[Mark] That's crazy!
[narrator] Tonight, on Moonshiners...
20,000 pounds.
20,000 pounds of freaking sugar?
[Digger] While detective Robertson's out of town,
we're taking advantage of the situation.
Clock's ticking.
He's not gonna be gone long.
-Boy, always good to have you around. You-- -[gunshot]
[Richard] Man, this is good.
Do you know what will be even better?
Peach cardamom rum.
I'm excited to get this going.
If we work this out well,
this will be the best liquor in Tennessee right now.
We here to change the game.
We're gonna change the game.
I've already tried something kinda like this already before.
-Really? -Yeah.
There's only one person we knows that's got some drink like this.
That's Richard Landry.
[Mike] This is mine and Jerry's turf around here.
We're not about to give it up to nobody else.
I'll blow his [bleep] to kingdom damn come.
[Tickle] This is how we make the moonshine!
[Digger] Well, I'm telling you what,
the luckiest human being on the planet
is Kelly, I mean...
This cheap sugar couldn't come at a better time.
I mean, it's practically nothing.
I mean, he's practically giving it to us.
We're on our way over to Kelly's.
He has a big windfall of sugar
and we're welcome to as much of it as we want.
Well, we can make some good inexpensive liquor there.
That's what we need to do.
Now, I ain't gonna be greedy either.
We just need to pass them savings on to people that needs it.
[Digger] In our world,
sugar's the most important and most expensive ingredient
in our process.
The fact we get this sugar for nearly nothing
keeps our cost down.
This is a godsend to us.
Well, puss, I mean, since we got all this
available to us now.
I mean, God, I'd love to just go ahead and start mashing in
on Big Sloppy, but it's in Cocke County, you know
and you know our situation in Cocke County.
Our favorite still site of all time,
where Big Sloppy is set up at is in Cocke County.
Big Sloppy's a six barrel still
which equates to 300 gallons.
But the law is on us, and we don't wanna...
track it back right to that site.
So, we're avoiding it.
I mean, we gotta sneak in a big run.
Well, you know, about that...
I talked to old Paul the other day.
Guess who's out of town
for a week and half, two weeks for an in-service class?
David Robertson.
Are you sure?
100 percent.
You know, Digger fills me in that, uh,
Detective David Robertson
is gonna be out of town on a police in-service training.
So, this is great news.
Because Detective Robertson,
he's been on us like a duck on a June bug.
[police horn honking]
[Digger] Oh, hell! David Robertson, detective.
What's going on today, buddy?
What's going on, captain?
Looks like yous heading to no good today, are yous?
No, sir. We're not.
I'm gonna tell you boys something.
I might have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night.
[Mark] I wonder how Mr. Robertson would feel
if he even knew we was kind of tracking him a little bit?
How about that?
Well, we gotta take advantage of this situation.
We need to run it on
on Big Sloppy.
We need to amp up, make all we can make.
We can get mashed in and ferment it
and get one run off in seven days.
Yes, we can.
And that's going to put us that much more further ahead in the game.
Let's go to Kelly's.
Let's go get us some sugar.
Ask anybody in the moonshining business,
it's an illegal business.
But you have to strike will the iron's hot
when opportunity presents itself.
-What's up, Slim Shady? -New battery?
[Kelly] You know how it is.
If you're gonna farm, you gotta work on a tractor.
That's why we don't farm.
I ain't gonna work on no tractor.
You don't gotta have one of them to make liquor.
Come on.
You'uns gotta see this.
You just fixing to be so excited you can't stand yourselves.
I'm doing yous the best favor in the world this time.
Come on.
-You see it yet? -[Digger] Damn big marshmallows.
[Mark] All these things is full of sugar?
[Digger] 20,000 pounds totes.
Heavens to Mackletroy!
When he said he had a few bags of sugar,
I thought he meant a 50 pound bags.
Yeah. Man, that's crazy.
No, that's outstanding, is what it is.
Any time you can save money on sugar in our world,
it's a score.
That's the most expensive ingredient in the liquor process
other than your copper and your gas.
So, any time we can get it cheap,
we're ready for it.
I'm your hero today, ain't I?
What did you get it at?
I got it from a friend of a friend.
Oh, no!
This come out of a wreck.
So, this is damn salvage off a damn interstate.
Well, it's salvage off of somewhere.
I mean, you know the guy that you got it from.
I know the guy that I got it from.
His buddy is the one who had it.
And that's who I got it from.
I'm just gonna be honest with you,
it's here.
I don't give a damn where you got it.
[chuckles] Well, I didn't really either.
How much of it are they?
At least 20,000 pounds.
20,000 pounds of freaking sugar?
Ain't that about 4,000 gallons of liquor?
