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00:00You
00:05Tax-free liquor's got the backwoods.
00:10Booming.
00:15Taking all my money.
00:18You're getting all my liquor.
00:20You need some liquor, are you?
00:22Yeah, at least 100 gallons.
00:24Drawing in...
00:26What are you trying to say?
00:27Are you trying to say you're going illegal?
00:29If I just sit there and...
00:30I'm going to do nothing.
00:31I'm going to lose everything.
00:32And the reckless...
00:33You called her on an open...
00:35To gamble their freedom on the lure of...
00:40Easy Money.
00:41That joke is falling this tickle.
00:43Because when you let the scent of this...
00:45Less much cash drift through these hollers.
00:47Somebody out there selling liquor at damn...
00:50Rock-bottom prices.
00:51The government's bound to come sniffing.
00:53Ah, .
00:55Along with every carpetbagger and counterfeiter chasing a quick score.
00:59Can I help you?
01:00You made this liquor right here.
01:01Yes, sir.
01:02Fellas like this here.
01:03You got to deal with them pretty rough.
01:05Now, new faces arise to stir the proverbial pot.
01:09We don't...
01:10There ain't no moonshine.
01:11That stuff is from the devil.
01:13Hell-bent on fainting the flames of...
01:15Tensions.
01:16Older than the hills themselves.
01:18What the hell is this?
01:19Bullet.
01:20Wholes.
01:21That's a bible verse.
01:22Out here, the real fight is always more...
01:25Than money.
01:26Look not thou upon the wine when it is red.
01:28At the last it biteth...
01:30Stingeth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
01:33It's a battle for the...
01:35The spirit of the backwoods.
01:36Corn liquor.
01:37What digger and myself cut our teeth on.
01:39Hot damn.
01:40Made in the woods.
01:41You can't beat that.
01:42And a way of life built on...
01:45Inheritage and tradition.
01:47Right now, we shouldn't be taking no chances.
01:49I'm gonna grab what we...
01:50Can right quick and get the hell out of here.
01:51I'm thinking is someone gonna arrest us?
01:53Somebody gonna shoot us?
01:54Or what's...
01:55What's gonna happen?
01:56Hennon!
01:57Hennon!
01:58Help!
01:59God dang!
02:00The cops will be here to me.
02:00In a minute.
02:01Out!
02:02Oh!
02:03Damn almighty!
02:04Come on!
02:05The man's gone.
02:08This is how we make the moon...
02:10Sunshine!
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02:44We started talking about moonshine and liquor and stuff.
02:47Next thing I know, uh, I've got...
02:49$20,000 in my hand, get half up front, the other half at the end of the day.
02:53I just...
02:54I just need to get the stuff made.
02:55What are you trying to say?
02:56Are you trying to say you going illegal?
02:59In Culpeper County, Virginia, as the commercial whiskey business...
03:04...suffers under tariffs and decreasing demand, former outlaw turned legal...
03:09...distiller Tim Smith grapples with an existential quandary.
03:13The cash...
03:14...and the moonshine market suddenly seems a lot greener on the outlaw side.
03:19The Canadians, they want to buy American whiskey and moonshine, but the tariffs, the price...
03:24...is like double.
03:25So if we can introduce this on a black market where we don't have any tariffs...
03:29...charges on it, I can make some money and my buyer, he can too.
03:33You got a lot to...
03:34...lose.
03:35You know, you've been rocking and rolling here for 10 years or more.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Legal.
03:39Are you sure you want to do this thing?
03:39Well, that's the thing.
03:40The legal medicine is not so good right now.
03:44You got to pay the federal government off for you to just make alcohol.
03:49And then you got to pay every state to sell the alcohol.
03:52Then you got to give this...
03:54...contributor their part, and then the retailer gets their part.
03:57And by the time you get done with that...
03:59...you don't get no money.
04:00Twelve years ago, Tim and his best friend...
04:04...who ran one of the biggest illegal moonshine operations in Virginia.
04:08I'd say the average...
04:09...moonshine can make about $30,000 in three months.
04:12Oh, yeah.
04:13Yeah.
04:14I need to start loading this up.
04:15But facing the prospect of life in jail, Tim...
04:19...I've made a reluctant decision to invest in a licensed distillery.
04:23That way I can...
04:24...I can make moonshine.
04:25I can keep on the heritage and make money without worrying about...
04:29...and getting arrested.
04:30Now, with no way to earn a living in the legal market...
04:34...all bets are off.
04:35I just got an opportunity to make some money...
04:38...and on the way to...
04:39...to do it is illegal.
04:40Because you can't make it legal.
04:41Well, you know, you've got to be careful.
04:43You know...
04:44...the market almost got busted last year.
04:45Yeah, I know.
04:46But I ain't marked.
04:47And I ain't digging, either.
04:48And I...
04:49...I got you two guys that I know you got my back.
04:54I...
04:55...I...
04:56...I...
04:57...I...
04:58...I'm just...
04:59...it's thrilled to be back out in the woods with them.
05:00Well, you're with the right two guys here.
05:02That's right.
05:03Look, let's start throwing what you...
05:04...got in the truck.
05:05Yeah.
05:06This journey, you know, over a decade now of being legal...
05:08...which I...
05:09...I've always wanted to do.
05:10I want to bring my dad's recipe to light.
05:12I did that.
05:13I put it...
05:14...on the shelf.
05:15But, you know, you get $30 for that little bottle...
05:18...and you...
05:19...and profit $0.65.
05:20You lead the way.
05:21Me and Henry will follow you, all right?
05:22Yeah, just follow me.
05:23All right?
05:24If you make profit, you got to get cash money.
05:26And cash money is no taxes.
05:28No...
05:29...and taxes mean you're breaking the law.
05:34All right.
05:35What do you think, Henry?
05:36All right.
05:37What do you think, Henry?
05:38All right.
05:39What do you think, Henry?
05:39This is way back in here.
05:40I mean, that's...
05:41...that's security there.
05:42I'm going back to some old...
05:44...that's security.
05:45Growing up as a kid, you know, it still has not been developed.
