[narrator] This time on Moonshiners...
I'm gonna put your ass in jail, I'm telling you.
We're as close as we've ever been at being caught.
-[Digger] Howdy, boy. -Puss, we got bad problems.
Bootlegging in Brazil, dog. Ciao.
We're out there on the side of the street dealin' with moonshine.
Four hundred and fifty-five.
-Man, we're selling. -[both laughing]
-[Paulo] The road here, it's really hard. -[Josh] Yeah, it's hard.
Tire looks like it's going flat.
-Gonna lose this rim. -[Josh] Oh, [bleep].
We need to make sure that Richard don't step on our toes.
We can't afford to have anybody else selling liquor to our customers.
[Mike] Stick a tracking device under their damn car.
-Goddamn, rumors are true. -[Jerry] We don't wanna get right on top of them.
[Mike] How about there again?
[man] This is how we make the moonshine.
[Mark] Oh, hell.
-What's goin' on, boy? -It's David Robertson. Stay back out of the way.
Hello, boss.
So, you've been working on your cars today, or what are you doin'?
[Mark] Oh, I'm just in here tinkering.
I ain't doing much of nothing.
I got that old '40 up on the rack there
and tinkering with it a little bit.
What are you into?
I was riding around, seeing your door open over here.
Can see an awful lot of stuff going on when the garage doors are open.
You got tester tubes,
propane tanks,
mason jars, you've got all kinds of stuff in here.
Yeah, but, you know, there ain't none of that stuff that ain't at Walmart.
Do you care if I look around in there?
Well...
...I don't care at all if you've got a warrant.
I think it's my right for you to have a warrant.
Oh, yeah, that's your right.
I've got a right to go get one.
Well, I mean, do you think I'm doing something wrong, David, really?
I know you're doing something wrong. You're making liquor.
-No. -We've had this conversation two or three times.
I understand that, and, uh...
Uh, apparently you don't understand because I've already warned you
I'm gonna put your ass in jail, I'm telling you.
It's gettin' about that close. I've about got youse.
I might see you in a little bit, then.
-That's fair enough. -[David] Well, like I said,
you've been warned several times.
Nobody wants to listen, but I just,
I just had to show, you better not take it.
-All right, I understand. -[David] All right.
-[sighs] -[engine revving]
Son of a bitch.
I have all day, just I leave this damn garage door open.
Jesus.
Damn.
[exhales] I gotta call Digger.
[exhales]
[phone ringing]
-[Digger] Howdy, boy. -[Mark] Hello, Puss.
-[Digger] What are you doin'? -Well, we got bad problems.
I was up here in the garage knockin' around.
Had the garage door open.
And a car pulled up, and it was our friend David Robertson.
[Digger] Son of a bitch.
[Mark] I mean, he's a dog with a bone.
He wanted to look around and I wouldn't permit it without a warrant.
I think he really... This really...
...pissed him off.
A blind man can see that Detective Robertson is indeed working very hard
to build a case against Digger and myself.
I don't doubt him. I don't doubt him at all.
I think I'm the lower hanging fruit.
I'm the one more likely to have contraband.
I'm in charge of the copper,
and I think I'm just the easiest target.
It wasn't like the other times that he's given us a warning.
He said, "I'm tired of telling you guys.
I've warned you. I've warned you.
It's gonna come to a stop."
[Digger] Well, I know it's nerve-racking.
My guts is vibrating too.
-But, you just gotta step back and think about it. -[exhales]
I've been getting bad vibes from every corner on this.
[Digger] Yeah, let's face-to-face. I don't like telephones.
-You know where I'll be. I ain't hard to find. -[phone beeps]
Damn.
[Jerry] What's up, old Mikey boy?
-What, are you peddling? -[Jerry] Some ideas I'm gonna put down on paper.
-[Mike] Just playin' around. -[Jerry] Yeah.
You didn't sleep well last night.
Oh, I didn't, man, to be honest with you.
Just I can't get it, get it off my mind, you know,
about Richard and them being in town.
Since me and Jerry run up on Richard and Craig,
I've worried myself to death about what these guys are doin' in our neighborhood.
Don't come in here runnin' liquor on our territory, we'll leave you all alone.
What's so wrong about setting up running around here?
Well, dude, I don't want you setting up.
If you're gonna make it, you can't keep it.
You can't sell it, you know what.
Oh, we gotta sell it.
Well, that's where we're gonna have a problem.
We know he's here.
We know he's gonna make liquor.
I'm not out to cause trouble.
I ain't out to fight unless it comes down to it.
He's gonna go try to hustle it out
to any damn body he possibly can,
and we gotta put an end to it.
We need to figure out where these guys are at
and make sure they don't step on our toes.
