Even if this is totally staged (and it probably is) I think it's good clean fun - and I learn something every episode I watch. The theme to me is DIY and these guys are geniuses at this. That's just no in dispute. And I have endless admiration for that enterprising spirit. 'Go Moonshiners!'
how do they get away with this? ive been reading people are saying they basically have to be caught red handed at the still to get pinned otherwise they just cant make it stick? or is it more the local cops dont wanna enforce those law?
Ya hes a real person. Working on a scripted TV show that is a dramatization. Otherwise the felonies they commit like using explosives to blow up somebody elses car or still in furtherance of their own criminal moonshine business would have him doing 20 years. Just common sense to understand that
@@maxhanes1073 why is it that because it's recorded it's fake. You don't call those shows that show the marijuana grows or cocaine or meth labs but this is fake? Someone obviously has to really do it for them to get the idea I'm from north Carolina I would know, nontax liquor is available depending on who you know it's not hard to believe.
Huh. People really calling this stuff fake? Some of y’all have yet to hike the Appellation mountains. The amount of moonshiners in Virginia alone is like small army. Is this show fake? No. It’s called entertainment. These guys legitimately make moonshine in the mountains. Hell, mike was fucking arrested after one of the shows was done taping. Y’all are fucking hysterical if you don’t think people do this.
Mark is one of the real shinners, its obviously in his blood. I can picture him doing what he needs to, especially when it comes to getting away from the 👮♂️ cops.
I spent over 20 yrs as a tv News Videojournalist with WFMY-TV in NC. Few more years off and on doing network freelance. Best of all I early on met good old country and mountain folk. I became known for filming stories told by the people in them. Hated having media people mouthing off.. rather have the real people, always. Got to know many wonderful musicians .. bluegrass, mountain etc. I myself was born in Belfast, N. Ireland and came to the US as an orphan. I became a reserve Army Officer so did quite a bit during my life. Must say I became close to many mountain folk,. Got married I SW Va. spent years knowing well known musicians who 8n turn introduced me to others. In fact before The state cops got Popcorn The last time I interviewed him. Plus a few others. Hell.. in one case a small group had still on the edge of town. They rented a room in sight of the Sheriffs dept. funny.. they would follow cops then make run. Mostly these were darn good folk.
Y’all got to realize most of the people in moonshiners have background history that you can look up and it actually shows they’ve gotten in trouble for selling moonshine
shoulda painted everything green to the max then used vegetation leafs around the still to paint over in black brown and tan . leaving nice green leaf prints on everything (see Spray paint Camo)
I don’t know about everybody else but blasting that damn chainsaw echoing all around is letting everybody know someone’s in the woods doing something jeezzz ssmmhh !!!!’
It reminds me of rdr2 and I'm from the UK and fully understand what they were saying idk how that's possible I was playing on my phone listen to it lmao
People don't even go to jail for a long time for moonshining popcorn was only facing 18 months and they found him with like 700 gallons and the biggest still operation you could ever imagine
It's the type of charge. The sale and transport are both misdemeanor offenses with moonshine, where they try to get them is with a "manufacturing" charge. That's a felony offense. You can face some big time for that depending on the capacity of your operation, ie had they caught Popcorn at his still making a run, he'd have been facing a decade or two in prison
@@SXTitty they sentenced him to 18 months in prison and he had an entire Barn full of submarine pots and 700 gallons of liquor and he got 18 months been doing it his whole life mini charges so no they don't give you a lot of time
Did anyone else notice “old huck “ was one of the many fake cops of the earlier seasons... maybe the producer thinks it’s been so long no one will notice!?Well I haven’t watched the past couple seasons but this came up in my notifications an I said wtf that was one of the cops “raiding the stills” damn this show is so fake... once you start scripting it goes down from that point... If you have ever made real moonshine you can tell the difference between water and liquor..shame on them
Reporters and people who put together documentaries have protection against being compelled to testify on confidential information. So they simply keep quiet on what they need to and the people allow them to film. Not that difficult... with that being said I'm not saying all of these are real but there's plenty of "illegal" activity in many documentaries and what not that are most certainly not fake.
