Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 9, Episode 15 - Triple Grain Double Cross - full transcript
♪♪
Narrator: on this episode
Of "Moonshiners"...
-that is multi-grain.
-damn, that's pretty good.
Narrator:
...Mike and jerry uncover
Evidence
Of a triple-grain double-cross.
They ain't but one
Set of folks
That I know that's making
This stuff, brother.
Let's go talk
To mark and digger.
Digger:
I didn't know how you
Stood on spirits.
You a good man. I don't give
A damn what mark says about you.
Narrator:
An old-time outlaw lures
Three tennessee shiners
Down to georgia.
I may have something
You's boys might want.
That means more to me than if
You'd hand me a million dollars.
This yellow jacket here
Is so drunk, he can't even fly.
Narrator:
And with tim and tickle's
First satisfied customer...
Look at him. He's rubbing
His head, he's like, "What?"
He's like, "Man, I don't know
What I'm doing here."
...Tim faces a challenge
He thought he put behind him.
Well, I tell you tim, where we
Going with this from here?
Because I know where
You sitting right now,
And I know the two
Worlds don't mix.
Tim: tickle come up
With the question,
"What are we gonna do
With this stuff?"
This is how we make
The moonshine.
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Look here, I got me
A new ice machine.
In the name of sin.
Look at them
Little fellers.
No *bleep*.
No, it's ice.
Narrator:
In eastern tennessee, mark
And digger's popcorn legacy
Liquor is a runaway success.
And as all things
Involving popcorn sutton,
The past is always present.
I about to forget
To tell you something.
And let me tell you
Before I forget
Because you know
I got the can't-help-its.
Dwight called,
Dwight bearden.
Hell fire, I hadn't thought
About him in 10 years.
I hadn't either until he
Called out of the blue.
Digger: dwight's an old
North georgia moonshiner.
He's an old friend.
He was acquainted
With popcorn, as well.
You know, apparently old
Dwight ain't forgot about
Our old wednesday trips
Because he wants us
To come down visit with him.
Me, and j.B. And popcorn,
We'd take our little wednesday
Drives across the mountain.
We'd go see
Dwight quite regular and
J.B. Was the pilot,
Popcorn wasn't much of a driver.
We wasn't going
To let him drive.
Well, you know, we'd always
Take us a little liquor with us
To sell
If we'd run across somebody,
Or deliver
If we needed to deliver it.
Mark:
I never got to go on none
Of them wednesday junkets.
Man, I heard
All the good stories.
You know, I've known for years
About them
Legendary wednesday trips
And I didn't get go with them
Because hell, I had a job.
Dwight said he had something
That we needed.
-really?
-you know, dwight mentioned
That he might have
A little something for us.
We really need to get up
There and see what it is.
It gets my curiosity piqued when
Somebody wants to surprise me.
And I'll call j.B.
About 8:00 in the morning,
So he'll be ready about 11:00.
He got to get his checklist
Together, eating, teeth,
Glasses, medicine, check it off.
Walking stick.
Well, if you need
A walking stick,
Why would you
Leave without it?
Obviously you don't need it
If you do.
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How's she tasting?
That's damn good wheat whiskey
Right there, boy.
Narrator:
To the west in sevier county,
Mike and jerry
Approach the finish line
Of a moonshine-making marathon.
We been running this damn
Run day in and day out.
Seems like forever.
Over and over again.
Oh.
Today, we on our last run,
300 gallons of this wheat shine.
That one there's almost damn
Full, buddy.
Get a lid on this one.
Mike:
All we got to do now is get it
To our bootlegger,
We'll be in good shape.
Damn. Well, look at all
These damn buckets
We gonna have to
Carry down the mountain.
Jerry: I'll tell you,
I ain't looking forward
To carrying none
Of this down.
I mean we've got 300 damn
Gallons or a little more.
Just think about
What we got under yonder.
-oh, I know.
-toting all this stuff
Down the mountain, it's going
To be incredibly tough.
You know, that's 15 times up
And down them stairs.
We got hoses and stuff.
We got a bunch up the creek.
We might can rig up something
To pump it down,
Pile it into the barrels
In the trailer down there.
It'll take a little time,
But it'd be a hell
Of a lot easier on us,
Wouldn't it?
You mighty damn right.
We need like a funnel system
Or something.
Also if we can get an extra
Fitting or something
We can screw it inside
One of these buckets.
I'm sure we
Got some *bleep*.
This is a hardware store
Around here.
Just about.
You know, there's so many
Factors in being a moonshiner.
Will you let me
Have that bucket?
I'll start making this up.
Just cut a damn hole
In the bottom of it.
We'll just cut a hole
In the bottom of it,
We'll put this through it.
I'll start hooking up
Some hoses then.
Mike:
Every time we turn around,
There's some kind of obstacle
To cross.
But you know what? That's what
Moonshining life is all about.
With backwood ingenuity
Like jerry and myself has,
You get in there,
Find the problem,
Fix it, just get in there
And get it done.
Idea is we just find
Our shortest points
To throw this hose down
Instead of taking exactly
The contour of the trail,
So we can gain up footage
Getting to the truck
Without using up
All of our hose.
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I'll go down see
How mikey boy's doing.
One of mike and I's concerns
Are we're not going
To have enough hose.
But we've got quite a bit
Of hoses that we're using.
With all the little hoses
We got for here
And there, washing and stuff,
We should have enough to get us
All the way
Down on the mountain.
How you doing?
It's a little bit further
Than I expected to make it.
I think what we'll do, jerry,
Is throw the hose
Over the bridge, down
Through the creek, get --
Instead of
Running the trail?
I think that gains
A lot more
Footage in a hose,
Don't you think?
-yeah. Oh, yeah.
-all right, hercules.
You want to throw her
Over the edge?
I can.
Mike: we just decided we'll just
Throw it
Right off the water cliff
And follow the creek path
Instead of going around
The trail that we have made
Because that'd take up
A lot of footage
In our hose that we have.
The plan is to go the shortest
Route we can go to the truck.
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That's all of it though.
That's the damn end of it.
What the hell
Are we gonna do now?
6 damn feet,
Too damn short.
Why don't you just get
In the truck and back it up?
Why don't you
Just do that then?
Damn. I get so damn frustrated,
I can't think straight.
I mean, you know
How I am.
Ay-yi-yi.
You know me.
I get all frustrated and stuff.
I wasn't even thinking ahead.
Come on back.
Boy, that made me feel
Real damn smart.
Hey jerry, guess what?
-what?
We got enough hose now.
All right.
Here we are.
Here I am. You got
To go back up the mountain
And siphon it back
Down here to me.
Ah. Leave that
Up to me, huh?
How you like them apples?
Mike: this is gonna take
A lot more time
Than just carrying buckets down,
But a lot less work.
Stand right here and fill it up
And be on our way.
-hello?
-you about ready?
Mike:
Hell, I've been ready, man.
I've been up here
Waiting on you.
Oh, shut up. Do your hard job,
Hold the end of that hose
In that bucket for me,
All right?
Mike:
You just get the damn liquor
Down here to me.
That is a long damn way though
To pipe damn liquor down.
Ooh, there she flies.
We got liquor going
In the barrels now.
I don't know
About down there,
But it sure is
Working good up here.
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Yee-haw.
That's getting her done
Pretty quick.
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Yeah?
Mike: these damn barrels
Is about full man.
How much you got left?
Jerry: full? We got about
Four buckets left up here.
We gonna have to walk them
Down here to the truck
Because we're full over here.
Can you carry four
Buckets at a time?
Sure. Yeah, no problem.
I'll just put on my mule suit
And bring them on down.
Mike: I'll bring my ass up there
To help you.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Come on.
I'll be up there in a minute.
Mike: damn, I just thought
I was gonna get out
Of coming back up here.
-uh-huh.
But you know what,
I'm glad we got
20 gallons of alcohol
Left over.
So what we gonna
Do with that?
We gonna sell it.
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I'm just glad
We didn't have to carry
300 gallons
Down this mountain.
You ain't kidding.
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Tickle:
Remember that time we found
A possum over in the dern mash?
Tim:
Uh-huh. Well, I hope we don't
Have no possum over in here.
Well, I don't see
Where nothing has been...
Be like, surprise, bam.
Yeah. Oh, I tell you what,
That looks good to me.
Narrator:
In culpeper, virginia, with
Tickle's wedding day looming....
All right.
Turn it on.
Narrator:
...He's pulling double-duty
Between tim and the laws
To raise the funds
To foot the bill.
It won't be too much longer
Before my wedding date's here
And that gives me
Another thing to think about.
She look like she beginning
To start rolling.
-yeah?
-yeah. Like she's
Fixing to roll.
-all right.
Tickle's working with me,
And then he goes back to henry
And ken when they getting
Ready to make a run.
And he's also getting married.
He's busy.
You know, pasting this
Still up is...
I don't know, like reminds me
Of us, you know what I'm saying?
What do you mean?
We out here back
In the woods,
It's like we kind of pasting
Ourself back up, you know?
It's what holds
Everything together.
I thought you was meaning I
Needed some paste or something.
Oh, no, no. Hell, you
Getting old enough here,
You might make paste in your
Drawers from time to time,
But...
-what?
You're getting old, tim.
That's all it is.
-you think I'm getting old?
-ah hell, I know it.
Just because my back done give
Out, that don't mean nothing.
Well, well.
[ laughs ]
Hell, it's basically
A waiting game now.
Well, you hungry?
You know what?
We ain't ate all day.
Well, let me run
And get you some.
Should have built this dern
Building a little shorter.
Or built me taller.
You know, we decided
Take a little break.
You know, pulled the grill out.
-where you want your grill at?
-cook us up something.
Yeah, put some heat
On that dude. That'll work.
We bonding again.
We cooking in the woods again.