We can't spend all day runnin' around town looking for these guys.
We got stuff we gotta get done.
I wanna track them, so to speak.
Hmm.
Stick a tracking device under their damn car.
So therefore, we only got to find them one more time.
And if we find out they're, they're selling any of our customers
you know, we'll just give them a little rude awakening.
They're newcomers. They don't know the rules of moonshining.
And they're gonna do everything in their power
to make as much money as fast as they can while they're here.
And I know that. I've been there before. I've been that rookie.
I need to nip this in the bud
and stop it before it ever happens.
-Cheatin' want the bus. -[Jerry] Cheatin' want bus.
[Mike] Open that glovebox.
Oh, man, is that what we're gonna use to put it on there with?
-[Mike] Yeah, boy. A magnetic keyhole. -[Jerry] Oh.
The tracker itself is right here.
-[Jerry] That go in there? -Take it, lay that in there.
Oh, yeah. Close it up.
When we find them,
we're gonna get something up under the damn truck,
link it to the old phone.
It just keeps on updating every so many minutes
and show you where that device is.
Well, now we got a tracker and we got a nice little magnetic box to put it in,
we got one problem.
-We need something to put it on. -That's right.
All I gotta do is find them.
Me and Jerry, he can watch out for me,
I can slip up to their vehicle.
put this thing on, get back in the truck and leave.
We gotta do this without them knowing.
Don't worry. We'll slip in on them like a damn wildcat.
-A wildcat? -[Mike] Heck yeah.
A wildcat pretty sneaky?
I'm talking about the one that gets down there and creeps up.
[Jerry] You gonna get down and crawl on the ground?
-If I can, I will. -This... This I gotta see.
-I'm gonna get my phone. -[scoffs]
-I'm gonna have to record this. -Shut up, Jerry.
[Jerry] All we can do is just look for them.
[Mike] That's all we can do.
[horse neighs]
[chicken clucking]
[Paulo] He's saying that he's feeling ill.
-He cannot deliver... -Yeah.
...and he never lost a delivery in 38 years.
[narrator] At Minas Gerais, Brazil,
already on the run from US law enforcement,
Josh faces a quandary,
when his new cachaca-making friend Cebola
asks him to help with an outlawed bootlegging run.
Cebola got sick.
He's asked us to go do his bootlegging run,
and I really don't know if that's a good idea.
I'm in a whole lot of trouble back in America.
The last thing I wanna do is get in some trouble down here in Brazil
and land up in one of the jails
'cause there's no telling what they'd do to a gringo down here.
What do you say? Let's do it?
He got a little map with names of his customers here, you see?
These places are the places we have to visit.
He's asking for our help.
He saying that we take his truck,
and the booze is inside the truck already.
What do you say?
Cebola's brought me into his operation and he's showed me everything.
So the least I can do is help him make his run 'cause he's sick.
-Let's do it, yeah, I'd be glad to do it. -Okay.
-Okay, he wants us... -[speaks foreign language]
...yeah, not to forget his money, okay?
-We'll bring all your money. -[Cebola speaks Portuguese]
-[Josh] We got you. -Okay.
Yeah, okay, buddy, I hope you feel better.
-[laughs] -[Paulo grunts]
[speaking Portuguese]
Me being a gringo in Cebola's truck,
they're libel to pull us over just because they thought we stole it or something.
This is the first time in my life I've ever hauled somebody else's liquor.
I mean, we're not delivering bottles,
just delivering booze.
We've got his booze with a, like, like a gasoline pump.
What about when we're filling jugs?
People not gonna be looking at us.
Yeah, a couple of gringos driving around with this truck.
-Be awful, huh? -Yeah, they'll think we stole his truck.
-[Paulo] Yeah. -[both laughing]
-And his booze. -And his booze.
And... And we're trying to sell it to the same community, huh?
-Get 'em. -[laughing]
-Get those guys! -Get those guys!
[Paulo] Oh, get 'em.
Let's see how it works.
-Did he tell you how much to charge them all? -[Paulo] Yeah, yeah.
There's this sign behind the truck
-with the price list. -Uh-huh.
-[Paulo] The entrance to the city. -[Josh] Oh, man.
[sighs]
You see? People are waving at us.
Everybody thinks it's Cebola.
Who is that gringo?
Yeah. [laughing]
-[Josh] We gotta turn right. My bad. -[Paulo] Right.
-Man, I can't read this damn map, dude. -[laughs]
[Josh] You should be reading the map and I should be drivin.'
Yeah, but I've got the Brazilian driver's license.
[Josh] What is that?
Bahia. That's... It's probably here.
I don't know, man. I can't hardly tell on this map.
Yeah, I'm screwin' up left and right 'cause I can't read the map exactly right.
