SHELBY: Willie!
Hey!
What's going on? STEVE ROREX: Hey, man.
DAN FEARS: What are you doing?
I was trying to catch a fish, but my rod broke.
What y'all up to, huh?
Shelby had been downriver for a couple of years now.
We heard he's back.
It's really exciting for us, 'cause
we're in such desperate need of some good wood right now.
We heard you been downriver We've been looking for you.
SHELBY: Shut up, [inaudible]!
We're from Southern Wood.
We got a shop down the road, not too far from here.
You got any logs?
SHELBY: Yeah, I got a few, man.
I got some right there.
I got two.
Yeah, we-- we need a few more than that.
DAN FEARS: Big.
We've got a huge oar we've been trying to get field--
SHELBY: [blows nose]
STEVE ROREX: And we've been going
through several different log guys,
and nobody can do what we need to do.
Well, how much is it?
STEVE ROREX: We, uh, we need to get at least 10,000
board feet of sinker cypress.
Is that something you think you can do?
[laughs] DAN FEARS: We got--
Well, how much money y'all got down?
You can put any money down on it?
Well, we'd give you a big deposit.
Well, let me have it.
Well, we need to see some logs first.
How soon do you need it?
How soon can you get it?
Well, hell, I ain't psychic yet.
Now as soon as I get it, I get it.
DAN FEARS: All right, man.
I mean, I'll get it as fast as I can get it, man.
I mean-- - We in a tight rush, you know.
We got to get this thing processed.
[bleep] right, man.
Ho, we needing it bad.
What's your name again? - Steve.
SHELBY: [bleep] Oh, man.
That sounds good, man. STEVE ROREX: Good.
DAN FEARS: Pretty exciting.
One big-ass damn order, man.
What the [bleep] I got myself into now?
Here we go, Junior!
NARRATOR: So today, he's thinking big.
I've got a pretty good idea where I might
find a bunch of good logs.
NARRATOR: Heading to a bend downriver,
hunting for a log raft rumored to have
sunk over 100 years ago. - Right there.
Dead ahead.
What is that?
Oh, that's cable from the big log.
That's the raft!
Ah-ho, there he is.
It was there.
DONNA: Is that a piece of the raft?
SHELBY: That's the raft.
My boy.
NARRATOR: Now there's an old saying, where there's smoke,
there's fire.
And right about now--
SHELBY: So damn close I can feel it.
NARRATOR: --Shelby's getting hot.
I think I might have found some damn sunken treasure.
Come on, Junior!
DONNA: That must be a log right there.
Yeah.
See it bubbling?
There it is!
Ha, ha, ha!
Got that done.
Boy, it's a good one, Papaw!
That's a good one, right there.
Yee-haw!
We on top of it now, Junior!
It's only one log, but it's a damn good start.
Let's see the rest of that raft, Papaw.
Oh, here we go!
Dig it downwards, baby!
Oh!
Plenty more where that came.
DONNA: Woo, it's raining logs!
Woo!
Ah ho, we got 'em, getting them now.
DONNA: This a gold mine right here, man.
I knew this damn raft was down here, man.
There's a whole bunch of them here.
Get it go gone now, Junior, with all the damn logs we got now.
How'd you like that, Papaw!
Oh, my gosh.
NARRATOR: After two years on the sidelines,
Shelby came back with empty pockets and a determination
to fill them.
And using every trick he knows, the swamp man's
hustling his way right back onto the gravy train.
My mama didn't raise no fool, and my daddy didn't
raise no idiot, so here we go.
NARRATOR: But Shelby ain't just helping himself.
STEVE ROREX: Shelby!
What y'all doing?
You been working on our order?
Yeah.
I been getting here's some logs right here I got for it.
Look at them big ones.
DAN FEARS: That's nice.
NARRATOR: Thanks to the swamp man, the boys at Southern Wood
could be on to the big time.
These logs are looking great so far.
Primo logs, great logs.
I just want to make sure you're good with this,
and you got everything.
SHELBY: Damn right.
I got it, man.
This is just hopefully the first of many.
You know, if everything is this good or better moving forward--
We're going to be in a, we'll be sitting high.
--Shelby's going to hit one out the park for us.
Yeah. SHELBY: Thank y'all, Steve, Dan.
See y'all.
Ho, here we go, and oh my god, we gonna be good now.