Dry America: The Prohibition Debacle Midnight Facts for Insomniacs

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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