This is how we make the moonshine.
When I got the heavy end of what?
No, we just give you your part.
I had this vision of being able to make liquor while I'm going down the road.
And now this vision is becoming reality.
She's in.
We got to get this heater out of here, too.
Oh, that one's coming loose.
But they both got to come loose.
Tim. Hey, Eddie.
Hey, yo.
There was a heater that run to the back of this bus.
We're going to hook our pot right to those hoses that would go to the rear heater in
this school bus.
All right. These two pipes here going to connect it here.
That's going to heat it up to 200 degrees.
You'll run right through.
This coil we put inside this pot.
We've got a coil running the bottom of this tank, and the hot engine coolant will flow
through here. That should heat the mash up just enough where I don't have to watch it
because there is no direct heat here.
See what we got?
Door shuts.
All right, let's put some screws in.
Lock it down. Well, let's get.
The condenser out here and see what we're working with.
Being as I'm going down the road, I do not have the luxury of having running water here,
so I'm going to have to just fill this tank up and have to keep the water that's in it.
Cool.
Next thing we got to connect the cooling system.
We're going to tap into the air conditioning system on this bus.
I'm going to run to high pressure freon lines to these two connections.
There we go.
All right. That's good right there.
All right. When I cut the air conditioning on, the freon is going to run through this
coil that I have in the condenser, and that's going to keep my cooling water cool.
This is the most advanced school bus on earth.
You'd be looking like Ghostbusters.
Now we got a what?
A hookup out under the hood.
Yeah.
Okay. So what do you think?
Yeah, I'll see if I can't feed these up to you.
Looks like right over here.
It's going to be my easiest one.
You figured it all out. How are you going to hook it all up?
I'm going to go ahead and take these these other lines off first.
All right.
You got the small hose up there, too.
You got her? Yep.
Got it. Oh, no.
I've never seen such a rig like this before.
Check them. That's all tightened up right there.
Now we just need Freon.
Now, I have seen mobile steel sites before in my life, but on those mobile steel sites,
you're basically camouflaging your steel as a trailer or something like that, pulling it
to a location, stopping and making your liquor there.
I'm actually making the liquor as I'm going down the road.
As a matter of fact, if I turn this bus off, I quit making liquor.
Are y'all clear out there?
Hands clear. Go ahead.
Yep.
There we go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's pulling on in there now.
Oh, now. Hey, guys.
It is getting cold.
All right, Good deal. All right.
There we go.
Most people think about how many miles per gallon they're getting.
Well, I've got to start considering how many gallons per mile I'm going to get if anybody
asks anything about it. Here's my diesel fuel tank.
I sleep over yonder.
I go on long trips and I pee in the other one and we won't get no indecent exposure
ticket. I guess my next step is to get smashing this thing.
Get up your road.
Is that thing full yet?
Man, this thing holds a hundred gallon before I go trying to test this steel out and really
push its limits with maybe some exotic flavors.
I'm just going to use some of my own corn liquor mash.
It's a good base recipe.
It's inexpensive and corn liquor is always in high demand.
We're getting down to the nitty gritty here.
The last ever. That's the last of it.
Well, I'd say that's pretty good for the first run.
Yeah. Yeah. Get some water in the condenser, and I'm good to go.
I'll just stick it through the wind.
All right, crank it on up.
Look at that efficiency, will you?
Man, you got to pop the wind it down and stick the hose in there, and you're ready,
man. You got a rig? I mean, think about it.
This is like an easy operation.
No stirring, no fire, no nothing.
It's not a school bus.
It's a school bus. It's a steel bus.
I'm sold ticket. All right.
I'm going to hit down your road.
You have a safe trip.
All right? See what we can do about making some liquor.
You know, I knew it was going to be a good idea to have a mobile steel site because I'm
always on the road.
Right now I'm heading back to Franklin County to hook up with Henry and Kenny.
And by the time I get there, this run should be done.
It's genius.
How are you doing?
We'll pull over right here and I'm going to check the temperature of this steel.
I'm starting to get up to normal operating temperature for this vehicle, which is a
perfect temperature to be running this mash at.
Okay. Pod is starting to get good and hot.
I probably ought to get ready to catch some liquor, maybe get on a back road here.
I feel a little safer.
I think, though, this thing is working all right.
Yes, sir. I'm happy with this steel and the way that it's running, but it's going to take
me a while to just keep driving and keep running this liquor.
Throw these heads out right here.
Once I dump the heads on a normal basis, I would put all of my liquor in one big
collection tank. But I'm going to run this off into individual jars on this first run
just to make sure everything's working right.
Should be producing some good liquor now.
This is beautiful.
Everything looked like it's going good so far.
Going down the road shines coming out of this worm.
I'm filling jars up.
Everything is going just as smoothly as can be expected with this still.
What the hell?
Oh, my God.
Oh, Engines Cut.
Oh, no. Oh, my.
God. Oh, this ain't good.
Oh, this is not good.
I see what I can do.
The engine is just dead.
Stopped on me.
The battery's working, you know?
Nothing looks busted.
This is the worst possible case for me.
I've got a still in this bus.
It's got mash in it.
I've got liquor that I've already made.
Quit midway through that jar right there.
Shoot. It was running so good.
I don't see anything going on with these lenses.
Nothing leaking back here.
Going to the heater core on the pot.
God almighty, she's hot.
God, I don't know what to do now.
See if I can get this thing going.
Oh, that ain't good.
Let me count him and see what I can do.
Uh, over the years that I've known Tim, he's always lectured me on how risky some of the
things that I'm doing is.
And I guess right now, I actually see his point.
Hey, hey, Hey.
Damn. Look, um, I got a problem.
Oh, you got a problem? Bus died on me.
You mean, died? He just quit running.
I'm off on the side of the road now.
Well, it'll be a couple of hours before I can get there, you know?
But get me an address and then I can find you.
Uh oh.
We got problems right here, Jim.
I got blue lights. I got blue lights.
Oh, my God. I gotta try to handle this situation.
Let me get off of here. All right?
Well, I guess I've had better days.
Oh, What's going on?
Well, she just cut off on me.
I guess she got a little hot.
So where are you headed to?
I'm headed down to Southern Virginia.
Southern Virginia? Yeah. Yeah, I got a small farm down there.
Okay.
Where are you coming from?
I was coming from a buddy of mine's farm not far down the road here.
Okay. Yeah, I'm just trying to head back.
And this thing, it just conked out on me.
Sometimes when it gets hot, she'll cut off.
You're nervous when you by chance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I sure do.
I sure do.
Yes, sir. You gotta tell em the way or what?
Do you. Yeah.
Yeah, I got my buddy on the way.
Yeah, he's on the way.
What's this big shiny thing you got here?
About the tank.
It's a diesel tank.
All right. Well, good luck to you.
Hopefully it ain't sitting there too long.
Luckily, it's a nice night for it.
All right. Well, I appreciate it.
All right. Thank you for your help.
Oh, my God.
I can't believe I just got away with that.