Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 9, Episode 12 - Murphy's Law for Outlaws - full transcript
♪♪
Narrator:
This time, on "Moonshiners"...
Damn. That steel pot's hot.
Oh, *bleep*!
Damn it.
With 300 gallons of mash
Set to expire,
Mark and digger race to replace
A critical piece of their still.
This is what we needed
Right at the time
We start
Running good again.
Hey! We good?
We're about to turn
Water into shine.
In north carolina...
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
Josh: that's water.
It ain't liquor.
Remember when we was gonna
Solder this stupid thing
Here and there?
We've forgotten,
So that whole thing
Is leaking
At that elbow
Right there.
...Josh plunges in headfirst
To save the one deal
His season depends on.
Josh: *bleep*
Colt: that's
The proper word for this.
Tim: all right.
Turn it on.
And in virginia,
Moonshine's power partnership
Is putting flame to pot
For the first time in 10 years.
Tickle: me and tim --
We've been through a whole lot,
But we never forgot
About each other.
To be back out here
Together again --
Man, that's something special.
Man: this is how we make
The moonshine!
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Discovery communications
Wait till
You see this still.
It's done changed a little bit
Since you been gone, too.
Done changed? What,
You done done something to it?
No, I didn't do anything to it.
Nature did it.
Uh-oh.
Narrator:
In culpeper county, virginia,
After two weeks of bouncing
Between conflicting priorities,
Tickle returns to
His unfinished still site.
It won't be too much longer
Before my wedding date's here,
And it's gonna cost
A pretty penny.
If I'm gonna bounce back
And forth between working here
With tim and working with
Henry and kenny,
That brings a whole lot more
Money a whole lot quicker.
This here's got
A crack in it, man.
That wasn't there before.
You see what
I'm talking about?
Tickle: yeah, that thing --
It's all the way across, too.
Isn't it?
-oh, man.
It's all the way across.Mm-hmm.
And on the other side,
It's worse than this side.
I mean, look here.
That's a big gap, man.
It's a big gap.
Leaving a pot mid-build --
That's not something
That you really want to do.
You said you was gonna
Be gone two days!
I can't go back and rewind it,
You know, and...
Well, I don't want
To go back
And take this
All apart, neither.
Tim: two weeks ago,
The wood was very tight.
If you don't have it
Completely sealed
And bolted and screwed
Or nailed together, it changes.
They have shrunk up.
I got an idea.
All right. Look.
You see where we have held back
From the edges...
-uh-huh.
-...Top and bottom, here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What if we pull these screws
Out of the bottom...
Uh-huh.
...And see if that won't
Sit down and tighten up
Some of that crack?
Yeah, I mean, let the weight
Push down on it.
Yeah, and see
What we got there.
Tickle had a great idea.
Get it straight.
Let's loosen the screws,
And then it'll just suck itself
Back together.
Oh, no.
This is bad.
Can't get it in there.
Here's what we gonna
Have to do.
We're gonna have to get
A sawzall
With a long
Metal blade on it.
Every still I've built has
Always been something different,
And you got to be able
To act on changes.
It's a challenge.
All right.
We are loose.
-yeah?
-all right. And see?
Now, that closed
On up some.
Tim: we still got a good crack
On that end.
I got a 1x6 up there
I can cut, same wood.
Cut it here, and we'll put it
Like that on the inside.
Had we finished
Wrapping this pot
And got all the metal
All the way around it
Screwed down,
Everything would've
Been just fine.
I reckon I know what
The mash feels like
Up inside the pot now.
Without something
To hold it in place,
It was free to move
Where it wanted to.
Now would be a bad time
To rip a fart.
I'll tell you what.
It would.
[ laughs ]
Couldn't get away from it.
It'd just hold it
In here on me.
Good over here.
Adding a 1x6 piece of wood
On the inside of the still,
The 1/4-inch gap is closed.
It's tight on the inside.
Grab that end, would you?All right.
Well, all we got to do now
Is put some screws in it.
Tickle: this pot that we're
Building, we're using screws.
With this being copper
All the way around,
We wanted a little bit more
Holding power.
Just running one line
Of screws around it,
That's not gonna cut it.
You have to stagger the second
Row to be in between those.
That gives you more
Holding power over the length
And the width of that joint,
And that, right there, is how
You make a watertight pot.
That locked this down.Is that pretty, or what?
That thing's starting
To look like
One of the prettiest stills
That I've ever seen.
Back here, working with tim,
And we're back in the woods,
I think tim's
Really enjoying it.
It's bringing him back
To his roots.
Tickle: that fellow look
Just like you down there, tim.
-I'm telling you.
-damn!
Tim: there's a guy look like
Tickle, over there.
Yeah. Hey, he look like
He been at the beach.
He got a tan.
Building the submarine still...
Perfect.
...I mean, it brings me back
To being with my dad.
-that'll work.
-step one.
Yeah. Step one --
That's right.
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Josh: ♪ you get a line
I'll get a pole ♪
♪ we'll go fishing
In the crawfish hole ♪
-let's get this done.
-hell yeah.
Narrator: one state south,
In polk county, north carolina,
After returning from las vegas,
Josh and colt prepare to mash in
For a 60-gallon order
Placed by colt's band,
The moonshine bandits.
Five or six days,
We'll have some damn liquor.
-let's go.
-all right.
Let's rock 'n' roll,
Buddy.
Josh: we're not done with
Our still site,
But right now, it's imperative
That we get this mash made.
The moonshine bandits are
Expecting us to fill a order.
Hell, that's good.
And we got to get 'er done fast.
All right, so now
All we got to do, man,
Is get the cover out
'cause this thing
Sticks out
Like a sore weenie.
-yeah.
-get this thing covered up.
Get all our stuff out.
We'll make some mash.
Okay.
And then while this
Is working off,
We'll go finish
Our still site.
Let's get this stuff out of
The truck and get moving.
-we'll be done.
-we're on time, bud.
We'll damn
Rock 'n' roll.
Josh: takes a little bit
For the mash to work off.
Hopefully, once the mash
Is ready to run,
We'll be done
With this still site.
I'm ready to make
Some moonshine.
That end goes up yonder,
Knucklehead.
-where?
-up yonder.
This goes in the creek.
Oh. I don't know.
I never did this before.
I can see that.
How the hell I'm gonna learn
If you don't tell me?
Colt: it's really hard
Working with josh.
You know, he's got his
Mind frame of how things go,
And I really don't know
How things go.
You act like I'm supposed to
Just know all this stuff.
The way his brain works
Is so hard to adapt to.
Get a good bit in there
So it don't slide out.
Is that coming?
I ain't getting
Nothing yet.
Nothing yet.
Whoo!
We got water!
Hell yeah.
I'm gonna have some mash here
In a few days.
Well, we're gonna be able
To go back
To the still site
And get it done.
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Man, you busted that sugar
All over my truck.
I didn't do it.
You don't know
I did it.
But you got it
All over your shirt.
Damn it.
Sorry.
Ugh.
Go ahead and give me
A bag of sugar.
Aw, yeah!
You know what I like to do
When I get some sugar?
-what?
-I like to take my glove off.
And I like to grab
A little bit.
I like to eat it.That's disgusting.
This here is a process,
Ain't it, boy?
It ain't no joke.
Stir that up.
Hoo!
Stinky old yeast.
Four to seven days,
And we'll have shine.
Liquor on my lips
And money in my hand.
That's right.
Get this thing covered up
So nobody will see it.
All right.
Let's get the hell out of here.
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Mark: we're gonna have to get
Your son back in here
And let him start
Lifting and toting.
Ah, he'd just tear
Something up.
I should've named that boy
Richard edward instead of beck.
Richard edward?
-yeah.
-why?
I could've called him
"Dick ed" for short.
Narrator: across state lines
In cocke county, tennessee...
-look at that, puss.
-yeah, boy.
That's good liquor,
Right there.
...Mark and digger are on pace
For a record-breaking season
As they churn out run after run
Of popcorn's legacy liquor.
I'm gonna kill
These burners.
Digger: you know,
We're at the end of this run.
We're gonna call old daniel
And have him come in,
Pick this up.
Three more days, that other tote
Will be ready to run,
And, oh,
We're cadillacing now.
We've got our tempo up again.
Let me get me
One nose head here.
We had a little bit
Of a rocky start this year,
But we're batting this
Popcorn sutton legacy liquor
Out of the park.
If things continue like this,
We're on track
For the best season, maybe,
In our whole lifetime.
Get them wands
Out of there, puss.
I'm gonna gas one.All right.
I'll take them over here
And just wrap that hose
Around that tank.
Damn. That steel pot's hot.
Son of a bitch.
Oh, *bleep*!
Ah, damn it.
-did it hurt it?
-yeah, I don't know.
That son of a bitch
Is still full of water.
It hit right on
This damn rock.
You got to look at it
There, puss.
Oh, lord.
Digger: every time we're out
Making a run of liquor,
It's like we've made
Damn spaghetti,
All these hoses and gas lines
And everything,
And I get tangled up in the hose
When I slip off that bank,
And off comes
Our damn condenser.
Let's set her up
On that rock.
-let's see what we got.
-oh, hell, looky yonder.
Hell.
It's killed.
Son of a bitch.
That damn rock right there
On that knob right there.
Right there
Is where it hit.
Well, this is what we needed
Right at the time
We start
Running good again.
Mark: I mean, we ain't
Mashed back in this tote yet,
But this other one's three days
Away from being ready.
This is a serious setback
For us.
We've got worm condensers.
We've got barrel condensers.
But the shotgun condenser --
You know,
Popcorn used that a lot.
