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Speaker 3: Wait bitwins.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I wish. I'd have a NASCAR
team behind me, because no NASCAR would be on the
planet Earth if it wasn't for moonshining. And I just
love what you guys are doing and what you continue
to do because it's about taking chances and exploring flavors
from different regions of the country.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know what, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I have to giggle about
is the nickname, which is tax Free Booze, and inside
my mind, I'm going I want to live that life.
I want to be a rebel like.
Speaker 2: That, Well, be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 3: Careful what you wish for.
Speaker 1: I mean with so much drama and everything that's taking
place on Moonshiner's on Discovery Channel, the thing is is
that how do you guys find your call? Because I
do go in there and I study your body language,
your behaviors, your your facial expressions. I'm just one of
those guys that has got to study the entire everything
that's going on.
Speaker 2: Wow, you have to.
Speaker 4: You have to think about where a lot of our
learning came from.
Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time us at riving bars tools, Yeah,
we did. And the old man always told us fear
of the calmest man in the room.
Speaker 4: Well, that tells me that the calmst man is going
to be the most successful man. So don't get excited
about something you can't fix, right to you.
Speaker 1: Well, that tells me that you guys are silent watchers.
That means that when you go in and you sit
on that stool at a bar, you're there to watch
the people, to watch what they're doing and how they're
taking in that atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, there and myself anywhere we go bar, restaurant
anywhere we do, we won't ever sit with our back
to the door. Uh, you know, we want to see
who comes and goes. We want to we don't want
nothing sneaking up on us, so to speak. And I
guess it's just after years of looking over your shoulder
at just the trach, we don't realize we do it,
but we automatically go to a seat with our back
to the wall that faces the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And sometimes if we're in the middle of a room
and we find over the states that's facing that.
Speaker 2: You know, that's if you ever get caught.
Speaker 4: In the position that that you you've got you back
to problem you regretted, I promise you.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So is moonshining only an American treat or or what
is it? Because I mean we I'm hearing the Carolinas.
I know moonshine. No, I'm not gonna tell you where
it is, but I know moonshine.
Speaker 2: Good for you to get it long if you can
tell where it's at.
Speaker 1: Is it global?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: It's global.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the illegal liquor made on ever.
Speaker 2: The moon moonshine.
Speaker 4: Everything you got, Poe Cheing, you got what all these
we've learned about pachuga.
Speaker 2: Let's see uh mez coal.
Speaker 4: It's it's produced illegally, probably more than moonshiney is.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Mark and Digger
coming up next Moonshiners on Discovery Channel. We are back
with Mark and Digger. I sit there and I try
to figure out if it's it's if it's regional. In
other words, the moonshine in Montana is going to be
different than the moonshine in Carolina. And and and do
you go out there and and and study that and
talk with the people of that land, because I mean,
I would love to see you in other countries doing this.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no worry about us leaving the United States.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. I don't leave the continent with
the United States. I'm not a traveler. I don't enjoy traveling.
But you know, honestly, I think every region they simply
made their moonshine or whatever they called it out of
whatever ingredients were regional to them, whatever they had available
is what they used. And you know, we had a
boundful crop of corn, so of course we was going
to do corn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'll tell you what now you sound like
my father in the way that my father got upset
because the you know, gasoline took over corn. Everybody in
the world is taking over corn, and those of us are,
for for instance, like you with moonshining, you're messing around
with the roots of your success.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, now the biggest thing we've got is
a safety rope there is as far as that gasoline,
that's yellow corn we worked with what I heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go try to find that at a
grocery store. You're not going to find corn there, white
corn there. What does everybody turn it into moonshiners?
Speaker 3: You know, we always said, you know, yellow corns for creditors,
white corns for people.
Speaker 4: If more people turned into moonshiners and they accepted the
value is that these old men promoted in us, it'd
probably a little better place to live.
Speaker 1: So do you just hire somebody that you know to
shuck that corner? Do you have machines that do that
for you?
Speaker 2: No, we do it?
Speaker 1: Or say, oh my god, that's hands on, then dude,
that's all the more respect in the world for you.
Speaker 3: Well, thing about it is, you know, everything we can
do ourselves. That's somebody that we didn't have to pay
to do it, and that puts a little more money
in our pocket.
Speaker 1: Right the business side of the business. And that's got
to be one thing. You've got to protect your supply.
We hear of all these stories about what's going on
out there in Colorado about protecting their supplies. How do
you do it with yours? Because I mean, with today's drones,
do you not fear that buzzing sound in the sky
as somebody's trying to steal from you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've had we've had stuff stole, and you know,
and the thing about it is, when you live in
our world, we can't report it stolen. It's just you know,
if we don't find it, we don't find it. It's
just gone.
Speaker 4: You can't run to the corner store there and find
your cops stand there and say I want to report
a theft of mine, tax liquor, my liquor steal.
Speaker 3: They frown on that something fierce.
Speaker 1: But see, that's that's what I love about exploring the Carolinas.
I can always tell when I'm getting into an area
where I'm not supposed to be because all of a sudden,
when you come off the beaten trail and you go
into someone's area and all of a sudden there's in
what are you doing here? I'm going I know what
you're doing. That's all I needed to know. I'm out
of here. Nice seeing you today.
Speaker 3: You can always tell the local person around here. If
the stranger comes up there, go to it saying, now,
who's boy or you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you better bring a familiar name to the
table or you get shut down. Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, people in Appalachia and the Carolina's all
about you know, their clannish is hell and they're going
to stick together, and it takes a long time to
build confidence to get into their world.
Speaker 4: Well, if you think about it, you know there's always
been shastras try to take advantage of who they perceive
as being uneducated people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we did a.
Speaker 4: Lot of things, but we're a tiny bit educated and
we didn't. You know, we know when somebody's trying to
pull the wool over.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily book educated, but you know, mountain sands and
savvy on the way that should be.
Speaker 2: That sense will take you way farther anyhow.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you guys have got to come back to this
show anytime in the future. The door is always going
to be open for you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mord happy to show up.
Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today? If I see you in
that forest, I'll let you know it's me and then
I can stick around for at least three minutes. Be
brilliant today. Guys may have a blast track