Fun fact, NASCAR technically started because of Prohibition. The people that would transport alcohol from one place to the other would make alterations to their cars so they would be able to quickly escape the police if needed. Pretty soon contests were made for these drivers to determine who had the fastest car, and they got so popular that they became more organized races, and on actual tracks. Much more interesting origin story than F1
This is.... maybe 33% true. It's a great story that NASCAR used, and there were moonshine runners in NASCAR, but the beach race was the catalyst and modified stock cars popped up everywhere east of the Mississippi as far north as New England immediately after WWII. It was a confluence of events with a semi-mythical origin story, and it probably owes as much to northern horse racing dirt tracks as it does moonshiners in a farm field. A bigger influence was probably the large return of young men from WWII trained on high performance machinery. That's what really drove auto racing of all kinds in the US in the late 40s and early 50's.
@@SAVikingSA You might be right, but shine runners in the Carolinas and Tennessee did indeed lessen the weight of their cars to evade police and have competitions between eachother. Stock car racing has its origins at least in part here. NASCAR itself wasn't a direct result of this, but an indirect result of the popularization of stock car races in the US and (As you said) the increase in men capable of operating such machinery.
Nascar is stock car racing so it has nothing to do with alterations to the cars. Cars were altered to be faster during prohibition but nascar is literally the opposite, they are supposed to be uniform. Nascar was inspired by early races between bootleggers though.
my grandma was born to German immigrants in Syracuse NY in 1920. Her next door neighbors were Italian immigrants. My grandma's parents would brew their own beer in their house. And they'd trade some of it for wine brewed by their Italian neighbors.
Thats pretty cool tbh. He was around the same age as my great grandpa and i wish i couldve heard some of my grandpas stories. But by the time i was old enough (to at least) remember stories he was getting very close to the end and struggled to speak and do anything.
*Fun Fact:* Lynchburg Tennessee, which is located in, and is the county seat of, Moore County Tennessee, is home to the *Jack Daniel's Distillery,* despite Moore County itself being a dry county. So, you cannot legally buy *Jack Daniel's* in the city where it is made.
They're definitely one of the best channels on TH-cam frfr! I mean its such a great format to teach people history, but in a very entertaining, yet simplified way. It's amazing!
@@MyMonsterguy I was gonna say them as well, but since we are in their comments I kinda assumed it would be something that didn't even need to be said lmao!
My great grandad used to take the "scenic route" back to his house from where I lived to show me this place in northern Iowa to point out a rock cave where bootleggers like his brother made moonshine during that nonsense. You could see an opening into the rock and I still go out of my way to see it as I laugh every time
A full shot?! damn! I remember having my mom put a couple of drops of whiskey on her finger tip and then touching my gums with it when I was teething. But a full shot is a lot for a kid!
Weed is only a gateway drug in the sense that when you buy it illegal from a dealer, a lot of those dealers are also pushing harder drugs. It's legal in 15 states here now in America and it has done nothing other than bring in more tax revenue for the states.
If anything, tobacco is a gateway drug. Don't think I would have been intrested in smoking weed if I never got into smoking with tobacco. The jump from one to the other wasn't too massive as I was already use to the act of smoking. Ultimatly, the only gateway into drugs is avalibility.
Yea i wouldn't say has brought nothing but tax revenue. States that have legalized weed have seen like double triple in driving while under the influence related crashes n deaths. I'm Pro legalization for sure but it's not all rainbows.
"If you tell Americans not to do something, it's the one thing they'll definitely do." Just a friendly reminder that we are all basically toddlers, folks.
America has had over 60 years of cannabis prohibition and the results are very similar. Thank the lord we are beginning to roll it back. Glad you mentioned it.
23:54 - Dave’s question about blindness. While it is possible that some of the toxins that were used as deterrents during prohibition did cause blindness, that is not the primary reason that it is anecdotally associated with moonshine. When grain mash is distilled, the first liquid produced is acetone, which is known to cause blindness if ingested. If the acetone is allowed to mix with the product (as inexperienced still operators may have allowed to happen), blindness is a possible result.
I was pretty sure that the blindness was because when you make ethanol that way you also make some methanol, when ethanol is metabolized it turns into harmless acetic acid but methanol turns into formic acid and/or formaldehyde 💀
@@Krawnbundungle Oh, that’s quite possible. I don’t really know the chemistry aspect of the process, I just picked that up while reading/watching some instructional-er, uh, I mean, _informative_ programs about it. That, and I later confirmed it with a neighbor who made the stuff, and knew all the ins and outs. Then again, he made some 180+ proof stuff-outright *rocket fuel* …so who knows whether he still had his facts straight.