Without it, it's obvious that
We can't make the true recipe
Of the popcorn sutton legacy
Liquor.
We can't patch that
Son of a bitch up.
No, but we might can build
Another one.
Just think --
10 minutes ago,
I wouldn't took $1,000
For that son of a bitch,
And now, it ain't worth
But $8.60 for scrap copper.
Did it make you feel
Any gooder there,
When you gave 'er a toss?
Not really.
It's kind of like
Hitting your brother.
You regret it
After you done it.
Ah, you didn't do it
On purpose.
Don't beat yourself up
Over it.
Well, there always comes
A time and a place
Where a piece of equipment
Has to be retired, you know?
We've got three to four days
Before we got mash ready to run,
So we're gonna
Have to do something.
Mark:
Be gentle with it.
Like it's gonna hurt it?
Narrator: coming up...
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
...At north carolina,
A watery run is sinking
Josh and colt's deadline.
Do you know I got to
Leave tomorrow.
This ain't gonna
Make the quota.
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You want me to get
This jack up here?
Josh: yeah.
That's called a porta-pyre.
A porta-potty?
A porta-pyre!
Is it like
The jaws of life?
I don't think so.
Narrator: in polk county,
North carolina,
As their mash works off,
Josh and colt look to turn
An old oil drum
Into a furnace for their still.
What you think
Was in this?
Hell, there ain't no telling.
Probably oil,
Diesel fuel,
Or something or another.
Looks like a lot of
Sticks and trash.
Josh:
This underground still site --
Now that all the major
Construction is done,
Now we got to build
Our furnace,
Put our pot in, and we'll be
Ready to rock 'n' roll.
Josh:
This is our furnace.
We got to push all the dents
Out of this,
And then we're gonna
Stand it up,
And we're gonna cut a hole
Out of the center,
And then we're gonna take
Those poles over there,
And we're gonna
Cut them to fit,
And we're gonna
Weld them in there
And make a bottom
Out of it,
And then we're gonna
Cut a notch out of it
And weld a barrel to it.
All right.
Well, let's do it.
This barrel may be all beat-up,
But it's gonna damn do the job.
What do you need me
To do?
Let's hook
The porta-pyre up.
Let's hook
The porta-potty up.
Porta-pyre!
Josh:
We got a jack, a porta-pyre.
We gonna pop all the dents
And the dings out of it
The best we can.
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You all right?
Yeah.
They don't make
An easier way to do this?
Come on, man.
How much easier does it get?
Why don't you just get
A new barrel?
Ever since we made this deal
With the moonshine bandits,
Cole's been driving me
Absolutely insane...
Josh, we cannot
Let them boys down.
We're not gonna
Let nobody down.
...Telling me I'm not
Doing it fast enough.
We're doing it the wrong way.
I need to get a rag.
I got oil all over me.
He's getting on
My damn nerves.
He's got ants
In his damn pants.
You getting on
My damn nerves, too!
Only way to get this work done
Is just to get it done.
This ain't got to
Be perfect,
But I got to get it
Somewhat back in shape.
It's gonna be
A cold day in hell
Before you get
That back in shape.
This is gonna take forever.
I'm gonna move it up,
Right here, in the front.
Let it down.
Now it don't want to
Come apart.
Here it is.
Thanks.
Ah, hey!
Ah, damn!
You know what?
I got a torch
And a rosebud.
Let's do that.
Josh: got to keep it hot so it
Can actually got a way to bend.
Okay.
Colt:
Yeah, come on with it!
Hell, that might be
Good enough, right there.
*bleep*, I think
It's pretty good, really.
Do not drop it.
Josh: we got all the dents
Knocked out,
But we got a little bit
Of work ahead of us.
It's time to make a bunch
Of cuts.
First, we got to cut the top
Of the damn pot out.
Then we got to cut a hole
For our chimney.
All right.
Be careful, right here.
We cut a slit down the side
For the drain valve
So the still could slide
All the way down inside.
Let's get this
Son of a bitch in there.
Oh, yeah.
There she is.
She could fit right in there.
Look at that.
Now it's time to put
The brackets in the bottom
That the still rests on
Inside of the furnace.
Josh:
Yeah, that'll work.
I see a project, and I think
It's gonna take 30 minutes,
And it takes 3 hours,
And 3 hours takes 3 days,
So we have no choice but
To keep welding into the night.
We got to finish building it
So we can come back,
Lower this furnace into place,
And get to making some liquor.
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Digger: yeah, that's what
He's talking about, boy.
He left his old vehicles
And everything,
All his good stuff.
Did he say any idea of where his
Old scrap copper crap was at?
Mark: no.
It's here somewhere.
Narrator: one state west,
In cocke county tennessee,
With only a couple of days
Until their mash ferments,
Mark and digger
Are scrambling to replace
Their busted shotgun condenser.
Damn.
Looky yonder.
That's a hell of a worm,
Ain't it?
Sadly, our shotgun condenser --
It's give up the ghost,
So it's time to move on,
And we're gonna go
Look in a old shed.
Our farmer friend --
He's a collector
Of all sorts of things,
And he said we was welcome
To whatever we could find
That we could use and may need.
That's way more worm
Than I'd ever need.
That's something you never
Thought you'd hear me say.
Unh-unh.
Well, we'll look at and see
If there's anything else
He might want us to have.
We see no way out but to build
A new shotgun condenser.
There's a shock.
Can't do nothing with it.
We can build, pretty much,
Whatever we need.
We can buy new copper, but any
Time that we can get it --
Salvage it or
Someone offering it to us --
You know, every quarter
That you don't have to spend
Is a quarter you get to keep.
There's radiators.
Digger: I ain't using
No radiator to make no liquor.
No.
Old-timers used to.
It's what they had.
And we've got plenty of worm,
Cooling tubs,
But it's not what popcorn had.
We're gonna stay true
To the recipe,
And if we can find what we need
To build another one,
We'll be in great shape.
Believe that's yours.
That's a dandy double-barrel,
Oh, it ain't got much support,
Though, does it?
There's a -- ah, that's
Just another radiator.
Another old radiator.
Damn! Well, they made them
Things well, didn't they?
Mark: honestly,
It's kind of looking like
There's much of anything
That we need in here.
You know,
It's looking kind of bare.
Well, ain't nothing in here
We could use.
Oh, whoa.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Let's see if it's
What I think it is.
Mark: what it is?
That's a copper
Fin heat exchanger
Where you're taking hot water
And cooling it off.
-kind of what we need to do?
-kind of what we need to do.
Digger: you know, we're in here
Digging around, looking,
And sure enough, and when
We're ready to give up,
There they are --
These perfect-sized,
Fin heat exchanger tubes.
Do you think we can
Do anything with this?
I'd be certain we would.
We have to clean it up
A little bit first.
Fin heat exchanger tubes
Have a coil of copper
That is fused into the pipe.
If it's steam or if it's liquid
Or whatever
They're trying to cool,
It rapidly does that
Through these fins.
It don't leak.
Well, I could have showed you
That by shining light up there,
And you'd have seen
A little peek of light.
I can't think of anything better
To make a damn shotgun out of.
The shotgun condenser --
With these fin tubes in it,
We can use less tubing,
Which is gonna make it lighter
And easy to transport,
And it's still gonna
Get the job done.
We'll have to hug
Our old buddy's neck, puss.
And buy him
A cheeseburger...
-buy him a cheeseburger, too.
-...Or a "Bologny sammich."
Narrator: coming up...
You gonna marry her?
-yeah.
-...Virginia is for lovers.
That's high-maintenance,
Tickle.
I hope you got
A big pocketbook.
Tickle: well, hey,
We better start making
Some damn moonshine, then.
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You think you got to
Go that high?
I got to go high enough
There
They ain't gonna go flying
Right into the tree.
It's got to kind of
Be centered up here.
Narrator:
In polk county, north carolina,
After putting the finishing
Touches on their furnace,
Josh and colt get ready to swing
Their still into the bunker.
I mean, we could drop a chain
From this tree to this tree
And then put a damn pulley
In the middle.
I never really looked at
How I was gonna
Get the still pot in place,
Or the thump keg.
I just know that we're not
Going down
Over the hillside
With it by hand.
Where'd you learn
How to tie these at?
Ah, I just started
Doing it one day,
And then I went to work for
A dang fire trimming company,
And I started
As a climber.
Just kind of been doing it
My whole damn deal, here.
Josh: I'm a tree guy.
Rigging ropes and pulleys
And chains and *bleep* --
That's my forte.
That's what I've been doing
Since I was a teenager.
All right.
I need one of these ropes.
Josh: at a quick glance,
And I was thinking,
"I'll just drape the damn train
From this tree to this tree,
And I'll hook a pulley on it
And run a rope through it,
And I'll just pull
The damn furnace up
And lower it
Right down into place."
We might have to hook it
To the truck or something,
And like...Back it down slow?
-you know what I mean?
-yeah.
Well, let's get it.
That is so dangerous.All right, colt.
I want you to take
That pulley over there
And hook it through the eye
And tie it on.
Josh: it's time to lower
The furnace into place.
I'm gonna put a block
And tackle in the tree,
Run a rope through it,
Attach it to the furnace,
And run the other end of it
To the truck.
I got it.
Wow, bruh.
Really?
Ah.
All we got to do
Is just hook it to the truck,
And we'll pull it
Right up there.
Yeah.
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[ thump ]
What was that?
You're running over a chair!
You're running over a chair!
Look, look.
Chair was in
The *bleep* way.
Every time I'm trying
To do something out here,
*bleep* all in
The *bleep* way!