I don't have no idea how many...
That's pretty damn close.
20,000 pounds of freaking sugar.
You done good, Kell.
Yous wanna take some of this with yous?
Well...
Yeah, yeah. We're going to go make some mash.
Well, I've got a couple buckets
that's sitting over here waiting to fill up.
Yeah, boy.
Kelly's got a lot of connections
with a lot of people.
He's always wheeling and dealing on something.
He's almost just like a...
pawn shop without advertisement.
He's agreed to sell it to us at a steep, steep discount
of what it should be.
This is gonna permit us to...
at least keep our prices the same.
-[Digger] Yeah. -If not lower 'em.
While Detective Robertson's out of town,
you know, we've got no choice.
We've got to get on this,
make as much as we can off of it,
because the window is very narrow.
We gotta go make a little mash.
Have fun.
-[Mark] See you, brother. -[Digger] We'll come back, thank you.
See ya!
[Mark] Well, this will permit us to be good to our customers.
[Digger] Oh, yeah.
Right now, everybody needs a good drink.
[Mark] They do.
Kind of got me worried about Richard Landry
being in town.
That was some good liquor he had.
I mean, he is something to worry about.
Yeah, it tasted good.
Thing to worry about if it starts getting into
the damn hands of our customers.
That's what I'm worried about.
Richard Landry.
What in the hell are you doing up this way?
Man, I'm just riding.
This is a manglier-corn that we did.
Y'all think this liquor is good?
I can make it better.
If I had water like you guys got here.
[Mike] Hats off to him for making good liquor.
But it can create havoc on me and Jerry too as well.
If our costumers start going to him,
we'll be out of the game.
Well, we really don't know that he's gonna be here,
but it just does seem very suspicious.
He just drove... Driving around.
I feel like he's here right about now.
Better to be prepared for it than not.
I believe that he's trying to set up down camp,
and get a early start.
-He won that Master Distillers competition. -Yeah.
So, he's got to be somebody who knows what he's doing.
But, one thing we got on our side,
we're established.
-And experienced. -And experienced.
That being said,
I've got a little something something up my sleeve
for Mr. Landry myself.
A much sweeter taste than his manglier tea.
Third mimosas right there.
Look at them son of a guns, man.
What the hell is a mimosa?
[Mike] The mimosa blooms, they're blooming right now.
They got a really, really sweet flavor to them.
Taste a little like honey.
[Jerry] Sounds pretty interesting.
Mike's talking about these mimosa flowers.
I'm not really sure what a... mimosa tree even is.
I know what a mimosa drink is.
Right here on the side of the daggum interstate.
[Mike] That's what I've been talking about.
The mimosa bloom's got a little citrusy note,
little honey note to it.
-[Jerry] This is a real forge in here, ain't it? -[Mike] Hell yeah!
You can make teas out of it, tinctures.
It's got a lot of the same medicinal properties in it
as that manglier tea does.
Helps with PTSD, insomnia, anxiety and...
I just feel like and I believe it's gonna taste better
than the manglier tea.
Wow, that's like a honeysuckle.
Smells almost just like a honeysuckle.
This stuff is very edible.
From the root, to the stem, to the leaves.
The only thing that's not edible
is the seed pods.
They got some toxins in them.
You just throw that away.
They pretty, ain't they?
Sure are. They smell good, man.
[Mike] People gonna say, "Damn, that taste like honey."
They ain't got a lick a honey in it.
Just a lot of love, that's all.
These blooms are real potent with fragrance.
And I don't see why it won't do the job for us, you know,
on getting a really good, tasting high quality alcohol.
[spits] Yech.
Get any in your mouth?
Yeah, let go of a limb and it popped me right in the face.
This idea that Mike come up with,
this mimosa flower,
I've never had it but they have a really good sweet taste.
One of the good properties they have,
is they're free.
When you go out in the woods or on the side of the road,
you just pick something that's totally wild.
That's what it's all about to me, man.
That's what I love to do.
I mean, price of corn is like gold.
So, we got to make liquor on the cheap,
but make it good.
That way, we can sell it to our customers for a fair price.
We're getting plenty of 'em, ain't we?
Plentiful in here, that's for sure.
[Mike] Now, the only thing,
I don't know how long these things last after we pick them.
So, we're gonna have to hurry up,
get them back, get them mashed in.
You know, if this mimosa liquor turns out half as damn good
as I think it is,
Richard Landry has no chance.
We're gonna kick this out of the water.
[Jerry] That's what I'm talking about.
[Daniel] Rough up in here, ain't it?
Hell yeah. Everywhere we go here is rough.
[narrator] 60 miles west in Sevier County, Tennessee,
after five gallons of liquor disappeared from their still site,
Richard and Daniel have no choice
but to start over in a new location.