I believe a lot of the women’s were often beat by their drunk husbands and that’s why were so against alcohol. Back then men probably weren’t arrested for that
The county in Tennessee that the Jack Daniels distillery is located in, Moore County, is a dry county. There are laws that allow the distillery specifically to sell bottles of Jack Daniels at their gift shop and recently, a tasting tour has been allowed, but other than the distillery, no alcohol can be sold in Lynchburg or the surrounding area since the days of prohibition.
I uses to have a hot toddy made by my dad when I had a cold or strep. It didnt replace things like antibiotics for strep, but it numbed the throat and helped me sleep when I was a kid. Hot black tea brand Rose Tea with Crown Royal whiskey, honey and lemon. I was definitely a country girl growing up so lots of colds and injuries and running around barefoot.
That's not what I'm wondering. I'm wondering what's wrong with California, NY, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington - I'm sure I'm missing a few others that have let their Antifa/BLM mobs destroy their cities.
When they legalized weed here in California I think the state makes like 3+ billion a year on taxes from it. It has become a huge business. Plus they let about 200K out of prison who went because of weed arrests.
Not to mention that all the crap that big Pharma, and their paid politicians, said would happen if weed was legalized, has not happened. Big Pharma has always been the big problem, because a cheap, easy to grow weed was going to lose them billions for Xanax, Valium, etc.. They're always behind the big money poured into "No on weed" campaigns.
I live in Wisconsin. Many of the bars in the Northern Part said picc off to the government rules. My friend took me to the bar in a small town. I said "We can't the bars are closed" He said " They are?" LOL. The lights were on low and sign lights were off, But there happen to be a few "Personal guests" having a family gathering inside. I know here, there are bars that close the doors to most people at 2am, but they will stay open to locals who they know well. I remember sitting in the bar until 7am in the morning. That's probably the case around the world. mostly smaller towns with one Barney Fife cop.
My parents would give us peppermint shcnapps to help us sleep at night as kids. My parents also kept an open alcohol cabinet and said "You can have whatever you want" to basically remove the taboo, and while we were growing up, my dad let us try various liqueur, but it was always some of the hardest stuff. So that way, as kids, we would associate all alcohol with the hardest stuff that burned like crazy.
My uncle had a shed in his yard right next to the road which curved around his house. He left both sides open so you could see into it from the road as you rode by. The authorities knew he made booze and searched all over his property, up and down the creek banks, through nasty brush and terrain. Meanwhile, he had the still hidden in the shed next to the road.
It's funny how when you expect something to be hidden (or if you say put something down somewhere obvious but think it surely won't be there) you will more often then not completely miss it even if your looking right at it.
45:47 "What's wrong with Oklahoma?" As someone who lives in Oklahoma, the comment section isn't long enough. Put it this way; in October **2018** a law went into effect that allowed grocery/convenience stores to sell beer of up to 9% alcohol, and wine up to 15% alcohol. And still, only 7 of the 77 counties allow alcohol sales on Sunday of packaged liquor. Granted, 5 of the 7 counties are home to, or part of, the two largest metro areas in the state, with combined pupulations greater than 50% of the entire state. Basically, we're getting there. But hey! We got that medical marijuana! So that's fun.
The only questions I missed on the driver license test were related to alcohol. 🤣 Not because I drink but because I don't. (Yes l live in a "dry" state) As usual, great reaction. Home Free's cover of "Moonshine" goes well with this.
And this is sadly one of the reasons America is hesitant to ban guns outright. The concern among politicians and some citizens is that outlawing guns will lead to these types of issues. And too many people are talking about “defunding” the police as it is.
Don't worry about America going back. Recreational weed is legal in 15 states now, with more eyeballing it every day. With Canada now legal, you can drive from Nome, Alaska to the Mexican border (about 4000 miles, or 6400 kilometers) and get legal weed the whole way. Alcohol has a new best buddy, and neither one are going away any time soon.
BOTH of my grandfathers were bootleggers & my paternal grandfather made moonshine til he died...my maternal grandfather made a little in his youth but he mostly ran it from Mississippi to Illinois....you would never know that they became quite wealthy & owned hundreds of acres of land each...all because of Prohibition
The blinding is from methanol alcohol, it shouldn't be in booze that you drink but if someone doesn't know what they're doing you can get some in there. Jury nullification used to be a big thing in America, Eadward Muybridge (guy who invented video) also famously got off for murdering the man that impregnated his wife because he'd told the guy to stop messing around with her ahead of time, and nobody in the jury could say they wouldn't have done the same thing.
Fun fact: Prohibition (and the end of it) indirectly started stock car racing. A.K.A. NASCAR. Bootleggers were modifying their cars to outrun the cops, until eventually they just started racing each other.
