1 00:00:01,896 --> 00:00:03,517 Chuk, you hear? Four-wheelers. 2 00:00:03,689 --> 00:00:05,620 This time on "Moonshiners"-- 3 00:00:05,793 --> 00:00:07,585 You hear that? 4 00:00:07,586 --> 00:00:09,620 We got to get the hell out of here. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,275 So if he leaves right now, we just got to follow him. 6 00:00:14,448 --> 00:00:16,585 If we can't figure out what's going on with all this 7 00:00:16,586 --> 00:00:19,000 cheap liquor, Digger and I are out of business. 8 00:00:19,172 --> 00:00:22,000 If somebody else is trying to choke us out of business, 9 00:00:22,172 --> 00:00:24,102 then we got to choke back a little bit. 10 00:00:24,103 --> 00:00:25,895 All we need to do is just get up off the water 11 00:00:25,896 --> 00:00:27,310 a little bit, and I'll be golden. 12 00:00:27,482 --> 00:00:30,689 We've got to find a way then to pump freaking water up the bank. 13 00:00:30,862 --> 00:00:33,379 Mike, this right here will work. 14 00:00:33,551 --> 00:00:35,068 Well, it rolls easy, don't it? 15 00:00:36,793 --> 00:00:38,793 [bleep]. 16 00:00:38,965 --> 00:00:40,448 Oh, damn. 17 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:43,379 Well, I'm all wet, and the dadgum wheel ain't turning, Jerry. 18 00:00:44,724 --> 00:00:46,413 Ah, [bleep]. 19 00:00:47,620 --> 00:00:49,274 I don't know how they do it up here, 20 00:00:49,275 --> 00:00:51,413 but I'm gonna tell you right now, in Arkansas, 21 00:00:51,586 --> 00:00:52,619 you'd be hooked and booked. 22 00:00:52,620 --> 00:00:54,000 Have you been drinking or anything? 23 00:00:55,896 --> 00:00:58,379 This is how we make the moonshine. 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,275 There you are. 25 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:23,310 Well, I hope you've had as much luck selling your liquor 26 00:01:23,482 --> 00:01:26,000 as I have, I can't give a jar of liquor away. 27 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:28,793 I didn't have no luck either. 28 00:01:28,965 --> 00:01:30,620 If somebody out there is selling liquor 29 00:01:30,793 --> 00:01:33,895 at damn rock bottom prices, we need to find out who, 30 00:01:33,896 --> 00:01:36,999 and how, and why, and where and when. 31 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,585 Yeah, but if somebody else is trying to choke us 32 00:01:39,586 --> 00:01:42,000 out of business, then we've got to choke back a little bit. 33 00:01:45,206 --> 00:01:47,068 In Cocke County, Tennessee, 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,827 after downsizing their statewide operation 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,792 to focus solely on long time customers... 36 00:01:53,793 --> 00:01:55,378 Boy. 37 00:01:55,379 --> 00:01:56,896 People's gonna be champing at the bits 38 00:01:57,034 --> 00:01:58,412 to get a hold of that. 39 00:01:58,413 --> 00:02:01,482 ...Mark and Digger discover there's an unknown competitor 40 00:02:01,655 --> 00:02:03,724 vastly undercutting their prices. 41 00:02:03,896 --> 00:02:05,000 You know, we don't know who it is. 42 00:02:05,172 --> 00:02:07,689 We don't know if it's one person, 100 people, 43 00:02:07,862 --> 00:02:10,172 if it's somebody that's figured out how to make liquor cheaper, 44 00:02:10,344 --> 00:02:11,827 or they're stealing liquor somewhere. 45 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,585 You know, I'm not sure of a lot of things, but I am certain of 46 00:02:14,586 --> 00:02:17,792 one thing-- we can't continue on doing business like this. 47 00:02:17,793 --> 00:02:19,000 We'll be out of business. 48 00:02:19,172 --> 00:02:21,482 Pretty simple. I mean, we got one guy 49 00:02:21,655 --> 00:02:23,000 out there, and ain't nobody got 50 00:02:23,137 --> 00:02:25,792 a temperature in the market any better than Beaz. 51 00:02:25,793 --> 00:02:28,481 - He's learned a lot in 10 years, ain't he? - Yep. 52 00:02:28,482 --> 00:02:30,379 He may have already run into some of this. 53 00:02:30,551 --> 00:02:33,206 He may understand a little more than we think he does 54 00:02:33,379 --> 00:02:36,379 what the problem is in our particular market. 55 00:02:36,551 --> 00:02:40,275 I know that Beaz is on tour, and I know he always sells 56 00:02:40,448 --> 00:02:42,482 liquor while he's on tour. - Yeah. 57 00:02:42,655 --> 00:02:44,482 Killer Beaz, he's a stand-up comedian, 58 00:02:44,655 --> 00:02:48,171 and in between his gigs, he sold a lot of liquor for us. 59 00:02:48,172 --> 00:02:49,827 He knows the liquor business. 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,793 Probably better than anyone, as far as when it comes to 61 00:02:52,965 --> 00:02:56,724 bootlegging and selling liquor, not only around our region here, 62 00:02:56,896 --> 00:02:58,827 but all the way around the southeast. 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,931 So, we can't risk calling him. We won't call him. 64 00:03:02,068 --> 00:03:04,000 Let's just look up his tour schedule and see 65 00:03:04,172 --> 00:03:07,000 if we can find him. Let's just surprise him. 66 00:03:07,137 --> 00:03:08,724 Me and Mark need to go run him down. 67 00:03:08,896 --> 00:03:11,792 We need to see if he knows anything about this 68 00:03:11,793 --> 00:03:14,103 cheap priced liquor that's coming into our world. 69 00:03:14,275 --> 00:03:16,378 If we can't figure out what's going on with all this 70 00:03:16,379 --> 00:03:18,688 cheap liquor, Digger and I are out of business. 71 00:03:29,068 --> 00:03:31,482 Well, here's the old, familiar spot, buddy. 72 00:03:31,655 --> 00:03:34,688 Yep, made a good bit of money here, for sure. 73 00:03:34,689 --> 00:03:37,000 In Maggie Valley, North Carolina, 74 00:03:37,172 --> 00:03:40,793 Moonshiner pariah Mike and his inventive partner Jerry 75 00:03:40,965 --> 00:03:44,620 prepare to ramp up production at their creekside still site, 76 00:03:44,793 --> 00:03:48,310 despite last year's largely unprofitable season. 77 00:03:48,482 --> 00:03:52,206 We can set the pot right back up in the same location, man. 78 00:03:52,379 --> 00:03:53,550 I believe it'll do good. 79 00:03:53,551 --> 00:03:55,689 I tell you what, man, you know what I'm thinking? 80 00:03:55,862 --> 00:03:58,379 - What's that? - I'm thinking Hurricane Helene. 81 00:04:00,103 --> 00:04:02,171 After rival shiner Mark Rogers 82 00:04:02,172 --> 00:04:05,585 blew up their $4,000 copper still to get them off 83 00:04:05,586 --> 00:04:08,585 his turf, floodwaters from Hurricane Helene 84 00:04:08,586 --> 00:04:11,688 swept away its replacement, forcing Mike and Jerry 85 00:04:11,689 --> 00:04:14,275 to scramble just to break even on the season. 86 00:04:14,448 --> 00:04:16,895 All we need to do is just get up off the water a little bit, 87 00:04:16,896 --> 00:04:18,102 and I'll be golden. 88 00:04:18,103 --> 00:04:20,896 We've got to find a way then to pump freaking water 89 00:04:21,034 --> 00:04:22,033 up the bank. 90 00:04:22,034 --> 00:04:23,413 We'll build some kind of pump we can put in 91 00:04:23,586 --> 00:04:24,792 the creek or something. 92 00:04:24,793 --> 00:04:26,517 You know, our still site right now is only like less than 93 00:04:26,689 --> 00:04:29,310 a foot above the water level, but after going through what 94 00:04:29,482 --> 00:04:31,827 we went through last season, it's like it put fear 95 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,827 in my mind. Like, can this happen again? 96 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,724 Well, you ain't gonna change your mind about it, are you? 97 00:04:36,896 --> 00:04:39,171 By God, where do you want to set up at, Jerry? 98 00:04:39,172 --> 00:04:40,895 Heck, that up there'd be plenty high enough. 99 00:04:40,896 --> 00:04:42,482 Let's go up there and see if we can find a spot. 100 00:04:42,655 --> 00:04:46,000 Let's go look, at least it ain't 20 miles down the road. 101 00:04:46,172 --> 00:04:48,206 - Whoa. - You all right? 102 00:04:48,379 --> 00:04:49,688 Yeah. I'm good. 103 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:52,724 [bleep], I'm wet now. 104 00:04:52,896 --> 00:04:55,413 Not only have we got to find a brand new still site, 105 00:04:55,586 --> 00:04:57,068 now we're gonna have to pump water uphill. 106 00:04:57,241 --> 00:05:00,688 And it's gonna set us back several days and take money out 107 00:05:00,689 --> 00:05:03,586 of our pocket. This is a lot of work. 108 00:05:03,758 --> 00:05:05,171 Look at that little flat spot right there. 109 00:05:05,172 --> 00:05:07,689 - It looks good. - Not much to clean out either. 110 00:05:07,862 --> 00:05:10,310 No, it's a lot flatter than even right here behind us. 111 00:05:10,482 --> 00:05:12,068 I mean, how the heck are we gonna get all that water 112 00:05:12,241 --> 00:05:13,620 down there up here? 113 00:05:13,793 --> 00:05:15,827 I know a gas pump's gonna be too loud, but I'll tell you 114 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,413 what will work, and it's got a lot of power, 115 00:05:18,586 --> 00:05:20,379 is if we can harness that power with a water wheel. 