1 00:00:03,166 --> 00:00:05,166 Making moonshine's illegal. 2 00:00:05,166 --> 00:00:08,200 You can get seriously hurt or go to jail. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:09,734 Do not try this at home. 4 00:00:10,567 --> 00:00:12,700 [narrator] This time on Moonshiners... 5 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:14,667 [Killer Beaz] I got one thing I want to talk to y'all about. 6 00:00:14,667 --> 00:00:16,266 Shine pods. 7 00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:18,767 Beaz has this harebrained idea 8 00:00:18,767 --> 00:00:21,300 about building an interactive cocktail. 9 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:22,767 At $5 a pop, 10 00:00:22,767 --> 00:00:24,000 gotta make this work. 11 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,500 That's insane damn money. 12 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:27,767 [Amanda] These things are just-- 13 00:00:27,767 --> 00:00:28,800 [Beaz] They're like egg yolks. 14 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,000 [Digger on speaker] Go ahead, Beaz. 15 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,400 We're not able to do this. 16 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,834 [Digger] We need this order, Beaz. 17 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,467 [Jerry] The guy took the bait. 18 00:00:35,467 --> 00:00:37,467 [Mike on speaker] 19 00:00:37,467 --> 00:00:39,800 This thief sent word that he's willing to sell his still. 20 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,667 The guy wanted $1,500 for it. 21 00:00:41,667 --> 00:00:43,300 He ain't never gonna see no cash at all. 22 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,166 Don't turn your back on that damn fool. 23 00:00:45,166 --> 00:00:46,300 Oh, heck no, man. 24 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,066 I'm not a cop. I've never been in this situation before. 25 00:00:53,667 --> 00:00:54,567 He's following us. 26 00:00:54,567 --> 00:00:55,934 [tires screeching] 27 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:00,133 [man] This is how we make the moonshine! 28 00:01:06,667 --> 00:01:10,066 [Mark] Baby man. Let's see. I need six hazelnut rum. 29 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:13,767 -[man] Yep. -[Mark] And I need six of the triple malts. 30 00:01:13,767 --> 00:01:15,367 Triple malts. 31 00:01:15,367 --> 00:01:17,266 [narrator] In Cocke County, Tennessee, 32 00:01:17,266 --> 00:01:22,700 after a thief stole $11,000 worth of liquor from their cargo van... 33 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,166 Well, that's an outstanding lookin' bootlegging car. 34 00:01:25,166 --> 00:01:27,767 [narrator] ...Mark and Digger have their bootlegger Killer Beaz 35 00:01:27,767 --> 00:01:31,266 downsized to a less conspicuous delivery vehicle. 36 00:01:31,266 --> 00:01:32,900 [Digger] We've got liquor going out the door. 37 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:34,667 It's reminiscent the way it was in the late '80s, 38 00:01:34,667 --> 00:01:35,834 early '90s in our world. 39 00:01:35,834 --> 00:01:38,500 I mean, back then, we were moving a train load of liquor 40 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:40,300 and we're headed that way fast again. 41 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:42,467 -Killer. -Good morning, young people. 42 00:01:42,467 --> 00:01:44,000 7,500 bucks. 43 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,567 -Oh, that's what I've been talking about. -[Digger] Perfect. 44 00:01:45,567 --> 00:01:47,166 [Beaz] We got so much going, man. 45 00:01:47,166 --> 00:01:49,100 I got to write all this stuff down now. 46 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:51,867 Cherry wheat, five cases. 47 00:01:51,867 --> 00:01:55,367 You know, Beaz, he drops by a minimum of once a week. 48 00:01:55,367 --> 00:01:57,000 -This is the... -Triple malt. 49 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,567 -Triple malt. -Triple malt. 50 00:01:58,567 --> 00:02:00,700 And he sells the hell out of some liquor. 51 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:03,767 You know the deal. It's time for you to go and make us some money. 52 00:02:03,767 --> 00:02:06,367 Yep, I got one thing I want to talk to y'all about. 53 00:02:06,367 --> 00:02:08,100 It ain't time for a raise, Beaz. 54 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:09,700 Just bear with me. 55 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:11,300 Shine pods. 56 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,166 [country music playing] 57 00:02:15,066 --> 00:02:16,900 I don't know what that is. 58 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:18,767 This is a laundry pod. 59 00:02:18,767 --> 00:02:23,266 I have a big money buyer in Nashville that likes to do out of the norm things, 60 00:02:23,266 --> 00:02:25,567 and he is wanting some liquor 61 00:02:25,567 --> 00:02:30,000 that can be an interactive experience 62 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 with his people who come to his big parties. 63 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,900 Well, I thought interactive experience with liquor 64 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,600 was just drinking with your friends. 65 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,100 Yeah, that's the interaction. 66 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:42,000 That's old timey days. 67 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,967 Well, we're old timey people. 68 00:02:43,967 --> 00:02:48,166 He doesn't know what he wants, but he wants something with some visual effect. 69 00:02:48,166 --> 00:02:52,867 I'm thinking we could get liquor in a gel pod 70 00:02:52,867 --> 00:02:56,166 that people could drop into their mixers, into whatever, 71 00:02:56,166 --> 00:02:59,934 and it would release the alcohol into it. 72 00:03:00,767 --> 00:03:04,500 My vision is it's almost like a liquid... 73 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,066 fireworks display in your goblet. 74 00:03:08,066 --> 00:03:10,567 I think it would be a hit if it can actually work. 75 00:03:10,567 --> 00:03:12,700 I don't know if it's doable. 76 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,166 Even if it is feasible, we don't know how to do it. 77 00:03:16,166 --> 00:03:17,867 You didn't give him a price, did you? 78 00:03:17,867 --> 00:03:22,266 I told him they would run at least five bucks a pod. 79 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,066 There's 85 shots in a gallon. 80 00:03:25,066 --> 00:03:28,266 -Yeah. -So $5 a shot, five aces, 81 00:03:28,266 --> 00:03:30,000 400, five piles of 25, 82 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,667 $425 for a gallon of liquor. 83 00:03:32,667 --> 00:03:34,567 -Right. -And I'm all about that. 84 00:03:34,567 --> 00:03:36,066 When Beaz tells us 85 00:03:36,066 --> 00:03:38,266 you can get $5 a pop for these things, 86 00:03:38,266 --> 00:03:40,567 I mean, that really piques our interest. 87 00:03:40,567 --> 00:03:43,100 It could be a big avenue for revenue. 88 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:44,867 I know how he loves a challenge. 89 00:03:44,867 --> 00:03:46,600 -I mean, he's-- -Well, I don't want to be defeated, 90 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,300 but I like making that money. 91 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,800 Me and you might not be smart enough, but we know who is. 92 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,767 We need to put this in the hands of Amanda 93 00:03:53,767 --> 00:03:56,567 and let her put that brilliant mind of hers to work. 94 00:03:56,567 --> 00:03:59,300 We got younger eyes out here working for us. 95 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:01,300 Well, they've got younger ideas. 96 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:03,066 You tell them we don't know how to do it, 97 00:04:03,066 --> 00:04:04,667 but we're gonna do our best to find out. 98 00:04:04,667 --> 00:04:06,367 -Okay. -[Digger] Can you get them down the road 99 00:04:06,367 --> 00:04:08,667 and get us some money made so we can explore this venture? 100 00:04:08,667 --> 00:04:10,166 Yeah, all right. Later, man. 101 00:04:10,166 --> 00:04:11,200 See you, brother. 102 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,400 [Mark] The amount of money that that could generate. 103 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,333 [country music playing] 104 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:22,567 [Mike] It's still hard to believe that we ain't got 105 00:04:22,567 --> 00:04:25,000 no dadgum still to go to the woods with, son. 106 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,033 I don't know what we're gonna do, man. 107 00:04:27,867 --> 00:04:30,266 [narrator] In Haywood County, North Carolina, 108 00:04:30,266 --> 00:04:33,166 after Jerry's friend Roger shared a video 109 00:04:33,166 --> 00:04:38,000 showing a man stealing their one-of-a-kind waterless moonshine still... 110 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,600 [man] Holy [bleep]! 111 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,567 [narrator] ...the Maggie Valley Trio plots a strategy 112 00:04:42,567 --> 00:04:45,100 to reclaim their stolen property. 113 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,900 You know, the guy that actually took the still and made this video, 114 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:51,967 he's got a large list of felonies, larceny, trespassing. 115 00:04:51,967 --> 00:04:53,700 He's been known to do a lot of drugs. 116 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:55,200 He's just a common criminal. 117 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,900 The longer we take, not seeing the still, 118 00:04:57,900 --> 00:04:59,700 not finding out where that's at, 119 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,567 the chances are we're never gonna get it back. 120 00:05:02,567 --> 00:05:05,867 No, the longer we go, the more he's inclined to take this thing 121 00:05:05,867 --> 00:05:07,600 and cut it apart and try to get rid of it. 122 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,467 Exactly. Now is the window of opportunity 123 00:05:10,467 --> 00:05:12,500 to try to find this guy, find him fast 124 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:14,300 and see if he still has our still. 125 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:16,567 Maybe we try to find out where this thug lives 126 00:05:16,567 --> 00:05:18,600 and let's go raid his sheds or something 127 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,700 in the middle of the night, see if we can't find our stuff 128 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:21,700 and just take it. 129 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:23,967 Well, you know, that dude can really be bad news. 130 00:05:23,967 --> 00:05:25,367 -[Mike] Oh, yeah. -We might be dealing with something 131 00:05:25,367 --> 00:05:26,734 a little bit bigger than we thought. 