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Episode 328: No Bourbon, No Scotch and No Beer (Pt 2 of Just Say No, America)
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Episode 328: No Bourbon, No Scotch and No Beer Pt 2 of Just Say No America
This week Host Dave Bledsoe demands a national prohibition on his bar tabs, only to be voted down by the bartender with extreme prejudice. (Again) On the show this week, we talk about how Prohibition was more about keeping immigrants and minorities in their place rather than saving them from demon alcohol. (Are you shocked? You shouldn’t be)
Along the way we learn about Dave’s grandpa running moonshine in the mountains of Tennessee and why that makes Dave think he should run a distillery. (It doesn’t and he shouldn’t) Then we dive right into the history of how Prohibition became the law of the land and how the same tactics are being used today. After that we look at how all this not drinking impacted our most precious national resource: rich people. (Short answer not at all, longer answer, it made them more money!) Finally we examine the connection between the Noble Cause of Prohibition and keeping immigrants, minorities and the poor in their place. (The Venn Diagram is a perfect circle.)
Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Bathtub Gin, the small batch artisanal gin that tastes like it was made in a Queens used car lot bathroom, because it was. We open the show with newsreel footage of the government taking down the bootleggers and close with Larry Lacerte reading Dave’s bar tabs.
Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense
The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast
The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/
Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast
The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music: https://youtu.be/XNmk_uK05dY
We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/
Citations Needed:
Wayne B. Wheeler: The Man Who Turned Off the Taps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wayne-b-wheeler-the-man-who-turned-off-the-taps-14783512/
Anti-Saloon League Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Saloon_League
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Prohibition as Class Warfare
https://offtheleash.net/2017/12/19/prohibition-as-class-warfare/
The Chemist’s War The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
More Class Warfare: The Real Point of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
Xenophobia, Racism and Classism: The Sinister Roots of America’s Prohibition
https://www.winemag.com/2021/03/08/history-american-prohibition/
Uncited Additional Reading:
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-road-to-prohibition/why-prohibition-happened/
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-prohibition-1779250
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216414/
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/alcohol-prohibition-was-failure
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies
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518 episodes
Manage episode 301132519 series 2825467
Episode 328: No Bourbon, No Scotch and No Beer Pt 2 of Just Say No America
This week Host Dave Bledsoe demands a national prohibition on his bar tabs, only to be voted down by the bartender with extreme prejudice. (Again) On the show this week, we talk about how Prohibition was more about keeping immigrants and minorities in their place rather than saving them from demon alcohol. (Are you shocked? You shouldn’t be)
Along the way we learn about Dave’s grandpa running moonshine in the mountains of Tennessee and why that makes Dave think he should run a distillery. (It doesn’t and he shouldn’t) Then we dive right into the history of how Prohibition became the law of the land and how the same tactics are being used today. After that we look at how all this not drinking impacted our most precious national resource: rich people. (Short answer not at all, longer answer, it made them more money!) Finally we examine the connection between the Noble Cause of Prohibition and keeping immigrants, minorities and the poor in their place. (The Venn Diagram is a perfect circle.)
Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Bathtub Gin, the small batch artisanal gin that tastes like it was made in a Queens used car lot bathroom, because it was. We open the show with newsreel footage of the government taking down the bootleggers and close with Larry Lacerte reading Dave’s bar tabs.
Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense
The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast
The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/
Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast
The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music: https://youtu.be/XNmk_uK05dY
We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/
Citations Needed:
Wayne B. Wheeler: The Man Who Turned Off the Taps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wayne-b-wheeler-the-man-who-turned-off-the-taps-14783512/
Anti-Saloon League Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Saloon_League
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Prohibition as Class Warfare
https://offtheleash.net/2017/12/19/prohibition-as-class-warfare/
The Chemist’s War The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
More Class Warfare: The Real Point of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
Xenophobia, Racism and Classism: The Sinister Roots of America’s Prohibition
https://www.winemag.com/2021/03/08/history-american-prohibition/
Uncited Additional Reading:
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-road-to-prohibition/why-prohibition-happened/
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-prohibition-1779250
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216414/
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/alcohol-prohibition-was-failure
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
518 episodes
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