You threw it out there!
I saw you do it!
-shut up!
-I saw you throw it out there.
That's pretty god-dang
Whopper-jawed, ain't it?
You good?
[ whistles ]
Slow, slow.
Sometimes, colt and I got
A different way of doing things.
He's kind of a wild child,
You know?
He's a rock star.
He can be
A little bit impatient.
[ whistles ]
Come help me!
Josh: but colt's got
A good heart, you know?
He works really hard.
Heavy son of a bitch.
Josh: I'm proud to have him
As a partner.
I don't think I could do
All the work myself.
Ho!
Easy on that.
That's precious goods.
So, basically, all we got to do
Is level this thing out
A little bit,
Put the steel pot in,
Put our thump keg in,
Finish our worm,
And we got a still site.
Colt: sounds great.
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-you gonna marry her?
-yeah.
Tim: hope you got
A big pocketbook.
That's high-maintenance,
Tickle.
That's something
Right there, boy.
I'll tell you what.That's high-maintenance.
-yeah.
-that mean costs.
Well, hey,
We better start making
Some damn moonshine, then.
Narrator:
In virginia, tim and tickle
Assemble everything
They need...
All right.
...To mash in for their first
Run of backwoods shine
In almost a decade.
Gonna take it a minute
To get up there.
We've been partners
Since way back,
And everybody knows it,
And they said, "You know what?
This has proven good.
This is what we want --
Tim and tickle's stuff."
All right.
We good?
Yeah, yeah,
It's working good.
You got to get us a paddle
To stir this stuff.
I got us a paddle
To stir it up.
-yeah?
-it's right behind you.
-right here?
-yeah.
-ah, all right.
-that's all we need, right?
The one with
The hole in it?
Yeah, the one
With the hole in it.
[ laughs ]
You know, being back out here
In the woods with tim,
It's where I learned moonshine.
It's where
I cut my teeth in this,
And it's been said,
"You do what you know."
This is what I know.
It just really can't get
Any better than this, to me.
You know, back in the day,
Tim always taught me,
"What you need to do
Is burn your sugar bags."
All they got to do is suspect
You of running moonshine,
And they find these
Sugar bags right here,
And they can charge you,
Depending on the amount of sugar
That you got.
When you get back
Into the woods,
You get back to the essence of
What making moonshine really is.
There's a piece of
Each one of our hearts
In every jar
That comes out of that still.
This, right here, can do nothing
But make everything better.
It's been a long time
Since I've been out here...
-yeah.
-...Mashing in and stuff.
It's good to have you back.
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Hey! We good?
We're about to turn
Water into shine.
Narrator:
In north carolina,
Josh and colt set out
To put the final touches
On josh's long-awaited
Still site
Ahead of its inaugural run.
Josh: we got a killer worm
We're gonna build.
It's plexiglass,
Clear as a dang car window.
It's gonna be really badass.
Whew!
What do you think, buddy?
I think this is bad to
The damn bone, is what I think.
We're just about
There, bro.
We just got to get it
All rigged up.
To be able to hook all this up,
Everything has to match up.
You got to make
Everything fit perfect,
Like it's meant to be there.
We'll put
The 2-inch pipe on it.
Put a 90 on it,
90 it right over to there,
And then we'll reduce it
From the 2-inch
To the 1-1/2-inch right on.
Right into the coil.
Cha-ching!
Right there.
The furnace has to be in place
At a certain height.
Then the thump keg has to be
At a certain place.
Same thing with the worm.
Think it's gonna fit?
-god, I hope so.
Come on up...
-lean backwards! All right.
Easy. My arm.
-all right. Let go.
Josh: this is my idea.
I've never seen
A clear worm barrel, ever.
I wanted something different.
I wanted something super cool.
Hot dog!
I love it!
Look how pretty that is.
That's a accomplishment,
Right there.
Ah, damn,
That's killer.
Feels pretty good
To be back in action.
So, from center to center
Is about 13 inches.
We need some blocks
Under here.
I want to take the block out
From underneath there.
Okay.
I want to
Put them under here.
All right.
And I want to cut
The telephone poles,
Slide four telephone poles
Up underneath this thing,
And to keep it from rolling,
We'll just nail
One of those boards
Across it.
All right.
We're on a serious
Time crunch right now,
And we don't have
Any cinder blocks to set it on.
All we got is some damn
Telephone poles,
So we're gonna
Cut them to length,
Slide them under there,
And let it rock 'n' roll.
♪♪
All right.
We're almost done, dawg.
After the season I've had,
It feels pretty good
To be able to be out here
After breaking my back
And getting such a late start
And then having so much work
Building the still site.
I didn't want to cut
Any corners.
I wanted to build a still site
That I could stay in
And be proud of.
That's it, right there, man.
All right, and if
My calculations are right,
Which they never are...
It's a little off.
-ugh!
There we go, right there.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Oh, man!
-we got a still site, bro!
Ha, ha!
Feels really good to be ready
To run after having
Such a hard start to my season,
And I've got something here
That I can always have here
That I can always come back to.
The still's ready.
All we got to do is
Boil this thing out
And fricking cook her down.
We got shine, man.
Narrator: coming up...
Tickle: it's trying to
Come out of there.
Tim: there we go.
...One taste will tell if,
After 10 years,
The magic is still alive.
♪♪
Well, I can't believe
Killed that little condenser.
I can.
It's what we do.
But now we got to
Make another 'un.
Narrator: in tennessee,
With one day left
Until their tote of mash
Is ready to run,
Mark and digger
Start construction
On their replacement
Shotgun condenser.
Mark: what do you think?
How's the best way
To start this thing, puss?
What do you recommend?
Damn if I know.
This is your dance.
Digger: we're making the legacy
Liquor, and a lot of it,
And we've used
Shotgun condensers
Now for several years.
They're the most efficient.
They're the easiest
To transport in and out,
And we're gonna stick
With what we know best
And what works the best,
And that, without a doubt,
Is shotgun condenser.
Digger: I hit her right
On the damn money.
Look at that.
That's gonna be
A damn monster.
Boy, I hope
This works out.
You know,
It's of utmost importance
That this thing is watertight,
So the process we use is,
Build the water chamber,
Put the water in,
The outlet in it.
Go water test it.
All right. Are you ready to
Start making you a jacket?
I am.
Let's see, right here,
How long
This has got to be.
I'm not exactly a copper virgin
When it comes to manufacturing
Stills and equipment.
You got plenty
Of damn overlap.
We've got a piece of pvc pipe
That we're gonna use
For a template,
And we're gonna fold
And make the water jacket.
Lay it to, but you can't
Get too much on it.
The primary sections
Of a shotgun condenser
Is the steam chamber,
The water jacket,
And the chamber
For the condensed liquid.
It's three separate chambers
And one tube, basically.
I'm just curious.
I'm worried sick.
Ha, ha, ha!
The tubes and the plates slid
Right inside this water jacket
Like a glove.
We had three days when
We started this
Before mash was ready
To run again,
And if it keeps going this well,
You know, we're gonna be
Back on track in time
To run the legacy liquor.
Common knowledge
That vinegar is an acid,
And tomato paste is an acid,
And it'll clean copper up,
You can tell by looking at
What's coming out of it.
It was red,
And now it's black.
We need it to taste
As good as it's going to.
Got too much at stake
With our liquor.
Mark: I'll tell you,
I don't know if it's gonna
Leak or what,
But honestly,
It don't look
Too damn bad.
It looks pretty good,
Don't it?
Well, we've got to
Pressure-test this thing.
Here comes the big time
Of damn truth or dare, ain't it?
You ain't *bleep*, buddy.
I'm telling you.
Uh-oh. We're gonna have to
Go back up this seam.
It's coming up the seam,
There, hatty boy.
It's the only place
We got one.
Well, we know where
We got to fix it.
Oh!
Son of a bitch.
♪♪
-are you excited?
-I'm really excited, man.
Today's our first run
On this still site.
Then I got to go on tour.
Narrator: in north carolina,
It's down to the wire
As josh and colt rush to fill
A 60-gallon order
For colt's band,
The moonshine bandits.
Josh: the only we're gonna be
Able to get our 60 gallons
To your band on time
Is if we do back-to-back runs.
We'll make it.
That'll be enough to get there
In time, though, won't it?
Josh: after all this work,
Today is the day.
I mean, we're down to the wire.
Colt's got to leave
To go on tour.
I'd like to find out if
We got any bugs in this thing
Before we try to run a run,
But we don't have any choice.
We're just gonna have to make it
And make it work.
Hell yeah!
I've been dying
For this part.
I invent stuff, you know?
I'm always trying to
Think outside the box
And think of some things
That other people aren't.
I just wanted something
That nobody else
Has ever done before.
Just wanted something cool,
You know what I mean?
Boom!
Josh: this furnace is gonna
Be wood-fired,
Or it could be propane-fired.
Today I'm gonna be able
To use propane to heat this.
We're cooking now.
Colt: slid right in
Like a dream.
Now what?
-it's a waiting game.
-yeah?
Grab you a seat,
I reckon.
This is what you got to use
In the woods.
♪♪
It's probably too loud
For moonshining woods, ain't it?
Yeah.
Everybody in the country
Is gonna know we're here.
Well, this is what you do
When you're bored
And you're making
Moonshine.
[ drumming ]
We're caribbean.
Oh, we're getting
Close, man.
-yeah?
-yeah. We're right in here.
All right.
[ drumming ]
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
Damn it!
That's just water.
That ain't liquor.
Remember when we was gonna
Solder this stupid thing
Here and there?
Yeah.