132 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,200 This might not go well. 133 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:34,367 Well, he's dangerous. 134 00:05:34,367 --> 00:05:36,767 He could be armed, and if we're on his territory, 135 00:05:36,767 --> 00:05:40,567 there's no telling what kind of situation we could run into. 136 00:05:40,567 --> 00:05:43,467 Maybe we should come up with some type of reward money. 137 00:05:43,467 --> 00:05:46,266 Something to offer him to get the still back, 138 00:05:46,266 --> 00:05:47,767 you know, without him knowing who we are. 139 00:05:47,767 --> 00:05:48,867 Do you want to pay somebody? 140 00:05:48,867 --> 00:05:49,767 Definitely not. 141 00:05:49,767 --> 00:05:51,000 He won't ever get the money. 142 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,367 Oh, you just want like a, like a-- throwing a cheese out there 143 00:05:53,367 --> 00:05:55,467 -and be able to reel it back in. -Exactly right. 144 00:05:55,467 --> 00:05:57,000 [Mike] Your guy give you the video, right? 145 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,767 That guy that took the video gave it to somebody. 146 00:05:59,767 --> 00:06:02,266 Roger's niece is the one who actually knows this piece of crap. 147 00:06:02,266 --> 00:06:04,166 She's the one who got the video to begin with. 148 00:06:04,166 --> 00:06:07,867 So maybe we can go backwards and be able to get ahold of this guy. 149 00:06:07,867 --> 00:06:09,266 [Mike] All it'll be is somebody saying, 150 00:06:09,266 --> 00:06:11,867 "Hey, there's somebody that's actually wanting to buy that!" 151 00:06:11,867 --> 00:06:15,266 He's gonna be like, "Yeah, we'll sell it to you!" 152 00:06:15,266 --> 00:06:18,100 You know, the only link that we've got to this crook now 153 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:19,867 is through Jerry's friend Roger. 154 00:06:19,867 --> 00:06:22,400 So if we can talk to Roger and convince Roger 155 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,066 to get in touch with the crook and, you know, 156 00:06:25,066 --> 00:06:27,567 put up a cash offer, a big cash offer, 157 00:06:27,567 --> 00:06:29,667 maybe we can lure this sucker in. 158 00:06:29,667 --> 00:06:32,100 -[Richard] That's a good idea. -Offer him 500 bucks. 159 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,000 Let's go. 160 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,500 You know, we don't want to offer him some much down money 161 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:38,767 for it to where, you know, it spooks him off or something. 162 00:06:39,367 --> 00:06:40,567 But $500? 163 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:43,200 That seems pretty reasonable for a stolen still. 164 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,400 $500 is more than he can get at a scrap yard 165 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,900 any day of the week for that still. 166 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:48,867 Hey, buddy. 167 00:06:48,867 --> 00:06:50,500 All right. It's going all right, I guess. 168 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:52,934 Hey, look, if you're willing to help us, man, we've got an idea. 169 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,667 Tell him that somebody wanted to purchase it, 170 00:06:55,667 --> 00:06:57,867 like, they throw down a $500 offer. 171 00:07:00,567 --> 00:07:02,200 All right, man. Let's see what you can do for us. 172 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,967 Let me know if you hear anything. 173 00:07:03,967 --> 00:07:06,266 You know, my buddy Roger, he don't really want to get involved, 174 00:07:06,266 --> 00:07:08,600 but he sees the need that we need to get ahold of this guy. 175 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,867 And he knows that he's our only point of contact. 176 00:07:11,867 --> 00:07:13,700 So he's gonna jump on board with us and see 177 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,367 if he can give us a hand finding this thing. 178 00:07:15,367 --> 00:07:18,467 And he said he'd throw the word out there at best, you know. 179 00:07:18,467 --> 00:07:19,467 Yeah. 180 00:07:19,467 --> 00:07:21,600 I just hope this guy's dumb enough to take the bait 181 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,367 hook, line and sinker, and we get the still back unscathed. 182 00:07:25,367 --> 00:07:27,367 [Jerry] Maybe we'll shake a tree, maybe we'll get it fruit. 183 00:07:27,367 --> 00:07:28,300 [Richard] Let's go shake it. 184 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:33,166 [country music playing] 185 00:07:37,467 --> 00:07:39,567 [Big Chuk] This damn creek is treacherous, man. 186 00:07:39,567 --> 00:07:42,000 [Joe] I don't remember this much water. 187 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,367 [narrator] Just north of Hot Springs, Arkansas, 188 00:07:44,367 --> 00:07:46,166 after discovering old liquor 189 00:07:46,166 --> 00:07:48,567 in an abandoned Prohibition-era club... 190 00:07:48,567 --> 00:07:52,100 -Oh, my God, cuz. -[Joe] Is that from the days of Al Capone? 191 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:54,567 [narrator] ...double cousins Big Chuk and Joe Boy 192 00:07:54,567 --> 00:07:57,467 attempt to recreate that same style of moonshine 193 00:07:57,467 --> 00:08:01,667 once made by Al Capone's nearby illegal distillery. 194 00:08:01,667 --> 00:08:03,834 And let's make sure this mash ready to run. 195 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,634 Here goes... nothing. 196 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,066 Voila. Cap done fell. 197 00:08:09,867 --> 00:08:10,967 Bitter. 198 00:08:12,166 --> 00:08:14,900 So about a week ago, we mashed in this corn. 199 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,300 We used world renowned, famous Hot Springs mineral water. 200 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:20,200 This is the secret ingredient 201 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,500 to recreate this Prohibition-style moonshine. 202 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:25,166 The same type of moonshine that people like Al Capone and them 203 00:08:25,166 --> 00:08:27,266 came from Chicago down here to make. 204 00:08:27,266 --> 00:08:29,066 We're going to pour the mash into here. 205 00:08:29,066 --> 00:08:30,667 This is where the corn liquor goes. 206 00:08:30,667 --> 00:08:32,567 We're basically going to handle that like a stripping run. 207 00:08:32,567 --> 00:08:33,767 We're gonna run it kind of hot. 208 00:08:33,767 --> 00:08:35,000 -Yeah. -We'll get it pumping. 209 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,900 But while that's doing all that, 210 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:38,800 we're gonna dump all the peaches in here, 211 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,100 put a little water in there 212 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:41,567 and let them just start simmering. 213 00:08:41,567 --> 00:08:43,900 I want to cook out all the flavor of them peaches. 214 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:47,200 By the time that's done running, all we gotta do then, 215 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,467 -dump our distillate in here. -Yeah. 216 00:08:49,467 --> 00:08:52,500 Pop a cap, stick it on here, paste up. 217 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:53,567 It's gonna be fire, man. 218 00:08:53,567 --> 00:08:55,800 -Let's get to it, baby. -Yeah, let's get it. 219 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,166 So this here is gonna be a double distilled liquor. 220 00:08:58,166 --> 00:09:00,100 Do it handful by handful, 221 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:01,967 which is gonna make it really smooth. 222 00:09:01,967 --> 00:09:04,834 It's gonna come out being a good, clean, peachy flavored product. 223 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:07,967 Get ready to fire that sumbitch up. 224 00:09:07,967 --> 00:09:08,967 [Joe] I'll tell you when. 225 00:09:10,667 --> 00:09:11,600 When. 226 00:09:14,567 --> 00:09:17,400 God dog! That burned the damn hair off my arm. 227 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,667 [Joe] That burner there is kicking. 228 00:09:18,667 --> 00:09:20,567 Get the cap on and start rigging all this up. 229 00:09:20,567 --> 00:09:23,000 I'm gonna get these peaches and some water going in this. 230 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,066 Pour these in. 231 00:09:27,367 --> 00:09:28,600 We cooked them sumbitches. 232 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,800 About that time they cook that 233 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,000 is when we're gonna be dumping corn liquor in. 234 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,166 Put a little water in there. 235 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:34,266 Yeah! 236 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:39,867 Ah! God dog, man! 237 00:09:39,867 --> 00:09:42,500 So now I'm gonna use a little peach juice for the paste. 238 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:43,767 I like mine thick. 239 00:09:43,767 --> 00:09:45,166 Maybe that old sugar from them peaches 240 00:09:45,166 --> 00:09:47,333 will make that paste a little bit more tacky. 241 00:09:49,166 --> 00:09:50,166 Look like peach cobbler 242 00:09:50,166 --> 00:09:52,233 -by the time it's all said and done. -[Joe] Cuz! 243 00:09:53,367 --> 00:09:55,767 Oh, [bleep]! 244 00:09:55,767 --> 00:09:57,266 [Big Chuk] Are you kiddin' me? 245 00:09:57,266 --> 00:09:58,467 Man, if we can't get this sealed up, 246 00:09:58,467 --> 00:10:00,367 it's just gonna blow steam out. 247 00:10:00,367 --> 00:10:02,967 As we journeyed down this creek, busting our asses, 248 00:10:02,967 --> 00:10:03,934 somewhere along the way, 249 00:10:03,934 --> 00:10:05,667 we've knocked something loose on the worm box, 250 00:10:05,667 --> 00:10:07,567 creating a big old gap at the bottom. 251 00:10:07,567 --> 00:10:10,767 If the worm don't stay cool, we're gonna be blowing vapor out across the creek. 252 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:14,467 I'll take some screws out of this handle and put it in it. 253 00:10:14,467 --> 00:10:16,467 -There you go. -Start bucketing water. 254 00:10:16,467 --> 00:10:18,066 So Joe Boy's pretty quick on his feet, 255 00:10:18,767 --> 00:10:19,967 trying to cinch it up. 256 00:10:21,967 --> 00:10:23,166 It's about to start running, cuz. 257 00:10:24,367 --> 00:10:26,700 But it's like putting a Band-Aid on a big old, gaping wound. 