Snorky was a nickname that meant "well-dressed" at the time, it was a fine nickname. He didn't want to be called scarface because he was self conscious of his scars.
I definitely thought the title was “Al Capone hid the fact that he was a mormon”. At the end of the video I thought, “where was the Mormon part?!?!?”. Who’s the moron now? (Me... the answer is me)
I mean, that's still 5 years before his death. It was discovered in 42 so I imagine a man as powerful as him could've gotten it if he really wanted it. He was just too stupid to realize he needed it.
@@JakeTakesTheCakes and When tge Name Capone is uttered I rarely think of a clinocologist.. just likw whatever your nick is i cant imagine an philosophy professor
syphilis infections can affect IQ, so it's hard to say that he's an idiot when he has an intelligence test years later showing it's below 100. 95 is within the range of average intelligence btw and it easily possible his basline IQ at a younger age was much higher.
Yep. They mention the swimming pool incident so I’m surprised that they assume that his baseline was 90 even though they tested him when syphilis had been eating away at his brain for years. When he died it was said that he had the mind of a 12 year old. Idk of any accounts of him being a moron when he was at the height of his power. A lot of assumptions were made in this telling.
At first, the prisoners at Alcatraz used to pick on him, but pretty quickly, some of the scarier more powerful prisoners put it out there that nobody should mess with him-not because he was Al Capone, but because it was like a 40-year old man picking on a dim-witted 8-year old. It was just too pitiful.
Al Capone was clever...............and fed starving people during the depression.............but he did have full blown syphillis for years at the end so yeah.........it was literally eating his brain. No other way the feds got him on anything(he literally murdered people and plenty of people knew and still he was never convicted of anything other than tax evasion.
@@lylechipperson3407 then what is the thing between anything and he? He also used to many periods in his ellipsis. An ellipsis consists of a space, 3 periods and another space. I truly think nikada vise is actually donald trump.
I’m a Psychologist. The IQ tests at the time we’re SHIT and incredibly inaccurate. He had a neurodegenerative disease, yes, but to claim that he had a 95 IQ based on an old ass test from around the time that they thought it was ok to essentially torture the mentally ill, is foolish. I am not condoning Capone, I am just pointing out that this is WRONG. Not to mention, IQ is not stagnant. I suggest someone attempt to take an early IQ test and tell me how you do. In a class of 30 students, one scored above mentally disabled, he picked random answers.
If you're a psychologist: you must be the worlds first/only one under the age of 12. No Phycologist would be engaged in this juvenile you-tube discussion!
3:06 Al Capone was one of the first ever syphilis patients to be treated with penicillin. But yeah, he still had a chance because before that he could have been treated with salvarsan, which was developed in 1908 or by a malaria fever.
Didn’t Edgar Hoover come in later? If I remember my times correctly he is just referring to HH wanting Capone to be locked up? EH comes in during the 50s and 60s right? And this is like the 20s
Capone was a brilliant planner and organizer. He could delegate authority over his beer business quite effectively and knew how to streamline the business. He was running a billion dollar (todays money) empire when he was in his 20s and early thirties and it proved Capone was actually a far better business man than a criminal.
@@alexanderbrambila8274 It was far more sophisticated than just breaking legs as his competitors were also multi million dollar organizations local and National. Capone had set up everything from brewery quality control to beer truck repair. It wasn’t just a card game where you break your opponents legs it was a major business equivalent to billions of revenue in today’s money. If you’ve ever ready any of his interviews he was extremely sharp for his age
Saying an IQ of 90 makes him a moron is pretty dumb, while an IQ of 90 means slightly below average, he is still well within the normal IQ range and would be perfectly normal. While I realize it’s meant to be a comedy and historical accuracy isn’t that strict, it sends a bad message when your entire skit is based off a false premise.
Yeah, and it even sounded like the actual score was 95? In which case, that's def. not a big enough margin to call him anything except for "normal" or "average". Even today's iq-tests (that are better than they were) are not that sensitive that they can give really valid reliable information about someone's abilities within the 95-110 or so range. (When I studied this, our professor did say that kids tend to start predictably having trouble with certain school subjects somewhere in the 80-85 range.) But it's kinda funny how such a large proportion of us tend to assume on some level that we're in the above-average group - even if just by a little bit. I'll admit that I do it too, even though objectively there is evidence from my life pointing in both directions. But like, come on, I studied psychometrics at a university at one point, I'm clearly on the smart side no? Meanwhile I also JUST watched a joke video believing for a good two minutes that footage of a hippo's butt played backwards was footage of a giant anteater species. Filing that under "outliar fluke data, invalid due to sleep deprivation, let's never think about this again".
