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00:01How about some nice hard seltzer that's like 10%?
00:04This time on Moonshiners.
00:07That's gonna make some good strawberry kiwi liquor.
00:09Yeah, boy.
00:10Hey, me and Jerry definitely don't want Ken to know
00:12that we don't know how to do a hard seltzer.
00:14Let's roll with it.
00:16Please don't blow up on me.
00:19Oh, God.
00:21What a mess.
00:22Yeah, we just lost 200 gallons of mash.
00:25We're in a heck of a fix.
00:27Tracks, eh?
00:28There's a bit of burr in it.
00:29I have a gun.
00:31We're building a decoy.
00:33It might not hold liquid.
00:36But it's gonna do what we want it to do.
00:38Serious change of plans here.
00:40Law's gonna be here any second.
00:44This is how we make the moonshine.
00:53Middle of the woods ringer on.
00:55Sorry, y'all.
00:56Hello.
00:58What's up, buddy?
00:59Hey, man.
01:00I got a call from the local sheriff's office,
01:01and they got a steel on a car they took to the scrap yard.
01:06What?
01:08Is it copper?
01:09Is it stainless?
01:10What is it?
01:11Man, all I know is they called and said,
01:13I got three days to get over there and get it to the scrap yard.
01:17In Rocky Mount, Virginia.
01:20You hear that?
01:21Listen.
01:22After police raided his Carolina still site and sent him into hiding.
01:26They just took part of the steel now.
01:28Josh gets an unexpected call from his tow truck driver cousin with a lead on the whereabouts of his irreplaceable
01:36copper moonshine steel.
01:38Do you know what that steel's worth?
01:41I know.
01:41Jim Tom helped me build that steel, and he is no longer with us.
01:45He can't help me build another one.
01:46And you know what copper cost these days?
01:49That steel is the last steel that I made a run of damn liquor with my dad with before he
01:53died.
01:53This thing's got a lot of sentimental value.
01:56Jim Tom helped him build it, and let's face it, Jim Tom's not building any more pots.
02:00Don't let them crush my steel.
02:02I'm on the way.
02:04You know it's an impound lot.
02:05You know I broke into one one time years ago and almost went to jail of it.
02:10Okay.
02:10And you're gonna, what's your plan?
02:13There's really no amount of money that can replace this steel to me.
02:17Other than going to jail, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get that steel back.
02:20If I could put my paws on it without going behind bars, oh, it's gonna happen.
02:24Let's roll down and see it.
02:26We roll up in there.
02:27Gun's blazing.
02:28Let's go get my steel.
02:29Let's do it.
02:29Let's go check it out.
02:30Let's do it.
02:32This is a risk I'm willing to take.
02:33I left North Carolina to get out of the heat.
02:36Now I'm stepping right back into the lion's den, trying to get my steel back from the law.
02:45I'll be glad to get this whiskey dropped off, don't you?
02:47And you both, man.
02:48Ready for another payday.
02:49It's the best age stuff that's ever made the blackwoods, son.
03:04Hey.
03:05Hey, man.
03:05Mark, Jerry, how the hell you doing?
03:08In Maggie Valley, North Carolina, after cutting out their middleman bootlegger to sell imitation barrel-aged whiskey.
03:16There she flies.
03:18Directly to an unlicensed biker bar.
03:22Mike and Jerry return to the bar owner to collect payment on what they hope is the next of many
03:27deliveries.
03:29You got what?
03:30Ten cases for me?
03:31I got you seven.
03:32Seven.
03:32Seven?
03:33Yep.
03:34One again this time.
03:36All right.
03:36Yes, sir.
03:37Can you get it in?
03:38All right.
03:39Where's this stuff going there, Ken?
03:42That's good.
03:43That'll work.
03:43All right.
03:49Well, that takes care of the easy part and now the hard part.
03:52Yeah.
03:53Well, I got some Benjamins for you.
03:55Greenbacks will be nice.
03:56That's what we like to see most of all.
03:58Well, I'm not going to cut them all out because I already did.
04:01There you go.
04:01All right, man.
04:02That looks like that.
04:04That's it.
04:05All right, man.
04:06All right.
04:07Now, when do you need your next load, this thing?
04:11Well, you know these young folks.
04:13Oh, I know how they are.
04:14He's all asking for that.
04:16Seltzer.
04:18Seltzer?
04:19Seltzer.
04:20Like bubbling liquor?
04:21Bubbling alcohol?
04:25Hard seltzer is very popular these days amongst the young people.
04:28It's one of the top selling drinks out there.
04:30How about some nice hard seltzer that's like 10%?
04:36That'd sell.
04:37With us being in the illegal world, we could probably make it as high as you want it.
04:42All right.
04:43Why don't you make up some seltzer and give me some samples and we'll go from there.
04:46Yeah, that sounds good to me.
04:48The question ain't do I think me and Jerry can make this happen?
04:51Me and Jerry's got to make this happen.
04:54Hard seltzer.
04:57What have we got ourselves into now?
05:06More season's overdue.
05:07It don't take much water to proof or now, do you?
05:10Not much.
