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00:00There we go. Ooh, bam!
00:02This time on Moonshiners.
00:05That's your first illegal run in like 14 years, Tim.
00:09I had...
00:10Four weeks to get 1,000 gallons made.
00:12I say we get to unload it.
00:15Being just paranoid anyway and moonshining is one thing.
00:19I mean, why are you scaring me?
00:20I mean, man.
00:21But you know, in my shoes, this is the next level.
00:25All right, puss.
00:26This is the point of no return.
00:29Let's see what...
00:30Good guy.
00:31Oh, yeah.
00:32Ashdown Moonshine corn liquor is the best.
00:35You know, y'all been out of it a while and I had to find me some.
00:38One world you gettin' it at for...
00:40We've got to find out where this cheap liquor is coming from.
00:45Our livelihood depends on it.
00:48Digger, this is...
00:50Josh.
00:51Josh, who?
00:52I'm concerned.
00:53Something ain't right.
00:54Digger ain't never acted like that before.
00:55Don't have anything at the same spot.
00:57Find you someplace totally away from you to get rid of you.
01:00Licker.
01:01Do that in serious.
01:05This is how we make the moonshine.
01:11I'm going in with you.
01:12Now, bye.
01:14Go ahead.
01:15So where are we going now, Tim?
01:20We're going to church.
01:20That's where we're going.
01:22In Culpeper County, Virginia, after twi-
01:2512 years paying taxes, making legal liquor, a first ever order from-
01:30Canada pulled Tim back to the outlaw side.
01:33You sure you want to do this thing, Tim?
01:35You got a lot to lose.
01:37Skirting Canadian tariffs on American whiskey-
01:40Tim stands to pocket most of the $40,000 deal.
01:45How does it feel, Tim?
01:46We're here dissolving the sugar.
01:48It's nice.
01:49A little bit stressful.
01:50But after a teetotaling preacher threatened him with more than health-
01:55fire and brimstone-
01:57Pot's empty.
01:58We missed pot's empty.
01:59You're potty's empty?
02:00What the hell is this?
02:01Yeah.
02:02Like somebody done shot it.
02:03We don't drink no moonshine.
02:05That stuff is from the devil, man.
02:07Tim finds himself answering to a higher-
02:10law.
02:11If he's down there and he's the one that's punching holes in the-
02:15steel, then, you know, that whole area there has been compromised, you know, because-
02:20he may change his mind from hunting turkeys to hunting us.
02:23In the back of my mind-
02:25I think we gotta get clear with this preacher.
02:27Because if he preaches on us this close, he'll still be-
02:30telling us on the next one.
02:31We could upset this guy and he might go straight to the law if he-
02:35ain't already.
02:36Well, I hope he ain't got no guns in the church.
02:38I've dealt with the law enforcement before, you know-
02:40you know what you're working with and they come after you.
02:42Other moonshiners.
02:43Sometimes territories stepping on toes.
02:45You know, I can work with that too.
02:47But, I mean, it's uncharted territory.
02:49It'd be better to go-
02:50You see the preacher then the judge.
02:51I think you're right about that.
02:53He might go talk to the judge after that.
02:55Yeah, boy, just be quiet.
02:57Sure.
02:58Be quiet.
02:59I think so.
03:00Man, he playing the guitar now.
03:03Hello.
03:05Hey.
03:06Uh-oh.
03:07Are you playing the guitar?
03:09Yeah.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Yeah.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Yeah.
03:16Yeah.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Yeah.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Yeah.
03:20Well, we went back down there in the woods after we saw you the next day and-
03:25we saw where we was working at some things got disturbed and stuff down there.
03:29Ooh.
03:30So we saw a Bible verse written.
03:33We were just thinking maybe you may-
03:35know something about it.
03:36Kind of fits.
03:37Hey, Bible verses, preacher, any-
03:40in the woods, you know, one and one equals two, right?
03:44There's a-
03:45a lot of people against you.
03:46I'm against you.
03:47I don't like it.
03:48Long man gets a hold to you-
03:50it might be too late then.
03:53Hmm.
03:55hinting is all about that.
03:56No, y'all come see me on a Sunday morning.
03:59Let's worship.
04:00Thank the Lord.
04:01I never faced a threat like this before.
04:04When a preacher comes-
04:05he comes out to you and he brings God down on you.
04:07I mean, what are you going to do about that?
04:10Can we go and find a steal site, please?
04:12This is a big game here.
04:13This is a big game here.
04:14This is a big game here.
04:15This is a big game.
04:16You're out.
04:20You're out.
04:20The cap fell, she's deader than a doornail.
04:22She's good to go.
04:25Ready to run.
04:26Bitter, ain't it?
04:28I smell it.
04:30In Polk County, North Carolina.
04:32The faster we get her pumped in there, the faster we get her pumped in there.
04:35The faster we get to make liquor.
04:37After landing a 20-gallon...
04:40In order for the cherry rye moonshine that made his family famous, Josh made...
04:45a risky choice.
04:46Man, that baby punks.
04:48Holy crap.
04:49Swapping in...
04:50Blackberries when the farmer's market came up short on cherries.
04:55Some good stuff.
04:56I can smell the blackberries and everything.
04:58I can smell it better.
04:59Yeah.
05:00The horses are known for making cherry moonshine.
05:02But right this very second, there just are no...
05:05Cherries.
05:06I'm gonna put some fire to it.
05:07Yeah, yeah.
05:10To be a moonshine, you gotta...
05:15adapt and overcome.
05:16I'm not gonna not fulfill my order just because the cherries aren't here right now.
05:20A little bit more than that.
05:21There's a lot of way I can smell the alcohol in there.
05:23The way I see it, something...
05:25Moonshine's better than no moonshine.
