1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: from housetof Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 4 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. And that makes the Stuff you should know 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: the podcast the sequel, or it makes it a greasy 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: Wednesday night on top of a rooftop brewery. Yeah, you 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: want to do a little recap for everybody? Yeah, let's 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 1: do a very brief recap of our trivia night. Pack 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: it away. I don't remember it. It was awesome. It 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. It was jam packed, overflowing 12 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: with people, just like New York was. We had John 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: and Joe and Dave and everyone had a blast. We 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: lost again. We were in the lead until the last question, 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: and I ruined it for everybody if I remember correctly. Yeah, 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: but you know what, you did not ruin it because 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: no one had the right answer on our team, thankfully. 18 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: That would have been crushing. Do you want to you 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: want to do this? The question? What was the last question? 20 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: The last question was what is the second leading album 21 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: of all times sales? Wise second behind three selling album 22 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: of all time. And I believe you said Dark Side 23 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: of the Moon, which I thought was a really great guess. Uh, 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: someone else, Joe Randaza said the Eagles greatest hits, another 25 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: great guests and both of us were wrong, or both 26 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: of you were wrong. But we went with Dark Side 27 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: of the Moon, didn't we? Wasn't that our team answer? 28 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: I think so? Um, it was a C D C's 29 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: back and black. Yeah, and you know what, I somewhere 30 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: in my brain, I knew that that was really high 31 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: up the list. It didn't come to me, but yeah, 32 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: we were in second place. We end up losing on 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: the last question first and going into the last but 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: no one wants to see his win. It's no fun 35 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: if we're like, yeah, that's what I told Hodgman. He went, no, No, 36 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: I want to win and I want to rub it 37 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: there face well, get a better team than Hodsman. What 38 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: are you doing hanging out with us? It was a 39 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: lot of fun though, and thanks to everyone who came 40 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: out and hopefully will be coming too a city near you. 41 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: We're still trying trying to get that together. Okay, so 42 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: while we're doing this, um, I think we need to 43 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: let more people know about our Facebook page. I suspect 44 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: that there is a small but substantial and by that 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: I mean really large segment of stuff. You should know. 46 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: Listeners who don't necessarily go all the way to listener mail, 47 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: don't listen to the whole podcast. That's where the gold is. 48 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: We call them s y S listeners. That's right. Um, 49 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: so we always talk about our Facebook page there, So 50 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: there's it's possible if people out there who don't know 51 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: that this thing exists, right, Chuck, that's right. And it's 52 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: good for us if you go there and click like, 53 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: And it's not only good for us, but it's a 54 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: it's a good Facebook page. It is you know, it's 55 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: like fun and people contribute and chat back and forth, 56 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: and we talk back and forth with We come down 57 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: from our ivory tire everyone and walk around gland hand 58 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: people and then like have some people beat up for 59 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 1: amazement and then go back up to our ivory tower. Know. 60 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: We we put great music videos on there, and by 61 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: music videos I mean music on YouTube. Uh cool, interesting 62 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: links to great articles and studies and stuff like that, 63 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: as do most of the people who are on this page. 64 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: So go check it out. Facebook dot com slash stuff 65 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: you should know. Yeah, and if you if you click like, 66 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: you can hide us still if you don't want it 67 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: in your news feed, well you are buddy in Afghanistan. 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Rhodes Uh send us an email. You saw this right, 69 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: He's saying you can like us, so we still get 70 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: the like, which again makes us look good. Um, but 71 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: you you you can also select and not receive updates 72 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: from whenever we update if you want to feed, so 73 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: you won't be bothered by us, and you can come 74 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: and check at your leisure, but you could still like 75 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: it too. And then Twitter real quick, Chuck, Um, we 76 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: are on Twitter and we're at s Y s K podcast. Okay, yes, 77 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: all right, so Chuck, this wonderful time that we had 78 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, Yes, ah, at a brewery. Yeah, there 79 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: was one of the darkest periods of American history. There 80 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: was a time not too long ago where that could 81 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: have never happened, or if it had, we would have 82 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: been outlaws. Yeah, it would have been on the We 83 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: couldn't have publicized it on a podcast. That would have 84 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: been on the down low at a private place. We 85 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: would have to just whisper it on the street or 86 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: we could have drawn in chalk like speak easy this way. 87 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: Sure the s Y s K speak easy trivia night 88 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,799 Speaker 1: this way. This dark period in American history is also 89 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: referred to as prohibition, also referred to as the Noble 90 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: Experiment by some. It was a noble experiment. The reason 91 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: why is because the whole reason prohibition was ever enacted, 92 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: or largely one of the reasons why, was because we realized, 93 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: remember the addiction podcast. Did that come out yet? I 94 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: don't think so? Okay, so look real the addiction podcast. 