05:13In Graham County, North Carolina.
05:16They're gone, Huck.
05:18After sending an outsized message to two mountain men who dared to steal their liquor.
05:26Traditional moonshiners Mark and Huck are laying low, making liquor the old fashioned way.
05:32One 10 gallon run of high proof shine at a time.
05:36That ought to be getting you close.
05:38Yeah, it's been going pretty good so far at you.
05:49Hey, look.
05:50Hey, old buddy.
05:51How's it going?
05:52What's going on?
05:54Hey, I hate to call you on such short notice.
05:57What's that?
05:58I've got a 150 gallon sold and I need it in two weeks.
06:04Two weeks from today?
06:07Yes, sir.
06:08Two weeks from today.
06:09Is that an addition to the 10 we've been dropping off every week?
06:13Yes, sir.
06:14I need that 10 too.
06:16I do.
06:17We're used to just delivering 10, 15 gallon a week, you know.
06:21And that's a pretty good payday just all summer long.
06:24Just keep our money coming in.
06:26But 150 gallon in two weeks, that's hard to come up with.
06:29Yeah, 150, that's a whole lot of liquor to lose there if somebody wants to find it and steal it
06:34or something.
06:34I'd rather just deliver it.
06:36He don't like to be on person, which I don't either.
06:38I'd rather do a dead drop, but that's too much liquor to take a chance on.
06:43I'm going to take it to him myself.
06:45If you think that'll be best, then that's what we'll do.
06:48Well, yeah.
06:49Y'all think you can do it?
06:51I think so.
06:52Two weeks from today, we'll be there.
06:56This is our most important buyer right here, you know.
06:59We've got to keep him happy if there's any way possible.
07:01We've got to try to get this order.
07:03Well, that's a lot of liquor.
07:07We've got some of it.
07:08We're going to have to set up some more barrels.
07:10That's our way to work.
07:11I'm going to mash in every barrel I can mash in and run it, but I think I can make
07:16it work.
07:17Let's get this jarred up and go set them barrels up.
07:19All right.
07:31Oh, wow.
07:33What's the driving, ain't it?
07:34What the heck am I driving, man?
07:35I'm back in North Carolina because my cousin Brent that runs the towing company, he calls
07:40and tells me he just got a call from the sheriff's department saying that they want him to come
07:44pick up a car and a liquor steal.
07:46I know where the steal's at and I know where the impound lot is and I know where they're
07:49going with it.
07:49I just need to know if it's mine.
07:51That's a big thing to know.
07:51So how are we going to do it?
07:53I guess I'm going to go to the impound lot.
07:55They've hired Jacksons to haul it.
07:57Well, I work for Jacksons.
07:58If I work for Jacksons and they've hauled Jacksons to haul it, they don't have no idea
08:02that I'm the one driving it.
08:03The sheriff's department's all-time high in Jacksons towing company to haul stuff from
08:08their impound lot to the scrap yard.
08:10And back in the day, I worked for Jacksons.
08:12My plan's simple.
08:13Pretend like I still work for Jacksons towing, show up at the impound lot and see if we can
08:19catch a glimpse of our steal.
08:21They know you, man.
08:22This is your part of the country.
08:23You think it all don't know you if you go up in there?
08:25Your steal site just got busted, dude.
08:28You shouldn't be the one that goes.
08:29All I know is I got to get this thing and I got to get it back.
08:32It may not be the smartest thing for us to be breaking into a police anything, but that
08:36still means the whole wide world to me.
08:38And I want it back, even if that means me going in to get it.
08:42I'll go in there and check and see if it is your part or not.
08:46Worst case scenario, I could say it's an honest mistake.
08:49They don't know me.
08:50I ain't got no record around here.
08:51Are you sure you want to do this?
08:53I mean, I'm willing to do it for you.
08:55For sure you'll do it.
08:56I think it's perfect because there ain't nobody going to know anything.
08:59And we ain't breaking no laws, so they ain't open to arrest anybody on them.
09:03But you can't go looking like that.
09:04Tickle can't just bust up in there like some Joe blow off the street.
09:08Luckily, I got some work gear that he can wear.
09:10What do we got here?
09:12What do we got here?
09:12Try this on and see if it all fits.
09:15Well, that fits.
09:16That'll work right yonder.
09:17We're a real team.
09:18We all got each other's back.
09:20And the fact that Tickle's willing to go into a police impound lot to help me get my steel back
09:24means the world.
09:27All right.
09:27When I work for Jackson's, we're always on the side of the interstates and stuff.
09:31Going down 18-wheelers and so on and so forth.
09:34Got to wear this stuff.
09:35Well, look, this will make me look like I actually fit in with the towing company, what you're telling me.
09:40Well, it's part of their garb.
09:42I guess if you want to sneak in someplace, you got to look like you belong, right?
09:45As I get this uniform put on, I really start to feel like, hey, man, this might actually work.
09:52I genuinely look like a tow truck driver.
09:54I mean, what do you think?
09:55I think we're in practice and go get a steel back is what I think.
09:58Yeah, man, that looks like to me we're in business.
10:00Let's roll on with that.