05:26So we're gonna make some blackberry and I guarantee you he's gonna love it.
05:29A little blackberry...
05:30All these seeds is micro-sized too.
05:32Walk around smelling like mash all day.
05:34Are you...
05:35It'll smell a lot worse, I promise you.
05:36Blackberry rye.
05:37It's so...
05:40Old school set up.
05:41No thumpers.
05:42So everything's pretty simple.
05:43I see it starting to steam.
05:44We can get the cap.
05:45Yeah, we ain't far from capping it.
05:46Once the mash goes in there and you fire it up, it starts steaming.
05:50You cap it off.
05:51All we gotta do now is just heat it up, let it rock.
05:55Roll and make moonshine.
05:56It's just a matter of time now for we got liquor, buddy.
06:00Oh, yeah.
06:01Damn, you smell that?
06:03I do, I do.
06:05It don't matter how many times I do that, I still love it.
06:10This old boy loves it as much as we do.
06:11Look at there.
06:12Got a little drip.
06:13I don't know if that's condensation or liquor.
06:15Oh, yeah.
06:16It's on, big dog.
06:21She running, boy.
06:22This thing's running great.
06:23It's pumping out the liquor.
06:25Like, you can't believe it.
06:26Ready to try this thing out?
06:30Angers crossed.
06:35I can't complain about that.
06:36It's good and clear.
06:40She's holding a good bead.
06:41Still got a bead.
06:42Got a blackberry.
06:43What calmed it down?
06:45The chef's got to taste his food, Mr. Josh.
06:50I'm gonna tell you, tasting that right there, we didn't go wrong with switching blackberries.
06:55But my only concern is, down here I don't know how picky people are.
06:58Are you sure this fella ain't fin-
07:00I don't have a problem.
07:01Are you crazy?
07:02Did you taste this?
07:05It's right here.
07:06It's good.
07:07I don't know.
07:08It's delicious.
07:09Here, take you another swallow.
07:10Yeah, I'm gonna take a little more.
07:11Hold on, take you another swallow.
07:10You don't gotta ask me twice.
07:11Let's get these buckets filled, get this s*** done, and get the s*** done.
07:15Get the hell out of here.
07:16Yes, sir.
07:17I'm with you.
07:18We got a whole bunch of moonshine here, and we're going-
07:20We're going to make some money, our first sale of a season, and I'm excited.
07:25So, we have to keep it in case.
07:26We'll be free with that.
07:27We will go.
07:28We'll be free with that.
07:29We'll be free with that.
07:30Well, puss, this is where it's fixing to get rid-
07:35For real.
07:36Yep.
07:37In Cock County, Tennessee, fearing-
07:40In prison after a close call with the law, Mark and Digger were forced to dismantle-
07:45their statewide illegal empire.
07:47The left of that tree there, Digger.
07:50Now, with no crews left to run shine, they have to revive their once-
07:55thriving corn liquor operation with their own bare hands.
07:59We've got this toe-
08:00a load of corn mash working off.
08:01Once we took Big Sloppy back in there and set her down-
08:05that opens up the illegal world all over again.
08:08And that's when we're back in harm's way.
08:10Let's take this mash.
08:12See if we've made mash for buttermilk.
08:15Oh, yeah.
08:16Oh, yeah.
08:17It's teetering out.
08:18We stir it.
08:19That just gas-
08:20There's no waste left in the grain bed.
08:22Caps fail.
08:25Woo!
08:26Made a little bit of liquor, ain't it?
08:28Well, it's made of alcohol, I guess.
08:30It's up to us and Big Sloppy to make the liquor.
08:32I'll carry my hand if Big Sloppy can carry hers.
08:35Yep.
08:36We're going back to making liquor.
08:40The way we were taught.
08:41Just no single pot.
08:42All by ourselves.
08:43We make enough money to keep-
08:45our families provided for.
08:47That's the only safe way to do business.
08:50I don't remember ever liking this part of-
08:55What, building a furnace?
08:57Yeah.
08:58No, it ain't the most joyful in real-
09:00rewarding part of it.
09:01There's a couple of different ways of building furnaces.
09:04Man!
09:05I don't know what's good at this.
09:06I wish it was her working on it, if that's any consolation.
09:10Once all these rocks and stones around it gets worn, it keeps it up to temperature.
09:15Longer and easier, quicker, because even out in the woods, a little bit of wind-
09:20blowing.
09:21We'll cool the pot down.
09:22I'm going to take and call that it.
09:25As far as I'm concerned.
09:26Well, yeah.
09:27It'll make liquor.
09:28Big sloppy, she's what we-
09:30we call a copper pot steel.
09:31You know, it's what we used in the- in the Smoky Mountains for-
09:35years.
09:36She's solid copper.
09:37Thump keg is copper.
09:39Condenser is all-
09:40copper.
09:41I mean, it's copper to the core.
09:42That's close enough for government work.
09:45...
09:48Make sure you stay in price of Boat.
09:50All right, puss, this is a point of no return when you light it up.
09:54Here we go.
09:55Here we go.
10:00This is where the rubber meets the road, Hattie boy.
10:05Or the wrist meets the handcuffs.
10:08You make the pick.
10:10This is where the rubber meets the handcuffs.
10:15We're steaming a little bit, let's go ahead and get that cap on there.
10:20I'll go get us a little Agua and build us a paste.
10:23Okay.
10:25Now here we are, back to the bar room.
10:30Again, I guess.
10:31We're going to do a run of corn liquor.
10:35Right off the bat, it's always in demand.
10:38Our customers have always wanted it.
10:40It's just the gold standard of the liquor world as far as we're concerned.
10:44Look yonder.
10:45Holy hell.
10:46Damn, we're in trouble now.
10:49We're illegal now, puss.
10:50Yeah, we're a little uneasy, but.