95 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: But consider this. It wasn't until about the nineteenth century 96 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: that people started talking about um being addicted to alcohol. 97 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: An awareness of that there was such thing as alcoholism 98 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: came about. When there was there were some really nice 99 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: people in the world who said, you know what, since 100 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: you can't give it up, we're gonna all of us 101 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: are going to give it up together, so you won't 102 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: be tempted any longer. Because I mean, consider nowadays, being 103 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: an alcoholic and trying to give up alcohol and seeing 104 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: it everywhere, it's gotta make it that much harder. So 105 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: that the goal of prohibition of this um. The temperance 106 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: movement that eventually lead to prohibition was to not tempt 107 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: alcoholics any longer. Yeah. You know what's funny too. When 108 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: I was reading this, a lot of the reasons, which 109 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: we'll get into, they mentioned, are you know that the 110 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: alcohol can lead to, um, domestic violence and child abuse, 111 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: and Henry Ford said it leads to a lack of 112 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: productivity at work. And I was reading all this thinking, yeah, 113 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: you know, that a lot of great points, but that 114 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: still didn't mean that you should try and prohibit people 115 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: from drinking. It was just a bad idea, even though 116 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: a lot of the points they had were solid. Of course, 117 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: it leads and they remain. If you look at the 118 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: Old House Stuff Works employee handbook, one of the things 119 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: that says specifically is don't drink at work. I know, 120 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: I almost didn't take the job for that reason, but 121 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: I did. But no, there were a lot of very 122 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: solid points that everybody's kind of realized about alcohol. That, yeah, 123 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: it's it's directly connected to physical violence in the home 124 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: and outside arrests. Um. Also you know moonings then all 125 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: goes up when alcohol is around, right. Um. But as 126 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: you were saying, it was a failed noble experiment, It 127 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: was a bad idea, but it was one that we 128 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: had to learn the hard way, and we've learned much 129 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: from it. Right. Sure, Even people that I thought it 130 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: was a great idea at the end of the Noble 131 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: Experiment said that wasn't such a good idea. I guess 132 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: still hate alcohol, but that you just can't do this. Um, 133 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: So let's talk about this. From nineteen thirty three, the 134 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: United States had on the books an amendment, an amendment 135 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: to the Constitution that's huge, and plus it makes this 136 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: Congress look ridiculous that they did this. Um. The Eighteenth 137 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: Amendment went on the books, was enacted in ninety and 138 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: it forbade the sale, manufacturer, and transport of alcohol and importation. Okay, 139 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: which transport, Well, no, you can still transport within Like 140 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: you couldn't carry it from Kentucky to Georgia, right, nor 141 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: imported from Canada to the US. You see what I'm saying. 142 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: But you could keep it in your home and you 143 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: could drink your face off. Well. The cool thing is too, 144 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: is they I believe it was passed and then a 145 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: year later is when it went into effect. So they 146 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: basically were like, you got a year, right, you can 147 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: fill your basement full of booze. Yeah, And we don't know. 148 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,679 Speaker 1: I'm not be breaking the law. That's I didn't actually 149 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: realize this that it wasn't that you were allowed to 150 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: drink at yourself. And did you you didn't get the pictures? 151 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: Did you know? There is a haunting photograph on page 152 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: zero of this article, the first page. It was taken 153 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: in ne and to speakeasy and like the people are 154 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: all wearing it looks like the photo and the shining 155 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: and there's this one gentleman who's not even necessarily the 156 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: focus of the photo and he is just staring out 157 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty one into your soul. That's a very 158 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: creepy pick. That alone is reason enough to go check 159 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: out this this photo because he's on the stunt gravy, 160 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: the jazz juice, the giggle juice, giggle water. So Josh started. 161 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: But we have to go back in time just a 162 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: little bit um when it really started century pretty much, 163 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: yeah and eight in the eighteen thirties. The idea of 164 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: getting rid of alcohol is is when it first started 165 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: to pick up from Steam and the temperance movement got going. 166 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: Society started springing up, and by the time they actually 167 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: had the Federal the Amendment to the Constitution. I believed 168 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: there were, um, how many states had already h sixteen 169 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: sixteen states had already banned alcohol in some way, so 170 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: it was already going on, Chuck this nineteen states of 171 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: the towns in America had some sort of ban already 172 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: going on. It was a very popular movement, UM And 173 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: there are a lot of reasons, but one one reason 174 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: is that these people have been doing this for a 175 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: century before it finally took place. UM And as early 176 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: as eighteen thirty eight, Massachusetts UM created i think the 177 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: country's first law against alcohol, where basically they said, you 178 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 1: can buy all the alcohol you want, but it has 179 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: to be in no less than this quantity, and that 180 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: quantity just so happens to be more than any of 181 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: you drunks can afford. So we're de fact though banning 182 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: alcohol because we're putting it out of your price range. 