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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant right there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is stuff you should know. Chuck, put your cool

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Speaker 1: guy hat back. Chuck is wearing one of those Newsy caps.

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Speaker 1: It's his newest thing, the flat cap. They're in style

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Speaker 1: and he's he's coming on up. Up next is Floral

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Speaker 1: Link Mink Coke. I could totally thank you. Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: because who wants red pain or blood thrown all over

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Speaker 1: when they walk down straight? Um? Chucker, have an anecdote

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Speaker 1: for you? I don't, I don't want to know. All right,

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Speaker 1: well I need to come up with another segway then

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Speaker 1: go ahead. Okay, So, back before we knew each other, uh,

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Speaker 1: years and years ago, my I had a whole group

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Speaker 1: great all time friends, Tom Shechef, who actually writes for

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Speaker 1: the site. Yeah yes, yeah, oh yeah, good friends. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He came down from Tennessee. He was living in Johnson City,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee at the time. And Tom brought with him to

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Speaker 1: the party a pint of moonshine, just perfectly crystal clear moonshine.

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Speaker 1: And there was no no no, believe me, whoever made

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Speaker 1: a peach in the bottom even and um, one of

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Speaker 1: you know, grabbed the moonshine and walked over to my dad,

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Speaker 1: who was in his sixties at the time, uh, and said, hey, maw,

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Speaker 1: you want to do some shots? And my dad grabbed

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Speaker 1: one year old kids shot for shot of moonshine. And

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Speaker 1: it gets better. And then after they were finished, my

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Speaker 1: bit of a booze. It really. My dad has no

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Speaker 1: around my family. Uh. This uh, this kind of badge

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Speaker 1: of honor. He hit the peach, you know, that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. So anytime somebody does something like really cool

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Speaker 1: So that was my segue into how moonshine were. That's

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Speaker 1: good like that? Yeah, yeah, have you have you ever

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Speaker 1: tasted moonshine? Yeah? Yeah, I'm drinking before. I actually lived

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Speaker 1: in Johnson City for a little while. I knew some people,

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Speaker 1: buses with chimneys coming. I'm not kidding on Roan Mountain

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Speaker 1: and there are tons of still still around. Like you

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Speaker 1: for you know, profit or anything like that. These are

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Speaker 1: But imagine if like you're in a homebrewing and your

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Speaker 1: I've had it quite a few times too, at various parties.

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Speaker 1: You know, someone like you said, we'll just show up

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Speaker 1: to taste of moonshine. It's really uh tough to to stomach,

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Speaker 1: but there's something about the corn whiskey. Yeah, But I

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Speaker 1: we do not encourage anyone to go out and build

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Speaker 1: our own still, even though we're going to tell you

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Speaker 1: how to. And this is also based on an article

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Speaker 1: the A P section. That doesn't tell you something, right,

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Speaker 1: So the moonshiner actually makes the stuff, the bootlegger smuggles it.

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Speaker 1: this fact. The first guy to win an official NASCAR race.

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Speaker 1: end it right now. It doesn't get me better than that.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Moonshine is made of corn. Generally in the US,

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Speaker 1: someone's going, I've got something for you. Part of the

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Speaker 1: used to make beer. Right. Um, it's that's fermentation exactly,

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Speaker 1: and makes a thumping sound exactly. So this thump keg

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Speaker 1: And guess where that arm comes out. Well, it comes

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Speaker 1: good luck, Molly. So that's exceptional fan mail today. Well,

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