258 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,000 I guess the only solution we got is bucket fill this thing 259 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,367 all the way through the whole run. 260 00:10:30,367 --> 00:10:31,433 [Joe] We need to hurry. 261 00:10:36,467 --> 00:10:37,533 [Joe grunts] 262 00:10:38,266 --> 00:10:39,767 Here comes the liquor. 263 00:10:39,767 --> 00:10:40,767 Here it comes. 264 00:10:40,767 --> 00:10:41,867 [Big Chuk] You can't explain how good it feels 265 00:10:41,867 --> 00:10:43,967 to finally get started from this first run. 266 00:10:43,967 --> 00:10:45,667 Hold on. Let me throw this out. 267 00:10:45,667 --> 00:10:48,233 The sad part is, is we ain't nowhere near done yet. 268 00:10:48,467 --> 00:10:50,233 [Joe grunts] 269 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:52,667 [Big Chuk] Swap it out. 270 00:10:52,667 --> 00:10:55,066 We've got to work as fast as we possibly can, 271 00:10:55,066 --> 00:10:56,200 putting buckets in, 272 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,367 in order to keep the water level up 273 00:10:57,367 --> 00:10:59,300 where it's protecting the liquor. 274 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:00,867 Here, this ain't even running no more. 275 00:11:01,567 --> 00:11:02,767 And we're getting into tails, 'cuz. 276 00:11:02,767 --> 00:11:03,900 Go cut that sumbitch off! 277 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:05,033 All right. 278 00:11:05,033 --> 00:11:07,600 So now that this first run is done, it's on to step two. 279 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,767 And that's adding this distillate in there with them peaches, 280 00:11:09,767 --> 00:11:11,767 where they're already heated up pretty good. 281 00:11:11,767 --> 00:11:13,100 So as soon as we pour this distillate in, 282 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:14,367 we're going to put the cap on, 283 00:11:14,367 --> 00:11:15,800 and we'll be ready to run again. 284 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,834 Look, he's making him some oven mitts here, folks. 285 00:11:19,266 --> 00:11:21,166 [Joe] That's the name of the game, baby. 286 00:11:21,166 --> 00:11:22,400 [Big Chuk] Guess what? 287 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,266 Now we got to wait, again. 288 00:11:24,266 --> 00:11:25,667 -[Joe] Got it. -Got it? 289 00:11:25,667 --> 00:11:26,667 [Joe] Let's dance, baby. 290 00:11:26,667 --> 00:11:27,734 [Big Chuk straining] 291 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,000 I'm gonna tell you right now, this is the hardest work 292 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,300 I've ever done in my life, to keep this water in there. 293 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,634 [grunts] 294 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:40,567 [Joe] We got a drip! 295 00:11:41,166 --> 00:11:42,667 [Big Chuk] Oh, thank God. 296 00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:44,166 [grunts] [bleep] 297 00:11:52,767 --> 00:11:53,767 That's it, baby. 298 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 I got corn on the front, I got peaches on the back. 299 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,367 I got that smoothness that we found 300 00:12:00,367 --> 00:12:02,266 -on that prohibition liquor. -Ohh! 301 00:12:02,266 --> 00:12:04,667 -All this hard work's payin' off, 'cuz. -We just did it, boy. 302 00:12:04,667 --> 00:12:06,266 -Yeah, son! -We did it, boy! 303 00:12:09,467 --> 00:12:11,767 I think that we've finally got something here 304 00:12:11,767 --> 00:12:13,767 that tastes just like that liquor we found 305 00:12:13,767 --> 00:12:16,300 underneath the whole city of Hot Springs. 306 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,400 Holy crap, man, that is fire. 307 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,667 Just to think we've got the same liquor in our hands 308 00:12:20,667 --> 00:12:22,400 that people like Al Capone and them 309 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,900 probably held in their hands... 310 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:25,900 We've got to keep on bucketing baby. 311 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:27,433 We got six gallons to go. 312 00:12:28,367 --> 00:12:30,100 Man, I'm super excited about this. 313 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:31,567 It's fixin' to fly off the shelves. 314 00:12:31,567 --> 00:12:33,734 -I'm about tired. -[Big Chuk laughs] Yeah. 315 00:12:34,767 --> 00:12:36,500 Don't turn your back on that damn fool. 316 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:37,467 Oh, heck no! 317 00:12:37,467 --> 00:12:38,800 He's in trouble with the law all the time. 318 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,166 So, hell, he may pull a gun. 319 00:12:40,166 --> 00:12:41,967 If he does, I'm gonna have to pull mine too. 320 00:12:41,967 --> 00:12:44,467 -[man] [bleep] -[Jerry speaking] 321 00:12:44,467 --> 00:12:46,467 [Amanda speaking] 322 00:12:48,066 --> 00:12:49,867 Damn sure is spooky up here. 323 00:12:49,867 --> 00:12:52,600 -I turned the lights on. -[Amanda] It was your idea! 324 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,266 Beaz has this harebrained idea about building what he calls 325 00:12:57,266 --> 00:13:00,900 an interactive cocktail for his client in Nashville 326 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:04,667 involving a dissolvable shine pod. 327 00:13:04,667 --> 00:13:06,467 And we don't know nothin' about this. 328 00:13:06,467 --> 00:13:09,300 So we recruited somebody who does. 329 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:11,200 Obviously, that would be Amanda. 330 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,567 Amanda, what's this process called again 331 00:13:13,567 --> 00:13:15,266 that you've been investigating? 332 00:13:15,266 --> 00:13:17,133 Reverse spherification. 333 00:13:18,567 --> 00:13:20,367 It's a molecular gastronomy technique. 334 00:13:20,367 --> 00:13:23,500 They use it in high-end cocktail bars and in restaurants. 335 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:26,800 So we're gonna make a food-grade outer container, 336 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,600 something that's edible, that people can consume. 337 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,900 So basically, you take two chemicals. 338 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:34,200 You have calcium lactate and sodium alginate. 339 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,567 They're both edible for human consumption. 340 00:13:36,567 --> 00:13:38,867 Basically, it makes like a little gel shell. 341 00:13:38,867 --> 00:13:40,767 And then the alcohol will be on the inside. 342 00:13:40,767 --> 00:13:44,567 I don't know anything about how to even start this process. 343 00:13:44,567 --> 00:13:46,500 To me, it's a crazy idea. 344 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,767 But what's not crazy about it is $5 a piece. 345 00:13:49,767 --> 00:13:54,100 Amanda, you've got to make this work regardless of what it takes. 346 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,000 I mean, that's insane damn money. 347 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,200 So no-- no pressure, then, right? 348 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,600 -[Mark] No pressure. -[Digger] When have you promised these? 349 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,400 I have not promised these at all. 350 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:04,767 -Wonderful. -I do know 351 00:14:04,767 --> 00:14:08,000 that he has a party coming up in about three weeks. 352 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:08,934 [Digger] I'm okay with that. 353 00:14:08,934 --> 00:14:10,500 -I'm excited about that thing. -[Digger] Yeah. 354 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:12,467 [Digger] Well, y'all get to doing what you do. 355 00:14:12,467 --> 00:14:13,567 She's in charge. 356 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:16,800 If this goes over and works... 357 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,266 Thanks for the work space. 358 00:14:18,266 --> 00:14:21,300 ...that's going to be the highest price per gallon 359 00:14:21,300 --> 00:14:24,900 for any liquor that we've ever sold in our entire life. 360 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:27,700 We have the sodium alginate and the calcium lactate. 361 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:30,467 We're going to put the liquor in this one. 362 00:14:30,467 --> 00:14:33,200 And then distilled water in this one. 363 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,367 The first thing we really have to do 364 00:14:34,367 --> 00:14:36,500 is prove that we can make these pods. 365 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:38,467 For one liter of water, 366 00:14:38,467 --> 00:14:41,867 we're going to use five grams of our sodium alginate. 367 00:14:41,867 --> 00:14:43,767 So we're gonna need 10 grams of this. 368 00:14:43,767 --> 00:14:47,000 So reverse spherification is a process where you take two solutions. 369 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,300 One will be our cocktail with the alcohol. 370 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:52,100 We'll mix in something called calcium lactate. 371 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,266 And the other solution is sodium alginate. 372 00:14:54,266 --> 00:14:56,066 So it's like a derivative of seaweed. 373 00:14:56,066 --> 00:14:59,600 When they come together, they create a gelatin form. 374 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,433 Now this is cloudy, but once it sits, it should be totally clear. 375 00:15:02,867 --> 00:15:03,767 The sodium alginate, 376 00:15:03,767 --> 00:15:06,100 this is the bath, basically. 377 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:07,233 So we're going to take the alcohol, 378 00:15:07,233 --> 00:15:10,066 freeze it into little ice cubes, and we drop it in here. 379 00:15:10,066 --> 00:15:14,600 Once it hits this, the outside of the alcohol will touch this. 380 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,800 And that forms the shell around it. 381 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,367 Exactly. So next, we're gonna mix our cocktail. 382 00:15:20,467 --> 00:15:21,634 For the cocktail portion, 383 00:15:21,634 --> 00:15:26,667 we're gonna take the alcohol, get it down to below 45 proof. 384 00:15:26,667 --> 00:15:28,166 That way, it can freeze. 