It's a scripted TV show made with real people acting out moon shining. No real crimes are actually being committed. Obviously or they would have no characters they d all be in jail
You wouldn't want to do this at your own residence unless you go legal, you go to jail either way, but the chances of getting caught at your home are higher unless you just live in the middle of a fuck load of land that you own.
Negative. No proof it’s actually alcohol being run. If they caught them with some then they could try to get it admitted. Meanwhile, you run along and peddle your gumball machine JD someplace else, ‘kay?
If this was real all they would have to do is not air the episodes till months down the road. Then, all liquor would be sold and nothing used on the show could be proven to be real. However, the show is both real and fake. These guys really do make moonshine the traditional way and it's really good marketing that your moonshine was made out in the woods like the good ole days. Other than that, everything here is above board and taxed and permitted.
If does moonshiners don't want to get caught stop bringing video cameras. That gives away your faces and everything you have and every spot you go too.
If their so worried about getting arrested , why would they record everything they do and plaster it all over UA-cam ? Things that make you wonder lol 😂
That copper is a keeper I'd love to work with these guys making moonshine my friends friend makes it were in the UK so no nice woods to make it in lmfao just a shite council house hahaha ppl from the UK will get it hahahahah if not then I pity you hahahahahahahahahaahahahah
Oklahoma safer make it in your house to many people walking woods game ranger be standing right behind you.1960s grandpa crawl under thickett get to site no agent can walk up on you run batch move out but no bust here they getting by with it
Even if this is totally staged (and it probably is) I think it's good clean fun - and I learn something every episode I watch. The theme to me is DIY and these guys are geniuses at this. That's just no in dispute. And I have endless admiration for that enterprising spirit. 'Go Moonshiners!'
Mark does this normally honestly
I live in Graham County NC, and have known Mark for decades. He is real, he’s not acting!
William Hicks thank you for speaking up, Any of these people never been in Maggie Valley
Enh, maybe. I think that they kind of tilt him get away with it at this point.
how do they get away with this? ive been reading people are saying they basically have to be caught red handed at the still to get pinned otherwise they just cant make it stick? or is it more the local cops dont wanna enforce those law?
Ya hes a real person. Working on a scripted TV show that is a dramatization. Otherwise the felonies they commit like using explosives to blow up somebody elses car or still in furtherance of their own criminal moonshine business would have him doing 20 years. Just common sense to understand that
@@maxhanes1073 I would like to go hunting with mark and drink a little moonshine
P.S.A
I DONT CARE IF IT IS FAKE.
ITS ENTERTAINMENT, IT KILLED 8 MIN OF MY LIFE DURING A SLOW DAY AT WORK.
THANKYOU & GOODBYE
KonDemNed u a foo🤣🤣
Do you know what PSA stands for?
Public Service Announcement.
Me right now on a Friday waiting for 17:00 to hit lol
@@daytonasayswhat9333 What?
Mark and Huck Is SO AWESOME
chain sawing, nobody heard that lol
"We're having trouble with the law, gotta be careful. I'm only gonna tell one man and that ther TV crew"
ad leave a huge tell-tale log flume through the woods.........
Audio guy riding around with a atv pretending to be a cop LOL
I love hearing them talk
This the most wholesome shit i watch at 4 am in the morning
I like these guys as much as tickle in the first seasons
moon shiners are smart people they way they use nature to their advantage
Wow that’s totally wild and crazy and awesome how they cut down trees cutting them out making a long water way system !!!
Moonshiners 1 hour show of them distilling water
frs people need to know difference from facts and truth
@Haiiro Lol. Oh ya it's just that easy
@@maxhanes1073 why is it that because it's recorded it's fake. You don't call those shows that show the marijuana grows or cocaine or meth labs but this is fake? Someone obviously has to really do it for them to get the idea I'm from north Carolina I would know, nontax liquor is available depending on who you know it's not hard to believe.