I’m 22 and even though my parents never did it, I do have a few friends my age whose parents would give them moonshine or whiskey when they had a cold or something. I’ve heard it helps so🤷🏽♂️
I stg I'm so glad I found this channel man, these guys legit bring me so much joy and make my day better on even my worst of days. I just turn on the react or try channel and just binge any videos I haven't seen. But yeah, tbh, I don't think I would've ever found these guys if I didn't watch so many Ally Law/Ryan Taylor videos and occasionally some Usamallama or however he spells it lol. But I started watching Ally about 3 or so years ago and got put onto Ryan cause of him and I just started actually looking for and watching British TH-cam channels and then obviously found these guys about 3 or so months ago and have been binging them ever since lol. But these guys are amazing, and my main thing I like about them is the wide range and variety of videos that they watch, like one video will be food videos, and then the next will be one of my fav youtubers, some OverSimplified channel, it's amazing.
There were reports of the Spanish flu in Asia a year before it was discovered in America. It was NOT discovered in an American Army base first, but it did end up there and we took it with us to Europe.
My dad told the story of a town that ended its prohibition laws when he was a child. He said, "the Bible-beaters and the bootleggers fought side by side to keep the town dry!"
You are absolutely correct. The term "blind drunk" came from the presence of methanol in booze. Unlike ethanol (grain alcohol), methanol (wool alcohol) could build up in the optic nerve in your eyes and cause temporary blindness that can become permanent. It is present in pretty much any mash, but professional distillers know that methanol boils at a slightly lower temperature than ethanol, so when distilling, they always threw away the first 10%-20% that came out (the heads). To try and keep people from using things like mouthwash or rubbing alcohol for booze, the government began forcing producers to use methanol rather than ethanol. Of course, they were intentionally replacing an edible product with a poison, but when people started going blind, they blamed alcohol in general.
In legal weed places, like here in California, you don't even have to switch drugs to up the high. Like beer to hard liquor, heavy weed users around here typically switch to concentrates, tinctures and various other high tech ways of ingesting ludicrous amounts of THC when just smoking doesn't cut it anymore. Interestingly, if you take a ton of weed at once it actually provides a psychedelic high.
Fun fact: Yeungling Brewery in Pottsville Pennsylvania (Americas oldest brewery). Was the first ones to ship beer directly after prohibition and take a guess where that first case went.... The White House. How ironic.
What Jim Beam calls Devils Cut is the Bourbon left trapped in the wood fiber of the barrel after it's empty. It is extracted in a proprietary process and blended with a 6 year old Bourbon. I can find no mention of a toxic first pour.
42:03 I love the picture of the women with that sign that says Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours. And I don't believe any of those women could even hope for a kiss unless a man was just falling down drunk.
There was a tunnel from my great grandfather’s corner general store, built in 1925, to the basement of the house next door. Being a general store, he could provide plenty of sugar that was needed for the booze operation next door. His 1925 building still stands with his name and year in the stone facade. It’s apartments now. I’ve always wanted to get in there and see if I could locate the entry point for the tunnel. The house next door is gone.
So, a classmate of mine once did a whole project on the connection between Scottish and Appalachian moonshining. You didn't have prohibition, but there was a whiskey tax.
Ah Germany! I went to an Ikea when I lived there and I guess it was some sort of anniversary for the company that day and they were handing out free glasses of champagne at the door. No ID check. You can also buy a beer with your sandwich at Subway restaurants there which I thought was funny. I was a little surprised when an older gentleman I met insisted that a hot toddy was the best thing for the flu. I haven't tried that piece of advice. Their attitude toward alcohol is more relaxed and it seems like problems like binge-drinking are lower than in the U.S., but the penalties for drunk driving are a lot more severe -- it's much easier to lose your license permanently -- so people take drinking and driving very seriously.
@@dominikmanthei4546 In the U.S. the concern is more about legal liability the company could face. Providing alcohol to a minor or not following state regulations for checking ID would get the company into trouble. If a customer found a way to have more than one glass and then had some sort of mishap, that could result in more legal trouble. I'm not criticizing Ikea for handing out champagne, just pointing out that it's not something you would see in the U.S.
While Prohibition did not work, the reason it was tried had to do with men drinking their paycheck and leaving women and children without a way to survive. Life was so hard physically and pay so low, many men did not survive long. The average lifespan for a man in 1900 was 47years. Social welfare programs were non existent with aid being the work of churches. Church women took to the streets. The number of children who became orphans at early ages and lived on streets was a scandal.already.