10:54They wasn't a man that walked in these woods in this county that made liquor.
10:58It wasn't uneasy.
10:59When they were either walking in or walking out.
11:01I'm going to dump these heads out, puss.
11:03Alright.
11:04I'm going to look around more than I did in the past couple of three years.
11:09And do our due diligence where security comes into play.
11:12Hattie, we ought to be getting into some hard trouble.
11:14Right about there.
11:15Well, I don't know.
11:16It ought to be coming down a little bit.
11:17It ought to be about 120 or so right.
11:20Boy, look at that right there.
11:21Boy, that is diamond clear.
11:24That's what we want, ain't it?
11:25Oh, .
11:29It's that good.
11:30Hoard it all up.
11:34Oh, yeah.
11:36That's damn moonshine corn liquor.
11:39There it is.
11:40There it is.
11:41Best.
11:42Boy.
11:44That's a damn fine jar of liquor right there, boss.
11:47Tasting this corn liquor.
11:49Uh, it's very familiar.
11:51You know, it's familiar.
11:53I'm not going to .
11:54say it's the best liquor we've ever made.
11:56I promise you it's the best liquor we've made in six months.
11:59Damn, people's going to be champing at the best to get a hold of that.
12:04That's about 30 gallons.
12:07That's about 30 gallons.
12:09Digger and I are not planning on using a bootlegger anytime soon.
12:13We're simply .
12:14We don't want to rely on our customers of old.
12:17Just take one more liability.
12:19out of our equation.
12:20You know what sucks the biggest right here, Hattie?
12:23We got to carry .
12:24Get that son of a bitch out of here.
12:25Yeah, we ain't got nobody here to carry us out of here.
12:28The more people .
12:29the more people you have involved with you,
12:30the better chance you have of getting caught.
12:32So if we get in trouble this time.
12:34It's going to be on Mark and Digger 100%.
12:36No one else.
12:37Tell you what dude.
12:39Let's just get it where it needs to be.
12:41Split it 50-50.
12:42You go in one direction, I'll go another.
12:44We'll get it sold like that.
12:46And that way if one of us does get caught, at least .
12:49the other one's safe.
12:50Hmm.
12:51I like the way you do business.
12:52The Digger and I decide we'll .
12:54We'll just split this run equally amongst us and we'll take it out on our own and sell
12:58it.
12:59Damn, that's heavy.
13:00We have to be extra cautious because the law knows who we are and all they got to do is
13:04come glance in the window and we're done for.
13:09I really want to build a permanent structure.
13:14And that's why we got the trailer and some wood because it looks good today.
13:18Next week.
13:19It could be raining.
13:20Oh yeah, that's true.
13:21You know?
13:22And I can't miss that opportunity.
13:23I can't miss it.
13:24So I can't take the risk of just sitting up out in the woods and being open.
13:27I told you the preacher.
13:29That first sight, you know, it's kind of compromised.
13:31It ain't going to work.
13:32We can't go back there and set up .
13:34No moonshine still.
13:35So I actually found another spot, a little bit far away, you know.
13:39No one's going to find this.
13:40So let me get this straight.
13:42You wouldn't go from .
13:44legal to legal.
13:45And now you're going back illegal trying to get some of that dirty money.
13:48I made a deal with .
13:49with a guy.
13:50You need like a thousand gallons of moonshine.
13:52A thousand gallons?
13:54I got a thousand gallons of moonshine to make for this buyer in Canada.
13:57Because he's trying to avoid the tariff tax.
13:59I mean, I've never smoked no moonshine across the border.
14:02I mean, I went across state lines.
14:04I went across the border to Canada, another country.
14:06This is something else.
14:07This is .
14:09You may have done yourself this time, Tim.
14:10Well, let's back in here, Andy.
14:11If it has a problem for another day, we've got a .
14:14We're running first.
14:15Oh, my.
14:16So I just called Howard.
14:17Got Henry.
14:18I got Tim.
14:19I got a little tickle.
14:20Hey, we're going to put this thing together.
14:22Now, we're not building a house, but .
14:24I want to build a shelter.
14:25The wind from blowing up under it?
14:26Yeah.
14:27The wind gets to blowing something.
14:28Well, that's what I'm .
14:29You know what I'm saying?
14:30This right here blocks everything.
14:31It blocks the light.
14:32It blocks the air.
14:33All we got to do is protect this .
14:34This front.
14:35I think this is one hell of a spot, Tim.
14:36So all we got to do is build some structure.
14:39Try to protect it from the size that's going to be viewed.
14:42Because we need to really get .
14:44put these big steels in here and get them set up.
14:46I mean, I'm done playing around.
14:49Get a hammer.
14:50Let's put this post up.
14:52You're not going to put it in the ground?
14:53No.
14:54All right.
14:55We need to put it in the ground for.
14:56It should help hold the base of it a little bit.
14:59We're going to brace it up on top.
15:01I understand that this thing has got one job to do.
15:04It's got to be put up.
15:05Keep the weather off of us.
15:06And it's got to be put up quick.
15:08Did I do good?
15:09Do it or what?
15:10All you got to do is nail it.
15:11All right.
15:12Did that right.
15:13Mm-hmm.
15:14All right.
15:15Me.
15:16Been a carpenter most all my life, you know, and kind of reached very up.
15:19high there with my carpentry skills.
15:21I would not climb in any one of y'all's tree houses.
15:24Get this up.
15:25You see?
15:26We're building a tree house in the woods.
15:28There's your post on the other side.
15:29You're not sad like you always want.
15:30Genius.
15:31We're not building a house to be here.
15:34for 30, 40, 50 years or whatever.
15:36It's hitting that nail in there.
15:37Ugh.
15:38We're just putting something up.
15:39A little bit of protection as visibility, a little bit from the weather.