3:31 God damn I love these guys.
Big Mark, seems like a good man. Not someone I'd want to be wrong side of, for sure.
Am I the only person that doesn’t need subtitles
Nope. Im from South Carolina. 😩
Donte Bailey Yep 👍🏻 and I’m up here In North Carolina
I'm Irish and understand them better than some of my fellow country men lol.
@@armchairgeneralissimo lot of people of Irish decent here in the south.
Huh. People really calling this stuff fake? Some of y’all have yet to hike the Appellation mountains. The amount of moonshiners in Virginia alone is like small army. Is this show fake? No. It’s called entertainment. These guys legitimately make moonshine in the mountains. Hell, mike was fucking arrested after one of the shows was done taping. Y’all are fucking hysterical if you don’t think people do this.
Mark is one of the real shinners, its obviously in his blood.
I can picture him doing what he needs to, especially when it comes to getting away from the 👮♂️ cops.
Great footage.Nice video
dang, they made the still so close to a trail lol
yessir you have to go far, far , far away from the trail
100% Real Folks. If it's on TV, it's true.
Crisis Actor David Hogg it’s shown months after they have recorded it
Ur name is so stupidly neonazi
stop being fake and be real
Reza's Corner Fucking idiot bring your ass to nebo mountain
How did you make everyone mad. I told a joke
I spent over 20 yrs as a tv News Videojournalist with WFMY-TV in NC. Few more years off and on doing network freelance. Best of all I early on met good old country and mountain folk. I became known for filming stories told by the people in them. Hated having media people mouthing off.. rather have the real people, always.
Got to know many wonderful musicians .. bluegrass, mountain etc. I myself was born in Belfast, N. Ireland and came to the US as an orphan. I became a reserve Army Officer so did quite a bit during my life.
Must say I became close to many mountain folk,. Got married I SW Va. spent years knowing well known musicians who 8n turn introduced me to others.
In fact before The state cops got Popcorn The last time I interviewed him. Plus a few others. Hell.. in one case a small group had still on the edge of town. They rented a room in sight of the Sheriffs dept. funny.. they would follow cops then make run.
Mostly these were darn good folk.
TL;DR
I love this show
Y’all got to realize most of the people in moonshiners have background history that you can look up and it actually shows they’ve gotten in trouble for selling moonshine
Yeah it's like people want to have illegal shit on tv to stretch the law
Obviously it's fake as it should be.
I enjoy y'all's videos keep thim coming
Im now determined to get a liquor distillation license and make my own whiskey.
shoulda painted everything green to the max then used vegetation leafs around the still to paint over in black brown and tan . leaving nice green leaf prints on everything (see Spray paint Camo)
I don’t know about everybody else but blasting that damn chainsaw echoing all around is letting everybody know someone’s in the woods doing something jeezzz ssmmhh !!!!’
Love the accents
Tameer Mackey sounds normal to me lol
It reminds me of rdr2 and I'm from the UK and fully understand what they were saying idk how that's possible I was playing on my phone listen to it lmao
People don't even go to jail for a long time for moonshining popcorn was only facing 18 months and they found him with like 700 gallons and the biggest still operation you could ever imagine
It's the type of charge. The sale and transport are both misdemeanor offenses with moonshine, where they try to get them is with a "manufacturing" charge. That's a felony offense. You can face some big time for that depending on the capacity of your operation, ie had they caught Popcorn at his still making a run, he'd have been facing a decade or two in prison
@@SXTitty they sentenced him to 18 months in prison and he had an entire Barn full of submarine pots and 700 gallons of liquor and he got 18 months been doing it his whole life mini charges so no they don't give you a lot of time
@@SXTitty when I was 18 they gave me 3 years in prison for selling about a half ounce of marijuana leaves wasn't even buds.