Saying someone is a moron based on any IQ score is bad Because IQ doesnt measure some innate intelligence if such a concept even exists it certainly cant be measured
@@bad-orange10294 The term "moron" was originally applied to people with an IQ of 51-70, whereas an "imbecile" had an IQ of 26-50, and an "idiot" had an IQ of 0-25.
Machine Gun Jack mcgurn owned the Green Mill. It was his crew that did all the heavy work that made Capone so successful. Capone didn't need a brain, he had Paul Ricca. As a matter of fact it was his own guys in Chicago who had him put away because they were the ones who were doing all the thinking for the Chicago mob.
@@jamestown8398 Man it's soooo hard to google: "The study began in 1932, when syphilis was a widespread problem and there was no safe and effective treatment. The study was designed to measure the progression of untreated syphilis. By 1947, penicillin had been shown to be an effective cure for early syphilis and was becoming widely used to treat the disease." WAS. BECOMING. By the time he was already dead.
In my hometown in Florida there used to be greyhound and horse racing tracks that Al Capone would go to when he was laying low from the cops in New York. My parents landlady is very old and from a super wealthy and powerful local family, and she used to tell me how everyone at the races knew who Capone was and to avoid him so you could stay out of danger. She said one time he started hitting on her and her older sister and they went along with it out of fear, but that it was probably the most scared she'd ever been in her life.
When the psych nurse while looking at the notes on her clipboard said, " He's got a 95 IQ; he's not that smart. He's this big weird F+*&%*g MOOK" I lost it!!!
Drunk History is a show where people study about a person in history. Then they get drunk and tell a story about the person, so it's pretty understandable they mess up some information.
@@inuyasha13k But the part they messed up this time is the central part of the story, it's the title of the video! With an IQ of 95, and that was apparently his IQ, he was not a moron, just a normal guy who did stupid shit, and may or may not have gotten brain damage from syphilis.
Anytime I enter a place with a seating arrangement, I use the term 'Al Capone Seat' to explain to my family/whoever I'm with why I'm being so weird about where I want to sit. I have PTSD and it helps calm me down to be able to see as much of the space as possible, but failing all else I want to see the entrance/exit.
He and the other ruthless criminals in Chicago wanted nothing to do with politics or politicians other than owning them and telling them what to do. Also, they knew that politicians are not trustworthy.
@Erasmus the blasphemous Agreed, most people forget he took the damn fucking test after having beeing in prison for about 10+ years and having had Syphillis since he was in his... ufff, mid or late twenties? So considering how late stage syphillis basicly turns your brain into mush one can only assume how smart he was in his young years. Also this video omits at the start how he HELPED building up the Gang as the head-honcho's right hand man and only taking over after the boss got cold feet after a few attempts on his life. It was not as easy as to 'just roll in' into Chicago, but it was a question of wheter to expand the buisness and come into conflict with other gangs, or to back down and be happy with his piece of cake. Ultimately it was a bold move and the first step that ultimately lead to the downfall of the whole thing. (as the exceeding gang violence lead to more innocents getting caught in the cross-fire and hence stoking public sentiment against Gangsters, especially after the Prohibition got lifted and alcohol started to flow legally again. )
@@HerveBoisde yeah... I'm aware 100 is average. I was making a joke saying even smart people are dumb. I also made up the 90% of ppl are morons "stat". It's probably closer to 100% of ppl are morons. And ur comment is kinda furthering my case
Penicillin wasn't first used until 1942, 11 years after Capone was convicted. It wasn't really an option. The usual treatment for syphilis before that involved mercury, arsenic, and other things. All of them were of questionable efficacy and they all had tons of nasty side effects such as brain damage and infertility.
I really love this format where someone is telling a story and then actors are reenacting it, sort of similar to Charlie Murphy's hollywood stories and Dave Chapelle . I would love to find more like these, does anyone have any suggestions?😂
Y’know I feel really weird that when I first watched this video I had NO idea who Tommy Blancha was and was embarrassed it find out years after the fact that he co-created Metalocalypse and the voice of Murderface, Toki, and Dr. Rockzo among others. Which then put the image in my head of Murderface and/or Toki doing an episode for the Metalocalypse universe’s version of the show that goes off the rails absurdly quickly
Money... power.... people assume it takes a great deal of brains to attain these things. It doesn’t. It requires tenacity. And luck. Lots of luck. Single-mindedness definitely helps. A line from my favorite movie always comes to mind when thinking about so-called “great Americans”. Bernstein: “That man was the biggest darn fool I ever met.” Reporter: “He made an awful lot of money.” Bernstein: “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money... if all you want is to make a lot of money.”
