not out there in the snow a lot.
I'm not dunking myself in the freezing-ass river.
I just got to be careful with what I do.
Every year, an average of 45 inches of snow hits the region,
and though Jeanny's condition is reason for concern,
insulating their tree house is a matter of survival.
There's one step closer to being ready for winter.
You're never prepared for winter.
You're never prepared for Mother Nature.
With winter coming on, I like to lay in some extra supplies.
That's why I'm headed over to Han's,
to pick up some herbs and some tincture,
and maybe do some hunting.
Whoa, buddy.
You ride in Idaho, you see something red,
that means you're approaching somebody else's place.
For me, that's an invitation.
Beyond the grid,
Bear Claw's packed up his teepee,
headed on an annual migration to reach his winter home.
Every year on this journey,
he makes one vital stop in preparation for the cold.
Hello, Bear Claw.
- How you doing, partner? - Good.
Good to see you.
Boy, it's good to see you. You looking good.
Yeah, right.
You know, I need enough medicine and supplies
to last me through the winter.
Well, let's see if we can find some herbs.
All right, let's do it.
Bear Claw and Han ride five miles west
to a forest lush with the plant life Han needs
to produce a tincture of homeopathic medicine.
My lungs are bad.
But out here in the fresh air and the herbs that I'm getting from you,
and these plants that you're digging up,
I'm sure it's gonna help me.
Oh, well, look at here. Gold thread.
Gold thread?
Coptis trifolia.
Trifolia, which means three leaves.
It's a very powerful antimicrobial.
It's been used in tribal societies for eons.
See, it's like a thread, and when you break it open,
the inside of it is gold.
Ain't that something?
I've been using gold thread for probably over 30 years.
Have you really?
Effectively treating all kinds of respiratory infections,
generally in tincture.
So what is the difference between a tincture and a concoction?
Between a tincture and a concoction?
Well, a tincture is sort of a concoction.
Every time we mixed something up at home,
my mom would make fun of us.
"What kind of concoction are you gonna make there?"
I thought it was just a fool's thing to do,
but apparently not, huh?
Now we're gonna go look for kinnikinnick.
During the colder months ahead,
Bear Claw's symptoms usually worsen,
so every year, Han produces enough homemade tincture
to treat his condition until spring.
I think we got all our plants for the mixture.
That would be 70% alcohol.
Have a little some, just to see.
Oh, yeah.
Huh, goodness.
This is for you,
when there is the first sign of sinus condition,
take about a teaspoon of that before you go to sleep at night.
Hopefully, this winter, you're gonna have no problems.
That is just as cool as it gets.
Ah, I'm just lucky to have a mountain man for a friend.
All righty, ready to mosey?
Well, we're headed on down to get the canoe,
but whenever I come this way,
I always stop over here and get me some freshwater.
It's a great place to get a drink.
It's cave water,
and this is spring water coming right out of my cave,
so it's purified and ready to drink.
Out here by the spring,
we got reeds that grow just by spring water.
These make excellent straws.
Just pop 'em off, get you a nook, and...
Okay. Well, it's time to load on up and go.
In Arkansas, Joe Ray has emerged from below the grid,
on a mission to restock crucial supplies before winter.
Though he normally does all he can to avoid the modern world,
today, he's headed into civilization.
Headed over to the outpost today.
Time to go get some new supplies.
So, uh, to the store I go.
Yeah, I keep my little canoe stashed back in here.
Last time I went to the outpost, I broke one of my oar, my oars,
so, uh, I'm gonna have to make me a new one here
to hopefully get me down there and back safely.
I think this'll probably do pretty good.
Just got to do a little work on it.
I'm gonna make me a hillbilly oar,
for, you know, my little trip down this time.
Hopefully it'll be successful, and I won't have no trouble.
Save everything.
Good fire starting material here, so.
Going to the outpost, you know,
it's not anything that's really high on my list,
because, you know, it's just requiring me to go out
and to interact with people that, you know,
I'm just so much happier out here,
you know, alone, and not dealing with that.
Hopefully, this'll make it.
We'll just have to see.
So, it's to the store I go.
I take the river
because I see a whole lot less people coming this way.
Aren't very many people out here.
River's sort of a little high right now,
and I find it the safest and the quietest way to go.
I used to hitchhike going into town,
but I never could get very many rides.
So, I kept trying to think of better ways to go,
and I got me a canoe,
and, I mean, I just get to look at even more beauty up here.
These rock cliffs.
Just like a slow cruise now.
In the Ozark Mountains,
Joe Ray has emerged from below the grid
for a rare trip into civilization.
What a life.