116 00:05:20,551 --> 00:05:22,896 You just want to freaking build something else, 117 00:05:23,034 --> 00:05:24,688 ain't you? - You know that's who I am. 118 00:05:24,689 --> 00:05:26,999 Let's build us about a six-foot diameter water wheel. 119 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,620 - A water wheel? - Yeah, six pistons on it. 120 00:05:29,793 --> 00:05:31,827 Should give us ample water up here to the still site. 121 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,413 You know, we've got an unlimited source of water 122 00:05:33,586 --> 00:05:34,827 coming down the hill with a lot of power. 123 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,517 So all we need to do is just build a water wheel 124 00:05:36,689 --> 00:05:37,999 and we can power our water pump. 125 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,517 Well, I tell you what, let's get the still up here 126 00:05:39,689 --> 00:05:41,378 and get it set and let's get back to the shop and we'll 127 00:05:41,379 --> 00:05:42,689 start putting this water wheel together. 128 00:05:49,379 --> 00:05:52,585 We got all that liquor in them buckets back there, Chuk. 129 00:05:52,586 --> 00:05:55,310 - It's got to go. - Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. 130 00:05:55,482 --> 00:05:59,793 100 miles southeast in Polk County, North Carolina, 131 00:05:59,965 --> 00:06:02,172 after getting a warning from Digger about 132 00:06:02,344 --> 00:06:05,481 law enforcement operations targeting moonshiners... 133 00:06:05,482 --> 00:06:08,102 Me and Mark got put in handcuffs last year. 134 00:06:08,103 --> 00:06:12,688 Don't have anything at the same spot and don't make any more 135 00:06:12,689 --> 00:06:15,688 than you can't sell in the course of a day or two. 136 00:06:15,689 --> 00:06:18,103 You that serious? 137 00:06:19,482 --> 00:06:21,620 ...Josh and Chuk pick a remote site 138 00:06:21,793 --> 00:06:24,481 in the Blue Ridge Mountains to meet a potential buyer 139 00:06:24,482 --> 00:06:27,792 for their unsold Blackberry Rye Moonshine. 140 00:06:27,793 --> 00:06:31,379 We're about to unload this 25 gallons, bro, we're here. 141 00:06:32,620 --> 00:06:34,896 After listening to Digger, knowing the heat's coming down, 142 00:06:35,034 --> 00:06:38,206 got to be watching what we're doing and keep a low profile. 143 00:06:38,379 --> 00:06:40,378 And it don't get much more out in the woods than this 144 00:06:40,379 --> 00:06:42,792 right here. We out in the sticks. 145 00:06:42,793 --> 00:06:43,896 Turkey. 146 00:06:44,034 --> 00:06:45,620 After everything I've been hearing, 147 00:06:45,793 --> 00:06:47,274 I ain't taking any chances. 148 00:06:47,275 --> 00:06:49,103 I had him meet us deep in the woods. 149 00:06:50,896 --> 00:06:52,102 Here he comes right here. 150 00:06:52,103 --> 00:06:54,793 This guy's been one of my best customers for years. 151 00:06:54,965 --> 00:06:58,655 He always takes large quantities and always pays a fair price. 152 00:07:01,172 --> 00:07:03,103 - What's going on, big dog? - Hey, how you doing? 153 00:07:03,275 --> 00:07:04,792 - How you doing, buddy? - Doing good, man. 154 00:07:04,793 --> 00:07:07,000 Good to see you, man. Hey, this is Chuk. 155 00:07:07,137 --> 00:07:08,412 - Hey, Chuk. - Nice to meet you, brother. 156 00:07:08,413 --> 00:07:10,482 - Nice to meet you. - Hey, you're gonna love this. 157 00:07:10,655 --> 00:07:11,861 What do you got here? 158 00:07:11,862 --> 00:07:14,103 Some special stuff right there. Put a lot of love in it. 159 00:07:20,103 --> 00:07:22,102 What am I tasting? There's something in there. 160 00:07:22,103 --> 00:07:25,689 That right there is Carolina Blackberry Rye. 161 00:07:25,862 --> 00:07:27,585 Yeah. 162 00:07:27,586 --> 00:07:28,999 - What do you think? - I like it. 163 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,517 It's good. How much you got of it? 164 00:07:31,689 --> 00:07:35,827 We brought five five-gallon buckets, 100 bucks a gallon. 165 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,068 I could get more than that for it, 166 00:07:37,241 --> 00:07:39,586 but I ain't asking no more for it than that for it. 167 00:07:39,758 --> 00:07:40,896 - $2,500? - Yeah. 168 00:07:42,689 --> 00:07:44,517 All right, I think I can do that. 169 00:07:44,689 --> 00:07:45,827 - You want the whole thing? - Let's do it. 170 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,620 - Nice. - Taking all my money. 171 00:07:47,793 --> 00:07:49,413 Well, you're getting all my liquor. 172 00:07:50,689 --> 00:07:52,895 This has been a good customer of mine. 173 00:07:52,896 --> 00:07:55,172 When he said, "OK, I'll take it," 174 00:07:55,344 --> 00:07:58,103 honestly, it was like a burden was lifted off my shoulders, 175 00:07:58,275 --> 00:07:59,792 because I was so ready to get rid of it, 176 00:07:59,793 --> 00:08:01,585 I'd just about give it to him. 177 00:08:01,586 --> 00:08:02,724 All right, man, we're good. 178 00:08:04,379 --> 00:08:06,586 - See ya. - Now that we got the cash 179 00:08:06,758 --> 00:08:08,586 and the liquor's out the back of the truck, 180 00:08:08,758 --> 00:08:10,586 it's time to go make some more. 181 00:08:10,758 --> 00:08:13,931 That's what I'm talking about $2,500 in the damn bank. 182 00:08:15,413 --> 00:08:17,000 All right, now. 183 00:08:17,172 --> 00:08:18,895 You in a hurry to get home or something? 184 00:08:18,896 --> 00:08:20,343 I'm always in a hurry, big dog. 185 00:08:20,344 --> 00:08:22,103 - Got a million things to do. - You're telling me. 186 00:08:22,275 --> 00:08:23,999 So, when you're riding with Josh, you don't ever really 187 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,171 know how fast you're going. 188 00:08:25,172 --> 00:08:27,172 You just know you're going fast. 189 00:08:27,344 --> 00:08:29,620 Pretty reckless. Unnecessary risk that 190 00:08:29,793 --> 00:08:32,792 some outlaws don't normally want to do. 191 00:08:32,793 --> 00:08:34,310 You hear that big whistle going? 192 00:08:34,482 --> 00:08:36,379 That means you're going too fast. 193 00:08:38,241 --> 00:08:39,172 Ah, [bleep]. 194 00:08:41,586 --> 00:08:42,688 Oh, man. 195 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:44,379 I told you to slow down. 196 00:08:44,551 --> 00:08:46,517 Man, you didn't say [bleep] about slowing down. 197 00:08:46,689 --> 00:08:47,826 What the hell are you talking about? 198 00:08:47,827 --> 00:08:49,102 I'm always telling you to slow down, you just drive 199 00:08:49,103 --> 00:08:50,724 too damn fast. You're stupid. 200 00:08:52,379 --> 00:08:54,379 It's a good thing we ain't got no liquor in the back 201 00:08:54,551 --> 00:08:56,827 of the truck. - Well, I wouldn't have been [bleep] speeding like that 202 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,206 if I had liquor in there. 203 00:08:58,379 --> 00:08:59,482 For one, I probably wouldn't have done that. 204 00:08:59,655 --> 00:09:01,206 But two, you're right. 205 00:09:02,103 --> 00:09:04,999 Here he comes right here. Put your cameras down. 206 00:09:06,482 --> 00:09:08,413 Hey there, go ahead and shut off the truck for me. 207 00:09:10,482 --> 00:09:12,827 - You know why I pulled you over? - No, not really. 208 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,689 You were going 67 in a 35. 209 00:09:16,862 --> 00:09:18,481 There's a park right back there. 210 00:09:18,482 --> 00:09:19,792 You know, school's getting ready to let out. 211 00:09:19,793 --> 00:09:21,585 I don't know if you could have picked the worst place to be 212 00:09:21,586 --> 00:09:23,000 speeding like that. - Well, I apologize. 213 00:09:23,172 --> 00:09:25,896 I didn't mean to-- I'm just apologizing. 214 00:09:26,034 --> 00:09:27,172 You got your license, registration, 215 00:09:27,344 --> 00:09:29,172 proof of insurance? - Yeah. 216 00:09:29,344 --> 00:09:31,688 - You been drinking or anything? - No, I don't drink man. 217 00:09:31,689 --> 00:09:32,896 All right. 218 00:09:33,034 --> 00:09:34,033 - There you go. - All right. 219 00:09:34,034 --> 00:09:35,275 Go ahead and hang tight for me, all right? 220 00:09:35,448 --> 00:09:37,033 All right. 221 00:09:37,034 --> 00:09:40,482 Now, hopefully, they don't get you with 30 over, 67 in a 35. 222 00:09:40,655 --> 00:09:42,379 I don't know how they do it up here, but I'm gonna tell 223 00:09:42,551 --> 00:09:45,620 you right now, in Arkansas, we'd be hooked and booked. 224 00:09:45,793 --> 00:09:48,000 You mean he could take me to jail right now? 225 00:09:48,137 --> 00:09:49,103 Absolutely, man. 226 00:09:58,379 --> 00:10:00,378 Man, I ain't believing this [bleep]. 