You know, it's a whole
Lot nicer right here
Than it was
When I was locked up.
You didn't have no grill?
No, we didn't have no grill.
You know me, I love to cookout.
Half the time
Back in the day
We'd be cooking over
A dern open fire.
Got to bring your cast
Iron skillet with you.
On the steel. I'll tell you
What I did cook one time --
I had a squirrel.
-yeah.
And I cooked it on the fire
Underneath the pot.
Underneath it? Yeah.
You had him on a stick?
-on a stick.
-yeah.
But I killed him fresh
And cooked him right there.
How'd you catch him?
How'd I catch him?
With a trap.
Oh, climbed up a tree act
Like a nut?
-no.
-no? No, no.
-I had a trap.
-yeah. Well, there you go.
Tell you what,
I believe them things is done.
You gonna try
It right there?
Yeah, I'll try
It right here.
I can tell you one thing,
It's good and hot.
Yes, sir, it is.
Well, I mean I ain't
Got time for no fries.
I ain't made no potato.
Like charbroil right there.
Mm-hmm.
Boy, that's good.
I have to tell you, tim,
All this stuff you done
Brought in to replace me,
I believe this grill's
What I like the best.
Tim:
You know, eating that good hot
Hamburger makes you feel good,
But that time,
Talking about old days,
Actually what
We're thankful for.
You know, being able to do
This kind of thing
Because there was
A period in time
Where tickle was locked up
And I was out
And we couldn't do this thing.
See you got to eat
That other burger.
I'm gonna wrap mine up.
I may wrap
That one up, too.
I'm gonna wrap it up
And put it in my pocket.
Wrap it up and put it
In your pocket?
Mm-hmm.
Keep my pocket warm
For a little bit.
-yeah, yeah.
-we're going...
You gonna have
A greasy pocket.
-no, I ain't, man.
-what's that?
-I'm going double wrap it.
-you gonna double wrap it?
Yeah.
Okay. And I'll wrap this one
And stick it in my pocket.
We may have come up
With something here.
You know, we come up
With the pocket burger.
If I can get it
In my pocket.
It actually kind of warms
Up your pocket, too.
Oh, that's a mess.
Boy, I know it's a mess.
You know, maybe someday
Somebody'll call us up
And we can franchise
The pocket burger.
Tickle:
All right. You ready to get
The moonshine up the hill?
Tim: yeah.
Look, there we go.
Yep. There we go.
-damn she's running.
Yeah.
Oh...That's good.
Damn, it's hot.
Look at there, boy.
Yeah, here we go.
You know, tickle was telling me
About being locked up
That he was dreaming
About one day,
He was gonna get back in
The woods and make moonshine.
Oh, yeah, it's got
A good smell to it,
But I believe we getting
Down to tails now.
Tim:
And you could just see that he's
Reflecting back to that dream,
You know, he's got
Tim beside him.
Yeah, cut that gas out.
I'll get these lights.
All right. Sounds good.
We can get out of here.
-yep.
Narrator: coming up...
-did you call j.B.?
-I told him be waiting on us.
Narrator:
...Mark and digger's road trip
To the deep south
Is off
To a rousing start.
[ snoring ]mark: that's old fireball.
Mark:
I don't even care which
Path we take,
We're gonna end up at
Ol' dwight now.
Yep, that's the plan.
Narrator:
With their bootlegger daniel
Distributing
Popcorn's legacy moonshine
Throughout eastern tennessee,
Mark and digger
Are free to kick off their first
Wednesday drive in 15 years.
Did you call j.B.?
I told him
Be waiting on us.
He ought to be ready
To rock and roll.
That's old fireball.
Called a taxi?
-hell, yeah.
-I thought you did.
Hello, buddy.
-hey.
-hey.
-hey, mark.
We ready to go
On this wednesday ride?
You damn right.
Digger:
You know, j.B., this has put a
Little spring in him step.
He's a little more spry
Than usual.
I think he's looking forward
To this little trip.
-hey, j.B.?
-yeah?
-let's take a drink.
-all righty.
I'm gonna exercise
Temperance.
Do you care?
I don't care.
You'll see why on up here.
Mark:
What was the deal,
Popcorn hiding liquor
On the appalachian trail?
I'm gonna tell you something,
Somebody been on the trail
For a couple of months,
A damn jar of liquor
Would be a pleasant
Surprise, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would.
A jar of liquor
And a willing woman,
That'd cue a man
Right back in, wouldn't it?
Hell, yeah.
Mark:
The appalachian trail's
World famous.
It stretches
From georgia to maine.
-right here?
-yeah.
J.B.: right here
Is where it comes off.
Mark: I've always heard of
Trail magic.
It's little things that's left
By hikers for other hikers.
Maybe a little something
To eat or a blanket.
You just sit still, raider,
And we'll be right back.
J.B.: all righty.
Mark: you know, I think popcorn
May have considered himself
The santa clause
To the hikers on the a.T.
Trail goes
Right through here.
-yep.
-come off down there.
I'll tell you this,
This is what the old man
Always wanted to do,
Hide it in these damn stumps.
Looky there.
You never know when somebody
Might come through here
And want a drink.
Hey, man, that...
Right there is what
The old man really liked.
-yeah.
He's a giggling for us,
I'll guarantee ya.
Digger: we take these little
Old road trips.
Popcorn always wanted
To stop at the hick cemetery.
It's the neck of the woods
Where he grew up.
That's where
His family's buried.
You know, there's still
A tombstone here
Where popcorn was buried,
But popcorn's no longer there.
He's changed addresses.
Narrator:
After vandals disturb folk-hero
Popcorn sutton's original
Resting place,
His wife, pam, moved his body
Onto her property,
But left a grave stone
On his ancestral burial ground.
Digger:
One of anything never was
Too good for him was it?
J.B.: no, heck no.
Mark:
You know, that's crazy people
Desecratin' his headstone.
The way things happen,
Sadly for one reason or another,
People were chipping
At his stone
Maybe for souvenirs,
Maybe just to be mean.
I don't know.
Here he is.
We know he ain't
Down there though.
J.B.: no, by god, he ain't.
Mark:
He just lived here six months.
You know, he had a soft side.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
But he didn't want nobody
To see it or know it.
Mark:
You know when he put popcorn
Over here,
I had instructions
Of how he wanted it done.
And he said under
His daddy vader's headstone
Was a jar of liquor.
When we buried him,
It was under the headstone.
We drank it,
We poured it on him before
We covered him up,
Give him a little drink,
And we got in
It the best we could.
-oh, yeah.
-and pam, before we left,
She said,
"I want you to have this,"
And she wrote on it,
"The last drink,"
And put the date on it
And signed it,
"Pam sutton."
And I still have it, of course.
Yeah, he still wanders
These hills.
Oh, yeah.
Well, if I see him,
I'm gonna run like hell.
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This stuff dun near gone.
I'm ready to run some shine.
Oh, yeah, captain
Dropped on him.
Yeah.
Bunch a dead bees.
That's a good sign.
Got drunk and died
Long before they ever drown.
Narrator:
In virginia after distilling
Half of their mash
On a midnight run.
-ya, ready?
Narrator:
Tim and tickle are back
In the woods
To finish what they started.
It's sticky, yessir,
She's ready to roll.
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Got the still running.
Everything's looking good.
It's just good to be back
In the woods with tickle.
We makin' moonshine.
We got everything fired up.
We fixing to clog this pump up
If I pump anymore.
We ready to roll.
-I need that thing, tickle.
There's a yellow jacket here
So drunk, he can't even fly.
Look at that yellow jacket,
He can't hardly walk.
He's drunk. Look at him,
He's rubbing his head.
He's like, "Man, I don't
Know what I'm doing here."
You touch him and he don't
Even give a *bleep*.
I have always thought that
Yellow jackets
Was a bunch of drunks.
I'm gonna bet
That damn bee wakes up
With one hell
Of a hangover tomorrow.
Good thing he's got
Six legs cause he can't walk.
He done fell down.
If he had two legs,
Had been turned over like us.
Is that the problem I got?
I ain't got enough legs.
If we had six legs we could
Drink a whole lot more.
I don't know that I could
Drink more.
I'd just fall down.
-yeah.
-yeah.
Well, he can't fall down
'cause he's already down.
Yeah. Yeah.
She's coming...
We've got a really great pot.
We've got a nice worm.
There's so much copper
In this thing
That it can't help
But make good liquor.
This is the best part
Right here.
That's the easiest part,
That's for sure.
Like I said,
It's the best part.
-damn sure the easiest.
-best part, man.
I'll tell you what,
There ain't no other place
I'd rather be than sitting
Beside you right by a still.
I have to say that?.
-yeah.
I mean, I feel it.
I feel it.
Out in the woods again.
I tell you what,
I wouldn't have it
Any other way.
Look there yonder.
There we go. There we go.
Oh, yeah, we got
Moonshine now, yeah.
Snatch us
Some jars, tim.
That machine stealing
Heads there, boy.
Get rid of that
Right yonder.
Gotta go in the jar.
Oh, that is good.
It just plain and simply
Don't get
No better than that.
That's what
I'm talking bout.
I'll tell you, tim.
Where are we going
With this from here?
Because, you know, I know
What all you got going on.
Mm-hmm.
And I know where
You're sitting right now,
And I know
The two worlds don't mix.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Mark:
Well, you know, as we finishing
The run, you know,
Tickle, come up
With a question, you know,
And I know it's been
On his mind and mine, too.
You know, "What are we going
To do with this stuff?"
You know, the way I look at it.
Yeah. I did all the investing.
You know.
-yeah.
I invested all the money
And all that.
But you invested all
Your time to hang with me.
Yeah.
And I'm thinking since
It's so good
And I can't sell it,
You know, illegally.
-yeah.
-I may put it on the shelf.
