[narrator] This time on Moonshiners...
-[Tim] What in the world? -[Tickle] What do you think of my new ride?
We're gonna make the very first mobile still site.
What if something happened in the back and it catches on fire?
That's when I open the windows up.
Gives a whole new meaning to "miles to the gallon".
How many jars of liquor at 60 bucks a jar?
250.
You know, Beaz has got so many high-profile contacts.
-Hey, Digger? -Yo!
[Beaz] We don't have water.
[Digger] But if we don't get this water flowing,
this one deal
could kill us all the way across the board in Nashville.
Ah, hell.
[Richard] Oh, [bleep]
I think this is their whole season's run.
That's a lot of money.
I say we teach 'em a lesson they all deserve.
Richard and Craig, they're newcomers.
They won't make no more damn liquor after today.
He's gonna have to learn the codes around here.
[Tim] This is how we make the moonshine!
[grunts] Hey, brother.
What's up? Did you have lunch before you came to work?
[chuckling] I was doing Pilates.
-How are you, buddy? -I'm all right.
-I've already loaded all the sugar. -[Beaz] Good.
Look, I've got a client out of Nashville.
You will have a duck
when you hear what family this is.
It's Raelyn Nelson, Willie Nelson's granddaughter,
and her band.
They are wanting individual jars
of a single malt aged rye whiskey
to give to their fans at a meet and greet.
But I'm thinking we put chips in the jars.
Age it themselves for a month.
It's like a do-it-yourself kit.
So I pitched it to 'em.
What would they be willing to pay a jar for it?
I pitched 75, they agreed to 60.
How many jars of liquor at 60 bucks a jar?
250.
At 60 dollars a quart,
that's $15,000
and that's a good start on getting us through the hard winter.
-Beaz, you're carrying your weight already. -Good to know.
You know, this is why Beaz is on our team.
I mean, he's a rainmaker.
When he goes to Nashville,
he's got so many connections in that country music world.
Whether they're singers
or whether they're working behind the scenes,
they pay big money.
I mean, Raelyn Nelson.
It don't get no higher up in the country music royalty than her family.
[Beaz] All right.
Two weeks is really cutting it close
'cause you just have to rush, rush, rush
and there's not room to deal with whatever may go wrong.
But it's a $15,000 deal
and it's for a very high-profile client.
[grunts] Oh, here we go.
So, now's our job.
We have to get in here and mash this in.
We're gonna build us some single malt rye.
[Beaz] Perfect.
I'm gonna put that pump down there.
[Digger] I'll get the cap off Floppy.
We'll fill her up and get her heating up some water.
[Beaz] What the crap?
-Hey, Digger? -Yo!
We don't have water.
Oh, hell.
That's no good.
Yeah, this is unbelievable.
Holy crap.
That's no good at all.
I did not foresee this.
You know, wells go dry in this neck of the woods sometimes.
Water table in the ground gets a little lower,
gets a little slower.
That's what we're facing here.
And this is the only source I got outside the county.
I'm not going back into Cocke County.
The heat's too strong on us.
-I'm with you on that. -Ah, hell.
You know, with the way that Detective Robertson is dogging us,
right now, this is the only place I feel safe.
There's no place in Cocke County I'll go back to.
If we don't get water back, we're done.
We're D-U-N-N, dunn.
[Tickle] All right,
y'all sit down and hush back there.
Well, I got me this bus.
A lot of people wonder why would I but this,
but, now, I have got me a great plan for this thing.
[Tim] What in the world?
Tickle, what are you doing?
What do you think of my new ride?
[Tim] What do you mean, "new ride"? You got a part-time job?
No, no. That's my new ride, man. I bought it.
You bought a school bus?
[Tickle] I mean, look, what my plan is, Tim, is, you know,
I'm all the time back and forth
with Henry and Kenny and Josh.
We're always making liquor, right?
But I figured, if I can bring a still with me,
when I ain't working there,
I can be making my own little small runs.
I can set me a small pot up in there
and run it while I'm going on the road.
Tickle.
[stuttering] I... I don't know what... What are you thinking about?
It's a still bus.
It's not a school bus. It's a still bus.
You can help me build a still and put it in this thing.
It'll be great.
So you wanna build a still and you're gonna...
You're gonna... [exhales]
You're gonna drive it down the road?
Why not? I'm always on the road anyway.
-With the still in the back? -Why not?
I don't know. This is kinda dangerous.
What if something happened in the back and it catches on fire?
Well, that's when I open the windows up.
The wind will blow the flames out.
Oh, my God. You've got an answer for everything, Tickle.
-[Tickle] Yeah. -Okay,
maybe you shouldn't have an open flame.
It should be more like steam.
You know, like, we use a boiler here.
Runs steam through the pipe and the coil in the still,
so it's safe, there's no fire,
so the alcohol stays separate from the fire.
I guess he's got a point.
If a dog runs out in front of me
and I have to slam on brakes,
this thing turns into a bomb.
Power Stroke turbo diesel.
Yeah, that's a good one.