Al Capone still has a tree that he had planted outside of his hospital room when he was hospitalized at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore Maryland when he was there for syphilis treatment.
Capone, wasn't an idiot. He was the beneficiary of the times. Johnny Torrio steps down as the head of one of the most powerful gangs in Chicago. Tired from the ethnic wars between the Italian and Irish gangs and having survived a near assassination, he sets up what's now known as the "Chicago Outfit" which exists today. When Torrio steps down; Capone inherits the leadership as being his protege. Now keep in mind, most gangsters aren't that bright to begin with, which is why they get into crime in the first place. For the most part, to rise to the top, you have to be tougher and more cunning than everybody else. Which means a greater propensity to murder somebody. If not for the enactment of Prohibition (Read up on how it happened here: www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/about/) organized crime may never have risen above the level of petty criminality, loansharking and protection racketeering. But with the high demand for alcohol, it injected a source of revenue that woudn't be seen again until the introduction of heroin and the cocaine business in Colombia and the rise of the cartels.
Al Capone's legal front was selling furniture, his business card said he was a furniture salesman. Considering how much money he had, he was the most successful furniture salesman in the history of the country
Ronald Reagan still had his full mental capacity five years after he left office. Biden is running for president with half of his brain destroyed by Alzheimer's.
Capone wasn't as dumb as he was portrayed here. Little known fact, before All Capone was recruited by the Chicago mob, he was an accountant in Baltimore and trying to just be a legit family man. Johnny Torrio was asked by All to be his son's godfather, and it was at Sonny, Al's sons baptism that All was asked to come join them in Chicago.
To be fair, there are some episodes that are incredibly accurate. So much that history professors show their class those segments.
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Listen... I'm... I'm guessing I'm new to this, but I haven't checked how new and how old-fashioned this might sound, but... They're lip-synching an actual conversation... That's not new or anything, but it's so well done... Everyone's great... This is the best thing I watched today, so far, and Celtic just won.
Actually he only got a 95 IQ exam AFTER his time in prison. Which is after his mind had deteriorated to that of a 12 year old, and BEFORE penicillin became available. AND...and. Snorky was actually a nickname his friends gave him I believe.
Boyle’s life really goes off the rails without Jake
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Made my day!!!
Or being a cop was his cover all along
😭😭😭
I'm dead 🤣
Snorky was a nickname that meant "well-dressed" at the time, it was a fine nickname. He didn't want to be called scarface because he was self conscious of his scars.
Source? I smell Snork!
'Scarface? Is it because of the scar? Wow, okay...'
What a cute nickname 😂
Makes sense. Scarface only sounds cool today because of the movie, otherwise if you take it literally it definitely sounds like an insult.
Just the way I like it..
"Why do all your characters have STD's Charles?" "Cuz they are living life"
Exactly my thoughts..🤣🤣
Damn it Boyle
I mean most sexually ative adult have or had HPV at some point in their lives.
Nine nine
So tell me why am I bleeding?
I definitely thought the title was “Al Capone hid the fact that he was a mormon”. At the end of the video I thought, “where was the Mormon part?!?!?”. Who’s the moron now? (Me... the answer is me)
Moron!! Hahaha
beautiful.
That's how well he hid it
Lol me too!
Yeah I feel ripped off.
I never realized how many syphilis experts there are, and I was shocked to see them all in this comment section.
First hand experience
Google lol
GOOGLE makes you an expert at something!? Aha ha ha ha!
@@reppinseattle7974 According to the internet it most certainly does
Whereas you are relying on first hand experience.
Syphilis, it all started with a simple kiss, then Capone found it hard to piss.
And after awhile the stupidity was hard to miss.
But atleast he lived in bliss
I sang this in the tune of 'Yesterday' by the Beatles.
Yeah, I've had all kinds of sexual diseases too, only the curable kind funnily enough. And aids.
This comment works surprisingly well if sung in the style of the Sodomy song from Meet the Feebles
@@IFoundGodInEminem lmao it works so well
Al ain’t special, I hide the fact that I’m a moron everyday
Fr 👏🏾
Cats out of the bag now bro
Oh yeah?! I've chosen to embrace it. That's on confidence ✨
Wise and introspective words
Me too lol
"What are you gonna do?"