-[Paulo] This is the place. -[Josh] Right here.
[Paulo] Probably, this is it, yeah.
-[Josh] I just wanna make sure I don't get in trouble. -[Paulo] Yeah.
[speaking Portuguese]
-Yes, this is the place, man, yeah. -[Josh] Right place.
So, we finally got to the first bar.
Immediately, from underneath the counter comes this jug.
I've never seen anything like this before in my life.
-You gotta open it there too. -[Josh] Yeah, yeah.
[Paulo] Yeah.
Cebola got a big stainless steel tank in the back of his truck.
We're right there on the side of the street frickin' breaking the law
right in front of everybody.
Like, there's people standing around staring at us all over the place
tryin' to figure out what the hell's goin' on.
And all of a sudden, two or three people comin' up off the streets
wanting us to fill their jugs.
We're drawin' way too much attention. And this is illegal.
I knew this wasn't a good idea.
What are you doin', Puss?
-Well, I don't wanna shock you or anything... -[chuckles]
...but I'm just shinin' my knife up.
Gettin' ready for the events of the day?
-Maybe. -[chuckles]
Boy, I hope not.
Might be cleanin' my fingernails or something.
But you could drink that liquor.
-Well... -Make you sleepier.
...I made need it here in a little while. I don't know.
There's a lot of stuff on my mind.
Detective David Robertson.
I mean, I ain't gonna lie about it.
I've lost a lot of sleep worrying about this situation, you know?
Peeking out the curtains before you go out the door and wondering,
"When's the other shoe gonna fall?"
Well, he's got my attention really hard.
I think we've tempted fate too long.
Joe's little side vocation here,
it don't afford us much safety to start with.
We knew that goin' in.
Well, I know that,
but at this point I'm, I'm steppin' away. I gotta take a break.
But this is not permanent.
You're... You're kind of just jafin' me a little bit here, ain't you?
No.
Moonshiners, to some degree, are always pushing their luck.
But we're as close as we've ever been in our career to being caught.
And you need to know when to take a break,
when to step away.
He's got a job to do.
We got a job to do too, you know.
This is just a sucker punch in the guts you wasn't waitin' for.
I get the reason.
I mean, yeah, I'm a little bit nervous about it.
But I mean, he's my best friend.
We've been making liquor together for years.
You know, I've always backed your play.
-And I don't mind. -And if your guts tellin' you
it's the right time to back away, I get it.
I'm gonna stand by your decision.
I appreciate it, Puss, I really do.
I won't leave you holding the bag.
-Oh, yeah. -We'll find someone to help take up the slack for me.
This ain't a decision you can just haphazardly go down the street
and stop somebody and say, "What's your work ethic like?"
-[chuckles] No, I know that. -"Wanna go make a little liquor?"
Me and Mark are just like a team of mules hitched together.
One knows what the other one's gonna do before it does it.
Hell, I ain't gonna be able to find anybody
that'll put up with me the way you do.
Yeah, that's pretty much a given. [chuckles]
[Digger] You know, at some point, he'll come back.
But in the meantime,
to find somebody that's gonna fit into that, that harness,
it ain't gonna be an easy fix.
You're gonna miss this stuff.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Josh] We're out there on the side of the street
'frickin dealin' with moonshine.
[woman speaking Portuguese]
Yes, ma'am.
[Paulo] Our first delivery.
And here I am, a gringo, filling up their jugs with their cachaca.
That is a lot of damn cachaca.
-Thank you. Okay. -[speaking Portuguese]
-Ciao. -Ciao, ciao.
We haul the moonshine in, frickin' get paid,
onto the next spot.
It's not legal, but it's in, within the community,
so nobody's going to complain.
If I stopped in the main street on... in the US,
-import a jug of cachaca... -[chuckles]
-...I'd be in prison before I got to the next bar. -[laughing] Yeah,
I could imagine that.
In Brazil, you can run around the street selling untaxed liquor
and not get locked up.
Ugh, [bleep]!
There's the law, dude.
[Paulo] That one's not for us.
God, I'm not used to that, dude.
-[Paulo] Yeah. -This is crazy.
They're like 'frickin like lookin' at us as they drive by,
[mimics engine], don't even give a [bleep].
And I'm sittin' here filling up moonshine jugs right on the side of the road.
[Paulo] The whole town loves his cachaca.
-Even the cops. -Even the cops.
Oh, that, that looks like a bar.
-Oh, yes, definitely. It says bar... -We'll try that.
-right on the... Yeah. -[Paulo] Yeah, it's a bar.
[Josh] That's the only word of English I've seen around here.
They see me and Paulo,
me being a gringo,
-Ciao. Ciao. -[speaking Portuguese]
I think we just confused the hell out of everybody.