Well, we forgot to damn
Take it apart and solder it,
And so that whole thing
Is leaking
At that elbow
Right there,
So all this is water.
We dry fit the worm
When we put it together,
And we didn't go back
And solder it.
We forgot all about that
Because there's such a rush
To try to get done,
And it's coming out the worm.
Looks like moonshine,
But it ain't.
Please turn the gas off.
We're running --
It has to be drained out
And soldered.
It's the only thing
We can do.
You know I got
To leave tomorrow.
This ain't gonna
Make the quota.
We're gonna be *bleep*.Oh, no, we'll get it.
We'll get it.
To get this soldered up,
You know,
It's just gonna be --
It's kind of in a predicament.
When you're under a deadline,
I mean, you're gonna
Be under pressure.
You're gonna have to work fast.
It's fixable, but it's gonna
Take a little time --
Something I don't really have
A whole lot of right now.
Wipe it off to bottom.
That's ruined.
-ah!
-you ripped it off.
Look.
*bleep*
Yeah, that's
The proper word for this.
Damn, I got a headache
From hell.
Son of a bitch.Bad, dude.
Josh: in between the plexiglass
And where the worm
Comes together,
If there's no seal there,
It's gonna be
Pissing water out
Faster than we could pour it in,
And my worst nightmare
Was breaking that seal,
And it happened.
It takes about 12 hours
Or something
For that fricking silicone
To seal on there.
I won't be here.
I'm gonna miss the run, man.
I'm gonna be on tour.
I got to leave
Tomorrow morning.
No doubt, no choice.
Been under such
A tremendous amount of pressure
Trying to get this done.
We still got 60 gallons
To deliver,
So it's all on you, now.
My worst nightmare came true.
Colt's leaving me, and if cuz
Can't be here to help me,
I'm gonna have to
Finish it myself,
And I'm gonna have to
Haul it myself.
I'm gonna have to make sure
It gets there
Without anybody's help 'cause
All I got right now is me.
All you got to do is tell them
Guys that we're making it.
We're in the process of it,
And you had to skin out,
And that I'm on my way
With it.
I don't know how I'll get it
To you, but I'll get it to you.
I'm gonna make it happen.
Trust me.
Got to.
♪♪
This, right here,
Is a anaconda broom handle,
So when he come at me, see,
I'm gonna get him like that,
Right there,
And you chop his head off.
We run into a snake big enough
For that thing right yonder,
I don't know
If I'm making moonshine.
We ain't in the amazon!I don't know, man.
We may run up something.Man...
It may be something down there
You ain't never seen before.
-I'm toting that.
-is that thing sharp?
You tell me.
Oh, yeah.
Narrator:
With the cost of a wedding
Looming in the future,
Tickle and the laws
Have pulled into the lead
With a staggering 1,370 gallons.
Mark and digger are right
Behind them with 1,237 gallons,
And josh is looking to get back
In the game with 65 gallons.
Mark: here comes the big time
Of damn truth or dare, ain't it?
You ain't *bleep*.
Uh-oh.
It's coming up the seam,
There, hatty boy.
Mark: well, we know
Where we got to fix it.
Oh!
Uh-oh. It's coming
All out the bottom.
*bleep*
I was ass-backwards
From where I had been,
And I threw the valve
The wrong way,
And it immediately put
All 150 pounds of pressure
In this condenser,
And down at the bottom,
It let go.
All the water where those pipes
Flew out blew out the top
And just about knocked
Our damn brains out.
A lot more than
I thought there was.
Digger:
First thing we're gonna do,
We're gonna try to get
These pipes lined up
And peck it
Slowly back in there.
Digger: just peck it,
Just ever so slight.
Digger: we're running against
The clock as it is.
I mean, we've got mash
That's gonna be ready
To run the next day or two,
And we've got to get 'er going.
Okay, let's look and see
What we got.
We're good.
I'm gonna try to solder
These two tubes back in place.
Turns out not to be as much
Of a problem as we thought.
We've got a little bit more
Of the copper fitting coming
Up through the plate
Than we had before.
That's more surface area
For the solder to hang onto.
It's gonna make it
A little tougher.
What do you think,
There, puss?
I'd be certain
That's sealed up.
Now we're gonna address
These leaks that were coming
In the seam that we never did
Fill up with solder.
Mark: you know, luckily,
This is to quick fix.
I think it's ready to put
The bottom on, the top on,
And get some legacy liquor
Running through it.
You know, we're gonna finish
This thing today,
Come hell or high water.
Our mash will be ready
Tomorrow.
We got to get back
To making liquors.
Mark: it's always something
Special when you see
The liquor spout go on
Because that's the money to you.
I believe
That's plum beautiful.
This is where the dollars
Drip from.
Puss, other than a handle,
We've got this rascal done.
Shove 'er down in there
And see if it's gonna fit.
I think it looks
Pretty good.
Let's do it to it.
-all right.
I'm pretty proud of it,
Baby man.
Me, too.
♪♪
Tim: I think it's looking
Pretty good.
Tell you what -- them there
Yellow jackets love it.
Oh, yeah.
Well, guarantee you
Every one of them died happy.
Mm-hmm.
Narrator: in virginia,
The legendary moonshine duo
Is finally back together
And ready to run some shine.
All right.
Turn it on.
[ motor whirring ]
You know, me and tim --
We've been through a whole lot.
We went our separate ways there
For a little bit,
But we never forgot
About each other,
And to be back out here
Together again --
Man, that's something special.
-I'm gonna light it up.
-all right, tim.
I'm gonna
Change over barrels.
♪♪
We filling the still
Right now,
And I'm heating it up
At the same time.
As soon as you get hot,
We'll cap it off.
Tim:
Just being back in the woods,
With tickle, especially,
You know, it brings back
Those memories.
That's all I got, tim.
Today I got a big operation,
Commercial-style.
It ain't gonna be long
Till we can cap it off.
But me and tickle out here,
Back in the woods, you know,
This is part of history here.
Push it down there.
Yeah.
I'll tell you --
When that hot steam hits,
It's gonna
Make it hot anyway.
You know what I found?
If you add a little bit
Of salt to this...
Yeah?
...In the morning,
When you're done,
You can peel it off
And eat it.
Well, I didn't bring
No salt and pepper.
I guess we do like
We normally do at this point.
Get a chair.
-get a chair.
-ah!
Tim: now, this is good.
Gives it time
To seal up a little bit.
Yeah.
That old worm,
Right there --
It reminds me a whole lot
Of me and you.
Why is that?
Well, you know, when it won't
Get used, it's...
It was real flimsy.
It was a whole lot weaker
Than what it was,
About to fall apart
'cause it was sitting there,
Not getting used.
I know what
You're trying to say.
You're trying to say I'm
Getting old and falling apart.
No, no! That's not what
I'm trying to say.
What I'm trying to say is,
You know,
We get to
Using this barrel,
Making some moonshine
With it...
Yeah.
...Well, the next thing you
Know, that thing's sealed up.
It's nice and strong and...Yeah, yeah, yeah.
...It's working and doing
What it's supposed to do.
You know, hell,
I got locked up for a while,
And I got kind of
Old and rusty
And a little on the weak side,
I reckon.
-started falling apart.
-but now...
Now you good.
Now I'm good, back out
Making moonshine.
Tim:
It's been a long road.
I mean, tickle's been away
For a while.
I've been missing him
For a while.
But now that, you know,
Me and tickle are back together,
We're excited
To get this run going.
Tickle:
I smell it now.
-do you?
-mm-hmm.
It ain't gonna be long
At all now.
I think you farted.
No, no!
That ain't what that is.
Tickle: uh-uh! Looky yonder.
Looky yonder.
There we go.
There we go.
-huh?
-I'll tell you what.
I believe we just about getting
Out of our heads right now.
Go ahead
And chuck that out.
♪♪
Mmm. Oh, yeah.
That's good.
I'll tell you what --
Keep on tasting that,
You won't feel
Nowhere near as old.
Yeah, feeling younger
By the minute.
Me and tickle back together
In the woods again,
Running together...
Give me that jar.
I'm gonna pour it over
In my bottling apparatus.
-there you go.
-...The team is back.
The moonshine's good,
And we feeling good.
What does that thing
Exactly do?
You stick it up there,
Like that.
Look.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Look. Look!
Well, I'll be damned.
And then
You just pull it off.
I'll be damned!
Tickle: this bottling machine
Down here --
The insides of it look
A whole lot like
A stainless-steel toilet tank.
The only difference is,
When you flush this one,
Moonshine comes out.
The next time I need
A new toilet in my house,
I know what I'm putting in.
I reckon that's about it, huh?That's it, man.
Let's take a case of this
On out.
-all right.
-all right.
We'll drink all that
Up tonight.
Yeah, we ain't gonna
Drink it, huh?
Yeah, why not?
Narrator:
Next time on "Moonshiners"...
Whoa!
That's a damn excellent jar
Of paint thinner.
...In tennessee,
Two legends pass on their craft
To the next generation.
Digger: you stepped into
Uncharted territory.
He's making real liquor now.
Once we start this run, we gonna
Have to run day and night.
-in north carolina...
-oh, yeah.
That's what I'm talking about,
Right there.
Narrator: ...A season hinges
On one final sale...
Man: that barrel --
It's pretty heavy
-whoa!
-what the hell?
-...And a fateful run...
-this is a disaster.
Narrator:
...Could sound the death knell
For josh's only shot
At salvation.
Tell them everything's
Still on go.
We're just a day or two
Behind schedule.
Colt:
It's gonna be real hard.
Narrator:
This time, on "Moonshiners"...