1) My Irish-American grandmother was a teenage girl in the 1920s. She helped her father run a small grocery or general store near Boston. She told me they had a hidden compartment under the floor where they kept illegal liquor that they sold. I wish I had asked her for more details. 2) I'm always amazed how quickly American society recognized the failure of Prohibition and ended it. IMHO, admitting we're doing something wrong is a chief obstacle to solving our problems. For example, we cannot bring ourselves to end the Drug War, which is really Prohibition 2.0 and has been just as big a failure as the first against alcohol. 3) If you want to learn more, watch the Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition." I would imagine it's available in the UK. 4) At 29:10, Kevin Costner is mentioned. That's a reference to the excellent movie "The Untouchables." Also starring are Sean Connery as an Irish cop and Robert de Niro as Al Capone. 5) There is a small wealthy town near me in New England that until 2011 was "semi-dry." Since the end of Prohibition, sale of alcohol for off-premise consumption had been banned, but it was legal to serve liquor at the local expensive restaurants, the country club, and the yacht club. (Wouldn't want the few poor people in town to drink and cause trouble.) Eventually a local referendum changed this absurd law.
34:50 come to Chicago! I'll treat you blokes to the Untouchables Tour, which is a tour of the Chicago mafia during the Al Capone era, as well as treat you to deep dish at Lou Malnati's!
My town just lifted its prohibition on the sale of alcohol in its city limits only 14 years ago. It was normal to me growing up for my dad or grandpa to be gone at least half an hour on a beer run
Living in Cincy across the river from KY, I have amazing access to the best bourbons in the US. There are tons of people here in the US who can barely find Buffalo Trace let alone Eagle Rare and that Weller is very hard to find outside the Midwest. You should have an Office Blokes Travel channel and the KY Bourbon trail should be #1 on that list.
the blindness comes from consuming wood alcohol, (methanol) the first pulls off of a still contains methanol so the first shots must be discarded. the government put denaturing agents in things like rubbing alcohol so people wouldn’t be able to consume it. some people didn’t heed the warnings or didn’t know. I don’t know if they ever used methanol for a denaturing agent.
There are counties in the state of GA to this day where Sunday is either a dry day or they begin sales at noon, after church. Where I used to live it was dry Sunday which was a culture shock since I had just moved from Miami FL where there’s nothing dry about that city. Weed being a gateway drug all depends on the person. Im my opinion, I believe that if you have an addictive personality you will tend to go towards harder stuff but that’s in everything. Even legal drugs, like prescribed medicines, if you have an addictive personality then you’ll be abusing it. I’ve seen many people entering the ED pretending to be in dire pain to get that pain injection and then that prescription.
Hey yeah! Gaz. My mom use to give me a little brandy in tea for monthly menstrual cramps. The brandy relaxes the contraction of the uterus lessing the pain during mentsruation. This is an old remedy. The funny thing is I became an adult I never drank alcohol. I can't tell you the last time I had a wine cooler or a beer. It's just not my stick. I guess when you see enough drunk uncle's you just go nope I don't want to end up like that.
Hey men, I'm not sure if you're wary about reacting to videos that are long but I wouldn't be per-se. It doesn't bother me at all, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. I think it's totally fine, in fact I like the longer videos more sometimes!
I’m from Oklahoma and you couldn’t buy liquor by the drink until the 80s. If you wanted to drink in a bar or club you had to bring your own bottle and pay the bartender to pour it for you. Now we have legal weed and all other drug possessions are misdemeanors. We’ve come a long way.
In my state (Georgia), Alcohol can't be sold before 8am and after 11:45pm Monday-Saturday. Also not before 12:30pm on Sundays and in some counties not at all on Sunday.
23:55 The blindess was caused by moonshine that had been run through a lead car radiators. As the alcohol vapor cooled in the radiator 'worm', the lead would leech into the alcohol and contaminate it.
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Fun fact, NASCAR technically started because of Prohibition. The people that would transport alcohol from one place to the other would make alterations to their cars so they would be able to quickly escape the police if needed. Pretty soon contests were made for these drivers to determine who had the fastest car, and they got so popular that they became more organized races, and on actual tracks. Much more interesting origin story than F1
This is.... maybe 33% true. It's a great story that NASCAR used, and there were moonshine runners in NASCAR, but the beach race was the catalyst and modified stock cars popped up everywhere east of the Mississippi as far north as New England immediately after WWII. It was a confluence of events with a semi-mythical origin story, and it probably owes as much to northern horse racing dirt tracks as it does moonshiners in a farm field.
A bigger influence was probably the large return of young men from WWII trained on high performance machinery. That's what really drove auto racing of all kinds in the US in the late 40s and early 50's.
@@SAVikingSA You might be right, but shine runners in the Carolinas and Tennessee did indeed lessen the weight of their cars to evade police and have competitions between eachother. Stock car racing has its origins at least in part here. NASCAR itself wasn't a direct result of this, but an indirect result of the popularization of stock car races in the US and (As you said) the increase in men capable of operating such machinery.
Maybe a more interesting origin story but F1 is way better as a sport.
There was racing before prohibition. The leading US ace in WWI was a stock car driver.
