, if you will, from illegal moonshining to legal moonshining. >> hey, tim.hat are you stirring that with? >> i used a hose. see, it got them hose in it right there. >> use stainless steel. you have to use a paddle. >> that's what i always use? >> you can't anymore. you have to use government-approved stainless steel. >> while tim is learning the legal side, tickle has taken over tim's illegal side but to tell us about this season of the moonshiners, we have tim and tickle, via skype, "right this minute." welcome to the show, guys! [ applause ] >> tim, as the most wanted moonshiner in the country, what made you want to head over to the legal side of the business? >> well, that's pretty simple. my dad passed away. tas a big a do? i sai well, you know, there is a time and a place for everything. it is a time to go legal with this. we still do make real good moonshine and we still do it in virginia. this bottle, as you can see it, has an illegal product inside of it. it is based off of illegal recipe but now that it is trademarked and patented by the federal gov

maybe moonshine is more your thing.ot you covered area the stars will tell us how they do it. ♪ >> whiskey and moonshine. discovery channel's "moonshiners" follows the lines of men making a fortune out in the backwoods, making booze. i spoke with two of the shows how they got them into the despair qwest it is something you grow up into it. if you grope in the neighborhood, what are you going o do? >> it is normal for you. you do not worry about getting caught? >> you do worried about getting caught a little bit. you have to keep that in the back your mind. aboutou stop worrying getting caught, that is when you start making mistakes. we exercise that all the time in our mind. i went legal this year. myself,oing to expose the only way i could talk about is to go legal. qwest what goes in their? qwest a special recipe. acorn mix. the process is what makes the taste. it is not high-grade alcohol. i do say they're not doing it properly, but back to the roots of basic homemade alcohol. that is what it is. the basic real deal.

come on. >> make it a moonshine soul food summit. i don't know how they look at me and say you know you were better off before civil rights and you liked being a slave. the singing, the dancing, the songs. >> would you be open to conservative african-americans if it's conservative to conservative? >> i think it's very important to point out that log cabin republicans has numerous black gay republicans, black lesbian republicans. we have them on the national board of directors and in louisiana. so yeah. you better believe that we want to open this up to represent as much of a -- the diversity that we have in the organization as possible if and when this occurs. but my point is, just coming from -- i think this is something -- a conversation that needs to come from the right. it needs to be gay conservatives that make this case because we have more in common than separating us. we are at a polarizing point in this country where in order to get that conversation to begin you need to sit down with people you have more in common with. >>

moonshine. >> more a long time.ve gone legal because -- and what makes this moonshine legal as opposed to stuff in the still? >> it's in a bond distillery and we pay taxes on it. >> and given the recipe to uncle sam? >> right. you have to turn over your rights to the recipe. >> but you didn't have to change the recipe? >> n. we don't want to change it. this is the best recipe in the whole world. we don't want to change it or mess up things. >> how do you characterize the success of the show? it's number one on tuesday nights. we can now drink liquor in public, unlike the flapper year when we first broke in the show, we could not serve liquor. now we can. how do you explain the success? >> we got the best maker here. >> and you were on the run, too. >> i was on the run. >> true. but there was an anxiety to the episodes. >> yes. >> you were rejected four times, right? what was the difference? >> the label was rejected a couple of times. some of the information. it's just the accountability. the government really wants

your group, you want to sit down for what you're dubbing a moonshine summit to talk it out with philon, saying that, hey, in the spirit of the season, let's have a drink, let's have a glass, and realize that we are more alike than we are different. is that a pair characterization of what you guys want to do? >> yeah, exactly. in fact i think there's no one better to make this case than log cabin republicans. rather than a bunch of liberals coming in from los angeles to wag their fingers and admonish the robertson family, i think the best way to make the case for gay equality is to take gay conservatives from the other l.a., louisiana, to show that we are christians too. we are god-fearing people as well. we're also strong conservatives and we have more in common than we do that separates us from one another. >> but is this a conservative/liberal conversation? i mean if you read what he said, and we've spent a fair amount of time talking about what he said about homosexuality, but if you read the article and read some of the other things that he said about black people during the civi

and moonshine. an americancitizen to have five gallons of moonshine and five pounds of marijuana. those two numbers will not allow you to run out or be a millionaire selling them. they would be strict prohibition on -- there would be regulations. you could not combine with your neighbor and sell it. you could not make bathtub mint juleps. host: legalize in small amounts? -- the what you need is whole presidency should be the marijuana moonshine. what i wanted to put down was that cannabis and nicotine are a drugs. there is a lot of zeal and ego on all parts -- from the dea, down to your local beat cop. everyone says they're doing their job. really, they know. we heard from the chief in washington. the sky has not fallen. anarchy has not taken over. it is time for the marijuana moonshine party. host: all right. thank you for your idea. jamie is in manassas, virginia. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am really amazed at the number of people who are calling and. they are advocating

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. >> one idea that i had was that in my show, i do a song called "moonshine road."ter that, tell my band we'll break. i'll just say we have a real american hero with us, ladies and gentlemen. i'd like to take a chance right now to bring him out and let you say thanks to him. >> kix, he's an amazing guy. he get what is we do. he understands. he believes in us. >> i'm really glad to be a part of it. thanks for letting me. all right, guys. >> when we got there, we said a friend of ours, looks like he's going to be able to go backstage. would they like to go backstage? of course, they said yeah. still had no clue what was going on. >> hey, i've got to stop for a second. i've got to tell y'all something. there's something really special going on here tonight. you know, i'm a big fan of our men and women across the seas that are sacrificing themselves. i heard we had a true hero in the house tonight. sergeant jackel and his family are here. i thought you guys might like to say thanks to them. is that all right? as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i d

. >> one idea that i had was that in my show, i do a song called "moonshine road."fter that, tell my band we'll break. i'll just say we have a real american hero with us, ladies and gentlemen. i'd just like to take a chance right now to bring him out and let you say thanks to him. >> kix, he's an amazing guy. he get what we do. he understands. he believes in us. >> i'm really glad to be a part of it. thanks for letting me. all right, guys. >> when we got there, we realized there was a friend of ours there, looks like he's going to be able to go backstage. would they like to go backstage? of course, they said yeah. still had no clue what was going on. >> i got to stop for a second, i got to tell you something there,'s something really special going on here tonight, i'm a big fan of our men and women across the seas that are sacrificing themselves. i heard we had a true hero in our house tonight. sergeant jackal and his family are here, i thought you guys might want to say thanks to him. is that all right? are they here? [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: w

>> moonshine summit. >> the request is out there. >> have it at the cracker barrel. >>> coming up, 2014 promises to be a pivotal otherfor the balance of power in congress. with the midterms on the horizon, efforts to block the vote are in full swing. we'll look at some of the hot spots, just ahead. ♪ ♪ i know they say you can't go home again ♪ ♪ ♪ i just had to come back one last time ♪ ♪ ♪ you leave home, you move on [ squeals ] ♪ and you do the best you can ♪ i got lost in this old world ♪ ♪ and forgot who i am >>> the obama administration makes a big call to the bull pen in the fight against voter suppression. we'll discuss after the break. >>> after a year in which the supreme court gutted the voting rights act and states moved one after the other to suppress the vote, the justice department's battle on voting rights just got a big boost when had it was announced that stn ford law professor pamela carlin would take over as deputy assistant general in charge of the civil rights division voting section. she is widely regarded as one of the top voting rights experts, a qualification th

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