183 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: The m surprise Massachusetts was one of the early states 184 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: because really come around lately. Yeah, because most of the 185 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: temperance movement had a lot of support obviously in the 186 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: Bible Belt in places like New York and Boston. In 187 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: these larger cities, they were kind of like, I'm not 188 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: so behind this, right, well, don't forget Massachusetts not too 189 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: far before this was burning, which is at the state 190 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: as guess it's a good point, right. So that was 191 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: eighteen forty six, Maine became the first state to pass 192 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: a statewide prohibition law. That makes more sense sure being 193 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: Maine teetotal Maine. Yeah. Um. And so this temperance movement's 194 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: going on. And remember this is the women were at 195 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: the forefront of this movement. In large part. They weren't 196 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: they certainly weren't the only ones, but they were, um 197 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: at the forefront, not just because that they were, you know, 198 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: nagging people. Um, they they actually this is before they 199 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: had the right to vote, and prior to having the 200 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: right to vote, women figured out, you're not gonna give 201 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: us the right to vote. Well, we're gonna learn. We're 202 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: gonna be one of the first groups to learn to 203 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: organize effectively. Um. And it wasn't just with the temperance movement. Um. 204 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: The women women uh basically created this movement alongside the 205 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: labor movement in the early twentieth century or nineteenth century, 206 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: that was the consumer movement, and they were extremely effective 207 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: in promoting consumer rights and they were also really big 208 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: into rabble Rousing like Them Committee against the High Cost 209 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: of Living in Detroit. That was the name of the committee. 210 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: It was a woman's organization UM and they would they 211 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: would do basically, they would do everything from consumer education 212 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 1: on the street like you deserve government protection of milk standards, 213 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: to um boycotts of local grocers, to actually storming meat 214 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: packing plants and pouring kerosene on thousands of pounds of 215 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: meat so nobody could buy it. And they had these 216 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: really effective campaigns. And the Temperance Movement came about at 217 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: the same time at this where women like had to 218 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: organize they have their voice her because they didn't have 219 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: the right to vote yet they didn't have suffrage. That's right, Josh. 220 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: And specifically, the Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed in 221 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: eighteen seventy three in Ohio. Uh years before that, eighteen 222 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: sixty nine, the Official Prohibition Party was formed because there 223 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: are people are like Democrats and Republicans are kind of 224 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: dragging their feet on this, so let's actually form a party. 225 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: Right in Holland, the the Women's Christian Temperance Movement right union, 226 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: Yes union that that woman who led that Carrie Nation 227 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: is an excellent example like the kind of boisterous nature 228 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: of this, this kind of organization and protest. She was 229 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: known um for hanging out around saloons, praying on the 230 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 1: front steps save these people's souls, and the people who 231 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: tried to come in, she would ward them off with 232 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: the hatchet and she was arrested, um a couple of hundred. 233 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: She was a rested thirty times between basically said busting 234 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: up bars. Yeah, she basically said, I can't vote, so 235 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to become a huge thorn in your side 236 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: and you can't stop me. And she had direct experience 237 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: from it. They credit her um feracity ferociousness. I think 238 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: I just made up a word. Her ferociousness against alcohol 239 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: for um, due to a short lived marriage to an alcoholic, 240 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: left an imprint on her that, you know, being a 241 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 1: motivated individual. Yeah. What what's that bumper sticker about guns 242 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: don't kill people? I do know something about well behaved 243 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: women rarely make history something like that. Yeah, yeah, I 244 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: like that. It's good. Um, civil war comes along, Josh 245 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: Jerry laughed at that for some reason because she has that. Okay, 246 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: the Civil War came along and that kind of slowed 247 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: things down a little bit. But it was just temporarily 248 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: because the war ended in people like the liquor industry 249 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: started booming again, which you would think would slow it more. 250 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: But what really happened was it started booming such that 251 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: the temperance movement got even more active to try and 252 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: take care of business basically right. And one of the 253 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: things that really as as usual, I'm I'm loath to say, 254 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: but one of the things that really drew popular support 255 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: together um was finding the proper scapegoats Germans and Irish immigrants. 