Jack Daniel built one of the most recognizable names in the world, and it killed him over a safe he couldn't open. This episode of the MR. HANSoN Podcast tells the full story of the man behind the square bottle and the black label — and the master distiller history almost erased. Born in a year no record kept, orphaned of his mother and unwanted by his stepmother, Jack Daniel ran away as a boy into a hard Tennessee where whiskey was currency, medicine, and survival, and almost all of it was terrible. What he found in a hollow changed everything: a preacher named Dan Call who opened a door, and an enslaved master distiller named Nathan "Nearest" Green who handed a homeless boy the keys to an entire craft. This is the story of how a runaway learned the Lincoln County Process — filtering raw whiskey through sugar maple charcoal to mellow it into someth ...