227 00:10:00,379 --> 00:10:03,000 At least we ain't got damn buckets in the back. 228 00:10:03,137 --> 00:10:04,310 Me, speeding through town, 229 00:10:04,482 --> 00:10:06,481 bringing unnecessary heat down... 230 00:10:06,482 --> 00:10:08,068 Here he comes. 231 00:10:08,241 --> 00:10:09,172 "Yes," or, "No, sir," Josh. 232 00:10:12,379 --> 00:10:16,274 ...sticking out like a sore thumb, not too smart. 233 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:17,896 All right, Mr. Owens, you still live at 234 00:10:18,034 --> 00:10:19,171 the current address on this? - Yes, sir. 235 00:10:19,172 --> 00:10:20,448 - Columbus? - Yes, sir. 236 00:10:22,103 --> 00:10:24,586 The speed you were going, I should be keeping that 237 00:10:24,758 --> 00:10:26,171 license and taking you to jail. 238 00:10:26,172 --> 00:10:28,206 I mean, that's just all there is to it. 239 00:10:28,379 --> 00:10:30,999 What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drop this down 240 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,206 to where it's gonna be this traffic ticket for you, 241 00:10:33,379 --> 00:10:35,481 just a normal speeding ticket. - Thank you very much. 242 00:10:35,482 --> 00:10:39,481 You were going 67. I dropped you down to a 50. 243 00:10:39,482 --> 00:10:41,999 I do not want to see this truck in the future driving the way 244 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,310 you were earlier, OK? - OK, thank you. 245 00:10:44,482 --> 00:10:45,895 - Thank you, sir. - Yeah. 246 00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:47,895 Here's the license back. Please slow down, all right? 247 00:10:47,896 --> 00:10:49,274 - Sorry about that. - Take care, man. 248 00:10:49,275 --> 00:10:50,688 Y'all too. 249 00:10:50,689 --> 00:10:52,206 Woo-wee. 250 00:10:53,689 --> 00:10:55,482 Ticket, let me see that. 251 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:58,379 That definitely took some years off our lives. 252 00:10:58,551 --> 00:10:59,826 I don't even know what to say. 253 00:10:59,827 --> 00:11:02,172 How many times in your life do you ever get pulled over going 254 00:11:02,344 --> 00:11:04,068 that fast and not get hammered? 255 00:11:05,275 --> 00:11:06,482 Never. Not once. 256 00:11:08,172 --> 00:11:09,895 Think of it like this-- 257 00:11:09,896 --> 00:11:13,274 what if a fella pulled you over, ran your tags, 258 00:11:13,275 --> 00:11:16,895 realized they had something bigger cooking, and let us go 259 00:11:16,896 --> 00:11:18,896 because of it? - I don't know. 260 00:11:19,034 --> 00:11:22,103 Maybe I'm just paranoid by what Digger said. 261 00:11:22,275 --> 00:11:25,275 You might be right, Chuk, but I hope you're not. 262 00:11:25,448 --> 00:11:27,275 I mean, I hope like hell you're not. 263 00:11:35,068 --> 00:11:36,378 I'll tell you what, Mike. 264 00:11:36,379 --> 00:11:38,171 I believe we'll be able to find what we're looking for here. 265 00:11:38,172 --> 00:11:39,481 I hope so. 266 00:11:39,482 --> 00:11:41,689 One thing we've got to remember, this thing's got to 267 00:11:41,862 --> 00:11:43,758 be real nice and quiet. - Oh, yeah. 268 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:49,068 Now, we've got to find a way to pump water uphill. 269 00:11:49,241 --> 00:11:51,171 Jerry's got this idea to build a water wheel. 270 00:11:51,172 --> 00:11:54,000 You know, we don't want to use no dadgum gas pump of no sort, 271 00:11:54,172 --> 00:11:56,171 because it's loud and echoes through the woods. 272 00:11:56,172 --> 00:11:58,206 That'll lead somebody straight to us. 273 00:11:58,379 --> 00:12:00,413 Hey, Mike, how about this wheel right here, that ought to work. 274 00:12:00,586 --> 00:12:02,688 Boy, you crazy. 275 00:12:02,689 --> 00:12:03,792 Hey, that'd be big enough. 276 00:12:03,793 --> 00:12:05,620 Yeah, it's big enough, all right. 277 00:12:05,793 --> 00:12:07,206 Stick out like a sore thumb. 278 00:12:07,379 --> 00:12:10,895 Jerry's idea of the water wheel is bigger, badder, and better, 279 00:12:10,896 --> 00:12:13,379 you know, so it can create more torque 280 00:12:13,551 --> 00:12:15,000 and pump more water. 281 00:12:15,137 --> 00:12:18,206 Well, I would much rather be quiet and big than 282 00:12:18,379 --> 00:12:20,517 little and loud. - Like me? 283 00:12:20,689 --> 00:12:21,895 Yeah, like you. 284 00:12:21,896 --> 00:12:23,171 Because, you know, he is right. 285 00:12:23,172 --> 00:12:25,068 We got to pump this stuff uphill, and it's gonna take 286 00:12:25,241 --> 00:12:26,481 a lot of torque. 287 00:12:26,482 --> 00:12:29,896 But being discreet is always better, especially right now. 288 00:12:30,034 --> 00:12:31,895 See why I want something like that right there? 289 00:12:31,896 --> 00:12:34,172 We'll put some paddles or something on it. 290 00:12:34,344 --> 00:12:35,688 Yeah, but you're talking about a lot of, 291 00:12:35,689 --> 00:12:39,379 a lot of water and a lot of paddles to spin that thing. 292 00:12:39,551 --> 00:12:42,103 Well, I know. I've got the perfect idea. 293 00:12:42,275 --> 00:12:43,931 What's that? We'll build us a dad Jim 294 00:12:44,068 --> 00:12:46,689 bike frame on it, put some pedals up there, 295 00:12:46,862 --> 00:12:48,688 and you can sit there and you can pedal it to death 296 00:12:48,689 --> 00:12:49,862 while I'm up out running liquor. 297 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,793 That ain't gonna be no quieter, I promise you that. 298 00:12:51,965 --> 00:12:53,274 By the time I get to huffing and puffing... 299 00:12:54,655 --> 00:12:56,895 ...they'll hear me back clear in town. 300 00:12:56,896 --> 00:12:58,517 You know, we've already got a big still set up 301 00:12:58,689 --> 00:13:01,000 and a big still site, so putting a big water wheel in, 302 00:13:01,137 --> 00:13:02,309 I don't really see what's gonna be the problem. 303 00:13:02,310 --> 00:13:04,310 They're gonna see one, they're gonna see the other. 304 00:13:04,482 --> 00:13:05,689 You know, pretty much me and Mike's just looking for 305 00:13:05,862 --> 00:13:08,171 anything that's large diameter and round. 306 00:13:08,172 --> 00:13:09,275 What's that right in there? 307 00:13:11,689 --> 00:13:13,379 That looks like some kind of wheel, don't it? 308 00:13:14,413 --> 00:13:15,862 That looks like a bunch of junk to me. 309 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,516 What are you talking about? 310 00:13:17,517 --> 00:13:19,206 No, right yonder, that's a wheel in there, some type of wheel. 311 00:13:19,379 --> 00:13:21,103 Oh, the part that's laying down flat there, huh? 312 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:25,171 I mean, I don't know if it's a work part, but it's 313 00:13:25,172 --> 00:13:27,275 a something. - Dude, you know what that is? 314 00:13:27,448 --> 00:13:28,688 - What is it? - It's one of them old spools, 315 00:13:28,689 --> 00:13:31,171 like you use on, like, you know, road work and stuff, 316 00:13:31,172 --> 00:13:32,517 the cables, underground lines, and stuff. 317 00:13:32,689 --> 00:13:34,931 - Cable stuff, spools, yeah. - Dude, that would work. 318 00:13:35,068 --> 00:13:36,896 I wonder how heavy this thing is. 319 00:13:37,034 --> 00:13:37,896 - Can't be very heavy. - Let's see. 320 00:13:38,034 --> 00:13:39,275 Let's check it out and see. 321 00:13:41,482 --> 00:13:44,000 So from a distance, I'm seeing this round loop that looks 322 00:13:44,137 --> 00:13:46,586 kind of like a metal hula hoop, so to speak. 323 00:13:46,758 --> 00:13:49,103 Closer we get to it, it's two of them actually 324 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:50,862 bolted together. 325 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,482 Look at the size of that, Mike. 326 00:13:55,896 --> 00:13:57,689 Now, that's what I'm talking about right there. 327 00:13:57,862 --> 00:13:59,206 What? Ain't that too big? 328 00:13:59,379 --> 00:14:00,757 Too big? 329 00:14:00,758 --> 00:14:03,688 That looks like a freaking Ferris wheel at the fair. 330 00:14:03,689 --> 00:14:05,758 We could rig this thing up at the house 331 00:14:05,931 --> 00:14:08,586 and put toddler baskets in it and give people's 332 00:14:08,758 --> 00:14:11,206 babies a ride for money. - Yeah. 333 00:14:11,379 --> 00:14:12,792 You know, I'm seeing this thing out in the middle of 334 00:14:12,793 --> 00:14:14,689 the woods, you know, with big, old paddles on it. 335 00:14:14,862 --> 00:14:16,792 It's got a lot of weight, which would be a lot of kinetic 336 00:14:16,793 --> 00:14:18,620 energy if you could get it rolling. 337 00:14:18,793 --> 00:14:20,999 Mike, this right here will work. 338 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,102 Well, it rolls easy, don't it? 339 00:14:23,103 --> 00:14:24,792 That's a good eye right there, son. 340 00:14:24,793 --> 00:14:26,585 We don't need it nowhere near this wide. 341 00:14:26,586 --> 00:14:28,896 We'll cut these things down and narrow them up. 342 00:14:29,034 --> 00:14:30,274 - Shorten them down. - Make them a little 343 00:14:30,275 --> 00:14:32,068 over a foot wide, about yay wide like that. 344 00:14:32,241 --> 00:14:34,378 - Yeah. - And put us some paddles around through there. 