"Im gonna stop thinking about it"
The millenial health plan
What are you going to do?
Nothing, can't afford it. I hope it goes away.
millenials are 30-40 now...
I think you mean gen Z. Millenials are y... And you are Probably x, they just complain a lot...
corbeau To be fair, there’s a lot to complain about
Sad af people don’t realize most of the work force just has their fingers crossed no insurance and no money
I think you're confused, we want health care.
It wasn't because he was stupid that Capone didn't take penicillin. It was because they didn't have penicillin for public use until 1942.
A LOT of people had syphillis. It was basically more rampant than AIDS in the 80's.
There were still treatments for it
I mean, that's still 5 years before his death. It was discovered in 42 so I imagine a man as powerful as him could've gotten it if he really wanted it. He was just too stupid to realize he needed it.
@@JakeTakesTheCakes just like youre too stupid to realize something probably... me too.. most of us if not all. Indeed. Bom
@@JakeTakesTheCakes and When tge Name Capone is uttered I rarely think of a clinocologist.. just likw whatever your nick is i cant imagine an philosophy professor
"Why do all your characters have STDs?" "Because they're living life!" Boyle, Brooklyn 99
"Directed by: R. Crumb"
@@into.the.wood.chipper. I don’t get how that’s related to anything, but cheers cuz I got a friend into Crumb cartoons the other night!
syphilis infections can affect IQ, so it's hard to say that he's an idiot when he has an intelligence test years later showing it's below 100. 95 is within the range of average intelligence btw and it easily possible his basline IQ at a younger age was much higher.
Yep. They mention the swimming pool incident so I’m surprised that they assume that his baseline was 90 even though they tested him when syphilis had been eating away at his brain for years. When he died it was said that he had the mind of a 12 year old. Idk of any accounts of him being a moron when he was at the height of his power. A lot of assumptions were made in this telling.
Kent Contreras what’s funny is that the guy telling the story probably has an IQ lower than 90 judging by the way he speaks
@@alexacosta2140 you're objectively terrible at assessing intelligence. just letting you know, bub
colin r 😂😂👌
@@alexacosta2140 you know the whole premise of the show requires that the story teller drinks right?
At first, the prisoners at Alcatraz used to pick on him, but pretty quickly, some of the scarier more powerful prisoners put it out there that nobody should mess with him-not because he was Al Capone, but because it was like a 40-year old man picking on a dim-witted 8-year old. It was just too pitiful.
I can believe it.
Lies
That doesn't sound credible.
Now that would be worth witnessing.
Al Capone was clever...............and fed starving people during the depression.............but he did have full blown syphillis for years at the end so yeah.........it was literally eating his brain. No other way the feds got him on anything(he literally murdered people and plenty of people knew and still he was never convicted of anything other than tax evasion.
Close your parenthesis. Or do you have syphilis too?
@@colthenderson7839 to this day he is still adding words to in-between his parenthesis
@@NonsensicalSpudz the ramblings of a syphilitic brain.
@@colthenderson7839 there is no parenthesis in that comment lmao
@@lylechipperson3407 then what is the thing between anything and he? He also used to many periods in his ellipsis. An ellipsis consists of a space, 3 periods and another space. I truly think nikada vise is actually donald trump.
Tommy’s dog is so chill. At 2:56 he’s like an eternal chill armrest for his owner. Just sitting and staring. Good boy.
That's exactly what Bill Gates said when asked if he would ever want to run for president.
Too bad Trump didn't think the same.
@@mrowe2821 th-cam.com/video/O5VEjF1uhYo/w-d-xo.html
Interesting, I hadn't seen that clip before.
Billy G is a racketeer just like Capone
@@mrowe2821 trump wasn't as successful as Capone or Gates.
"I'm gonna call you - the enforcer"
"I want my name to be Spaghetti"
ATHF
Tonight.... you
@@taylorthesailor2934 "Spaghetti NO"
YOU!....TONIGHT!
When you bring me on, can u introduce me as spaghetti?
I’m a Psychologist. The IQ tests at the time we’re SHIT and incredibly inaccurate. He had a neurodegenerative disease, yes, but to claim that he had a 95 IQ based on an old ass test from around the time that they thought it was ok to essentially torture the mentally ill, is foolish. I am not condoning Capone, I am just pointing out that this is WRONG. Not to mention, IQ is not stagnant. I suggest someone attempt to take an early IQ test and tell me how you do. In a class of 30 students, one scored above mentally disabled, he picked random answers.
