How far would you go
to save a mine YOU love...
Freddy and Juan stand back to back.
His cynicality is palpable. The mining industry ain't like it used to be.
Freddy is baffled by the contraption's nature.
Freddy's solo operation. Can he do it without Juan by his side?
The deadly duo takes a break.
A drive helps to clear Freddy's mind during divorce troubles.
Freddy's "Diet Coke" production machine, which has been licensed by the Coca-Cola company to make 20 cans of Diet Coke per day. They haul it to mining sites even when prohibited by local or federal law, and it is estimated to account for up to 70% of the show's budget. Freddy was once asked by a mine owner after filming an episode (S12 E4) if he could reimburse the owner for the cost of the damage done to the structural integrity of his mine/surrounding locations by his diet coke machine, and Freddy shot him in the stomach with a snub-nosed revolver.
Juan asking the big questions.
Freddy is a kindly polymath.
A pit of vipers never hisses.
Can you believe it's already been fifty years since the end of Freddy and Juan Mine Rescue? Here in the year 2070, we have combed all of your media to understand that which we were not alive to see. We found that you often talked of people in the city and of people who flew on planes and had round cars and long commutes. But we were curious who you had in the mines, and we are rarely shown this. It is only in Freddy and Juan's mine rescue that we find what is, now in our times of absolute earthen metal depletion, a matter of historical record and import. This is not to mention the pathos seeping through seasons 25-27, culminating in ***SPOILERS FOR FREDDY AND JUAN'S MINE RESCUE*** Freddy's ultimate betrayal of Juan at the Dry Gulch Mine in the Mojave, leaving him for dead. Juan's long, cinematic and mostly wordless walk back through the landscape of early 21st century America's violent, desolate underbelly that lasts through the rest of the season and follows Juan in real-time is now your time's Iliad.