Mark: this whole thing of,
You know,
Tickle and I working together
In the backwoods,
It's given me a product
That I think actually
Could be put on the shelf.
But to get that bottle
On the shelf,
You gonna pay taxes
On it, you know,
But you've been out here with
Me, and I think we'll split it.
Think we ought
To split it?
Mm-hmm.
You know, in the past,
I've been paying
Tickle, you know,
To work for me, actually,
But we never had really
A business partnership.
But now, you know,
I feel like he worked his part.
I mean, he earned it.
So I'm thinking about sharing
The product with tickle.
We partner, man.
Yeah. Yeah. I tell you what.
Yeah, look, I appreciate that.
I mean, we partners.
You know, when I took my first
Sip out of this liquor we made,
I knew good and well
It was something special.
I didn't expect it,
But he told me
I could have half of this
Right here.
He's even actually talking about
Putting this on the shelf,
And you know what,
If he can do that,
I'd be glad to help him do it.
If we 50/50
On the finished product,
Then I'm
About guaranteed.
I know you're
Gonna come back.
Well, that's for sure.
You know, it'll take me longer
To get my return,
But then again,
If you hang with me,
I'm gonna have
The best return ever.
Getting back together with tim
Right here in the woods,
It lets me know that
I've always got a friend
That I can count on.
If I need him,
I know he's gonna be there.
If he needs me,
He knows I'm gonna be there.
That's what a moonshine partner
Is all about.
Tickle: I believe it'd be about
The best thing on the shelf.
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Mike: I had the rainbow roll,
I thought.
Seems like the tuna and they had
Avocado and they had white fish.
Jerry:
I loved the spicy tuna roll.
Narrator: to the southwest
In sevier county, tennessee,
Mike and jerry
Are hauling 300 gallons of shine
To deliver to their bootlegger,
Kevin.
Mike:
I don't feel nowhere
Near damn
Comfortable
Hauling this around.
Yeah, and knowing
Our damn luck,
That's be the one
We get caught with.
Don't, don't say that, *bleep*,
Oh, my god, almighty.
We're nervous in any situation
Hauling liquor,
But with 300 gallons,
I don't even care
Too much about driving
Just across the road with it.
I mean, we could have a damn
Four wheeler
In the back of this trailer,
But we know what we got
And it makes me nervous
Just pulling it across
The damn road, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Holy *bleep*.
-speak of the damn devil.
-god almighty.
Mike:
That law man sitting right there
With his damn lights on.
What the hell
Are they doing?
I don't know.
Let's don't find out.
He looks like
He's damn occupied.
Oh, *bleep*. We got to stop
Right beside him.
Don't look at him.
-holy *bleep*.
-speak of the damn devil.
God almighty.
What the hell
Are they doing?
I don't know.
Let's don't find out.
He looks like
He's damn occupied.
Oh, *bleep*, we got to stop
Right here beside of him.
Don't look at him.
♪♪
Damn law man.
Just don't look
At him, man. *bleep*
I can't help but look
At the bastard.
If he wanted to stop somebody,
He'd stopped somebody,
But he looks like he's watching
Somebody else do something.
Thank god.
♪♪
Kevin needs to hurry
His ass up, man.
Seeing that damn law man
Has got my ass puckered.
Yeah. He was on
One little back road
He could be
On this one, too.
Aww hell,
Speak of the damn devil.
There he is
Right there.
-all right then.
-we'll show him what we got.
-how ya doin', buddy?
-oh, I'm making it.
Mike: this is what you're going
To haul off here.
We're gonna let you hook
To this trailer
And get gone with it.
Open that up there, jerry.
Jerry:
Look what we got for you.
What do you think about that?
Kevin: how the hell am I gonna
Get that out of them drums?
Mike: that's your damn problem,
Brother.
The money you making off us.
Hell, we giving you
A trailer to haul.
Kevin:
I just wasn't expecting drums.
I mean, but that's fine though.
Mike: they still have to be
From this damn part.
You know what I mean?
They just questioned.
I mean, how does
Everybody like the sample?
Kevin:
I liked that wheat pretty good.
I liked it myself.
Hell, I'll probably keep three
Or four gallons for myself.
Mike:
Hey, as long as we get paid.
-yeah.
-I don't care.
Mike: you can have all of it.
How long do you think
It'll take you to get rid of
This right here?
Kevin:
Ah, I'll be back in about --
Just about two weeks.
Mike: damn. 14 days.
That's moving.
That's a lot of liquor to move.
Kevin: I told you I'm not here
Playing no games.
I'm here to run liquor.
-obviously.
Mike:
We know that, don't we.
But anyway, let's ante
Up on the last load,
And we'll get you hooked up
So you can get out of here.
Go make us all some money.
One point in time in mine
And jerry's season,
We wasn't doing much of
Nothing far as sale-wise goes.
It wasn't because it was bad
Liquor,
It just wasn't getting sold.
Mike: come home, give it to me,
Give it to me, son.
[ laughs ] we need this,
Don't we jerry?
-*bleep* yeah.
-*bleep* yeah, buddy.
Now that we've hired in kevin,
We've been working damn
Double-time trying
To get all this liquor run,
So we can meet his demands.
Kevin, I'll see you
In two weeks.
-all right there.
-see ya, buddy.
Mike:
Get the hell outta here.
♪♪
♪♪
Digger:
Well, here we are boys.
-I ain't been here in years.
-years.
Narrator: on the border
Of northern georgia.
Mark, digger,
And j.B. Arrive
At the home of legendary
Moonshiner dwight bearden.
Mark: there the old fart is.
My god, I want you
To looky here.
Digger: you know, we walk up,
And we see old
Dwight and hell, he
Ain't changed a lick.
Looked just like
We'd never missed a day.
By god he's getting around
Better than I am.
Digger:
Dwight's an old liquor man
From across the mountain.
He's got a lot of history
In the liquor business, as well.
Popcorn and dwight,
They did a lot business
Together back in the day.
It's good to see
You, ol' buddy.
It's good to see youns.
People just don't visit
Like we used to
Time's just too fast --
Fast paced now.
Digger:
I didn't know how you
Stood on spirits.
-oh, my god.
-look at 'em eyeballs.
Listen,
You are a good man.
I don't give a damn what
Mark says about you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Let's get right to it.
I mean.
Digger: yeah.
Well, these bones...
Hell, I needed
That early this morning.
Where the youns
At this morning?
Well, you keep that and you just
Limber yourself up every morning
And then put yourself to bed
Every night with that.
Yeah, oh.
Damn, he ain't changed
And he looks the same.
He looks good.
He's as loud as ever.
You know, he's as glad
To see us as we are him.
You know, the first time I
Ever met you was down the road.
You and old popcorn
Was there together.
They was.
And youns was talking
Liquor business, I'm assuming.
If our lips was moving,
We was.
That's a long time ago.
It's been quite a while back.
Yeah. Did you tell me
Or did you tell me?
Might have
Been both of us.
It may have been that
Dwight was the one
That first got him --
Them damn shotgun condensers.
You got a made for him.
He wanted my old original ones
And I said, "Popcorn,"
I said,
"I can't let you have that."
I said, "That's been
In my family for years."
I said, "Now, I've got a man
That can make you one.
I'll get him to make you one
And bring it up to you."
Me and digger still got it
That'n he got --
That you had made for him.
We still got it.
Yeah, so I may have
Something you boys might want.
Would you like to see it?
-well, of course, we would.
Okay, come on around.
Digger: we know to take gifts
When they're offered to us.
Mark: what you got back here,
Big boy?
I got something that I think
Youns will appreciate.
-oh, hell, yeah.
-this is...
Digger:
I know exactly what them is.
-this is, this is patterns.
-yep.
Dwight: these was popcorn's
Patterns
That got every piece
Of the still.
What these patterns are for --
If you lay 'em down on your
Copper and you trace 'em out.
It's end to end everything
You need to make your still pot.
He never would say,
Where these at.
I'd asked him a hundred times,
And I really and truly thought
When the still houses
Caught a fire...
Mark: we thought they was
Lost forever.
I tore that hillside apart
Looking for them.
Welp, this was
Where they was at.
I knew they was there.
-that's a piece of history, too.
-it is a piece of history.
Dwight, that means more to me
Than if you'd hand me
A million dollars,
I promise ya.
I'll tell you what, I knowed
Youns would appreciate it.
-yeah, yeah.
-what a guy, you know.
He knows what popcorn meant
To us as well as himself.
And you know, the fact
That he wants us to have these,
Gosh, don't get no better than
That.
What are you going,
You want to load him up?
Digger: yeah. We'll go ahead
And load them up.
These patterns,
They just make it ring true
How much I need to preserve
Some of this history.
And there's a lot more
Of popcorn's old stuff
In this area right here.
-well, they're off the market.
Dwight: I appreciate ya.
I appreciate youns
Coming by to see me.
Youns come by
And see me more often.
I ain't seen youns
In awhile.
-good to see you, dwight.
-good to see you, j.B.
Good to see you.
Narrator: coming up...
They don't want me
Selling here in their county.
Jerry:
But somehow this has
Wound up in our county.
...A show down in tennessee.
We are not coming to your
County to sell liquor.
But some damn body is.
♪♪
All right. Bet I parked
That damn still graveyard.
-it's been a while, ain't it?
-yeah.
Narrator:
On the outskirts of the
Chattahoochee national forest,
Mark and digger make a stop
To pick up one last piece
Of popcorn's history.
The old still graveyard,
It's basically just old stills
From predecessors of us
In this industry.
It's part of our history
And our heritage in this county.
I think I remember where
That old still was at,
But now I won't
Point him to it.
How long ago has it been
Since ol' elvis was put up here?
It's been 15 years
Or better.
You quit using it few years
Before popcorn died.
Oh, yeah.
Two or three years.