Damn. That steel pot's hot.
Oh, *bleep*!
Damn it.
With 300 gallons of mash
Set to expire,
Mark and digger race to replace
A critical piece of their still.
This is what we needed
Right at the time
We start
Running good again.
Hey! We good?
We're about to turn
Water into shine.
In north carolina...
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
Josh: that's water.
It ain't liquor.
Remember when we was gonna
Solder this stupid thing
Here and there?
We've forgotten,
So that whole thing
Is leaking
At that elbow
Right there.
...Josh plunges in headfirst
To save the one deal
His season depends on.
Josh: *bleep*
Colt: that's
The proper word for this.
Tim: all right.
Turn it on.
And in virginia,
Moonshine's power partnership
Is putting flame to pot
For the first time in 10 years.
Tickle: me and tim --
We've been through a whole lot,
But we never forgot
About each other.
To be back out here
Together again --
Man, that's something special.
Man: this is how we make
The moonshine!
Captions paid for by
Discovery communications
Wait till
You see this still.
It's done changed a little bit
Since you been gone, too.
Done changed? What,
You done done something to it?
No, I didn't do anything to it.
Nature did it.
Uh-oh.
Narrator:
In culpeper county, virginia,
After two weeks of bouncing
Between conflicting priorities,
Tickle returns to
His unfinished still site.
It won't be too much longer
Before my wedding date's here,
And it's gonna cost
A pretty penny.
If I'm gonna bounce back
And forth between working here
With tim and working with
Henry and kenny,
That brings a whole lot more
Money a whole lot quicker.
This here's got
A crack in it, man.
That wasn't there before.
You see what
I'm talking about?
Tickle: yeah, that thing --
It's all the way across, too.
Isn't it?
-oh, man.
It's all the way across.Mm-hmm.
And on the other side,
It's worse than this side.
I mean, look here.
That's a big gap, man.
It's a big gap.
Leaving a pot mid-build --
That's not something
That you really want to do.
You said you was gonna
Be gone two days!
I can't go back and rewind it,
You know, and...
Well, I don't want
To go back
And take this
All apart, neither.
Tim: two weeks ago,
The wood was very tight.
If you don't have it
Completely sealed
And bolted and screwed
Or nailed together, it changes.
They have shrunk up.
I got an idea.
All right. Look.
You see where we have held back
From the edges...
-uh-huh.
-...Top and bottom, here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What if we pull these screws
Out of the bottom...
Uh-huh.
...And see if that won't
Sit down and tighten up
Some of that crack?
Yeah, I mean, let the weight
Push down on it.
Yeah, and see
What we got there.
Tickle had a great idea.
Get it straight.
Let's loosen the screws,
And then it'll just suck itself
Back together.
Oh, no.
This is bad.
Can't get it in there.
Here's what we gonna
Have to do.
We're gonna have to get
A sawzall
With a long
Metal blade on it.
Every still I've built has
Always been something different,
And you got to be able
To act on changes.
It's a challenge.
All right.
We are loose.
-yeah?
-all right. And see?
Now, that closed
On up some.
Tim: we still got a good crack
On that end.
I got a 1x6 up there
I can cut, same wood.
Cut it here, and we'll put it
Like that on the inside.
Had we finished
Wrapping this pot
And got all the metal
All the way around it
Screwed down,
Everything would've
Been just fine.
I reckon I know what
The mash feels like
Up inside the pot now.
Without something
To hold it in place,
It was free to move
Where it wanted to.
Now would be a bad time
To rip a fart.
I'll tell you what.
It would.
[ laughs ]
Couldn't get away from it.
It'd just hold it
In here on me.
Good over here.
Adding a 1x6 piece of wood
On the inside of the still,
The 1/4-inch gap is closed.
It's tight on the inside.
Grab that end, would you?All right.
Well, all we got to do now
Is put some screws in it.
Tickle: this pot that we're
Building, we're using screws.
With this being copper
All the way around,
We wanted a little bit more
Holding power.
Just running one line
Of screws around it,
That's not gonna cut it.
You have to stagger the second
Row to be in between those.
That gives you more
Holding power over the length
And the width of that joint,
And that, right there, is how
You make a watertight pot.
That locked this down.Is that pretty, or what?
That thing's starting
To look like
One of the prettiest stills
That I've ever seen.
Back here, working with tim,
And we're back in the woods,
I think tim's
Really enjoying it.
It's bringing him back
To his roots.
Tickle: that fellow look
Just like you down there, tim.
-I'm telling you.
-damn!
Tim: there's a guy look like
Tickle, over there.
Yeah. Hey, he look like
He been at the beach.
He got a tan.
Building the submarine still...
Perfect.
...I mean, it brings me back
To being with my dad.
-that'll work.
-step one.
Yeah. Step one --
That's right.
♪♪
♪♪
Josh: ♪ you get a line
I'll get a pole ♪
♪ we'll go fishing
In the crawfish hole ♪
-let's get this done.
-hell yeah.
Narrator: one state south,
In polk county, north carolina,
After returning from las vegas,
Josh and colt prepare to mash in
For a 60-gallon order
Placed by colt's band,
The moonshine bandits.
Five or six days,
We'll have some damn liquor.
-let's go.
-all right.
Let's rock 'n' roll,
Buddy.
Josh: we're not done with
Our still site,
But right now, it's imperative
That we get this mash made.
The moonshine bandits are
Expecting us to fill a order.
Hell, that's good.
And we got to get 'er done fast.
All right, so now
All we got to do, man,
Is get the cover out
'cause this thing
Sticks out
Like a sore weenie.
-yeah.
-get this thing covered up.
Get all our stuff out.
We'll make some mash.
Okay.
And then while this
Is working off,
We'll go finish
Our still site.
Let's get this stuff out of
The truck and get moving.
-we'll be done.
-we're on time, bud.
We'll damn
Rock 'n' roll.
Josh: takes a little bit
For the mash to work off.
Hopefully, once the mash
Is ready to run,
We'll be done
With this still site.
I'm ready to make
Some moonshine.
That end goes up yonder,
Knucklehead.
-where?
-up yonder.
This goes in the creek.
Oh. I don't know.
I never did this before.
I can see that.
How the hell I'm gonna learn
If you don't tell me?
Colt: it's really hard
Working with josh.
You know, he's got his
Mind frame of how things go,
And I really don't know
How things go.
You act like I'm supposed to
Just know all this stuff.
The way his brain works
Is so hard to adapt to.
Get a good bit in there
So it don't slide out.
Is that coming?
I ain't getting
Nothing yet.
Nothing yet.
Whoo!
We got water!
Hell yeah.
I'm gonna have some mash here
In a few days.
Well, we're gonna be able
To go back
To the still site
And get it done.
♪♪
Man, you busted that sugar
All over my truck.
I didn't do it.
You don't know
I did it.
But you got it
All over your shirt.
Damn it.
Sorry.
Ugh.
Go ahead and give me
A bag of sugar.
Aw, yeah!
You know what I like to do
When I get some sugar?
-what?
-I like to take my glove off.
And I like to grab
A little bit.
I like to eat it.That's disgusting.
This here is a process,
Ain't it, boy?
It ain't no joke.
Stir that up.
Hoo!
Stinky old yeast.
Four to seven days,
And we'll have shine.
Liquor on my lips
And money in my hand.
That's right.
Get this thing covered up
So nobody will see it.
All right.
Let's get the hell out of here.
♪♪
♪♪
Mark: we're gonna have to get
Your son back in here
And let him start
Lifting and toting.
Ah, he'd just tear
Something up.
I should've named that boy
Richard edward instead of beck.
Richard edward?
-yeah.
-why?
I could've called him
"Dick ed" for short.
Narrator: across state lines
In cocke county, tennessee...
-look at that, puss.
-yeah, boy.
That's good liquor,
Right there.
...Mark and digger are on pace
For a record-breaking season
As they churn out run after run
Of popcorn's legacy liquor.
I'm gonna kill
These burners.
Digger: you know,
We're at the end of this run.
We're gonna call old daniel
And have him come in,
Pick this up.
Three more days, that other tote
Will be ready to run,
And, oh,
We're cadillacing now.
We've got our tempo up again.
Let me get me
One nose head here.
We had a little bit
Of a rocky start this year,
But we're batting this
Popcorn sutton legacy liquor
Out of the park.
If things continue like this,
We're on track
For the best season, maybe,
In our whole lifetime.
Get them wands
Out of there, puss.
I'm gonna gas one.All right.
I'll take them over here
And just wrap that hose
Around that tank.
Damn. That steel pot's hot.
Son of a bitch.
Oh, *bleep*!
Ah, damn it.
-did it hurt it?
-yeah, I don't know.
That son of a bitch
Is still full of water.
It hit right on
This damn rock.
You got to look at it
There, puss.
Oh, lord.
Digger: every time we're out
Making a run of liquor,
It's like we've made
Damn spaghetti,
All these hoses and gas lines
And everything,
And I get tangled up in the hose
When I slip off that bank,
And off comes
Our damn condenser.
Let's set her up
On that rock.
-let's see what we got.
-oh, hell, looky yonder.
Hell.
It's killed.
Son of a bitch.
That damn rock right there
On that knob right there.
Right there
Is where it hit.
Well, this is what we needed
Right at the time
We start
Running good again.
Mark: I mean, we ain't
Mashed back in this tote yet,
But this other one's three days
Away from being ready.
This is a serious setback
For us.
We've got worm condensers.
We've got barrel condensers.
But the shotgun condenser --
You know,
Popcorn used that a lot.
Without it, it's obvious that
We can't make the true recipe
Of the popcorn sutton legacy
Liquor.