[Daniel] You gotta be [bleep] me.
Was there not four buckets sitting here?
Richard, this still site's burnt
and we need to get the hell out of here.
Right down through here,
there's a big old perfect flat right there.
I think that'll be a real good spot.
We got some water here?
There's plenty of water.
Finding still sites out in the mountains
is a very hard job.
-Really? -The money pot.
But I found a new still site deep deep back in the woods.
We should be safe to be able to set up
and run a season.
Easy down right here.
We're gonna clean this site up real well right now.
We'll start to bring equipment in.
We had a five-gallon bucket of liquor stollen.
We're losing money and time
and that's something that we can never get back.
So, we need to get to work ASAP.
All that needs is a brick on top of it and a fire under it.
I mean, I came all the way up here from Louisiana.
We were supposed to be taking over this area.
And so far, we're just spinning our wheels.
[Daniel] Doesn't look bad, brother.
With these two pots we can make some noise around here.
Yeah, boy.
We gotta start making some serious liquor.
We gotta start making a name for ourself.
Let's go see what we can find before the night.
[Daniel] All right, man. Let's do it.
I didn't come here for fun. I've come here for funds.
Daniel Maner, he knows everybody around here.
He has a friend who has a fruit stand
and he might be able to hook us up with some peaches.
Everyone loves a good peach liquor.
That's something that we can start working on right now
because it's time we get a jump on things.
[Daniel] Well, that looks like good peaches right there.
-[Richard] That's what we need. -Yeah, I'mma try one of them.
See what they taste like.
I tell you what, this is exactly what we need.
[Daniel] They got a lot of sugar in them, don't they?
How many dollars worth of peaches is this?
[man] The four bushels,
I can sell them for about a $100 for the four bushels.
That's a good price, that's some good peaches.
I mean, yeah, they do taste good.
We'll pay cash, if that's what you want.
-Fine with it. -That's good.
We'll get her.
These peaches are real sweet. They've very delicious.
But I'm gonna do a...
kind of Cajun flair to it.
I wanna put some molasses and some brown sugar in it.
Kind of make a peach rum with it.
Good to go.
If we're gonna make our mark out here,
this is definitely gonna grab everyone's attention.
[Mark] All right, puss.
You're getting yourself blamed?
Yeah, man.
We unhook that trailer,
we pull up and throw these in the back of the truck and off w go.
We just found out that Detective Robertson's
out of town for an in-service training.
Couldn't be a more perfect time to do a run on Big Sloppy.
Are you through with the trailer?
-Yes, sir. Let's unhook that rascal off of our truck. -May I have the key?
Then we'll load up and be on our way.
Detective Robertson,
he is probably one of the sharpest officers
we've got in our department here.
If Detective Robertson was still in town,
we'd never consider making a move like this.
It's too bold.
[Mark] Oh, [bleep]. There's your hide-a-key.
[Digger] I ain't got no hide-a-key.
[Mark] You gotta have a hide-a-key. There's your damn box.
How many times you felt a key that weighs that much?
Well, what is it?
[Digger] It's a tracking device.
-Uh-uh. Ain't no way. -It is.
[Digger] I hooked to the trailer two days ago
and I always get up under there and check every little
inch of it to make sure there ain't nothing afoul.
That wasn't there.
GPS tracker.
So, it's been on there for...
-less than two days. -[Digger] Last two days.
We ain't been back at the farm
-in the truck. -We have not.
Where would they even have put it on your truck at?
Hell, I mean, I'm all over the place.
I mean, I don't sit static.
So, I mean, could have been at the store.
Could have been here.
Could have been at the house in the middle of the night.
You think it's our detective friend
or you think it's a big law or...
I mean, it could've been anybody put it on there, Digger.
Well, how in the hell do you think
David Robertson knows everywhere we're at
all the time?
Well, he tells us he's getting calls
and then, he just says he stumbles by...
Yeah, he's getting calls right there.
In the meantime, what are we going to do with that thing?
Well, that's a damn good question, Hatty.
Right now, we just leave this thing right here where we found it
and we'll come back again to deal with it later.
We'll move on,
be on our mash, and nobody will be the wiser.
[Mike] Yee-haw!
-Well, we're finally here, ain't we? -[Jerry] Yeah.
[Mike] Get her mashed in, buddy.
We picked some mimosa flowers
to do our first mash in with.
[Jerry] Oh, look at you go.
[Mike] People want something healthy.
Something that tastes good
but yet they still want a drink too
at the same time.
So, you've got to mix all that together
and stay up with the times.
Why is everything we always do always damn uphill?
[Jerry] I don't know.
Getting a little hot, ain't it, Jerry?