385 00:15:28,166 --> 00:15:30,900 -So this is a cherry juice. -Mm-hmm. 386 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:32,667 [Amanda] So figure we'll make, like, cherry flavored ones. 387 00:15:32,667 --> 00:15:34,400 -See how they taste. -Got you. 388 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,467 [Amanda] This is strictly just for experimentation 389 00:15:36,467 --> 00:15:38,700 and just to really get our hands on the process 390 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:40,066 and see what we're dealing with. 391 00:15:40,066 --> 00:15:41,867 We have the calcium lactate. 392 00:15:41,867 --> 00:15:43,367 -Mm-hmm. -And we're going to add that to this, 393 00:15:43,367 --> 00:15:44,667 which is our cocktail. 394 00:15:44,667 --> 00:15:46,367 I think we should do some sampling first 395 00:15:46,367 --> 00:15:49,100 -before we put anything in it. -Yeah. 396 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:51,133 Make sure it tastes good-- Oh, that tastes really good, actually. 397 00:15:52,967 --> 00:15:54,500 And it's got some kick in there. 398 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:56,166 So this calcium lactate we're using 399 00:15:56,166 --> 00:15:58,000 is flavorless and colorless. 400 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,200 Once it's mixed up, freeze the alcohol, 401 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,667 and then we drop it into the solution of the sodium alginate. 402 00:16:02,667 --> 00:16:04,767 And that should give us an edible sphere 403 00:16:04,767 --> 00:16:06,667 on the outside of our liquid cocktail. 404 00:16:06,667 --> 00:16:08,667 What do we got here then? 405 00:16:08,667 --> 00:16:10,567 -We have forty-eight. -[Beaz] At 5 bucks a pop. 406 00:16:10,567 --> 00:16:11,900 [Amanda] It's like $240. 407 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:15,000 We'll drop them in our sodium alginate, 408 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,166 and hopefully, we will have 409 00:16:17,166 --> 00:16:20,700 the world's greatest shine bomb cocktail 410 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:22,834 and we're all rich. 411 00:16:23,266 --> 00:16:24,500 Good job. 412 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,100 -Good job. -Well, it was your idea. 413 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,133 [upbeat guitar music playing] 414 00:16:32,266 --> 00:16:34,767 -[Big Chuk] You got that jar for doing it? -[Joe] Right here, son. 415 00:16:34,767 --> 00:16:37,667 I hope he's ready for a little bit of a higher price tag. 416 00:16:37,667 --> 00:16:39,166 I think he's gonna love what the hell this is. 417 00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:41,800 Aye. Good liquor ain't cheap and cheap liquor ain't good. 418 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:42,967 [Joe] You ain't [bleep]. 419 00:16:42,967 --> 00:16:48,166 We got us a jar of this brand new state-of-the-art moonshine, 420 00:16:48,166 --> 00:16:51,667 I'm gonna take it up here to our distro, Gooney Shakur. 421 00:16:51,667 --> 00:16:53,634 So I've been knowing Gooney for quite a while. 422 00:16:54,367 --> 00:16:56,166 You like that? 423 00:16:56,166 --> 00:16:58,567 How does 40 gallons a week sound to y'all? 424 00:16:58,567 --> 00:16:59,700 We'll do it. 425 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:00,867 [Big Chuk] We've earned his respect, 426 00:17:00,867 --> 00:17:02,667 so I feel pretty good going into this, 427 00:17:02,667 --> 00:17:04,300 knowing we've got something new, 428 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,700 something exciting, something he can take to market. 429 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:09,166 And hopefully, we can just do bigger and better things. 430 00:17:09,166 --> 00:17:10,767 Well, I hear music going on up here. 431 00:17:10,767 --> 00:17:13,433 ♪ Country road Don't get caught up in the headlights ♪ 432 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,667 [Big Chuk] Gooney is an entertainer. 433 00:17:15,667 --> 00:17:16,900 He makes a little music, too. 434 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:19,133 That's how I kind of got to know him back in the day. 435 00:17:20,467 --> 00:17:22,800 He's up here doing what he does, recording some music. 436 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,066 I feel like moonshine goes pretty good with music. 437 00:17:25,066 --> 00:17:26,500 My favorite duo! 438 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:28,266 -Man, spinnin' here, big dog! -Good to see you all, boy! 439 00:17:28,266 --> 00:17:29,467 -Hey, man. -Heck yeah. 440 00:17:29,467 --> 00:17:31,000 I know he respects the liquor we're making. 441 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,266 What we bring to the table is gonna be a game-changer for him and us. 442 00:17:34,266 --> 00:17:35,867 You know, in the early times of Prohibition, You know, 443 00:17:35,867 --> 00:17:38,900 back in the day of Al Capone, they were always down in Hot Springs, 444 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,166 -you know, doing their gambling and... -Right. 445 00:17:41,166 --> 00:17:43,600 So what I present to you today, my friends, 446 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,967 this is moonshine 447 00:17:44,967 --> 00:17:49,166 made with all the things that it was made from back in the day. 448 00:17:49,166 --> 00:17:51,100 -Okay. -This is the best liquor I've ever made in my life. 449 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:52,834 I'm sure you're gonna like it. 450 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:56,400 -[Gooney] Check it out here. -[Big Chuk] Uh-huh. 451 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,000 -Y'all said this last time. -Yeah. 452 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,200 [Big Chuk] Did we disappoint then? 453 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,433 -Every time is supposedly better. -Yeah. 454 00:18:06,667 --> 00:18:07,667 Oh! 455 00:18:07,667 --> 00:18:09,600 I don't care what you went through to make this. 456 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,266 [Big Chuk] That's smooth, ain't it? 457 00:18:11,266 --> 00:18:12,500 A lot more went into this. 458 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,000 -Yeah. -A lot more trouble, a lot more effort, 459 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,567 a lot more research. 460 00:18:15,567 --> 00:18:17,567 What I got right here, man, 461 00:18:17,567 --> 00:18:20,166 somewhere to the tune of 150 a gallon. 462 00:18:21,567 --> 00:18:22,934 Hell, no. 463 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,066 You're a vested partner right now, so-- 464 00:18:27,066 --> 00:18:28,900 I mean, I'm just gonna tell you, 465 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:30,634 you're wasting money making it. 466 00:18:31,166 --> 00:18:32,300 It's not working out. 467 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:33,367 We got to go. 468 00:18:34,166 --> 00:18:36,166 Hey, tell them to turn this [bleep] off, man. 469 00:18:36,166 --> 00:18:37,867 [Big Chuk] So Gooney shut us down. 470 00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:40,567 And not only that, he took a dadgum jar from us. 471 00:18:40,567 --> 00:18:43,300 I'm deflated, but I've been in these situations before. 472 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:44,767 He took the jar for a reason. 473 00:18:44,767 --> 00:18:46,567 He's gonna go out and let people try it. 474 00:18:46,567 --> 00:18:48,700 And try to build a little bit of interest in it. 475 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:49,600 I know he'll be back. 476 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,166 I got confidence in the liquor hell. 477 00:18:51,166 --> 00:18:52,634 Well, hell. 478 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,233 [Amanda] I really hope this works. 479 00:19:02,166 --> 00:19:04,266 This is a sticky process, right? 480 00:19:04,266 --> 00:19:06,367 There is a ton of room for human error. 481 00:19:06,367 --> 00:19:09,266 It's like semi frozen, but not exactly. 482 00:19:09,266 --> 00:19:11,500 [Beaz] Is it supposed to float? 483 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,266 I-- I don't know, Beaz. We're just... 484 00:19:13,266 --> 00:19:15,867 We're figuring this out at the same time here. 485 00:19:15,867 --> 00:19:17,300 We basically have staged baths 486 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:18,667 to make the spherification work. 487 00:19:18,667 --> 00:19:20,667 First, the alcohol with our calcium lactate 488 00:19:20,667 --> 00:19:22,266 goes into the sodium alginate bath. 489 00:19:22,266 --> 00:19:23,467 We leave it in there long enough 490 00:19:23,467 --> 00:19:25,400 to form a thick enough membrane, 491 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,467 and then we rinse it in a series of warm, clean water baths 492 00:19:28,467 --> 00:19:30,567 to stop that membrane from forming anymore. 493 00:19:30,567 --> 00:19:32,266 Wow. Isn't that something? 494 00:19:32,266 --> 00:19:35,500 So we have figured out how to encapsulate our cocktails. 495 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:36,967 We have a sphere. 496 00:19:36,967 --> 00:19:39,700 And there is an alcohol cocktail inside of that pod. 497 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:44,100 My goal is to be able to drop that in a mixer or whatever 498 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,467 and have it spread the liquor in there. 499 00:19:47,367 --> 00:19:48,467 [Amanda] Well, that one's not as pretty. 500 00:19:48,467 --> 00:19:49,600 That one broke, Beaz. 501 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,100 Yeah. 502 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,767 -[Amanda] These things are just-- -They're like egg yolks. 503 00:19:53,767 --> 00:19:56,367 It looks like we're making a slasher movie. 504 00:19:56,367 --> 00:19:58,367 These membranes are kind of durable, 505 00:19:58,367 --> 00:20:00,266 but they're also pretty fragile at the same time. 506 00:20:00,266 --> 00:20:01,867 They also don't always turn out 507 00:20:01,867 --> 00:20:03,467 the perfect sphere that we're looking for. 508 00:20:03,467 --> 00:20:06,266 I want to test one and see if it will dissolve 509 00:20:06,266 --> 00:20:09,200 and turn into the beautiful concept 510 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,266 that I'm pitching to the customer. 511 00:20:12,266 --> 00:20:15,567 It's just a matter now of how pleasant is this experience going to be? 512 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,700 Oh! There it goes. 513 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:20,767 Is it dissolved? 514 00:20:20,767 --> 00:20:22,033 [Beaz] I see a little bit. 515 00:20:22,033 --> 00:20:24,166 Yeah, I see it too. You've got some blobbiness going on in there. 516 00:20:24,166 --> 00:20:26,634 Yeah, I saw the membrane float by. 517 00:20:27,166 --> 00:20:28,600 Once the foam dissipates, 518 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,433 that slimy gross membrane it's still hanging on in there. 