We can't patch that
Son of a bitch up.
No, but we might can build
Another one.
Just think --
10 minutes ago,
I wouldn't took $1,000
For that son of a bitch,
And now, it ain't worth
But $8.60 for scrap copper.
Did it make you feel
Any gooder there,
When you gave 'er a toss?
Not really.
It's kind of like
Hitting your brother.
You regret it
After you done it.
Ah, you didn't do it
On purpose.
Don't beat yourself up
Over it.
Well, there always comes
A time and a place
Where a piece of equipment
Has to be retired, you know?
We've got three to four days
Before we got mash ready to run,
So we're gonna
Have to do something.
Mark:
Be gentle with it.
Like it's gonna hurt it?
Narrator: coming up...
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
...At north carolina,
A watery run is sinking
Josh and colt's deadline.
Do you know I got to
Leave tomorrow.
This ain't gonna
Make the quota.
♪♪
You want me to get
This jack up here?
Josh: yeah.
That's called a porta-pyre.
A porta-potty?
A porta-pyre!
Is it like
The jaws of life?
I don't think so.
Narrator: in polk county,
North carolina,
As their mash works off,
Josh and colt look to turn
An old oil drum
Into a furnace for their still.
What you think
Was in this?
Hell, there ain't no telling.
Probably oil,
Diesel fuel,
Or something or another.
Looks like a lot of
Sticks and trash.
Josh:
This underground still site --
Now that all the major
Construction is done,
Now we got to build
Our furnace,
Put our pot in, and we'll be
Ready to rock 'n' roll.
Josh:
This is our furnace.
We got to push all the dents
Out of this,
And then we're gonna
Stand it up,
And we're gonna cut a hole
Out of the center,
And then we're gonna take
Those poles over there,
And we're gonna
Cut them to fit,
And we're gonna
Weld them in there
And make a bottom
Out of it,
And then we're gonna
Cut a notch out of it
And weld a barrel to it.
All right.
Well, let's do it.
This barrel may be all beat-up,
But it's gonna damn do the job.
What do you need me
To do?
Let's hook
The porta-pyre up.
Let's hook
The porta-potty up.
Porta-pyre!
Josh:
We got a jack, a porta-pyre.
We gonna pop all the dents
And the dings out of it
The best we can.
♪♪
You all right?
Yeah.
They don't make
An easier way to do this?
Come on, man.
How much easier does it get?
Why don't you just get
A new barrel?
Ever since we made this deal
With the moonshine bandits,
Cole's been driving me
Absolutely insane...
Josh, we cannot
Let them boys down.
We're not gonna
Let nobody down.
...Telling me I'm not
Doing it fast enough.
We're doing it the wrong way.
I need to get a rag.
I got oil all over me.
He's getting on
My damn nerves.
He's got ants
In his damn pants.
You getting on
My damn nerves, too!
Only way to get this work done
Is just to get it done.
This ain't got to
Be perfect,
But I got to get it
Somewhat back in shape.
It's gonna be
A cold day in hell
Before you get
That back in shape.
This is gonna take forever.
I'm gonna move it up,
Right here, in the front.
Let it down.
Now it don't want to
Come apart.
Here it is.
Thanks.
Ah, hey!
Ah, damn!
You know what?
I got a torch
And a rosebud.
Let's do that.
Josh: got to keep it hot so it
Can actually got a way to bend.
Okay.
Colt:
Yeah, come on with it!
Hell, that might be
Good enough, right there.
*bleep*, I think
It's pretty good, really.
Do not drop it.
Josh: we got all the dents
Knocked out,
But we got a little bit
Of work ahead of us.
It's time to make a bunch
Of cuts.
First, we got to cut the top
Of the damn pot out.
Then we got to cut a hole
For our chimney.
All right.
Be careful, right here.
We cut a slit down the side
For the drain valve
So the still could slide
All the way down inside.
Let's get this
Son of a bitch in there.
Oh, yeah.
There she is.
She could fit right in there.
Look at that.
Now it's time to put
The brackets in the bottom
That the still rests on
Inside of the furnace.
Josh:
Yeah, that'll work.
I see a project, and I think
It's gonna take 30 minutes,
And it takes 3 hours,
And 3 hours takes 3 days,
So we have no choice but
To keep welding into the night.
We got to finish building it
So we can come back,
Lower this furnace into place,
And get to making some liquor.
♪♪
♪♪
Digger: yeah, that's what
He's talking about, boy.
He left his old vehicles
And everything,
All his good stuff.
Did he say any idea of where his
Old scrap copper crap was at?
Mark: no.
It's here somewhere.
Narrator: one state west,
In cocke county tennessee,
With only a couple of days
Until their mash ferments,
Mark and digger
Are scrambling to replace
Their busted shotgun condenser.
Damn.
Looky yonder.
That's a hell of a worm,
Ain't it?
Sadly, our shotgun condenser --
It's give up the ghost,
So it's time to move on,
And we're gonna go
Look in a old shed.
Our farmer friend --
He's a collector
Of all sorts of things,
And he said we was welcome
To whatever we could find
That we could use and may need.
That's way more worm
Than I'd ever need.
That's something you never
Thought you'd hear me say.
Unh-unh.
Well, we'll look at and see
If there's anything else
He might want us to have.
We see no way out but to build
A new shotgun condenser.
There's a shock.
Can't do nothing with it.
We can build, pretty much,
Whatever we need.
We can buy new copper, but any
Time that we can get it --
Salvage it or
Someone offering it to us --
You know, every quarter
That you don't have to spend
Is a quarter you get to keep.
There's radiators.
Digger: I ain't using
No radiator to make no liquor.
No.
Old-timers used to.
It's what they had.
And we've got plenty of worm,
Cooling tubs,
But it's not what popcorn had.
We're gonna stay true
To the recipe,
And if we can find what we need
To build another one,
We'll be in great shape.
Believe that's yours.
That's a dandy double-barrel,
Oh, it ain't got much support,
Though, does it?
There's a -- ah, that's
Just another radiator.
Another old radiator.
Damn! Well, they made them
Things well, didn't they?
Mark: honestly,
It's kind of looking like
There's much of anything
That we need in here.
You know,
It's looking kind of bare.
Well, ain't nothing in here
We could use.
Oh, whoa.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Let's see if it's
What I think it is.
Mark: what it is?
That's a copper
Fin heat exchanger
Where you're taking hot water
And cooling it off.
-kind of what we need to do?
-kind of what we need to do.
Digger: you know, we're in here
Digging around, looking,
And sure enough, and when
We're ready to give up,
There they are --
These perfect-sized,
Fin heat exchanger tubes.
Do you think we can
Do anything with this?
I'd be certain we would.
We have to clean it up
A little bit first.
Fin heat exchanger tubes
Have a coil of copper
That is fused into the pipe.
If it's steam or if it's liquid
Or whatever
They're trying to cool,
It rapidly does that
Through these fins.
It don't leak.
Well, I could have showed you
That by shining light up there,
And you'd have seen
A little peek of light.
I can't think of anything better
To make a damn shotgun out of.
The shotgun condenser --
With these fin tubes in it,
We can use less tubing,
Which is gonna make it lighter
And easy to transport,
And it's still gonna
Get the job done.
We'll have to hug
Our old buddy's neck, puss.
And buy him
A cheeseburger...
-buy him a cheeseburger, too.
-...Or a "Bologny sammich."
Narrator: coming up...
You gonna marry her?
-yeah.
-...Virginia is for lovers.
That's high-maintenance,
Tickle.
I hope you got
A big pocketbook.
Tickle: well, hey,
We better start making
Some damn moonshine, then.
♪♪
You think you got to
Go that high?
I got to go high enough
There
They ain't gonna go flying
Right into the tree.
It's got to kind of
Be centered up here.
Narrator:
In polk county, north carolina,
After putting the finishing
Touches on their furnace,
Josh and colt get ready to swing
Their still into the bunker.
I mean, we could drop a chain
From this tree to this tree
And then put a damn pulley
In the middle.
I never really looked at
How I was gonna
Get the still pot in place,
Or the thump keg.
I just know that we're not
Going down
Over the hillside
With it by hand.
Where'd you learn
How to tie these at?
Ah, I just started
Doing it one day,
And then I went to work for
A dang fire trimming company,
And I started
As a climber.
Just kind of been doing it
My whole damn deal, here.
Josh: I'm a tree guy.
Rigging ropes and pulleys
And chains and *bleep* --
That's my forte.
That's what I've been doing
Since I was a teenager.
All right.
I need one of these ropes.
Josh: at a quick glance,
And I was thinking,
"I'll just drape the damn train
From this tree to this tree,
And I'll hook a pulley on it
And run a rope through it,
And I'll just pull
The damn furnace up
And lower it
Right down into place."
We might have to hook it
To the truck or something,
And like...Back it down slow?
-you know what I mean?
-yeah.
Well, let's get it.
That is so dangerous.All right, colt.
I want you to take
That pulley over there
And hook it through the eye
And tie it on.
Josh: it's time to lower
The furnace into place.
I'm gonna put a block
And tackle in the tree,
Run a rope through it,
Attach it to the furnace,
And run the other end of it
To the truck.
I got it.
Wow, bruh.
Really?
Ah.
All we got to do
Is just hook it to the truck,
And we'll pull it
Right up there.
Yeah.
♪♪
[ thump ]
What was that?
You're running over a chair!
You're running over a chair!
Look, look.
Chair was in
The *bleep* way.
Every time I'm trying
To do something out here,
*bleep* all in
The *bleep* way!
You threw it out there!