15:44You can also put the steels in.
15:45You can also put the steels in.
15:49Well, you reckon time to go get some pots and bring them in?
15:51Let's roll.
15:54Cool.
15:55Who's going to run?
15:56Okay.
15:57So what about, how many feet are left that little?
15:59That they fall.
16:00You can use the right rein fee for them to Sydney.
16:01Last night.
16:02I really believe that they go behind what's a goal, anything.
16:06I would have gotten a good job then.
16:08Sabah!
16:09I was trying to be a good job then.
16:10I
16:12I'm going to put some things in along the way too.
16:14That's all.
16:15The VIDEO CULAN, I have a resolution of that.
16:16My goals are as simple as a goal, like if somebody is saved personally.
16:19The Advanced.
16:21I don't need impossible...
16:23I've done so many in my dad and I have fun before.
16:23I don't think this fella would be disappointed with the big switch up.
16:27Oh my God.
16:28Oh my God, don't worry.
16:33What happened?
16:35I don't know what happened.
16:36Oh, I know I can't turn this .
16:39Golly.
16:41Are you kidding me?
16:44Power steering and brakes.
16:47This is the worst .
16:48This is a possible time something like this could possibly happen.
16:53Oh .
16:54The belt's toast.
16:59You got a belt in there?
17:00I don't know, bro.
17:03I've luckily had .
17:08I have an extra belt behind the seat.
17:13All right.
17:15Well, the last thing that one wants to happen
17:18when you got 20 gallons of untaxed alcohol in the back of your truck is to be broken.
17:23I broke down.
17:24Come on, we got to get this thing done, bro.
17:26We're going to go to jail.
17:27Yeah, no .
17:28Not only to be broke down, but be broke down on the access road right beside .
17:33a major highway system where you got a hundred cars a minute coming by you .
17:38Will you draw that back for me, buddy?
17:41Yeah, this is an ordeal here.
17:43Do we have anything put over them barrels?
17:45I wish we would have put a tarp or something in there.
17:47No, we .
17:48We ain't got nothing.
17:49Oh.
17:50I can't sit here knowing we got moonshine in the back of the truck.
17:53That if the law pulls up and sees it, we're cooked.
17:56We're cooked.
17:58Son of a bitch.
17:59Oh, my God.
18:00Chuck, do me a favor.
18:03Hold that slack the hell out of the way for me there.
18:05Changing the belt on a vehicle is not the hardest thing.
18:08You can do.
18:09Oh, hell, fire.
18:10But the vehicle's scalping hot.
18:13You're on the side of the road and you got a truckload of liquor.
18:16It's kind of easy to .
18:18Start panicking your way out of it.
18:21All right.
18:22All right.
18:23All right.
18:24All right.
18:25All right.
18:26All right.
18:27Yeah.
18:28Get it?
18:29Yeah.
18:30You want to start it up?
18:33Fingers crossed.
18:34Fingers crossed.
18:35Fingers crossed.
18:36Well, Josh finally wrestles this thing.
18:38Gets the belt back on.
18:39Gets the belt back on.
18:40Turns are over.
18:42Start.
18:43Any time you're running with Josh, you tend to lose.
18:48Little minutes and seconds off your life every day and pounds from sweat.
18:53We've done eat up some time and we're supposed to have done met this new customer.
18:58I gotta go.
19:03We're here, Joe.
19:08Did he say where he's gonna be parked at?
19:10He said he'd be parked around the back here.
19:12Meeting a new customer.
19:13Selling somebody liquor you don't know, that's kind of already outside the box.
19:17The second thing.
19:18The second thing is, we're not showing up with what they asked for.
19:21They asked for some cherry.
19:23We're showing up with Blackberry and we're gonna show up late.
19:26Not good.
19:28All right.
19:31Good Lord have mercy.
19:33Look at that.
19:34Huh?
19:35Damn, it's Bigfoot.
19:36God.
19:38I'm not.
19:39I'll let you do the talking.
19:40Soon as we pull in, you would not believe what a mountain of
19:43a man steps out of his truck.
19:45Holy crap.
19:46How they doing today?
19:48How you doing buddy?
19:49The closer I get, the bigger he gets.
19:52Check that out.
19:53And now I gotta tell him, I don't have any dang cherry rye, but I got some
19:58really, really super good blackberry rye.
20:00He ordered some cherry.
20:01Yes, sir.
20:02But, uh.
20:03Cherries ain't in for a couple more weeks.
20:05I could get cherries, but I, uh, I substitute.
20:08With blackberries, I hope you don't mind too much, but.
20:14What do you think?
20:15Man, that's good.
20:16It is.
20:18But, that's not what I ordered.
20:21Take that right there.
20:23You and all, whoever you're gonna share that with is gonna love it.
20:26And enjoy it.
20:27And.
20:28Come back in a couple weeks.
20:30I'll make you some cherry.
20:31That's not what I wanted.
20:33So just take this.
20:34I don't.
20:35I don't want it.
20:36Just cause it's not cherry.
20:38It's blackberry.
20:39Who gives a to steal great whiskey?
20:41Yeah, dawg.
20:42You serious?
20:43So do you have a bad one later?
20:44Yeah.
20:45Let's have a good one later.
20:46Oh man.
20:47Let's go.
20:48It's good.
20:49Let's go.
20:50Let's have a good one.
20:51Go in.
20:52Geo.
20:53Let's go.
20:54Hey, guy.
20:56Hey!
20:57Watch this at last.
20:59May be peace.
21:01Oh man!
21:02I'm really excited.
21:04Hey, man.
21:05We'll see you on my bed.
21:06We'll see you next time.
21:07All right.
21:09We're already getting closer.
21:10I feel like that.
21:11I feel like that's better.