05:48It is out there.
05:49That's some fresh water coming in right up there.
05:51It comes down through here.
05:53It brings...
05:54It brings back memories.
05:55But it also, you know, it raises a hair up on your back.
05:58You start thinking about...
05:59...is somebody watching you?
06:01Is it somebody out there in those woods?
06:03You know, just...
06:04...waiting for you when you unload.
06:06I've got about four weeks.
06:08A thousand guys.
06:09We'll have to have a whole lot more than that.
06:11Well, I mean, we've got to put more stills in.
06:13And then we'll be...
06:14...we'll be running, setting up, running, setting up, running, mashing...
06:17Do it like we did back in the other day.
06:19We'll be done.
06:20Let's do it.
06:21Let's get them unloaded.
06:22Yeah, let's get them unloaded.
06:23Sometimes it comes...
06:24All the time in your life you have to make a decision.
06:26Come on down with me.
06:27I got it.
06:28Because if I just sit there and do nothing...
06:29...I'm gonna lose everything.
06:31Right now we need some money.
06:32I'm not gonna let this legacy...
06:34...go down.
06:35I just hope I don't get caught.
06:37You have the right to...
06:38...don't...
06:39...don't worry.
06:40That's why we're here.
06:41That's why we're here.
06:42Y'all ready?
06:43Let's roll on.
06:44Hop...
06:45Hop...
06:46Hop...
06:47Hop u...
06:49...
06:49I'll see you next time.
06:54We've pushed our luck way further than we ever should have.
06:57I know we have.
06:59But that still don't kill the feeling of wanting to do what we're doing.
07:04I've never been trying to ever spring for so many years.
07:07Deep in the hills of Cock County, Tennessee.
07:09The first warm days of spring lure lifelong moonshiners mark.
07:14Digger back to the woods.
07:16We achieved our goal.
07:18We had all these teams.
07:19We had all these teams of making liquor.
07:20But that could have been our mistake.
07:23Put your hands up.
07:24After their last season ended in handcuffs, the legendary...
07:29Outlaws face a harsh reality.
07:31There's little doubt local law enforcement is...
07:34Outlaws face a harsh reality tracking their every move.
07:37You know, we made the really hard...
07:39decision to shut our whole operation down.
07:43We packed up all the stills.
07:44our equipment that we rounded up and put it in storage.
07:48It's going to be real mixed.
07:49It's going to be real mixed in motion seeing all these stills, ain't it?
07:51Well, do we keep pushing it or do we let out?
07:54I don't know.
07:55I'm not sure which direction's the wrong one.
07:59We're going to go look at these stills.
08:01We're going to decide what we're going to do.
08:03I think it needs further...
08:04the discussion is where we're going to go into making liquor this year.
08:09Have mercy.
08:10Well, there they are.
08:12Just the way we left them.
08:14We look at these stills kind of like a hunting hound dog.
08:17A hound dog that ain't permitted to hunt.
08:19is in misery.
08:21And I can't help but think that these stills somehow or another...
08:24they're supposed to be making liquor.
08:26I mean, it just ain't right to have all these nice...
08:29stills sitting here making no liquor.
08:32Yeah.
08:33Would we be tempting fate?
08:34if we keep pushing our luck.
08:36It's a hard decision to make,
08:37but I'm wanting to light one of them up.
08:39Puss is bad.
08:39I can't stand it.
08:40And I know Puss is too.
08:42Let me tell you what.
08:43Let me make a suggestion.
08:44One of our dearest and oldest friends in the liquor business
08:48has never been caught.
08:49Ever been handcuffed?
08:50I'm talking about J.B. Rader.
08:52Yep.
08:53What do you say?
08:54Go talk to J.B. about it.
08:56All right.
08:57I'll go for that.
08:58If there is such a thing...
08:59J.B. is a living legend.
09:00J.B. is it in the moonshine business.
09:03Popcorn, he got caught.
09:04J.B. never did.
09:06If I want marital advice,
09:08I don't ask somebody that's been...
09:09divorced seven times.
09:13Let's see.
09:14If we can run J.B. down for us.
09:16Let's go see Rader.
09:19Let's go see.
09:24Let's go see.
09:29Let's go see.
09:29We were supposed to be down...
09:34D. We've got to get down to the bedrock,
09:37which we really ain't there yet.
09:39Four counties southeast.
09:42Fifth generation moonshiner Josh Owens...
09:44also heed Spring's call of the woods.
09:47After a long recovery from a near...
09:49fatal motorcycle accident,
09:51Josh is finally ready to restart his own moonshine.
09:54operation.
09:55But until his new partner arrives to help set up the copper...
09:59stills...
10:00he's got another precious metal on his mind.
10:03I've heard all my life about...
10:04my ancestors finding gold in these mountains...
10:06and these hills and these creeks...
10:07and these rivers around here.
10:09and to be able to make some liquid money...
10:11and some solid money at the same time.
10:14I don't think it'd get any better than that.
10:18Freeze!
10:19Freeze!
10:20Hey, Jack!
10:24Scared the out of me.
10:26It feels dang good to be back home.
10:28Back to my .
10:29Back to my roots.
10:30Back to my heritage.
10:31A few years ago, I was a motorcycle wreck.
10:33Just about took me .
10:34Get me out of here.
10:35It's been a really long road to recovery.
10:37But now that I'm feeling pretty good, it's time to .
10:39Get my liquor still back up and running and start making some money.
10:42What are you doing?
10:43Man, let me taste.
10:44Mm-hm.
10:45There's a lot of people before me made a living off of gold in these hills.
10:48And .
10:49I was really hoping that I could find some gold in these hills my damn self.
10:52I've known Chuck for a few years now.
10:54A while back, I went down to Arkansas.
10:56Helped him put together a steel, get his whole entire .
10:59operation up and running.
11:00Things were coming around full circle because now he is up here helping .
11:04me.
11:05Well, it looks pretty as always down here.
11:06This is not the best steel side ever.
11:08You can't whoop it.
11:09We've got good, clean spring water.
11:11We've got good, clean spring water.
