Dry America: The Prohibition Debacle

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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