345 00:14:34,379 --> 00:14:35,793 I guess you're sold on it, ain't you? 346 00:14:35,965 --> 00:14:37,274 Oh, man, absolutely. 347 00:14:37,275 --> 00:14:39,274 I think there's a couple more of them things laying around 348 00:14:39,275 --> 00:14:41,413 over there. - Let's just grab them, just for the heck of it. 349 00:14:41,586 --> 00:14:42,862 This thing checks all the boxes. 350 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,931 It's sturdy. It's lightweight. 351 00:14:45,068 --> 00:14:46,586 I think we can do something with this. 352 00:14:46,758 --> 00:14:49,103 You know, somebody else might have thrown these wheels away, 353 00:14:49,275 --> 00:14:51,068 but that right there is Mike and Jerry's treasure. 354 00:14:59,068 --> 00:15:02,103 I don't know where this cheap ass liquor's coming from, 355 00:15:03,586 --> 00:15:05,931 but the guy that drives that little car right down there is 356 00:15:06,068 --> 00:15:07,379 the one that can help us. 357 00:15:07,551 --> 00:15:09,688 You know, Killer Beaz, he's a stand-up comedian. 358 00:15:09,689 --> 00:15:13,378 He's playing a venue in Tennessee, a couple hours away, 359 00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:17,172 and in between his gigs, he moves a lot of liquor. 360 00:15:17,344 --> 00:15:19,103 Oh, oh, oh, look here. There he is. 361 00:15:19,275 --> 00:15:20,481 About time. 362 00:15:20,482 --> 00:15:23,275 Before we approach him, we need to make sure he ain't 363 00:15:23,448 --> 00:15:25,310 got no liquor in there, don't we? 364 00:15:25,482 --> 00:15:27,000 I mean, I don't want to go to jail for my liquor, 365 00:15:27,172 --> 00:15:28,482 let alone somebody else's. 366 00:15:30,793 --> 00:15:33,102 We know that Beaz is out selling a little liquor. 367 00:15:33,103 --> 00:15:34,688 That's none of our business, you know. 368 00:15:34,689 --> 00:15:37,585 He's got to make a little extra money, too. 369 00:15:37,586 --> 00:15:40,586 So if he leaves right now, we just got to follow him. 370 00:15:41,586 --> 00:15:44,413 But we would like to know if he knows anything about this 371 00:15:44,586 --> 00:15:46,275 inexpensive liquor hitting the market. 372 00:15:47,172 --> 00:15:49,172 Here we go. 373 00:15:49,344 --> 00:15:51,379 As bad as it seems, you know, we're just gonna 374 00:15:51,551 --> 00:15:54,413 trail Beaz until we know he's out of liquor. 375 00:15:54,586 --> 00:15:56,310 Boy, he's obeying all the traffic rules. 376 00:15:56,482 --> 00:15:58,896 He ain't getting too fast at all. 377 00:15:59,034 --> 00:16:01,206 If he gets pulled over and stopped right now 378 00:16:01,379 --> 00:16:04,310 with liquor with him, then Beaz is on his own 379 00:16:04,482 --> 00:16:06,585 because we're gonna drive on past. 380 00:16:06,586 --> 00:16:09,378 Well, he might be playing it kind of-- 381 00:16:09,379 --> 00:16:11,171 oh, he's got a target up here. - Oh, yeah. 382 00:16:11,172 --> 00:16:12,896 There, yeah. You're right. 383 00:16:13,034 --> 00:16:15,620 There he goes. He's meeting his mark. 384 00:16:15,793 --> 00:16:17,586 What about that little, sneaky bastard? 385 00:16:17,758 --> 00:16:19,586 He's learned well. 386 00:16:19,758 --> 00:16:22,620 The last thing we want to do is blow Beaz's cover. 387 00:16:22,793 --> 00:16:24,102 I mean, he's got his route. 388 00:16:24,103 --> 00:16:26,206 He likes keeping things under wraps. 389 00:16:26,379 --> 00:16:29,517 And we're not gonna do anything to jeopardize that. 390 00:16:29,689 --> 00:16:31,862 When this is done, when he leaves here, 391 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 I feel OK about approaching him, don't you? 392 00:16:34,137 --> 00:16:36,482 Yeah, there's nothing there that's going to get 393 00:16:36,655 --> 00:16:39,102 neither one of us in trouble. 394 00:16:39,103 --> 00:16:41,275 Well, as far as we can tell, I think Beaz has 395 00:16:41,448 --> 00:16:42,620 delivered his liquor. 396 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:44,793 Now, it's time we're gonna get his attention 397 00:16:44,965 --> 00:16:46,999 and get him pulled over and speak with him. 398 00:16:53,482 --> 00:16:55,482 Holy cow. What are you doing here? 399 00:16:55,655 --> 00:16:58,620 - Hey, man. - Well, we've been following you. 400 00:16:58,793 --> 00:17:01,586 You ain't got nothing you ain't supposed to have, have you? 401 00:17:01,758 --> 00:17:03,481 Uh, nuh-uh. 402 00:17:03,482 --> 00:17:05,068 Will you follow us a little ways? 403 00:17:05,241 --> 00:17:07,792 We need to speak with you, pretty important. 404 00:17:07,793 --> 00:17:08,896 OK. 405 00:17:11,172 --> 00:17:13,171 We're probably the last people in the world that 406 00:17:13,172 --> 00:17:15,379 Beaz expected to see. 407 00:17:17,275 --> 00:17:19,689 And he looks very befuddled. 408 00:17:19,862 --> 00:17:21,481 What are y'all doing over here? 409 00:17:21,482 --> 00:17:23,999 We just, we've got some issues that we don't really know 410 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,378 how to deal with. - What's up? 411 00:17:26,379 --> 00:17:28,689 Me and Digger made a little run of just everyday 412 00:17:28,862 --> 00:17:30,172 corn liquor. 413 00:17:30,344 --> 00:17:32,689 And we were under the impression that after we'd 414 00:17:32,862 --> 00:17:36,517 been absent for six months, that people would be chomping 415 00:17:36,689 --> 00:17:37,689 at the bit for it. 416 00:17:38,586 --> 00:17:41,689 And we found out that wasn't the case. 417 00:17:41,862 --> 00:17:44,206 We know you still bootleg liquor. 418 00:17:44,379 --> 00:17:47,792 Is it worse in some parts than others? 419 00:17:47,793 --> 00:17:50,586 I'll tell you what, West Tennessee, Memphis, 420 00:17:50,758 --> 00:17:51,792 hot as a firecracker. 421 00:17:51,793 --> 00:17:54,378 Nashville, hot as a firecracker. 422 00:17:54,379 --> 00:17:58,689 You get to East Tennessee, our stomping ground, 423 00:17:58,862 --> 00:18:03,793 there's a lot, a lot of cheap liquor. 424 00:18:05,275 --> 00:18:08,068 You care to try to get a hold of a little of it, 425 00:18:08,241 --> 00:18:10,586 maybe snoop around and see what you can find out about it? 426 00:18:10,758 --> 00:18:14,171 I'd like to lay my hands on a jar of it just to see 427 00:18:14,172 --> 00:18:15,585 what we're dealing with here. 428 00:18:15,586 --> 00:18:19,000 If you could do that for us, we'd be forever in your debt. 429 00:18:20,103 --> 00:18:24,689 I will try to track down a jar of that for you guys, 430 00:18:24,862 --> 00:18:26,206 see what I can do. 431 00:18:26,379 --> 00:18:28,688 We don't really know which direction to turn yet, 432 00:18:28,689 --> 00:18:31,688 but we would like to taste the product 433 00:18:31,689 --> 00:18:33,895 and see what we're up against. 434 00:18:33,896 --> 00:18:36,378 I apologize for coming up on you bold as winter here, 435 00:18:36,379 --> 00:18:40,689 but it's what we had to do. - Well, I'm glad it was y'all. 436 00:18:40,862 --> 00:18:43,171 We want to see really and truly if it's 437 00:18:43,172 --> 00:18:45,793 what our customers are saying that it is. 438 00:18:45,965 --> 00:18:47,379 That confirms a lot, don't it? 439 00:18:57,137 --> 00:18:59,000 I guess, just check on the still, make sure 440 00:18:59,172 --> 00:19:00,551 it's all right. There ain't no need to worrying 441 00:19:00,724 --> 00:19:02,241 about mashing nothing in, are they? 442 00:19:02,413 --> 00:19:04,379 I'm just more worried about making sure 443 00:19:04,551 --> 00:19:06,000 everything's still in place. 444 00:19:06,172 --> 00:19:08,481 What's that yonder, did you leave a jar of liquor here? 445 00:19:08,482 --> 00:19:10,965 I did not leave a jar of liquor here. 446 00:19:11,103 --> 00:19:13,655 Digger and I, we're on our way to the still site, 447 00:19:13,827 --> 00:19:16,896 and, you know, when we pull up, there's a jar of liquor sitting 448 00:19:17,034 --> 00:19:20,481 on a damn piece of a log laying right here where we parked. 449 00:19:20,482 --> 00:19:23,068 How did a damn jar of liquor get here? 450 00:19:25,551 --> 00:19:27,793 I think a little bee brought it in. 451 00:19:27,965 --> 00:19:30,068 - What? - A little bee brought it in. 452 00:19:30,241 --> 00:19:31,482 That little fart. 453 00:19:31,655 --> 00:19:34,379 There's a B drawn on the top of the lid. 454 00:19:34,551 --> 00:19:36,689 We asked Beaz to help track down a little bit of this 455 00:19:36,862 --> 00:19:38,896 cheap liquor that's been flooding the market. 