7.3 diesel.
So you're gonna have plenty of horsepower.
Think about this, Tickle.
This radiator right here,
it's putting out 180 degrees.
-Yeah. -Think about that, now.
I mean, this could be something different.
-[Tickle] That's hot enough to make liquor. -Mmm-hmm.
There's already heat here in this vehicle.
It's the heat that the motor makes
and runs through the cooling system
to cool the motor down.
This engine's producing enough hot water
to heat the still and to make alcohol
if you can get it to the still.
And then I ain't got no open flame inside here.
Yeah, no open flame. See, I'm a genius, see?
Good thing you came to see me.
But the only catch is,
how are you gonna cool it down?
-Hmm, well... -Yeah.
Does this thing have rear air condition
or does it just have regular air condition?
-[Tickle] Well, I don't know. -'Cause you could use the air condition
-to help cool it. -There's some sort of vent box back here at the back.
-Let's check it out. -All right.
Couple of different variables and obstacles here, you know?
Getting the heat back to the still to heat it up,
but then, also, you have to condense it to cool it back down,
and you gotta do all this at the same time.
So this is gonna be a task.
[Tickle] I got air condition right here.
-[Tim] Yeah? -Look, I could just take it and run a pipe
right from here, run it back,
right into the condenser.
There's a plan coming together right now, Tim.
I can see it now.
I'll have Tim in the back running the still
and he'll be letting me know how many more miles I've got to go
to get this liquor run.
Gives a whole new meaning to "miles to the gallon".
I remember, Tim, when I was in high school, now.
-Now, I know this is gonna be hard for you to believe. -Yeah.
We'd do this thing on the school bus called a "pile up".
Basically, what that meant is
-you'd pick one person... -Yeah.
...and everybody would jump on top of 'em and lay on 'em.
We'd get on top on their back.
You put your feet against the top of the bus
and then you just press.
Why would you put your feet on top of the ceiling of the bus?
To crush the person on the very bottom.
But why are you doing that?
Because we were stupid kids.
[sighs] Oh, my God.
You didn't ever do nothing stupid when you was a kid?
Nothing like that, no.
One thing we gotta do, Tickle,
we can't see what we're working on
with all these seats in here.
[Tickle] Here's what we do, Tim.
We'll take every one of these seats out.
-All of 'em out? -All of 'em out.
What if you've got somebody who wanna ride with you?
Well, that's what I'm gonna say.
And then we'll get the still in here.
-All right. -Get it built
and then put whatever we need back in.
But just to work,
let's get us some tools and let's get these darn seats out of here.
-[Tim] I guess it's what we've gotta do. -[Tickle] Yeah.
[Jerry] After that party last night, man, I'm a little confused.
I don't know what the hell's going on.
[Mike] Well, hell, there weren't nothing there
but damn replicas of our damn recipes.
Last night, me and Jerry, we went to the party down by the creek.
Everybody shows up on Friday night to this party
and always drinking different types of local moonshine
and, usually, our damn liquor.
But when we got through to making it around over there,
there was nobody definitely not drinking our liquor.
-What's that you're drinking? -[man] Mimosa watermelon.
[Jerry and Mike] Mimosa watermelon?
[man] A bit of cantaloupe and grape.
-[Mike] Cantaloupe and grape. -[Jerry] Same damn flavors we're doing.
[Mike] Where'd that come from?
-Jason. Bootlegger. -[Mike] Jason the bootlegger.
I wanna find out who these damn copycats are
and the only way I know to do that
is to meet up with our bootlegger, Jason.
Let's see what he's got to say,
or else.
-[Jason] What's going on, fellas? -All right, buddy.
[Jason] All right. How y'all doing today?
-All right. -How's it going?
[Jason] Mike. Good to see you, bro.
[Jerry] Well, we brought you out here. We just wanna talk to you,
kinda see what's going on.
We went to this little party.
-You know which party I'm talking about. -[Jason] Yeah, I do.
-Down on the creek here. -[Jason] Yes, sir.
And we didn't... Couldn't find any of our liquor there.
There weren't none of the ours there.
There was a whole lot of liquor there that wasn't ours.
There's definitely somebody else in the henhouse here.
[Jason] Oh, yeah.
You know, I got a couple new guys that come into town.
Come into town. So they're not from around here?
They said they're from out of state.
Well, that being said,
this is our latest run.
This is our elderberry.
-We're super, super proud of it. -[Jason] Smells good.
We went and picked them off the side of the dadgum road
just so we could save our customers,
you and our customers money.
It got a good taste, man. I like it.
As a drinker, I would drink it all day long,
but right now, brother, I got...
I just don't need none.
You just don't need none.
He just don't need none of ours
'cause he's got too much of it left over.
I'll tell you what.
When you need liquor from us, you give us a call.
One day, you may need our liquor to sell.
I promise you, these guys ain't always gonna be around.
-[Jason] Well... -[Jerry] You have a good one.
[Jason] Right, well, I got your number
-and I will be giving you call. -[Mike] All right, man.