10:02Josh B, you go in my truck right here.
10:04Okay.
10:04Nobody around here knows that one.
10:06Josh, don't you wreck my damn truck.
10:11You sure you good with this, Tickle?
10:13I'm good with this, Josh.
10:14I mean, nobody knows me here.
10:16I think I can roll in and out.
10:18Nobody will be none the wiser.
10:19I sure look the part, right?
10:20A hundred million percent.
10:22Josh got word from his cousin Brent, who runs a tow truck business,
10:26that he was hired to transport a steel from the police impound lot to a salvage yard.
10:31And there's a good chance it might be Josh's steel.
10:34So what our plan is, is they're going to drop me off.
10:37I'm going to head in on foot.
10:39The main thing is just get in, get out, find a steel, get a picture of it.
10:44Locate this steel as quickly as I possibly can.
10:47They're going to go a little ways down the road.
10:49And we're going to keep in the communication through walkie-talkie.
10:52Got you walkie-talkie?
10:53I do.
10:54Let me show my shit here, all right?
10:56Walkie shit.
10:57Henry, you hear me?
10:58Got you, brother.
11:00In and out, Tickle.
11:02In and out, please go.
11:04Got you.
11:04Same rules as at the steel site.
11:08My plan is to keep to myself, not draw any attention.
11:12Hopefully, I can get in and out of here without anybody even realizing I'm back here looking for this steel.
11:18Y'all good, Tickle?
11:19We're down the road.
11:20Rolling through the front gate now.
11:22No turning back now, fellas.
11:25We're going to be on the back side of the place on top of the hill, so when you come
11:29out, you can come out that way.
11:31I'm back here.
11:32I can see a whole bunch of cars, trucks, all kinds of stuff, but I don't see a steel anywhere
11:39right off.
11:40I may have to do some walking.
11:42This is a pretty good-sized place.
11:44As soon as Tickle gets in there, he radios to us and tells us, this place is a lot bigger
11:48than I thought it was going to be.
11:50This might take a little while.
11:52And that's one thing we don't have.
11:53Time is definitely not on our side.
11:55And so I'm rolling through here now.
11:57All I see is all cars, no copper.
12:02See a whole lot of vehicles out here, y'all, but so far, that's all I'm seeing.
12:08And it looks like acres and acres and acres of them.
12:16I'm just finding a steel pot out here.
12:18What'd he say?
12:20Do what?
12:22Just found a steel.
12:23Let me get a picture of it.
12:26Oh, man.
12:29Hold on, hold on, y'all.
12:30I think there's a cop coming.
12:32Just give me a second, y'all.
12:33Just stay quiet on the radio for one second.
12:35Did you say there's a police officer coming toward you?
12:37He's coming right for me.
12:39Look, just hold off on a second.
12:41I don't want to be talking on this radio.
12:45All right?
12:45All right.
12:46Doing all right.
12:47Doing all right.
12:52I work with Jackson's record service.
12:55Well, we got a job coming up here.
12:57I'm just taking some notes, taking some pictures.
13:03Make sure everything runs along smooth.
13:13All right.
13:13All right.
13:13Well, I hadn't been there too long.
13:15I'm a new fella.
13:19All right?
13:20Nice to meet you, man.
13:21Nice to meet you.
13:21You have a good one.
13:22All right.
13:24All right.
13:25Sounds good.
13:29Time to make my way out of here.
13:31Nice, man.
13:32I'm getting out now.
13:33I am relieved beyond belief to be out of this in-pound lot.
13:37God, mind it, Josh.
13:39This is killing me, boss.
13:42And be back in the truck, heading away from this place.
13:46All right.
13:47You have to show me what you got.
13:50Is that your steel?
13:52Still don't see nothing but bushes.
13:55Oh, hell yeah.
13:56That's 100% it.
13:57As big as that steel is, you don't see?
13:59That's it.
14:00That's it.
14:00That's your steel?
14:01Yeah.
14:02This is, in fact, Josh's steel.
14:05Hey, let's get back over here to the, over here to our spot over here.
14:09And let's try to make a plan.
14:11We, we got what we came here for.
14:13Now that we know it's my steel, we know where the impound yard is.
14:17We know where the scrap yard is.
14:19We just got to get back in the shop and get a game plan.
14:22Yes!
14:23We found it.
14:24I knew there wasn't another damn bust in the county.
14:27I knew it.
14:34Made her, Huck.
14:35Made her back.
14:37We gonna do first, get these barrels off, get them set up.
14:41We was running.
14:44Every week, just dropping 10, 15, 20 gallon off a week, you know.
14:49But now, this bootlegger's wanting 150 gallon.
14:53Deliver in two weeks, I gotta set up a few more barrels.
14:56If everything works perfect, I might get 150 gallon in two weeks.
15:02See that fella, he's wanting a lot more liquor.
15:06I don't know if it's gonna take this many more barrels to get her set up.
15:10He's wanting her pretty quick too.
15:11Yeah.
15:12We just got two barrels of mash set up.
15:15So, we're gonna have to at least set up three or four more barrels to get it in.