456 00:19:39,034 --> 00:19:42,241 So, with that jar sitting here, that tells me that 457 00:19:42,413 --> 00:19:44,000 he came through for us. 458 00:19:44,172 --> 00:19:46,344 Let's see what it smells like, see what it tastes like. 459 00:19:48,379 --> 00:19:49,586 Not much on the nose. 460 00:19:58,758 --> 00:20:03,344 I've drunk a whole lot worse. For $15, it'll do. 461 00:20:03,517 --> 00:20:05,896 Honestly, it's not that bad of a liquor. 462 00:20:06,034 --> 00:20:08,896 It's close enough that if I didn't have anything else, 463 00:20:09,034 --> 00:20:10,000 hell yeah, I'd drink it. 464 00:20:11,068 --> 00:20:13,482 You taste how sweet it is? 465 00:20:13,655 --> 00:20:15,689 - Yeah. - That ain't no natural sweet. 466 00:20:17,068 --> 00:20:18,758 Somebody's put glycerin in there. 467 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,034 Glycerin is an industrial food additive used 468 00:20:23,206 --> 00:20:26,758 by some liquor brands to lend a sense of greater complexity 469 00:20:26,931 --> 00:20:29,103 to cheaply produced liquor. 470 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:32,000 However, most traditional moonshiners make 471 00:20:32,137 --> 00:20:36,379 their liquor naturally complex, with high-quality ingredients 472 00:20:36,551 --> 00:20:38,965 and time-tested distilling techniques, 473 00:20:39,103 --> 00:20:41,068 which come at a cost. 474 00:20:41,241 --> 00:20:44,137 It ain't a bad $15 jar of liquor. 475 00:20:44,310 --> 00:20:47,793 Damn, this really throws a damn wrench in our grinder. 476 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,275 You want to start building this base? 477 00:20:56,448 --> 00:20:57,792 Yeah, let's get the base put together first. 478 00:20:57,793 --> 00:21:00,171 You know, last season, we lost everything due to flooding. 479 00:21:00,172 --> 00:21:02,793 We do not want that to happen ever again. 480 00:21:02,965 --> 00:21:05,862 Our still site may be way above the flood line, but that's yet 481 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,655 another problem. You know, we gotta get water 482 00:21:07,827 --> 00:21:09,241 up there now, and we gotta try to 483 00:21:09,413 --> 00:21:10,344 force it up there. 484 00:21:10,517 --> 00:21:11,792 Square 'em up, buddy. 485 00:21:11,793 --> 00:21:12,965 Hold the top together, anyway. 486 00:21:14,896 --> 00:21:16,275 You know, I came up with the idea of making 487 00:21:16,448 --> 00:21:17,862 a water wheel, and I think it's our best solution. 488 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,689 We can use the power of the river to our advantage 489 00:21:20,862 --> 00:21:21,999 and pump water uphill. 490 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Building a big old hamster wheel so Jerry will have 491 00:21:25,172 --> 00:21:26,309 something to play on. 492 00:21:26,310 --> 00:21:29,000 We gotta have a big wheel to generate that power. 493 00:21:29,172 --> 00:21:30,585 You know, you're talking about eight pounds a gallon of water 494 00:21:30,586 --> 00:21:34,000 trying to go straight up. You got 30 feet, do the math. 495 00:21:34,137 --> 00:21:35,586 Go ahead and hop up here, it'll hold you. 496 00:21:39,482 --> 00:21:40,586 Turn me loose. 497 00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:42,172 You ain't got far to roll, do you? 498 00:21:44,689 --> 00:21:46,000 Stop me. 499 00:21:47,862 --> 00:21:48,862 You couldn't step fast enough, did you? 500 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I couldn't step fast enough with it. 501 00:21:51,172 --> 00:21:53,482 Hold it, let me down. Yee haw. 502 00:21:53,655 --> 00:21:55,172 Before I get broke. 503 00:21:57,448 --> 00:21:59,551 Well, needless to say, Jerry, I believe we'll leave 504 00:21:59,724 --> 00:22:01,586 the hamster wheels to the hamsters. 505 00:22:01,758 --> 00:22:03,793 Now we gotta figure out how we gonna mount these things in there. 506 00:22:03,965 --> 00:22:05,896 All these bars, we'll just drill straight through and bolt 507 00:22:06,034 --> 00:22:07,068 them like that right there. - Yeah, why not? 508 00:22:07,241 --> 00:22:08,551 - It's two bolt holes. - Boop, boop. 509 00:22:08,724 --> 00:22:10,344 Basically, we gotta build our buckets. 510 00:22:10,517 --> 00:22:12,586 The water's gonna catch in and make the wheels spin. 511 00:22:12,758 --> 00:22:15,000 So we're just taking some six-inch PVC pipe... 512 00:22:17,275 --> 00:22:19,137 cutting them about 16 inches long. 513 00:22:20,275 --> 00:22:22,688 - Straight as a gun barrel. - Straight as a barrel. 514 00:22:22,689 --> 00:22:25,688 ...and splitting them right down the middle, making half moon cups. 515 00:22:25,689 --> 00:22:28,068 - It's gonna hold a lot of water weight right there. - Yep. 516 00:22:28,241 --> 00:22:30,965 Put some end caps on them and screw it to the wheel. 517 00:22:32,689 --> 00:22:35,482 These son of guns holding one gallon of water per paddle. 518 00:22:36,379 --> 00:22:38,000 It's gonna spin a wheel, ain't it? 519 00:22:38,137 --> 00:22:40,379 When that water starts hitting them paddles, 520 00:22:40,551 --> 00:22:42,172 we're fixing to have power. 521 00:22:45,586 --> 00:22:46,896 Got your plunger ring there? 522 00:22:47,034 --> 00:22:48,481 Yeah, it's just a little rubber over here to give us 523 00:22:48,482 --> 00:22:50,275 a little bit of a seal. I'm kind of getting excited. 524 00:22:50,448 --> 00:22:51,688 I want to give it a little test drive. 525 00:22:51,689 --> 00:22:53,793 Test drive it, see if it's gonna suck and pull. 526 00:22:53,965 --> 00:22:55,655 - Yep. - Jerry's come up with 527 00:22:55,827 --> 00:22:58,965 a solution to build these piston arms and cylinders. 528 00:22:59,103 --> 00:23:02,481 As this wheel turns, it'll move those cylinder arms and put 529 00:23:02,482 --> 00:23:05,068 them on opposite strokes, have one pulling out, 530 00:23:05,241 --> 00:23:06,413 one pushing up at the same time. 531 00:23:06,586 --> 00:23:09,655 So one arm's pulling water in, the other arm's pushing 532 00:23:09,827 --> 00:23:11,033 water out. 533 00:23:11,034 --> 00:23:13,344 So that's pulling water right there, and here it comes. 534 00:23:15,275 --> 00:23:16,896 It'll give you all the water I need up there. 535 00:23:17,034 --> 00:23:19,895 We're gonna have eight of those when we're complete, 536 00:23:19,896 --> 00:23:23,000 so it'll give us a continuous flow of water up on that hill. 537 00:23:23,896 --> 00:23:25,688 - Let's try it out. - Fingers crossed. 538 00:23:25,689 --> 00:23:26,793 Let's do it to it. 539 00:23:35,862 --> 00:23:36,965 I can see the hose moving. 540 00:23:40,448 --> 00:23:41,481 Oh, it's drawing it. 541 00:23:41,482 --> 00:23:42,965 I can see the water going down. 542 00:23:43,896 --> 00:23:46,274 Oh, looky there. Looky there. 543 00:23:46,275 --> 00:23:47,551 We got water, baby. 544 00:23:48,965 --> 00:23:51,758 As we're spinning it by hand, we can see that these round 545 00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:53,758 pistons are actually doing their job. 546 00:23:53,931 --> 00:23:54,896 They're pumping. 547 00:23:56,275 --> 00:23:58,448 - We got water. - Heck, yeah. 548 00:23:58,620 --> 00:23:59,964 Well, Jerry, you ready to get this thing loaded? 549 00:23:59,965 --> 00:24:02,068 I'm gonna tell you what, man. We got to get her to the woods. 550 00:24:02,241 --> 00:24:04,000 Let's hope and pray it gets water on top of that hill, 551 00:24:04,172 --> 00:24:06,274 because I'm ready to put some money in old Mike's pocket. 552 00:24:06,275 --> 00:24:07,758 Get it to them woods, son. 553 00:24:07,931 --> 00:24:10,000 Get it to the woods and get us some water pumping. 554 00:24:10,172 --> 00:24:11,103 Yee, yee. 555 00:24:17,275 --> 00:24:19,758 Look at that wild turkey. Pow, pow. 556 00:24:22,793 --> 00:24:25,585 It's been a crazy couple days. Went and met Digger. 557 00:24:25,586 --> 00:24:27,551 Digger's telling me everything that's going on. 558 00:24:27,724 --> 00:24:29,896 Come back home, sold my blackberry rye, 559 00:24:30,034 --> 00:24:32,481 and then instantly get pulled over. 560 00:24:32,482 --> 00:24:34,586 Thank goodness I done got rid of the liquor. 561 00:24:34,758 --> 00:24:36,895 Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. 562 00:24:36,896 --> 00:24:39,551 But right now, I'm counting my blessings, and it's time to 563 00:24:39,724 --> 00:24:42,000 go get mashed in and get right back to work. 564 00:24:42,172 --> 00:24:45,275 All right, so let's get up here and get this doggone mash made 565 00:24:45,448 --> 00:24:47,068 and get this done, because I'm ready to get home. 566 00:24:47,241 --> 00:24:48,172 I wanna go see my baby. 567 00:24:53,103 --> 00:24:54,793 There's fresh tracks right here. 568 00:24:55,965 --> 00:24:57,172 And it rained overnight. 569 00:24:59,172 --> 00:25:01,896 - That ain't cool. - Four-wheeler tracks. 570 00:25:02,034 --> 00:25:03,482 Somebody's been in here today. 571 00:25:05,275 --> 00:25:07,862 I don't like this, man. I don't like this at all. 572 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,241 You and me both. That's weird. 