519 00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:35,900 Yeah. I don't know. 520 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:37,100 I don't think I could go with that. 521 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:38,867 You're not a fan of this, are you? 522 00:20:38,867 --> 00:20:40,767 Not even a little bit. 523 00:20:40,767 --> 00:20:42,033 From being a bartender for years, 524 00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:44,600 that is just not something that you want to serve to any customer, 525 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,100 especially at a high-end party. 526 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,100 The texture is really unpleasant. 527 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,266 It's just really not water soluble. 528 00:20:51,266 --> 00:20:52,800 No matter what, you can break it, 529 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,000 but there's gonna be that gelatinous blob, still. 530 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,300 [Digger] Go ahead, Beaz. 531 00:20:58,300 --> 00:20:59,600 Hey, buddy, how you doing? 532 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,400 [Digger] Hey, man, we're just delivering sugar. What about you? 533 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,266 Man, it's not going good. 534 00:21:04,266 --> 00:21:07,800 These pods aren't turning out like we need them to, Digger. 535 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,266 I can't sell what we've got at this point. 536 00:21:11,266 --> 00:21:13,000 [Digger] That ain't what I need to hear right now. 537 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 They don't dissolve when I drop 'em in a drink. 538 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,500 [Digger] We need this order, Beaz. 539 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,300 Five bucks for every one of these we put in this guy's hands. 540 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,900 Do you realize what profit margin that is? 541 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:27,867 Amanda, you ain't got no give up in you. I know you. 542 00:21:27,867 --> 00:21:28,967 I know. 543 00:21:28,967 --> 00:21:30,567 [Digger] This is your first day out of the gate on this. 544 00:21:30,567 --> 00:21:31,734 Don't expect miracles. 545 00:21:31,734 --> 00:21:35,600 You need some fresh hands there? I mean, I've got Joe. 546 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,667 -Yeah. I mean-- -Yeah. Yeah. 547 00:21:37,667 --> 00:21:39,867 [Digger] If he can can help you all out, I'll get Joe with you. 548 00:21:39,867 --> 00:21:43,400 A fresh set of eyes and some different perspective 549 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,266 would probably help us out a lot right now. 550 00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:46,600 [Digger] Look here. Don't quit. 551 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,800 I'll get Joe with you, then we're moving on. 552 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:49,700 -All right. -[Digger] All right, guys. 553 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:51,166 All right. Bye. 554 00:21:51,166 --> 00:21:52,367 Well, all right. 555 00:21:52,367 --> 00:21:54,133 Looks like we're in it for the long haul. 556 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,367 [Amanda] I hear Mr. Jackson. 557 00:21:59,367 --> 00:22:02,266 [Joe] You think he could get less stairs? 558 00:22:02,266 --> 00:22:05,100 -What in the... -Welcome to spherification. 559 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,600 I've been doing research and development with Joe now, for a little while. 560 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,100 Digger had this brilliant idea to put us together to make hazelnut rum. 561 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:14,000 And he's really good at troubleshooting. 562 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,400 To me, that like what I would expect with reverse spherification. 563 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,800 Visually, it's just freaking me out. 564 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,934 I don't know why you chose this color. 565 00:22:24,367 --> 00:22:25,800 I come up in here 566 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,667 and I haven't seen you in how long 567 00:22:27,667 --> 00:22:29,700 -and this is how you greet me? -I know. 568 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:33,467 When Joe looked at our shine pods, 569 00:22:33,467 --> 00:22:36,867 I could tell he was trying not to laugh. 570 00:22:36,867 --> 00:22:41,300 Dropping a pod into a drink and having it react 571 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:45,800 is not as feasible as I wished it would have been. 572 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,567 Well, let's think about this. 573 00:22:47,567 --> 00:22:50,100 Maybe it was like a cart-before-the-horse scenario, 574 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:54,066 where the idea of making a cocktail, dropping it in the glass 575 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:56,500 wasn't the endgame. 576 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:58,700 Let's elevate this. 577 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:01,166 What if it's an edible cocktail? 578 00:23:01,166 --> 00:23:03,266 An hors d'oeuvres cocktail that... 579 00:23:03,266 --> 00:23:04,867 Somebody comes around, 580 00:23:04,867 --> 00:23:08,367 instead of a tray of glasses with cocktails in it at a party, 581 00:23:08,367 --> 00:23:11,667 you come around and you've got these pretty little pods 582 00:23:11,667 --> 00:23:13,467 that people just pop in their mouth. 583 00:23:13,467 --> 00:23:16,867 Gotta be, like, appealing. It's gotta be palatable. 584 00:23:16,867 --> 00:23:18,667 Joe's impressed that we've managed to make 585 00:23:18,667 --> 00:23:21,000 these little encapsulated cocktail spheres. 586 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,700 If we can just improve the appearance, overall, and that texture a little bit, 587 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:28,266 then we might actually have something here. 588 00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:30,900 I feel like if we're gonna elevate this 589 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:33,266 to the place that it needs to be for this customer, 590 00:23:33,266 --> 00:23:37,900 we're gonna have to up the game in the actual cocktail itself. 591 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:39,166 -Yeah. -Okay. 592 00:23:39,166 --> 00:23:42,300 I got this wine-based spirit that I distilled off recently. 593 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:44,600 It's really good, I added blueberries to it. 594 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,834 That sounds good. 595 00:23:45,834 --> 00:23:49,033 And I've been planning to play around and do a blueberry mojito. 596 00:23:49,266 --> 00:23:51,467 So, 597 00:23:51,467 --> 00:23:54,567 -I've got some spirit for us to work with... -[Beaz] Is that the bar bag? 598 00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:56,000 [Joe] ...to build this cocktail. 599 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,266 [Amanda] Famous bar bag. 600 00:23:57,266 --> 00:23:59,900 [Joe] I got limes, some mints. 601 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:00,900 [Beaz] It is a bar bag. 602 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:02,767 [Amanda] It's literally an entire bar in a bag. 603 00:24:02,767 --> 00:24:05,166 [Joe] Some blueberries. 604 00:24:05,166 --> 00:24:07,567 I got some blueberry simple syrup. 605 00:24:07,567 --> 00:24:11,567 So between sweet, mint, blueberry and lime, 606 00:24:11,567 --> 00:24:14,100 you get the acidity, the sugar, 607 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,367 -a little bit of spiciness. -[Amanda] Yeah. 608 00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:18,767 And then we can balance with our simple syrup. 609 00:24:18,767 --> 00:24:20,700 We could add a whole blueberry, too. 610 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:22,567 You could add a whole blueberry. 611 00:24:22,567 --> 00:24:25,400 -Make something that gives you more texture... -[Joe] For them to bite into. 612 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,900 It'll be encapsulated inside of the pod. 613 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:31,467 And the mint leaf garnish, I think that looks a lot more appealing. 614 00:24:31,467 --> 00:24:32,967 A blueberry mojito 615 00:24:32,967 --> 00:24:36,367 is something that a high-end customer would buy 616 00:24:36,367 --> 00:24:39,600 at a really nice restaurant or at a really nice party. 617 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,266 It's not corn shine and cherry juice. 618 00:24:42,266 --> 00:24:44,900 All right, this will obviously all be strained, 619 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,400 but doesn't that look a lot more appealing? 620 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,000 [Amanda] Oh, that smells really good. 621 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,967 So in the cocktail, it's like a garnish of mint and blueberry. 622 00:24:51,967 --> 00:24:54,266 I think that's gonna look nice, 623 00:24:54,266 --> 00:24:56,867 and it's gonna definitely help with the texture a lot. 624 00:24:56,867 --> 00:24:59,000 -Wow. -That's good. 625 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,767 Next, all we've gotta do is add the calcium lactate to this. 626 00:25:03,767 --> 00:25:07,600 So far, with Joe's input, I'm feeling a lot better about the edible cocktails. 627 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,367 So we're gonna add the calcium lactate 628 00:25:09,367 --> 00:25:11,367 to the new cocktail that we have mixed up 629 00:25:11,367 --> 00:25:12,767 and freeze it overnight. 630 00:25:12,767 --> 00:25:15,367 Hopefully this next batch turns out better than the first one did. 631 00:25:15,367 --> 00:25:16,834 I love that, dude. 632 00:25:26,367 --> 00:25:28,700 [line ringing] 633 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:30,000 -[Mike] Hello? -Hey, buddy. 634 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,266 -[Mike] Hey, man. -Man, I just got the call from Roger. 635 00:25:32,266 --> 00:25:34,100 -[Mike] What happened? -Man, you ain't gonna believe this. 636 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:36,000 Guy took the bait. 637 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,467 -[Mike] He took the bait? -Hell yeah, he did. 638 00:25:37,467 --> 00:25:38,567 Hook, line, and sinker. 639 00:25:38,567 --> 00:25:39,800 [Mike] Oh, my God, man. 640 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,367 Let's go get our daggun still. 