256 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: This country has a long standing tradition of forgetting that 257 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: we're all immigrants and targeting the most recent immigrants to 258 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: the country as the source of all of our worries, 259 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: and then our political parties go, yeah, it's their fault, 260 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: and that it just kind of goes down to hell 261 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: from there because Irish like to drink, the Irish like 262 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: to drink, and the Germans love to brew beer, and 263 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: that they became the the sources we should we should 264 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: go ahead and correct that. There was a popular perception 265 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: that the Irish likely drink exactly and the Germans really did. 266 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: Um run most of the breweries still reason necessarily, but 267 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: there was a lot of German owned breweries in the US, 268 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: So the popular perception was the Germans are ruined, the 269 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: Irish are drinking. We need to target these two groups. Sure, 270 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: so everybody hate them. And then that's how prohibition ended 271 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: up being passed in large part, right, Uh yeah, I 272 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: mean there were some a lot of groups against it 273 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: as well as as many as there were for it. 274 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: I don't know about as many, but there were also 275 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: groups like the Association Against Prohibition Amendment and the Women's 276 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: Organization for National Prohibition Reform exactly. So it wasn't everybody, 277 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: but it gathered enough support where eventually Congress, that awful, 278 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: awful Congress of nineteen nineteen, basically said, uh, you know, 279 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: we kind of have to do this, and you've got 280 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: a year to get all your booze, and what we're 281 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: gonna do to enforce this is past the Volstead Act 282 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: as well. Well. What was what really put it over 283 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: the top, because this is nineteen nineteen and the in 284 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: World War One had just ended. But what really whipped 285 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: up prohibition pro prohibition sentiment up was World War One. 286 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: We're fighting the Kaiser and these Germans are sitting here 287 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: using all the grain that we could feed our soldiers 288 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: with the brew beer and you're not in American if 289 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: you're drinking beer, right, right? And Mr Anheiser and Mr 290 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: Bush were like no, they were like dis day night. Yeah. 291 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: So that led to, like you said, Chuck, the eighteenth Amendment, 292 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: and the eighteenth Amendment and of itself didn't do anything. 293 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: It had no teeth. It was a paper tiger. Well, yeah, 294 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: that's why the Volstad Act, right, and what did that do? Well? 295 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't enforce anything unless you have a 296 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: way to do it, and that's what the Volstad A did. 297 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: It um define like the penalties if you were caught 298 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: doing this, exceptions which uh they had exceptions for medicinal 299 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: use and religious ceremony use. Yes, and apparently a lot 300 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: of doctors prescribed alcohol during the prom how many? How many? Uh? 301 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: They estimate that more than one million gallons of liquor 302 00:16:54,320 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: were consumed a year from prescription whisky. Wait till what 303 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: is it? Prop nineteen passes. Yeah, they got nothing on me. Naffodil, daffanel, 304 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: medefanel menaffodil. You're thinking of monodyl and I bet there 305 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: were a lot of religious ceremonies going on to you 306 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: know what I mean. Well, yeah, you got to think 307 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: about the Catholics. I'm sure we're like, whoa, hey, yeah, 308 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: blood of Christ and everything over here, right, yeah, we 309 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: need to do this like twice a week now. And 310 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: then they went enchanted. Now they did their communion, and um, 311 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: that also defined what qualified as an intoxicating limit, which 312 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: was anything more than point five percent alcohol. And you 313 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: know what, that's actually still the case. Um. Back when 314 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: I was for near beer. Yes, for back when I 315 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: was a strapping, fat ten year old boy, I used 316 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: to cross the road tracks and go to open pantry 317 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: and I would enjoy six packs of Kingsbury non alcoholic beer. 318 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: Who woa, whoa you drink not alcohol beer? Wet age 319 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: ten eleven? Secretly no secret right from your parents? No. No, Sometimes, 320 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: like I go back and I look at some of 321 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: the stuff that I did, and I'm like, I had 322 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: a lot of freedom as a child. See, alcohol was 323 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: like a big no now in my house hold. On Um, 324 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: the reason why is because I knew I was in 325 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: the right. Another reason point five right is non alcoholic. 326 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: I can buy any non alcoholic beverage. Why this root 327 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: beer is non alcoholic and I can buy that and 328 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: I actually had an argument once with a clerk at 329 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: open pantry, and I think just the fact that this 330 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: ten year old was like stating his case. Finally, the 331 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: guy was like, I finally care, just get out of here. 332 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, no, I don't think my family liked it, 333 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: but they just didn't want to get into it with me. 334 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: I would have gotten in big trouble for even that 335 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: because alcohol was stun gravy to my household. It was bad, 336 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: it was the devil's juice, and it was not allowed 337 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: in the house. It was a really big deal. It's 338 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: amazing that I ever touched the stuff, you know, when 339 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: I like, I didn't drink it all in high school. 340 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: I was a straight edge. What's more amazing to me 341 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: is that you didn't. You weren't more likely to touch 342 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: this stuff because it was prohibited. That was well. That 343 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: was one of the major effects of prohibition was that 344 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: alcohol use when it did increase, overall, alcohol decreased as 345 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: an effective prohibition, but when it did increase, brother it 346 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: increased big time. Right, Yeah, let's talk about some of 347 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: the effects, because it had effects on what you could 348 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: call the good side and the bad side, both medically 349 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: and economically. Actually, most of the economic effects were pretty bad. 350 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: They were bad unless you were al capone. But alcohol 351 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: trafficking obviously increased things like speakeasies and this will alcohol rings, 352 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: bootlegger rings are pretty much comparable to today's drug dealers. 