act and found the loophole that with a physicians preprescription you can boy, manufacture:for met dissan purposes. of course nobody wag uses alcohol for medicinal services and he took full advantage of this and the country loved him for it. >> we always had our ways in miss this to -- >> there was actually -- one of my favorite things i do a slide show and there's a thing called cow shoes that bootlegs in rural areas who did moonshining in forests and meadows would wear these cow shoe and they were basically heels were made from wood carved to look like animal hoofs, and so they would cover their tracks if prohibition agent were trailing them how to a meadow they'd look for somebody's footprints and just see a bunch of hooves, and i kind of wish they'd come back in style. i'd like a pair. but people were -- the opinion is people were going find a way. people always going to find a way. >> fred, you talked about it briefly. your co-author and it's an odd couple with a novelty and historian. how did it work to -- for the two of you to put together this very hoe he'ssive book? >> -- cohesiv