15:19And we ain't got a lot of time to do it.
15:21We can run two barrels and then run three.
15:25It should about get us off.
15:27Let me go over here and get this malt.
15:29All right.
15:29To get the malt, I'll go ahead and start putting the water to it.
15:31All right.
15:35Once I get these three other barrels worked in, we'll be running every two days anyway.
15:41This is our malt we're putting in here.
15:43That'll make him work good.
15:46And make him taste good.
15:48That'll get me a whole lot closer to 150 gallon.
16:00Right down the straddle.
16:03That's cold.
16:04That'll cool y'all.
16:05Let me go up here and pull this up a hill a little bit.
16:08Taking a bath already this morning.
16:11Yeah, we'll get all that running and set it up again and again and again.
16:15We'll come back and check him.
16:16We'll run them to get there.
16:17Let's get out of here.
16:25Henry, we got less than 72 hours to figure out what we're going to do.
16:28Now that we've seen the steel, we got proof that it's at the impound lot and it's going
16:33to be headed to the scrap yard in three days to be demolished.
16:36We got to come up with a plan to get it back.
16:38What's the plan?
16:40All I know is we know where the steel's at.
16:42We just got to figure out where, when, and how we're going to intercept it.
16:45We passed several good spots, man, but we can't tell one from the other.
16:49My cousin Brent runs a record service that's been hired to haul my steel to the scrap yard.
16:53And so while he's moving the steel from one place to the other, that's when we're going
16:57to steal it back.
16:59All right, check it out.
17:01Let's say this is the impound lot.
17:04All right.
17:07Road goes out.
17:08We take the first lift.
17:11People at the impound yard, they know Brent comes in and out of there all the time.
17:15I don't think there'll be any issues picking it up.
17:17While he leaves there, we're going to figure out how we're going to have to steal my steel
17:20back before he gets to the scrap yard.
17:22Because the last thing I want is to get my steel crust.
17:24We'll go this way and we'll take that almost all the way to where we're going.
17:30Right?
17:31There's a pull off like down in here somewhere.
17:34There's no traffic on that road except for the people that live on it or the people that
17:38come flying across through there to cut through, which is very rare.
17:42So I think that's the spot.
17:43From the impound yard to the scrap yard is about 30 minutes.
17:47On one of those little side roads in between there is where we're going to steal our steel back.
17:52We're going to steal our steel back and then Brent's going to go back to the dang scrap yard and
17:58we are scot-free.
17:59But you know one thing man, what's going to happen?
18:01When he goes back and he's only got a car, he don't have a steel.
18:05They're expecting a steel to be on that truck as well as a car.
18:09They might just want to confirm that it's crushed.
18:11Exactly.
18:11Okay.
18:12So that means we got 72 hours to build a dummy and get it all built, get ready, get this
18:17plan together and get over there?
18:18Less than 72.
18:19It don't got to be functional.
18:21It needs to be pretty doggone lightweight.
18:22Something we can just throw on, throw off.
18:24Sheet metal or sheet aluminum.
18:27Aluminum's lighter.
18:28Aluminum, definitely.
18:28And it's cheaper.
18:29Yeah, but we got to get it.
18:30Well, we can get some of that.
18:32Now look, aluminum, it don't look like a steel.
18:35But throw a little paint on him or something.
18:37I'll find some copper paint.
18:38So we're going to get some aluminum and some spray paint and bang together some sort of a apparatus that
18:44we can swap it out with.
18:45All it's got to do is be shaped like a steel and look the color copper.
18:50Let's make it happen.
18:55Well, we're getting here to get these other three flavors ran off.
18:57We're making some good old hard senes.
18:59Some hard, bubbling seltzers.
19:02Me and Jerry's been selling a lot of aged whiskey to the biker bar on consignment, but we just want
19:06some hard seltzer.
19:08This part I ain't worried about.
19:10It's the next step.
19:11It got me a little concerned.
19:12Me too.
19:13I know we can make good flavored vodka.
19:15The biggest problem is me and Jerry's never made any hard seltzer.
19:18It's not our forte.
19:20We've got to make it right, that's for sure.
19:22We make flavored vodka, but we ain't never put a bubble in it.
19:26The glass is ready, ain't it?
19:28It actually looks ready.
19:29Hard seltzer's become the drink of choice.
19:31The only stuff that the biker bar owner can possibly sell right now when it comes to seltzer is the
19:37store-bought stuff.
19:37And people want something harder than that.
19:39So that tells me there's nobody else out there in the woods making a hard seltzer.
19:44All right, brother, pop it to it.
19:45All right, here comes some good old sugar wash.
19:48Me and Jerry's going to be there first, hopefully.
19:50All right, buddy, that's about it.
19:52We're about full.
19:56Whoa!
19:57Right, all right, all right.
20:00Kiwis and black cherries and strawberries and pineapples.
20:04Me and Jerry's done some research on these hard seltzers.
20:07And the flavors we're running here today is some of the top sellers.
20:10So our plan is to try to make a strawberry kiwi, a pineapple, and a black cherry.
20:15That's going to make some good strawberry kiwi liquor.