Being in the underground moonshine business,
it's a struggle.
So, we can't be complacent and let our guard down
for just a single day.
We gotta stay on top, keep innovating,
keep creating new stuff
to keep our customers happy.
Well, I'm gonna get this water hose hooked up.
You ready?
How about that?
The big side of this mimosa
alcohol that me and Jerry's making,
not only is it going to be good and sweet,
it's free.
Therefore, we can sell our alcohol at a lot cheaper price.
We're already ahead of the game as we speak.
I guess we can go ahead and put our mimosa blooms in there.
Let it all heat up together.
Good, yeah.
[Mike] Hey, I found your brother.
[Jerry] Look there.
A inch worm.
That's a inch and three quarters, man.
Oh, hell!
Well, them damn things smell good, don't they?
Well, tell you what, man, that's like a doggone bucket of
-sunshine. -Man!
Makes some mimosa tea, buddy.
[Jerry] We oughta be able to get
some doggone delicious flavor out of this stuff.
[Mike] It should.
You know, this stuff is very very potent.
We don't need that much.
We need to be careful not to let the flavor be overpowering.
You can smell like a honey taste
and that green beanie cup smell.
[Jerry] Look at all that stuff breaking down like good.
[Mike giggles] Yeah.
Smells so good, man.
You just wanna sit there and eat it.
But I don't particularly wanna eat it
right off of the tray
'cause it feels like hair in your mouth.
Like chicken feathers, so to speak.
The smell, son, is like none other.
Man, this plate, it's getting hot!
Hey! Damn!
[bleep]
That's hot.
[Jerry] Hold on.
[Mike] We gotta heat her down, and sugar up, don't we?
Just lay her to it, Jerry.
Smells like the beginnings of sweet damn alcohol, don't it?
Stir this in and do us another pot.
Yeah.
[Mike] Yeah, you know, Richard Landry,
we're gonna knock his ass out of the park with this, man.
[Jerry] You'd make a good witch.
[cackles]
Look at there.
[Mike] Nice.
[Jerry] I wanna tell you, that smell, son, is like no other.
[Mike] We'll throw the magic dust to it.
Lay it to it, son.
I'm ready to see the liquor come out of there.
I can't wait to taste this stuff.
-Get our little vent cap on here. -Yeah.
[Jerry] All right.
[Mike] We'll be in the money.
[Mark] We ain't never had an issue with this site.
[Digger] Yeah, this has been the most secure place
we ever had.
Our biggest still in our stable is Big Sloppy.
She's a 300-galllon still.
While Detective Robertson's out of town,
we're taking advantage of the situation.
We're gonna move on business as usual.
Get Big Sloppy sweetened in and get ready to run her.
We're under the gun.
Clock's ticking.
He's not gonna be gone long.
We need to get at least one run completed.
[Mark] I let a jar of liquor
sitting on top of that still.
[Digger] Oh, hell! Somebody comes through,
they're gonna get that liquor.
We got this load of sugar now
and we have the cornmeal that we bought already early.
So, it's time that Digger and myself
make some major corn runs.
[Mark] You see what ain't gone?
[Digger] That jar of liquor.
It wasn't plumb full when I left it.
Whoa, yes! It's liquor.
That's...
high-proof liquor.
Wow!
[Mark] Let's look in here.
Oh, it dried a chip.
[Mark] Look at her, puss, it's clean.
[Digger] Slicker than a minnow's eyeball.
You gotta understand, it's a lot of work
to carry a still out, then carry it back in
and rebuild the furnace and everything around it.
[Digger] I ain't gonna worry about a lot of this stuff.
It just needs...
So we don't trip or stumble over it.
We're half a day ahead of the game right there.
All we gotta do is bring in a few supplies.
Our totes are here.
We can get a run of mash started
and while it's working,
you know, little at a time, we'll bring in the pieces we need.
[Digger] Oh, we got water coming
up yonder.
[Digger] We'll build a fire once the water gets above this core.
We have to make sure we've got at least this much water
over this core before we light it or it'll melt the solder.
We get leaks.
Unacceptable in a liquor still.
When it comes to corn liquor, that's our hall of fame.
It's what we cut our teeth on, it's what we know best.
Corn liquor, we can sell it before it ever comes out
the still, and all we have to do is deliver it.
Get it here.
[Digger] Good meal.
[Mark] Yeah, it's a good meal.
[Digger] Cheap sugar.
[Mark] That's the best kinda sugar on the planet right now.
Let's get that hot water in here, what do you say?
[Mark] Is it mixing?
[Digger] Yeah, it's mixing up plenty fine.
[Mark] It's all she wrote.
This is just a good jump start for us.
When we get this all done and worked off,
we're looking at 36 gallons of good liquor here.