21:12really great whiskey, we've broke down,
21:15we've had to drive to hell and half a bad joint.
21:17George, I'm back to get this whiskey to you,
21:19and now you don't think you want it?
21:22Oh.
21:22Hell no, that don't even make no sense.
21:24This is as good as a cherry would be,
21:26I don't see what the problem is.
21:27Man, he knows damn good and well that liquor
21:29tastes just as good as any liquor he done put up.
21:31He wouldn't even know on a place.
21:32I'm gonna have to go find another buyer.
21:36What a waste.
21:37What a waste of a damn day.
21:42Oh.
21:43Oh.
21:44Oh.
21:45Oh.
21:46Oh.
21:47I mean, everything in here has got to come out.
21:52We ain't got much time to get this done.
21:54Nah, we less than four weeks already.
21:57We started with the first sight and we got to compromise.
22:00Way to get out of town, move.
22:02I got another sight that's on down the road on the side of this mountain.
22:05Right, Tim, we're going to put them up against these.
22:08So there's a whole lot better that we can build a shelter
22:10because this has got to be it.
22:11It's going to be the...
22:12It's going to be a permanent location.
22:14Let's get the steel set.
22:15Yeah, back her on in there.
22:16Get her...
22:17We're close.
22:18All right, here we go.
22:19This is a big job.
22:20Not only did I got a...
22:22It's like a thousand gallons of moonshine.
22:23I've got to transport this stuff 600 miles across the international border to...
22:27That's like 8,000 pounds.
22:29Looking good, boss.
22:30And I thought for sure we had a good plan.
22:32With the little smaller steels, set them up.
22:34But right now we got to make up some time.
22:36Keep them coming.
22:37Since we're so far behind, Henry's got these big steels.
22:40Real big steels.
22:41Like a thousand gallons of steel.
22:42So I'm thinking this is great.
22:44Okay.
22:45Hold on here.
22:46We got a little...
22:47Treating them.
22:48We got to get them into this new location and get them set up.
22:52So we can catch up, you know, and make this order.
22:54Because I already got half the money.
22:56Come over this way.
22:57You know, I already got $20,000 for a thousand gallons.
23:00Holy .
23:02That's a lot like work.
23:03Oh yeah?
23:04I mean, you figure.
23:05We're going to get a hundred gallons that are running.
23:07Maybe.
23:08Per pot.
23:09You're going to have to run them five times.
23:10What are we going to do with all the liquor?
23:12We're going to run it, fellas.
23:13I mean, where are we going to put it?
23:14I already checked in the place.
23:15I know some guys up in the mountain.
23:16We pay them for $50,000.
23:17A few dollars.
23:18We keep it there.
23:19Nice stash house.
23:20It's safer than being in here.
23:22I think we'll get this thing going or not.
23:25There we go.
23:26Ooh.
23:27Bam, baby.
23:28It's like a goddamn champagne bottle.
23:30You see that?
23:31I saw that.
23:32Now she's big enough.
23:33Well, we're doing what we do.
23:35We got to heat up this water to cook.
23:37This grain in.
23:38Tell you what.
23:39We're well on our way right now.
23:42If you're tickling, you'll like to see.
23:47Get that burning going, huh?
23:48Oh, yeah, buddy.
23:49You too.
23:50Watch out for that water hose.
23:52I don't know what's going on with that water hose.
23:54Howard, can you put it down on?
23:55I don't want to put the pump on it.
23:56I don't want to put the pump on it.
23:57God damn it, son.
23:58What the fuck are you turning on for?
24:00God damn it.
24:02Tickle?
24:03It was already on.
24:04Nothing wasn't on either.
24:05I hadn't moved enough.
24:06Tickle got a hit.
24:07I was in the head of itself.
24:08And when I stuck that fire down there, that gas had already built up underneath that steel.
24:11I was engulfed.
24:12I was engulfed with flames, man.
24:13Engulfed with flames.
24:14I'm very lucky.
24:15All the hair's been on.
24:16You can see it's shining.
24:17You could like tomorrow.
24:18Hell, he's feeling it now.
24:20He burned a chunk of his head.
24:21Yeah, you got a good-
24:22good haircut on this side.
24:24When we light it again, turn the head the other way so we can even the hair.
24:27cut out.
24:28You know what you all can do?
24:29Don't force me to come through that door right there.
24:32I know it.
24:33I'm a good buddy.
24:34I survived.
24:37Moonshiners, buckle up and get the job done.
24:44Please?
24:45Tickle's lost his job.
24:47Let's work in the propane tanker.
24:48I'm gonna get that water hot.
24:50I'm gonna put that grain in there.
24:51Uh-huh.
24:52Keeps getting the steam on.
24:53Right now, we got both of these steels mashed in.
24:56I think it's gonna work off.
24:57They look good.
24:58We heated them up.
24:59Got our grains added.
25:00Got our sugar added.
25:02Uh-huh.
25:03That's where you gonna get the hockey ball, right there.
25:06That's where you gonna get the hockey ball, right there.
25:07In a couple of days, we'll be back and we're running.
25:09With every little bit of sugar and grain in the pot.
25:12Anything else that wants to go with it?
25:14A little dirt don't hurt?
25:15Hopefully nothing else happens.
25:16Really?
25:17Yup.
25:18All we can do is come back in a couple of days and check this out.
25:20And hope there ain't no holes in the pot and hope everything...
25:22worked out right.
25:23Hope for the best.
25:27You know what, man?
25:30I can't believe after all...
25:32We went through to make some cherry rye.
25:34We ended up having to make blackberry rye.
25:35Oh boy, didn't want it.
25:36They don't make...
25:37Make any sense.
25:38Making somebody a brand new customer which is outside the box a special...
25:42of liquor going the extra mile and then they don't take it?