You don’t sound like a psychologist…
You're not a psychologist. You took a few low-level courses at community college. Clown.
@@mattfranco23
I dunno……
I could definitely see Satan being a psychologist. 😂
If you're a psychologist: you must be the worlds first/only one under the age of 12. No Phycologist would be engaged in this juvenile you-tube discussion!
when you're also drunk watching this, it just becomes history.
3:06 Al Capone was one of the first ever syphilis patients to be treated with penicillin. But yeah, he still had a chance because before that he could have been treated with salvarsan, which was developed in 1908 or by a malaria fever.
"what is it?"
"Nothing"!
"What are you going to do about it?"
"I'm just not going to think about it."
"Good idea!"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Literally only clicked to see Will Sasso
[Bring back TMP (Ten Minute Podcast)]
Jonas King boy I gotta take a shit, if u want stone cold Steve Austin to take a big ass dump gimme a hell yeah
@@andrewcampbell4092 OH HELL YEAAAA!
Andrew Campbell
LEMONS?
Me too
Herbert Hoover was a president. J Edgar Hoover was in charge of the FBI
Mans was drunk
Didn’t Edgar Hoover come in later? If I remember my times correctly he is just referring to HH wanting Capone to be locked up? EH comes in during the 50s and 60s right? And this is like the 20s
@@leeoswald5643 Prohibition started in 1930, J. Edgar Hoover became one of the founders of the FBI. He gained director status around 1935.
That’s why this show is called Drunk History
@@leeoswald5643 Edgar began working for the justice department during World War 1. He became director of what later became the FBI in 1924.
Capone was a brilliant planner and organizer. He could delegate authority over his beer business quite effectively and knew how to streamline the business. He was running a billion dollar (todays money) empire when he was in his 20s and early thirties and it proved Capone was actually a far better business man than a criminal.
Well it isn't that hard to be a businessman when you can just break your competitors legs.
@@alexanderbrambila8274 It was far more sophisticated than just breaking legs as his competitors were also multi million dollar organizations local and National. Capone had set up everything from brewery quality control to beer truck repair. It wasn’t just a card game where you break your opponents legs it was a major business equivalent to billions of revenue in today’s money. If you’ve ever ready any of his interviews he was extremely sharp for his age
You don't have to be smart to be a business man.
@@Cosmicfury100 Correct! You just have to be ruthless - empathy and intelligence go hand-in-hand; as do psychopathy and "success" heh
Cool
In reality Al was putting his clothes on backwards in prison thats what prompt them to believe he was sick.
Oh man that just sad
Capone's timeline is nuts
Age 20: Arrives in Chicago
Age 26: Takes over Johnny Torrio's operations
Age 32: Convicted of tax evasion
Age 48: Dead
Saying an IQ of 90 makes him a moron is pretty dumb, while an IQ of 90 means slightly below average, he is still well within the normal IQ range and would be perfectly normal. While I realize it’s meant to be a comedy and historical accuracy isn’t that strict, it sends a bad message when your entire skit is based off a false premise.
Yeah, and it even sounded like the actual score was 95? In which case, that's def. not a big enough margin to call him anything except for "normal" or "average".
Even today's iq-tests (that are better than they were) are not that sensitive that they can give really valid reliable information about someone's abilities within the 95-110 or so range.
(When I studied this, our professor did say that kids tend to start predictably having trouble with certain school subjects somewhere in the 80-85 range.)
But it's kinda funny how such a large proportion of us tend to assume on some level that we're in the above-average group - even if just by a little bit. I'll admit that I do it too, even though objectively there is evidence from my life pointing in both directions. But like, come on, I studied psychometrics at a university at one point, I'm clearly on the smart side no?
Meanwhile I also JUST watched a joke video believing for a good two minutes that footage of a hippo's butt played backwards was footage of a giant anteater species. Filing that under "outliar fluke data, invalid due to sleep deprivation, let's never think about this again".
@@Suzanne4415 were you drunk when you wrote this comment?
Saying someone is a moron based on any IQ score is bad
Because IQ doesnt measure some innate intelligence
if such a concept even exists it certainly cant be measured
@@bad-orange10294 The term "moron" was originally applied to people with an IQ of 51-70, whereas an "imbecile" had an IQ of 26-50, and an "idiot" had an IQ of 0-25.