11:14Okay.
11:15Let's see .
11:16Watch out.
11:17I'm fine.
11:18We've got good.
11:19We'll hang it up.
11:20What about that thing?
11:21Or should i run?
11:23Get..
11:26Please get próxim aquesta.
11:28Okay.
11:30peeling plaques.
11:31Pull it out in the chat box.
11:33Oh no.
11:35Yeah.
11:37Well, hey.
11:39Let's call .
11:40This is a degrading pill.
11:41Well, I'm not done.
11:42This is not a sponge wineginine.
11:43Ah.
11:19Got to be on your toes out here.
11:24I guess it was a...
11:26I don't know.
11:29All right, now don't start that you'll get me shook up
11:31before we even get started.
11:32I've really been on the ad since
11:34Mark and Digger about got busted by the law last year.
11:36I think all of us moonshiners are a little more jumpier than you.
11:39And that's another reason I want to choke out here.
11:41I need another set of eyes and ears.
11:43Anyway.
11:44I got a large order for some cherry rye
11:46and really good lineup on some grains.
11:49On my grandpa's side of the family,
11:51we're famous for Terry Whiskey.
11:53Believe it or not, I have...
11:54I haven't made it in years, but now that I'm back home,
11:56there is a huge market waiting for it.
11:58It's going to put a ton of...
11:59There's a ton of money in our pocket.
12:00You ready to hustle?
12:01Hell yeah, I am.
12:02Nice.
12:03I think we're fixing the building.
12:04I feel something that's real big here,
12:06and I'm excited to be here.
12:07So, hey, we're about to get right to work, ain't it?
12:09No time to waste.
12:10Oh, Lord!
12:14Oh, Lord!
12:15Oh, Lord!
12:16Oh, Lord!
12:17Oh, Lord!
12:18Oh, Lord!
12:19Oh, Lord!
12:20Oh, Lord!
12:21Oh, Lord!
12:22You know, JB, he's got a lot of...
12:24sense.
12:25He's back here at one of the very first still sites
12:27that popcorn ever had.
12:28Yeah.
12:29You know, me and Digger, we're headed to seek advice from JB.
12:32This was the place where popcorn...
12:34...run liquor back when he first started out.
12:37Before he got big, when he was just learning...
12:39...of the trade.
12:40You know, popcorn, he felt safe here, and obviously he was.
12:44...for a long, long time.
12:45I guess that's why JB's here.
12:49This was the pull-off right here.
12:50It's just grown up now.
12:51Yep.
12:52Here we are.
12:53We just need...
12:54...to see him and get some advice from him.
13:04JB ain't never been caught.
13:06He's never spent a night in jail.
13:08So he's the one we need...
13:09...to ask.
13:10I would agree.
13:11You know, JB's made as...
13:14...as much liquor as anybody.
13:16He's never ended up handcuffed like us.
13:18That's the guy...
13:19...we need to go talk about how to keep on making liquor.
13:24Well, if we'd been to law, you'd be in handcuffs right now.
13:27We coming in on you, boss.
13:29Hey, Digger.
13:30Hey, Mark.
13:31Well, that cooling tub is staying cold.
13:33Yep.
13:34That's damn right.
13:35That water's turning over fast, ain't it?
13:36Yep.
13:37Well...
13:38Well, all right.
13:39JB, me and old Digger, we're at a crossroads here.
13:42We've been shut down for six months.
13:44We ain't made a drop of liquor.
13:46And we need some advice.
13:49Yep.
13:50I know what's the matter.
13:51You got too big for your damn britches.
13:54Boys made the same mistakes that popcorn did.
14:00He said, uh, what you're doing against the lava?
14:02I said, I know it.
14:03Ha, ha, ha.
14:04I said, I don't give a goddamn.
14:06Legendary Appalachian Moonshiner popcorn...
14:09...Sutton was a mentor to Mark and Digger.
14:12But as his fame grew, so...
14:14...noted his belief that he was untouchable.
14:16He flouted the law.
14:18Operating...
14:19...illegal stills in the open.
14:21Increasing his liquor output exponentially.
14:24...and selling moonshine to anyone and everyone...
14:27...until the walls of justice...
14:29...finally closed in on him.
14:31Yeah, popcorn just got too big.
14:34Yeah, like yours.
14:35Yeah.
14:36Making the same mistakes.
14:37Yeah.
14:39I didn't put it into contrast because we kind of thought...
14:42...we was a little bit slicker than the next man.
14:44Yeah.
14:45Thanks a lot.
14:46Peace out, too.
14:49So tell us what we need to do.
14:51Just tell us right out what you think our moves...
14:54...needs to be, JB.
14:59There ain't many.
15:00Backwoods.
15:01There ain't many.
15:02Backwoods.
15:03I'm sorry.
15:04There ain't many riders left.
15:05We need to keep it going.
15:07We need to keep it going.
15:09Just keep making liquor, but be smarter.
15:12Back to the basics.
15:13Just put your...
15:14...small pot out.
15:15Not one barrel.
15:16And you know who you can sell to and you can't.
15:19I think this is a perfect scenario.
15:21You're sitting here with you a little still.
15:23Yep.
15:24Talking to yourself.
15:25Making what you can sell.
15:26Yep.
15:27Ain't getting rich, but damn.
15:29I've grown up not rich, so what the hell do I need to get rich now for?
15:35That's why we came to you, Obi-Wan.
15:37Damn it.
15:38That's why we came to you.
15:39I love you, buddy.
15:40I love you back.
15:41The Mark and Digger Enterprises is now shut down.
15:44It's just going to be me and Mark.
15:46We're going back to just an old single pot, and we're making corn.
15:49Liquor.
15:50That's it, plain and simple.
15:51Well, he put it in perspective for us, didn't he?
15:53Yeah.
15:54And it was laying right in front of us the whole time.
15:56We're just too damn stupid to look ourselves.
16:02Bye.
16:04Bye.
16:05Bye.
16:06Bye.
16:07I can't wait for you to see this.
16:08I'm so excited.
16:09We're going to get some of the best grains in North Carolina.