How can it get any better than this?
That's what I always keep asking myself.
He's headed for a general store
on the outskirts of Calico Rock, Arkansas,
to stockpile crucial supplies for winter.
Yeah, I did a little bartering for it.
My buddy Leo had it sitting back in the back.
It was all covered up with leaves.
And I was over there one day,
and I was, "Leo, what the hell you doing with that canoe sitting back there?"
And he said, "Ah, I used to use it, but I don't mess with it no more."
And so then the bartering started,
and I traded him a little bit of ammo that I was able to get
that I didn't have a gun for.
So that's what I mean, you always trade for anything.
Just fixin' to go under the power lines here,
so, I know we're fixin' to be close,
it's time to pull over and start the little walk.
Up here where we are now,
there'll be rattlesnakes and copperheads.
Ah, there's gonna be some blue racers,
they might chase you around, but they won't hurt you.
They won't bite or anything, but they just like to scare you.
Yeah, out here, you always got natural backscratchers.
All you got to do is grab you one and go to it.
Over in that tree there, we got a snake up here with us.
Yeah, here, let me show you.
Yeah, it's a black snake.
That's a friend to us, because they, they eat poisonous snakes.
Black snake, they'll eat all the other little rattlesnakes,
copperheads, whatever there is around here,
so, we don't ever want to bother nobody like that.
That's our friend.
Let's get on up here and see if they got my groceries.
My supplies.
Well, these are some solar panels
that I, I got into a trade quite a while ago.
Above the grid in Washington,
Doc and Jeanny are winterizing their tree house compound.
To insulate their elevated shelter against the cold,
they've lined the walls with hay.
Now, Doc's preparing to install solar panels high in the canopy
to provide the power they'll need for light and heat.
Physically, they look to be in good condition.
They'll last you probably, you know, 25, 30 years
if you take care of 'em.
But you look for making sure the wires,
there's not some major cuts in the wires.
Make sure the glass is in good condition, but again, that's it really,
I've had 'em crushed, and they still put out,
put out a good amount of voltage, so.
We're gonna make us some, some sunlight power.
Before I can get the panels in the trees,
I got to get me in the trees.
Back up we go.
Son of a bitch.
No.
I saw the little Tweety birds and the stars and .
Ah, it's a scratch.
Yeah, let me clean that up real quick.
Yeah, you get a cut out here, and you don't treat it real good,
I mean, this is just a scrape,
but if it was, been something a little more severe,
we'd want to cover it and get it cleaned up pretty good,
'cause if I get a, get an infection here,
it's not a quick run to the doctor.
You see some of this pinesap here,
and it's running down from where we put the eyebolts in here.
Ah, this is a little bit thicker than what I would, I would like,
but, but this is a great, great antiseptic.
We get a little bit of this pine tar on here, everything,
everything in the world is gonna stick to me,
but it looks like it stopped the bleeding.
Maybe.
Eh, it's good to go.
I can see two fingers now, so.
Back to work.
Get back up and get this rope around the tree.
And get the solar panels in the tree.
Whoo!
- This an 18.5-footer? - Yeah.
Same as my boat.
The other boat that I'm doing is a 26-foot islander.
Super deep V.
Outside the grid,
Dan Burton is on a mission to fill his freezer
before cold weather arrives.
Every autumn, Dan relies on Larry Koon,
one of the only islanders allowed by law
to fish with gill nets in Lake Michigan.
With having a tough winter and not getting any venison,
you know, the only way to catch up now
is to spend the time on the lake.
Get out there and produce some fish.
The first time I ever gill-netted,
I was about 12 years old, I guess, maybe 11.
I remember helping with the fish,
getting all slimy, little kid, you know.
Then I went back to the rez,
went into the junior council meeting, you know.
Yup.
Kids learning how to be politicians.
And I smelt like fish so bad, they all complained, and I left.
Well, you go, you got a buoy and an anchor on each end,
and you set the line,
the sidelines down with the mesh in between,
and the sidelines got weights on the bottom.
Floats on the top.
So the weights go to the bottom of the lake,
and the floats rise up, and it opens up the mesh down there.
The fish swim in it, get entangled,
and I come back through, pick 'em up.
First buoy's in.
Basically the wind will do what it does now,
and that's how this net will lay.
There it is, our bait!
Later on, we'll come back, pull 'em in to see.
Fish on.
Outside the grid, 12 hours have passed
since Dan Burton and Larry Koon set gill nets in Lake Michigan.
Okay, so, uh, we got 1,500 feet of gill net out here.
Now they'll see if they brought in the haul
Dan needs to stock his freezer.