Wait this was supposed to be a comedy?
2:53 Is no one else going to talk about how adorable this doggo is
eJo was tailor-made to play Capone in this sketch.
James Scarpellino “Jo” is a girls name, add the e foo
😂😂 fantastic edit.
The redheaded nurse sold it with her facial expressions.
I like how he prefaces Al Capone being dumb with a story of an elaborate tunnel system which seems kind of smart.
The guy has clearly only hear rumors. Didnt seem to know much at all.
Machine Gun Jack mcgurn owned the Green Mill. It was his crew that did all the heavy work that made Capone so successful. Capone didn't need a brain, he had Paul Ricca.
As a matter of fact it was his own guys in Chicago who had him put away because they were the ones who were doing all the thinking for the Chicago mob.
@@Scorch428 Yeah. He spent most of the story calling Capone names and making fun of his appearance and brain condition. 😒
"Hey Al, how about one penicillin shot?"
"Nope!"
@My Bias Is South Korea’s Best BootyPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, and Al Capone died in 1947.
@@jamestown8398 No, it wasn't being used until 1942.
@@MADguyfps That still would leave five years for him to use it and prevent further mental deterioration.
@@jamestown8398 Damage was already done, there is no further deterioration left
@@jamestown8398 Man it's soooo hard to google: "The study began in 1932, when syphilis was a widespread problem and there was no safe and effective treatment. The study was designed to measure the progression of untreated syphilis. By 1947, penicillin had been shown to be an effective cure for early syphilis and was becoming widely used to treat the disease." WAS. BECOMING. By the time he was already dead.
@2:53 The dog was like "Man...how much longer is this going to take? I really wanna get back to bed and chew on my toys..."
Snorky actually is a slang term for back in the day that actually basically means "Spiffy" or "Fancy".
It still sounds silly.
"Snorky" is the "totally tubular" of the 30s.
In my hometown in Florida there used to be greyhound and horse racing tracks that Al Capone would go to when he was laying low from the cops in New York.
My parents landlady is very old and from a super wealthy and powerful local family, and she used to tell me how everyone at the races knew who Capone was and to avoid him so you could stay out of danger.
She said one time he started hitting on her and her older sister and they went along with it out of fear, but that it was probably the most scared she'd ever been in her life.
Boyle and Kevin together .
I repeat
Boyle and Kevin together .
edit :
I know it's not Kevin,
It's Ashton Kutcher.
When the psych nurse while looking at the notes on her clipboard said, " He's got a 95 IQ; he's not that smart. He's this big weird F+*&%*g MOOK" I lost it!!!
Uhhh an IQ of 90 is quite average, within one standard deviation. 70% of humans have an IQ between 85 and 115.
iq was also lower then. they have to shift it every few years
Yes, BUT 75% of this comment section believe they are above average.
Drunk History is a show where people study about a person in history. Then they get drunk and tell a story about the person, so it's pretty understandable they mess up some information.
@@inuyasha13k But the part they messed up this time is the central part of the story, it's the title of the video! With an IQ of 95, and that was apparently his IQ, he was not a moron, just a normal guy who did stupid shit, and may or may not have gotten brain damage from syphilis.
What about 85-100
Eh... unfortunately 90 IQ is considered within the range of "normalcy;" 80 - 119.
It's changed since then, I believe.
Then again my IQ is like 12 so
Ah, yes, yes. Indeed.
But can you tell me what's a phlogiston?
Anytime I enter a place with a seating arrangement, I use the term 'Al Capone Seat' to explain to my family/whoever I'm with why I'm being so weird about where I want to sit.
I have PTSD and it helps calm me down to be able to see as much of the space as possible, but failing all else I want to see the entrance/exit.
Can we have drunk history back, I can't believe this show got cancelled.
I thought he got murdered in prison. Never realised he was actually released due to his failing health.
Can we just agree the best part of the video is the doggo?
FYI; syphilis does does not cause urethral discharge, more likely gonorrhea
why not both?
@@Gwright9000 its possible, but he did not mention gonorrhea.
His mates called him snorky because in that time it meant snappy dresser/ well dressed
Crime doesn't pay unless you are a politician; he should have took the chance when he had it.
He and the other ruthless criminals in Chicago wanted nothing to do with politics or politicians other than owning them and telling them what to do.
Also, they knew that politicians are not trustworthy.
Why is Boyle here
more importantly, where is Nikolaj?