Where's my fives at? I've got some fives here somewhere.
-[Paulo] Here, here. This is a five. -[Josh] There it is.
-Five. Ciao. -[man speaking Portuguese]
Cebola, OG, man.
-Again. -Cebola's a pimp, dude.
-Bootlegging in Brazil, dog. -[Paulo] Yeah.
[Josh] This is cool as [bleep].
Like Santa Claus driving on the main street.
-Exactly what it's like. -[laughing]
Cebola's like a celebrity down here.
[speaking Portuguese]
Every restaurant you go in,
there's a jug of his cachaca on the counter.
Paulo, I don't think I've smiled this much.
-I love it here. I don't wanna go home. -[Paulo laughing]
-Paulo, I love you, brother. -[Paulo laughing]
-You're like a brother that I never had. -Yeah, man,
I felt that when you got to Extrema.
And I said, "We're gonna have an adventure and a great time.
And I'm going to take this guy to get to know a little bit of cachaca."
You have done... changed my life.
I'm like a fish out of water down here,
but at the same time, I fit in so well.
Well, hell, I am a moonshiner.
[Paulo] Okay, that's it.
This is one of the raddest experiences of my entire life.
That's one and a half liters.
Is that seven reais?
Seven reais is one liter.
Plus, it's going to be 10,50. Here you go.
Well, everybody's so nice
Four hundred and fifty, 455.
-Man, we're selling. -[both laughing]
-Hey, he needs to put us to work. -Yeah.
Yeah, I'll stay here. [bleep] goin' home.
And we're selling extra.
Cebola ought to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Why ain't it workin'?
-[Paulo laughing] -Mmm.
Paulo's drivin'.
I don't have to worry about nothin'.
Hey, [bleep] powerful.
-[Paulo] Yes. -[Josh] Oh.
I'm covered in cachaca.
Yeah, you are.
-[laughing] -They're probably using it as a perfume.
-[mimics wolf howling] -[laughing]
[Paulo] Let's go give him the money
-and call it a day, huh? -[Josh] All right, then.
White fill, the ultimate straining media for the moonshiner.
This triple-malted grain liquor,
it's some of the best liquor I know that I've ever made.
And I'm certain it's the best that Mark Wayne Ramsay's ever made.
But here we are. I mean,
old Digger tampering liquor by himself.
But at this point, I'm not ready to give up.
This is too good of a recipe not to keep going.
You know, I gotta stay the course.
But to do it on a day to day basis
and step this up on the scale that I wanna step it up on,
it is not doable, not with one man.
As bad as it hurts production,
I don't have Mark Wayne Ramssay there,
there's not a lot of people in this world
outside of my family that I trust.
I am just about a quarter of a jar off
from being right on 100 proof.
So, you know, all that being said,
I know in my heart of hearts right now
that my only option to help me carry this recipe,
this recipe here forward
is Killer Beaz.
I mean, that's a given.
Nice. Look at that.
Beaz, you're turnin' into an outstanding liquorman.
[Digger] He's got a sense of humor and I've got a sense of humor.
That plays out well with this.
He's a good liquorman.
He's the finest bootlegger we've ever had out there. He brings it.
That being said,
I gotta have Beaz to get on board with me on this.
If he doesn't, then, uh,
my, my liquor production is gonna go down tremendously
because I can only run this one still at a time.
I've got to go talk to Beaz and try to bring him back in.
[Josh] Hell, yeah, man, it's about time we get here. [grunts]
-Good times, man. -[Paulo] Yeah.
That was amazing.
We had a great time hauling Cebola's bootleg.
And I think he was pretty happy because we made extra sales
and brought him back some extra money.
-Shine that light, Paulo. -A lot, huh?
[Josh] They's got thorns in em'.
[Paulo] Yeah, little ones, huh?
[Josh] Yeah, blood never hurt nobody.
But so far, one of the most important things I learned about making cachaca
was using wild yeast to ferment sugar cane.
Juice in. The yeast was here.
Sixteen hours, it ferments, and it's ready to cook.
The setup in America, it's like four or five days.
Using this technique could be a gamechanger for me back in the States.
Being able to take and being able to make moonshine
in less than 24 hours could be very profitable for me.
Josh, why don't you get some grass so we can light this up easily.
Because I've got something better.
-I got some gas. -Oh, really?
All righty, righty.
That's gonna go blazin' in a second.
Paulo, that's good, brother.
-Okay, look there. -[Paulo] See what happens now, huh?
We ain't gotta work for it tonight, buddy.
No grass needed.
[Paulo] There you go.
[Josh sighs] Boy, that fire feels amazin'.
Boy, that fire feels amazin'.
Tomorrow we have another long day...
...on this quest.
Soon, we're gonna meet the guy that produces cachaca up the hills.