25:45That just straight pisses me the hell off.
25:47The problem is, is now we gotta drive down the road with it again.
25:50Yeah.
25:51The problem is...
25:52The problem is, is we've done earned that money.
25:54Now we're gonna have to double earn it.
25:57Find somebody else to buy it.
26:01I went to work...
26:02I went to work with Henry Kenny at Tickle Up in Virginia.
26:04I left a lot of people hanging around here.
26:07By doing so, I lost a lot of business.
26:12Right now, I got a truckload of liquor I need to get the heck rid of.
26:15So I can call my buddy...
26:17Henry Digger to put the word out.
26:23Go ahead.
26:24Digger, this is Josh.
26:25What are you doing buddy?
26:27Josh Hickle.
26:28Yeah right.
26:29You know who the heck this is.
26:32Man you ain't gonna believe the crap that I'm going through Digger.
26:35I dang made a special order or something.
26:37I got some ride for somebody.
26:38And then some of the guns gave me the biggest run around after...
26:42You wouldn't believe it.
26:43Josh here.
26:44Yeah that's my question.
26:45Yeah.
26:46I'm answering the question.
26:47Look, you know who I am?
26:48You're on the right.
26:49Look, you know who I am?
26:50You're on the right.
26:51You're on the right.
26:52You're on the right road.
26:53I can tell the way the sound's going.
26:54You bring your ass over here and look at me.
26:55Talk to me about that.
26:57Okay.
26:58Alright.
26:59I'll see you in there.
27:02It takes you to get here.
27:03I ain't gonna go to work day.
27:04Okay.
27:05And then be careful.
27:07Where?
27:08Where?
27:09Where?
27:12Here it.
27:13Acts like he don't know who I am.
27:15Then he wants to hang...
27:17up on me something ain't right. I've known digger a lot.
27:22We've been good friends a long time. He ain't never sounded like that.
27:27Man, turn this thing around. We need to go to Tennessee.
27:42Here's the gas station right here. There's a road right there at it.
27:46Yeah.
27:47Right now, me and Chuck are on our way to Tennessee. I'm concerned. Something ain't right.
27:51Digger ain't never acted like that before. When I was on the phone with him, he acted like
27:55I didn't know who I was. Told me if I knew who he was to come and find him.
27:59Yeah, take a left here. Go.
28:01Yeah, this is sure enough off the beaten path here.
28:05There he is. He's just sitting in the back of the car.
28:09He's just sitting in the back of the truck.
28:13What's up, boss?
28:15Howdy, howdy.
28:16Locks.
28:17Lots. Thought you was coming along.
28:19Ah, I had him in the truck with me.
28:22That's a good place for you to sit, son. Go get in the truck.
28:25Yes, sir.
28:26Well, I really...
28:27I really didn't expect when me and Chuck got out of the truck
28:29that Digger would start tripping out about Chuck being...
28:32in there.
28:33But he did.
28:34Sent him right back to the truck and told him he was not welcome.
28:37I ain't bring nobody with me.
28:38I should have called you. I told you, I guess.
28:40But you hung up on me.
28:42Well, you gotta understand where we're at right now, Josh.
28:46Me and Mark got...
28:47I was put in handcuffs last year.
28:49What'd they bust you for?
28:51Well, we had to steal...
28:52on the back of the truck.
28:53We ain't really talking about it.
28:55Well, I ain't talking about it.
28:57anything on the telephone.
28:58I'm not gonna talk about anything else on the telephone.
29:00Seriously?
29:01Josh!
29:02Josh knows damn good and well that we got put in handcuffs last year.
29:05And if there's anything I'm certain of...
29:07it's that the law is still watching us.
29:09What I've got to get through Josh's head is if he...
29:12it could happen to us, it could damn sure happen to him
29:15because he's way more reckless than we are.
29:17Don't have anything at the same spot.
29:19Find you someplace totally away from you to get rid of your liquor.
29:22And don't make any more than you can't sell in the course of...
29:27a day or two.
29:31You that serious?
29:32Merry Christmas.
29:33Merry Christmas.
29:34I don't...
29:35Merry Christmas.
29:36Merry Christmas.
29:37Merry Christmas.
29:37I don't want it.
29:38I want you to take it somewhere on the interstate and throw it out.
29:41Digger's always been...
29:42a better voice of reason for me.
29:43He's always kind of been in the background giving me good advice.
29:46And...
29:47if he's telling me that the heat's coming down...
29:50we're all connected.
29:51We're all...
29:52we're all in this together.
29:53We're all like a big family.
29:54And...
29:55he's telling me I better watch my people.
29:57If he's telling me that...
29:58he's telling me the keys and keys.
29:59We better listen.
30:00Well, I'll text you.
30:02another number that you'll be able to call me and don't you say a damn word about liquor or anything
30:07legal I don't even want to mention a speeding ticket I understand I understand exercise
30:12caution so I love you man get that truck be safe
30:17and tell me once
30:22you
30:27There you go.
30:32It ain't life, you know.
30:34It's been a long time since I've run an air ligger still in there.
30:37That's your first illegal run in like 14 years, Tim.
30:41I know.
30:42But I've committed to making this moonshine, you know, smuggling across to another country.
30:47I got law enforcement on both sides.
30:49Back where we started.
30:50Back where we started.
30:51When you're young, you know.
30:52You know, you got your whole life ahead of you.
30:53You're not really afraid of taking these risks.
30:55But when you get a little bit older, you think.
30:57You don't care about how life is short.
31:00That damn cap done dropped.
31:02Oh, yeah.
31:03She's good and bitter.
31:04She's going to pour the liquor.
31:07Alright, y'all ready to light this thing?
31:10Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
31:12Oh, come on, Henry.
31:13Not you tickle.
31:14You know, you can go off a guy in flames one darn .