NIKolaj
Probably one of boyle's ancestors.
He's undercover
95 IQ is low for someone as successful as Capone, but it's just a little below average.
Yeah but 90% of ppl are morons. Being above average iq doesn't mean ur not a moron
@Erasmus the blasphemous Agreed, most people forget he took the damn fucking test after having beeing in prison for about 10+ years and having had Syphillis since he was in his... ufff, mid or late twenties?
So considering how late stage syphillis basicly turns your brain into mush one can only assume how smart he was in his young years. Also this video omits at the start how he HELPED building up the Gang as the head-honcho's right hand man and only taking over after the boss got cold feet after a few attempts on his life.
It was not as easy as to 'just roll in' into Chicago, but it was a question of wheter to expand the buisness and come into conflict with other gangs, or to back down and be happy with his piece of cake.
Ultimately it was a bold move and the first step that ultimately lead to the downfall of the whole thing. (as the exceeding gang violence lead to more innocents getting caught in the cross-fire and hence stoking public sentiment against Gangsters, especially after the Prohibition got lifted and alcohol started to flow legally again. )
Taylor .Koellish actually 100 IQ is average so your stats are off
@@HerveBoisde yeah... I'm aware 100 is average. I was making a joke saying even smart people are dumb. I also made up the 90% of ppl are morons "stat". It's probably closer to 100% of ppl are morons. And ur comment is kinda furthering my case
Most people cluster around 100 IQ and a small minority of people are literally morons or extreme geniuses.
I thought he died in prison, guess you really do learn something every day.
I think you're the only person on these comments to spell "every day" correctly!
I also thought he'd died in prison
Penicillin wasn't first used until 1942, 11 years after Capone was convicted. It wasn't really an option. The usual treatment for syphilis before that involved mercury, arsenic, and other things. All of them were of questionable efficacy and they all had tons of nasty side effects such as brain damage and infertility.
He actually did get treated with penicillin in 1942 (five years before he died) but his syphilis was too far advanced and the damage was done.
Will Sasso and Tommy Blacha together is absolute gold.
2:10 Judge for Chicago and Mayor of Tiddy City. What cant this man do.
I really love this format where someone is telling a story and then actors are reenacting it, sort of similar to Charlie Murphy's hollywood stories and Dave Chapelle . I would love to find more like these, does anyone have any suggestions?😂
There are lots from this series
Y’know I feel really weird that when I first watched this video I had NO idea who Tommy Blancha was and was embarrassed it find out years after the fact that he co-created Metalocalypse and the voice of Murderface, Toki, and Dr. Rockzo among others. Which then put the image in my head of Murderface and/or Toki doing an episode for the Metalocalypse universe’s version of the show that goes off the rails absurdly quickly
95 iq is not that dumb, it is slightly below average... Right?
Bram Ten haken
IQ is BS
But yeah its normalized so 100 is the average
Money... power.... people assume it takes a great deal of brains to attain these things. It doesn’t. It requires tenacity. And luck. Lots of luck. Single-mindedness definitely helps. A line from my favorite movie always comes to mind when thinking about so-called “great Americans”.
Bernstein: “That man was the biggest darn fool I ever met.”
Reporter: “He made an awful lot of money.”
Bernstein: “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money... if all you want is to make a lot of money.”
He was called Snorky before he ever became famous lol that's what they called him when he was just starting out lol
Not crediting all the actors in the description is a crime
This one is stacked with some of my underground favorites that I can't name
But, this episode was tight
This is still the single funniest one, to me.
"What is it?
- NOTHING!!!"
I made the mistake of first watching this at work one day. Fighting not to laugh out loud actually hurt.
This is one of my favorites.
The nine nine should definitely get Boyle a babysitter for his off time
“I wanna be called Snorky.” Hahahahahaha gets me every time I watch this
2:51 that dog is is not thrilled to be getting pets with the hand of the guy talking about Syphilis 😑
I'm parched. I could use some Sunny Dee
“Hes got a 95 IQ, hes not that smart, hes a big weird fucking mook” dying 😂😂
2:29 Why does his IQ keep jumping from 95 to 90 and back again?
Alcohol.
Maybe it was 92.5.
Joe Lo Truglio is an underrated comedy icon
I see Charles Boyle, I click.
As someone who researched the mafia, Al Capone just coming to Chicago was incorrect, and his trial. He had it good until the judge switched the jury
That was oscar level acting by Joe Lo Truglio.