641 00:25:41,367 --> 00:25:43,867 Meet me at the shop and we'll kind of go over a plan from there. 642 00:25:43,867 --> 00:25:44,900 [Mike] All right, will see you in a minute. 643 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:46,367 All right, buddy. Bye. 644 00:25:46,367 --> 00:25:47,800 You know, Roger gives us a call 645 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,400 and lets me know that this thief sent word 646 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,934 that he's willing to sell the still. 647 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:53,967 But we gotta act fast. 648 00:25:53,967 --> 00:25:56,266 We don't want this guy getting cold feet and spooking him. 649 00:25:56,266 --> 00:25:59,200 If we do that, then we'll probably never get this chance again. 650 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,500 [horn honks] 651 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:02,266 There they are. 652 00:26:02,266 --> 00:26:05,066 He's expecting five gallons of liquor and $500. 653 00:26:10,567 --> 00:26:12,467 So he swallowed it to the hush puppy. 654 00:26:12,467 --> 00:26:13,867 He took it, man. 655 00:26:13,867 --> 00:26:15,567 We had to haggle with him a little bit. 656 00:26:15,567 --> 00:26:17,467 -We offered the $500, right? -Right. 657 00:26:17,467 --> 00:26:20,000 Well, he wasn't having that. He felt like it was worth more than that. 658 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,400 So he wanted $1,500 for the still. 659 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,467 Roger, being the guy he is, 660 00:26:23,467 --> 00:26:25,567 he likes to haggle and barter with people. 661 00:26:25,567 --> 00:26:26,500 He's like, "Tell you what I'll do, 662 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,200 I'll give you $500 and five gallons of liquor." 663 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,600 Well, right here's gonna be our liquor. 664 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,300 [Richard and Mike laugh] 665 00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:33,567 Hell, yeah. Let's go get. 666 00:26:33,567 --> 00:26:35,000 And, well, he ain't never gonna see no cash at all. 667 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 -You ain't gonna give him no money? -Cut this water off. 668 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:37,834 No, nothing. 669 00:26:37,834 --> 00:26:39,166 We ain't about to give this guy nothing. 670 00:26:39,166 --> 00:26:41,567 He ain't getting no money, and he ain't getting no moonshine. 671 00:26:41,567 --> 00:26:43,967 We're gonna get that still back, though. 672 00:26:43,967 --> 00:26:45,767 Let's go get this damn still. 673 00:26:45,767 --> 00:26:47,166 Well, here's the deal. 674 00:26:47,166 --> 00:26:50,066 You know, Roger made a deal with this guy, okay? 675 00:26:50,066 --> 00:26:52,166 So I feel like he needs to go 'cause he knows this guy. 676 00:26:52,166 --> 00:26:53,967 He just said, "You know, with these guys showing up, 677 00:26:53,967 --> 00:26:55,800 don't want you guys showing up." 678 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,066 I gotta go by myself. 679 00:26:57,066 --> 00:27:00,166 Me and Roger. We can't take no chances of spooking this guy off. 680 00:27:00,567 --> 00:27:01,867 The best thing to do 681 00:27:01,867 --> 00:27:04,567 is to have Mike and Richard and the camera crew stay behind. 682 00:27:04,567 --> 00:27:08,066 This could be our one chance to get this still back, and I can't ruin it. 683 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,200 I'm gonna swap and pick him up. 684 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,400 And me and him will roll in there. 685 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,467 'Cause we don't wanna spook this guy, man. 686 00:27:12,467 --> 00:27:13,667 If we roll in there, all four of us, 687 00:27:13,667 --> 00:27:15,000 he might get spooked and take off on us. 688 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,400 I will say, whatever you do man, 689 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,066 this is a unheard-of deal, 690 00:27:19,066 --> 00:27:21,367 -don't turn your back on this fool. -[Jerry] Oh, hell no. 691 00:27:21,367 --> 00:27:23,567 You see that still? Get your hands on it and get going. 692 00:27:23,567 --> 00:27:25,700 -Don't give him time to do nothing. -No. 693 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:27,900 You know, there's no telling what this crazy fool may do. 694 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:30,266 I mean, he's a known drug addict around the community. 695 00:27:30,266 --> 00:27:32,166 [Jerry] We'll have this liquor for him. 696 00:27:32,166 --> 00:27:33,367 Be careful. 697 00:27:33,367 --> 00:27:35,266 Don't turn your back on that damn fool. 698 00:27:35,266 --> 00:27:36,667 Oh, heck no, man. 699 00:27:36,667 --> 00:27:38,667 He's in trouble with the law all the time, so... 700 00:27:38,667 --> 00:27:39,834 I'm not a cop. 701 00:27:40,867 --> 00:27:42,333 I've never been in this situation before. 702 00:27:43,567 --> 00:27:45,367 I mean, this guy may pull a gun, 703 00:27:45,367 --> 00:27:47,467 and if he does, I'm gonna have to pull mine, too. 704 00:27:47,467 --> 00:27:49,367 But I'm gonna go put myself in that situation 705 00:27:49,367 --> 00:27:50,767 to be able to get this still back. 706 00:27:57,567 --> 00:27:58,800 [Joe] The moment of truth. 707 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,567 I'm hoping that these turn out way better than the last ones. 708 00:28:01,567 --> 00:28:04,467 We put our blueberry mojito frozen cocktail 709 00:28:04,467 --> 00:28:05,767 into the freezer to freeze. 710 00:28:05,767 --> 00:28:07,867 So now, we're actually gonna turn that 711 00:28:07,867 --> 00:28:10,266 into our edible cocktail. 712 00:28:10,266 --> 00:28:12,667 -It's warm. -[Amanda] Grab these pods. 713 00:28:12,667 --> 00:28:15,066 We have left these shine pods in the freezer long enough 714 00:28:15,066 --> 00:28:17,467 to form a thick enough membrane. 715 00:28:17,467 --> 00:28:20,767 They already look better. Blueberry mojito. 716 00:28:20,767 --> 00:28:23,166 Our goal here is for uniformity and consistency. 717 00:28:23,166 --> 00:28:24,266 [Joe] Here we go. 718 00:28:24,266 --> 00:28:26,300 If we're gonna sell these on a large scale, 719 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:28,367 if they're all different shapes and sizes, it's just not gonna work. 720 00:28:28,367 --> 00:28:32,300 [Beaz] That already looks a ton better than what we were dealing with. 721 00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:34,000 It does. Science. 722 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,100 This is one of the crucial parts of this. 723 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:41,166 If the membrane does not hold together, we have failed. 724 00:28:41,667 --> 00:28:43,367 That's looking good. 725 00:28:43,367 --> 00:28:45,634 [Joe] I mean, they're spheres now, guys. 726 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:49,867 -[Amanda] That looks solid to me. -[Joe] That is nice. 727 00:28:49,867 --> 00:28:51,867 It's really holding up on its own 728 00:28:51,867 --> 00:28:54,000 and it makes me really excited that you can see 729 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,900 all of those parts and pieces 730 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,367 floating inside of the actual cocktail itself, 731 00:28:58,367 --> 00:29:01,166 which is a part of the overall appeal of them. 732 00:29:01,166 --> 00:29:04,000 -[Joe] Now... -[Amanda] The moment of truth. 733 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,100 They do kind of look like cow's eyeballs. 734 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:08,367 [Joe] Why you gotta say [bleep] like that, Amanda? Come on. 735 00:29:08,367 --> 00:29:10,066 [Amanda] It's where my mind goes, I can't help it. 736 00:29:10,066 --> 00:29:11,367 -Cheers. -Cheers. 737 00:29:11,367 --> 00:29:12,967 -Bottoms up. -Bottoms up. 738 00:29:12,967 --> 00:29:14,233 See where we're at. 739 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,333 Here goes nothing. 740 00:29:23,567 --> 00:29:24,767 [Joe] Yeah? 741 00:29:24,767 --> 00:29:26,000 All right, that's a "yeah" from me. 742 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,066 That's light years ahead. 743 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,667 It's a lot better. 744 00:29:31,667 --> 00:29:33,667 They're a lot more pleasant with that natural blueberry 745 00:29:33,667 --> 00:29:34,967 and a little bit of mint leaf in there. 746 00:29:34,967 --> 00:29:36,266 It's a one-of-a-kind experience 747 00:29:36,266 --> 00:29:37,667 that most people have not tried. 748 00:29:37,667 --> 00:29:39,166 So on that note, we've nailed it. 749 00:29:39,166 --> 00:29:42,000 This party planner will like this. 750 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,800 How many people are gonna be at this party? 751 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,700 Probably a couple hundred? I don't know. 752 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:48,667 That's $5. That's $5. That's $5. 753 00:29:48,667 --> 00:29:50,367 -That's money in the bank. -[Amanda] Yeah. 754 00:29:50,367 --> 00:29:53,500 One question is left unanswered. 755 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,333 That's the tough one. Will Mark and Digger dig it? 756 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,266 That's what we gotta know. 757 00:29:58,266 --> 00:30:01,433 -[Amanda] It's an experience I'll never forget. -[Joe laughs] 758 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,767 We're in Canton, North Carolina, fixing to meet these guys. 759 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,166 Our still got stolen, and we're trying to get it back. 760 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,333 You know, the guy gave us a place to meet him. 761 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,700 Just for the legal parts of everything, 762 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,400 I want to make sure that everybody's protected. 763 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,100 So I had the crew put in some dash cams on the truck. 764 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,066 At this point, it's just me and Roger. 765 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:35,667 He ain't really excited about being on camera, 766 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:38,333 so we honored that, kind of keeping Roger out of the picture. 767 00:30:40,667 --> 00:30:42,634 But here we're at the meeting spot, waiting on this guy. 768 00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:53,300 [Jerry] Mm-hmm. 769 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,467 He shows up, he's driving a little old beat up, crappy car. 770 00:30:56,467 --> 00:30:59,233 Back window busted out of it. Sure enough, this is our guy. 771 00:31:03,166 --> 00:31:04,567 [Jerry] So see, right here, I'm thinking we're going back here 772 00:31:04,567 --> 00:31:06,467 to these storage buildings. 