573 00:25:12,172 --> 00:25:14,965 Chuk, the tracks go straight back in the still site, bud. 574 00:25:23,241 --> 00:25:24,482 - Let's go look at it. - Yeah. 575 00:25:36,689 --> 00:25:38,000 Chuk, 576 00:25:38,172 --> 00:25:40,688 there's a foot track right there. 577 00:25:40,689 --> 00:25:42,896 Right there. Look, see it? 578 00:25:43,034 --> 00:25:45,586 - That ain't yours? - I just got out of the truck. 579 00:25:45,758 --> 00:25:48,585 It's rained like hell. They's one right there, too. 580 00:25:48,586 --> 00:25:50,655 You sure you want to go any further? 581 00:25:50,827 --> 00:25:52,689 Somebody knows we're here, regardless. 582 00:25:53,793 --> 00:25:54,965 Mm mm mm. 583 00:25:56,034 --> 00:25:57,896 There's foot tracks all around us this side. 584 00:25:58,034 --> 00:26:00,274 Yeah, I don't got a good feeling about this. 585 00:26:00,275 --> 00:26:02,793 There's foot tracks everywhere. Look at them. 586 00:26:02,965 --> 00:26:04,689 They're all over. 587 00:26:04,862 --> 00:26:07,068 We need to get out of here. Let's get [bleep], 588 00:26:07,241 --> 00:26:08,172 get out of here. 589 00:26:13,793 --> 00:26:14,896 Chuk, Chuk. 590 00:26:16,482 --> 00:26:17,655 You hear that? 591 00:26:21,137 --> 00:26:22,689 - You hear? - Four-wheelers. 592 00:26:28,689 --> 00:26:30,896 Hey, hey, don't go all the way out there. 593 00:26:32,344 --> 00:26:33,793 Stick out like a damn lighthouse. 594 00:26:36,103 --> 00:26:37,275 You hear that? 595 00:26:39,655 --> 00:26:41,586 We got to get the hell out of here. 596 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,171 - You hear that? - Yeah. 597 00:26:51,172 --> 00:26:53,000 That's four-wheelers right there. 598 00:26:53,137 --> 00:26:54,172 Yeah, they are. 599 00:26:56,586 --> 00:26:57,620 They're on the ridge. 600 00:26:57,793 --> 00:26:59,689 I was wondering where the heck they could be. 601 00:27:03,137 --> 00:27:05,103 We got to get the hell out of here. 602 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,758 Get out of here. Do what you do best. 603 00:27:10,931 --> 00:27:11,930 Go fast. 604 00:27:11,931 --> 00:27:14,171 My worst nightmare is coming true right now. 605 00:27:14,172 --> 00:27:17,034 Tracks in our still site, but then I hear some kind of 606 00:27:17,206 --> 00:27:18,895 motor, some kind of engine traveling around. 607 00:27:18,896 --> 00:27:21,895 I go running around the corner. There's a couple four-wheelers. 608 00:27:21,896 --> 00:27:22,965 I know we're in trouble now. 609 00:27:23,103 --> 00:27:24,862 If I could just get my stuff and get gone. 610 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,068 You see [bleep] like this, 611 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000 you don't ask no questions. 612 00:27:29,137 --> 00:27:30,655 You just get the hell out of there. 613 00:27:30,827 --> 00:27:32,724 Oh, god. Someone's gonna bulldoze me. 614 00:27:35,172 --> 00:27:38,274 All right, grab one end of it. I'll get the other. 615 00:27:38,275 --> 00:27:40,758 - We got this. - Josh just grabbed this, grabbed that. 616 00:27:40,931 --> 00:27:41,861 We try to get the worm. 617 00:27:41,862 --> 00:27:43,344 It's waterlogged, weighs 1,000 pounds. 618 00:27:43,517 --> 00:27:46,275 - All right, let's go. - We're trying to drag it up a hill. 619 00:27:46,448 --> 00:27:49,965 But my mind's thinking, "Cops, cops, cops, cops." 620 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:52,793 One, two, three. 621 00:27:56,344 --> 00:27:58,689 Oh [bleep]. 622 00:27:58,862 --> 00:28:00,586 All right, we need to make room for everything else. 623 00:28:01,793 --> 00:28:03,862 - Let's go, man. - Let's go. 624 00:28:06,344 --> 00:28:07,827 Should we cover the worm? 625 00:28:08,448 --> 00:28:10,551 We'll cover it up at the bottom of the hill or something. 626 00:28:12,103 --> 00:28:13,482 This ain't happening, Chuk. 627 00:28:20,586 --> 00:28:23,896 Well, if somebody's really making liquor from scratch, 628 00:28:25,137 --> 00:28:26,344 out in the woods somewhere, 629 00:28:27,758 --> 00:28:29,585 they've discovered something that we ain't. 630 00:28:29,586 --> 00:28:31,793 Thanks to Killer Beaz, Digger and I have ended up 631 00:28:31,965 --> 00:28:34,896 with this $15 jar of corn liquor that's been flooding 632 00:28:35,034 --> 00:28:36,309 our market everywhere. 633 00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:40,000 The only way they're producing this liquor for $15 a jar 634 00:28:40,137 --> 00:28:42,274 they got to be getting cheaper ingredients. 635 00:28:42,275 --> 00:28:46,034 It's obviously whoever's making this flood of cheap liquor are 636 00:28:46,206 --> 00:28:48,689 cutting a lot of corners, but that's the thing that 637 00:28:48,862 --> 00:28:49,861 Digger and I don't know. 638 00:28:49,862 --> 00:28:52,034 We don't know what corners they're cutting. 639 00:28:52,206 --> 00:28:55,068 Let's get the cheapest ingredients that we can that 640 00:28:55,241 --> 00:28:58,274 will still make us a corn liquor and figure it up, 641 00:28:58,275 --> 00:29:00,586 break it down, price per jar, and see what we 642 00:29:00,758 --> 00:29:02,034 come up with in it. 643 00:29:02,206 --> 00:29:04,103 You know, the industry standard in these mountains is 644 00:29:04,275 --> 00:29:05,792 just old, clear corn liquor. 645 00:29:05,793 --> 00:29:09,274 That's what this old, backwoods liquor world cut its teeth on, 646 00:29:09,275 --> 00:29:11,241 that's what we're gonna lose our teeth on. 647 00:29:12,586 --> 00:29:14,448 I say we start with corn syrup. 648 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:18,000 It used to be a little bit cheaper than cane sugar. 649 00:29:18,172 --> 00:29:21,000 We gotta try to make this so at least it won't tell us 650 00:29:21,172 --> 00:29:23,551 who we're dealing with, but it'll tell us 651 00:29:23,724 --> 00:29:25,068 what we're dealing with. 652 00:29:33,551 --> 00:29:35,895 Man, I'm really hoping this wheel works out, man. 653 00:29:35,896 --> 00:29:38,585 Yeah, me and you both, we spent a lot of time and money in doing it. 654 00:29:38,586 --> 00:29:41,137 You know, we could so easily be on the creek right now running 655 00:29:41,310 --> 00:29:43,448 liquor right beside the water, gravity feeding it down to 656 00:29:43,620 --> 00:29:47,034 the still site, but no, we had to build this water wheel. 657 00:29:47,206 --> 00:29:48,171 This thing better work. 658 00:29:48,172 --> 00:29:49,895 We on our way to get her set up. 659 00:29:49,896 --> 00:29:52,274 Watch them valves. Watch it now. 660 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:53,551 Don't fall. 661 00:29:53,724 --> 00:29:57,103 We back into the creek here. We got a nice little flat spot. 662 00:29:57,275 --> 00:29:58,482 Easy, OK? 663 00:29:58,655 --> 00:30:00,792 We've got it set up and blocked up, got it 664 00:30:00,793 --> 00:30:01,930 nice and level. 665 00:30:01,931 --> 00:30:04,172 Now all we got to do is just pop our water to it. 666 00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:05,655 - Pick up on it a little bit. - All right. 667 00:30:06,586 --> 00:30:08,895 We're gonna take some PVC pipe, couple it along the way, 668 00:30:08,896 --> 00:30:11,551 and get up the river at least 100 foot plus to be able to 669 00:30:11,724 --> 00:30:14,275 harness the water that we need high enough to get this 670 00:30:14,448 --> 00:30:15,448 wheel turning. 671 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,585 Reach it! 672 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:20,000 Let me grab a couple braces. 673 00:30:20,137 --> 00:30:22,241 Dragging this pipe, putting everything together, 674 00:30:22,413 --> 00:30:24,895 screwing pipe together, making saddles. 675 00:30:24,896 --> 00:30:26,655 It's gonna be pretty rock solid right there. 676 00:30:26,827 --> 00:30:31,000 This is a lot of work to try to force water uphill. 677 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,344 All right, here's the moment of truth. 678 00:30:34,517 --> 00:30:35,482 Coming to you, Jerry. 679 00:30:47,965 --> 00:30:50,758 We got water. 680 00:30:50,931 --> 00:30:52,758 It's just a little too far forward. 681 00:30:52,931 --> 00:30:54,551 That's all right. We can cut it off. 682 00:30:54,724 --> 00:30:57,586 All we got to do is cut that pipe off a little bit, 683 00:30:57,758 --> 00:30:58,793 and we'll be in business. 684 00:31:01,172 --> 00:31:02,482 [bleep]. 685 00:31:03,655 --> 00:31:04,793 Ah, damn. 686 00:31:04,965 --> 00:31:06,171 Oh, my god. 687 00:31:06,172 --> 00:31:08,689 - I'm soaked now. - Oh, god. 688 00:31:08,862 --> 00:31:09,896 Oh, hell. 689 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:13,000 Well, I'm all wet, and the dadgum wheel ain't 690 00:31:13,137 --> 00:31:14,309 turning, Jerry. 