Nascar is stock car racing so it has nothing to do with alterations to the cars. Cars were altered to be faster during prohibition but nascar is literally the opposite, they are supposed to be uniform. Nascar was inspired by early races between bootleggers though.
my grandma was born to German immigrants in Syracuse NY in 1920. Her next door neighbors were Italian immigrants. My grandma's parents would brew their own beer in their house. And they'd trade some of it for wine brewed by their Italian neighbors.
@Butt Whole evidently, they do.
This is beautiful
alcohol uniting people since forever
My dad was a beer runner after graduating high school in 1924. He had some great stories from here in Nebraska
Thats pretty cool tbh. He was around the same age as my great grandpa and i wish i couldve heard some of my grandpas stories. But by the time i was old enough (to at least) remember stories he was getting very close to the end and struggled to speak and do anything.
Are you dead
Go Big Red!
@@bharathisockalingam5464 not yet, but close
@@tomwilkinson1568 How old are you?
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, and in water there is bacteria.”
So what's in Whiskey?
@@tylerwhite9923 A hangover 😂
@@SherriLyle80s nearly spit out my vodka XD
@@misterfrancis
what’s in your vodka?
@@Andrew9908 Its a white Russian so filled with ice, 2 shots of Smirnoff vodka, 2 shots of kalua, half n half, and topped of with Italian sweet cream.
*Fun Fact:* Lynchburg Tennessee, which is located in, and is the county seat of, Moore County Tennessee, is home to the *Jack Daniel's Distillery,* despite Moore County itself being a dry county. So, you cannot legally buy *Jack Daniel's* in the city where it is made.
Oversimplified is definitely one of my favorite channels
They're definitely one of the best channels on TH-cam frfr! I mean its such a great format to teach people history, but in a very entertaining, yet simplified way. It's amazing!
Don’t forget about the Office blokes!
@@MyMonsterguy I was gonna say them as well, but since we are in their comments I kinda assumed it would be something that didn't even need to be said lmao!
Same! I got my sister hooked too
@@kawaiipinkbunnychu stop getting your sister hooked on alcohol and drugs
By the look on yalls faces, if the UK tried to ban alcohol, the whole damn nation would burn down in the matter of minutes lmfao
ha
Brexit?
@@Birick Beerxit
Long time ago they banned gin and that’s exactly what happened
Are these guys from the UK? I just started watching their channel.
My great grandad used to take the "scenic route" back to his house from where I lived to show me this place in northern Iowa to point out a rock cave where bootleggers like his brother made moonshine during that nonsense. You could see an opening into the rock and I still go out of my way to see it as I laugh every time
sounds like an amazing guy, i sure miss my grandpa and his crazy stories.
@@wyatt8621 WW2 vet and jokester as well, doesn't get much better than that lol
@Butt Whole He was mostly tasked building an air base in the pacific, I don't think he did anything out of line
All of Europe was won in Europe durimg ww2 except UK
Germany had taken majority of Europe
My ukranian grandma used to give me a shot of vodka when i had a flu as a kid . Worked every single time :')
Jagermeister also does the trick.
@@gordieparenteau6555 true true 👀
Bet you pretended to be sick a lot :p
A full shot?! damn! I remember having my mom put a couple of drops of whiskey on her finger tip and then touching my gums with it when I was teething. But a full shot is a lot for a kid!
@@jeffburdick869 in fact, i just slept all day and woke up all healed lol
They forgot the part where the guys who had the fast bootlegging cars started competing and ended up calling it nascar
@Rheumattica bro it’s literally not false... Junior Johnson one of the most well known racers in nascar history was a bootlegger
My dad ALWAYS talks about “when beer was cleaner than water” 😂
Prohibition is a classic example of "Just because you CAN ban something. Doesn't mean you SHOULD"
Weed is only a gateway drug in the sense that when you buy it illegal from a dealer, a lot of those dealers are also pushing harder drugs. It's legal in 15 states here now in America and it has done nothing other than bring in more tax revenue for the states.
If anything, tobacco is a gateway drug. Don't think I would have been intrested in smoking weed if I never got into smoking with tobacco. The jump from one to the other wasn't too massive as I was already use to the act of smoking. Ultimatly, the only gateway into drugs is avalibility.
Yea i wouldn't say has brought nothing but tax revenue. States that have legalized weed have seen like double triple in driving while under the influence related crashes n deaths. I'm Pro legalization for sure but it's not all rainbows.
"If you tell Americans not to do something, it's the one thing they'll definitely do."
Just a friendly reminder that we are all basically toddlers, folks.
It's like the age old thing about if you label a button "DO NOT PUSH" people will press it.
America has had over 60 years of cannabis prohibition and the results are very similar. Thank the lord we are beginning to roll it back. Glad you mentioned it.
And you have my 2 favorite bourbons! I knew I liked you guys for a reason.
We are trying them in an hour over on Office Blokes Try 👍
This is the quality content I’ve been waiting for
23:54 - Dave’s question about blindness.