353 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: Rum runners. Yeah, there were European rum fleets is what 354 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: they call them, right, because no prohibition in Europe most 355 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: of Europe. UM. So they just sail out into international 356 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: waters and people there at midnight and then they would 357 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: offload their cargo two bootleggers and you know that was that. Um. 358 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: They the one reason they knew that things were really 359 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: getting pretty bad on the bootlegging scene that I didn't realize. 360 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: This is pretty funny to me. Demand for ten thousand 361 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: dollar bills reached a high in the United States and 362 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: nine and basically that was a pretty clear sign that 363 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: people wanted very large bills so they didn't have to 364 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: have trunks full of money to make their switches in 365 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: international waters. Um. Political corruption was huge. In fact, there's 366 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: a very famous quote from Mayor LaGuardia, who was running 367 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: New York at the time, who said this is a 368 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: great one. He said something along the lines of it 369 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing 370 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in 371 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: this country, and they're going to name an airport after 372 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: the guy. Another awesome, awesome fact, Josh, as far as 373 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: when you said it started booming in a big way 374 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: prior to this. Prior to prohibition, there were less than 375 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand bars legal bars in the US. After prohibition 376 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: in I'm sorry, in the midst of it, there were 377 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: more than thirty thousand, more than double the amount of 378 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: illegal speakeasies, and there were an estimated hundred thousand people 379 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: brewing alcohol of all sorts in their homes illegally. I 380 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: can tell you they were probably like ten prior to prohibition, 381 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: people who like went to the trouble making their own right. 382 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: But I mean, it's the same thing, like, don't you 383 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: think that if California legalizes pot, don't you think that 384 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: all those people who have a couple of plants growing 385 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: illegally in their house are gonna stop doing that and 386 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: just go buy it at the store like everybody else. 387 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. The artisans would probably still grow their own, 388 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: but maybe so, but in much the same way that 389 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: people homebrew beer now like there's a lot of trouble 390 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: to go to that not everybody wants to do. You know, well, 391 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: you mentioned the non enforcement, and there's another stat here that, uh, 392 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: it's pretty startling. At one point, they said, in New 393 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: York City, New York City, Yes, New York City, seven 394 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: thousand arrests were made for alcohol violations and seventeen of 395 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: those ended up in convictions. Even when they tried to 396 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: enforce it, it wouldn't make it all the way through 397 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: the legal system. That was the guardiest town by the way. 398 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: Well exactly, and they said in nineteen five, by nine 399 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: six states had laws that basically said quit investigating prohibition 400 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: cases or we're bust you down to private or whatever 401 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: the police entry level is. We're gonna bust you down 402 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: to Keystone cop level. That's right, Chuck, Josh, you were 403 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: speaking economically, that was illegally. All that crime came up 404 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: and corruption developed directly as a result of Prohibition al capone. 405 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 1: It was big for him, as you said, he turned 406 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: a I don't want to say two bit, but a 407 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: fledgling empire from Johnny Torrio into a hundred million dollar 408 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: a year enterprise, which that's a lot of cheese by 409 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 1: today's standards. Well, yeah, and he he was doing a 410 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 1: pretty good job of it there in Chicago until the mayor, 411 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: who was in his hip pocket, said I want to 412 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: get out of your hip pocket. I'm you're You're done here. 413 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: I can't believe he lived. But that led to component's downfall, right. Um. 414 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: On a much larger scale economically, prohibition was a very 415 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: terrible idea, especially in the midst of the Great Depression. UM. 416 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: Some companies, some brewers specifically, like Anheuser Busch, as you mentioned, 417 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: UM said, you know, we Germans also like to supply 418 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: you with things like root beer and ice cream and 419 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 1: and corn syrup. So don't don't round us up, okay. Um. Well, 420 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: that allowed him to keep their doors open. Basically that 421 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: that did not everybody could do that. Not everybody could 422 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: make that switch. An Huser Busch was already I think, 423 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: pretty big at the time. UM So in St. Louis 424 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: alone before prohibition, there were twenty two breweries operating. After 425 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: prohibition was repealed, I just gave away the spoiler. UM 426 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: nine reopened so that it had a huge hit just 427 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: on the brewing industry. Um. It also took away all 428 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: the tax revenue that America was making before prohibition taxing 429 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: legal sales of liquor. All of this was on tax 430 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: bootlagers weren't paying any taxes. They're getting rich. And then 431 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: so in the when the depression came along, Um, that 432 