Narrator: popcorn sutton's
Legendary still, elvis,
Was only operational
For seven years,
But it churned out
Tens of thousands of gallons
Of moonshine.
The still was ultimately run
Into the ground and retired,
But its astonishing
Productivity leaves
Elvis widely revered as one of
The most prolific liquor stills
In tennessee history.
Mark:
You know, when we re-discovered
Popcorn's patterns,
It kind of made us realize
The importance
Of trying to preserve
These pieces of history.
We've decided and thought it
Out, we're gonna salvage
Popcorn sutton's still.
So, we're headed back
Into the woods today
And we're gonna do
Our damnedest to fetch old
Elvis out of there.
Digger:
Well, we're getting into
The neck of the woods here.
-oh, yeah.
-this is where it'll all start.
We pulled on up
And the first pot
That greets you is
An old copper pot.
That's the one that brings
Most money at the scrapyard.
Mark: well, this ain't elvis.
I know we're semi
In the right place
Or this buddy
Wouldn't be here.
If we're gonna find elvis,
Let's quit acing around here.
Digger: let's move on.
Mark: this is a big place.
It's about an 80-acre
Spread of woods, you know,
Covers a lot of ground.
Digger: I don't rightly know
Where elvis was,
But we'll keep it going.
We'll find it.
Maybe this way is a better way.
Mark:
I guess that's an old still,
But now that ain't elvis.
That's way too
Little to be elvis.
Just keep a moving.
It may be that somebody's
Found this old still
And took it out of here.
We ain't havin' no luck.
Period.
Mark: here's a now another
That ain't fared so well.
Digger: somebody found that
In target practice.
That ain't what
We're looking for.
I don't feel that anyone
Would have taken him
Unless they knew that it was
A popcorn sutton still.
Anything that
Popcorn sutton owned,
It's worth something
To someone.
Mark: god almighty this one's
Been here a long time.
Well, let's
Move on, boys.
We're looking for a shiny
Stainless still pot.
J.B.: wait a minute.
I believe I see it.
-is that it?
-that's it.
I'd know that miserable
Little bastard anywhere,
Wouldn't you, raider?
-you're damn right.
There's old elvis
Shining like new money.
Did you name it elvis, j.B.?
Just however far that bottom
Would flex out,
That's how high it rose up
Out of the furnace.
Digger:
There's a lot of good times
That been had right here
Beside this old still.
Every damn one of us.
Wouldn't you love to have
The liquor that this thing made?
Oh, hell.
I reckon.
This stuff is worth saving.
It's worth preserving.
It brings back
A flood of memories,
Flood of good memories.
*bleep* yeah.
It might not be real beautiful
In its state that it's in now,
But every little cut, crease,
Dent, it holds a memory for us.
-yeah, boy.
-how about that, sports fans?
You know, as far
As I'm concerned,
Elvis and popcorn's patterns,
You know, they've come home.
They're where they need to be.
♪♪
♪♪
Mike: well, we'll go up here
And see old detroit, jerry.
You gonna talk to him?
Oh, yeah. Looks like he's going
To take the last 20 gallons
We got, brother.
Narrator:
In sevier county, tennessee,
After overcoming slow sales
In a flooded market,
Mike and jerry
Are back on track
And unloading the last
20 gallons of a 320 gallon run.
He sitting there on
The porch, ain't he?
He sure is.
♪♪
Mike: what do you say, detroit?
Pretty good, man. Where do you
Want this stuff at, brother?
Yeah, we'll put it
Right over here.
How you doing, buddy?
What in the world is all this?
It looks like you stocking up
For the damn wintertime,
Right there, buddy.
Somebody's done
Been in one of 'em, huh?
Most moonshiners don't make
A multi-grain whiskey.
Just a couple of people
That I know
That can be making this stuff.
Damn, that's pretty good.
Try that, jerry.
That's pretty good stuff,
Ain't it?
It's not awful bad.
Let's settle up on this right
Here, and we'll be done, man.
Yeah, buddy.
Looks good.
How much will you take
For a jar of that right there?
Come on, man,
We're friends.
$100?
Boy you...
You're *bleep* me
Is what you're doing.
Yeah, we're
Buddies all right,
That's why I'm gonna
Give you $40 for a jar.
That's some pretty
Good multi-grain, though.
I like it.
-smooth.
I sure do. That right there is
Pretty damn good.
I appreciate it.
You too, brother.
You know, all season long,
Me and jerry working together,
They something fishy
In the damn water going on.
I've been looking
For a telltale sign
And a red flag to go up,
And I think I just found it
On the front porch
Of this here man's house.
-well, ol' jerry.
-what's up buddy?
There ain't
But one set of folks
That I know that's making
This stuff, brother.
And I think you know
Who I'm talking about.
I believe I do.
I mean, how the hell is this
In our -- in our territory?
Moonshiner's code,
We will not sell
Inside each other's territory.
I'm not accusing
Nobody or anything,
But I know in my heart
And gut where this come from.
Damn well, I learnt my lesson
About making mistakes and stuff,
But I still carry
A *bleep* lighter in my pocket.
Let's go talk to 'em.
Let's go talk to mark
And digger.
I'm getting my gloves on, man.
Tickle: what are you
Wearing gloves for?
You gettin' that soft
Or something?
I was getting ready
To eat a sandwich
You fixin' to eat
A sandwich?
What's your sandwich
Gonna taste like?
Well...
He gon taste
Like all the metal.
I don't have to taste
To touch, do we?
Yeah, you got
A little seasoning on it.
Yeah, maybe you can
Hold my sandwich
While I eat it,
What do you think?
That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna hold your sandwich,
While I eat it.
Narrator:
As tickle prepares to walk
The aisle,
The shiners
Enter the final stretch.
Mark and digger are ahead by a
Nose with 1,835 gallons.
Tickle is nipping at their heels
With 1,800, while mike and jerry
Are pulling up
The rear with 990.
Mike: we need to find
Mark and digger.
Jerry: absolutely.
You know, they don't want me
Selling here
In their county.
Well, guess what?
Somehow though this is
Winding up in our county.
Exactly. I'm looking for answers
And I'm determined to get one.
Narrator:
Straddling county lines
In eastern tennessee,
Mike and jerry are on a mission
To track down mark
And digger
To address an old feud.
You know, we promised each other
We wouldn't sell
In each other's territories,
But when I sold 20 gallons
To my customer,
Detroit, he had some cases
Sitting on his porch.
When I tasted of it,
I knew where it come from.
It's a triple grain whiskey.
They ain't but two people
Making that liquor.
That's mark and digger.
I've been twiddling my thumbs.
Can't hardly sleep
At damn night
Wondering how in the hell
Their liquor's ending up
All over our county.
I don't want
To think that mark
And digger's coming over
And selling to everybody,
But I believe
There's a snake some damn
Where getting from them,
And selling in our county,
That way it covers mark
And digger's ass.
I will find out.
Word gets around in small towns.
If he gets wind enough, a worm
Will come out of a whole.
Damn right.
Well, how do you propose
We find him?
Well, they ain't bout two places
That mark and digger'll be.
Number one, they'll be
In a bar, and number two,
Feeding their big bellies
Some damn where.
Mike: this is a small world
Around here in the mountains,
There's only a handful of places
People even go around here.
That's to church, to bars,
And the restaurants.
I mean, church
Ain't gonna be it.
There's a bar right up
Here on the left.
We're gonna check this out.
There's our truck right there.
They are in here.
We're gonna go in here
And talk to them.
Let's go see
What they got to say.
♪♪
Let's go in here and see
If they piled up in here.
Jerry:
Bellied up to the bar.
-howdy, boys!
-the hell fire.
Mike: how y'all doing?
Last person in the world
I'd expected to see over here.
I'm like a damn penny.
I'm liable to turn up
Anywhere, buddy.
Bad penny.
Well, any which way
You want to look at it.
I'd like to have a little word
With y'all, outside, preferably.
I got a little bone
I need to pick with you.
Take it outside, boys.
Let's go talk about it.
Nah, we got this.
Boys, the reason I'm here is
We've got a jar of liquor.
Congratulations.
Looks just like y'all's
Jar of liquor.
Looks like good liquor.
Did y'all come over
To buy little of this?
No.
Well, what's
The point here?
The trouble with it is,
It's showing up
In sevier county.
People over there deserve good
Liquor as good as anybody else.
All right,
Cut to the chase here.
I'm asking you, are y'all
Bring over
Into our county
And selling liquor?
Digger:
We gave you our word,
We wouldn't come into
Your county and sell no liquor.
Mike: we did.
And you know, we made that
Agreement
And I can promise you,
On my ma-mah's eyes,
We are not coming to
Your county to sell liquor.
Didn't think that you would be,
But some damn body is.
Well, that's
A possibility.
We can't help where our liquor
Goes when it's sold.
We can understand if it was
A case or two, you know,
But we're talking about, there's
Been a lot of damn liquor.
We make a lot of liquor,
That's the business we're in.
Honestly, we've sold
A lot of liquor.
I mean, who could it be?
♪♪
Narrator:
Next time on "Moonshiners"...
Mike:
We're gonna have to resolve
This mess right now.
Narrator:
...Mike is on the warpath.
Mike: if I catch your ass
Selling liquor to my customers,
I will shut you down
For good.
Yeah, I wanna talk to him,
But if we don't agree 100%...
We pull out.
The unwritten rule of
Moonshinin'
Is you never sell
To people you don't know.
Narrator:
A mystery buyer in tennessee.
Digger: where'd you get
Our name at?
Look at the temperature's
Going up there.
-you better adjust it.
-yeah.
Tickle:
Moonshine has to progress
With the times
Or it's doomed
To be left in the past.
Narrator:
And high times are close at hand
As tickle and the laws
Step up production of
Their cbd infused moonshine.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking no body.
Narrator: on this episode
Of "Moonshiners"...