20:18Yeah, boy.
20:20Strawberry kiwi, here we go.
20:24We just want that vodka to pick up a hint of that natural fruit flavor that we're looking for.
20:30Here goes our tiwis in order to start trying to put seltzer to it.
20:35We are percolating.
20:37Our steam is hitting the jars.
20:38It's starting to break these strawberries down and release all that good flavor.
20:42We're going to cross it over and mix in with the kiwi.
20:45And by the time it gets to the money spout, we'll have mixed strawberry kiwi flavored vodka.
20:52There it is.
20:55A little high hedge right there, boy.
20:58That's about a perfect stream to it.
21:01You ready to get rid of these heads?
21:06That's rubbing alcohol right there.
21:11Tell you what, for it to be as high as it is, that flavor's really there.
21:15Once we eat up the strawberry and kiwis, we can hit two valves, throw it through the straight arm, take
21:21the jars off, pack them full of pineapples.
21:24There it comes.
21:27Them pineapples are coming on through, ain't they?
21:33Mmm.
21:34That's definitely hot, but man, that flavor is, I mean, like, stick to the roof of your mouth. Thick.
21:39Flavor is really, really popping through, coming out in this pineapple.
21:43I'm going to cap this one off.
21:45There you go.
21:47Last, we're going to do our black cherry.
21:49That's one of the most single sought-after seltzer flavors on the market.
21:54Cherries are breaking down.
21:55Okay, why don't you get your jar?
21:57We'll catch us a taste of that.
21:59I'm going to empty this right here. You ready?
22:01This smells good, son.
22:06Man, that's going to be the one right there.
22:08I'll tell you what.
22:10That right there is going to sell, huh?
22:11That's going to sell good.
22:12You know, we've got three delicious flavors of vodka here.
22:15We're good on these vodkas, but turning this stuff into a seltzer,
22:18we can't, we can't afford to screw this up, Jerry.
22:20Carbonating is what's going to, got me a little bit worried.
22:22Me and Jerry's never made hard seltzer before,
22:24but we've got to put our heads together to make this right.
22:27We can get out of here, get to the shop.
22:39I hope that mess is ready.
22:42We're going to run these two barrels tonight.
22:45Next night, we're going to run the other three barrels we can.
22:49Need to get this running.
22:51Yeah, it should give us enough time to run 150 gallons,
22:55and we can get it delivered to our bootlegger.
23:01Oh, gosh.
23:03What a mess.
23:06It's awful.
23:07This makes me sick.
23:09Yeah.
23:11A lot of work down the drain.
23:14We ain't going to be running none tonight, Mark.
23:16When you walk into something like that and all your mash turned over,
23:20there's all kinds of things running through your mind.
23:22You don't know if it's a law or somebody or an animal.
23:27You don't know what it is, you know, until you look around a little bit.
23:31There's a track hook.
23:32There's a track hook.
23:33There's a track hook.
23:33There's been a bear, ain't it?
23:34Yeah.
23:36I see tracks there.
23:37I know what it is.
23:39You can see his pad right here and his toe.
23:43We just lost 200 gallons of mash.
23:46We're in a heck of a fix.
23:48Let's see what's on that camera.
23:51Well, we can look and see what it is.
23:56I've got a whole habit on this phone here.
24:06There he is.
24:07Yep.
24:08Son of a gun.
24:11Looking at the camera and everything, it's an old buyer.
24:17One of my old buddies come in and told him to steal side it.
24:21Ain't a real big one though, is it?
24:23Not a real big one.
24:24It's big enough to turn the barrels over.
24:26Yep.
24:26Like a mess.
24:28Son of a gun.
24:30This is a mess, all I know.
24:32There ain't no way that we finish this order out.
24:36Yeah.
24:36The only option I've got is get mash back in and run everything we can run.
24:41And maybe, if I'm lucky, borrow the rest of it.
24:47Let's get our water running and we'll get our barrels full and mashed in and see what we can come
24:52up with.
24:53All right.
25:00This steel is supposed to be crushed here, I mean what, like 24 hours?
25:03Yeah.
25:04Something's gotta happen and we're not gonna get it back.
25:06The Sheriff's Department's all-time hired Jackson's Toad Company to haul stuff from their impound lot to the dang scrapyard.
25:12And my cousin, he works there, he runs it.
25:15He says that the police called him and told him they want him to come pick up liquor steel at
25:19the impound yard and take it to the scrapyard.
25:22That's my steel.
25:24That steel means the world to me and I want it back.
25:28We need to get this done.
25:30Let's get some of this metal in here.
25:31You want to grab a sheet and bring it in, Josh?
25:33Last thing I'm gonna do is break into the police impound lot.
25:36That ain't gonna happen.
25:37We come up with a plan that maybe we can pull like a switch on them.
25:40Put a dummy steel in there that don't really mean so much to us.
25:44What's up?
25:45That's like exactly what we need.
25:46Swap them out.
25:47Hopefully they'll crush the thing that we don't care about and we'll get our steel back in the surprise possession.
25:52Right here's what we're looking at, y'all.