31:17And then he won't let you near the propane tank again.
31:20What's up with that?
31:21Alright.
31:23There she goes.
31:25Look at him.
31:26See how .
31:27I'm fine, Henry.
31:28Nothing to worry about.
31:29We've got 2,000 gallon pots.
31:32Still got water.
31:33We're going to run one pot, proof it.
31:37Jug it up.
31:38Then we're going to switch over and we're going to start running the other 1,000 gallon.
31:42We're going to do the water hose limbo.
31:48That baby's getting hot, y'all.
31:50Alright, we'll give you the honors.
31:52Hot damn.
31:53.
31:54.
31:55.
31:57.
31:58.
31:59.
32:00.
32:01.
32:02.
32:03.
32:04.
32:05.
32:06.
32:07.
32:08.
32:09.
32:10.
32:11.
32:12.
32:13.
32:14.
32:15.
32:16Hey, look, something's coming out.
32:18Uh-oh, uh-oh.
32:19Something's coming out.
32:20Something's coming out.
32:21Tim?
32:22Huh?
32:23You gotta do the honors.
32:24Go ahead and figure it out.
32:25See what it tastes like.
32:26Your first D-League a run in 14 years.
32:29See what she's like.
32:30He's all excited.
32:31See what it tastes like.
32:36I'm not going to die.
32:38I'm not going to die.
32:40I'm not going to die.
32:41I'm not going to die.
32:43This first moonshine is coming out of this worm.
32:45I mean, it's nothing like it.
32:46Even though it does have a little different taste profile
32:49than the legal stuff that comes out.
32:51I'm not going to die out of my distillery,
32:53but it is really good.
32:54Made in the woods.
32:55Fresh air.
32:56You can't beat that.
32:57It's made, distilled, everything right here.
32:59I think just the hard work.
33:01It makes it taste good.
33:02Don't spill it, whatever you do.
33:04Yeah.
33:05I'm trying.
33:06It's funny right there.
33:07Look at that.
33:08Look at that.
33:09Look at that.
33:10Oh yeah.
33:11As all of the run gets collected into the burrow.
33:16Money right there, buddy.
33:17Hey, that's some pretty looking looking, too.
33:19Strong, too.
33:20We're going to be in a...
33:21Happy 90 approved.
33:22Wow.
33:23The proof you got it.
33:27Really blending in good.
33:28That's a little bit high.
33:29Now when we draw it, add it...
33:31a proofing burrow and put it in a jug.
33:33Every jug will have the same proof.
33:36Yeah.
33:37Fill them up, baby.
33:38Yeah.
33:39Fill them up, baby.
33:40Fill them up.
33:41Let's jug it up.
33:42Let's jug it up.
33:43Let's jug it up.
33:44Let's jug it up.
33:46Let's jug it up, man.
33:47Money, honey.
33:48Tim filled up his first jug.
33:49You know, it'll take 14 years to get back in a...
33:51in the woods and now it's going to take 999 more to get out.
33:54Yeah, we ain't.
33:55We ain't.
33:56We're going to leave Howard and Henry here.
33:59They're going to recap the other stuff.
34:01We're going to keep going still and get it going.
34:03Woo!
34:04I just capped this baby.
34:05All right, me and Tim...
34:06Tickle.
34:07Take this first load to the stash house.
34:09Yeah, I'm Tickle.
34:10Don't wreck.
34:11Start getting her loaded up.
34:13Make sure it's all safe and then we're going to return back.
34:16finish up the second one.
34:17This is what it's all about, being illegal.
34:19By the end of the night...
34:21We should have at least 200 gallons in the stash house.
34:23Be careful, man.
34:24Y'all be safe out there, boys.
34:26For real, man.
34:27That's where it gets serious.
34:28Step one of 1,000 gallons.
34:30All we need...
34:31There's about nine more loops.
34:36Dummy Mcengeness in the stash house.
34:37Jeremy Rave will effectively protect us .
34:38Friends who are going to return to town,
34:39and Neil showed us.
34:40Timothy Yeah, let's get to our fans...
34:41do this.
34:42We will immediately talk about now.
34:43We need to take questions about?!
34:44We need to be in a studio studio.
34:45Captain Christopher in on Star Trek VO.
34:46Pearson Vicky to Stash,
34:48machen the studio studio studio.
34:51We need to be in a studio studio studio studio studio studio.
34:52Hope you can talk about it is a studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio studio ST Taj2 is built together.
35:05It's called a beaver cut.
35:07See that?
35:08Tickle, you're a carpenter.
35:09I ain't sped.
35:10You got a 45 degree angle on that feller too, ain't you?
35:13Look at that.
35:15You can make a nice little mash fork.
35:18You keep messing around, then it ain't gonna come out.
35:20I ain't gonna come out of that in a minute.
35:21He ain't gonna say stop messing with my house.
35:23He ain't gonna come out.
35:24If y'all see that beaver, let me...
35:25I don't even know him in the head with a stick with ya.
35:27You can't eat them, can you?
35:28You ain't anything you put in your mouth and shoot.
35:30Thank you, Henry.
35:31I haven't been known to eat a beaver or two myself.
35:33I knew he was there.
35:35We want to go there.
35:40We got what?
35:41What we got back there?
35:4290 gallons in the back?
35:43Yeah.
35:4490 gallons.
35:45We got to do that about 10 more times.
35:4610, 11 more times.
35:47We finally got our first run.
35:49We made about nine.
35:5090 gallons.
35:51We got it on the truck.
35:52Me and Tickle, we're gonna go to the staff site.
35:55You're driving like you normally do.
35:56You don't speed.
35:57You know, you stop at the stop signs.
36:00You stop light.
36:01Cautious, careful.
36:02I mean, this is like...