I saw you do it!
-shut up!
-I saw you throw it out there.
That's pretty god-dang
Whopper-jawed, ain't it?
You good?
[ whistles ]
Slow, slow.
Sometimes, colt and I got
A different way of doing things.
He's kind of a wild child,
You know?
He's a rock star.
He can be
A little bit impatient.
[ whistles ]
Come help me!
Josh: but colt's got
A good heart, you know?
He works really hard.
Heavy son of a bitch.
Josh: I'm proud to have him
As a partner.
I don't think I could do
All the work myself.
Ho!
Easy on that.
That's precious goods.
So, basically, all we got to do
Is level this thing out
A little bit,
Put the steel pot in,
Put our thump keg in,
Finish our worm,
And we got a still site.
Colt: sounds great.
♪♪
-you gonna marry her?
-yeah.
Tim: hope you got
A big pocketbook.
That's high-maintenance,
Tickle.
That's something
Right there, boy.
I'll tell you what.That's high-maintenance.
-yeah.
-that mean costs.
Well, hey,
We better start making
Some damn moonshine, then.
Narrator:
In virginia, tim and tickle
Assemble everything
They need...
All right.
...To mash in for their first
Run of backwoods shine
In almost a decade.
Gonna take it a minute
To get up there.
We've been partners
Since way back,
And everybody knows it,
And they said, "You know what?
This has proven good.
This is what we want --
Tim and tickle's stuff."
All right.
We good?
Yeah, yeah,
It's working good.
You got to get us a paddle
To stir this stuff.
I got us a paddle
To stir it up.
-yeah?
-it's right behind you.
-right here?
-yeah.
-ah, all right.
-that's all we need, right?
The one with
The hole in it?
Yeah, the one
With the hole in it.
[ laughs ]
You know, being back out here
In the woods with tim,
It's where I learned moonshine.
It's where
I cut my teeth in this,
And it's been said,
"You do what you know."
This is what I know.
It just really can't get
Any better than this, to me.
You know, back in the day,
Tim always taught me,
"What you need to do
Is burn your sugar bags."
All they got to do is suspect
You of running moonshine,
And they find these
Sugar bags right here,
And they can charge you,
Depending on the amount of sugar
That you got.
When you get back
Into the woods,
You get back to the essence of
What making moonshine really is.
There's a piece of
Each one of our hearts
In every jar
That comes out of that still.
This, right here, can do nothing
But make everything better.
It's been a long time
Since I've been out here...
-yeah.
-...Mashing in and stuff.
It's good to have you back.
♪♪
♪♪
Hey! We good?
We're about to turn
Water into shine.
Narrator:
In north carolina,
Josh and colt set out
To put the final touches
On josh's long-awaited
Still site
Ahead of its inaugural run.
Josh: we got a killer worm
We're gonna build.
It's plexiglass,
Clear as a dang car window.
It's gonna be really badass.
Whew!
What do you think, buddy?
I think this is bad to
The damn bone, is what I think.
We're just about
There, bro.
We just got to get it
All rigged up.
To be able to hook all this up,
Everything has to match up.
You got to make
Everything fit perfect,
Like it's meant to be there.
We'll put
The 2-inch pipe on it.
Put a 90 on it,
90 it right over to there,
And then we'll reduce it
From the 2-inch
To the 1-1/2-inch right on.
Right into the coil.
Cha-ching!
Right there.
The furnace has to be in place
At a certain height.
Then the thump keg has to be
At a certain place.
Same thing with the worm.
Think it's gonna fit?
-god, I hope so.
Come on up...
-lean backwards! All right.
Easy. My arm.
-all right. Let go.
Josh: this is my idea.
I've never seen
A clear worm barrel, ever.
I wanted something different.
I wanted something super cool.
Hot dog!
I love it!
Look how pretty that is.
That's a accomplishment,
Right there.
Ah, damn,
That's killer.
Feels pretty good
To be back in action.
So, from center to center
Is about 13 inches.
We need some blocks
Under here.
I want to take the block out
From underneath there.
Okay.
I want to
Put them under here.
All right.
And I want to cut
The telephone poles,
Slide four telephone poles
Up underneath this thing,
And to keep it from rolling,
We'll just nail
One of those boards
Across it.
All right.
We're on a serious
Time crunch right now,
And we don't have
Any cinder blocks to set it on.
All we got is some damn
Telephone poles,
So we're gonna
Cut them to length,
Slide them under there,
And let it rock 'n' roll.
♪♪
All right.
We're almost done, dawg.
After the season I've had,
It feels pretty good
To be able to be out here
After breaking my back
And getting such a late start
And then having so much work
Building the still site.
I didn't want to cut
Any corners.
I wanted to build a still site
That I could stay in
And be proud of.
That's it, right there, man.
All right, and if
My calculations are right,
Which they never are...
It's a little off.
-ugh!
There we go, right there.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Oh, man!
-we got a still site, bro!
Ha, ha!
Feels really good to be ready
To run after having
Such a hard start to my season,
And I've got something here
That I can always have here
That I can always come back to.
The still's ready.
All we got to do is
Boil this thing out
And fricking cook her down.
We got shine, man.
Narrator: coming up...
Tickle: it's trying to
Come out of there.
Tim: there we go.
...One taste will tell if,
After 10 years,
The magic is still alive.
♪♪
Well, I can't believe
Killed that little condenser.
I can.
It's what we do.
But now we got to
Make another 'un.
Narrator: in tennessee,
With one day left
Until their tote of mash
Is ready to run,
Mark and digger
Start construction
On their replacement
Shotgun condenser.
Mark: what do you think?
How's the best way
To start this thing, puss?
What do you recommend?
Damn if I know.
This is your dance.
Digger: we're making the legacy
Liquor, and a lot of it,
And we've used
Shotgun condensers
Now for several years.
They're the most efficient.
They're the easiest
To transport in and out,
And we're gonna stick
With what we know best
And what works the best,
And that, without a doubt,
Is shotgun condenser.
Digger: I hit her right
On the damn money.
Look at that.
That's gonna be
A damn monster.
Boy, I hope
This works out.
You know,
It's of utmost importance
That this thing is watertight,
So the process we use is,
Build the water chamber,
Put the water in,
The outlet in it.
Go water test it.
All right. Are you ready to
Start making you a jacket?
I am.
Let's see, right here,
How long
This has got to be.
I'm not exactly a copper virgin
When it comes to manufacturing
Stills and equipment.
You got plenty
Of damn overlap.
We've got a piece of pvc pipe
That we're gonna use
For a template,
And we're gonna fold
And make the water jacket.
Lay it to, but you can't
Get too much on it.
The primary sections
Of a shotgun condenser
Is the steam chamber,
The water jacket,
And the chamber
For the condensed liquid.
It's three separate chambers
And one tube, basically.
I'm just curious.
I'm worried sick.
Ha, ha, ha!
The tubes and the plates slid
Right inside this water jacket
Like a glove.
We had three days when
We started this
Before mash was ready
To run again,
And if it keeps going this well,
You know, we're gonna be
Back on track in time
To run the legacy liquor.
Common knowledge
That vinegar is an acid,
And tomato paste is an acid,
And it'll clean copper up,
You can tell by looking at
What's coming out of it.
It was red,
And now it's black.
We need it to taste
As good as it's going to.
Got too much at stake
With our liquor.
Mark: I'll tell you,
I don't know if it's gonna
Leak or what,
But honestly,
It don't look
Too damn bad.
It looks pretty good,
Don't it?
Well, we've got to
Pressure-test this thing.
Here comes the big time
Of damn truth or dare, ain't it?
You ain't *bleep*, buddy.
I'm telling you.
Uh-oh. We're gonna have to
Go back up this seam.
It's coming up the seam,
There, hatty boy.
It's the only place
We got one.
Well, we know where
We got to fix it.
Oh!
Son of a bitch.
♪♪
-are you excited?
-I'm really excited, man.
Today's our first run
On this still site.
Then I got to go on tour.
Narrator: in north carolina,
It's down to the wire
As josh and colt rush to fill
A 60-gallon order
For colt's band,
The moonshine bandits.
Josh: the only we're gonna be
Able to get our 60 gallons
To your band on time
Is if we do back-to-back runs.
We'll make it.
That'll be enough to get there
In time, though, won't it?
Josh: after all this work,
Today is the day.
I mean, we're down to the wire.
Colt's got to leave
To go on tour.
I'd like to find out if
We got any bugs in this thing
Before we try to run a run,
But we don't have any choice.
We're just gonna have to make it
And make it work.
Hell yeah!
I've been dying
For this part.
I invent stuff, you know?
I'm always trying to
Think outside the box
And think of some things
That other people aren't.
I just wanted something
That nobody else
Has ever done before.
Just wanted something cool,
You know what I mean?
Boom!
Josh: this furnace is gonna
Be wood-fired,
Or it could be propane-fired.
Today I'm gonna be able
To use propane to heat this.
We're cooking now.
Colt: slid right in
Like a dream.
Now what?
-it's a waiting game.
-yeah?
Grab you a seat,
I reckon.
This is what you got to use
In the woods.
♪♪
It's probably too loud
For moonshining woods, ain't it?
Yeah.
Everybody in the country
Is gonna know we're here.
Well, this is what you do
When you're bored
And you're making
Moonshine.
[ drumming ]
We're caribbean.
Oh, we're getting
Close, man.
-yeah?
-yeah. We're right in here.
All right.
[ drumming ]
Josh, what is that
Coming out of that pipe?
Damn it!
That's just water.
That ain't liquor.
Remember when we was gonna
Solder this stupid thing
Here and there?