While it is possible that some of the toxins that were used as deterrents during prohibition did cause blindness, that is not the primary reason that it is anecdotally associated with moonshine.
When grain mash is distilled, the first liquid produced is acetone, which is known to cause blindness if ingested. If the acetone is allowed to mix with the product (as inexperienced still operators may have allowed to happen), blindness is a possible result.
I was pretty sure that the blindness was because when you make ethanol that way you also make some methanol, when ethanol is metabolized it turns into harmless acetic acid but methanol turns into formic acid and/or formaldehyde 💀
@@Krawnbundungle Oh, that’s quite possible. I don’t really know the chemistry aspect of the process, I just picked that up while reading/watching some instructional-er, uh, I mean, _informative_ programs about it. That, and I later confirmed it with a neighbor who made the stuff, and knew all the ins and outs.
Then again, he made some 180+ proof stuff-outright *rocket fuel* …so who knows whether he still had his facts straight.
Mike lives by, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it" when making these videos but he can't hide his facial expressions very well lol
I believe a lot of the women’s were often beat by their drunk husbands and that’s why were so against alcohol. Back then men probably weren’t arrested for that
If you want to see this history acted out, watch "Boardwalk Empire." Kickass show.
yes!! love this show omg
great show just like Sopranos and just like Sopranos, shitty ending :(
@@dyslexiaforfoundcure I loved the sopranos ending
The county in Tennessee that the Jack Daniels distillery is located in, Moore County, is a dry county. There are laws that allow the distillery specifically to sell bottles of Jack Daniels at their gift shop and recently, a tasting tour has been allowed, but other than the distillery, no alcohol can be sold in Lynchburg or the surrounding area since the days of prohibition.
crazy, but a fun fact. I'm sure the county profits in its tax revenues.
I uses to have a hot toddy made by my dad when I had a cold or strep. It didnt replace things like antibiotics for strep, but it numbed the throat and helped me sleep when I was a kid. Hot black tea brand Rose Tea with Crown Royal whiskey, honey and lemon. I was definitely a country girl growing up so lots of colds and injuries and running around barefoot.
"what's wrong with oklahoma?" that's what the rest of us are wondering too
Oklahoma clung to its prohibition for another quarter-century because Oklahomans are a.) mostly rural, and b.) VERY religious.
@@darreljones8645 Unless you're in the cities where most of the populations are.
That's not what I'm wondering. I'm wondering what's wrong with California, NY, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington - I'm sure I'm missing a few others that have let their Antifa/BLM mobs destroy their cities.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 maga brain rot
@@vietimports Soooo, you support burning down cities, destroying businesses and peoples lives, and murder. Got it.
I’m all for longer videos!
Please do oversimplified civil war soon!
When they legalized weed here in California I think the state makes like 3+ billion a year on taxes from it. It has become a huge business. Plus they let about 200K out of prison who went because of weed arrests.
Not to mention that all the crap that big Pharma, and their paid politicians, said would happen if weed was legalized, has not happened. Big Pharma has always been the big problem, because a cheap, easy to grow weed was going to lose them billions for Xanax, Valium, etc.. They're always behind the big money poured into "No on weed" campaigns.
@@ClayLoomis1958 Big pharma/b. gates is behind this billion dollar worldwide cvd19 shamdemic.
My mom and dad used to give me a couple shots of whiskey when I had a bad cough no doubt. But I was raised in the 80’s
Same. And I was raised in the 90s.
I live in Wisconsin. Many of the bars in the Northern Part said picc off to the government rules. My friend took me to the bar in a small town. I said "We can't the bars are closed" He said " They are?" LOL. The lights were on low and sign lights were off, But there happen to be a few "Personal guests" having a family gathering inside.
I know here, there are bars that close the doors to most people at 2am, but they will stay open to locals who they know well. I remember sitting in the bar until 7am in the morning. That's probably the case around the world. mostly smaller towns with one Barney Fife cop.
My parents would give us peppermint shcnapps to help us sleep at night as kids.
My parents also kept an open alcohol cabinet and said "You can have whatever you want" to basically remove the taboo, and while we were growing up, my dad let us try various liqueur, but it was always some of the hardest stuff. So that way, as kids, we would associate all alcohol with the hardest stuff that burned like crazy.
The women weren't mad because they couldn't drink, they were mad because their husbands were beating them in drunken rages.
My uncle had a shed in his yard right next to the road which curved around his house. He left both sides open so you could see into it from the road as you rode by. The authorities knew he made booze and searched all over his property, up and down the creek banks, through nasty brush and terrain. Meanwhile, he had the still hidden in the shed next to the road.
It's funny how when you expect something to be hidden (or if you say put something down somewhere obvious but think it surely won't be there) you will more often then not completely miss it even if your looking right at it.