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: really kind of turned the tide as far as America 433 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: was concerned, Like, Okay, we're sick of this. A lot 434 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: of crime has come about, a lot of corruption. The 435 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: US is in the depression and we're losing out on 436 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 1: viable taxable income and this is just stupid. Everybody's drunk anyway, 437 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: and the ones who were just kind of moderate drinkers 438 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: before are big time drinkers. Right. So for example, um, 439 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: apparently the they by the end of the twenties, there 440 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: were more alcoholics than there were before prohibition, right, like 441 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: clinical alcoholics. Um, adult rated or contaminated liquor brought on 442 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: more than fifty thousand deaths, not to mention cases of 443 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: blindness and paralysis. Remembering it was either the Hangover podcast 444 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: or the Moonshine podcast, we talked about coningers, the impurities 445 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: and alcohol that can kill you. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh 446 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: those did kill a lot of pre prohibition. On the 447 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: flip side, though cirosis declined from ten point seven men 448 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: per one hundred thousand to twenty nine. All right, I'm sorry, 449 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: it dropped to ten point seven from twenty nine point 450 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: five per one thousand over from nineteen eleven to twenty nine, 451 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: So you just mr silver lining. Well no, that's my 452 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: point though, is they'll point to some stats that will say, well, 453 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: si rosas strap, but then fifty thousand people died because 454 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: of can you know, making liquor in your tub, right 455 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: and again and again. Overall alcohol consumption across the board 456 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 1: dropped from between thirty and fifty, which is substantial, but 457 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: the ones who it didn't drop in it kicked their 458 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: drinking into hyper drive. Yeah. I think some people just 459 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: like to be bad, Like this is forbidden, right, so 460 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it all the time. You know that. Actually, 461 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: the parallel there with the marijuana movement in this country 462 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: now is pretty striking, pretty similar because the recent economic 463 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: downturns that we've had. I don't know if you noticed, 464 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: but a lot of states started saying, like California, you 465 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: know what we could make revenue wise if we legalized spot. 466 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: It's a very interesting. Uh. I think it's Cato Institute. 467 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: You know, they're a libertarian think tank, and they issued 468 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: basically like you want to know exactly how much you 469 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: can make and save by decriminalizing marijuana. Here it is, 470 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 1: and it was all the money spend in the legal system, 471 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: plus all the revenue that can be grace taxes comes 472 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: up to like fourteen billion a year or something like that. 473 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: It's a fourteen or forty four or something. There was 474 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: a four in there. Same thing with the stunt Grady. 475 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: We should give credit to that. That's John Hodgman's words 476 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: from his book The Area of My Expertise. But you 477 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: can get on Amazon. I don't want people to think 478 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: Chuck is so funny. He thought it's stun gravy because 479 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: I did not. Um, Chuck comes around. Everybody's sick and 480 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: tired of prohibition. Uh. And Congress, a new Congress says, 481 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: you know what, we're going to repeal this a much 482 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: hip or drunker Congress. So they created the twenty first 483 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: Amendment because it takes an amendment to repeal another amendment right. 484 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: And in the history of the United States, this is 485 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: the first time an amendment was passed to restore the 486 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: rights taken away by a previous amendment. She on that one. Yeah. 487 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: You know what's funny is just about two weeks ago, 488 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with my friend Kirk about prohibition, 489 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: and I said, why don't they just remove the eighteenth 490 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: and twenty first Amendment now? And just I mean, why 491 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: you even have that in there anymore? And he got 492 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: he got kind of upset, and he's like, this is 493 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: the U. S. Constitution you're talking about, And I said, well, 494 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: I know, but it's just it seems silly now to 495 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: still have that on the books, unless I guess it's 496 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: just you know, the constant reminder of this is what 497 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: our country went through, and see we repealed it. But 498 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: to me, I'm just like, just take them out. It's 499 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: kind of like, don't be stupid in there. It's a 500 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: clear message to the people of today. But I wasn't 501 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: trying to like desecrate the Constitution by doing that. I 502 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: just thought it made it a more efficient document. You 503 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: just remove this too useless, So Chuck. They that Congress 504 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: passed the twenty first Amendment, they had to wait for 505 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: two thirds of the states to ratify it, which happened 506 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: on December five, ninety three. Uh. John d Rockefeller comes 507 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: out with the famous quote, drinking is generally increased. The 508 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: speakeasy has replaced the saloon. A vast army of lawbreakers 509 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale. A 510 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: clerk stamped the document and everybody went back to drinking 511 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: legally again. In it that that night probably resembled our 512 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: trivia night recently would be my best cast. Uh So 513 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: after that, Josh went to the states to decide how 514 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: to govern this and a lot of states. Twenty ones 515 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: probably a pretty good day to start drinking a lot 516 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: of states, or some said, like, I think Louisiana and 517 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: held out for a long time. Georgia even was eighteen 518 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: for a long time. I remember Georgia's I remember when 519 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: Ohio did there. That was like in the mid eighties. 