25:55We cut these two by fours like this right here.
25:57Four of them.
25:58Here.
25:59Two by four.
25:59Here.
26:00And then we run a two by four across here.
26:02That should stabilize that whole bottom.
26:04And then we can lay that piece of metal in there.
26:05Cut it exactly.
26:07This size here.
26:08For the bottom?
26:09For the bottom, as far as the looks, we got this to take care of the copper look.
26:13Biggest thing, fellas, is this has got to look like a steel.
26:18Our goal right now is just to basically build a steel that looks just like the steel that they're about
26:22to crush.
26:23This steel doesn't have to hold water.
26:25It doesn't have to match exactly.
26:27It's just got to play the part.
26:28We just got to pull a switch route.
26:31I think it ought to be a little skinnier, but whatever.
26:34It's okay.
26:36We're building a decoy.
26:37I'm not going to lie to you.
26:38If I could figure out how to do one out of cardboard, we'd do it out of cardboard.
26:41It's starting to look like a darn steel pot already, right?
26:44I like that.
26:45We can take these, do those half moons, put four of them on here.
26:49One, two, three, four.
26:51Put the bottom right to it.
26:53Then all we're going to do is build a cake.
26:54Let's get it done.
26:57What we're going to do is take some wooden strips.
26:59We're going to shoot some screws through it and use that to hold everything together.
27:03Use it to make it rigid where this thing will stay together while the crusher crushes it.
27:07Now let's get us a bottom in this thing.
27:09This steel is 100% irreplaceable.
27:12It's not the money and the copper or the time that it took to build it.
27:15It's the fact that I built it with Jim Tom.
27:18It's the fact that the last run of liquor that I ever made with my dad, I made with this
27:21steel.
27:22It almost makes me want to put some mash in the thing and just see what it does, right?
27:25I bet we'll get far with that.
27:26I bet we will.
27:28It means a whole wide world to me and I want it back.
27:31What are you thinking, Josh?
27:34We're fixing to pull this off, man, I'm telling you.
27:37We've got this steel all put together.
27:39It might not hold liquid, but it's going to do what we want it to do.
27:44And while it does look like a good resemblance of Josh's copper pot, it's not copper.
27:54Man, this worked out good.
27:57It even looks good.
27:59Hey, what, man?
27:59It's all we need, you know, to guide the scrapyard.
28:01All we need to put a little bit of paint on it, take your baby one in there, get you
28:05a steel.
28:06Nice.
28:07All right, let's do it.
28:08Let's do it.
28:08Grab some paint.
28:09Our entire plan hinges on that this dummy steel passes for Josh's real steel at the scrapyard.
28:19Now, what we wound up using was two different kinds of copper spray paint on this steel.
28:24Yeah, there you go, Josh.
28:27We used one that was a nice, shiny copper.
28:29Then we found one that looked like a hand-hammered copper, and it gave it a little bit of an
28:33aged look.
28:35I think moving close.
28:37And right here, that looks like copper.
28:39It damn sure does, don't it?
28:41I think it looks good.
28:42It looks good.
28:42It really ages it.
28:44I'm really proud of this pot right here.
28:46It came together in record time, and really, it couldn't look better.
28:52That's beautiful, Josh.
28:52Yeah, it looks too new.
28:54Holy fuck.
28:56It's actually shocking to me how much this looks like a real copper pot.
29:02All right, she's strapped down.
29:03We're ready.
29:04All right, let's go meet Brent.
29:05Let's get this done.
29:12I think we'll do the strawberry kiwi first.
29:15What do you think?
29:15Sounds good to me.
29:16Me and Jerry just got through running three different fruit-flavored valkas here.
29:19We got pineapple, strawberry kiwi, and black cherry.
29:22One of them strawberries is already smelling good.
29:25We're pretty good at making vodkas, and that's all a seltzer is, is carbonated-flavored vodkas.
29:31You just got to put the bubbles to it.
29:33That's already starting to smell like mama's kitchen when she's making gems and jillies.
29:37Yeah, buddy.
29:38So first thing we're going to do is cut up a bunch of fruits, cook them down, add some sugar,
29:42a one-to-one ratio of sugar to the fruit, make a real natural simple syrup.
29:47Yeah, I think we're ready to rock and roll, buddy.
29:49That sure does smell good and look good.
29:52Then we're going to add that into our already-flavored vodkas that we've got.
29:57We're just simply going to strain the rough fruit off of the syrup, put the syrup straight
30:01into the finished product of the alcohol.
30:04Oh, look at that beautiful color, son.
30:06That looks good.
30:07More immersive.
30:08If that don't catch the eye, I don't know what will.
30:12Stir it up and taste it and see what it's like.
30:15I'll tell you what, Jerry.
30:17That almost strawberry kiwi kind of puts a peach flavor to that, don't it?
30:22Proofs in the jar.
30:23What does it taste like?
30:27Wow, sir.
30:29That's good.
30:30I'm telling you, that's good.
30:33We put some carbonation to that right there?
30:34That's going to be fine, ain't it?
30:36That'd put a hurt on a man.
30:37You ain't lying, buddy.