16:12We're about to make some frickin' Carolina.
16:14Rye Cherry.
16:15This is probably one of the best grain distributors anywhere in the south.
16:19And I got a friend that works there.
16:21They're a delivery guy.
16:22So all I got to do is meet up with him.
16:24We're going to buy some.
16:25It's the beginning of the season.
16:26I'm excited because I already got a tall order.
16:29And it's for Cherry Row.
16:30And I'm ready to make some money.
16:32See that white truck right there?
16:34Whenever he comes out of there and gets in that truck, we're going to follow him out
16:37of here.
16:38He'll be on his delivery run.
16:39From this distillery to that distillery.
16:41Somewhere in the middle there will grease the wheel.
16:43Some of that grain.
16:44Some of that grain is going to fall right in the back of this truck.
16:46Don't nobody have a problem with cash money.
16:48We're trying to see.
16:49We're going to save money any way we can.
16:50We're going to get a better deal by just dealing with my buddy here off the back of
16:53the truck.
16:54There he is right there.
16:57There he is right there.
16:59Oh yeah.
17:00He's loading it up too.
17:01Yeah.
17:02He comes right there.
17:03Is he getting in the truck?
17:04Where is he?
17:05Where is he?
17:06What's he doing?
17:07Looks like he's getting in the truck.
17:09Look at it man.
17:10Big money truck.
17:14Here he comes.
17:15High pursuit.
17:19We got the subject heading westbound on the rural road.
17:23We're about to run.
17:24Run up on them.
17:25Get all the grains and go back to the woods.
17:27Oh yeah.
17:28So you know.
17:29You know where this old boy is heading?
17:30I really don't, but there's about a hundred damn breweries up here, but he's
17:34got to be stopped at one or something.
17:35You think he's going to have enough of what we need on there?
17:39If he's got 10 bags of rye, we're in business.
17:43Yeah.
17:44Looks like he's pulling up in here.
17:46Looks like that little alley or something right there.
17:49I'm going to run up here and talk to him in a quick way.
17:54This brewery...
17:54We're stopping at it.
17:55Looks good.
17:56Don't look like there's a ton of people around.
17:57It looks like just the right spot.
17:59I'll be right back.
18:04It looks like there's a ton of people in kigiton.
18:30Let them fall.
18:33I've only got 300 bucks, but he said he'd give it to me.
18:35For 300, so game on.
18:38There's three bills right there.
18:39Give me the back over here.
18:40Yeah, going back and on in.
18:43Oh yeah, he's walking back with a smile on his face.
18:45The best part about all this is, is now we got to hook up on.
18:50Premium grains for our entire season that nobody else is going to be able to get their hands on.
18:55And that's just going to take us to a whole new level.
18:58That's it.
18:59Next couple of weeks.
19:00I'm definitely going to be coming back, but it's all right.
19:02You bring the cash.
19:03Oh man, it's on.
19:05I'm going to need to get some chairs.
19:06That's worth this waiting dough, bro.
19:08Make liquor, make money.
19:10Go.
19:11Yeah, go.
19:12Go.
19:13Go.
19:14Go.
19:15Come on back big boy.
19:18That's good.
19:20Good.
19:21Last night we came in, we bought some steel parts.
19:24And today we're going to...
19:25I want to go in with a mash that's still in.
19:27I want to get something in that works,
19:28because I got a thousand gallons I got to have.
19:30And I only got four weeks.
19:31Now tell me where you want to go with this thing, Tim.
19:33We got to put more...
19:35There's a lot of steels in here.
19:36It's just the first one.
19:37First one?
19:38First one can go here.
19:39Let's do it.
19:41There's a lot of snake coming in here, eh?
19:42Well, you know, it's been 14 years since I've been in the woods.
19:45I don't know if I made the right decision or not.
19:47I may even lose my license, get put in jail.
19:50I don't know how much work it is out here, eh?
19:52Going to prison at anyone's age, that's kind of...
19:55scary anyway.
19:56You know, at my age, I really don't want to be going to prison.
20:00That's what I know how to do.
20:01I know how to make looking.
20:02I can make money.
20:03I feel like I'm carrying a casket.
20:05I feel like I'm carrying both of y'all.
20:06Looks pretty good, aren't you?
20:07I feel like I'm carrying both of y'all.
20:08Looks pretty good, aren't you?
20:10Right over here.
20:11Yeah, let's get that pump running.
20:12Get the water in that thing.
20:13Get a swell up.
20:15Get the water in that camp.
20:25And we're talking baby. We need grain first. We're not using no special recipe here.
20:30Just plain bootleg moonshine. Look at some corn and sugar. We're just mixing it in.
20:35Putting the yeast in it and letting it work. How does it feel Tim? We'll be out here solving this shit.
20:40It's nice. A little bit stressful. I mean it's looking good because we got one stick.
20:45We're gonna start bringing more in each day and mash it in. Y'all ready to go grab it.
20:50Go get some more stuff. Four weeks. I mean this is plenty of time if we can get these.
20:55It's still set up.
20:58A few days later we'll come back and set up the pump.
21:00The water box.
21:01You can get them other steels moving too.
21:05Hold it Tim. What the hell is this coming down through here?
21:10Uh oh.
21:15I don't know who that is.
21:17I don't know who that is.
21:20I don't know who that is.
21:24Thanks for having me.
21:25You
21:30I don't like this at all
21:35Tim Smith
21:37Oh John
21:39What in the world are you doing down in
21:40here? Well we're just looking over
21:42some property down here you know I got some land
21:44down here with our friend
21:45of mine it's got some land down here
21:47Oh so you got permission to be down in here?
21:49Yeah I'd love to
21:50See y'all come to church
21:52Okay well may have to do that
21:54Yeah
21:55Yeah
21:56We'll see if we can make things right
21:57What are you doing? With a gun and stuff
21:59I was trying to
22:00try and do some turkey hunting
22:02I'm a redneck preacher man
22:04We do hunting and fishing
22:05Okay
22:07We don't drink no moonshine though
22:10You know
22:12That stuff is from the devil man
22:14You need to
22:15I don't know
22:16You need to change your life
22:17Oh yeah
22:18I mean it's just the one I grew up in
22:20It's kind of a heritage
22:21Well like you know
22:22I grew up and my family was in moonshine
22:24and when I
22:25I got old enough to make a choice for my own
22:27I quit
22:28Yeah
22:30Okay
22:31Sound like a deal?