Nice grab, Larry.
Whoo-hoo!
Got the line?
This is gonna be a killer set, you guys.
It's in a really, really good spot, I'm thinking.
Pulling fish in by hand.
This is as primitive as it gets, you know,
you don't hear no motor running, no winch pulling, nothing.
We're almost to the anchor.
Oh!
Right now it's a gamble, it's a crapshoot.
You're picking an area, you're picking a depth,
and you're trying to pick temperature.
What's our depth?
We're looking at 53 feet.
So we're about 20-foot shallower than where we started.
Definitely hooked on something.
Feeling some weight?
Yeah, a lot of it.
I can see money fish in there already.
Oh, yeah.
It's always a good sign when first thing on the board is whitefish.
Yup.
Especially that close.
Out here in Lake Michigan,
a whitefish is a, you know, it's pretty much a staple crop.
It's what, it's what most people are after.
Naturally existing fish in this lake is a big deal.
Yeah.
There's some good fish coming in now.
Hell, man, these are all whitefish.
Here she comes.
You wake up in the morning and look in the mirror,
and if your heart isn't where your feet want to be,
it's time to get on a horse and go somewhere.
Beyond the grid in Idaho,
Bear Claw is on the move toward his new winter home,
but on the way, he's gathering crucial supplies
for the difficult months ahead.
Winter's coming.
It's kind of an important time of the year.
I got a cache up in this tree.
And I put this up here in the spring,
but there's never a guarantee when you head back
that what you left is gonna be there.
So the mountain men would call this a cache,
and they made caches all over the country,
and this isn't the only one I got.
I got more.
Ta-da!
My favorite pair of wool long johns.
All right, a pair of good wool socks.
Got some warm gloves.
I don't have to worry about supper tonight.
Looks like peas and corn.
There's a dozen meals there for me with some meat.
I know I'm gonna be eating for a while,
and I know I'm gonna be warm and dry for a while.
That's the important part.
I reckon it's time to throw it in there and mosey.
The little outpost is right up here, out of the woods.
So, let's walk on up here and see about the supplies I need.
In Arkansas,
Joe Ray is more than five miles from his home below the grid,
on a rare trip into civilization to stockpile supplies
he'll need in the coming months.
Hey, you guys watch out,
this, my little store is right over here,
so, I don't really know if I want y'all going in with me.
Wait, wait, wait, Joe, Joe, Joe, come here.
We, uh, we kind of need to go in there with you, man.
I don't think y'all need,
I don't, y'all don't have to follow me everywhere, you know.
These people in here might not really like the cameras,
so, uh, I'm gonna ask y'all to stay out, okay?
All right, listen. How about this?
Can you take in one of these little, little, tiny cameras
right here with you?
I don't know nothing about those things.
I'll roll it.
All you got to do is hold it.
You know, just do your best.
Y'all stay here. Here we go!
Ooh, it's a lot of people here. I'm not liking this.
Maybe none of 'em will be wanting to talk today.
I can slip in and slip right back out.
Ooh, how you doing?
Yeah, we going to get some batteries.
Camp fuel.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
Joe.
Joe Ray.
Ray.
Well, how much damage did I do?
Oh, boy, hope I brought my money.
It's a long trek back up there.
Thank you, y'all have a good day.
Well, I'm glad that's over. So, let's get on out of here.
Get back to the cave.
This partridge is gonna live its life here
until it's eaten by a Burton member.
Outside the grid, on Beaver Island,
Dan Burton is stockpiling food
to endure the frigid winter ahead.
Seems like every time you're hunting, or fishing,
or picking fruit, you know,
the job's not over until you get it into the frying pan.
Makes it taste better.
Appreciate it, that's for certain.
Today is just the beginning
of the Burtons' annual harvest,
and every day from now until snowfall,
Dan and his wife, Carol,
will gather and preserve the food they need.
In the winter, we eat everything that we can.
We try to can all year.
Uh, the garden was really good this year.
We actually got enough carrots and squash,
cucumbers, tomatoes.
We'll probably spend a couple weeks canning throughout.
If we do it every night, it takes a long time to can.
I actually never wanted to do this.
This is not, not my first dream,
but I think you go back to your roots and what's basic.
This is it. This is what we do until snow comes.
We're doing a pretty good job.
It's enough to get us through the winter.
Yeah.
These are 15-watt solar panels.
So, we have, you know, 45 watts, that would be on a perfect day.
The morning sun comes through this break here.
So I'm gonna be facing it east by south.
Little more work, but it replaces the kerosene.
Little safer.
'Course, I say it's a little safer
while I'm looking at humping it up the side of a tree.