-Yeah. Yeah. -That's $3,600.
But now, I hope we ain't jinxed ourself.
Don't even mention it.
Every time we think we're ahead of something...
-We get behind. -...something goes to hell.
We'll give it about another ten to 15 minutes,
then we'll put that little amylase in there.
Take care of anything that the cooking didn't do.
Okay.
Boy, it's always good to have you around.
-You-- -[gunshot]
[Mark] Boy, it's always good to have you around.
-You-- -[gunshot]
Son of a bitch!
-[gunshot] -[Digger] God damn!
Hope they ain't target practicing.
Well, I ain't heard nothing sling through
-leaves yet. -[gunshot]
Well, you know, you hear gunshot,
you're wondering where it's coming from,
who it is.
Is the law out there?
Are they shooting at somebody else,
and they're gonna run over top of us?
This is a dangerous situation.
Somebody is close enough that they can stumble up on us
and tell on us if they want to.
To us, it sounds like it's right around
the damn next tree.
[Digger] He ain't shooting at us.
He's shooting at a damn snake, probably.
Yeah, probably. Or he just got him a new gun.
Maybe he shooting at that bank over there. I hope he was.
I don't care where they shooting at,
as long as it wasn't up this way.
You know, thing about it is
with the law breathing down our neck,
and now hearing gunshots, at the still site, you know,
every little thing is amplified.
I'll get that little bag of enzyme.
But in the meantime, we got a job to do.
We're moonshiners.
We're gonna mash in
and we're gonna run corn liquor.
[Digger] Yeah, better put the rest of that yeast in there now.
[Mark] When we get done there, it'll knock us out.
We'll go in and leave it to its devices.
We've got this mash made and we're ready to move on.
Mark and I got into the farming business
trying to lower our production cost
of our supply of corn.
So, that's where we're headed now,
to see our old buddy, Jeff and see how our corn's coming around.
You ready?
[Digger] I was born ready.
[Daniel] What you doing, getting ready?
[Richard] Getting everything ready.
[Daniel] Take your break.
I got you something here I want you to try.
What's that?
Come over here. I'll show you.
I've got a aunt Jerry. She's had a peach cobbler.
She said, "Well, instead of using cinnamon,
I use cardamom."
Try you some and see what you think.
[Richard] Man, this is good.
You know what would be even better?
Peach cardamom rum.
-Rum. -Yeah.
Nobody around here has ever made any liquor
with cardamom.
If Richard and I make a moonshine
with peaches and cardamom,
I really think that it's gonna turn some heads.
I believe people's gonna love it.
That's a lifesaver right there.
-[Daniel] Hell yeah, it is. -Hell yeah!
[Daniel] I'm building this mash.
I've got this little wood chipper grinder.
It makes real short work of chopping up fruits and things.
[engine stopping]
[Richard] That's the end of it.
[Daniel] That's the end of it, bro.
I'm excited to get this going.
We work this out well,
this will be the best liquor in Tennessee right now.
There's no way in the world
we're not gonna come out here and introduce ourselves
with the most premium product.
-Yeah. -Man, we're here to change the game.
And we're gonna change the game.
[Richard] Definitely.
I think this peach cardamom rum is gonna be the bomb.
It's gonna put us on the map.
Definitely gonna make us some money.
You drop some sugar,
and I'mma go start getting some hot water.
[Daniel] Brown sugar molasses is best for rum.
And this is gonna be some awesome spiced peach rum.
This is that dark molasses.
[Richard] That's gonna give a good deep flavor
with that brown sugar.
It's time to pitch yeast.
[Daniel] Send it in there.
I deal with spice really well.
So, now that the peaches are working,
I'm gonna go and get some cardamom.
All right, well, I'm gonna take a ride to the city.
-That's good to you? -Yeah.
[Richard] This cardamom is gonna be our secret ingredient.
This rum is gonna put us back on track
and it's gonna give our competition a run for their money.
[Mike] Check this mash out, brother.
It's been clean enough time it oughta be worked off.
It should be.
Today is the big day for me and Jerry
to run this mimosa liquor.
Oh, my God!
-Yum-yum-yum! Hey! -It finished working.
It tastes like a honey, don't it?
Yeah.
Maybe we had some good sweet high potent liquor coming out of there.
We're gonna just take our time,
run this stuff right, man,
and get it off that money spout
and see what we've got.
[Jerry] Beast of a looking thing here.
Yes, it is.
Looks nice. I like it.
There she is.
[Jerry] Get her lit.
[Mike] Oh, yeah.
You know, I know Richard Landry makes good liquor.
I give any devil their due.
There.
You know, he's the winner of Master Distiller
and all that good stuff.