Yeah.
Well, we forgot to damn
Take it apart and solder it,
And so that whole thing
Is leaking
At that elbow
Right there,
So all this is water.
We dry fit the worm
When we put it together,
And we didn't go back
And solder it.
We forgot all about that
Because there's such a rush
To try to get done,
And it's coming out the worm.
Looks like moonshine,
But it ain't.
Please turn the gas off.
We're running --
It has to be drained out
And soldered.
It's the only thing
We can do.
You know I got
To leave tomorrow.
This ain't gonna
Make the quota.
We're gonna be *bleep*.Oh, no, we'll get it.
We'll get it.
To get this soldered up,
You know,
It's just gonna be --
It's kind of in a predicament.
When you're under a deadline,
I mean, you're gonna
Be under pressure.
You're gonna have to work fast.
It's fixable, but it's gonna
Take a little time --
Something I don't really have
A whole lot of right now.
Wipe it off to bottom.
That's ruined.
-ah!
-you ripped it off.
Look.
*bleep*
Yeah, that's
The proper word for this.
Damn, I got a headache
From hell.
Son of a bitch.Bad, dude.
Josh: in between the plexiglass
And where the worm
Comes together,
If there's no seal there,
It's gonna be
Pissing water out
Faster than we could pour it in,
And my worst nightmare
Was breaking that seal,
And it happened.
It takes about 12 hours
Or something
For that fricking silicone
To seal on there.
I won't be here.
I'm gonna miss the run, man.
I'm gonna be on tour.
I got to leave
Tomorrow morning.
No doubt, no choice.
Been under such
A tremendous amount of pressure
Trying to get this done.
We still got 60 gallons
To deliver,
So it's all on you, now.
My worst nightmare came true.
Colt's leaving me, and if cuz
Can't be here to help me,
I'm gonna have to
Finish it myself,
And I'm gonna have to
Haul it myself.
I'm gonna have to make sure
It gets there
Without anybody's help 'cause
All I got right now is me.
All you got to do is tell them
Guys that we're making it.
We're in the process of it,
And you had to skin out,
And that I'm on my way
With it.
I don't know how I'll get it
To you, but I'll get it to you.
I'm gonna make it happen.
Trust me.
Got to.
♪♪
This, right here,
Is a anaconda broom handle,
So when he come at me, see,
I'm gonna get him like that,
Right there,
And you chop his head off.
We run into a snake big enough
For that thing right yonder,
I don't know
If I'm making moonshine.
We ain't in the amazon!I don't know, man.
We may run up something.Man...
It may be something down there
You ain't never seen before.
-I'm toting that.
-is that thing sharp?
You tell me.
Oh, yeah.
Narrator:
With the cost of a wedding
Looming in the future,
Tickle and the laws
Have pulled into the lead
With a staggering 1,370 gallons.
Mark and digger are right
Behind them with 1,237 gallons,
And josh is looking to get back
In the game with 65 gallons.
Mark: here comes the big time
Of damn truth or dare, ain't it?
You ain't *bleep*.
Uh-oh.
It's coming up the seam,
There, hatty boy.
Mark: well, we know
Where we got to fix it.
Oh!
Uh-oh. It's coming
All out the bottom.
*bleep*
I was ass-backwards
From where I had been,
And I threw the valve
The wrong way,
And it immediately put
All 150 pounds of pressure
In this condenser,
And down at the bottom,
It let go.
All the water where those pipes
Flew out blew out the top
And just about knocked
Our damn brains out.
A lot more than
I thought there was.
Digger:
First thing we're gonna do,
We're gonna try to get
These pipes lined up
And peck it
Slowly back in there.
Digger: just peck it,
Just ever so slight.
Digger: we're running against
The clock as it is.
I mean, we've got mash
That's gonna be ready
To run the next day or two,
And we've got to get 'er going.
Okay, let's look and see
What we got.
We're good.
I'm gonna try to solder
These two tubes back in place.
Turns out not to be as much
Of a problem as we thought.
We've got a little bit more
Of the copper fitting coming
Up through the plate
Than we had before.
That's more surface area
For the solder to hang onto.
It's gonna make it
A little tougher.
What do you think,
There, puss?
I'd be certain
That's sealed up.
Now we're gonna address
These leaks that were coming
In the seam that we never did
Fill up with solder.
Mark: you know, luckily,
This is to quick fix.
I think it's ready to put
The bottom on, the top on,
And get some legacy liquor
Running through it.
You know, we're gonna finish
This thing today,
Come hell or high water.
Our mash will be ready
Tomorrow.
We got to get back
To making liquors.
Mark: it's always something
Special when you see
The liquor spout go on
Because that's the money to you.
I believe
That's plum beautiful.
This is where the dollars
Drip from.
Puss, other than a handle,
We've got this rascal done.
Shove 'er down in there
And see if it's gonna fit.
I think it looks
Pretty good.
Let's do it to it.
-all right.
I'm pretty proud of it,
Baby man.
Me, too.
♪♪
Tim: I think it's looking
Pretty good.
Tell you what -- them there
Yellow jackets love it.
Oh, yeah.
Well, guarantee you
Every one of them died happy.
Mm-hmm.
Narrator: in virginia,
The legendary moonshine duo
Is finally back together
And ready to run some shine.
All right.
Turn it on.
[ motor whirring ]
You know, me and tim --
We've been through a whole lot.
We went our separate ways there
For a little bit,
But we never forgot
About each other,
And to be back out here
Together again --
Man, that's something special.
-I'm gonna light it up.
-all right, tim.
I'm gonna
Change over barrels.
♪♪
We filling the still
Right now,
And I'm heating it up
At the same time.
As soon as you get hot,
We'll cap it off.
Tim:
Just being back in the woods,
With tickle, especially,
You know, it brings back
Those memories.
That's all I got, tim.
Today I got a big operation,
Commercial-style.
It ain't gonna be long
Till we can cap it off.
But me and tickle out here,
Back in the woods, you know,
This is part of history here.
Push it down there.
Yeah.
I'll tell you --
When that hot steam hits,
It's gonna
Make it hot anyway.
You know what I found?
If you add a little bit
Of salt to this...
Yeah?
...In the morning,
When you're done,
You can peel it off
And eat it.
Well, I didn't bring
No salt and pepper.
I guess we do like
We normally do at this point.
Get a chair.
-get a chair.
-ah!
Tim: now, this is good.
Gives it time
To seal up a little bit.
Yeah.
That old worm,
Right there --
It reminds me a whole lot
Of me and you.
Why is that?
Well, you know, when it won't
Get used, it's...
It was real flimsy.
It was a whole lot weaker
Than what it was,
About to fall apart
'cause it was sitting there,
Not getting used.
I know what
You're trying to say.
You're trying to say I'm
Getting old and falling apart.
No, no! That's not what
I'm trying to say.
What I'm trying to say is,
You know,
We get to
Using this barrel,
Making some moonshine
With it...
Yeah.
...Well, the next thing you
Know, that thing's sealed up.
It's nice and strong and...Yeah, yeah, yeah.
...It's working and doing
What it's supposed to do.
You know, hell,
I got locked up for a while,
And I got kind of
Old and rusty
And a little on the weak side,
I reckon.
-started falling apart.
-but now...
Now you good.
Now I'm good, back out
Making moonshine.
Tim:
It's been a long road.
I mean, tickle's been away
For a while.
I've been missing him
For a while.
But now that, you know,
Me and tickle are back together,
We're excited
To get this run going.
Tickle:
I smell it now.
-do you?
-mm-hmm.
It ain't gonna be long
At all now.
I think you farted.
No, no!
That ain't what that is.
Tickle: uh-uh! Looky yonder.
Looky yonder.
There we go.
There we go.
-huh?
-I'll tell you what.
I believe we just about getting
Out of our heads right now.
Go ahead
And chuck that out.
♪♪
Mmm. Oh, yeah.
That's good.
I'll tell you what --
Keep on tasting that,
You won't feel
Nowhere near as old.
Yeah, feeling younger
By the minute.
Me and tickle back together
In the woods again,
Running together...
Give me that jar.
I'm gonna pour it over
In my bottling apparatus.
-there you go.
-...The team is back.
The moonshine's good,
And we feeling good.
What does that thing
Exactly do?
You stick it up there,
Like that.
Look.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Look. Look!
Well, I'll be damned.
And then
You just pull it off.
I'll be damned!
Tickle: this bottling machine
Down here --
The insides of it look
A whole lot like
A stainless-steel toilet tank.
The only difference is,
When you flush this one,
Moonshine comes out.
The next time I need
A new toilet in my house,
I know what I'm putting in.
I reckon that's about it, huh?That's it, man.
Let's take a case of this
On out.
-all right.
-all right.
We'll drink all that
Up tonight.
Yeah, we ain't gonna
Drink it, huh?
Yeah, why not?
Narrator:
Next time on "Moonshiners"...
Whoa!
That's a damn excellent jar
Of paint thinner.
...In tennessee,
Two legends pass on their craft
To the next generation.
Digger: you stepped into
Uncharted territory.
He's making real liquor now.
Once we start this run, we gonna
Have to run day and night.
-in north carolina...
-oh, yeah.
That's what I'm talking about,
Right there.
Narrator: ...A season hinges
On one final sale...
Man: that barrel --
It's pretty heavy
-whoa!
-what the hell?
-...And a fateful run...
-this is a disaster.
Narrator:
...Could sound the death knell
For josh's only shot
At salvation.
Tell them everything's
Still on go.
We're just a day or two
Behind schedule.
Colt:
It's gonna be real hard.