Above the grid in Onion Creek,
Doc Leverett is winterizing his tree house compound
in preparation for the most difficult time of year.
I'm gonna lash it down good.
During winter, Doc and Jeanny board up their windows
to further insulate their home,
and without daylight,
they'll need the added power solar panels provide.
I'm almost there.
I've got the best line of sight to the sun I'm gonna get here
without removing some trees, and I really don't want to do that.
Ideally, we would, I would have put this up much higher,
but with DC power, which is what these are generating,
the longer the cable run, you lose juice.
I'm just creating just a very small amount of electricity,
so any that I lose, that's, that's a bad thing.
Make some electricity.
Being an electrician for all of these years,
it's kind of nice to be excited about a project again.
- Hey, sweetie. - Yeah?
Hey, come up here. I got to show you something.
Yeah.
Up.
There we go.
Good boy. What you got?
Flip the switch.
Hey!
We got lights.
High five!
I know we wanted to live completely above the grid,
but...
Technically, we still are. We're not hooked up to anything.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right, but...
And it's all junk... Or, well, not junk, but...
It was somebody else's.
It's recycled. Yeah.
It's awesome.
It's gonna be nice for winter, when the nights are longer.
With the energy they need for light and heat,
Doc and Jeanny can now finish
winterizing their tree house compound.
- Let's get ahead and get it closed up. - All right.
Boarding up windows for further insulation,
they do all they can to endure the elements
high above the grid.
Winter's on its way.
You never have enough, and you're never,
you're never covered up enough,
but we're as ready as we can be.
Hope it works out for the best.
Back to camping out up here.
I'm so glad to be back in this lodge.
Beyond the grid,
Bear Claw has finally arrived at his new home,
nine miles from the spot his teepee once stood.
Here we are.
Looks like everything is pretty well intact.
This cabin is owned by local ranchers
who leave the area during winter.
Years ago, they asked Bear Claw to watch over it in their absence.
I never made my bed so much when I was younger,
but my mother always did, so.
I never walked in her bedroom without her bed being made,
so, here you go, Mom.
Well, it's cool outside,
and I want to build a little fire and get things going.
Ever want to build a quick fire, get a pinecone and...
That really helps and...
If my lungs weren't bad
and I could stand the, the smoke in the teepee,
I would just saddle up and head south,
and put that teepee up and live in it.
But I can't do that anymore 'cause of my lungs,
so this is what I got to put up with.
It's called roughing it.
I just need to get a little more wood,
and I'm pretty well set for the winter.
I feel a lot better now.
Just getting back from the outpost with my supplies.
Time to get up here and sit down,
and put everything up and get ready for another day.
In northern Arkansas,
Joe Ray has returned to his home below the grid,
after a long trip into civilization.
More fuel.
The lantern will burn bright again.
Here, Joe stores the supplies he'll need
when temperatures cool,
and winter drives him deeper underground.
Batteries.
Never have too many batteries.
Well, there's a candle, let me...
This is the one I'm pretty excited about here,
'cause I don't get to go to town much,
and when I do, I do spoil myself.
Got me a dark chocolate candy bar.
I'm a chocolate fanatic.
I... This is going to make my evening great.
I'm gonna get to take, go to bed, full stomach.
And then had to get me a little chocolate milk
to wash it down with.
So, y'all going to have to let me enjoy this in peace.
That's just hard to beat.
Getting outside of the cave, I mean, and going into the outpost,
that, you know, that's really a bad thing to me.
When I come back in this cave, I feel so at home and so peaceful now.
You know, it's really hard to explain.
You know, it's just like I walked in,
well, this is like my own safe,
'cause I can lock the door when I come in.
All you got to do is sit up there and watch,
and nobody can come get near me right now.
After Mary passed away, it was like I was laying in bed,
and like a light came over above me, a halo light.
It was like Mary said, "It's time for you to go."
And that was the determining factor right there that I left.
I said, "I believe you." And that's when I left.
I've never been happier since.
On the edge of civilization,
far outside the grid,
survival means always adapting and changing with the season.
Damn it.
Out here, winter will soon transform the landscape.
Days will grow shorter,
and resources will be harder to come by.
Winter's on its way.
Batten down the hatches.
You're never prepared for Mother Nature.
But for those who redefine the grid,
there's no turning back.
Finding peace of mind out here is a constant road of discovery,
and it's well worth the challenge that lies ahead.
You know, a lot of people say, "Hey, how can you live like that?"
Well, I love it.
I make all my own decisions, and I live by 'em,
and, you know, it could cause me to die by 'em,
but it's just the way I choose to live.