Well, I'll tell you what,
we know exactly who's doing it now, don't we?
[Jerry] I mean, it's pretty obvious. Two out-of-state guys.
Richard and Craig is it.
You know, when Richard and Craig come to this area,
we told 'em not to step on our toes
and mess with our customers.
It's time to shut 'em down.
Get some tools. We're gonna solve this problem.
Well, we're gonna pay 'em one last damn visit.
We're fixin' to get rid of 'em for damn good.
[Beaz] All right.
[Digger] I'm gonna blame all this on Mark.
He put a red on us.
Now we're under the gun.
Beaz got a $15,000 order
for Willie Nelson's granddaughter, Raelyn,
but now we're out of water.
But with the way that Detective Robertson is dogging us,
this is the only source of limestone water
that I feel comfortable being on.
So we've gotta come up with a plan
to get this spring flowing again.
Right, this is when the fun starts.
The vein has shifted down at least a foot
from where it was previously.
We've gotta jackhammer that slate deep enough
where the water will flow over it.
It's all I know to do.
You're not much of a thrower, are you?
[Beaz] I'm a great thrower.
I was shooting for a curve. I can make these curve...
You know, as a "disc golf" champion,
I've been able to master
-the flight pattern. -Is that what you are now?
[Beaz] Yeah, I just come up with it.
It sounded better than pickleball.
Pickleball. I'm putting pickleball right up there with cornhole.
You know, when somebody invites me to cornhole the first time,
you know what I did?
I moved to the next county over.
Got you.
If I'm giving that inclination, I need out.
I think old people play pickleball,
-not guys our age. -What is pickleball? I saw it on...
It's short tennis.
It's tennis if you washed it
and then shrunk it in the dryer by accident.
Little-bitty court.
The rackets are like oversized ping-pong paddles.
-[Digger] I think I saw a little bit of it. -They're hard,
they don't have netting in 'em.
And you stand there and you go [imitates racket] like that
and you run over like this and you go [imitates racket] like that.
That looks like me and you getting away from a yellow jacket.
Then you run over like this and go [imitates racket] like that
and then you have to stop and take your blood pressure.
You remember we were running from the yellow jacket? We thought we were flying,
actually we're doing the nursing home shuffle.
[Beaz laughing]
[Digger] You know what?
If you put that bucket right there about where you're at,
I'll put it in that,
then you can carry it over on the other side
and dump it in the hole.
[Beaz] I'm good with that.
When I used to work in cemeteries when I was in high school,
I was real good at that stuff.
They didn't let me grave-dig, though,
'cause I was too short to get back out of the hole.
You didn't know how to get on the end of a shovel
and pole vault out?
No.
[Digger] They didn't teach you boys at that Alabama did they?
All right, let me come around you.
[Digger] Everywhere we go, we've got limestone,
just no limestone water to speak of.
You know, we've got no other options
but to dig down and find where this vein dropped to.
We're going from limestone
to slate, to shale.
Dude, this sucks.
The terrain is so full of boulders and rocks
and we can't get to it on our own.
It's impossible for us
to do it with hand tools.
Well, Beaz, this is a hell of a way to start a partnership out.
Well, yeah, we're being tested right out of the gate.
[Digger] There ain't no way we can dig that out.
-No. -We need heavier equipment
-and I believe-- -Kelly's got a steam shovel.
Well, it's called an excavator.
You know, they haven't used steam since 1800, but...
I think that it's your turn to call a favor in to Kelly.
-I did it once. -[Beaz] Yeah.
I'll get in touch with Kelly and see.
-[Tickle] All right. -[Tim] You got the tools, right?
[Tickle] Yeah, I got some tools here.
-You got the right size? -Yeah.
Here, look, this one's for a man, Tim.
Well, hell, give me that one.
If that thing gets loose from you and hurts you,
-I'll never forgive myself. you take that one. -Give me the damn thing.
The first thing we gotta do is
we gotta rip all these seats out of the school bus.
I'm doing mine, just screwing in and coming out.
Then we can get a game plan
on how we're gonna put a still in it.
-[Tim] Ain't doing nothing, Tickle. -Uh-oh.
We're gonna have to refocus, Tim.
We can't get to all of 'em
for fuel tanks and stuff like that.
[Tim] Why don't we just cut the head off?
[Tickle] Cutting the head off will work too.
I learned something today.
When they put seats in a school bus,
they are not meant to come out.
There you go.
I've built a lot of stills in my time, but this is very special.
-What you gotta do now? -I gotta get over here now.
This is nothing that you can go to the store and buy.
I mean, who goes to the store and says,
"I want a custom-built still to go in the back of a school bus"?
-Yeah, if we just get that one out of there. -[Tickle] Yeah.
[Tim] Well, I'm all behind you all ready.
-[Tickle] I appreciate it, Tim. -[Tim] Yeah.
-[Tickle] I need some moral support here. -[Tim] Yeah.
-Takes more work... -[Tickle shrieks]
-Well, I'm trying to wiggle it. -[Tickle chuckling]
[Tim] You're putting it in a bind.
