It makes perfect sense that a comedy podcast would cover this week’s topic, because prohibition was a joke.
If you’re not familiar with the story behind the bootlegging, moon shining, home-brewing chaos of 1920s America, you’ll want to listen to this week’s episode and learn all about the giant clusterf*** that was the 18th Amendment.
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In this episode:
- Prohibition Through the Ages
- The Code of Hammurabi
- Beer Bartering
- The Puritans, Pilgrims, and Alcohol
- The American Temperance Society
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Drys vs Wets
- Visitation Bands
- Carrie Nation
- The Anti-Saloon League
- Wayne Wheeler
- Wheelerism and Pressure Politics
- Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan
- Blue Mondays
- World War 1 and the War Against German Brewers
- The Food and Fuel Control Act
- The Alcoholic Blues
- The Volstead Act and an Epic Mustache
- The 18th Amendment
- Connecticut and Rhode Island, Heroes
- Woodrow Wilson's Veto Attempt
- The Conundrum of Enforcement
- Section 29
- Vine-Glo
- Warren G. Harding Flouts the Law
- Congress Flouts the Law
- Congress and the Man in the Green Hat Flout the Law
- Everyone Flouts the Law
- Smuggling, Brewing, Bootlegging, Bathtub Gin, Moonshine
- NASCAR
- Denatured Alcohol
- Al Capone
- The Stock Market Crash
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Repeal
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