-that is multi-grain.
-damn, that's pretty good.
Narrator:
...Mike and jerry uncover
Evidence
Of a triple-grain double-cross.
They ain't but one
Set of folks
That I know that's making
This stuff, brother.
Let's go talk
To mark and digger.
Digger:
I didn't know how you
Stood on spirits.
You a good man. I don't give
A damn what mark says about you.
Narrator:
An old-time outlaw lures
Three tennessee shiners
Down to georgia.
I may have something
You's boys might want.
That means more to me than if
You'd hand me a million dollars.
This yellow jacket here
Is so drunk, he can't even fly.
Narrator:
And with tim and tickle's
First satisfied customer...
Look at him. He's rubbing
His head, he's like, "What?"
He's like, "Man, I don't know
What I'm doing here."
...Tim faces a challenge
He thought he put behind him.
Well, I tell you tim, where we
Going with this from here?
Because I know where
You sitting right now,
And I know the two
Worlds don't mix.
Tim: tickle come up
With the question,
"What are we gonna do
With this stuff?"
This is how we make
The moonshine.
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Look here, I got me
A new ice machine.
In the name of sin.
Look at them
Little fellers.
No *bleep*.
No, it's ice.
Narrator:
In eastern tennessee, mark
And digger's popcorn legacy
Liquor is a runaway success.
And as all things
Involving popcorn sutton,
The past is always present.
I about to forget
To tell you something.
And let me tell you
Before I forget
Because you know
I got the can't-help-its.
Dwight called,
Dwight bearden.
Hell fire, I hadn't thought
About him in 10 years.
I hadn't either until he
Called out of the blue.
Digger: dwight's an old
North georgia moonshiner.
He's an old friend.
He was acquainted
With popcorn, as well.
You know, apparently old
Dwight ain't forgot about
Our old wednesday trips
Because he wants us
To come down visit with him.
Me, and j.B. And popcorn,
We'd take our little wednesday
Drives across the mountain.
We'd go see
Dwight quite regular and
J.B. Was the pilot,
Popcorn wasn't much of a driver.
We wasn't going
To let him drive.
Well, you know, we'd always
Take us a little liquor with us
To sell
If we'd run across somebody,
Or deliver
If we needed to deliver it.
Mark:
I never got to go on none
Of them wednesday junkets.
Man, I heard
All the good stories.
You know, I've known for years
About them
Legendary wednesday trips
And I didn't get go with them
Because hell, I had a job.
Dwight said he had something
That we needed.
-really?
-you know, dwight mentioned
That he might have
A little something for us.
We really need to get up
There and see what it is.
It gets my curiosity piqued when
Somebody wants to surprise me.
And I'll call j.B.
About 8:00 in the morning,
So he'll be ready about 11:00.
He got to get his checklist
Together, eating, teeth,
Glasses, medicine, check it off.
Walking stick.
Well, if you need
A walking stick,
Why would you
Leave without it?
Obviously you don't need it
If you do.
♪♪
♪♪
How's she tasting?
That's damn good wheat whiskey
Right there, boy.
Narrator:
To the west in sevier county,
Mike and jerry
Approach the finish line
Of a moonshine-making marathon.
We been running this damn
Run day in and day out.
Seems like forever.
Over and over again.
Oh.
Today, we on our last run,
300 gallons of this wheat shine.
That one there's almost damn
Full, buddy.
Get a lid on this one.
Mike:
All we got to do now is get it
To our bootlegger,
We'll be in good shape.
Damn. Well, look at all
These damn buckets
We gonna have to
Carry down the mountain.
Jerry: I'll tell you,
I ain't looking forward
To carrying none
Of this down.
I mean we've got 300 damn
Gallons or a little more.
Just think about
What we got under yonder.
-oh, I know.
-toting all this stuff
Down the mountain, it's going
To be incredibly tough.
You know, that's 15 times up
And down them stairs.
We got hoses and stuff.
We got a bunch up the creek.
We might can rig up something
To pump it down,
Pile it into the barrels
In the trailer down there.
It'll take a little time,
But it'd be a hell
Of a lot easier on us,
Wouldn't it?
You mighty damn right.
We need like a funnel system
Or something.
Also if we can get an extra
Fitting or something
We can screw it inside
One of these buckets.
I'm sure we
Got some *bleep*.
This is a hardware store
Around here.
Just about.
You know, there's so many
Factors in being a moonshiner.
Will you let me
Have that bucket?
I'll start making this up.
Just cut a damn hole
In the bottom of it.
We'll just cut a hole
In the bottom of it,
We'll put this through it.
I'll start hooking up
Some hoses then.
Mike:
Every time we turn around,
There's some kind of obstacle
To cross.
But you know what? That's what
Moonshining life is all about.
With backwood ingenuity
Like jerry and myself has,
You get in there,
Find the problem,
Fix it, just get in there
And get it done.
Idea is we just find
Our shortest points
To throw this hose down
Instead of taking exactly
The contour of the trail,
So we can gain up footage
Getting to the truck
Without using up
All of our hose.
♪♪
I'll go down see
How mikey boy's doing.
One of mike and I's concerns
Are we're not going
To have enough hose.
But we've got quite a bit
Of hoses that we're using.
With all the little hoses
We got for here
And there, washing and stuff,
We should have enough to get us
All the way
Down on the mountain.
How you doing?
It's a little bit further
Than I expected to make it.
I think what we'll do, jerry,
Is throw the hose
Over the bridge, down
Through the creek, get --
Instead of
Running the trail?
I think that gains
A lot more
Footage in a hose,
Don't you think?
-yeah. Oh, yeah.
-all right, hercules.
You want to throw her
Over the edge?
I can.
Mike: we just decided we'll just
Throw it
Right off the water cliff
And follow the creek path
Instead of going around
The trail that we have made
Because that'd take up
A lot of footage
In our hose that we have.
The plan is to go the shortest
Route we can go to the truck.
♪♪
That's all of it though.
That's the damn end of it.
What the hell
Are we gonna do now?
6 damn feet,
Too damn short.
Why don't you just get
In the truck and back it up?
Why don't you
Just do that then?
Damn. I get so damn frustrated,
I can't think straight.
I mean, you know
How I am.
Ay-yi-yi.
You know me.
I get all frustrated and stuff.
I wasn't even thinking ahead.
Come on back.
Boy, that made me feel
Real damn smart.
Hey jerry, guess what?
-what?
We got enough hose now.
All right.
Here we are.
Here I am. You got
To go back up the mountain
And siphon it back
Down here to me.
Ah. Leave that
Up to me, huh?
How you like them apples?
Mike: this is gonna take
A lot more time
Than just carrying buckets down,
But a lot less work.
Stand right here and fill it up
And be on our way.
-hello?
-you about ready?
Mike:
Hell, I've been ready, man.
I've been up here
Waiting on you.
Oh, shut up. Do your hard job,
Hold the end of that hose
In that bucket for me,
All right?
Mike:
You just get the damn liquor
Down here to me.
That is a long damn way though
To pipe damn liquor down.
Ooh, there she flies.
We got liquor going
In the barrels now.
I don't know
About down there,
But it sure is
Working good up here.
♪♪
Yee-haw.
That's getting her done
Pretty quick.
♪♪
Yeah?
Mike: these damn barrels
Is about full man.
How much you got left?
Jerry: full? We got about
Four buckets left up here.
We gonna have to walk them
Down here to the truck
Because we're full over here.
Can you carry four
Buckets at a time?
Sure. Yeah, no problem.
I'll just put on my mule suit
And bring them on down.
Mike: I'll bring my ass up there
To help you.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Come on.
I'll be up there in a minute.
Mike: damn, I just thought
I was gonna get out
Of coming back up here.
-uh-huh.
But you know what,
I'm glad we got
20 gallons of alcohol
Left over.
So what we gonna
Do with that?
We gonna sell it.
♪♪
I'm just glad
We didn't have to carry
300 gallons
Down this mountain.
You ain't kidding.
♪♪
Tickle:
Remember that time we found
A possum over in the dern mash?
Tim:
Uh-huh. Well, I hope we don't
Have no possum over in here.
Well, I don't see
Where nothing has been...
Be like, surprise, bam.
Yeah. Oh, I tell you what,
That looks good to me.
Narrator:
In culpeper, virginia, with
Tickle's wedding day looming....
All right.
Turn it on.
Narrator:
...He's pulling double-duty
Between tim and the laws
To raise the funds
To foot the bill.
It won't be too much longer
Before my wedding date's here
And that gives me
Another thing to think about.
She look like she beginning
To start rolling.
-yeah?
-yeah. Like she's
Fixing to roll.
-all right.
Tickle's working with me,
And then he goes back to henry
And ken when they getting
Ready to make a run.
And he's also getting married.
He's busy.
You know, pasting this
Still up is...
I don't know, like reminds me
Of us, you know what I'm saying?
What do you mean?
We out here back
In the woods,
It's like we kind of pasting
Ourself back up, you know?
It's what holds
Everything together.
I thought you was meaning I
Needed some paste or something.
Oh, no, no. Hell, you
Getting old enough here,
You might make paste in your
Drawers from time to time,
But...
-what?
You're getting old, tim.
That's all it is.
-you think I'm getting old?
-ah hell, I know it.
Just because my back done give
Out, that don't mean nothing.
Well, well.
[ laughs ]
Hell, it's basically
A waiting game now.
Well, you hungry?
You know what?
We ain't ate all day.
Well, let me run
And get you some.
Should have built this dern
Building a little shorter.
Or built me taller.
You know, we decided
Take a little break.
You know, pulled the grill out.
-where you want your grill at?
-cook us up something.
Yeah, put some heat
On that dude. That'll work.
We bonding again.
We cooking in the woods again.
You know, it's a whole
Lot nicer right here
Than it was
When I was locked up.