I'm not putting nothing in a bind.
You're the one look like's in a bind.
Look, get it right there.
-See? Get it. Get it. Get it. -[Tickle] Stop wiggling it!
-[Tickle grunts] -See? There you go.
-[Tickle] There you go. -Now you got it out. There you go.
-All right, get up. Come on. -[Tickle] All right.
I'll work on the others
-while you work on this. -All right.
Every bolt and nut and screw in this thing
does not want to come out
and there's like 15 in each seat
out of eight seats.
So, I mean, it's like 100 bolts.
So if it takes an hour,
we're talking about 100 hours.
[Tickle] That's one.
117 bolts to go.
[Tim] Come on, man.
[Tickle] There it goes.
[Tim exhales]
[Tim] I'm getting into it.
There's another one there, Tickle.
I like building things.
I like to engineer and then creating something,
especially when Tickle comes up with something
that no one else has ever did before.
You know, it's like the first man on the moon.
Everybody wanna be part of the guy who's going to the moon.
I want a ride.
Mmm-hmm.
I think you got it.
-Good. -[Tickle] That's it.
[exhales] Last one.
-[Tickle] It's about time, ain't it? -Yeah.
You know, I thought that this was gonna be
about a 20, 30-minute job.
Turned out to be an all-day-long project
getting these seats out of this bus.
But at the end of the day,
I'm really happy with what we got.
-Wow. -[exhales]
Looks a whole lot bigger now, don't it?
[Tim] Whole lot bigger now.
[Richard] It's dark back here.
I can't prove 100% that it's Mike and Jerry doing this,
so I ain't going tearing nothing up.
We're just going for information right now.
If we can get in there and get out of there without them knowing...
We're gonna pull up straight up to that barn
like we belong there.
We know they was taking some buckets in there, so...
They got something in there.
We're gonna find out what they got in there right now.
We're doing some detective work right now.
Our plan is to sneak in real quick under the cover of darkness
so no one can see us.
[Craig] It's a barn for sure.
[Richard] Close the door so nobody don't see us. We got lights in here, man.
All right, I got some buckets right here with diesel clean.
[Richard] I got some buckets right here too, but there ain't nothing in 'em.
This ain't nothing but hydraulic fluid and transmission fluid.
You don't see nothing over there?
[Craig] Just a bunch of pallets, garbage cans and wheelbarrows.
[chicken squawking]
[Richard] Come on. We're getting too nervous.
[whispering] Come on. We gotta get the hell out of here.
Nice and quiet. Come on.
Just look for them buckets.
They came in here with five buckets.
They're in here.
And now we all spooked.
Oh!
-But we got something right here, though. -What you see?
[Richard] Hey, man. You feel good about this?
-[Craig laughing] -[Richard] Oh, [bleep]
[Craig] Gotta be moonshine.
Taste that.
[Richard] That's liquor. That tastes like cantaloupe.
I uncover these tops and there's a whole bunch of buckets under there.
I think this is their whole season's run in this barn.
[slurps] That's corn liquor.
Let me see how many buckets they got here.
Two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.
That's 25 buckets of liquor.
That's a lot of money.
I'm counting 25 buckets here.
That's over $12,000 worth of liquor sitting in front of us.
Look what else them son of a bitches got.
What the [bleep]? That's our elbow.
[Richard] Goddamn arm for the thumper.
I know immediately what this is.
This is the elbow
that connects our cap to our thump keg.
Now I got the proof.
I know Mike and Jerry came in and tore up our still site.
This is ours.
[Richard] It is Mike and Jerry.
I'm seeing red. I'm pissed off.
These guys really did steal from us.
They broke a moonshiners code.
Let's get the hell out of here. I got an idea.
This is their whole season.
I don't get it. What about our elbow so we can start making liquor?
[Richard] I'ma make another one.
I'm not sure the next move we're gonna make,
but if I take this liquor right now, it's gonna be war.
If we take that arm or we take any of this liquor,
they're gonna know we did it.
Our competitors know where our still site is.
We're gonna move our still site.
I don't think they're thinking about moving their stash spot.
Right now, Craig and I got the total upper hand.
[Craig] I love the way you think, sun.
[Richard] Let's get the hell out of here.
Well, Beaz, we gotta go on bended knees to Kelly,
'cause we cannot do a damned thing without water.
I could not believe my eyes when I went down there with that pump.
You know, our spring dried up.
We gave it our level best to try to dig it out by hand,
but if we're gonna get that rock out of the way, we need heavier machinery.
Fortunate for us, our buddy Kelly's got an excavator.
[Beaz] Oh, there he is.
This order has got to be delivered on time,
so we need that spring yesterday.
What's up, gentlemen?
Well, how are you doing, Kelly?
-[Kelly] Good to see you. -[Beaz] Good to see you, man.
Hate to be kinda rude about it,
but I'm behind again and all that kinda stuff.
[Beaz] That's the exact opposite
of what we needed to hear from you.
