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00:00immoral and most definitely stupid but it's also all true sort of
00:07we didn't really follow a proper procedure so we had a whole gator head stuffed in a backpack
00:18i felt like i was being hunted
00:26all i wanted was to pick up some moonshot and now i'm in the middle of nowhere with 100 pounds of
00:35gator meat on my back don't move
00:42my eyes
00:46all around us i was scared to death this is the kind of thing you only see in movies
00:57my name's shane hunt i'm born and raised right here in trovie florida what i love about this part of
01:21florida is it's kind of the middle of nowhere there's space we're not supposed to be all
01:28bundled up that's not natural out here you can be getting your feet dirty and digging in the soil
01:35and being in the sun and swimming in springs there's something about that being a true floridian
01:41you still feel free at the time this story took place i was hanging out at this bar down the road
01:49it's your typical hole in the wall style bar pool tables dartboard smoke filled room old woman
01:58bartender that knew everybody's name and talked shit to all the guys these were the type of guys
02:03that maybe has dentures maybe has no teeth tattoos fight at the drop of a dime
02:08and we drank moonshine together
02:11but they ran out of moonshine their supplier he died
02:36our supplier's dead so i said you're gonna need more moonshine yep and you're probably gonna pay
02:42pretty good money for it yep so i got to thinking and i came up with the idea to go talk to uncle matt
02:50over here we don't call it moonshine we call it juice i got a couple of friends that make it and i
02:58don't know what they call it i call it juice i'm matt and i'm shane's uncle i've been in florida my whole
03:04life there's shrimp in there there's stone crabs there's speckled perch deer meat wild turkey
03:10soft shell turtles gator meat how long can you live off the contents of that freezer wow i'll refill
03:17it i'll go back to the woods these younger generations they put apple pineapple and all
03:23that other bullshit in it but the only way you drink through moonshine is straight moonshine all them
03:29flavors are pretty city fellas making moonshine is illegal unless you have a license to make liquor then
03:36you're making liquor you ain't making moonshine anymore moonshine's made in the dang woods by the moonlight
03:40my name is josh owens and i love making some moonshine it runs deep in my veins
03:46white liquor corn liquor skull cracker a rock gut
03:52it's just a mystique of it the mysteriousness
03:57with liquor you can go in a liquor store and you can buy it and no big deal but if you can go
04:02somewhere and buy some illegal liquor that you're not supposed to have that might give you some kind
04:08buzz you've never had before i think that's what the draw is back then i lived for that rush so i told
04:15the guys that i had a connection through my uncle matt got a connection through my uncle matt
04:24and through uncle matt we'd get as much as they want damn right i'll get them as much as they wanted
04:33next thing i know i'm driving out to the middle of nowhere with my uncle matt
04:37oh god damn
04:38got to pick up a bunch of gallons of moonshine and we're coming down the dirt road and pull up
04:43i see this dirty run down old shack yeah
04:52now i gotta warn you he's a cookie motherfucker the property is pretty sketchy place little
05:00yards littered with equipment all kinds of trash and old furniture random lawnmower that doesn't work
05:08and there he is standing on the porch
05:17hey timmy the tweaker timmy is he dangerous oh yeah
05:21well that was their first mistake getting involved with a meth head a meth head that bruises all
05:29moonshine you know what that sounds like to me a lot of moonshine because he ain't got nothing else to
05:34do you got meth lack of sleep and moonshine there ain't no telling what might go down
05:39well
05:44well
05:45shit
05:51what's up whistle dicks glad y'all can make it
05:53come on whoa timmy's got this building he's locked up like four knots
06:04right cheers where the magic happens
06:08when you go inside of it peaking very well to 25 gallons at a time
06:15it was damn near a moonshine factory wow wow
06:19wow oh yeah give it a try
06:25i threw that one with diesel fuel and cat urine
06:28give me a punch in the old pickle smear
06:32dangerous that could explode one of the biggest dangers about making moonshine is you gotta worry
06:38about the steel blowing up you got a boiler and if anything stops that up that boiler's gonna blow
06:43that also could explode and this pretty sure that definitely that plus you got all that high proof