22:32We'll see what we can do
22:33I'll be looking to see y'all this Sunday
22:35Good meeting
22:36Good meeting
22:37Y'all be careful out there
22:38You be careful too
22:40God dang man
22:43Good and dead
22:44Jesus Christ
22:45Gross
22:46It's a story old is time
22:47The law versus the moonshiners
22:49But there's
22:50There's more to this story
22:51Than what a lot of people realize
22:53There are people out here in this
22:55world
22:56That just
22:57In general
22:58Found upon the making of liquor
22:59The
23:00The selling of liquor
23:01The drinking of alcohol
23:02And
23:03You know what
23:04They're entitled to that
23:05opinion
23:06He told you plainly
23:07You need to be changing your ways
23:08Well I have been changing my ways
23:10That's how I got here
23:11Sat back here and I was quiet
23:13I've been in woods all of my life
23:15Except for the last decade
23:16And
23:17It's got complicated
23:18Moonshiners can get attacked by
23:20Special ABC agent
23:21Law enforcement
23:22State police
23:23All those agencies out there
23:24But not
23:25Someone's gonna confront you
23:26You know
23:27They're preachers against alcohol
23:28I mean
23:29That's all it is too
23:30But
23:31When he puts the word of God on you
23:32That's some pressure right there
23:34That is some pressure
23:35That's not like
23:36I'm gonna arrest you
23:37That's like
23:38I'm gonna make sure
23:39Your soul goes to heaven
23:40Or not
23:45That's all
23:46That's all
23:47That's all
23:48That's all
23:49That's all
23:50Thank you
23:50Thank you
23:55I ain't seen you guys in a while
23:57It's been a spell
23:58You know
23:59The past few days
24:00Been
24:00Pretty tough on us
24:01Laying off our entire staff
24:03Everyone that worked for us
24:05With the exception of Amanda and Kelly
24:07Basically
24:08We
24:09We ain't made none of us
24:10We just made no liquor in six months
24:11I mean
24:12There ain't no way of
24:13Sugarcoating it
24:14We're
24:15Under the gun
24:16Y'all are too
24:17We're a liability to y'all
24:18Well I've said that for years
24:20Well it just got real now
24:22Last couple of years
24:23We've been running a big moonshine
24:25Organization
24:26We had teams
24:27Working for us
24:28A lot of teams
24:29Making a lot of liquor
24:30I'm feeling real conflicted about cutting ties with Amanda and Kelly
24:35But it's time
24:36On
24:37The advice
24:38Of J.B.
24:39Raider
24:40We're cutting loose all the teams
24:43What does that mean
24:44You
24:45Drop
24:46It
24:47It
24:48It
24:49It
24:50It
24:51It
24:52It
24:53It
24:54It
24:55It
24:56It
24:57It
24:58It
24:59It
25:00It
25:01It
25:02It
25:03It
25:04It
25:05It
25:06It
25:07It
25:08It
25:09It
24:45It
24:46It
24:47It
24:47It
24:48It
24:50Interactions, law enforcement, all the teams we got out there drawing attention to us.
24:55Exercising extra precautions this year. We're doing our due diligence on security.
25:00That's an over-earning phone.
25:02You call if you need anything.
25:05The first number that's in the saved phone number, that's the phone I've got right there.
25:10Feel free to use any of our recipes. Make us all the money you can.
25:15But be safe doing it.
25:17I mean, we want to run liquor.
25:18You know all these stills are in here.
25:20Pick what you need. Take what you want.
25:22So it's not as bad as it could have been.
25:24We're not completely...
25:25We're completely cut off.
25:26We still get to use all the equipment we've had access to in the previous years.
25:29And thankfully...
25:30They've kept one lifeline to me and Kelly.
25:32And I really, really appreciate that.
25:34The...
25:35Holy grail of moonshine.
25:36Why don't we just take one right now and I'm going to have the key.
25:40And if we need some more stuff, we can come back at any time and get what we want.
25:43I'd keep my head low.
25:45Okay.
25:46You have added as you see fit.
25:48I recommend you guys setting up a farm.
25:50As far away as you can practically.
25:52You know, maybe even over in western North Carolina somewhere.
25:55Out of state would be a smart place to go.
25:58It's y'all's bus.
25:59You take it up the route you...
26:00They won't go.
26:01They're out on their own.
26:02And we wish them the best.
26:04But we've come...
26:05To terms with it.
26:06We're going to mash in a total liquor.
26:08We're going to be down tomorrow.
26:10Mark and Deja.
26:15Okay.
26:16By the way, we're going to lock it up.
26:17Happyruly.
26:18All right.
26:19You're good.
26:20You're good.
26:21Bye.
26:22Bye.
26:23Bye.
26:24Bye.
26:21Man, it's a good feeling to know we got these grains already.
26:24So all we got to do.
26:25We'll just get some cherries and we're ready to roll.
26:28It's the beginning of the season.
26:29I already got a .
26:30We got some great Carolina rye.
26:33Now we need to get some cherries.
26:35He wants to.
26:35We got a large order of cherry whiskey.
26:37We're going to make some dollars, man.
26:39Yes, sir.
26:40We're going to the farmer's market where I've gone a bunch of times and I've got more fruit than you can shake a stick at.
26:45I'm ready to get some cherries and go make some money.
26:48Oh, yeah.
26:48This is a big old operation.
26:50I love.
26:50I love this place.
26:52How's it going, bud?
26:53Good.
26:53How are you?
26:54Yeah, we're great, man.
26:55Hey, we need to get some of these.
26:55We need some cherries.
26:56A little too early.
26:57Cherries.
26:58I knew it was a little early, but the farmer's market's always.
27:00He's got what I need.