We are in a pickle.
We ain't got no water, Kelly.
You remember where you dug that spring out for me? And dug that reservoir out?
-Yeah. -Well, that dried up.
That vein has dropped down in that old crawfishy dirt.
-Oh. -[Digger] If it wasn't for the fact
that I got three stills set up down yonder,
I'd get somebody else to come in here and do it
and not disturb you, but we can't just let anybody in there.
I get it, but I mean--
We have a short list of who can help us, has one name on it.
Well, you put me in, like, one of those situations.
This is a real good paying job,
-I priced this thing through the roof... -[Beaz] Right.
[Kelly]...on a timeline basis for these guys.
And every day I come in under that timeline,
and I'm under it right now, two weeks.
So, that's $1,000 a day, that's $14,000
if I'm done in the two weeks early.
What can we pay you to get you to come do it, Kelly?
What do you charge an hour to run your excavator?
Well, this one's $250 an hour.
If this one's not running today,
then I'm out $2,500.
-[Beaz] Right. -Plus my $1,000 bonus.
So, how do you feel if we give him $3,000?
It's gotta be done, Beaz.
Will you do it for $3,000?
Leave a $3,500 day, drive three counties away
with another excavator, and make less money...
...than I'm gonna do here?
You know, I mean, I care about these guys,
and I care about the fact that they're in need,
but, you know, at some point,
you gotta draw that line.
What would it take, let me ask you that.
What would it take, 'cause we've got to get it done.
You know, if it's gonna help you guys out,
I'll do it for the three grand.
Awesome.
-He's in. -Awesome.
-Brother, thank you. -Thank you, brother.
-Thank you. -Appreciate it.
But they're dead in the water without me coming to help them,
so ultimately I guess, you know, you gotta do what a friend's gotta do.
You guys gonna meet me over there or what we doing?
I'm gonna ride with you.
$3,000, that's a tremendous amount of money,
but it's a $15,000 pay day.
-Let me go get my stuff. -[Digger] I'll take him over to your truck.
-[Kelly] Okay. -He can drop what he needs off.
[Beaz] So, we're gonna give him the $3,000
and, you know, like, a Killer Beaz t-shirt or something.
-Thank you, man. -[Digger] Thank you, brother.
Man, I can't believe we're going through all this trouble over Mike and Jerry.
We almost there.
[Craig] I can't see anything.
You have to be my eyes.
-[Richard] Come on. -[Craig] I'm getting caught up.
[groans]
[Richard] Today, we're back in the woods.
We found a nice new still site.
Be careful right there, it's soft, Craig.
We need to be hidden, we need to be away from prying eyes.
Yeah, we covered in here.
Mike and Jerry ain't gonna come back here.
Mike and Jerry ain't gonna have no chance of finding us where we are.
So, it's time to get back to work.
We need to make some money. The orders are piling up on us right now.
All right.
Got the whole still here now.
We can run our water in from right here.
Perfect spot right here.
So, what's the game plan?
[Craig] What the hell are we gonna do next?
[Richard] The still site is already pretty much done.
We'll finish what we gotta finish off.
I got a call for a big order, man.
My guy said he wanted a seasonal shine.
It could be something like Thanksgiving-type thing, or Christmas, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Work better for the fall, do a pumpkin spice shine.
Give it a good pumpkin flavor.
I mean, that's something we never thought about back home.
[Richard] I know.
Innovation is key in any business,
and alcohol should be no different.
We can't let these customers down out here.
We just starting to get these customers.
So, we're gonna make a pumpkin moonshine,
but of course I'm gonna add some spice to it.
Get our pumpkins, and we gonna make some money.
I say we go get to work on this.
We still got some daylight.
[Richard] Craig and I are gonna take a ride, we're gonna get some pumpkins
and give a seasonal drink to a new customer.
Everybody's gonna want the very first
pumpkin spice moonshine in Maggie Valley.
Now let's get to it, man.
[Mike] We're done with it, buddy.
I may just get, get this shut down, get, get it taken care of.
-And actually just get started making some damn money. -[Mike] Yeah.
Well, it all starts right damn here, don't it?
Me and Jerry, we've got a bone to pick with Richard and Craig.
They've moved in on our territory.
They're selling to our damn customers, we got proof of that.
It's time we sent 'em another message.
'Kay, well I don't see the truck burn over here.
There ain't nobody up there.
Around these parts, you gotta earn your territory.
I've earned that over the years,
but Richard and Craig, they're newcomers.
He's gonna have to learn, learn the codes around here.
I say we go in there and by God teach 'em the lesson they all deserve.
We got the tools to do it.
[Mike] They won't make no more damn liquor after today.
They ain't gonna be able to afford to buy another solder
-and put this thing back together. -No.
[Jerry] We know that Richard and Craig have got a real nice pot still.
By God, we're gonna make sure that it never runs liquor again.
[Mike] Oh, God, don't tell me, man.
-It's gone. -[Jerry] Oh, my God.
The whole pot and everything's gone.
[groans]
[Jerry] Wait a minute, hang on.