I recommend reacting to the Civil War by Oversimplified
Yeah These guys should had done a reacting to civil war I've been waiting for months
I've had some good times drinking in my younger years....danced on a few tables, had heart to heart convos with lampshades........
45:47
"What's wrong with Oklahoma?"
As someone who lives in Oklahoma, the comment section isn't long enough.
Put it this way; in October **2018** a law went into effect that allowed grocery/convenience stores to sell beer of up to 9% alcohol, and wine up to 15% alcohol. And still, only 7 of the 77 counties allow alcohol sales on Sunday of packaged liquor. Granted, 5 of the 7 counties are home to, or part of, the two largest metro areas in the state, with combined pupulations greater than 50% of the entire state.
Basically, we're getting there. But hey! We got that medical marijuana! So that's fun.
The only questions I missed on the driver license test were related to alcohol. 🤣 Not because I drink but because I don't. (Yes l live in a "dry" state) As usual, great reaction. Home Free's cover of "Moonshine" goes well with this.
And this is sadly one of the reasons America is hesitant to ban guns outright. The concern among politicians and some citizens is that outlawing guns will lead to these types of issues. And too many people are talking about “defunding” the police as it is.
Don't worry about America going back. Recreational weed is legal in 15 states now, with more eyeballing it every day. With Canada now legal, you can drive from Nome, Alaska to the Mexican border (about 4000 miles, or 6400 kilometers) and get legal weed the whole way. Alcohol has a new best buddy, and neither one are going away any time soon.
@derp derpin Let's be fair here - Indica makes potheads sit around at home. Sativa makes potheads play Frisbee or go to Disneyland.
Watching this, and a Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy ad pops up. That had me rolling 🤣
BOTH of my grandfathers were bootleggers & my paternal grandfather made moonshine til he died...my maternal grandfather made a little in his youth but he mostly ran it from Mississippi to Illinois....you would never know that they became quite wealthy & owned hundreds of acres of land each...all because of Prohibition
"buncha miserable tight asses" I choked 🤣🤣🤣
Hell yea I’ve been waiting for this for a while lol, cheers guys I just popped one open 🍻
The blinding is from methanol alcohol, it shouldn't be in booze that you drink but if someone doesn't know what they're doing you can get some in there.
Jury nullification used to be a big thing in America, Eadward Muybridge (guy who invented video) also famously got off for murdering the man that impregnated his wife because he'd told the guy to stop messing around with her ahead of time, and nobody in the jury could say they wouldn't have done the same thing.
an on the beer video occasionally would be awesome. love your guys stuff, funniest and most relatable group of non americans i can think of.
Waking up and seeing this is a treat - happy easter gents, thanks for the amazing content
Fun fact: Prohibition (and the end of it) indirectly started stock car racing. A.K.A. NASCAR. Bootleggers were modifying their cars to outrun the cops, until eventually they just started racing each other.
I’m 22 and even though my parents never did it, I do have a few friends my age whose parents would give them moonshine or whiskey when they had a cold or something. I’ve heard it helps so🤷🏽♂️
I stg I'm so glad I found this channel man, these guys legit bring me so much joy and make my day better on even my worst of days. I just turn on the react or try channel and just binge any videos I haven't seen. But yeah, tbh, I don't think I would've ever found these guys if I didn't watch so many Ally Law/Ryan Taylor videos and occasionally some Usamallama or however he spells it lol. But I started watching Ally about 3 or so years ago and got put onto Ryan cause of him and I just started actually looking for and watching British TH-cam channels and then obviously found these guys about 3 or so months ago and have been binging them ever since lol. But these guys are amazing, and my main thing I like about them is the wide range and variety of videos that they watch, like one video will be food videos, and then the next will be one of my fav youtubers, some OverSimplified channel, it's amazing.
There were reports of the Spanish flu in Asia a year before it was discovered in America. It was NOT discovered in an American Army base first, but it did end up there and we took it with us to Europe.
My dad told the story of a town that ended its prohibition laws when he was a child. He said, "the Bible-beaters and the bootleggers fought side by side to keep the town dry!"
One of my great grandmothers made Bathtub Gin in NYC. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Excellent choices on the table there guys. I live 30 minutes away from Buffalo Trace Distillery!
React to Oversimplified on the Cold War, I know it's long but it would be considering it covers 1917 to 1990. But it's so worth watching absolutely
You are absolutely correct. The term "blind drunk" came from the presence of methanol in booze. Unlike ethanol (grain alcohol), methanol (wool alcohol) could build up in the optic nerve in your eyes and cause temporary blindness that can become permanent. It is present in pretty much any mash, but professional distillers know that methanol boils at a slightly lower temperature than ethanol, so when distilling, they always threw away the first 10%-20% that came out (the heads).
To try and keep people from using things like mouthwash or rubbing alcohol for booze, the government began forcing producers to use methanol rather than ethanol. Of course, they were intentionally replacing an edible product with a poison, but when people started going blind, they blamed alcohol in general.