691 00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:16,655 I mean, it's working some, but it ain't enough to feed 692 00:31:16,827 --> 00:31:17,827 the still site right now. 693 00:31:18,793 --> 00:31:20,688 If this three inch pipe ain't enough to turn 694 00:31:20,689 --> 00:31:24,344 this water wheel, we gonna have to tear something apart, 695 00:31:24,517 --> 00:31:26,758 re-figure, and do this all over again. 696 00:31:26,931 --> 00:31:29,551 Right there, it goes to a full pipe, it works. 697 00:31:29,724 --> 00:31:31,688 And then it drops about three quarters of the pipe, 698 00:31:31,689 --> 00:31:32,862 it overshoots it. 699 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,758 The water's hitting these paddles, but it's just like 700 00:31:34,931 --> 00:31:36,344 it's just slinging it out everywhere. 701 00:31:36,517 --> 00:31:38,344 I mean, they're not actually catching the water. 702 00:31:38,517 --> 00:31:41,103 So, I think we cut that thing off about two inches. 703 00:31:41,275 --> 00:31:43,000 Well, you actually got more water pressure when it 704 00:31:43,137 --> 00:31:44,448 starts overshooting. - Right. 705 00:31:44,620 --> 00:31:47,241 If you cut it off a little, it might help it, I don't know. 706 00:31:47,413 --> 00:31:50,000 So Jerry comes up with the idea to cut it off some 707 00:31:52,275 --> 00:31:56,448 and then put a 45 turning up on it so it can shower down on 708 00:31:56,620 --> 00:31:57,586 these paddles. 709 00:32:04,482 --> 00:32:06,137 Well, there's the water. 710 00:32:10,172 --> 00:32:11,274 Mike, we got it turning, buddy. 711 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:12,379 Good job, man. 712 00:32:12,551 --> 00:32:14,068 Just hose this up and get her up there. 713 00:32:14,241 --> 00:32:15,620 Hell yeah, baby. 714 00:32:18,068 --> 00:32:19,000 This thing's working. 715 00:32:19,172 --> 00:32:21,655 It's rolling slow, but it's consistent. 716 00:32:21,827 --> 00:32:23,792 We got water. Looky there. 717 00:32:23,793 --> 00:32:25,275 We in business, ready to make liquor. 718 00:32:32,896 --> 00:32:36,172 This is a really great still site, but it's got a few issues 719 00:32:36,344 --> 00:32:37,689 as you're fixing to damn see. 720 00:32:40,034 --> 00:32:41,688 Right now, I got to come up with a new plan 721 00:32:41,689 --> 00:32:44,896 because my still on the mountain is definitely compromised. 722 00:32:45,034 --> 00:32:47,482 Great still sites, very rare thing. 723 00:32:47,655 --> 00:32:49,689 Sure, I can go right out here in the woods and just 724 00:32:49,862 --> 00:32:53,103 find one somewhere, but I've already got one in mind. 725 00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:55,758 After everything I've been hearing, I ain't taking 726 00:32:55,931 --> 00:32:56,896 any chances. 727 00:32:58,551 --> 00:33:00,171 I see the creek down there. 728 00:33:00,172 --> 00:33:02,965 Yeah, the problem is there's cow pastures all up down through there. 729 00:33:03,103 --> 00:33:05,378 I don't want to use that water, so I haul my water in. 730 00:33:05,379 --> 00:33:07,275 And there's a ventilation problem here. 731 00:33:08,482 --> 00:33:10,655 Ventilation problem? Where are we heading? 732 00:33:10,827 --> 00:33:13,895 The best part about this whole thing is, to the naked eye, 733 00:33:13,896 --> 00:33:15,034 there's nothing here. 734 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,275 Oh, a big rope to get down, I hear that. 735 00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:25,482 All right now. 736 00:33:29,655 --> 00:33:31,482 Wow, you built this? 737 00:33:44,172 --> 00:33:46,481 You know, it's been a long time Puss since we've been 738 00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:47,724 through here. 739 00:33:48,689 --> 00:33:51,448 There is something special about this place, ain't they? 740 00:33:51,620 --> 00:33:53,896 Yep. And look right yonder. 741 00:33:54,862 --> 00:33:56,862 This sheet metal, you find remnants of 742 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,896 this everywhere. These are old silver cloud stills. 743 00:34:00,103 --> 00:34:02,000 You know, supposedly, and I don't know that 744 00:34:02,137 --> 00:34:05,793 it's true, but if it was a full moon, it kind of had 745 00:34:05,965 --> 00:34:08,551 a glow to it off in the woods, you know. 746 00:34:08,724 --> 00:34:10,274 That's how it got its name, I guess. 747 00:34:10,275 --> 00:34:12,137 You know, they was pretty sharp to figure out that 748 00:34:12,310 --> 00:34:14,379 they didn't have to have copper for the pot. 749 00:34:14,551 --> 00:34:18,000 Every time they lost a still the revenuers, they lost money. 750 00:34:18,137 --> 00:34:22,000 Yeah, they probably didn't cost half or even less than that to 751 00:34:22,137 --> 00:34:23,413 build what a copper still was. 752 00:34:23,586 --> 00:34:28,103 Now, they'd usually use copper somewhere in it, maybe a cap, 753 00:34:28,275 --> 00:34:29,965 but definitely the worm. 754 00:34:30,103 --> 00:34:31,965 Ain't no telling how many gallon liquor been running 755 00:34:32,103 --> 00:34:33,551 right here in this little patch of woods. 756 00:34:44,896 --> 00:34:47,655 Oh, hell yeah. Man, you built this? 757 00:34:47,827 --> 00:34:51,379 You're damn right, I built it. Took me for damn ever, too, man. 758 00:34:51,551 --> 00:34:54,689 It was a lot of work. I dug all this out with a mini draco. 759 00:34:54,862 --> 00:34:56,793 Five seasons ago-- 760 00:34:56,965 --> 00:34:59,448 A lot of dirt, man. A lot of dirt. 761 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:02,379 Josh constructed a moonshine bunker to take 762 00:35:02,551 --> 00:35:05,206 his illegal moonshine operation underground. 763 00:35:05,379 --> 00:35:06,655 - I think it looks pretty good. - Perfect. 764 00:35:07,551 --> 00:35:10,000 But before he could make it profitable, 765 00:35:10,172 --> 00:35:12,862 ventilation problems confounded his plan. 766 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,586 You're gonna put your mash barrels in here with [bleep], 767 00:35:15,758 --> 00:35:17,171 then you can breathe toxic. 768 00:35:17,172 --> 00:35:19,206 If I don't have good airflow in this bunker, then we're 769 00:35:19,379 --> 00:35:23,068 gonna probably die from carbon monoxide poisoning. 770 00:35:23,241 --> 00:35:27,068 Now, in need of a hidden still site to run liquor again, 771 00:35:27,241 --> 00:35:31,034 ventilation is just one of Josh's many problems. 772 00:35:31,206 --> 00:35:33,137 Weather's not gonna stop us, you know? 773 00:35:33,310 --> 00:35:35,586 It's dry. I can work here around the clock. 774 00:35:35,758 --> 00:35:38,689 It's a good, safe spot to work. It's good and hid. 775 00:35:38,862 --> 00:35:40,689 Nobody's expecting you to be under the ground, 776 00:35:40,862 --> 00:35:42,688 you know what I mean? - Mm-hmm. 777 00:35:42,689 --> 00:35:45,000 Oh, that's a big monster in there, too. 778 00:35:45,137 --> 00:35:46,206 How big is that still? Man, 779 00:35:46,379 --> 00:35:48,758 I'm telling you right now, it looks like 780 00:35:48,931 --> 00:35:51,103 a disaster in here. But I'm so proud of this. 781 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:53,379 This is really an amazing setup. 782 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:56,034 275-gallon copper pot right there. 783 00:35:56,206 --> 00:35:58,585 - Yeah, that's a beast. - It's got a steel jacket around it. 784 00:35:58,586 --> 00:35:59,689 That's the furnace. 785 00:35:59,862 --> 00:36:01,241 That's fitting to make some liquor. 786 00:36:01,413 --> 00:36:04,688 My problem here is we have a carbon monoxide problem. 787 00:36:04,689 --> 00:36:06,000 We're in a hole. 788 00:36:06,172 --> 00:36:09,068 And even though this whole face of it's open, all your exhaust, 789 00:36:09,241 --> 00:36:11,344 your gas, and all your [bleep] got to go somewhere. 790 00:36:11,517 --> 00:36:13,482 So I've got to come up with something or some way to get 791 00:36:13,655 --> 00:36:16,379 some more air in here and get this air out. 792 00:36:16,551 --> 00:36:19,103 There's a hole right there, and that's where the pipe goes 793 00:36:19,275 --> 00:36:20,689 to let out all the exhaust, you know? 794 00:36:20,862 --> 00:36:22,103 - OK. - We've got to figure out a way 795 00:36:22,275 --> 00:36:24,103 to get that piped out. - OK. 796 00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:26,000 So we've got fresh air all the time. 797 00:36:26,172 --> 00:36:28,310 I decided, well, if I'm going back to this still site, I need 798 00:36:28,482 --> 00:36:30,793 to do something better. So we're going back to the drawing board, 799 00:36:30,965 --> 00:36:32,688 and hopefully we're gonna fix the ventilation problem. 800 00:36:32,689 --> 00:36:35,344 Looks like we can make a ton of liquor out of here. 801 00:36:35,517 --> 00:36:36,895 It goes with what Digger said, too. 802 00:36:36,896 --> 00:36:39,310 We need to keep a low profile. We just went underground. 