This is how we make the moonshine.
Oh, hell, no.
No. Mark, it's David Robertson.
Stay back out of the way.
Hello, boss.
Seeing you over here. You working on your car today?
What are you doing?
Oh, I'm just in here, Tinker, and I ain't doing much or nothing.
I got that old 40 up on the rack and tinkering with it a little bit.
What were you.
Into? I was riding round in your door up over here.
You see an awful lot of stuff going on with the garage.
Doors are open. You've got tester tubes, propane tanks, mason jars.
You got all kinds of stuff in here.
Yeah, but, you know, they ain't none of that stuff that ain't at Walmart here.
If I look around in there.
Well. I don't care at all if you got a warrant.
I think it's my right for you to have a warrant.
Oh, yeah, That's your right.
Now 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 apparently you don't understand because I've warned more onions and I'm going to put
you in jail. I'm telling you, it's getting about that close.
I about gotchas. I see you here a little bit, then.
That's fair enough.
Like I said, you've been warned several times.
Nobody wants to listen. But I guess they set the show.
You better not contain.
All right, I understand.
All right.
Wow. My old days.
Did I leave this damn garage door open?
Jesus. Day out.
I got a call. Digger.
Anybody. Hello?
Purse? Oh, you done?
Oh, yeah. We got bad problems.
I was up here in the garage knocking around.
Had the garage door open and car pulled up.
And it was our friend, David Robertson.
Son of a bitch.
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. It's really pissed him off.
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 when he said, I'm tired of
telling you guys.
I've warned you. I've warned you it's going to come to a stop.
Well, I know it's nerve wracking.
My guts is evaporating, too, but you just got to step back and think about it.
I'm getting bad vibes from every corner on this.
Yeah, Let's face to face.
I don't like telephones.
You know where I'll be.
I ain't hard to find.
Damn. Why are you doing this?
Well, not to shock you or anything, but I'm just shining my knife up.
Getting ready for the events of the day, Maybe.
Boy, I hope not.
Not be cleaning my fingernails or something.
Get you a good drink at liquor.
Will make.
You sleep. I made it here in a little while.
I don't know. I. A lot of stuff on my mind.
Detective David Robertson.
I mean, I ain't gold. I bet I've lost a lot of sleep worrying about this situation, you
know, peeking out the curtains before you go out the door, wondering, when's the other
shoe going to fall?
Well, he's got my attention really hard.
I think we've tempted fate too long.
Our chosen little side vocation here, It don't afford us much safety to start with.
We knew that going in.
Well, I know that, but at this point, I'm.
I'm stepping away.
I got to take a break.
But this is not permanent.
You're kind of just chafing me a little bit here, aren'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.
And to get you wet and waiting 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 you play.
You know.
My guts. Tell you it's right time to back away.
I get it. And I'm on stand by your decision.
I appreciate it. First, I really do.
I won't leave you holding the bag.
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?
You work ethic like this.
No, I know.
Go make a little liquor.
Me and Mark are just like a team of mules hitched together.
One knows what the other one's going to do before it does it.
But hell, I ain't going to be able to find anybody that'll put up with me the way you
do.
Yeah, that's pretty much a given.
You know, at some point he'll come back.
But in the meantime, to find somebody that's going to fit in to that, that harness, it
ain't going to be an easy fix.
You're going to miss this stuff.
What felt the ultimate straining media for the moonshiner, this trip of malted grain
liquor? It's some best liquor I know that I've ever made, and I'm certain that it's
best that Mark Wayne Ramsay's ever made.
But here we are. I mean, gold digger, temper and liquor by himself.
But at this point, I'm not ready to give up this too good of a recipe not to keep going.
You know, I got to stay the course, but to do it on a day to day basis and step this up
on the scale that I want to step it up on, it is not doable, not with one man.
As bad as it hurts production and I don't have Mark Twain.
Ramsey 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 bees.
I mean, that's a given.
Nice. Look at.
That bees.
You turning into an outstanding liquor man.
He's got a sense of humor.
And I've got a sense of humor that plays that well with this.
He's a good liquor man.
He's the finest bootlegger we've ever had out there.
And he brings it. That being said, I got to have bees to get on board with me on this.
If he doesn't, then my my liquor production is going to go down tremendously because I
can only run this one steel at a time.
I've got to go talk to bees and try to bring him back in.
Nashville, Tennessee.
Here we are.
Look right there on that billboard.
And the name of Sam's killer bees at the Grand Ole Opry.
Digger myself, we're headed to see bees in person.
He's the best bootlegger we've ever had.
Yeah. And, you know, he's come a long way.
Prove yourself for making liquor.
Yeah.
Bees, we feel, you know, can fill my shoes for a while.
Step in and do some of the things that I've been doing.
I know. Off to. Here we go.
Here we go. He's actually performing at the Grand Ole Opry.
He knows we're coming to see, but he don't know why.
Maybe if he'll sign on, we'll be okay.
I'd love for bees to say yes, but he's got a lot of reasons to say no.
If he says no, then I'm pretty much that option at this point.
Hey, my name's Kaylor Baijal.
Have been fantastic.
He's just as funny from behind as he is in front.
All right. There you go. All right.
Thanks, man. Oh, hey, man.
Holy cow.
Yeah. Hey, bro. Dude, I can't see y'all.
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 really like killer bees to step in and try to carry my load for me.
So what is going on with you guys?
We're going to cut to the chase.
Mark wants to step back.
I got to take a break for a little while from this line of work.
I'm not getting out of this business, but I got to.
I got to take a break.
I got to back away from it.
Now, that being said, BS, 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 molded grain that's off the chain.
Oh, really?
When I told Digger my intentions, when he said we had to get somebody, he and I both
said your name.
There's another wrinkle here, because we've got a guy that's a dog with a bone where
we're concerned.
So we've got to exercise extreme caution.
I can't feel marks.
I can't feel his shoes.
Dang, man.
I want to 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.
In a way, I understand that this is not an easy decision for killer bees.
He has a lot to lose, but he has a lot to gain as well.
Man, I'm going to be honest.
I'm not ready to tell y'all yes, right now, tonight.
This is a this is a pretty big deal.
It's a life changing decision.
Wow. 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 track and.