773 00:31:06,467 --> 00:31:08,667 But lo and behold, he kind of goes around the storage buildings 774 00:31:08,667 --> 00:31:10,266 and pulls into this little trailer. 775 00:31:10,266 --> 00:31:13,467 Dumbfounded me, really, 'cause he kind of more or less blocked himself in, 776 00:31:13,467 --> 00:31:16,000 so of course, I pull up right behind him so he can't get out. 777 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,533 So that still's in the car, it's coming with us. 778 00:31:25,266 --> 00:31:27,166 Roger's niece is with this guy. 779 00:31:27,166 --> 00:31:29,500 He's just really smitten on her. 780 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:31,033 Evidently, he trusts her. 781 00:31:36,066 --> 00:31:37,567 [Roger] Okay. 782 00:31:40,767 --> 00:31:43,800 [Jerry] So we got out, ol' Roger gave him that little jar of liquor 783 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,000 and he smelled it and he was all just gung ho. 784 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,066 He's getting really excited. 785 00:31:47,066 --> 00:31:49,467 Of course he's ready to get this thing moving 786 00:31:49,467 --> 00:31:51,166 and get his cash and get on the road. 787 00:31:51,166 --> 00:31:53,000 So I grabbed the bucket out of our fake liquor 788 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,867 set it there on the ground, and he was just all tickled. 789 00:31:54,867 --> 00:31:57,600 He's like, "Man, let's get this out of the car." you know? 790 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,934 So he opens up the door. 791 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:01,767 Lo and behold. 792 00:32:02,767 --> 00:32:04,433 There's the actual still. 793 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:09,700 So we start pulling her out of the car and he's excited. 794 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:11,767 Me and Roger, we haul that damn still right there. 795 00:32:11,767 --> 00:32:13,166 We take it around to the side of the truck with it, 796 00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:14,367 and we get in the back of the truck, 797 00:32:14,367 --> 00:32:15,500 lo and behold, we turn around, 798 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,000 he's coming around the corner with parts. 799 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,667 He's bringing the parts to us. 800 00:32:18,667 --> 00:32:20,667 He's helping us load it up on the truck. 801 00:32:20,667 --> 00:32:23,367 He's already counting his money on his next fix. 802 00:32:23,367 --> 00:32:24,800 So we got it all loaded and everything. 803 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,567 He's like, "All right, man, how about that cash? Where's the cash at?" 804 00:32:26,567 --> 00:32:28,800 I just approached him, and said, "Look." 805 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,000 I said, "You ain't getting a [bleep] bit of cash." 806 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,266 I said, "That's my still that I built. 807 00:32:33,266 --> 00:32:34,667 You ain't getting none of that." 808 00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:35,967 See, he's getting all antsy. 809 00:32:35,967 --> 00:32:38,567 At this point right here, I've already got my hand on my damn gun. 810 00:32:38,567 --> 00:32:39,533 I said, "You're lucky, you know, 811 00:32:39,533 --> 00:32:41,367 that I don't beat you to the ground right now." 812 00:32:41,367 --> 00:32:43,000 And oh, he just went all to hell. 813 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,400 That's when we tell him, "Don't you pull out a gun." 814 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,567 He says, "Oh, man, I ain't got no gun!" He pulls his shirt up. 815 00:32:46,567 --> 00:32:48,166 He says, "I ain't got no gun." 816 00:32:48,166 --> 00:32:50,967 Then I said, "Forget it. We're getting in the truck and we're leaving from here." 817 00:32:50,967 --> 00:32:53,166 Roger's niece, she went and jumped in my truck. 818 00:32:53,166 --> 00:32:55,166 And I'm thinking, "Where the hell is she going?" 819 00:32:55,166 --> 00:32:57,233 And that even makes the guy even more livid. 820 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:01,967 -Yeah? -We're grown men. 821 00:33:01,967 --> 00:33:03,266 [Jerry] Come to find out she's just scared of him. 822 00:33:03,266 --> 00:33:04,500 She just wanted to get away from him. 823 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:05,333 [man speaking] 824 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:09,300 [Roger] It's okay. 825 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,567 She's fine. I promise you she's fine. 826 00:33:11,567 --> 00:33:15,567 You know, this guy kind of goes, like, speechless and he gets really erratic, 827 00:33:15,567 --> 00:33:18,367 and he can't even... he can't even pronounce a word at this point. 828 00:33:18,367 --> 00:33:19,867 [man stammering] 829 00:33:19,867 --> 00:33:22,200 -[Roger] Man, just stay calm. -[bleep] 830 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,367 [Roger] Calm down, son. 831 00:33:23,367 --> 00:33:24,300 [Jerry] So then we just backed up. 832 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:26,667 He got mad, he slammed his car door. 833 00:33:26,667 --> 00:33:28,066 [Roger speaking] 834 00:33:28,066 --> 00:33:31,166 [Roger's niece speaking] 835 00:33:31,166 --> 00:33:34,333 At this point, I'm just ready to get away from him and let it be. 836 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,667 [Roger's niece speaking] 837 00:33:36,667 --> 00:33:38,433 [Roger speaking] 838 00:33:41,367 --> 00:33:42,867 Next thing I know, you turn around and look, 839 00:33:45,266 --> 00:33:46,266 he's right behind us. 840 00:33:46,266 --> 00:33:47,367 He's following us. 841 00:33:47,367 --> 00:33:48,800 He's on our tail right now. 842 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,266 You better go home, dude. 843 00:33:50,266 --> 00:33:51,266 [Roger's niece] He comin' at ya? 844 00:33:51,266 --> 00:33:53,166 [Roger] Oh, yeah. He's crazy now. 845 00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:55,867 [Jerry] You know, this guy, he's a known criminal. He's dangerous. 846 00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:56,867 I mean, he could be armed. 847 00:33:56,867 --> 00:33:59,300 Just depending on what time of day I guess it is 848 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,800 and how hopped up on drugs he is at this point. 849 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,533 -[horn honking] -[Roger] Watch out. 850 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:14,300 People that ask for 140-proof liquor. 851 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:15,300 That's 'cause they ain't had it. 852 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:16,467 They think they want it. 853 00:34:16,467 --> 00:34:18,100 They think they want it until they get it. 854 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:21,100 You've got a certain amount of people out there that wanna say, 855 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,233 "I drink this liquor all the time." 856 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,767 Dollar won't do chest beating. 857 00:34:26,567 --> 00:34:28,500 "Look at me, I'm drinking 140-proof liquor." 858 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:29,767 You ain't gonna do it long. 859 00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:31,767 They think it makes their nuts hang lower. 860 00:34:31,767 --> 00:34:33,367 It did my sister. 861 00:34:37,767 --> 00:34:38,834 He's following us. 862 00:34:39,166 --> 00:34:40,533 [horn honking] 863 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,567 [Roger] Watch out. 864 00:34:42,567 --> 00:34:46,300 -[Roger] Is that a cop? -[Jerry] Thank God, buddy. 865 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:48,767 [Roger] Just pull in right here. 866 00:34:48,767 --> 00:34:50,667 Now, this guy's got a lot of road rage with us, 867 00:34:50,667 --> 00:34:52,500 and the law actually seen that. 868 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:54,400 [Roger] Yeah, he just turned around up toward that road. 869 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,266 [Roger's niece] That's where he lives at. 870 00:34:56,266 --> 00:34:57,834 -Right up there? -[Roger's niece] Yeah. 871 00:35:00,867 --> 00:35:02,467 Did y'all see that silver car that went by? 872 00:35:02,467 --> 00:35:04,567 He was chasing us through town. 873 00:35:04,567 --> 00:35:07,066 Just right up here, this next drive he turned in to the right. 874 00:35:07,066 --> 00:35:08,233 All right. 875 00:35:10,467 --> 00:35:12,767 [Roger] Hell, he's got warrants on him. Hell. 876 00:35:15,166 --> 00:35:17,567 [Mike] What the hell is taking them so long, man? 877 00:35:17,567 --> 00:35:18,533 [Richard] It's nerve-racking. 878 00:35:18,533 --> 00:35:21,000 Jerry's dealing with a thug that stole from us. 879 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,066 I'm hoping and praying Jerry comes back with the still unscathed. 880 00:35:25,066 --> 00:35:28,166 -A crackhead will do anything for a fix. -I'mma tell you what. 881 00:35:28,166 --> 00:35:30,266 [Mike] By now, he could have damn Jerry tied up 882 00:35:30,266 --> 00:35:31,667 to a log or something up there. 883 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:36,567 [horn honking] 884 00:35:36,567 --> 00:35:37,867 That sounds like Jerry. 885 00:35:41,266 --> 00:35:42,767 Oh he's got the still on the truck. 886 00:35:42,767 --> 00:35:44,467 Come on back, Jerry! 887 00:35:44,467 --> 00:35:46,100 Jerry pulls up, he blows the horn, 888 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:47,767 that still is on the back of the truck. 889 00:35:47,767 --> 00:35:49,700 Jerry's here, he's in one piece, 890 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:51,166 and that's all that matters. 891 00:35:51,166 --> 00:35:52,500 Baby. 892 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:55,100 Yes! Got her back, son. 893 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:57,900 I don't know how Jerry and Roger pulled this off 894 00:35:57,900 --> 00:35:58,967 without getting into it. 895 00:35:58,967 --> 00:36:02,467 But, hey, whatever they done, my hat's off to them. 896 00:36:02,467 --> 00:36:04,567 Man, what the heck went on over there? 897 00:36:04,567 --> 00:36:07,266 I'm gonna tell you what. You wouldn't believe it if I told you the story. 