Donzilio.
[Josh] This guy's anything like Cebola, I can't wait to get there.
He's like an old-timer. This would be like going back 100 years.
We went up the mountains to meet Cebola, right? And we gotta go even further up.
If Cebola was Obi Wan, this guy is Yoda.
[Josh laughing] No [bleep].
There's too many gadgets these days not to know where a man's at.
That's the scary part.
[Mike] Me and Jerry been driving all day long.
I don't know what the hell Richard wants, here.
But all I gotta do is find his vehicle one more time, and plant this tracking device.
We can't afford to have anybody else selling liquor to our customers.
Then we'll know.
[sighing]
Richard and Craig is nowhere to be found.
Hell, they could be anywhere.
Well, we gonna find where they're at. Eventually.
For now, we gotta get back to doing what we know how to do,
and that's just make damn good alcohol and some good flavor stuff.
You know, I got an idea for a liquor that's not gonna cost us anything.
I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but it's called, uh, mullein.
-Mullein? -Mullein.
-AKA lamb's ear.
That's what we call 'em around here.
Now, I've, now, I've heard of lamb's ear, before.
This plant, man, has a ton of medical purposes to it.
One of its main properties
is to help with inflammation of the lungs, uh, dry coughs.
So we just gonna find it right here on the side of the road?
You can find it on the side of the road.
You can be looking now, Jerry, for this plant.
They call it the people's plant, so to speak,
because it shows up everywhere a human being has been disturbing the ground.
Anywhere like in people's yards, on the side of the roads, wherever,
this stuff grows if man's been there.
[Jerry] This one right here on the side of the road?
[Mike] Check that stuff out. That looks pretty good.
It's got some pretty good leaves on it, too.
You think these four or five over here will be enough?
-This'll be plenty. -So what we need to do?
Check these leaves out, how furry they are.
Tell you what, they're pretty soft, ain't they?
-They are. They're like felt. -Right.
Good for wiping that hind end with, actually.
I see why cowboys use it for toilet paper.
I'm gonna have to try that.
This is freebie, too.
Yeah, that's a nice one.
These some big old leaves on it.
Well, the mullein's got a kind of a peppery taste to the leaf.
I figured maybe adding some good green peppers of a couple different types
will help make it pop with flavor,
and maybe bring just a little bit of warmth to the throat.
[Jerry] We like that free stuff, don't we?
[Mike] Yeah, interesting plant, I can tell you that.
We gonna have to head to the woods, get to the still site,
get this stuff mashed in and see what it's gonna taste like off that money pot.
Well, we'll get some damn mullein mashed in.
We probably got six or seven good stalks, which is way plenty enough do a run with.
This stuff is very, very potent.
I know this stuff is strong. But it's got a better taste than aroma.
-That smell is like none other. -No, it's nice, ain't it?
-It is, that's a pleasure. -Really.
[Mike] On a peppery note.
[Jerry] Look at that, just turning that water real good.
Yeah, it is. Already.
[Mike] We've got our mullein leaves in here, letting it macerate, do its thing.
We gonna cut the fire down, and strain our mullein tea.
-Oh, look at that. -Ohh, that's purty.
It's cooled off enough to where we can put our hand in the tea.
Let's strain this over and pour it back in the pot.
So basically what we're gonna do, we're gonna take this nice clean white pillow case,
we strain it all off...
That way we don't have any particles,
no dirt, no hairs off of the leaf that tickles your throat.
[Mike] Lookie there.
Nice, clean tea.
[Mike] Then we're gonna pour it back into the pot,
and then start adding a little bit of pepper to 'em.
That's gonna help give this tea a little bit of spice.
[Mike] Let's get some pepper going, son.
Sweet as sugar, 'til it gets down to around the butt end of it.
My damn bull's the same way. Sweet 'til you get to the butt end.
[exclaiming]
-What is it? What? -[exclaiming]
The hell's wrong with you already?
-Pepper just shot in my eye. -Oh, hell.
Hmmm.
He's real sensitive to peppers.
I just wanna bring that peppery flavor out even more with the peppers,
into a nice, subtle, warm drink.
[Jerry] You know what that almost reminds me of?
-[Mike] What's that? -A fresh pizza with pepper on it.
Oh, yeah. And that's what we looking for, is that good, peppery flavor.
Nothing to scare anybody off that drinks it,
but, but they like, oh, damn, it's good.
So let's taste it and see what it's gonna be like.
Do it, yeah. Let's get us a little tasting.
-Hot, hot. -Yeah, that's warm.
I'm definitely tasting the peppers.
You're the sensitive one to peppers.
Take ya a little sip.
Tell me what you think, if you think we need to add some more, if we don't, we won't.
