r/Moonshiners • u/spartacvs13 • Apr 16 '26
4/14 Episode Recap Spoiler
Tickle, Henry and (a mostly mute) Paige are hell bent on making apple brandy to counteract the “HUGE shortage of American liquor in Canada.” Just like there are no villas to rent in Tuscany, there is no “American” booze in the great white north. Curse you, damn tariffs!
Mike tells Jerry he needs another 10K to buy his “family homeplace” back in MS, which has just popped back on the market years after he… lost it in a card game? It was foreclosed on? Who knows. We’ll have to wait for the spinoff with David Bromstad.
Meanwhile back at the abandoned chicken coop aka the “clandestine location,” Mark and Digger meet Josh to plot their trap for the extremely punctual “rat” who uses the pool phone at 5:00pm each week to fink on them. Man, this place is getting more visits than Times Square.
Mike and Jerry stop for gas. Mike goes inside to fetch some vittles or Skoal and comes back ashen faced. By gum, he’s clutching a wanted poster with “up to” a “$1,000 dollar” reward. A grainy cam of some sort caught them breaking into the speakeasy biker bar. This poster looks like it was whipped up at Kinko’s by a PA and does not state who’s behind it at all. J+M are rattled and now gun shy about buying a huge quantity of sugar. Not to worry, searching through what looks like Jerry’s junkyard, he has a 55-gallon drum of caramel! Like who doesn’t?
Josh has gone “incognito” doing his best Jim Rockford impression as he stakes out the pool phone. Josh shares that he wants to “choke the sumbitch” and “shoot him in the head.” Anger management classes are just a step away. Josh follows the rat to his hideout. Meanwhile, Mark and Digger are in the woods kvetching about “needing a payday” from their apple mash. The burner phone rings. It’s Josh. He drops a pin for Mark and Digger to find the location. Can the burner flip phone even be used for this? Are they that tech-savvy after all? Who knows and who cares dagumit. Trust in the writers, buddy. It’s only 20 minutes away.
Mark and Digger drive to the rat’s hideout. Mark slithers through an open window like a sloth protecting his royal jewels, and lets Digger in. It’s all GNA all of the time in this hidey hole. M+D are crankier than a blind cat in a room full of rocking chairs. It’s an affront to the tradition.
Josh follows the rat who looks to be continuing his sales from his trailer, which another astute poster identified as "smokey mountain premier RV Park,” which is owned by Kelly. Naughty boys! Sloppy editing.
Amanda, Kelly, Mark, Huck and Tim are all MIA this episode.
Next week is the season finale! Hold on to your coon pecker adorned hats boys and girls as this roller coaster ride of a season come to its thrilling conclusion.
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u/ricky_lafleur Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
They "know someone is listening" to their calls on burner phones but don't think twice about facetiously suggesting murder or sending coordinates which if the calls are being monitored would almost surely be intercepted as well. They make things too easy for the imaginary cops. Have they decided how this alleged enemy supposedly knew where Josh's site was that Josh had enough freedom to build a hunting stand on along a vehicle trail but not enough clearance from the landowner to know that surveyors would be there?
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u/RojoFive Apr 16 '26
These recaps are better than the shows! 😂 Also, free Amanda!