803 00:36:39,482 --> 00:36:40,896 - Yeah. - Can't get much lower than that. 804 00:36:41,034 --> 00:36:42,068 Can't get much lower than that. 805 00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:43,206 Yeah. 806 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:51,000 You know, Hattie, 807 00:36:51,137 --> 00:36:53,482 I ain't gonna spend no money trying to figure out how 808 00:36:53,655 --> 00:36:56,068 they're making liquor. It's cheap, we got ingredients. 809 00:36:56,241 --> 00:36:58,344 We know what they cost now. 810 00:36:58,517 --> 00:37:01,517 Digger and I never cut corners on the quality of the products 811 00:37:01,689 --> 00:37:03,000 we use in our liquor. 812 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:05,896 They figured out something that me and you ain't figured out 813 00:37:06,034 --> 00:37:07,344 in decades. 814 00:37:07,517 --> 00:37:10,862 But here we're trying to replicate to see what they're 815 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,758 doing to produce it for $15 a jar. 816 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:16,448 We've decided we're gonna make three different mash bills 817 00:37:16,620 --> 00:37:19,688 here, and we've sourced three different types of 818 00:37:19,689 --> 00:37:22,688 sugar, sweeteners, and different grains. 819 00:37:22,689 --> 00:37:24,172 Well, let's get the water hot. 820 00:37:27,896 --> 00:37:30,448 All right, Puss, we need to make this one first. 821 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:33,310 First mash, it's gonna be corn syrup, a little bit of cornmeal. 822 00:37:33,482 --> 00:37:35,688 We know this yellow corn ain't gonna make the amount of 823 00:37:35,689 --> 00:37:37,344 liquor that the white corn will. 824 00:37:37,517 --> 00:37:39,103 - Right. - That's why we use corn syrup. 825 00:37:39,275 --> 00:37:41,000 It's got a little bit more sugar to it. 826 00:37:41,137 --> 00:37:42,896 But we still get the corn flavor. 827 00:37:43,034 --> 00:37:45,034 - Yeah. - Price of good quality 828 00:37:45,206 --> 00:37:47,517 white corn that we like to use, 829 00:37:47,689 --> 00:37:49,517 it's very expensive now. 830 00:37:49,689 --> 00:37:51,379 Oh yeah, I think that'd be plenty. 831 00:37:51,551 --> 00:37:54,034 Honestly, white corn and yellow corn don't taste 832 00:37:54,206 --> 00:37:55,551 that much difference. 833 00:37:55,724 --> 00:37:58,585 It's just that white corn has higher carbohydrates 834 00:37:58,586 --> 00:38:00,413 and starch content. - Well, Hattie... 835 00:38:00,586 --> 00:38:01,896 Uh-huh. 836 00:38:02,034 --> 00:38:06,482 ...this corn syrup ain't gonna need that much cooking. 837 00:38:06,655 --> 00:38:08,655 You know, we've never made any liquor out of any of these 838 00:38:08,827 --> 00:38:10,034 ingredients whatsoever. 839 00:38:10,206 --> 00:38:14,068 Corn syrup, yellow corn, they don't exist in our world. 840 00:38:14,241 --> 00:38:15,723 Boy, look at that. 841 00:38:15,724 --> 00:38:18,585 When it comes to corn syrup, it's used by industrial uses. 842 00:38:18,586 --> 00:38:22,585 You know, mass quantities of sweet tea, soft drinks. 843 00:38:22,586 --> 00:38:25,000 Oh, I ain't gonna hang it on for long, it's heavy. 844 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:27,172 Boy, it's pretty in there, look at that. 845 00:38:27,344 --> 00:38:28,619 And it's sweet. 846 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:30,310 Oh, yeah, it's sweet enough to hurt your teeth. 847 00:38:30,482 --> 00:38:32,413 You can get a cavity just smelling this. 848 00:38:32,586 --> 00:38:35,551 And it's about, what, 40% cheaper than-- 849 00:38:35,724 --> 00:38:38,206 Yeah, it's almost half. Half as cheap. 850 00:38:38,379 --> 00:38:40,792 Let's pour a little hot water in here and melt this up. 851 00:38:40,793 --> 00:38:43,241 I don't know how good a liquor it'll make. 852 00:38:43,413 --> 00:38:44,895 We're gonna see what it comes out. 853 00:38:44,896 --> 00:38:46,895 Look yonder. 854 00:38:46,896 --> 00:38:48,585 Yeah, boy. 855 00:38:48,586 --> 00:38:50,896 The second mash, it's gonna be the scratch feed with 856 00:38:51,034 --> 00:38:53,206 the liquid sugar, which we think is gonna be 857 00:38:53,379 --> 00:38:55,206 equivalent to a 50-pound sack of sugar. 858 00:38:59,551 --> 00:39:01,172 Just plain, old scratch feed. 859 00:39:01,344 --> 00:39:03,689 All that is, it just ground up a little further than 860 00:39:03,862 --> 00:39:04,862 cracked corn. 861 00:39:08,034 --> 00:39:09,206 Damn, that'll cook it. 862 00:39:10,793 --> 00:39:13,965 Like churning butter. Well, if this'll work, Hattie, 863 00:39:15,793 --> 00:39:18,068 scratch corn's way cheaper than anything out there. 864 00:39:18,241 --> 00:39:19,655 Yeah, it is. 865 00:39:20,103 --> 00:39:23,103 - Liquid sugar, Digger. - It's a little bit cheaper than... 866 00:39:23,275 --> 00:39:24,688 Yeah, it's right smart. 867 00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:27,413 ...cane sugar, but weighs a little bit more, don't it? 868 00:39:27,586 --> 00:39:30,551 It's got all the sweet that we need, so we're gonna put 869 00:39:30,724 --> 00:39:32,931 the liquid cane sugar with scratch feed. 870 00:39:35,379 --> 00:39:38,275 Then that last mash we're gonna run, that's the sweet feed 871 00:39:38,448 --> 00:39:41,689 with imitation day-old pancake syrup. 872 00:39:41,862 --> 00:39:42,862 Pour it away, Mark. 873 00:39:46,689 --> 00:39:49,585 Sweet feed is the lowest quality grain out there 874 00:39:49,586 --> 00:39:51,585 because it has everything in it. 875 00:39:51,586 --> 00:39:54,689 I think about half of it already powderized pretty good. 876 00:39:54,862 --> 00:39:57,310 It has the cob. It's got the corn stalk. 877 00:39:58,241 --> 00:39:59,862 You know, it's got it all. 878 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,103 Imitation Maple Syrup. 879 00:40:04,586 --> 00:40:08,793 Here we go, dumping. This is way yonder thinner. 880 00:40:08,965 --> 00:40:09,965 Yeah. 881 00:40:11,965 --> 00:40:14,586 I say we top them off pitch yeast. 882 00:40:14,758 --> 00:40:15,895 OK. 883 00:40:15,896 --> 00:40:17,792 We've got all three of these test mashes running, 884 00:40:17,793 --> 00:40:19,585 three totally different mashes. 885 00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:22,034 And we're gonna get three totally different flavors. 886 00:40:23,758 --> 00:40:25,655 Here we go on molasses. 887 00:40:25,827 --> 00:40:27,895 At this point, we've done all we know how to do. 888 00:40:27,896 --> 00:40:30,758 We've cut every corner that we know to cut. 889 00:40:30,931 --> 00:40:34,655 Our expectations of it is not real high, 890 00:40:34,827 --> 00:40:36,482 but stranger things have happened. 891 00:40:36,655 --> 00:40:37,826 You know, who knows? 892 00:40:37,827 --> 00:40:40,137 Like Jim Tom always told us, you don't ever know till 893 00:40:40,310 --> 00:40:41,689 you cook it and see what you got. 894 00:40:45,862 --> 00:40:47,448 We'll know here in a couple hours. 895 00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:50,000 We've made damn liquor or buttermilk. 896 00:40:50,137 --> 00:40:52,792 The market is totally flooded with cheap liquor. 897 00:40:52,793 --> 00:40:54,586 I mean, there's no way we can sell ours. 898 00:40:54,758 --> 00:40:55,999 It ain't horrible. 899 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,379 If we can't figure out a way to compete with this guy, 900 00:40:58,551 --> 00:40:59,517 we're dead in the water. 901 00:40:59,689 --> 00:41:01,551 You're full of [bleep]. That's terrible. 902 00:41:01,724 --> 00:41:03,655 So you're needing some liquor, are you? 903 00:41:03,827 --> 00:41:05,379 - Yeah. - First time buyer, 904 00:41:05,551 --> 00:41:07,137 you know, really don't know him that well. 905 00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:09,793 I'd hate to show up hundred gallon and have me set up, 906 00:41:09,965 --> 00:41:11,103 or something, you know. 907 00:41:14,310 --> 00:41:15,895 What's going on? Y'all broke down? 908 00:41:15,896 --> 00:41:18,688 There's a vehicle, like, stopping in the road, 909 00:41:18,689 --> 00:41:20,379 and it's, like, blinking the lights at me. 910 00:41:20,551 --> 00:41:22,172 Y'all just ride up and down the road all the time, 911 00:41:22,344 --> 00:41:23,965 stop people? - No, just you. 912 00:41:24,862 --> 00:41:26,448 Something ain't right here. 913 00:41:26,620 --> 00:41:27,896 Is that our stash house? 914 00:41:28,034 --> 00:41:29,103 What? 915 00:41:29,275 --> 00:41:31,034 Oh, no. God dang. 916 00:41:31,206 --> 00:41:32,275 Tim. 917 00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:33,965 The cops will be here in a minute. 918 00:41:35,241 --> 00:41:36,655 - God almighty. - We gotta go. 919 00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,793 [bleep].