You didn't have no grill?
No, we didn't have no grill.
You know me, I love to cookout.
Half the time
Back in the day
We'd be cooking over
A dern open fire.
Got to bring your cast
Iron skillet with you.
On the steel. I'll tell you
What I did cook one time --
I had a squirrel.
-yeah.
And I cooked it on the fire
Underneath the pot.
Underneath it? Yeah.
You had him on a stick?
-on a stick.
-yeah.
But I killed him fresh
And cooked him right there.
How'd you catch him?
How'd I catch him?
With a trap.
Oh, climbed up a tree act
Like a nut?
-no.
-no? No, no.
-I had a trap.
-yeah. Well, there you go.
Tell you what,
I believe them things is done.
You gonna try
It right there?
Yeah, I'll try
It right here.
I can tell you one thing,
It's good and hot.
Yes, sir, it is.
Well, I mean I ain't
Got time for no fries.
I ain't made no potato.
Like charbroil right there.
Mm-hmm.
Boy, that's good.
I have to tell you, tim,
All this stuff you done
Brought in to replace me,
I believe this grill's
What I like the best.
Tim:
You know, eating that good hot
Hamburger makes you feel good,
But that time,
Talking about old days,
Actually what
We're thankful for.
You know, being able to do
This kind of thing
Because there was
A period in time
Where tickle was locked up
And I was out
And we couldn't do this thing.
See you got to eat
That other burger.
I'm gonna wrap mine up.
I may wrap
That one up, too.
I'm gonna wrap it up
And put it in my pocket.
Wrap it up and put it
In your pocket?
Mm-hmm.
Keep my pocket warm
For a little bit.
-yeah, yeah.
-we're going...
You gonna have
A greasy pocket.
-no, I ain't, man.
-what's that?
-I'm going double wrap it.
-you gonna double wrap it?
Yeah.
Okay. And I'll wrap this one
And stick it in my pocket.
We may have come up
With something here.
You know, we come up
With the pocket burger.
If I can get it
In my pocket.
It actually kind of warms
Up your pocket, too.
Oh, that's a mess.
Boy, I know it's a mess.
You know, maybe someday
Somebody'll call us up
And we can franchise
The pocket burger.
Tickle:
All right. You ready to get
The moonshine up the hill?
Tim: yeah.
Look, there we go.
Yep. There we go.
-damn she's running.
Yeah.
Oh...That's good.
Damn, it's hot.
Look at there, boy.
Yeah, here we go.
You know, tickle was telling me
About being locked up
That he was dreaming
About one day,
He was gonna get back in
The woods and make moonshine.
Oh, yeah, it's got
A good smell to it,
But I believe we getting
Down to tails now.
Tim:
And you could just see that he's
Reflecting back to that dream,
You know, he's got
Tim beside him.
Yeah, cut that gas out.
I'll get these lights.
All right. Sounds good.
We can get out of here.
-yep.
Narrator: coming up...
-did you call j.B.?
-I told him be waiting on us.
Narrator:
...Mark and digger's road trip
To the deep south
Is off
To a rousing start.
[ snoring ]mark: that's old fireball.
Mark:
I don't even care which
Path we take,
We're gonna end up at
Ol' dwight now.
Yep, that's the plan.
Narrator:
With their bootlegger daniel
Distributing
Popcorn's legacy moonshine
Throughout eastern tennessee,
Mark and digger
Are free to kick off their first
Wednesday drive in 15 years.
Did you call j.B.?
I told him
Be waiting on us.
He ought to be ready
To rock and roll.
That's old fireball.
Called a taxi?
-hell, yeah.
-I thought you did.
Hello, buddy.
-hey.
-hey.
-hey, mark.
We ready to go
On this wednesday ride?
You damn right.
Digger:
You know, j.B., this has put a
Little spring in him step.
He's a little more spry
Than usual.
I think he's looking forward
To this little trip.
-hey, j.B.?
-yeah?
-let's take a drink.
-all righty.
I'm gonna exercise
Temperance.
Do you care?
I don't care.
You'll see why on up here.
Mark:
What was the deal,
Popcorn hiding liquor
On the appalachian trail?
I'm gonna tell you something,
Somebody been on the trail
For a couple of months,
A damn jar of liquor
Would be a pleasant
Surprise, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would.
A jar of liquor
And a willing woman,
That'd cue a man
Right back in, wouldn't it?
Hell, yeah.
Mark:
The appalachian trail's
World famous.
It stretches
From georgia to maine.
-right here?
-yeah.
J.B.: right here
Is where it comes off.
Mark: I've always heard of
Trail magic.
It's little things that's left
By hikers for other hikers.
Maybe a little something
To eat or a blanket.
You just sit still, raider,
And we'll be right back.
J.B.: all righty.
Mark: you know, I think popcorn
May have considered himself
The santa clause
To the hikers on the a.T.
Trail goes
Right through here.
-yep.
-come off down there.
I'll tell you this,
This is what the old man
Always wanted to do,
Hide it in these damn stumps.
Looky there.
You never know when somebody
Might come through here
And want a drink.
Hey, man, that...
Right there is what
The old man really liked.
-yeah.
He's a giggling for us,
I'll guarantee ya.
Digger: we take these little
Old road trips.
Popcorn always wanted
To stop at the hick cemetery.
It's the neck of the woods
Where he grew up.
That's where
His family's buried.
You know, there's still
A tombstone here
Where popcorn was buried,
But popcorn's no longer there.
He's changed addresses.
Narrator:
After vandals disturb folk-hero
Popcorn sutton's original
Resting place,
His wife, pam, moved his body
Onto her property,
But left a grave stone
On his ancestral burial ground.
Digger:
One of anything never was
Too good for him was it?
J.B.: no, heck no.
Mark:
You know, that's crazy people
Desecratin' his headstone.
The way things happen,
Sadly for one reason or another,
People were chipping
At his stone
Maybe for souvenirs,
Maybe just to be mean.
I don't know.
Here he is.
We know he ain't
Down there though.
J.B.: no, by god, he ain't.
Mark:
He just lived here six months.
You know, he had a soft side.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
But he didn't want nobody
To see it or know it.
Mark:
You know when he put popcorn
Over here,
I had instructions
Of how he wanted it done.
And he said under
His daddy vader's headstone
Was a jar of liquor.
When we buried him,
It was under the headstone.
We drank it,
We poured it on him before
We covered him up,
Give him a little drink,
And we got in
It the best we could.
-oh, yeah.
-and pam, before we left,
She said,
"I want you to have this,"
And she wrote on it,
"The last drink,"
And put the date on it
And signed it,
"Pam sutton."
And I still have it, of course.
Yeah, he still wanders
These hills.
Oh, yeah.
Well, if I see him,
I'm gonna run like hell.
♪♪
This stuff dun near gone.
I'm ready to run some shine.
Oh, yeah, captain
Dropped on him.
Yeah.
Bunch a dead bees.
That's a good sign.
Got drunk and died
Long before they ever drown.
Narrator:
In virginia after distilling
Half of their mash
On a midnight run.
-ya, ready?
Narrator:
Tim and tickle are back
In the woods
To finish what they started.
It's sticky, yessir,
She's ready to roll.
♪♪
Got the still running.
Everything's looking good.
It's just good to be back
In the woods with tickle.
We makin' moonshine.
We got everything fired up.
We fixing to clog this pump up
If I pump anymore.
We ready to roll.
-I need that thing, tickle.
There's a yellow jacket here
So drunk, he can't even fly.
Look at that yellow jacket,
He can't hardly walk.
He's drunk. Look at him,
He's rubbing his head.
He's like, "Man, I don't
Know what I'm doing here."
You touch him and he don't
Even give a *bleep*.
I have always thought that
Yellow jackets
Was a bunch of drunks.
I'm gonna bet
That damn bee wakes up
With one hell
Of a hangover tomorrow.
Good thing he's got
Six legs cause he can't walk.
He done fell down.
If he had two legs,
Had been turned over like us.
Is that the problem I got?
I ain't got enough legs.
If we had six legs we could
Drink a whole lot more.
I don't know that I could
Drink more.
I'd just fall down.
-yeah.
-yeah.
Well, he can't fall down
'cause he's already down.
Yeah. Yeah.
She's coming...
We've got a really great pot.
We've got a nice worm.
There's so much copper
In this thing
That it can't help
But make good liquor.
This is the best part
Right here.
That's the easiest part,
That's for sure.
Like I said,
It's the best part.
-damn sure the easiest.
-best part, man.
I'll tell you what,
There ain't no other place
I'd rather be than sitting
Beside you right by a still.
I have to say that?.
-yeah.
I mean, I feel it.
I feel it.
Out in the woods again.
I tell you what,
I wouldn't have it
Any other way.
Look there yonder.
There we go. There we go.
Oh, yeah, we got
Moonshine now, yeah.
Snatch us
Some jars, tim.
That machine stealing
Heads there, boy.
Get rid of that
Right yonder.
Gotta go in the jar.
Oh, that is good.
It just plain and simply
Don't get
No better than that.
That's what
I'm talking bout.
I'll tell you, tim.
Where are we going
With this from here?
Because, you know, I know
What all you got going on.
Mm-hmm.
And I know where
You're sitting right now,
And I know
The two worlds don't mix.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Mark:
Well, you know, as we finishing
The run, you know,
Tickle, come up
With a question, you know,
And I know it's been
On his mind and mine, too.
You know, "What are we going
To do with this stuff?"
You know, the way I look at it.
Yeah. I did all the investing.
You know.
-yeah.
I invested all the money
And all that.
But you invested all
Your time to hang with me.
Yeah.
And I'm thinking since
It's so good
And I can't sell it,
You know, illegally.
-yeah.
-I may put it on the shelf.