520 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: And and um, because my sister was in between there, 521 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: she was like nineteen at the time, she was like 522 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: no um. And I remember Louisiana also finally caved because um, 523 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: the Feds were holding out on their highway funds. They 524 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: may have been the last one there, and they finally 525 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: were just like, we can't take these potholes any longer, 526 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: so they caved. So Josh, since prohibition so long ago 527 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: was repealed and done away with, you would think that 528 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: now in the United States you can go anywhere you want, 529 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: any day you want by your boost, you would You 530 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: would be wrong. And I know that you know what 531 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: that's wrong because you live in Georgia. Pal Georgia has 532 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: a blue law. No Sunday sales. Nope, you can buy 533 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: it in a restaurant after twelve thirty. So if you 534 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: like to go to brunch early und very funny how 535 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: the brunch crowd really turns up around twelve fifteen. Before then, 536 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: you can get a seat anywhere on a Sunday um 537 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: but because of the fear of enticing people away from 538 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: church with booze or partying too hard on a Saturday 539 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: night leading to a desire to keep drinking Sunday morning 540 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: in the mischurch, there's that blue law. Yeah, and they 541 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: said that. I didn't know this. They said that, And 542 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: this is not just in Georgia, but period in the 543 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: United States. That was that came about during the colonial times. 544 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: They said, you know what, they let's keep the Sabbath dry. Yeah, 545 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: And what you've just made reference to is the last 546 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: sentence of this article Um, it is, in my opinion, 547 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: the strangest sentence ever used to end a half stuff 548 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: works article. Would you do me the favor of reading 549 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: that sentence verbatim? This law was the up in colonial 550 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: times to honor to honor the Christian Sabbath day in 551 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: colonial times. The end it's a little redundant, isn't it, 552 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: don't you think? Let's talk about some of these other 553 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: states though, Um, about half of Mississippi's counties are dry. 554 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: And you can't even drive through a dry county with booze, 555 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: even if you're just taking it home unless you feel 556 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: like paying a bribe to the sheriff. Yeah, or if 557 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: you sneak it. But you can't go to a wet 558 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: county and say, oh, I'm gonna get my Sunday or 559 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: my beer for the week. You can't drive. You have 560 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: to take a circuitous route certuitous kircuitis if you want 561 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: to even take your beer to your house. Right, it's 562 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: pretty pretty serious. Kentucky dry dry law, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Virginia, 563 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: a lot of these states, Alaska, Alaska. Actually you've found 564 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: like this pretty cool supplemental article, um about Alaska having 565 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty nine of the dry towns that's 566 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: mentioned in this article you found an all. It explains 567 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: why because apparently there's a strong tradition of binge drinking 568 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: brought over by Russians and Finns, and Finland actually had 569 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: its own a bout with prohibition as well, right, Uh, 570 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,959 Speaker 1: yeah they did. And I should also point out that 571 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: this is introduced me to my favorite new expression that 572 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: I've never heard before, frontier drinking style. Yeah, they had 573 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: frontier drinking style. It usually ends with bear wrestling. Bear wrestling. 574 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: And uh, it's interesting though that they they've done a 575 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: lot of studies and they've shown that the volume and 576 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: pattern of how you drink correlate with your your culture. Yeah. 577 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: So there's the European the Southern European wet culture, which 578 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: is frequent but moderate drinking, like basically like French kids 579 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: of age seven drinking wine at dinner exactly, right. And 580 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: then you've got the Northern European culture, the dry culture, 581 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: which is like you don't drink very often, but when 582 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: you do, you drink like NonStop for three days frontier style, 583 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: and then wrestle a bear exactly, and then you commit 584 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: some sort of crime or something over and over again. 585 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: In the midst of this well and in the end, um, 586 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: places like Canada followed America and had prohibition for a 587 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: little while. Um, really punch we we inhibition in nineteen nineteen. 588 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: Canada's prohibition lasted from nineteen eighteen to nineteen nineteen. Exactly. 