27:01Well, there's a guy down below down here that has that chipped in.
27:05He might have.
27:05Okay.
27:06Great.
27:06Thank you very much.
27:08I've been coming up here frigging 14 or.
27:1015 years and they've always had exactly what I wanted this time.
27:15They don't have.
27:15He says we're four or five weeks too early that if there are any, they're down below.
27:20at the bottom.
27:21How are you doing, buddy?
27:22Doing well.
27:23How are you doing?
27:24I'm doing perfect.
27:25Pretty good.
27:26I'm looking for some cherries.
27:27We're going for a world record on the world's largest cherry.
27:30But you're about a month to.
27:31I know it, man.
27:32But I know you guys probably can have some.
27:35I'm sorry, but there's a warehouse full of options.
27:37Happy to go let you take a look.
27:39Raspberries.
27:40Maybe blackberries.
27:41Find something that works for them.
27:43Okay.
27:44All right.
27:45What are the odds of me getting an order for some cherry rye?
27:50And it being like within five weeks of not having any cherries, that makes no sense.
27:55Hey, hey.
27:56Hey, what you doing?
27:57How you doing, man?
27:58Good, good, sir.
27:59Good, good, sir.
28:00I said to come out here that y'all had all kind of stuff out here.
28:03What I really need is some cherries, man.
28:05We got some blueberries.
28:06Raspberries.
28:07Yeah.
28:08What are they looking like?
28:10You want to see them?
28:11Yeah.
28:12They got raspberries, strawberries, blackberries.
28:15But they don't have any doggone cherries.
28:18Mmm.
28:20They're sweet, too.
28:21Oh, man.
28:22Those are sweet.
28:23Mmm.
28:25Raspberries.
28:26Raspberries.
28:30If I had to pick between the two, it'd be the blackberry.
28:32Sounds like you got a choice to make.
28:34What's the...
28:35That's not exactly what we're supposed to be doing.
28:37Mmm-hmm.
28:38Um...
28:39It's either take the...
28:40The blackberries are leaving.
28:41It's just my luck.
28:42You got a kickstart on the season.
28:44You got a big order.
28:45If I feel.
28:46Just when I think I'm fixing to kill it, and everything's going great, and I'm about to
28:49hit a home run.
28:50I usually get hit in the head like I'm taking a home run.
28:53But I'm not gonna let that stop me.
28:55Right now, we can't make a cherry pie.
28:57We're just gonna have to make a blackberry pie.
29:00I like blackberry pie.
29:01I know my customers ask for cherry rye, and it may be risky.
29:05To make some blackberry rye.
29:07But there's no cherries.
29:08We'll take that half a pound.
29:10There's a gallon of blackberries right there.
29:11I'm gonna go around and get the truck.
29:12Okay, we're good.
29:13Appreciate it.
29:14We made a damn...
29:15That's an executive decision.
29:16I guarantee that he's gonna want to buy some more.
29:20Blackberry pie when it's over.
29:21Thank you, Mr. Allen.
29:25Thank you, Mr. Allen.
29:32Thank you, Mr. Allen.
29:35Back in the hill.
29:37We in a good place, man.
29:39This is a good still site.
29:40We got great water here.
29:42We got great ingredients.
29:45If we can stay out of jail, we'll make money.
29:47Money, money, money.
29:49This feller...
29:50We bought some cherries, right?
29:52We didn't get cherries, but we damn for sure
29:54got some really, really...
29:55really good blackberries.
29:57I want to get this baby fired up as quick as we can.
29:59Yeah.
30:00And I got to make this deal.
30:02Right now we're just going to have to take a chance
30:04because I really don't want to lose...
30:05the customer.
30:10Look at there.
30:14Ooh.
30:15Ooh.
30:16Son, would you look at that?
30:19Ooh.
30:20I'll tell you.
30:23I'm also most rather eat them.
30:25Are these not great?
30:26They are.
30:27God damn.
30:28I'll tell you what.
30:29I know cherries are good, but these...
30:30are just as good.
30:31Sweet, sweet, sweet.
30:32Let's get mashed in.
30:33Yeah.
30:35Oh.
30:36Yeah.
30:37She's ready.
30:38Oh.
30:39Yeah.
30:40She's ready.
30:40Yeah.
30:41We normally just mash right into the sub pot, but rye...
30:45is notorious for scorching.
30:46It's going to stick to the bottom and ruin your whole run.
30:50So what we're going to do, we're going to mash in, in the tote, and be done with it.
30:55I'm a little unprepared.
30:56Mm-hmm.
30:57Normally I'd have a piece of pipe in there with a little...
31:00ball valve on it and I could cut it off and on.
31:02I forgot I needed that ball valve.
31:04So we're...
31:05we're doing it the old fashioned way.
31:06Old traditional way.
31:07Yep.
31:10Oh.
31:11Oh.
31:12So I had to go the old school way.
31:14We had to go to...
31:15put a five gallon bucket down on the steel...
31:17Oh!
31:18Fire, Chuck.
31:19Burning our...
31:20Knuckles burning our arms.
31:21Phew.
31:22Ah!
31:23Ah!
31:25Man, you don't talk about tough.
31:27Them old fellers, they earned it.
31:28A little corn.
31:30Puttin' this corn in the pot and near boiling...
31:35temps.
31:36You're just breaking in all those starches in it.
31:38You know, and that's going to turn into sugar, which is...
31:40food for the yeast to make the alcohol.
31:42Rising on for being mean.
31:45It's got such a bite to it.
31:46So we're adding a little bit of corn to it just to...
31:48kind of break it up some.
31:50Right, baby.
31:51Right.
31:52Right.
31:53All right.
31:54Here we go.
31:55Come here, though.
31:56Come here, though.
32:01Rye whiskey, rye whiskey.
32:03Lord, don't let me down.
32:05Yeah.
32:06I bet he was a character, wasn't he?
32:07Man, old Tim Tom was a character.
32:09You have a...
32:10No idea.
32:11This man, I've never done mad.
32:12Yeah.
32:13We don't hold a candle to him.
32:14I'm telling you.