But can he be the winner out here in the mountains?
-We getting flavor right now. -Flavor, flavor, man.
At least, that's what I'm feeling anyway.
Plenty of alcohol, plenty of flavor.
We'll be in good shape.
[Jerry] You know, one of the things
me and Mike's got a leg up,
we got the home field advantage, you know.
We know what's in our area.
Jerry, we've got steam, bro.
[Jerry] Oh [bleep] man.
That's putting her out there, ain't it?
[Mike] Ooh, that hose is hot.
-Stick her on up. -Just plug this up and get us some steam go in this bad boy.
It's kind of exciting.
This is a new recipe we're doing.
It's something we've never worked with before.
I'm not really sure what kind of taste we're gonna end up with,
but I tell you what, I think this is gonna work.
[Jerry] But we ain't got long now, do we?
Looks like it's doing its damn job.
[Jerry] Hey, Mike. We got liquor coming out of here.
-Ain't we? -Yeah.
Whoo, golly!
[Jerry] Jab us a bone in that thing.
Got a good sweet flowery smell, for sure.
Yeah. [chuckles] That'll...
Oh, boy! That smells like honey, don't it?
[Jerry] I can't wait to taste it, man.
[Mike] Get them heads out of there.
There we go!
We got our first jar and I'm gonna taste it out.
Tastes like damn honey.
-Good? -Hell yeah, it's good.
This liquor is tasting phenomenal.
Oh, wow!
The taste of the mimosas' coming out.
You taste that good honey flavor going on.
You ain't gonna bet that with a stick, are you?
Damn, that's good. Whoo!
We can get ten good gallons
of good high-proof
good bit of damn liquor off this tree, man.
Hell yeah!
Well, things have been a lot better for me and Mike
'cause we can forge for free.
Me and Mike are gonna make money on it.
We're gonna give it to our customers at a good price,
and it's kind of a win-win.
Good 20 110, 115, probably.
It's got a good breathe still in it.
So, we can sell it for a good price.
[Mike] We're getting there, son.
This stuff is coming out great.
All we've gotta do is get ahold of our buyer
and he will definitely be interested in this shine.
[Jerry] Bring the second bucket.
-Yeah, boy. -Start our process all over again.
All over again, won't we?
Tell you what, man? I'm liking it.
I'm loving it, son.
Loving it. Five gallons down the hole.
This situation with Richard,
we still got a competition ahead of us.
We gotta keep this trend going
to win it and get above it.
This mimosa,
it's gonna knock the damn manglier tea
plum out of the park that Richard Landry's ever made.
Oh, success.
Yeah, buddy.
That's money in the damn pot right there, baby.
[Mark] You know this whole thing's
got me nervous as crap.
But it's, that's crazy.
Well, you know now that we found this GPS tracking device
attached to my truck.
And that has generated a tremendous amount of concern.
But, I'm not gonna let Detective Robertson
stop me at this point.
So, now we're going to be able to check on this corn,
see how it's doing.
I'm all for putting it on another vehicle.
I don't care either.
Yeah, but if we stick it on another car,
they're gonna know we're on to them.
If we go on a rough bumpy road,
then just drop it off,
they might think that it just fell off.
Well, I don't know, if it gets gone...
they're gonna know we're onto them, regardless.
You know, I'm about to the point,
if we put it on another car,
I don't care if it pisses them off.
I mean, they just as well be upset and mad as us.
Well, even if they get pissed off,
they've gotta catch us to...
show us how pissed off they are.
You know honestly, we can't let Detective Robertson
get in our head.
We still have a living that we have to make.
So, at the end of the day, we're gonna press forward
and do what we gotta do.
[Mark] I see a little bit of corn sprouting.
[Digger] It looks like it's outrunning the weeds.
If your corn can outrun the weeds,
you're blazing in the corn world.
[Mark] This season, corn is so ridiculous expensive.
I mean, we paid like $25 for a 50-pound bag.
And that's just unacceptable.
I tell you what, it's coming on pretty good.
Course it's had some good rain.
[Digger] It's had some good rain and good hot days.
Rain and heat will bring it on.
[Mark] Digger and I, we figure,
if we can raise us a little patch of corn,
we will have hardly nothing in it
and if we have a sufficient yield,
you know, should be enough to get us through the season.
This is beautiful right here.
It's thicker than hair on a hog's back.
[Digger] Well, this over here
looks like it's got the mange.
[Digger] You can tell, look them stalks,
it's pushed over.
The deer get in here and they just step on them.
[Mark] There ain't nothing stomped these that didn't come up.
[Digger] Hell, turkey's probably got them.
They're scratching around, looking for
grubs and worms.
They see a kernel of corn, that's just a bonus for them.