They're gone, man, is it worth shooting for?
They got the most important damn piece.
They could still be in business.
They ain't gonna be in business without that burner.
They can build another one of those damn things.
They can be running liquor up under our noses again,
Jerry, what the hell's wrong with you, man?
I understand that, but, but they ain't gonna do it right now.
They ain't got a thump.
They...We know they ain't got a elbow, 'cause we got it.
They ain't got hoses and mash barrels, too.
-As long as we go these... -say we slow, we've slowed 'em down,
-is all we've done. -We've slowed 'em down a lot.
And hopefully, we've slowed 'em down and got the point across
that they don't need to be doing what they're doing here.
[Mike] You know, yeah, they'll have to rebuild something.
They'll be set back a week or two.
You gotta wait on mash any damn way.
Hell, I can build a whole damn operation in a week's time.
There ain't no sense in getting too wound up about it.
There ain't no sense in all this damn pussyfooting around,
waiting for this and that and another
when we could have jacked their asses up the first time.
-I know. -They take the money out of mine and your pocket.
Your pocket too, brother.
I, I get your point.
I do, I really get your point.
The next damn time somebody tells us...
-I know. -...that they got their liquor some damn where else,
then we know where it come from.
We ain't, we ain't gonna retaliate the way we did.
It's my way next time, Jack.
I'll give it to you.
[Mike] You know, Richard and Craig,
they've moved in on our territory.
I feel like a fool for not taking the opportunity when I had it
to go ahead and just demolish what they had.
You know, it took me a long time
to learn the code of moonshiners around here.
I've lived here for a long time myself.
So, I've, I've set roots here, and Richard is not.
Sometimes in this damn world,
you just can't be frickin' nice, Jerry.
I know, you gotta fight fire with fire, so...
[Mike] Doggonit.
[Jerry] Kinda outwitted us on this little go around.
[Mike] Well...
What the hell are we gonna do now, Jerry?
[Jerry] I mean, after tasting what the put out, I mean,
we gotta come up, we gotta come up with something different.
I know what we gotta do. We gotta beat 'em at their own damn game.
We gotta start making better damn liquor.
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let two punk-ass rookies
show our asses up. That ain't gonna happen.
[Jerry] No, we've been at this too damn long for that to happen.
[Mike] Let's go, man.
We gotta, we gotta think about what we're gonna do, that's for damn sure.
[Jerry] Yeah.
-We'll, uh, put our brains together, we'll figure it out. -[Mike sighs]
[Art] All right, so, well, what, what we gonna do here?
-[Tim] I wanna do you a CAD drawing here-- -[Steve] Yeah.
-Cardboard assisted design. -Yup.
I come up here to the distillery to get Tim's help.
But in all actuality, I need Tim's help to figure out what I wanna do,
and then I need Art's help to build this pot,
and we're gonna make the very first mobile still site ever.
[Tim] Well, I think we make it permanent.
-Yeah. -Gotta be really, really welded together...
-Mmm-hmm. -Yeah.
...and solid, I mean, I'm even thinking weld the cap onto it.
The cap onto it, the arm that comes out to the condenser.
Weld it all together.
I think stainless would be a good choice, because it doesn't corrode.
-Mmm-hmm. Yeah. -Won't rot like, uh, regular steel will.
-Yeah. -[Steve] And, you, you know, with this...
-So... -[Steve]...being a mobile still,
I believe you're right, Art,
-that stainless is really gonna stand up to... -[Art] Yeah.
...going down the road.
-Stainless does not never corrode. -Mmm-hmm.
-[Tim] It stays real clean, you know. -Yeah.
If somebody looks at this,
being as it's stainless and it's square, and it's a box,
it doesn't look like a moonshine still.
It's hiding in plain sight.
-[Tim] Yeah. -Just like this school bus.
Driving right down the road, nobody's gonna give it a second thought.
All right, so, you're talking about, this is the back of the bus,
this is the door, right?
You know, we put on here, this is a door.
We'll estimate that as, as 36 inches, right?
-[Steve] Right. -We good on 36 inches both ways?
-[Art] I think so. -[Tim] Just a three-foot square.
So, it'll be 36, 36, so that means the top will be 36, 36.
[Art] All right, so let's talk about the heating coil.
Okay, we know this is the back.
So, this is where the heat is at right here.
Okay, so if the heater's right there,
then this is where we wanna put our fittings in...
-Yeah, yeah. -...for our coil.
[Steve] What, what kind of coil are you looking at in here?
[Art] Let me show you what I got.
-All right. -Be right back.
[Steve] This still is gonna be completely welded together,
and it's fired by the heater on the bus.
-Yeah. -So, this is what I'm thinking.
-[Tim] Yeah, that's what we need right there. -I mean...
And, uh...
-[Tim] Put it down just like that. -[Steve] All right, all right.
-Yeah, yeah. -Put a nail on it,
drop it down, put a nail on here,
and just come right back out.
-[Art] There you go. -[Tim] And check it.