[coughing]
Whoo! Holy mother of pearl.
[exhaling gutturally]
-I think we got enough in it. -Yeah.
-Don't you? -Yeah. We got enough in it. For sure.
I tell you what. I sure hope this liquor calms down a little bit
with that hot spicy taste,
or else, Mike's gonna be our only customer.
That's gonna make good alcy-hol, though, once it comes out of that money spout.
We've got our mixture made up. It smells really good. The tea taste is phenomenal.
We're gonna pour it in here, add the cold water...
...add your sugar in, pinch of the magic dust to it,
get the hell outta here and come back and run this stuff.
Now, remember another thing.
What's that?
Do not urinate today without washing your damn hands first.
[Jerry] Oh, don't worry about that.
[Paolo] Can't have cattle. At least not here.
-No? -No, only that, uh, wolf.
-[Josh] What do they eat? -[Paolo] Cattle. People. Whatever moves.
Paolo's taking me to go see "Dozeno".
-[Josh] You ready, Kemosabe? -[Paolo] Been ready all my life.
He's supposed to be some moonshiner out in the middle of nowhere.
Really hardcore. Paolo says that it's gonna be really harsh rain.
And we might have a lot of trouble getting these bikes to where their Dozeno's at.
[Paolo] Now, the road here is pretty hard, isn't it?
[Josh] Hell, yeah, it's hard.
-[Paolo] It's gonna get harder. -[Josh] And dusty.
[Paolo] Yeah.
[Josh] These motorcycles are really hard to ride on this terrain.
They're really heavy. They weigh, like, 700 pounds.
They got street bike tires on 'em.
What we're riding in is frickin' gnarly. It's rocky.
They are not made for what we're doing with 'em.
-[Paolo] Nice and slow. -[Josh] Hey. [whistles]
[Paolo] What is it, man?
[Josh] Your tire looks like it's going flat.
[Paolo] Oh, [bleep], man.
[Josh] It is.
[Paolo] It's like halfway down. I felt it moving a little bit funny,
but I thought it was all the leaves and stuff.
And if this tire goes really flat, we're gonna ruin it.
[Josh] Where we gonna get it fixed around here?
[Paolo] I have no idea, man.
[Josh] We've got a limited amount of time to get wherever we're going
or we're gonna have a flat tire and we're gonna be up [bleep] creek.
We need to find a tire store.
-You're right. -It's a long way to anywhere,
so we need to get on and go.
[engines starting]
[Josh] Well, let's get a move on, 'cause it's going flat fast. Be careful, man.
[Josh] It's not completely flat. There's still a few pounds of pressure in it.
But being that it's almost flat,
riding on that is gonna wear the side walls out of the tire,
ruin the tire, and we're really gonna be screwed.
[Josh] This is crazy.
[Paolo] Man, this is it. I cannot go further. I'm gonna spoil this rim.
No use going ahead, man. I'm gonna lose this rim. We gotta get it fixed.
Being in the middle of nowhere with a flat tire...
[Paolo] Only 2 psi, it says.
[Josh] Oh, [bleep], man. That bitch is flatter than a flitter.
-This is very difficult. -Let's just park it over there in the shade.
We'll have to do that. Yeah.
But then if I ruin this rim, we got a much bigger problem.
[Josh] Can we slide it over just a touch?
[groaning] Damn, that's a heavy bitch.
All right. Now, you say you got some wrenches?
Yeah.
These bikes come with a tool kit.
I'm not a motorcycle mechanic, but I can wrench a motorcycle good as anybody can.
[Josh] Getting the tire off here is no problem,
but where in the hell are we gonna get a motorcycle tire fixed out here?
We've gotta ride a bit.
-But, I mean, I'm, I know we can find it. -All right.
-[Josh] Tire off. -[Paolo] Mmm-hmm.
Now, we gotta haul this son of a bitch to wherever we're going.
When I came out here, I wasn't expecting to have Paolo on the back of my motorcycle.
[Josh] Holy hell, man.
And he's a big old boy. I mean, he's 250 pounds.
He's sitting up about six or eight inches higher on the back,
and the bikes are already way top heavy.
You the biggest person I ever had on the back of my motorcycle. [laughing]
-[Paolo] Man... -[both laughing]
Kinda like I had a Paolo bear on the back of my bike.
I'm like a fish outta water down here. I'm way out of my element.
[Paolo] We're in business. Let's go, man.
If there's one thing I do know about this place is,
these roads up here in the mountain are [bleep].
Everybody's got a car, and everybody's on a motorcycle, and...
[car honking]
...I know they're having a lot of flat tires.
So all we gotta do is just ride around 'til we find a place that can fix it.
[Paolo] This is it. The place.
[Paolo] Oh, man, we got it.