Mark: this whole thing of,
You know,
Tickle and I working together
In the backwoods,
It's given me a product
That I think actually
Could be put on the shelf.
But to get that bottle
On the shelf,
You gonna pay taxes
On it, you know,
But you've been out here with
Me, and I think we'll split it.
Think we ought
To split it?
Mm-hmm.
You know, in the past,
I've been paying
Tickle, you know,
To work for me, actually,
But we never had really
A business partnership.
But now, you know,
I feel like he worked his part.
I mean, he earned it.
So I'm thinking about sharing
The product with tickle.
We partner, man.
Yeah. Yeah. I tell you what.
Yeah, look, I appreciate that.
I mean, we partners.
You know, when I took my first
Sip out of this liquor we made,
I knew good and well
It was something special.
I didn't expect it,
But he told me
I could have half of this
Right here.
He's even actually talking about
Putting this on the shelf,
And you know what,
If he can do that,
I'd be glad to help him do it.
If we 50/50
On the finished product,
Then I'm
About guaranteed.
I know you're
Gonna come back.
Well, that's for sure.
You know, it'll take me longer
To get my return,
But then again,
If you hang with me,
I'm gonna have
The best return ever.
Getting back together with tim
Right here in the woods,
It lets me know that
I've always got a friend
That I can count on.
If I need him,
I know he's gonna be there.
If he needs me,
He knows I'm gonna be there.
That's what a moonshine partner
Is all about.
Tickle: I believe it'd be about
The best thing on the shelf.
♪♪
Mike: I had the rainbow roll,
I thought.
Seems like the tuna and they had
Avocado and they had white fish.
Jerry:
I loved the spicy tuna roll.
Narrator: to the southwest
In sevier county, tennessee,
Mike and jerry
Are hauling 300 gallons of shine
To deliver to their bootlegger,
Kevin.
Mike:
I don't feel nowhere
Near damn
Comfortable
Hauling this around.
Yeah, and knowing
Our damn luck,
That's be the one
We get caught with.
Don't, don't say that, *bleep*,
Oh, my god, almighty.
We're nervous in any situation
Hauling liquor,
But with 300 gallons,
I don't even care
Too much about driving
Just across the road with it.
I mean, we could have a damn
Four wheeler
In the back of this trailer,
But we know what we got
And it makes me nervous
Just pulling it across
The damn road, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Holy *bleep*.
-speak of the damn devil.
-god almighty.
Mike:
That law man sitting right there
With his damn lights on.
What the hell
Are they doing?
I don't know.
Let's don't find out.
He looks like
He's damn occupied.
Oh, *bleep*. We got to stop
Right beside him.
Don't look at him.
-holy *bleep*.
-speak of the damn devil.
God almighty.
What the hell
Are they doing?
I don't know.
Let's don't find out.
He looks like
He's damn occupied.
Oh, *bleep*, we got to stop
Right here beside of him.
Don't look at him.
♪♪
Damn law man.
Just don't look
At him, man. *bleep*
I can't help but look
At the bastard.
If he wanted to stop somebody,
He'd stopped somebody,
But he looks like he's watching
Somebody else do something.
Thank god.
♪♪
Kevin needs to hurry
His ass up, man.
Seeing that damn law man
Has got my ass puckered.
Yeah. He was on
One little back road
He could be
On this one, too.
Aww hell,
Speak of the damn devil.
There he is
Right there.
-all right then.
-we'll show him what we got.
-how ya doin', buddy?
-oh, I'm making it.
Mike: this is what you're going
To haul off here.
We're gonna let you hook
To this trailer
And get gone with it.
Open that up there, jerry.
Jerry:
Look what we got for you.
What do you think about that?
Kevin: how the hell am I gonna
Get that out of them drums?
Mike: that's your damn problem,
Brother.
The money you making off us.
Hell, we giving you
A trailer to haul.
Kevin:
I just wasn't expecting drums.
I mean, but that's fine though.
Mike: they still have to be
From this damn part.
You know what I mean?
They just questioned.
I mean, how does
Everybody like the sample?
Kevin:
I liked that wheat pretty good.
I liked it myself.
Hell, I'll probably keep three
Or four gallons for myself.
Mike:
Hey, as long as we get paid.
-yeah.
-I don't care.
Mike: you can have all of it.
How long do you think
It'll take you to get rid of
This right here?
Kevin:
Ah, I'll be back in about --
Just about two weeks.
Mike: damn. 14 days.
That's moving.
That's a lot of liquor to move.
Kevin: I told you I'm not here
Playing no games.
I'm here to run liquor.
-obviously.
Mike:
We know that, don't we.
But anyway, let's ante
Up on the last load,
And we'll get you hooked up
So you can get out of here.
Go make us all some money.
One point in time in mine
And jerry's season,
We wasn't doing much of
Nothing far as sale-wise goes.
It wasn't because it was bad
Liquor,
It just wasn't getting sold.
Mike: come home, give it to me,
Give it to me, son.
[ laughs ] we need this,
Don't we jerry?
-*bleep* yeah.
-*bleep* yeah, buddy.
Now that we've hired in kevin,
We've been working damn
Double-time trying
To get all this liquor run,
So we can meet his demands.
Kevin, I'll see you
In two weeks.
-all right there.
-see ya, buddy.
Mike:
Get the hell outta here.
♪♪
♪♪
Digger:
Well, here we are boys.
-I ain't been here in years.
-years.
Narrator: on the border
Of northern georgia.
Mark, digger,
And j.B. Arrive
At the home of legendary
Moonshiner dwight bearden.
Mark: there the old fart is.
My god, I want you
To looky here.
Digger: you know, we walk up,
And we see old
Dwight and hell, he
Ain't changed a lick.
Looked just like
We'd never missed a day.
By god he's getting around
Better than I am.
Digger:
Dwight's an old liquor man
From across the mountain.
He's got a lot of history
In the liquor business, as well.
Popcorn and dwight,
They did a lot business
Together back in the day.
It's good to see
You, ol' buddy.
It's good to see youns.
People just don't visit
Like we used to
Time's just too fast --
Fast paced now.
Digger:
I didn't know how you
Stood on spirits.
-oh, my god.
-look at 'em eyeballs.
Listen,
You are a good man.
I don't give a damn what
Mark says about you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Let's get right to it.
I mean.
Digger: yeah.
Well, these bones...
Hell, I needed
That early this morning.
Where the youns
At this morning?
Well, you keep that and you just
Limber yourself up every morning
And then put yourself to bed
Every night with that.
Yeah, oh.
Damn, he ain't changed
And he looks the same.
He looks good.
He's as loud as ever.
You know, he's as glad
To see us as we are him.
You know, the first time I
Ever met you was down the road.
You and old popcorn
Was there together.
They was.
And youns was talking
Liquor business, I'm assuming.
If our lips was moving,
We was.
That's a long time ago.
It's been quite a while back.
Yeah. Did you tell me
Or did you tell me?
Might have
Been both of us.
It may have been that
Dwight was the one
That first got him --
Them damn shotgun condensers.
You got a made for him.
He wanted my old original ones
And I said, "Popcorn,"
I said,
"I can't let you have that."
I said, "That's been
In my family for years."
I said, "Now, I've got a man
That can make you one.
I'll get him to make you one
And bring it up to you."
Me and digger still got it
That'n he got --
That you had made for him.
We still got it.
Yeah, so I may have
Something you boys might want.
Would you like to see it?
-well, of course, we would.
Okay, come on around.
Digger: we know to take gifts
When they're offered to us.
Mark: what you got back here,
Big boy?
I got something that I think
Youns will appreciate.
-oh, hell, yeah.
-this is...
Digger:
I know exactly what them is.
-this is, this is patterns.
-yep.
Dwight: these was popcorn's
Patterns
That got every piece
Of the still.
What these patterns are for --
If you lay 'em down on your
Copper and you trace 'em out.
It's end to end everything
You need to make your still pot.
He never would say,
Where these at.
I'd asked him a hundred times,
And I really and truly thought
When the still houses
Caught a fire...
Mark: we thought they was
Lost forever.
I tore that hillside apart
Looking for them.
Welp, this was
Where they was at.
I knew they was there.
-that's a piece of history, too.
-it is a piece of history.
Dwight, that means more to me
Than if you'd hand me
A million dollars,
I promise ya.
I'll tell you what, I knowed
Youns would appreciate it.
-yeah, yeah.
-what a guy, you know.
He knows what popcorn meant
To us as well as himself.
And you know, the fact
That he wants us to have these,
Gosh, don't get no better than
That.
What are you going,
You want to load him up?
Digger: yeah. We'll go ahead
And load them up.
These patterns,
They just make it ring true
How much I need to preserve
Some of this history.
And there's a lot more
Of popcorn's old stuff
In this area right here.
-well, they're off the market.
Dwight: I appreciate ya.
I appreciate youns
Coming by to see me.
Youns come by
And see me more often.
I ain't seen youns
In awhile.
-good to see you, dwight.
-good to see you, j.B.
Good to see you.
Narrator: coming up...
They don't want me
Selling here in their county.
Jerry:
But somehow this has
Wound up in our county.
...A show down in tennessee.
We are not coming to your
County to sell liquor.
But some damn body is.
♪♪
All right. Bet I parked
That damn still graveyard.
-it's been a while, ain't it?
-yeah.
Narrator:
On the outskirts of the
Chattahoochee national forest,
Mark and digger make a stop
To pick up one last piece
Of popcorn's history.
The old still graveyard,
It's basically just old stills
From predecessors of us
In this industry.
It's part of our history
And our heritage in this county.
I think I remember where
That old still was at,
But now I won't
Point him to it.
How long ago has it been
Since ol' elvis was put up here?
It's been 15 years
Or better.
You quit using it few years
Before popcorn died.
Oh, yeah.
Two or three years.