Al Capone still has a tree that he had planted outside of his hospital room when he was hospitalized at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore Maryland when he was there for syphilis treatment.
"Literally became like a billionaire. The guy was like 90 IQ. pretty weird. he was the most powerful man." History repeats itself lol
You know, I had no idea syphilis could do that to a person! lol
I use to do landscaping at his once Star Island mansion off the Ventian causeway linking Miami to Miami Beach. It was odd to say the least 🏝️.
Real Thing I’ve passed by there. Really cool to see all the celebrity homes
I never thought I would see Boyle like this😂
Bless comedy central for 💩 like this here.
no
Damexx0707 yes
Gggg hahahaha, I think we need to meet in person already at this point. 😂
We’ve met literally like 4x’s. Lol.
Fuck Comedy Central. Pay Dave or give him his show back!
3:10 reminded me of Superbad 😭
Do not disrespect Charles Boyle like that!
2:20 when you thought you were first cut and someone else goes home.
Capone, wasn't an idiot. He was the beneficiary of the times. Johnny Torrio steps down as the head of one of the most powerful gangs in Chicago. Tired from the ethnic wars between the Italian and Irish gangs and having survived a near assassination, he sets up what's now known as the "Chicago Outfit" which exists today. When Torrio steps down; Capone inherits the leadership as being his protege.
Now keep in mind, most gangsters aren't that bright to begin with, which is why they get into crime in the first place. For the most part, to rise to the top, you have to be tougher and more cunning than everybody else. Which means a greater propensity to murder somebody.
If not for the enactment of Prohibition (Read up on how it happened here: www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/about/) organized crime may never have risen above the level of petty criminality, loansharking and protection racketeering. But with the high demand for alcohol, it injected a source of revenue that woudn't be seen again until the introduction of heroin and the cocaine business in Colombia and the rise of the cartels.
Capone used to hang around my town, they used to call it little Reno. Supposedly one of his cars is in a cave down by the i&m canal
Just found this series. GOD DAMN I love the actors perfectly matching the drunken pace of the hosts!!
Now you know why even the Joker doesn't mess with the IRS
Godammit I can't view Joe as a different characters he's too iconic to Charles Boyle
"Hey you can get a shot"
"Naaahh man"
Hahahanaha
Charles Boyle ? .. *instant click*
Anyone here after watching the Tom Hardy's Al Capone trailer?
I’m a little sad they didn’t talk about his time in Alcatraz or Eastern State Penitentiary.
Al Capone's legal front was selling furniture, his business card said he was a furniture salesman.
Considering how much money he had, he was the most successful furniture salesman in the history of the country
This comment section is home to a STRONG show of support from every syphilis authority on planet earth
Isn't it al capone who ran over one of McLovin's friends with his car?
Thought FBI dude on the right was Tarantino for a second.
I love how Al Capone and Ronald Reagan both ended their lives doing moronic things in their pools.
Ronald Reagan still had his full mental capacity five years after he left office. Biden is running for president with half of his brain destroyed by Alzheimer's.
Capone wasn't as dumb as he was portrayed here. Little known fact, before All Capone was recruited by the Chicago mob, he was an accountant in Baltimore and trying to just be a legit family man. Johnny Torrio was asked by All to be his son's godfather, and it was at Sonny, Al's sons baptism that All was asked to come join them in Chicago.
Didn't know Kevin Malone worked for Al Capone 0:35
Do better
Lots of people take these "History" lessons way too seriously
To be fair, there are some episodes that are incredibly accurate. So much that history professors show their class those segments.
Listen... I'm... I'm guessing I'm new to this, but I haven't checked how new and how old-fashioned this might sound, but... They're lip-synching an actual conversation... That's not new or anything, but it's so well done... Everyone's great... This is the best thing I watched today, so far, and Celtic just won.
everyone: blah blah blah syphilis blah blah
me: dog.
She is the wind beneath my wings 😆
Snorky? Like the Snorks television show where they lived on the ocean floor? LMAO
Actually he only got a 95 IQ exam AFTER his time in prison. Which is after his mind had deteriorated to that of a 12 year old, and BEFORE penicillin became available. AND...and. Snorky was actually a nickname his friends gave him I believe.
Why is the person who plays Charles Boyle in Brooklyn nine-nine pretending to be alcapone ?
Joe Lo Truglio
Plus it's comedy central
I'mgonnashitinyacheerios
Because he’s an actor. That’s what they do; pretend to be people they’re not.