[Paolo] Here we are, man.
[grunting] God, you're heavy. [bleep]
[Paolo] This is heavy, too, man.
[Paolo grunting]
[Paolo] He knows what to do, man.
I think flat tires is a common problem around here.
Soon as I throw this tire on the ground, this guy knows immediately what to do
without me even having to tell him.
Hope this old boy is able to fix our tire without any trouble,
'cause I don't see any motorcycle shops around.
I don't exactly know when we're gonna be able to just
come up with another tire just like this.
[Josh] Ask him if it was leaking around the bead.
[Paolo speaking Portuguese]
-[man speaking Portuguese] -[Paolo speaking English] That's it, man.
-[Paolo] That, that was it. -[Josh] That means there's no hole in the tire.
[Josh] Must've had some trash caught in it.
[Paolo] Probably a rock, and something that hit it.
This guy tells us that there is no puncture in it.
[man speaking Portuguese]
-[Paolo] 100%, he says. -[Josh] Sweet, sweet.
It was probably a rock or something that hit the rim,
broke a little seal, and the air came out of it.
[both speaking Portuguese]
[Josh] Sweet.
We're finally on the way back, and we are dead dog tired.
But right now, it's starting to get dark.
We gotta get this tire on the motorcycle and find us a camping spot.
[crickets chirping]
-How's that chain feel? -Oh, it feels perfect.
[Josh] Fits perfectly even, now.
-Yeah? -Yeah. That's tight.
[Josh] Just trying to get out of the brake pad, here.
There we go. Now, we're in business.
All right, the brake's good, the wheel's good.
Putting a tire back on in the dark with flashlights is not ideal.
-[engine starting] -But we got it back on.
[engine revving]
Now, we just need to go set up our camp site,
get some food, go to bed, and do it all over again tomorrow.
[Paolo] Man, this is good enough.
[Josh] You don't gotta tell me but once.
Tomorrow, we're gonna go meet Dozeno.
Dozeno's supposed to be this backwoods, real deal moonshining outlaw guy,
uh, he lives in the middle of nowhere.
I have no idea what I'm getting myself into, but I can't wait.
[Josh] What's for dinner, man?
[Paolo laughing] What do you mean?
[Josh] What do you mean, what do I mean?
[Paolo] I have no food on my box.
-What do you mean, no food? -I don't have any!
Well, why didn't we stop and get some?
Oh, we were looking for the, the repair shop.
Well, man, we knew we had to eat. I thought you still had food in the box.
[Paolo] I thought you had something.
[Josh] Oh. Oh, now, it's me that had the food.
-No, it's both of us. -Going to bed, I guess.
You ain't got no food. Ain't got no beer. Ain't got [bleep].
[Paolo] Oh, that's it, man. Goodnight.
[Josh] Good night, buddy. Manana.
Nashville, Tennessee. Here we are.
Look right there on that big old billboard.
In the name of sense. Killer Beaz at the Grand Ole Opry.
Digger and myself are headed to see Beaz in person.
He's the best bootlegger we've ever had.
-Yeah. -And you know, he's come a long way,
-and proved hisself at making liquor. -Yeah.
Beaz we feel can fill my shoes for a while,
step in and do some of the things that I've been doing.
-Grand Ole Opry. Here we go. -Here we go.
[Mark] He's actually performing at the Grand Ole Opry.
He knows we're coming to see him, but he don't know why.
[Mark] Maybe if he'll sign on, we'll be okay.
I'd love for Beaz to say yes, but he's got a lot of reasons to say no.
If he says no, then I'm pretty much out of options just now.
[all applauding]
Hey, my name's Killer Beaz. Y'all have been fantastic.
[all applauding]
He's just as funny from behind as he is in front.
Here you go. All right, thanks, man.
Oh, hey, man. Holy cow.
-[laughing] Hey, man. -Man. Dude, I can't see. Oh, dude.
I really hate leaving Digger in this situation right now,
with all the good things that are going our way.
Come on in, guys.
So I'd really like Killer Beaz to step in and try to carry my load for me.
So, what is going on with you guys?
We're gonna cut to the chase. Mark wants to step back.
I've gotta take a break for a little while from this line of work.
I'm not getting out of this business.
But I, I gotta, I gotta take a break. I gotta back away from it.
[Digger] Now, that being said, Beaz,
if it wasn't for everything we've got going in our favor right now,
I'd probably pull the plug, too.
We made a triple malted grain that's off the chain.
Oh, really?
When I told Digger my intentions, we said we had to get somebody.
He and I both said your name.
There's another wrinkle here, Beaz.
We've got a guy that's a dog with a bone where we're concerned.
-Oh, really? -So, we've got to exercise extreme caution.
I can't fill Mark's... I, I can't fill his shoes.