We got so much riding on this.
We're trying to keep our cost the same,
so we don't have to charge the customers any more for liquor.
If we don't grow corn and get a good crop,
we're still at the mercy of the market
and market price, which is outrageous right now.
So, we got a lot at stake.
We need to see this crop be full.
We're about to break sad news to Jeff that
his percentage looks like it's already... it didn't come up.
What you doing, Jeffrey?
[Jeff] Admiring this fine corn crop.
[Mark] Where's that one at?
[Jeff] I know it's been a hard time
on this new ground.
We know that one started might have been a little of a...
[Digger] Well, that's what I told Mark.
This is just as good as new ground.
It ain't been turned around since before 1962.
That's right. Well, you all have had everything stacked against you to start with.
You had a lot of insect damage in the ground.
Nematodes.
-Yeah. -Cut worms.
And then you wanna have deer damage.
Turkeys have come through and just scratched up this loose dirt.
Later on, you're gonna have some coon damage,
-when it starts coming into the roasting stage. -Yeah.
Well, then that's not gonna surprise me if you don't have some bird damage.
We'll end up with enough corn to make a skillet of cornbread.
[Jeff] Well, boys, I'll just tell you.
You had a lot of damage,
but it's not the end of the road.
The bigger it gets, the better we are.
The better off you are. You're gonna get something...
to make some liquor out of.
[Mark] At the end of the day, I do feel good about Jeff.
So, when we walk away, we think that...
this is gonna be a successful year
simply because of Jeff's help.
[Richard] We're gonna play with cardamom.
I finally scored some cardamom for this peach rum.
Daniel said he's a little busy today
but we've gotta do this.
This is a crucial component.
So, I go ahead and do it by myself.
I just wanna steep it like a tea.
I don't wanna boil it. I don't wanna beat it up too bad.
It's gonna go through some rough times in that mash.
This is a real strong spice.
Cardamom is known as the queen of spices.
It comes from the same family as ginger and turmeric.
It's typically used to flavor curries.
Cardamom makes you work, man.
It's just a powerful spice.
This mash as it stands is really good.
Adding too much of this would ruin this.
I can't mess this up.
I need to try to make sure that this is...
done the right way.
We can't fail with this.
There's some serious competition out here.
If we mess this up,
it's gonna be real hard to build a reputation out here.
This tastes awesome.
Right on the top of the mash.
Man, that smells good.
Let's let this mash introduce itself to...
cardamom.
Something I'm sure it's probably
never been with in its life.
This had better work.
I want this peach cardamom run
to be the best liquor
that they've ever had here in Tennessee.
This is a lot going on in here.
This is the spice nobody's had around here.
This is gonna work.
-What's up, buddy? -What's going on, bro?
How y'all doing?
We're doing pretty good. What about yourself?
[man] Doing real good.
So, you got something good?
We have here some mimosa moonshine.
Take a sip of it, see what you think.
Tell us what you think about it.
[man] I tell you what,
that's pretty good right there, brother.
You said you have five gallons of it, huh?
[Jerry] Yeah, five gallons of it.
[man] Believe me, everybody get a little sip of that.
[Mike] Yes, sir.
You got it?
[man] I tell you what, fellas,
there are gonna be plenty of happy people
when I get back to town.
We're pretty tickled with the way it turned out.
I've tried this... something kind of like this already before.
-[Mike] Really? -[man] Yeah.
Something kinda like what?
[man] I recall it like,
muscow tea or muscow tea or something...
Manglier?
[man] That kinda sounds like it.
[Jerry] Where'd you score that at?
[man] My buddy's, it ain't far.
There's only one person we know
that's got some kind of drink like this.
That's Richard Landry with his manglier tea.
You know, this tells me and Mike that
you know, Richard is serious.
[Mike] It ain't gonna happen,
I can tell you that right damn now, son.
[Mike] Check him out, bro.
That's crazy.
We run across this guy on social media.
His name is Zeb Ross, he's a big dancer.
Come to find out, he's a local guy.
-[applauding] -Nice job.
You guys wanna try?
Here we go.
[Mike] Man, I'm watching old Zeb do his dance,
while I'm sitting here thinking,
this kid was born with no damn bones in his legs.
This guy's like a daggone rubber band
floating on the floor like he's done it his whole life.
Dancing comes pretty natural to me.
But I'm gonna you what,
I'm about wore the hell out right now.
-[all giggling] -[Jerry] Nice job.
[Mark] Well...
we get Big Sloppy fired up today,
-poot, get her running. -[Digger] Yep.
[Mark] You know, with this windfall of sugar,
and while Detective Robertson's out of town,
this is absolutely the perfect time
to get Big Sloppy cranked up and running.