32:15Right now, I guarantee you.
32:16He's rocking it out in heaven.
32:17You know what I mean?
32:18Running licks, boy.
32:19Yeah.
32:20Man, this Carolina rye has a certain aroma on it.
32:23It's different than any other rye.
32:25So I can tell why it's so special.
32:27I'm gonna dump some berries in there.
32:29You know, when you got...
32:30You got unique grains and unique flavors.
32:32And you're able to do these different combinations
32:34out here in the woods.
32:35Like this.
32:36This is how you take over the market.
32:37The magic dust.
32:38Yeah.
32:40Oh!
32:41Oh!
32:42Oh!
32:43Oh!
32:44Oh!
32:45Mmm!
32:46Hey, you know that thing they do with a boat
32:48where they break the bottle of champagne?
32:50Yeah.
32:50Or wine over the back of the boat?
32:51Uh, christen it.
32:52We just christened our season.
32:55Yeah.
32:56And it was gonna try to rain on us,
32:57and now the sun's back out.
32:58Hey, shining down on us right now.
33:00Oh!
33:01Yeah, let's get it covered up and get out of here.
33:03Oh!
33:05Oh!
33:06Oh!
33:07Oh!
33:08Oh!
33:09Oh!
33:10J.B.
33:11He knows how foolish and careless we got.
33:13Well, that was what...
33:15we're being just damn ignorant.
33:17We didn't have any business getting so big.
33:20so fast.
33:21We don't look to get rich no more.
33:23We just look to survive.
33:25Stay out of jail, feed our families,
33:27and have a little bit of fun while we're doing it.
33:30We'll check out the old site here.
33:32This site's never been compromised.
33:35We're not going to flee Cock County.
33:37Cock County's our home.
33:38This is where our moonshine heritage is.
33:40A lot of canopies filled in here.
33:42You know, we got good overhead coverage.
33:45We've learned our lesson.
33:46We're going to use a secure steel site.
33:48We're going to only sell to our...
33:50our old, established customers,
33:52and we're going to keep a very low profile.
33:55We're going to say we at least get in here
33:56and get around a nice belt.
33:57Let's go do it.
33:58You know, man dig or...
34:00we're going back to our basics.
34:01Not only just in me and him doing it,
34:04we're going back to...
34:05the basics all the way around.
34:06We're going back to the simple corn recipe liquors
34:09that we've had.
34:10Well, here's where the rubber meets the road.
34:15You know what?
34:19You know what?
34:20I say, by God, let's lay the ears back to it.
34:23Let's fill this damn place up.
34:25We're going to steal again.
34:26I got...
34:27We'll bring her down.
34:28Gats with us.
34:29We'll just shoot our way out.
34:30Let's don't say we did.
34:31Okay.
34:32We're just going to boil some pots of water,
34:34enough to...
34:35steep the corn.
34:36And we're actually just going to melt the sugar
34:38into the pots of water.
34:39That's good, ain't it?
34:40Yeah, we can go ahead and dump that corn in it.
34:42In Appalachia, here where we live,
34:44the old...
34:45standby, the go-to is just corn liquor.
34:47We'll just dump that sugar water right on top of...
34:50that and steep that corn.
34:51For hundreds and hundreds of years,
34:53that's all there was.
34:55You know, that was good enough for everybody back then,
34:58and hell, that's good enough for me now.
35:01That smells like good sweet cornbread, Puss.
35:04That's what we're looking for.
35:05Let's grind that bucket of white corn.
35:07We like a heavy grit grain.
35:10The more you get it ground,
35:11the more your exposure starches
35:13and your carbohydrates to the first...
35:15fermentation process.
35:16Kind of feels good just me and you doing it again,
35:19don't you?
35:20Yeah.
35:21Corn liquor.
35:22Foot digger and myself cut our teeth on.
35:26We're going back to the old days.
35:28We're ready to rock.
35:29Here we go.
35:30Just seems like there's something different about this town.
35:35In that case,
35:36this human is going to do with..
35:37When we got boys left...
35:38I'm out.
35:39I'm out.
35:40I'm in that spot for me.
35:41The backamPnot,
35:42I'm out.
35:43You've got genes and nied.
35:44I've got genes in wages in lower supply.
35:45I've got genes in Jack Melbourne,
35:46I'm out.
35:47There's a toujoursBLING in the middlefoot road...
35:49I'm just a 3000m4 compared to nine...
35:51When do we meet with thataron,
35:52the apart unknown to any Lara Actually has people
35:54on the Square.
35:55There's nha,
35:58There's no other type ofيا ů that sau second time against 2019.
36:00It's pretty much boring when we're in
36:02and everybody'sways up over the point,
36:03and who tickle it.
36:04But I done pulled more time than you, Tim.
36:07I'm trying to tell him.
36:08So is him.
36:08But I'm trying to give him a lead.
36:10They've been chasing you.
36:11I'm going that way.
36:12You've seen him chase.
36:13He's chasing me and I'm going to tell him where you at.
36:15Okay, I'm putting sawing in.
36:17Get that truck paint.
36:18Get that thing away from me.
36:20Get that thing away from me.
36:21Get that thing away from me.
36:22Done.
36:23Boy, I can tell you he ain't been in the woods in a while.
36:29We about right on temp.
36:32Oh, yeah.
36:33The yeast is the magic potion here.
36:36It's the magic dust.
36:37We like it.
36:38I like to call it.
36:39It's what eats up the sugars and turns them into alcohol.
36:43Damn, puss.
36:44I can't believe we're here making them around the lyrics.
36:47I don't want to ever hear.
36:48You don't want to hear us say that we're quitting anymore.
36:51Do you?
36:52We had good intentions of quitting.
36:53Let's put it that way.
36:54Once the road to hell is paved with them, let's cover this sun.
36:58Get some of the gun up.
36:59That's what I was going to say.
37:00Let's tarp that up.
37:01Won't lose no more heat.
37:02Oh, yeah.
37:03It's perfect.
37:04But we've made the decision, and as far as I'm concerned,
37:08Mark and Digger are back in the moonshine business,
37:11I guess we're here to stay.