Did anyone else notice “old huck “ was one of the many fake cops of the earlier seasons... maybe the producer thinks it’s been so long no one will notice!?Well I haven’t watched the past couple seasons but this came up in my notifications an I said wtf that was one of the cops “raiding the stills” damn this show is so fake... once you start scripting it goes down from that point... If you have ever made real moonshine you can tell the difference between water and liquor..shame on them
The dude said he was a ex cop did u not hear him
He became the very thing he sworn to destroy
Chris Smith what the fuck
Chris Smith How is your momma doing these days
It’s fucking
Reality tv...
And it’s tv
Period
It’s
All
Fake if your
Over 21 and just figuring this
Out your a fucking dumb ass
I like their partnership
I'd love to go fishing with Mark and just hang out he's as cool as penguins shit lol
wount you hear the water going into the other part . also why dont they put some more bushes in frount of the traile
Colin cause the shows fake
3:30
DOH!
Do you guys use spirit for these drinks?
💯 real just like the nightly news 😂😂
I love there acsents
eating cheese so it isn’t just me 😂😂
Their*
At least this show is better than when they would film eco terrorists on whale wars.
56 people went on a liquor run with brad
I KNOW WHAT U MEAN HOOKED APP RIGHT?
When are we getting the nee series on TV in the UK?
Those Rhododendron thickets are tough to get trough. Not easy walking.
Old Mark, is the last of dying bread, for sure
Brandon Bowdoin mark Rogers is a joke like the rest of the show
@@therooster4416 you're a joke
William Mcleod it’s obvious u don’t know shit lol. Anyone who actually knows them or anyone from r’ville will tell u the same. They all jokes
@@therooster4416 Someone from Graham county just said he's real
William Mcleod lmao. I’m from Robbinsville lived here all my life and I assure u he is as fake as they come
Why was the ladder there in the first place?
Hello 😎 north Carolina 😎 USA😎 😎
3:36 Emperor Palpatine?
If its illegal why tf is he being filmed doing it.....tv is funny
Because its all fake
@@haydenlovellette1927 yeah i know
Reporters and people who put together documentaries have protection against being compelled to testify on confidential information. So they simply keep quiet on what they need to and the people allow them to film. Not that difficult... with that being said I'm not saying all of these are real but there's plenty of "illegal" activity in many documentaries and what not that are most certainly not fake.
The videos are shown months after its been recorded
Cause it's real people acting out moon shining on a scripted TV show. Otherwise the crimes they commit would land them in jail if they were real
Nobody thought to make the site more than 10 feet off of a public road lol
"if the law or police" they been callin them the law so long in their mind the law is somthing different than the police.
I think "the law" refers to the abc revenue agents
Wow 👌mumbai
What happens when the police see the episodes and there face? Never mind bride with some moonshine!
It's a scripted TV show made with real people acting out moon shining. No real crimes are actually being committed. Obviously or they would have no characters they d all be in jail
They put spray paint in the water?
@ 7:26 @7:27 For 2 guys wearing all camo while driving a camo truck... that's the worst camoflauge I've ever seen.
How long did it actually take to build that aqua duct? With editing they can make days/weeks pass in a matter of moments. 😆
120 proof h20
Lol they act like they are way back in the holler and a four wheeler rides through. Prolly the sound guy getting more batteries .
What moonshiners would set up 30 feet from a ATV trail
They set up next to an atv path!?
Do it at home quietly "for fear of the law" or do it in the woods , on camera and broadcast internationally?
The choice is yours
You wouldn't want to do this at your own residence unless you go legal, you go to jail either way, but the chances of getting caught at your home are higher unless you just live in the middle of a fuck load of land that you own.
That looked like sewage water.
One camera guy was late and couldn’t find the film spot
"The pipes stop up"... You ever heard of hardware cloth? Jesus
what you need subtiltles to understand them
If this was real all a district attorney would need to do is play this in front of a judge and jury. Filming crimes is called “evidence.”