-[Steve] Mmm. -[Tim] Make sure it don't leak,
'cause we gonna hook the antifreeze.
If not, we'll be pumping antifreeze into the still.
-[Art] Yeah, I wouldn't recommend drinking that. -No, we don't do that.
-[Art] I wouldn't, I wouldn't... -And then, and then,
then the truck will be getting hot.
We're gonna put a heating coil inside of this still, in the bottom of it,
that's actually gonna be connected to heater hoses
which runs all the way up to the engine,
and the water pump is actually gonna be pumping
this hot antifreeze into the system.
So, it's very important that we do not have any leaks inside of this still.
I got a question.
-Yeah. -[Art] How we gonna come out of the top of this?
How tall is the cap gonna be?
-Twelve inches. -[Steve] Twelve inches.
[Tim] All right, so twelve inches.
Just come out the top of it, right there.
-Just like that. -[Steve] Mmm-hmm.
-[Tim] Yeah. -[Art] And then go straight to our condenser.
[Tim] I think the condenser needs to be closed, too.
Because you can't have, like, water in there sloshing around.
You know how we're gonna put the hot...
-...in here? -Mmm-hmm.
-And then put your coil in here... -Right.
We could do the same thing here and tap into the air condition line.
But then you, you never have to circulate the water.
You just circulate that coolant.
There's coolant in it.
Cooling the water that's in it.
On the other side of the system,
the cold air system, the AC, the air conditioning system.
We're gonna run that into the condenser.
The cool air will be cooling the condenser water.
Which is gonna turn that vapor back into liquid.
Which is gonna be moonshine.
All right, so we got some dimensions, some numbers.
It looks like we just gotta get some materials.
I am really excited to build something
that no one else has ever even thought about.
All we gotta do is transfer this information...
-This idea. -...to the metal shop
so they know how many pieces of metal we need to get and chop it.
And then we bring it back and put it together.
Yeah, this is enough to get us going.
All we gotta do is get some metal,
and I can really see this still site taking shape.
-Oh, yeah. -Put that in your back pocket.
[Steve] Yeah, yeah, there you go.
[Beaz] Come on, Kelly.
Digger has a, uh, doctor's appointment today,
which makes me the foreman.
[Kelly] I'll try to get in here and dig this way.
-[Beaz] Yup. -[Kelly] We'll do what we can.
You want me to try it?
No, I got this.
[Beaz] Kelly's gonna have to go...
...lots deeper than what the spring head is now.
That's apparent.
But Digger and I would, literally would have
taken us a month or more to be able to dig that out
with shovels and pickaxes.
So, this is a huge deal.
[Kelly] It's getting muddier.
[Beaz] Now this is a good sign, finally.
We're getting material out of the bottom that's wet.
Everything else has been pretty dry so far,
but it looks like we may be getting near the water table.
[Kelly] See right there where I'm at,
I'm caught on a ledge of another rock.
[Beaz] Yeah, that's that rock.
There's a chunk of limestone
about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle...
...that's embedded in our run-off trough.
So, we may not get water in that catch pond.
[Kelly] This is not good.
It's never gonna cross that rock right there.
[Beaz] I don't know what we're gonna do about this.
We were able to get some water out of there,
but it's small trickle,
and this won't be enough water
for us to run our still site.
So, this is not gonna work.
Damn.
I don't think we're making enough headway
with trying to get that channel open down there,
so I've got another idea to find some water
that's a divining rod.
The stick kinda pulls you.
This is not me, I'm just a vehicle
that this wonderful stick is using.
Oh, oh, hey, Digger! Digger!
Come check this out.
I got this little divining rod.
[Digger] And you found a pond?
[Beaz] I found a pond.
You see that barn up over the hill there?
Yup.
[Digger] That's the man that owns it.
So, other than the fact that we can't use the water...
[Digger] Other than the trespassing
and water that's got cow [bleep] in it...
...I did really good.
I feel like I'm talking to one of my grandchildren.
Are they my size?
[Digger] You're a little bit bigger than they are,
-but they're smarter than you are. -[Beaz laughs]
[Richard] He got pumpkins for days.
Man, they got enough pumpkins out here to start a war.
I met a buddy who has a farm.
He told me he has all kind of pumpkins.
So, Craig and I are gonna see what he got
that we can mash in and give a seasonal drink
to a new customer here.
[friend] Whoa, man, look what the cat drug in.
[Richard] I told you, Craig.
You told me you had a [bleep] load of fruits and vegetables,
but you didn't tell me you had all this.
[friend] We gotta make a living around here,
-it's all poor hillbillies, dude. -[Richard] It's awesome.
-How are you? -[friend] Go over and see my sister.
-Nice to see you. -Ashton, don't jerk his arm off now.
-She's the strong one in the family. -Oh, she's strong.
-Ouch! -Oh, yeah, better watch out.
Brought me to my knees.
I guess them mountain women tough.
So, we got pumpkins all over, guys.
We got big ones, little ones, white ones, round ones,
square ones, anything you want.
