WEBVTT - SYSK Distraction Playlist: SYSK Live: How Bars Work 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.959 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.640 Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant Lives and by 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:31.720 fogs hany stander planning? Oh yeah, bad's the good stuff? 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:42.280 Can qua rap for everyone? Alright? Good man? Yeah, I 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.600 have to say alcohol makes a difference in the energy level, 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.239 a huge difference. Popcorn popcorn and diet coke just does 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:55.640 not cut it. Now. Uh So we're here today, hanging out, 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.760 just doing our thing, and I have a question for you. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:09.640 All right, Chuck, have you ever been to a bar? Yes? Yeah, yeah, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.320 I know you have. That was this set up? Um? 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.440 Did you realize though, that while you were at this bar, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.000 you were in one of the oldest businesses known to 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.840 human kind? The oldest profession. No, not the oldest profession. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.440 This is the oldest business known to human kind. One 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.280 of bars have been around a very long time, they have, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.640 but not as long, it turns out, as alcohol does 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:41.440 anybody who's listening to our How Beer Works episode. It's 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.440 entirely possible that bread was invented as a starter for beer, 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.560 which is pretty awesome. I mean, that makes humanity as 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.760 a whole, like a pretty awesome species. Um. The thing was, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.760 booze was around for a very long time before bars, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.360 So there wasn't a place where you just went to 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.120 go drink. You just drank everywhere you went pretty much. Yeah. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.079 You literally like you could drink at work, you could 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.120 drink at school. There would be meetings and civic meetings. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.960 You would drink there. But there wasn't an establishment with 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.120 four walls set up just for drinking at this point, right, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.000 You would drink it like this Saturday night ritual sacrifice 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.919 or something like yeah, as you do. Yeah. And so 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.000 the first bars then that really kind of pop up 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.080 are around the turn of not this past millennia, but 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.040 the one before. And you can find them in Italy 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.560 in a place called Pompeii. And these aren't necessarily the 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.880 oldest bars in the world, but they are one of 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:45.120 the earliest established bars. And they were basically, um, hot 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.560 snack bars. They're called it sounds gross there, it does 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.359 hot snacks. Hot snacks. Yeah. Well it's like you know, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.840 chicken wings or poutine is a hot snack. That's a 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.600 hot snack. That's the hottest snack. That's yeah, because they 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.560 took a hot snack and then poured hot gravy. And 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:10.320 what is a cheese that's hot? Right? That's hot? Uh? 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.000 You know this was more like I imagine hot olives hot. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.000 I don't know, hot tomatoes. The point is that there 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.440 was there was wine at these places, right. And actually, 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.720 if you've ever been to Bombay Pompeii um as I have, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.080 you can see these places. They're like bars or countertops 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.600 with holes cut out, and they put like jugs of olives, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.640 poutine and wine and stuff. And you would go down 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.320 to this this area and hang out and drink and 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.520 hang out with your neighbors. And sure like, look at 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.120 malt pvesuvius over there. It isn't it lovely? I think 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.360 it's ever gonna do it that. We're good. Don't be ridiculous. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:53.600 You were drunk. So again, the an't these are the 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.680 earliest bars, but they're among the earliest um. And the 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.680 Romans were really kind of big with bars. In home itself, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.240 there were lots of bars like there were in vesuvious Um. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.680 But the Romans also did something else that led to 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.520 the spread of bars, and they built roads. Well, first 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.880 of all, they conquered the world and then they built roads, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.000 and along these roads there were inns for travelers, and 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.200 in the ends there were bars. Yeah, because if you 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.400 were tradesman on a Roman road that it was scary 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.800 at night you might get mugged and killed. So they 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.760 would do their trading and traveling during the day and 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.920 then they would stay in these ends at night. And 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.640 just like modern American business travelers, what else do you 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.200 do when you're on the road like that, You got 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.240 to the hotel bar and you drink your face off. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.960 And that's what the tradesmen did in ancient Rome. You 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.559 celebrate not getting murdered that day on the Roman road. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.279 I traded some spices, I didn't get killed, So bring 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.880 them the gropp up exactly. And um, so out of 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.600 this came the taverns, the ends, the pubs, like they 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.680 basically said, that's great, you've gotten in, but we've got 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.760 a little town and we could use a couple more, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.800 but we don't need in, so let's just stick to 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.440 the to the bar part those are, that's how those 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.320 evolved out of there. But um, the oldest bar in 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.240 the world probably it's definitely the oldest bar in Ireland, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.080 but it could possibly be Guinnesses investigating as we speak 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.560 to the oldest bar in the world right now. Um, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.480 it's called Shawn's. Has anyone ever heard of Shawn's in Athlone, Ireland. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.960 You've been there, it sounds pretty neat. He's part of it. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.440 That's enough to cheer. Um it was. It was founded 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.680 in a nine d c and actual, real live, no joke. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.599 Vikings used to get wasted there and this place is 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.359 still around, Like you can go get wasted where the 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.680 Vikings got wasted, which is pretty amazing. I guess they 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.760 would They would eat mushrooms and then kill people all 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:57.400 the way. They would go berserk, remember that. So the 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.920 coolest thing about Shawn's actually is, um, it predates the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.120 town that it's in now. It used to be for 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.560 two hundred and fifty years just Shawn's Bar and this 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.159 old Roman road. And apparently people got tired of like 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.720 having to drive home after getting wasted at shawn so 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.239 they just built their houses around it. And that's where 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.400 the town of athlo And, Ireland came from. That's true, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:27.680 and uh, it's interesting fact. That's not true. Interesting fact 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.760 about Shawn's Bar. In nineteen seven it was owned by 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.919 boy George. Yeah, the boy George, not the one you 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.840 were thinking of. Boy George. Yeah, I guess you. I 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.520 don't know. He thought it was a safe investment. It 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.640 had been there for you know that many years. But 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.600 he got out of it. He's like, nah, I think 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.160 he went broke. Someone in the first show said he 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.440 went broke. It's well, that's mean, yeah, but it could 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.680 be true. Yeah, I think it's true. So we did 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:01.040 a little research on your town and we were very 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.400 pleasantly surprised to find that, you know, your town was 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:10.760 founded on a bar, right, y'all know that gassy Jack. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.720 That's right, Gassie Jack. Within twenty four hours of landing 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.280 and founding gas Town, Gassy Jack built a bar. That's 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.360 the first thing he did. He's like, I'm gonna have 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.080 a town. He woke up the next day. I went, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.520 I'm gonna build a bar. Yeah. And he built the globe, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.480 which is not there. It's it's It was at the 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.880 corner of Walter and Carroll Streets. I think in Gastown 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:41.920 a water live corrections, so water and Carol. Hey, I said, Carol, right, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.840 come on, give me some points there. Well, the way 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.280 I look at it is we just say that these 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.480 people from having the email us right, it's Walter. This 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.960 is actually kind of efficient. Yeah, this is cool. Should 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.640 just do every show live. So there's there's a there's 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.400 a statue of Gassy Jack and um, and we think 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.200 very highly of him because of the fact that he 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:09.080 built a bar. But he did things back and we 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.360 found out it's not gassy like you think that it 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.680 was gassy because it was talkative. Did you guys know 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:20.080 that boring? Yeah? I was all pumped up. I was like, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.680 this guy farted a lot and it's like, just let 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.080 that name. He was clearly proud of it because he 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.240 let them erect a statue that says gassy Jay. It 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.679 was just because he talked a lot. And they do 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.439 have a statue there right, Yeah, at Water and Carroll Streets. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.840 So Vancouver itself would have older bars than it does 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.640 if like Atlanta where we're from. Uh, it hadn't burned down. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.679 Uh And what was that eighty six? Quickly rebuilt of 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.679 course because you're a strong city. But um, in Victoria 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.880 we have the six Mile Pub eighty six not too shabby, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.800 not to ship and Garrick said, pub also in Victoria 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.559 eighteen sixty seven, except that it's not bad as far 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:11.080 as old as drinking establishments go. No. But uh, guessie 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.000 Jack kind of thwarted convention by building the bar first 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.720 and then the hotel because that whole tradition of having 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.480 a bar in a hotel survived long past the Roman Roads. Yes, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.600 there were pubs and taverns and everything, but that didn't 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.600 mean that there weren't bars in hotels any longer. Um, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.240 and that made its way over to the New world, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:37.080 which is here, that's all of us, and and along 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.280 the way. One of the reasons why this whole custom 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.560 and and um tradition made its way over was because 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.600 you could make a lot of money being a bartender 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.680 because you probably owned the bar, you probably owned the 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.439 end that the bar was in, and you're probably making 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.560 the booze that you were selling, so you were just 0:09:54.679 --> 0:10:00.320 making bank. So they the bartenders actually were a among 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.680 the wealthiest of the socioeconomics states. Yeah, they were, you know, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.400 the upper tier of society exactly. Uh, in America, we 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.400 have the same thing, like Josha. We had ends that 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.920 had the bars. But then in eighteen thirty two, the U. S. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.200 Congress said, you know what, let's pass a law. Let's 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.439 call it the pioneer in in Tavern law, And let's 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.880 just say you don't have to stay in the hotel 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.480 to get drunk there. You can just come in, get 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.280 south and get on your horse and and crash it 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.760 on the way home. I guess somebody just clapped for 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:39.520 the pioneer in in Tavern. Liley. Yes, we won't stay here, right, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.240 But it was a cool on and it changed everything 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.040 because all of a sudden you could just have a 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.160 bar in a place where you can just go drink. Yeah. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.320 And the industrial age changed everything too, because place like 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.280 say New York City became this this beacon for immigrants 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.920 to come to and and be skilled laborers and working factories. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.239 And they brought with them their love of of bars, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.360 and they said, what the hell is going on with 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.240 this town? Like where are all your bars? We want 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.320 to bar here? Bar there, Bar there, bar there? We 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.360 want to bar there? Where are all your bars? We 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.760 know how to make whiskey too, which exactly like like 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.600 just leave it to us, we'll open the bars. Um. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:21.319 And very quickly bars sprouted in neighborhoods and became customary, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.439 like pretty much overnight in the United States. Yeah, and 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.120 they were because sort of like they are now in 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.679 like the best towns are the center of civic life. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.439 There were where people congregated. It was the center of politics. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.360 In fact, back in the day, it was untoward to 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:41.640 actually have legitimate advertisements and political campaigns. That was no good. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.120 What you could do is get everyone loaded on election day. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.440 And they even had a name for it, which was 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.920 swilling the planters with bumbo, and bumbo was a rum 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.680 and the planters were the voters. The voters and basically 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.959 whoever got the most people drunk on election day one 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.840 like almost literally that's the case, Yeah, which is pretty solid. George, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:10.280 George Washington, who's the father of our country. He uh, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.319 he made his first bid for the Virginia Legislature and 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.360 lost because he didn't he didn't cotton to that kind 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.520 of thing. Didn't swill the planners with bumbo. No, he 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.160 did not. And he learned his lesson because the next 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.400 time he ran for the legislature, he spent something like 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.679 eighty percent of his entire campaign fund on booze on 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.400 election day and he won big time. He figured it out, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.800 that's right, and uh, to this day, well, it became 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.160 rife with corruption. Of course, anytime you're getting people drunk 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.199 to vote for you, eventually they're gonna evolve as a 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.480 nation and say, yeah, no, maybe that sounds such a 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.160 good idea, So let's outlaw drinking on election day altogether. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.360 And for many years that was the case. And in 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.800 a couple of states, South Carolina and Kentucky in America, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.040 they still won't let you drink on election day. Yeah, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.760 the bars were closed, which is weird and archaic. And 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.640 it's on a Tuesday, which is strange. But they have 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.800 like really efficient quick elections just over and everybody's like, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.400 let's get this over with. The bars are closed, this 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.520 is awful. Yes, you're elected, they do. 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We bought a full 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.480 size way back machine so we can. Oh, I gotta 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.760 go back to New York City. It's eighteen twenty and 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.240 the first celebrity bartender is uh, well, he's not born 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.960 because he's old by that point. But his name was 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.800 Erasmus Willard, and he worked at the City Hotel in 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.200 New York and he was famous. He had two really 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.320 meat traits that turns out to be a celebrity bartender. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.720 He's ambidextrous, and he had a photographic memory, so he 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.560 could make drinks with both hands and recognize your face 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.480 as you're coming in the door and be making your 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.160 drink with one hand and recognize his face and then 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.560 we say his Because only men were allowed in bars 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.040 at this point, by the way, it's right, ladies, it 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.960 gets better, it gets better, get better with us. Eventually 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.440 women could go to bars. I don't know if you 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.920 knew that. So Harasmus Willard was the first dude, and 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.880 he sort of paved the way. He was known as 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.520 the best known man in the city, and he paid 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:58.400 the way for Josh's hero, my hero Jerry Thomas. Yeah, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.880 come on, give it up for Cheritos. So Jerry Thomas 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.000 like that guy. Yeah, everybody's like, you can tell us 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.960 more about him? Why is it your hero? Later? Explain? 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:17.200 They're always asking us to explain. Um, Jerry Thomas was 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:22.440 this dude who was flamboyant. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.480 say he had a little little liberace and um, you know, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.000 definitely he would tend very flashy. He would tend bar 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.280 with like diamond rings on both hands, diamond stickpin and 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:39.120 his tie. Uh literally a rat on each shoulder while 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.720 he's tending bar. And this guy rats and this guy 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.240 his signature drink was called the Blue Blazer, which was 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.560 Scotch and I think a little bit of sugar and 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.160 some water, but you would pour it from wine glass 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.600 to wineglass on fire with rats on your shoulders and 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.720 diamonds sparkling in the flames and like this is Erry Thomas, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.520 which is pretty awesome. Like that in and of itself 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.800 warrants mentioned, you know, hundred and fifty years later. But 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.600 he also had the brains and the creativity to back 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:16.000 it up. And basically, in Jerry Thomas, you have everything 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.720 that we know about cocktails and drinking and going to 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.359 a bar in this one dude's person. Yeah. He you know, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:24.920 he Barten in New York for a while, had his 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.719 own place, and then the Civil War started and he 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.000 was like, I don't like all this killing of each 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.359 other's thing, So I'm gonna go out west and do 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.200 my thing out there for a while. And you teld 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.280 me when that Civil war is over, and I'll come 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.359 back to New York. But you did. He spent some 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.800 time out west, and yeah, and Saloons, I guess, applying 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:48.600 as trade and that's right West Coast, and uh, that 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.400 is a place you just got pandered to. The West 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:57.120 Coast is a thing, and that's right West Coast. Good job, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.800 and that what they do that works? I think that's 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:12.040 East Side. I thought it was this early on. I 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.920 was so bad at it. This is this is West Coast, clearly, right. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.240 So he goes back to New York and he says, uh, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:22.920 you know what, I'm gonna write a book I'm gonna 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.480 I'm gonna spread the joy of my craft. It's gonna 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.480 take like everything that he's learned through his travels, all 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.480 the inventions he made, and puts it into a book. Yeah, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.280 all the way back in eighteen sixty two. It's really 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.919 the first bartenders guide ever. Uh, you should do the 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.520 honors here because it's the greatest book title. Well, there's 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.520 three titles. It's called The Bartender's Guide, or How to 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:50.400 Mix Drinks or the bomba Bants Companion. I like companion, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.919 that's for sure, especially when you're like wearing diamonds on 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.480 both hands and rats on your shoulders. It's the bomb 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.000 of Ants Companion. So he had a lot of flash, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.159 we said, and not necessarily, Uh, the other bartenders that 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.840 followed in his footups footsteps didn't really necessarily go that far. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.200 But what he did do was he provided craftsmanship and 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.960 artisanship to bartending for the first time, and he was 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.760 the first guy to really So you know, you should 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.679 take pride in what you're doing here and making a 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.320 good drink. Yeah, and dress up. We'll kill you to 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.879 dress up a little bit, but I kill you to 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.840 put a rat on your shoulder for once. So they 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:32.320 don't bite much. Uh so, well, and we'll talk a 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.320 little more about Jerry Thomas and what he did. But 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.440 while he's working, this is like the boon the hey Day, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:42.520 the initial boon of drinking. Basically before then everybody drank 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.280 and they drank all the time. But this is like 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.439 going and getting a drink was a cool thing. You know, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.440 it's legit. But if you listen closely, while Jerry Thomas 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:56.080 is mixing his blue Blazer, there's a drumbeat in the background, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.399 and if you listen, it sounds really like stupid and 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:04.080 wrong minded, and and if you really focus it on it, 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.240 you realize it's the drum beat of the temperance movement, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.879 which managed to get prohibition passed, not just a hard country, 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.520 but in your country. Yes, let's all booth the Temperance movement. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.560 What a bad idea. And the Canadians knew it was 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.600 a bad idea way before we did, because you had 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.520 prohibition for a very short time, and this sucks. It's 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.560 just stupid with you had it for a couple of 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.520 years during wartime from I think nine and nineteen twenty. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.520 It was provincial otherwise, but you had a very nice 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.280 Canadian loophole. If you have an ailment, you could get booze. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.239 You could go to even during prohibition, you could go 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.320 to the doctor and say, Doc, I got I got 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.440 the I got the shapes, I got the shakes. I 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.119 need's the booze bad? I got the I got the six, 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.159 I got the I got the cold, I got the 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.840 Jimmy lings. I'm awake, Doc, I'm awake, Just give me 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.720 some foods. And then Doc would be like, yeah, you 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.600 had to. Day was a boost and uh in Ontario 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.479 in one year in anyone have a guest on how 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:12.119 many prescriptions for booze just in Ontario? Everyone? Where do 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:16.359 you want? What do you say? Four hundred thousand? No, double, 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.119 it's eight hundred and ten thousand. People were so sick 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.760 that they needed both in one year, just in Ontario. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.600 So we were really impressed by that number. So, as 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.000 as is our usual want, we went and looked at 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:36.280 the Canadian Census and we found that eight hundred and 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.680 ten thousand, the number of prescriptions in that one year 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:44.960 in Ontario alone, was one tenth the entire population of Canada. 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.960 And we're like, wow, the numbers really head up. Canada 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.840 is pretty cool like that's when it really broke on us. 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.960 We're like, all right, you were a very sickly people. 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.359 We needed build better. Uh. And it is funny to 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.159 see a play out all these years later with the 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.920 marijuana clinics. It's like, it's the same thing. I got 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.159 the sis, I'm awake, I got the shakes. Oh you 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:17.480 need some marijuana. I don't eat enough. You have the 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.800 neuropaths here right, Like you can just walk in and 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.000 and talk to a dude, a neuropath, and they'll say, oh, well, 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.720 you clearly need some marijuana. So this is a very 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.879 dark time, not only for bartending as a craft because 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.320 it was just sorting to become like a legitimate thing 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:37.600 and respectable thing, but for booze period. Prohibition was bad 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.919 because there were a lot of bars, but they just 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.560 weren't legal. I think they were twice the number of 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:49.600 prohibition pars that there were legal bars. Yeah. There in 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:53.040 the US there were thirty thousand speakeasies, which was twice 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:57.119 the number of legally licensed bars before prohibition was clearly working. 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.399 So clearly prohibition was just a great idea all around, 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.360 because the mob was like, yes, come here, we can 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.280 take care of you just look for the green door 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.879 and you'll find a speakeasy. Yeah, and uh it was 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.320 bad for bartending though, because whoever the bartender was was 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:14.760 who was the guy who could get the booze, and 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.960 who could get the booze didn't necessarily know anything about booze, 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:21.360 for one, or making good drinks, and it wasn't necessarily 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.480 good booze. Like it would literally kill you or or 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.480 um strike you blind. You heard the saying abot this 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.600 will make it go blind. It's really made people go blind, 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.040 like to a lot of people. That's where the phrase 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:38.000 comes from. There was there was a batch of industrial 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.840 alcohol that I guess the US government thought was going 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:44.520 to fall into the hands of bootleggers, which it did. Um, 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:47.399 so they decided to poison it and a lot of 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:52.960 people died, and the American government was like and like 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.560 walked away. It's not it's not very much talked about. 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.720