37:13Let's go.
37:14Let's go.
37:15Let's go.
37:16Let's go.
37:17Let's go.
37:18Let's go.
37:19Let's go.
37:20Let's go.
37:21Hey, what?
37:23This site's going to look a whole lot better with two pots in it,
37:25ain't it?
37:26We get this one set up now, get it mashed in.
37:28We'll bring another tomorrow.
37:29A whole lot of wildlife, though.
37:31It sort of concerns me with hunting season.
37:33Coming up.
37:34Well, that's the only thing we done saw.
37:35That preacher, man.
37:36You know, the first deal is already...
37:38Already set up.
37:39Already mashed in.
37:40Probably already working.
37:41We're going to set the second still up.
37:43Same.
37:43Same deal.
37:44All right.
37:45Let's see what we've got going on.
37:47Oh, man.
37:48We're just going to put it right here.
37:49Pot's empty.
37:50Give me a pot.
37:51Give me a pot.
37:52Give a pot it.
37:53The drain is laying up here.
37:56Where is the plug?
37:57It's up.
37:58It went on the ground?
37:59It didn't...
38:00The pressure didn't blow it out?
38:01It's like somebody just took it out.
38:04What the hell is this?
38:05What is what?
38:06Holes.
38:07Big dog.
38:08Look at this hose if it ain't.
38:09Yeah.
38:10It's like somebody just shot it.
38:11Look at this hose, ain't it?
38:12It's like...
38:13Say 22 bullet holes.
38:15It's one thing that the plug was pulled out, but with holes...
38:18being shot in this thing, somebody's actually trying to ruin this steel where we cannot use
38:22it again.
38:23That's some oil down there, ain't it?
38:24What did that take?
38:25Somebody root something on it.
38:26What did that take?
38:27Somebody root something on it.
38:28What is that?
38:29P.R.V.
38:30P.R.V.
38:31P.R.V.
38:3223.
38:33I know what this is.
38:34I don't come from a line of moonshiners.
38:36I come from a line of Baptists.
38:38Preachers.
38:39That's a Bible verse.
38:40P.R.V.
38:41That's Proverbs.
38:42Chapter 23.
38:43Verses 31 through 32.
38:45What does it mean?
38:46Hallelujah.
38:47Hallelujah.
38:48Look it up.
38:49Let me look it up.
38:50It doesn't mean anything.
38:51Proverbs 23, 31, and 32.
38:53Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth.
38:58His color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
39:03Lest it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
39:06What does that mean?
39:08He's pretty strong.
39:09That means uh.
39:10Don't do what you don't.
39:11Only drink it when it's .
39:13Fresh squeeze.
39:14Don't drink it after it's been fermented.
39:16It's all about you know.
39:18Alcohol.
39:19Don't drink alcohol.
39:20You know it's forbidden and all of this.
39:23I'm like oh boy.
39:24Now we really got trouble now.
39:26Now who did we see right now?
39:28After we mash this in it might be writing bible verses on the pot.
39:31We saw the preacher.
39:32We sure did see the preacher.
39:33On the road.
39:34He come all the way down here.
39:35I mean he did talk to you a little stern.
39:38Real quick he didn't like licking.
39:39You saw him down here hunting.
39:41He had a shotgun.
39:42Now.
39:43Is he just sending us a message?
39:45Or did he send a message to the police too?
39:47I don't know.
39:48But I think right now we shouldn't be taking no chances.
39:51I'm gonna grab what we can right quick and get the hell out of here.
39:53Let's face it.
39:54We don't know if the person that did this called the police.
39:58Get the pumps in.
39:59This still site right here.
40:00Ruin y'all.
40:01I'm thinking this is not a good start for my ill.
40:03Illegal world here.
40:04You know I left this a long time ago.
40:06Went legal.
40:07Now.
40:08When I come back it's like the first day went bad.
40:10And I'm thinking is someone gonna arrest us?
40:13Are they gonna shoot us?
40:14Or what's gonna happen?
40:18All right push.
40:19On this season.
40:20Up.
40:21Up.
40:22Up.
40:23Up.
40:23Up.
40:24Up.
40:25Up.
40:26Up.
40:27Up.
40:28Up.
40:29Up.
40:30Up.
40:31Up.
40:32Up.
40:33Up.
40:34Up.
40:35Up.
40:36Up.
40:37Up.
40:38Up.
40:39Up.
40:40Up.
40:41Up.
40:42Up.
40:43Up.
40:44Up.
40:45Up.
40:46Up.
40:47Up.
40:48Up.
40:49Up.
40:50Up.
40:51Up.
40:52Up.
40:28across the border.
40:29Get on out of here.
40:30Going across to another country, this is something else.
40:33Up here's the first aisle.
40:35Let's see what y'all think.
40:36Alright.
40:37We done got one.
40:38Don't worry that maybe we're being tracked.
40:40Just put them on the beach.
40:41This right here is going to be the perfect place.
40:43This is a place for us to start hiding our shiner.
40:45Other shiner's just moved down.
40:47Somebody else tried to choke.
40:48us out of business.
40:49We can't continue on doing business like this.
40:52We're going to have to do something.
40:53different.
40:54I'm just going to have to get creative and make something that they've never seen before.
40:57What's up?
40:58We got to get the hell out of here.
41:02Here he comes.
41:03Huck.
41:04We've got a 100 gallon order.
41:06A gallon huck.
41:07Sure enough.
41:08The liquor was gone.
41:09It's getting ready to get damn ugly if y'all don't get the hell out of here.
41:12Y'all come up here.
41:13I'm trying to make a living.
41:14We know where that liquor's coming from.
41:16It's stole.
41:17This shit is here.
41:18Got us?
41:19Kelly, this is scary.
41:20We're just paying attention.
41:21Oh, God.
41:22I don't know why.
41:23I know I can't turn this mother .
41:25I'm underwater.
41:26I had to take a .
41:28Nobody steals from us.
41:32They stole our .
41:33I want to put them out of here for good, and I don't want them back in this country.
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