898 00:36:07,266 --> 00:36:08,967 I mean it's... I couldn't make this stuff up. 899 00:36:08,967 --> 00:36:10,066 We got the still back, 900 00:36:10,066 --> 00:36:11,867 the guy decided to chase us down the road. 901 00:36:11,867 --> 00:36:13,266 Now I didn't know if I had to start shooting at him 902 00:36:13,266 --> 00:36:14,767 or to start trying to run him off the road. 903 00:36:14,767 --> 00:36:16,900 -I didn't know what the heck to do. -[Mike] Oh, my God. 904 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,667 So luckily, he tried running us off the road, 905 00:36:18,667 --> 00:36:21,100 -and he'd done it right in front of a cop. --[Mike] Oh, my God. 906 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,367 I mean, one of Haywood's finest, he seen it, 907 00:36:23,367 --> 00:36:26,367 went after it, and nailed his ass right there on the side of the road. 908 00:36:26,367 --> 00:36:28,000 There ain't tellin' when he's liable to get out. 909 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,367 I actually heard he had a lot of priors, 910 00:36:30,367 --> 00:36:31,567 so he may never get out of jail. 911 00:36:31,567 --> 00:36:34,000 Man, when you're dealing with idiots like that, you never know. 912 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,100 I'm just glad to see you back here in one damn piece. 913 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:39,500 So with the charges he had and the new charges he's got coming, 914 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:41,500 he's headed to prison for a long time. 915 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,066 And hopefully for him, he can actually rehab hisself. 916 00:36:44,066 --> 00:36:46,166 We're back in business now, so let's check this still out, 917 00:36:46,166 --> 00:36:47,367 see if it got damaged in any way, 918 00:36:47,367 --> 00:36:48,900 see if we can do any repairs to it. 919 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,266 That way we can get it back to the woods. 920 00:36:50,266 --> 00:36:52,667 [Mike] Finish our season out with a bang, put some money in our pocket 921 00:36:52,667 --> 00:36:54,367 and live to shine another day. 922 00:37:00,767 --> 00:37:04,000 Mm-hmm, okay, a little nature ride. 923 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,367 We finally got this Prohibition-style liquor 924 00:37:06,367 --> 00:37:08,166 made out of this Hot Springs water. 925 00:37:08,166 --> 00:37:09,867 We go up and we see Gooney, 926 00:37:09,867 --> 00:37:11,667 and sure enough, man, he just shuts us down. 927 00:37:11,667 --> 00:37:13,867 He don't even really give us a chance to even sell it to him. 928 00:37:13,867 --> 00:37:16,900 Just like I thought, Gooney's left me a message on my phone 929 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:18,166 and told me to come to the trail ride. 930 00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:20,200 He's got some good news for me. 931 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,533 -What the hell? -Ready to get your groove on, Joe Boy? 932 00:37:27,266 --> 00:37:29,367 This is what they call a trail ride right here. 933 00:37:29,367 --> 00:37:31,066 They race the horses through the day, 934 00:37:31,066 --> 00:37:33,000 and then they have a big old party at night. 935 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,900 And this is where they sell all the liquor. 936 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,200 Go here, see if we can't round up Gooney. 937 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,867 I know the game he's about to play. 938 00:37:39,867 --> 00:37:41,767 He's gonna take us out here and show us the playing field 939 00:37:41,767 --> 00:37:44,367 and start talking his volume conversation with us. 940 00:37:44,367 --> 00:37:47,333 He knows if he could buy a whole lot at once, he can reduce the price down. 941 00:37:48,066 --> 00:37:50,867 -What's up, Big Hoss? -Gooney Shakur. 942 00:37:50,867 --> 00:37:52,100 What's up, baby? 943 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:54,500 But little does he know I'm okay with that. 944 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:57,900 Because if he's buying volume, that means we're selling more liquor. 945 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,300 And hey, I'd rather make a little of a lot than a lot of a little. 946 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,266 I know it was kind of crazy last time, 947 00:38:03,266 --> 00:38:06,367 -but what y'all brought me last time to the studio? -[Big Chuk] Mm-hmm. 948 00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:07,767 I need that, man. 949 00:38:07,767 --> 00:38:10,066 All these people out here? Come on, man. 950 00:38:10,066 --> 00:38:12,567 But that price y'all gave me really was some bull [bleep]. 951 00:38:12,567 --> 00:38:13,900 I can't really do nothing with that. 952 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:15,867 $110 a gallon? 953 00:38:15,867 --> 00:38:17,567 No. No. 954 00:38:17,567 --> 00:38:19,667 Come on, man, have y'all sold with all these people out here? 955 00:38:19,667 --> 00:38:21,500 [Big Chuk] No, man. All this running around-- 956 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:23,567 Every two weeks, it's going down. 957 00:38:23,567 --> 00:38:25,567 -Every two weeks? -You see it. 958 00:38:25,567 --> 00:38:28,767 And 15 gallons will be enough for every two weeks? 959 00:38:28,767 --> 00:38:31,266 Seeing is believing. You here. 960 00:38:31,266 --> 00:38:34,867 Let's talk business, then. Let's see wholesale. 961 00:38:34,867 --> 00:38:38,667 15 gallons. $120. Every two weeks. 962 00:38:38,667 --> 00:38:40,567 I can do that. 963 00:38:40,567 --> 00:38:42,100 Y'all got some today? 964 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:43,767 We can get it, we'll bring it right back. 965 00:38:43,767 --> 00:38:45,166 All right. 966 00:38:45,166 --> 00:38:46,767 We've developed a business now. 967 00:38:46,767 --> 00:38:48,266 We've got a continuum. 968 00:38:48,266 --> 00:38:50,667 We can deliver 15 gallons of moonshine to him, 969 00:38:50,667 --> 00:38:52,467 cash in fist. 970 00:38:52,467 --> 00:38:54,634 And one thing I know is slow motion is better than no motion. 971 00:38:54,967 --> 00:38:55,900 Let's go, baby. 972 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:57,100 [hip-hop playing] 973 00:39:05,567 --> 00:39:07,967 [Mike] Let's go see what the others have got going on. 974 00:39:07,967 --> 00:39:11,166 Beaz reaches out and tells us they've got something to look at 975 00:39:11,166 --> 00:39:16,367 in the way of our interactive cocktail/shine pod. 976 00:39:16,367 --> 00:39:17,667 Ladies and gentlemen. 977 00:39:17,667 --> 00:39:21,100 Welcome to your fine dining experience. 978 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:22,867 [Amanda] I know Joe and Beaz are super excited, 979 00:39:22,867 --> 00:39:24,700 and I'm happy that they're happy about it. 980 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,667 But I really don't know what Mark and Digger are gonna say. 981 00:39:26,667 --> 00:39:27,934 Gotta explain real quick. 982 00:39:27,934 --> 00:39:33,467 We made a pivot. We dropped the idea of the dissolvable liquor pod, 983 00:39:33,467 --> 00:39:38,300 and we have come up with an edible cocktail. 984 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:40,467 I kind of made a blueberry mojito. 985 00:39:40,467 --> 00:39:43,266 You know, we garnish it on the inside, make it look pretty. 986 00:39:43,266 --> 00:39:44,900 -Yeah. -I mean, look at that little rascal. 987 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:46,667 Look at the little blueberry moving around in there. 988 00:39:46,667 --> 00:39:48,700 -It's just swimming around like a little tadpole. -Right. 989 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:51,100 It could be little pieces of strawberry. 990 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,166 It could be peach. 991 00:39:52,166 --> 00:39:54,300 You just changed the delivery system. 992 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:57,567 Can we have enough of these done for the party? 993 00:39:57,567 --> 00:40:00,467 -One person can make 60 of them in an hour. -[Mark] That's outstanding. 994 00:40:00,467 --> 00:40:03,066 We wasn't even sure it could be done. 995 00:40:03,066 --> 00:40:06,467 So now we need you guys to taste this. 996 00:40:07,967 --> 00:40:09,233 -[Mark] All right, guys. -[Digger] Here we go. 997 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:19,767 Wow. 998 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,433 Outstanding, guys! 999 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,266 There ain't a thing in there unpleasant. 1000 00:40:27,266 --> 00:40:28,700 That cocktail is wonderful, 1001 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:30,266 that blueberry is right up front, 1002 00:40:30,266 --> 00:40:31,834 and that little mint hanging out... 1003 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:34,867 God bless America. 1004 00:40:34,867 --> 00:40:36,533 This is a game changer. 1005 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,500 I'm hooked on these already. 1006 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:41,900 I love the idea of having some in the refrigerator 1007 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:44,100 and just pull them out and let people reach in 1008 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:47,100 with a little plastic pair of tongs or a spoon and give 'em a cocktail 1009 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:47,834 and go eat it. 1010 00:40:47,834 --> 00:40:50,400 It's just a joy to... to chew up. 1011 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,767 That's exactly how I wanted that cocktail to go. 1012 00:40:52,767 --> 00:40:54,166 Outstanding. 1013 00:40:54,166 --> 00:40:58,266 I think that it'll spread way beyond this cat that he's going to sell to 1014 00:40:58,266 --> 00:41:01,066 and I look forward to making a lot of these. 1015 00:41:01,066 --> 00:41:03,266 I can't tell you enough how happy I am with what y'all did. 1016 00:41:03,266 --> 00:41:04,200 [Joe] Good. 1017 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,166 You've made me proud to be making liquor again. 1018 00:41:06,667 --> 00:41:08,000 [Beaz] They love it! 1019 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,600 It's a weight released off the three of us. 1020 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,200 Outstanding job. 1021 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,800 You know, this is the first time I guess I've ever ate a cocktail. 1022 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,767 It's a delicious cocktail, but most importantly, 1023 00:41:19,767 --> 00:41:24,100 it's $425 in one gallon of liquor. 1024 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:26,667 Can you believe the money we're gonna make off of that? 1025 00:41:26,667 --> 00:41:27,834 [Mark] It was good. 1026 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:29,467 [Digger] It's beyond good.