Dang, man.
[speaking Portuguese]
[laughing]
[Josh] Me and Cebola are just on the same damn page,
'cause I don't understand a damn word of what he's saying.
But I know what he wants me to do. [laughing]
[speaking Portuguese]
Right now, he's got a customer that just pulled up, and we're filling this customer's jugs.
Cebola's got it set up like a gas pump here
where people can just pull up here and get it.
I have actually done it a lot like this myself, but, uh, not in Brazil.
[laughing]
Back home, I had my operation totally hid,
so this is a little different than what I'm used to, but, uh, he's still an outlaw.
And that's what I like about him the most.
Moments like this make me really appreciate the art of making moonshine.
-[speaking Portuguese] -Yes.
-[both laughing] -That's what I'm talking about.
Great minds think alike.
I can't fill Mark's... I, I can't fill his shoes.
[Digger] I don't know that anybody can, but somebody's gotta carry the torch.
It's a full partnership, Killer.
Man, Mark and Digger's proposal is intriguing.
On the face of it, I wanna do anything I can to help them.
And now, you're looking at becoming a full partner.
You could call that a dream come true.
I wanna say heck yeah.
At the same time, things are going really good for me in this career.
This is 41 years to get where I'm at.
You know, we understand it. This is not a easy decision for Killer Beaz.
He has a lot to lose.
But he has a lot to gain, as well.
Man, I'll be honest, I'm not ready to tell y'all yes right now, tonight. This is a...
This is a pretty big deal, and I...
It's a life-changing decision.
Wow.
[Digger] I mean, not putting the pressure on you, but your answer
either keeps us moving forward or we're, we're at the end of our trail.
[Beaz] Dang.
[exclaiming]
[Jerry] Let's check, see if this stuff's ready to go.
I'm ready to taste some good old mullein and pepper.
Me and Jerry, we're coming to the still site.
It is time to run this mullein pepper, and I hope it turns out fine.
[Jerry] Well, it smells good, I'll tell you that.
-It's nice and flat in there, ain't it? -[Jerry] Sure is.
Oh, my God.
Ohh, that tastes good, don't it?
That tastes damn good.
I tell you what, I was really surprised.
This has got a really good, smooth, mellow, peppery type flavor.
But it's real subtle. And I'm pretty pleased with it.
If it comes off the worm tasting as good as the mash does...
-Shoot, man. -Yeah, that stuff is...
[Jerry] Yeah, let's get this sucker heating.
It's pumped full of alcohol, and you can taste them peppers coming through.
We fixing to cap this bad boy off, throw some steam to it, and get it running.
-Ready to strike it? -Fire in the hole.
[Mike] What the hell?
Ain't no gas in it.
[laughing]
Jerry? We gonna have to go get gas.
You didn't think to check it, did you?
No, we didn't.
Oh, my God. How in the hell could we have forgot to get gas?
[Mike] That just goes to show, no matter how much you do, how long you been doing it,
you gonna by God forget something.
[Jerry] Y'all, I'm getting hangry.
-Yeah, I don't like to get that way. -No.
There's a little pizza place here in town.
Pizza, sandwich shop, something.
Just don't let me miss that turn.
There, lookie there. That's Richard Landry right there.
[Mike] Oh, [bleep]. That's him there. Damn, where's their trailer?
[Mike] We don't wanna get right on top of him, so let's pull over right here.
Coming round the curb up here by the little park
where Richard and Craig was eating last week.
[Jerry] They're both there.
-[Mike] Both there again, huh? -[Jerry] Both there again.
Obviously, this is a normal hangout spot.
I'm gonna get out, but you keep your eyes on 'em, 'til you...
If they turn toward that way, you blow the horn and I'll get back to the truck.
Okay.
-How you feeling? You got it? -Got it on there.
Let's get the hell out of here.
[Jerry] All right. Now this bush is behind us, let's look at their response.
[Mike] Easy breezy. Yeah.
[Mike exhales]
No, they never even turned around.
-Well, we got that done. -Hell, yeah.
[laughing]
I'm gonna catch that ass red handed, baby.
Catch some other hands in the pot for real, huh?
Hells, yeah.
[Mike] Let's go to... Ah. Yeah, there we are.
-[Jerry] Oh, okay. -[Mike] Right there at that blue dot.
And then, when he starts moving, it'll be a set of eyes pop up.
Ohh.
See, there's the tables?
-[Jerry] Damn accurate, ain't it? -[Mike] Real damn accurate.
Mission accomplished. We got these guys. We can track 'em from now on.
-[Mike] We gonna wait for them to leave. -[Jerry] Okay.
[Mike] And then follow 'em where they go.
[Mike] Oh, hell. Here goes nothing.