06:51whiskey in there and it blows the cap off she's probably gonna blow and what you're holding
06:56my buddy kenny blew a house up and it blew the whole house up it blew bricks out in the yard
07:01what you're saying to me is damn near everything this room could blow up oh hell
07:08yeah at any time we could be blown right up hell i don't know it could happen anytime bang
07:15jimmy you're a crazy son of a bitch and that's why i like you
07:19don't you like him james huh don't you like him james no we picked up 10 gallons of moonshine and
07:29milk jugs cheers we were standing there talking and he was like hey i've been tracking this bull
07:35gator behind the house so y'all want to go get him you won't go get him i'm thinking i came here for
07:40moonshine not gator but what the hell let's keep this party going we're like hell yeah we do oh yeah we do
07:47so we head out into the swamp to where timmy saw this thing last we probably canoeed about a mile
07:54a mile and a half in and then we got out and walked about a mile a mile and a half nowhere in
08:00sight cell phone signal it's just you the trees and the animals and water it's right around here
08:07hook it i see it i see him there he goes come on oh what you do is look for holes and there'll be
08:14water in it a lot of times if you sneak up right right you see a gator go in it but if you can't
08:19when you get close to it you see the water go up and down if the water goes up and down you know
08:22there's a gator in there here we are
08:30that son of a bitch is down there all right once you get to the gator burrow here's where the
08:36primitive hunting skills come in timmy has this big bag with all this primitive style gator hunting
08:43tools in it you got a hammer you got nails duct tape binding rope a handsaw handsaw ziploc bags
08:51ziploc bags and toilet paper toilet paper you gotta take a poop you don't want to wipe your butt with
08:57poison ivy but also if you ever get yourself in a pinch and the man shows up hey what are you doing back
09:04there yeah all you gotta do is pull your pants down like what are you doing here i'm pooping
09:08i'm pooping oh okay sorry have a great day that's your little get out of jail free card
09:20once you find them then you got to pull him out there i'm gonna get you that's rednecks you can
09:25figure out one way or another how to get him out there or her out there we know how to do it
09:30come on come on come on matt's pulling the gator out tim had the beating club
09:45you run it down there as soon as you fill him you snatch up then you got to pull them out that hole
09:49and when they hit the surface they go crazy you can roll on me you son of a bitch i'll roll your
09:55scaly ass like a gas station hot dog it's twisting and pulling and hissing it's game off
10:10we didn't take the time to do the proper procedures
10:14so we had all this gator meat stuffed into book bags that size gator will last for a few months in
10:21the freezer once we're traveling back we realized that we're not going the same way we came in this
10:28way's more fun shane he is a loopy son of a bitch but he knows these words
10:36probably about two or three miles back in we come across something we didn't expect to see
10:40marijuana plants what looked like hundreds of them just out there in the middle of the swamp
10:58when you see something like that smartest thing you can do especially if you're in florida
11:01where these rednecks you stay away from that because they don't that you'll go get
11:04blowed up or shot or something as we were walking out matt turned around and looked at me and said
11:09if someone comes you run you don't know anybody else and you run until you can't run no more
11:16then you just run until you can't run anymore
11:23it's about like any other kind of illegal activity you know you're a little bit on edge because
11:28you know your ass is on the line
11:30you're talking about a meth head like anything can happen but like literally anything we're walking
11:40along and then matt stops me freak
11:45i turn to look and right there at my foot is a trip wire
11:49and it's not just one they're all around us they were rigged to detonate if you got too close to them
12:01we all just froze we didn't know what to do
12:05you could have heard a pin drop all the way through the woods i was scared to death
12:09it's tremendously dangerous to walk into a grow field my name is billy lane i am a retired police
12:17detective worked undercover narcotics worked in central florida for 20 years if you go on an illegal
12:23grow patch those areas are well known for you know booby traps are well known for trip lines you know
12:30explosives they believe if you walk on their property you know they own you and you're going to get a