Lickety split. Full blast. Wide open.
Hatty, we got a problem.
Look at there.
All that mash is da...
Hell, there's the problem.
[Digger] Hell! Ah, hell!
[Digger] Damn!
Freaking bears.
[Mark] I tell you, and it's just a little yearling bear. Look here.
-Yeah, he just a small one. -He bit right from here to here.
[Digger] All I can say is,
thank God that wasn't a bullet.
[Mark] Well, let's get the rest of it over here before it leaks out.
Hatty. Hatty.
-[Mark] Oh, no! -[Digger] What do you got?
Look in here.
You know what that could have done.
[Digger] Oh, hell!
That bird built that nest in there in no time.
What about that?
[Digger] Yeah, that's a rand's nest.
It's full of mud.
That stopped that whole thing up.
It would blow that cap plumb clear.
It would have blowed that cap sky high
and our good luck would've went to hell in a handbasket.
[Digger] Good looking out there, Hatty boy.
[Mark] I mean, this is our corn liquor
but we have a golden opportunity
to lower our prices.
What are you saying we come up with a new name
for it besides just corn liquor?
With this sugar windfall that we've got,
we're going to be able to make a lot of liquor
for cheaper than we've ever made it.
How about when the economy is under par,
get your liquor from a jar?
We know at this point, we certainly
are not going to have to raise prices.
But man, wouldn't it be awesome in this economy
to be able to lower 'em a little bit?
Just because the economy is not so hot,
don't mean you don't take a short.
We may very well be able to lower our prices for the year
and help these folks that are suffering
because of the economy being the way it is.
Is your bank looking pretty frightening?
Why don't you try our white lightning?
Boom!
[Digger] Yep. We got liquor, Hatty boy.
No [bleep].
First corn liquor of the year.
Let me catch a little of them heads, get them boogers out of there.
Oh, yeah!
[Digger] Let me get us something to taste here.
[Mark] Look how pretty it is. Cold too, ain't it?
Just like holding your first born every time.
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Mm, damn.
That is delicious.
I'm telling you,
puss, we made a lot of different liquors.
Yeah.
We've made all flavors in the world.
But you can't beat corn liquor.
I'll take it.
[Digger] Let's get this one out of here.
We can't dump no more, not at any given time.
[Mark] We're riding hot right now.
We're damn high as a boat on a gash, so to speak.
That's good, ain't it?
[Digger] Yes, sir.
[Mark] I don't know of any other moonshiner
that has had the luck that we've had.
We're feeling so good, and we're so excited. So...
[Digger] I mean, we're ready to rock and roll here.
We've come out the gate strong.
I don't wanna jinx us,
but things are going really good right now.
You know, we were very, very lucky
to get this run off
before David Robertson got back into town.
Now we gotta get it out of here,
so we can get it sold and make us a little money.
I don't know how far me and you will get with this
but we'll get it out of here somehow.
We'll rest every chance we get.
-Yeah, [bleep]. -Yeah.
That's about all I got, Hatty.
God damn, landed right on my foot.
Mother.
[Jerry] That manglier tea,
we know where the hell that came from.
[Mike] Richard Landry.
[Jerry] We're not even starting our season now.
My buyer's already gotten his hands on that?
I mean...
Maybe he's just trying to step on our toes, what he's doing.
But how does he know where our toes are?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
He's moved into our damn territory.
He's slipping around.
He knows the people that we're selling to
and I think he's trying to...
you know, gather them for his self.
If I've gotta go by the moonshiners code,
so does he.
Yeah.
If he knows that's our costumer...
And continues to sell.
That's a problem.
-Don't be about it. -I'm begging.
I'll blow his [bleep] to kingdom damn come.
Well, let's not unroll that cord just yet.
[Mike] You know, if we end up losing a customer
over something like this,
it's gonna be butt bad, I can promise you that.
This is mine and Jerry's turf around here.
We are not about to give it up to a newcomer,
to a rookie,
or nobody else.
Yeah. He'll run, all right.
-Back south. -Back south.
[Mark] All these police interactions
that we're having,
they kinda taken a toll on me.
They're preying on my mind really hard.
[Digger] It's not a good feeling
knowing somebody's tracking you.
So, now our plan is, we're just gonna
go to a truck stop with the tag we see
as far away as we can find one
and put it on that vehicle and let it rip.
Right over there, I see some trucks.
Ain't nobody in that car
and it's got a Utah tag on it.
Just jump out there and stick it under that rascal right quick.
Here we go!
[Mark] Out of sight, out of mind, puss.
[Digger] You know what, Hatty?
We're no longer being tracked by a GPS tracking device.
I felt like you took that little thing,
felt like it weighed 500 pounds sitting on me.
Gosh.