36:05It's like back in the day, man.
36:06Me and you just riding.
36:07It's like back in the day.
36:08Watching the speed limit.
36:10You don't want to keep none of this stuff around.
36:12You get in trouble keeping this stuff around.
36:14No, that's just Devin.
36:15We're running the law right now and they want to search your car.
36:19We're gonna wind up.
36:20We're gonna have been some trouble.
36:21Yeah.
36:22You know, this probably is one of the most...
36:25dangerous parts.
36:26All in it?
36:27I mean, running the steel.
36:28That's one thing, you know.
36:30That's the crime right there.
36:32Manufacturing alcohol without the license.
36:34But...
36:35hauling it down the road now.
36:37There's more chances of getting caught.
36:38Oh, yeah.
36:39Something happening.
36:40You know, what if a truck breaks down?
36:42What if in an accident some nut runs into you?
36:45You know, if you guys own you, more chances.
36:46It's easier to get caught.
36:47Just dash right on top of that mountain.
36:50It's on the left side.
36:51It's the first time Tickler has seen this dash right.
36:53I mean, it's kind of off the beaten path.
36:55You can't see it.
36:56It's well hidden by all the overgrowth in the bushes.
36:59Nobody's been here for years.
37:00All right.
37:01Check what I think.
37:03Check what I think.
37:05This is it.
37:06All right.
37:07Well...
37:08I say we get to unloading.
37:10Yeah.
37:11Uh-huh.
37:12There we go.
37:13There we go.
37:15Right now, you know, I really got a whole lot on the line.
37:18All right.
37:19I think we're starting...
37:20in the back.
37:21Yeah.
37:22And then work our way back.
37:23Work our way up to the front.
37:24Yeah.
37:25That'd be the way to go.
37:25Being just paranoid anyway in moonshining is one thing.
37:29But, you know, in my...
37:30in my shoes, this is the next level.
37:32All right.
37:34We'll sit this...
37:35everything right here.
37:36Yeah.
37:37And that ought to do what we want.
37:39I mean, why are you...
37:40Try not to look in the mirror, Tim.
37:41Try not to look in the mirror, Tim.
37:45Okay.
37:46All right.
37:47Come on.
37:48Go ahead.
37:49Go ahead.
37:50Go ahead.
37:50we got to get in and out of here I know but
37:55I got I got another plane tickle what's that I bought some cameras putting you know all
38:00of this moonshine in one location you know it is a high risk you know the next month
38:05I've got to continue do this all the time so I've got some game cameras and I want to put
38:10them in different locations yeah so it's important towards them jugs yeah we got to be very close
38:15cautious about it well I mean that's 90 go we got 10 more trips just like it
38:20I saw he get out of here before somebody sees his truck out of here what did I say
38:23these 90 jugs sitting up in this
38:25stash house boy they sure do look good all right let's get out of here
38:30let's head on out but you know it's going to be a beautiful sight seeing up
38:35thousand of them sitting in here
38:40you know we didn't make a tremendous
38:45amount of liquor on our first corn run we're trying to generate a little revenue
38:50just get back to the basics you know I'm on my way right now to
38:55one of our oldest dearest customers he's always wanted our corn liquor
39:00we ain't made a sale of liquor in six months and you know I'm really excited
39:05what are you doing you old fart where you been hiding am I been
39:10laying low for six months I for sure I ain't seen hiding or hair you it ain't
39:15been by choice but I got you something here
39:20well I've been missing some of y'all's good stuff now hopefully it'll be for me
39:25some of y'all's good stuff yeah I'll try it out that
39:28see here
39:29well I
39:30I ain't going to sell man no pig in the boat.
39:35That's familiar, ain't it?
39:37Yeah, that's good as I remember.
39:40See it, that's good stuff right there.
39:42Price is still the same, 25 bucks.
39:45A hundred dollars a gallon.
39:48Well, I hate to, but.
39:50You know, y'all been out of it a while and I had to find me some.
39:54And.
39:55I found some pretty good stuff.
39:58I've been paying $15.
40:00A jar for it.
40:02Jesus God, $15 a quart.
40:05Well, that's 40% less.
40:07I don't know how anybody's making them any money at that.
40:10I don't either, but you can't blame a feller for picking it up at that price.
40:13No, it ain't.
40:14Shortfall, it's just.
40:15That's my problem.
40:16I mean, that just knocks me for a loop.
40:19One world you getting.
40:20You're getting it up for that price, Stan.
40:21Now, now look how many years we've been doing business.
40:24A long time.
40:25Well, you know I can't tell that.
40:27I get it.
40:28Well, that's just the way Moonshiner's codes work.
40:30You know.
40:30You don't reveal your sources.
40:31I mean, I'm getting it from a bootlegger.
40:33And you know how that goes.
40:35We've got to find out where this chief.
40:40Liquor is coming from.
40:43And more importantly, how in the world.
40:45Are they able to produce it and sell it for $15?
40:49Our livelihood.
40:50Depends 100% on it.
40:55Oh, f***.
40:58Told you.
40:59Slow down.
41:00Man, you didn't say f*** about falling down.
41:02What the hell are you talking about?
41:04I can't give a jar.
41:05Liquor away.
41:06I didn't have no luck either.
41:08If somebody else is trying to choke up.
41:10us out of business, then we've got to choke back a little bit.
41:13All I want you to do is just get up off the water a little bit.
41:15And I'll be golden.
41:16We've got to find a way then to pump the freaking water up the tank.
41:20Yeah.
41:21Oh, f***.
41:23Yeah.
41:24Oh, damn.
41:25Well, I'm all wet and the dadgum wheel ain't turning, Jerry.
41:28Chuck.
41:30You hear? Four wheelers.
41:34You hear that?
41:35We got to get the hell out of here.
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