30:39It's a good 10%, which is about double what anything else is, but the flavor is just amazing.
30:45I say let's carbonate it and try it and see what it's going to be like.
30:49The only step we've got to take now with the strawberry kiwi is to add those bubbles,
30:53put the carbonation to it, and see how it turns out.
30:56Let's roll with it.
30:58Add or slow, and please don't blow up on me.
31:03You hear it?
31:04Yeah, I hear it.
31:05It's holding the pressure.
31:06I ain't hearing no leaks.
31:07Nothing's breaking so far.
31:09Let's just go 55.
31:11All right.
31:11Don't push the envelope too much.
31:14Everything's holding tight.
31:16Taking the hoses off.
31:17We're going to put our spout on it, fill the jar up, and see if we've got some bubbles.
31:23If that ain't got the feds in it, I don't know what does.
31:29I can hear it cooking.
31:34Snap, crackle, and pop.
31:37Look at the bubbles in there.
31:38Oh, yeah.
31:40Man, that tickles all the way down.
31:46Oh, wow.
31:47That's good, ain't it?
31:49This stuff is phenomenal.
31:51It's delicious.
31:52It's got the right amount of carbonation in it.
31:54It's got the right amount of flavor, sweetness to it.
31:57It's got that little punch of alcohol.
31:58I'll tell you what.
31:59If that don't sell, there ain't a liquor ever going to sell.
32:03Nailed it, buddy.
32:04We just got a lot of jars to fill.
32:05A lot.
32:06This is going to be an all-day process.
32:08We're on our first jar of our first flavor of the strawberry kiwi.
32:11It's phenomenal.
32:11It's great.
32:12But we've got an all-day process to go on here.
32:14We've got to make more simple syrups.
32:16We've got to temper more alcohol down.
32:18We've got our job cut out.
32:19I think I'm getting the hang of this.
32:21I think so.
32:24This is it, y'all.
32:25Is Brent picking y'all up here?
32:27Brent will be here any time.
32:29So we're going to meet y'all at the drop point.
32:31Me and Tickler and my cousin Brent,
32:33we're going to the impound yard to pick up my steel.
32:35We all know the plan.
32:36Meet us down there.
32:37We'll walk you right before we get there.
32:39Let you know we're close.
32:40Be ready to jump out, pull the switch,
32:42because the quicker we get it on there and get it off,
32:44the less likely we are to be sold,
32:46the more likely we are to drive off scot-free.
32:49They've hired Jacksons to haul a truck and my steel
32:52to the scrapyard to be crushed at the same time.
32:55So the plan is they're going to meet us down the road,
32:57and we're going to pull off and meet these guys
33:00and just pull the switch and then take the dummy steel
33:02and the truck to the scrapyard to be scrapped.
33:05The good steel's going to go in our truck and go home with us.
33:09It's on now.
33:10You're driving.
33:11All right.
33:12Where's the hood?
33:13No turning back.
33:21What's up?
33:22I can't call it.
33:27Y'all ready to do this?
33:28Yeah.
33:29I'm ready to do it.
33:30Let's roll.
33:31We still got to be careful.
33:34We got to be quick.
33:42There ain't no turning back now.
33:44You're right about that.
33:48It's on.
33:53It just got real, Josh.
33:55It just got real.
33:59Y'all, how you doing?
34:00Doing all right.
34:01Hey, good seeing you again.
34:02What you guys picking up?
34:03Going to pick up that truck and that steel.
34:05Okay.
34:06I'm going to open up the gate.
34:07All right.
34:12Act natural.
34:13Casual.
34:15Do not run up and hug the steel.
34:21How you want us to do this, Brent?
34:22Let's grab that steel and put it in back of the truck.
34:25We'll strap it down, then we'll load the truck up.
34:31All right.
34:31Let's do this.
34:44Man.
34:45That's pretty.
34:50Yeah.
34:51There you go.
34:53I'm behind her.
34:55Come on.
34:56Oh, man.
34:57Don't do it.
35:00Don't do it.
35:02There you go.
35:19All right.
35:20We got everything?
35:21All right.
35:22Yeah.
35:23Sign up right here.
35:24All right.
35:24You guys can hit the truck.
35:26Yeah.
35:27I'll be there in about 30 minutes.
35:28I'll meet you there.
35:2930 minutes?
35:30Yes, sir.
35:31All right, man.
35:32We'll see you there.
35:35All right.
35:35Yeah.
35:36We got it.
35:36We got it.
35:37That went good.
35:38That went good.
35:42All right, guys.
35:43We got a problem.
35:44Why?
35:45He said he's going to meet us there in 30 minutes.
35:47What?
35:47Yeah.
35:48What are we going to do?
35:49He is?
35:49Yeah.
35:50We got to roll.
35:52We ain't got no time.
35:53We don't have enough time to do what we got to do.
35:55Well, if we're going to do something, we're going to have to do it quick.
35:57That's for sure.
35:58It's a little over a 20-minute drive there.
36:01We're screwed.
36:03Yeah.
36:04What are we going to do?
36:05Whatever we're doing, we got to do it with equipment.