12:35shotgun or ar-15 stuck in your face all these scenarios ran through my head like if cops show
12:41up out there and find us doing something illegal hey what are y'all doing back there there's still
12:48ways we can get out of it oh okay i've had it but what if someone's hunting us what if i get shot
13:01or i just explode
13:05but you can't get stuck in your head you still have a mission to complete like you still got to
13:10get back to where you came from and tim was leading the way he knew where we were going
13:15make like a snake make like a snake
13:28when you're in that situation you just have to stay focused
13:35like a snake make like a snake make a snake make a snake make a snake make a snake make a snake
13:43come on now
13:44at one point we were all arguing with one another i did not come out here
13:50to get blowed up you're not yelling at me i ain't yelling at you i'm yelling at him
13:54oh god i'm hungry we're all hungry thirsty it's a hundred degrees outside
14:00i'm stuck
14:01grab my foot over over
14:06don't drag me from my neck boy all of the emotions that come along that you see on those tv shows
14:12those are all true you go through every single one of them
14:19we finally make it to the edge of the minefield
14:22timmy and i get through the last of the wires
14:27like all of a sudden
14:27oh
14:44i want to help him but i'm scared to help him because you don't want to get close and then both
14:48of you cave in it's kind of like a weird reach gimmick to where you're trying to pull him up out
14:55of the water and he hadn't got past the last tripwire so i got myself in a situation
15:03oh good boy
15:07i got caught in that boggy i just stepped right into a bog
15:12so i pull him out and he's all pissed off
15:14son of a bitch because he's covered in swamp and i don't know if you're ever stepping something
15:18like that but it stinks it smells terrible damn it's all over me come on my damn shoes
15:25it's in my damn mouth so he stinks you know and he's mad about that yeah well
15:30piss you off you in a hole you know what i'm saying we walk back to the canoe and
15:37tim turns around and he's like like panicked like like eyes all bugged out he's twitching
15:43making strange noises
15:47he's rocking and i was like holy what just happened they can see us they can see everything he was
15:54like we gotta go several ways they're gonna see us i'm not taking you back to my house i ain't
15:58taking you yahoo's back to my house okay you can't leave without us timmy bye-bye good luck
16:05timmy did you go turn crazy on us the two of us could have very easily overpowered him
16:10and took the canoe you know we can easily overpower you no we can overpower him
16:15i've taken him before i could take it it's not worth it it's not worth it we were just like to hell
16:20with it we'll walk back
16:23we're on the side of the highway walking with bags of 150 pounds of gator meat it was like 110
16:37degrees outside we were dying we walked for moms we got back there we were soaking wet our whole
16:46bodies were just freaking and we were drained we had spent the whole day fighting in the swamp and then
16:50we got to walk back so everything in the cooler and we get in his truck and we drove off
17:01i finally got to the bar came in the back door like i was a budweiser
17:07semi-truck and i was dropping off metal crates of moonshine
17:15we're all sitting around the bar and i wanted to tell everybody that i met my day and i just can't
17:19stop talking about it
17:31and they kind of just rubbed it off yeah that same thing happened to stretch last week too
17:36and i didn't care i had a successful day so i felt good about it
17:42and they paid me pretty good money too
17:47on some of the things when i think about what i was doing i cringe i'm like holy dude what
17:53i think the people that really get involved in high adrenaline situations the ones that live through it
17:59they appreciate the little things better so like i appreciate sitting on my front porch looking at my
18:07children play this is my happiness now
18:13we had quite a few cookouts with that gator meat
18:18you can stir fry it you can fry it you can do tacos whatever you can do a breakfast sandwich with it i mean
18:24you can do a gator and egg for breakfast if you want to i mean that's shit first thing we ate was the
18:32gator testicles that's good you could boil the testicles and make like rocky mountain oyster style
18:39but with gators fry it boil it boil all the semen out and then fry it so you boil it first yeah
18:54so
19:02yeah
19:06moonshine
19:08drinking that moonshine sweet and slow
19:14swirls in my chest but it warms me so
19:18troubles fade away when the bottle's mine
19:20i'm living and laughing with the moonshine on my mind
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