Narrator: popcorn sutton's
Legendary still, elvis,
Was only operational
For seven years,
But it churned out
Tens of thousands of gallons
Of moonshine.
The still was ultimately run
Into the ground and retired,
But its astonishing
Productivity leaves
Elvis widely revered as one of
The most prolific liquor stills
In tennessee history.
Mark:
You know, when we re-discovered
Popcorn's patterns,
It kind of made us realize
The importance
Of trying to preserve
These pieces of history.
We've decided and thought it
Out, we're gonna salvage
Popcorn sutton's still.
So, we're headed back
Into the woods today
And we're gonna do
Our damnedest to fetch old
Elvis out of there.
Digger:
Well, we're getting into
The neck of the woods here.
-oh, yeah.
-this is where it'll all start.
We pulled on up
And the first pot
That greets you is
An old copper pot.
That's the one that brings
Most money at the scrapyard.
Mark: well, this ain't elvis.
I know we're semi
In the right place
Or this buddy
Wouldn't be here.
If we're gonna find elvis,
Let's quit acing around here.
Digger: let's move on.
Mark: this is a big place.
It's about an 80-acre
Spread of woods, you know,
Covers a lot of ground.
Digger: I don't rightly know
Where elvis was,
But we'll keep it going.
We'll find it.
Maybe this way is a better way.
Mark:
I guess that's an old still,
But now that ain't elvis.
That's way too
Little to be elvis.
Just keep a moving.
It may be that somebody's
Found this old still
And took it out of here.
We ain't havin' no luck.
Period.
Mark: here's a now another
That ain't fared so well.
Digger: somebody found that
In target practice.
That ain't what
We're looking for.
I don't feel that anyone
Would have taken him
Unless they knew that it was
A popcorn sutton still.
Anything that
Popcorn sutton owned,
It's worth something
To someone.
Mark: god almighty this one's
Been here a long time.
Well, let's
Move on, boys.
We're looking for a shiny
Stainless still pot.
J.B.: wait a minute.
I believe I see it.
-is that it?
-that's it.
I'd know that miserable
Little bastard anywhere,
Wouldn't you, raider?
-you're damn right.
There's old elvis
Shining like new money.
Did you name it elvis, j.B.?
Just however far that bottom
Would flex out,
That's how high it rose up
Out of the furnace.
Digger:
There's a lot of good times
That been had right here
Beside this old still.
Every damn one of us.
Wouldn't you love to have
The liquor that this thing made?
Oh, hell.
I reckon.
This stuff is worth saving.
It's worth preserving.
It brings back
A flood of memories,
Flood of good memories.
*bleep* yeah.
It might not be real beautiful
In its state that it's in now,
But every little cut, crease,
Dent, it holds a memory for us.
-yeah, boy.
-how about that, sports fans?
You know, as far
As I'm concerned,
Elvis and popcorn's patterns,
You know, they've come home.
They're where they need to be.
♪♪
♪♪
Mike: well, we'll go up here
And see old detroit, jerry.
You gonna talk to him?
Oh, yeah. Looks like he's going
To take the last 20 gallons
We got, brother.
Narrator:
In sevier county, tennessee,
After overcoming slow sales
In a flooded market,
Mike and jerry
Are back on track
And unloading the last
20 gallons of a 320 gallon run.
He sitting there on
The porch, ain't he?
He sure is.
♪♪
Mike: what do you say, detroit?
Pretty good, man. Where do you
Want this stuff at, brother?
Yeah, we'll put it
Right over here.
How you doing, buddy?
What in the world is all this?
It looks like you stocking up
For the damn wintertime,
Right there, buddy.
Somebody's done
Been in one of 'em, huh?
Most moonshiners don't make
A multi-grain whiskey.
Just a couple of people
That I know
That can be making this stuff.
Damn, that's pretty good.
Try that, jerry.
That's pretty good stuff,
Ain't it?
It's not awful bad.
Let's settle up on this right
Here, and we'll be done, man.
Yeah, buddy.
Looks good.
How much will you take
For a jar of that right there?
Come on, man,
We're friends.
$100?
Boy you...
You're *bleep* me
Is what you're doing.
Yeah, we're
Buddies all right,
That's why I'm gonna
Give you $40 for a jar.
That's some pretty
Good multi-grain, though.
I like it.
-smooth.
I sure do. That right there is
Pretty damn good.
I appreciate it.
You too, brother.
You know, all season long,
Me and jerry working together,
They something fishy
In the damn water going on.
I've been looking
For a telltale sign
And a red flag to go up,
And I think I just found it
On the front porch
Of this here man's house.
-well, ol' jerry.
-what's up buddy?
There ain't
But one set of folks
That I know that's making
This stuff, brother.
And I think you know
Who I'm talking about.
I believe I do.
I mean, how the hell is this
In our -- in our territory?
Moonshiner's code,
We will not sell
Inside each other's territory.
I'm not accusing
Nobody or anything,
But I know in my heart
And gut where this come from.
Damn well, I learnt my lesson
About making mistakes and stuff,
But I still carry
A *bleep* lighter in my pocket.
Let's go talk to 'em.
Let's go talk to mark
And digger.
I'm getting my gloves on, man.
Tickle: what are you
Wearing gloves for?
You gettin' that soft
Or something?
I was getting ready
To eat a sandwich
You fixin' to eat
A sandwich?
What's your sandwich
Gonna taste like?
Well...
He gon taste
Like all the metal.
I don't have to taste
To touch, do we?
Yeah, you got
A little seasoning on it.
Yeah, maybe you can
Hold my sandwich
While I eat it,
What do you think?
That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna hold your sandwich,
While I eat it.
Narrator:
As tickle prepares to walk
The aisle,
The shiners
Enter the final stretch.
Mark and digger are ahead by a
Nose with 1,835 gallons.
Tickle is nipping at their heels
With 1,800, while mike and jerry
Are pulling up
The rear with 990.
Mike: we need to find
Mark and digger.
Jerry: absolutely.
You know, they don't want me
Selling here
In their county.
Well, guess what?
Somehow though this is
Winding up in our county.
Exactly. I'm looking for answers
And I'm determined to get one.
Narrator:
Straddling county lines
In eastern tennessee,
Mike and jerry are on a mission
To track down mark
And digger
To address an old feud.
You know, we promised each other
We wouldn't sell
In each other's territories,
But when I sold 20 gallons
To my customer,
Detroit, he had some cases
Sitting on his porch.
When I tasted of it,
I knew where it come from.
It's a triple grain whiskey.
They ain't but two people
Making that liquor.
That's mark and digger.
I've been twiddling my thumbs.
Can't hardly sleep
At damn night
Wondering how in the hell
Their liquor's ending up
All over our county.
I don't want
To think that mark
And digger's coming over
And selling to everybody,
But I believe
There's a snake some damn
Where getting from them,
And selling in our county,
That way it covers mark
And digger's ass.
I will find out.
Word gets around in small towns.
If he gets wind enough, a worm
Will come out of a whole.
Damn right.
Well, how do you propose
We find him?
Well, they ain't bout two places
That mark and digger'll be.
Number one, they'll be
In a bar, and number two,
Feeding their big bellies
Some damn where.
Mike: this is a small world
Around here in the mountains,
There's only a handful of places
People even go around here.
That's to church, to bars,
And the restaurants.
I mean, church
Ain't gonna be it.
There's a bar right up
Here on the left.
We're gonna check this out.
There's our truck right there.
They are in here.
We're gonna go in here
And talk to them.
Let's go see
What they got to say.
♪♪
Let's go in here and see
If they piled up in here.
Jerry:
Bellied up to the bar.
-howdy, boys!
-the hell fire.
Mike: how y'all doing?
Last person in the world
I'd expected to see over here.
I'm like a damn penny.
I'm liable to turn up
Anywhere, buddy.
Bad penny.
Well, any which way
You want to look at it.
I'd like to have a little word
With y'all, outside, preferably.
I got a little bone
I need to pick with you.
Take it outside, boys.
Let's go talk about it.
Nah, we got this.
Boys, the reason I'm here is
We've got a jar of liquor.
Congratulations.
Looks just like y'all's
Jar of liquor.
Looks like good liquor.
Did y'all come over
To buy little of this?
No.
Well, what's
The point here?
The trouble with it is,
It's showing up
In sevier county.
People over there deserve good
Liquor as good as anybody else.
All right,
Cut to the chase here.
I'm asking you, are y'all
Bring over
Into our county
And selling liquor?
Digger:
We gave you our word,
We wouldn't come into
Your county and sell no liquor.
Mike: we did.
And you know, we made that
Agreement
And I can promise you,
On my ma-mah's eyes,
We are not coming to
Your county to sell liquor.
Didn't think that you would be,
But some damn body is.
Well, that's
A possibility.
We can't help where our liquor
Goes when it's sold.
We can understand if it was
A case or two, you know,
But we're talking about, there's
Been a lot of damn liquor.
We make a lot of liquor,
That's the business we're in.
Honestly, we've sold
A lot of liquor.
I mean, who could it be?
♪♪
Narrator:
Next time on "Moonshiners"...
Mike:
We're gonna have to resolve
This mess right now.
Narrator:
...Mike is on the warpath.
Mike: if I catch your ass
Selling liquor to my customers,
I will shut you down
For good.
Yeah, I wanna talk to him,
But if we don't agree 100%...
We pull out.
The unwritten rule of
Moonshinin'
Is you never sell
To people you don't know.
Narrator:
A mystery buyer in tennessee.
Digger: where'd you get
Our name at?
Look at the temperature's
Going up there.
-you better adjust it.
-yeah.
Tickle:
Moonshine has to progress
With the times
Or it's doomed
To be left in the past.
Narrator:
And high times are close at hand
As tickle and the laws
Step up production of
Their cbd infused moonshine.
We can't tell a soul.
I'm talking no body.