Kyle Abrolat, 33, sits in the living room of his home before work in Union. Abrolat wakes up most days at 7 a.m. to work on finishing the floors. "If I want to learn how to do something," Kyle said."I'll learn how to do it instead of paying someone else to do it wrong."

Kyle laughs as his friend, Zachary Opfer, shows him an explicit video on his cell phone while working on a house in the Central West End district of St. Louis. Kyle often hires his skateboarding friends for day labor and work breaks always involve a good deal of profane and "politically incorrect" banter between them. "I'm not just going to hire anyone," said Kyle. "That's why I don't have any Mexicans working for me."

Kyle finishes a floor. According to Kyle, the job pays $24,000 and he expects it to take two weeks. "This shit is hard work but I gotta pay for my boat and lawyers and shit," Kyle said.

Kyle and his friend, Dom Gotway, climb on top of his van after a day of drinking and fishing in Washington, Mo. Kyle has had four DUIs and has tampered with the breathalyzer in his car to bypass the locking mechanism.

Kyle holds a microphone out to an unwilling participant during karaoke at a bar in Washington, Mo. Kyle is well known in Franklin County, and is banned from multiple bars. "If I get a bag in me and a few drinks, I'm going to karaoke," said Kyle. 

Kyle confronts a stranger in a vehicle in Washington, Mo.The man honked at him for skateboarding in the middle of the road. "I'll fucking kill you," Kyle said. 

Kyle rests on the couch at his home between an eight-hour day of finishing floors and taking his daughter to guitar practice. Kyle spends his days doing physical work and activities like sanding, skateboarding and fighting, despite recently tearing his ACL. "My body always hurts," Kyle said. 

Kyle watches as his daughter Eden, 8, plays a song she recently learned on the guitar. Despite his outwardly hostile disposition to the world, with his children Kyle encourages their artistic passions and teaches them good manners. "She just started playing but she'll get better," Kyle said, "You really gotta practice to be good at anything."

Kyle encourages his daughter to "drop in" on a halfpipe as his son Kingston, 10, watches at a skatepark in Washington, Mo. When Eden dropped in, she received a round of applause from her father.

Kyle casts a fishing line at the Missouri River near Washington, Mo. Kyle often drinks multiple beers while fishing, occassionally tossing the cans in the river once they're finished. "I know this river like the back of my ass," Kyle said.

Kyle opens a case of beer on at a gas station in Washington, Mo. "If you're not getting hammered while driving on the river," Kyle said,. "What's the point of the fucking river?"

Kyle heads out on his fishing boat at sunset on the Missouri River. Kyle got into fishing "a few years ago," he said, and prefers to fish at night, when it's easier to catch larger catfish. His fishing trips usually involve drinking alcohol and he typically takes his friends and father on the river with him. "I drive too crazy to take my kids," Kyle said. "They'd probably fall off and get eaten by a gar or something."