589 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: It's just like the beer bearing episode of The Simpsons exactly. Uh. 590 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: And in Finland, Josh, they appeal In Finland, it really 591 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: really backfired. They enacted prohibition in nineteen nineteen. It was 592 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: all going on at the same time. It's pretty interesting 593 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: all over the world. And um, basically people publicly and 594 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: privately thumb their nose at it. And they said that 595 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: they estimate the alcohol consumption tripled perhaps in Finland after prohibition, 596 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: and not only that, people were originally drinking vodka, and 597 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: during prohibition people started drinking basically moonshine like spirits. Yeah, 598 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: they said, you know what you're gonna do, prohibition, We're 599 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: gonna get drunk er more more often than we ever 600 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: have before, and we're gonna get in our saunas and 601 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna get wasted, and you can't do anything about it. 602 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: That that seems like a bad idea. I've been sauning 603 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: like crazy lately, and I found out that heat cuts 604 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 1: off the circulation in my calves. And Josh Finland uh 605 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: clearly had a failed experiment and they repealed it in 606 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two, so it did last a while. But Alaska, 607 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: they say, to this day, Native peoples of Alaska and 608 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: Native Americans, they still a lot of alcohol problems, just 609 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: proportionately so um. And the sad thing is that it 610 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: was brought by Europeans. The bench drinking, the frontier style 611 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: band drinking was introduced to the Inuits and the Natives 612 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: of a last goodbye Finns, Russians and yeah, um, I 613 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: guess old timey uh clean jumpers who came up from 614 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: the Western United States. Gabby Johnson. Russia actually experimented for 615 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: a little while too in nineteen fourteen. Through that's I 616 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 1: figured Russia would have been the one that was like 617 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: six months later. And though they must have vodka, do 618 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: you know, like the average lifespan of a Russian male 619 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: these days is down to like fifty nine because of vodka. Really, 620 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: because it's drinking, like they just drink like fishes. Apparently 621 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: even even um, yeah, the knows yeah, I mean it 622 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: would look like a that wasn't a gin blossom, that 623 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: was a bluemn onion. That's the end of that podcast. 624 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: If you want to know more about prohibition, type that 625 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,800 Speaker 1: word into the search bart house to works dot com again. 626 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,240 Speaker 1: It's going to bring up that really super cool picture 627 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: on page zero. I'm glad you showed me that. That's 628 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. And click 629 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: all the way through to the last page two to 630 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: find these strangest sentence ever used to end in the 631 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: house Stuff Works article. Uh and since I said search 632 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 1: bar at some point in the not too distant past, 633 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: that means it's time for listener mail. Josh. I'm gonna 634 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: call this email from a guy whose life has eerily 635 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: resembled our podcast Slate. I discovered your podcast with my 636 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: two friends and I went on a road trip from 637 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 1: our school and Providence, Rhode Island to Minnesota. Go Golden 638 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: Gophers in that Minnesota. Yeah, it was according to the Fargo, 639 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 1: I was looking for something to listen to in a 640 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: car on the way and randomly downloaded a bunch of 641 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: your podcasts. So, by sheer luck, Josh, how often does 642 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: that happen, you think, and people continue to listen. Yeah, 643 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,959 Speaker 1: never this one time. Uh. Then we began our epic 644 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,280 Speaker 1: quest across the country. Whatever we listened to came true. Guys, 645 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: we were in Toledo when Josh said he was from Toledo. 646 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: We were with a katie from Wisconsin. When you read 647 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: a listener mail from a katie from Wisconsin, we're not 648 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 1: the same person, and we want a trivia contest because 649 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: of your Habeas Corpus podcast. The winning answer was the body. 650 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: Our brakes failed in Pennsylvania and we hung out with 651 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: some Amish while we waited for them to be fixed, 652 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,120 Speaker 1: and we even felt the membranes connecting our brain and 653 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: skull being stretched in Chicago, what is a hangover? A stretch? Yeah, 654 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: that's what I thought. We also met some friends along 655 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 1: the way and combined our knowledge from the Redheads and 656 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: Flirting podcast. On the way back from our week long honyssey, 657 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: we reminisced about our favorite parts of the trip, and 658 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 1: all three of us mentioned your podcast on our list Alight, 659 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: So thanks for helping us out such a great time. 660 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: Then he goes on to suggests we do a podcast 661 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: on the School of America's which we have one right 662 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: here in Atlanta. No, the School of the America's supposedly 663 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,919 Speaker 1: and now defunct assassins school that we have at Fort 664 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: Benning that was used to train Latin Americans in the 665 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 1: basically an insurgency. Is he completely wrong about this in 666 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 1: the School of the Americas is just one place, but 667 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting and scary. Well, then, Paul, I've have 668 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 1: some words for you, my friend. You've just misled us, 669 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: intentionally mislead you, and I would like to recant every 670 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: bit of the enthusiasm I showed for your previous email. 671 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,240 Speaker 1: Are you sure he wasn't just misinformed? I don't care. Okay, 672 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 1: there's something called fact checking, even for emails. If you do, 673 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: you want to try to mislead chuck Er I, we'd 674 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: like to hear that. No me, chuck Er, me, mislead me, 675 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 1: mislead chuck or me we want to hear it in 676 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: an email. And if you don't feel like doing something 677 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: that mean, you could also actually don't even try to 678 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,919 Speaker 1: mislead us. It takes us off. Lou bega um. If 679 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: you have a favorite strange sentence that you've ever come 680 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: across in your life that can beat this law, was 681 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 1: developed in colonial times to honor the Christian Sabbath Day 682 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 1: and colonial times. We want to hear it. Wrap it 683 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: up in an email, spanking on the bottom. Send it 684 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: to stuff podcast at how stuff works dot com. 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