Negative. No proof it’s actually alcohol being run. If they caught them with some then they could try to get it admitted. Meanwhile, you run along and peddle your gumball machine JD someplace else, ‘kay?
If this was real all they would have to do is not air the episodes till months down the road. Then, all liquor would be sold and nothing used on the show could be proven to be real. However, the show is both real and fake. These guys really do make moonshine the traditional way and it's really good marketing that your moonshine was made out in the woods like the good ole days. Other than that, everything here is above board and taxed and permitted.
Should of clean the inside of the loggs so u wont get the wood lent in the water
4RealKev it doesn’t matter all it’s used for us to cool off the alcohol
Lots of these local moonshiners put the liquor in plastic jugs. Nasty..
Why is moonshine illegal?
Moonshining is actually still illegal. This show isn't because like tv lmao.
All about money, better known as taxes .
Que legal alguém aí do Brasil em 2019?😊
Well time to run
If it's fake how do you think popcorn got caught
We really find out who is depressed in life looking at the comment section.... it’s entertainment, just fucking enjoy it jesus
Wait so why don’t they just do this in their garage or shed?
Ain’t this acted because moon shining is legal in Tennessee and if it was illegal then why they doing it on tv 😂
Legal stills are legal in TN.
But on the show they are not actually distilling anything but water.
It ain't illegal to you got moonshine running
Why is discovery uk better than the US version
If does moonshiners don't want to get caught stop bringing video cameras. That gives away your faces and everything you have and every spot you go too.
So? Are you guys gonna shoot off fireworks too?😲
If their so worried about getting arrested , why would they record everything they do and plaster it all over UA-cam ? Things that make you wonder lol 😂
The need to decriminalize it there ain't nothin wrong with shine
It’s not illegal to make ‘shine its illegal to sell it
Weed is legal in most states but shine is illegal in most states... why?
No tax is paid
The skinny guy I forgot his name but family I don't know nothing
Always thought he was an undercover top always
The accent lol
Reilly Jones : I live in Western NC and plenty of old timers I have grown up around sound just like him.
They haven't done anything illegal
Better job
That copper is a keeper I'd love to work with these guys making moonshine my friends friend makes it were in the UK so no nice woods to make it in lmfao just a shite council house hahaha ppl from the UK will get it hahahahah if not then I pity you hahahahahahahahahaahahahah
lucky a$$ that'll never happen again
Says “Get down”. The camera guy, “nah”
Almost caught by police, upload video evidence on major streaming platforms same day.
😂 “get down!” As there’s an entire colored still behind them.
i wanna taste moonshine brother
grab a jar of vegimite and mix with water, yeasty yet tasty.....
Get a jar of legal shine at the liquor and add a bottle of nail polish remover and bam. Real shine taste
Nice accent, is it the Tennessee accent?
Western NC
Western NC
Joas Westerbeek : Western North Carolina
Moonshine aint illegal nowadays dummys
this is fake yes.. but also this is old and was filmed a long time ago lol
There is no way I'd drink a drop of what they make with that nasty looking water they be using hahahah what
That water is to cool the alcohol vapor as it leaves the still, it doesn't touch the final product
can't you just go to the shop and buy ????? I'd understand if this was Saudi Arabia........
No that's why they make it
They do this to earn money, no tax.. If you go buy, and sell... You most likely lose money, lmao
That crap in stores isn't shine
Quick, hide! (5 person camera crew and boom mic operator standing there like....) so dumb.
That shit has got to be staged or the cop is blind you see those troughs down the side of that mountain a mile away.
Oklahoma safer make it in your house to many people walking woods game ranger be standing right behind you.1960s grandpa crawl under thickett get to site no agent can walk up on you run batch move out but no bust here they getting by with it
These country boys buttfuck each other to pass the time