36:16240 gallons.
36:17That's a good order.
36:18Well, hopefully it ain't newspaper clippings because we went to jail.
36:22Hey.
36:23You know what I mean?
36:24I'll have some of them 50 years from now.
36:26I will.
36:27I'll have some newspaper article clippings from where I went to prison.
36:30There's newspaper clippings?
36:31Where I went to damn prison?
36:34Local moonshiner busted with a sawed-off shotgun.
36:36Yeah, there was an article.
36:41Yeah.
36:42Certified hand cannon.
36:43Why not just have a pistol?
36:45Well, if you're going to do something illegal, make it damn as illegal as possible.
36:54Man, this ain't good, Josh.
36:56Even if we do make this swap, there's no way what we made is going to pass for that one.
37:02He knows what that thing looks like.
37:04We was just trying to fool the guy at the scrapyard.
37:09As luck would have it as we're pulling out of the impound yard, the officer says he's going to meet
37:13us down there in 30 minutes.
37:14We only have a half an hour to meet Paige and Henry, pull the swap, and get in the scrapyard
37:20before the officer does.
37:22One thing's for sure.
37:23If this cop gets here and he sees this dummy still, we're going to jail because he's going to know
37:27instantly it's not the same still.
37:29What are we going to do here, Josh?
37:30I know what we're going to do.
37:31We're going to go down here.
37:32We're going to swap some of a bitch out.
37:34We're going to go through with the plan because we've already got it all planned out.
37:36We've already got on the gear.
37:38We're on the road.
37:39We're going to make it happen and we're going to get my steel back.
37:42Fast as possible.
37:43We've got to swap that out.
37:45Then we've got to get to the scrapyard and hopefully get this steel off and get it crushed before that
37:49cop gets there.
37:51That's the only, only way it's working.
37:57Henry.
37:5910-4.
37:59We're fixing to pull on in.
38:02Henry, the officer's going to meet us down here, so we've really got to hurry up.
38:06All right, we're ready for your battle.
38:07Let's get this thing done.
38:11I'm about as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof right now.
38:16Serious, serious change of plans here.
38:19What's this about the cops?
38:20Oh, he said the cops is going to be there?
38:22Yeah, he said 30 minutes.
38:23He'd see us at the darn scrapyard.
38:25Jeez.
38:25God dang, I hate these straps.
38:31Y'all got it?
38:32Yeah.
38:33See them having an easy.
38:34Easy.
38:37That's better.
38:45Come on, man.
38:45Let's go.
38:46I'm trying to strap it down, Josh.
38:48I'm trying.
38:48Tighten the knot.
38:49I don't care what you've got to do.
38:50Let's just go.
38:50Give me a damn second.
38:51I'm going.
38:52I'm going.
38:54Meet y'all back at the ranch.
38:56She's good.
38:56She's good.
38:59All right.
39:02Get in.
39:03Let's roll.
39:04Let's roll.
39:04Get in.
39:05Get in.
39:05Let's roll.
39:08Go, go, go, go.
39:11Put the pedal a little metal, Brent.
39:13Let's get her did.
39:15We didn't even think about the cop going to show up.
39:18Do they normally come with y'all, Brent?
39:20Man, every now and then they'll show up, but I don't know.
39:24If something like this, it may be different.
39:26Because it's still involved, probably.
39:28Yeah.
39:29One way or another, we've got to pull this off, y'all.
39:33Hopefully so.
39:35It's on now.
39:36We're here.
39:38All right.
39:38Well, we're pulling in now.
39:46All right.
39:46It's go time, y'all.
39:47It's go time, y'all.
39:48Let's get this still unstrapped, Josh.
40:08Y'all got her unstrapped?
40:10Yeah, yeah.
40:11We got her unstrapped.
40:12She's ready to roll.
40:13He's got her.
40:16Good to go.
40:19There we go.
40:27Just a pile of metal now, Josh.
40:31We made it.
40:32We made it before the cop got here, too, boss.
40:34Before the cop got here.
40:39All right, man, ain't no problem.
40:43Somehow or another, we were able to pull this thing off.
40:46We got the dummy steel crushed.
40:48Henry Page drove off with my steel into the sunset.
40:51What's going on?
40:52We're good.
40:52How we doing?
40:53Finally got this dealt with.
40:54Whoa, man.
40:56We got her done.
40:57Nobody went to jail.
40:59Man, it's a win-win.
41:04Oh, my God, Mike.
41:06Look, there's blue lights.
41:07These cop cars through the trees,
41:09blue lights on in front of the daggum speakeasy.
41:12We need to go through that door tomorrow
41:13and go get what's ours.
41:16This is the damn 10 sacks you bought.
41:18As much weed as JB's been able to source,
41:21we could make a lot of money with it.
41:23All right, we get JB running them whiskers through that mash,
41:25it'll be some finest liquor you ever seen in your life.
41:28A lot of liquor, boys.
41:29The way we built this bed, it hides liquor good.
41:33Hang on!
41:34Get out!
41:35Jump!
41:35Get out!
41:35Let's get there.ЕТ
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