This is your basic jack-o-lantern, right?
This is the medium-sized jack.
This is your bread and butter.
It's a cucurbit, if you wanna get real fancy.
-Okay. -[friend] Gonna break out the encyclopedia on you.
This guy has just what we need to make a seasonal moonshine,
and he's standing right in the middle of it.
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
[friend] Oh, it's a vegetable.
Kin to squash, it's kin to cucumbers,
and a slew of other things.
But essentially a pumpkin's just a big yellow squash.
-You like yellow squash fried up with onion? -I sure do, yeah.
You could do the same thing with this.
It's gonna be a little more...
...firm.
All I know is if you're gonna cook pumpkin,
I wanna come to your house, eat tonight.
[Richard] You can, 'cause we're gonna cook it for sure.
[friend] All right, well, if you wanna pull out here, dude,
you go out here, and we'll load you every pumpkin you want.
And we'll have that truck, what is that?
Ooh, we're gonna have the spring squatting on that 250, baby.
-We can do it. -I like that.
Let's do it, man.
This is perfect right now.
The leaves are just starting to turn colors.
It's starting to get a little cool.
Everybody's gonna want this drink.
This customer is gonna be our best advertising source we could ever get.
You know how many pumpkins we gonna need?
-I dunno, tell me. -[Richard] We're running 150 gallons.
We need one pound per gallon.
We need 150 pounds of this stuff.
[Craig] So, we're gonna need a lot.
[Richard] Alcohol should be like anything else.
There should be change involved in it.
I mean, it's important to stay on top of alcohol.
It's important to not be redundant
and keep doing the same thing over and over and over again.
-We chunking pumpkins now. -[Richard] Chunking pumpkin.
Innovation is key in any business,
and alcohol should be no different.
All right, Craig, how many do you think we got back there?
Let me see, four, eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four...
...thirty-two...
About forty-four of 'em.
Forty-five.
My truck bed's pretty big, and the thing's full of pumpkin.
So, we need to get these pumpkins into the woods.
-Thank you, my man. -Appreciate you, brother.
I'll be back in touch with you.
We need to get back and start mashing in, that's our next step.
We're gonna get right back in production.
Now take the inventory, burner.
Clean your spring water for tampering,
just in case ours is muddy.
[cell phone ringing]
[groans] Every time you're working, the phone wants to ring.
[cell phone ringing]
Killer, tell me you got that spring running like a river.
[Beaz] Dude, I wanna tell you that,
but we got a issue down here.
-[groans] -[Beaz] That piece of rock...
...that was in our way,
Kelly cannot move it with his, with his excavator.
[Digger] Kelly has dug us a good trench,
but we've got a rock in the way,
and we can't get a downhill grade to go into our reservoir now.
[Beaz] Man, I'm just wiggin' over the fact that
we gotta get this order over to Raelyn
in just over a week's time.
You know, Beaz has got this order than he got in,
and it's, it's a $15,000 pay day.
Now, if we don't get the water we need,
then that turns into no pay day.
[Beaz] So, we'll see you in a little bit, right?
[Digger] Yup, I'll see you, man.
I mean, Raelyn Nelson, I mean, that's who this sale is to,
and that's Willie Nelson's granddaughter.
It don't get no bigger than that.
We've got to get this order completed.
No way around it.
[cell phone ringing]
-[Mark] Hello? -How you doing, Hattie Boy?
[Mark] I'm good, been staying busy.
[Digger] I know we got a bigger pot a-brewing
and bigger fish to fry,
and I know you're up to your ass in alligators,
but I've kinda got ox in the ditch too.
Beaz and Kelly are over there digging the spring out.
Well, they've got down to where the stream has moved
down in another crack of that rock,
but it's just a trickle right now.
Kelly's about knee-deep in water, he said.
But it stops at that big rock that we thought was about the size of a suitcase.
Turns out it's about the size of a bus you can put a suitcase on.
-[Mark] Oh, no. -Yeah.
-So... -[Mark] Well, you ain't able to get around...
-You can't get through that rock. -No.
It will not get enough head pressure to push over that rock.
[Mark] Really? What'll it hold?
Will it hold 50 or 100 gallons?
Yeah, probably close to 100, maybe 120 gallons.
[Mark] What about, could you use a sump pump
with a float that turns itself on and off
according to how the water level rises and falls?
[Digger] You know, I never thought about that.
But we got one of 'em, ain't we?
[Mark] Yeah, it's up there in my red garage.
Try that first.
[Digger] Yeah, that probably our best option, Hattie.
-And I'm gonna fill all the totes I get up. -[Mark] Yeah.
You know, that's the good thing about it.
I'm not 100% without Mark,
but he's there with the ideas,
and that's what I need right now more than anything.
[Mark] All right, come and see me in a day or two.
As soon as I get caught up and get in a good place,
I'll make a supply run to you.
[Mark] All right, boss.
-[Digger] I'll see you, bye. -[Mark] Bye, bye.
Mark is on a little sabbatical,
trying to get back to his roots, I guess you'd say.