In legal weed places, like here in California, you don't even have to switch drugs to up the high. Like beer to hard liquor, heavy weed users around here typically switch to concentrates, tinctures and various other high tech ways of ingesting ludicrous amounts of THC when just smoking doesn't cut it anymore.
Interestingly, if you take a ton of weed at once it actually provides a psychedelic high.
2:57 I have to imagine that the forklift crashing into the house reminded Mike of work.
So I wasn't the only person thinking that.
Ah yes, my home state of Ohio was where the anti-alcohol protests started. Interesting
Fun fact: Yeungling Brewery in Pottsville Pennsylvania (Americas oldest brewery). Was the first ones to ship beer directly after prohibition and take a guess where that first case went.... The White House. How ironic.
I remember we were authorized to have 2 beers (at our own house expense) during lunch in the US Army in the mid 1970s.
Ya my dad drinks a lot which makes sense cause my grandfather came to USA from London at 18.
One problem with distilling alcohol was that the first portion of the distilling process is toxic. It's referred to as "The Devil's Cut."
What Jim Beam calls Devils Cut is the Bourbon left trapped in the wood fiber of the barrel after it's empty. It is extracted in a proprietary process and blended with a 6 year old Bourbon. I can find no mention of a toxic first pour.
Hell yes, keep doing Oversimplified. They do great things for reaction channels aswell
New York and New Jersey in the US just made recreational use of weed legal for exactly the reasons you discussed.
42:03 I love the picture of the women with that sign that says Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours. And I don't believe any of those women could even hope for a kiss unless a man was just falling down drunk.
There was a tunnel from my great grandfather’s corner general store, built in 1925, to the basement of the house next door. Being a general store, he could provide plenty of sugar that was needed for the booze operation next door. His 1925 building still stands with his name and year in the stone facade. It’s apartments now. I’ve always wanted to get in there and see if I could locate the entry point for the tunnel. The house next door is gone.
Excellent points throughout, Dave!
I used to have sips of my dad's beer when I was a kid on weekend.
So, a classmate of mine once did a whole project on the connection between Scottish and Appalachian moonshining. You didn't have prohibition, but there was a whiskey tax.
Ah Germany! I went to an Ikea when I lived there and I guess it was some sort of anniversary for the company that day and they were handing out free glasses of champagne at the door. No ID check. You can also buy a beer with your sandwich at Subway restaurants there which I thought was funny. I was a little surprised when an older gentleman I met insisted that a hot toddy was the best thing for the flu. I haven't tried that piece of advice. Their attitude toward alcohol is more relaxed and it seems like problems like binge-drinking are lower than in the U.S., but the penalties for drunk driving are a lot more severe -- it's much easier to lose your license permanently -- so people take drinking and driving very seriously.
No one is gonna die from one glass of champagne
@@dominikmanthei4546 In the U.S. the concern is more about legal liability the company could face. Providing alcohol to a minor or not following state regulations for checking ID would get the company into trouble. If a customer found a way to have more than one glass and then had some sort of mishap, that could result in more legal trouble. I'm not criticizing Ikea for handing out champagne, just pointing out that it's not something you would see in the U.S.
My ancestor was a legendary lawman by the name of bill tilghman was a killed by a corrupt prohibition officer, he was 70 when he passed.
Liquor stores are even open on Sunday in Oklahoma! And we have legal weed!
Drives me nuts how he pronounces "Women" as "Woman."
I've watched quite a few reactions to this and FINALLY someone pointed that out.
I didnt notice until you pointed it out :(
I had to stop watching after 15 minutes because it drove me insane
It is a joke.
@@david-1775 I’m not offended just makes me cringe 😂
While Prohibition did not work, the reason it was tried had to do with men drinking their paycheck and leaving women and children without a way to survive. Life was so hard physically and pay so low, many men did not survive long. The average lifespan for a man in 1900 was 47years. Social welfare programs were non existent with aid being the work of churches. Church women took to the streets. The number of children who became orphans at early ages and lived on streets was a scandal.already.
1) My Irish-American grandmother was a teenage girl in the 1920s. She helped her father run a small grocery or general store near Boston. She told me they had a hidden compartment under the floor where they kept illegal liquor that they sold. I wish I had asked her for more details. 2) I'm always amazed how quickly American society recognized the failure of Prohibition and ended it. IMHO, admitting we're doing something wrong is a chief obstacle to solving our problems. For example, we cannot bring ourselves to end the Drug War, which is really Prohibition 2.0 and has been just as big a failure as the first against alcohol. 3) If you want to learn more, watch the Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition." I would imagine it's available in the UK. 4) At 29:10, Kevin Costner is mentioned. That's a reference to the excellent movie "The Untouchables." Also starring are Sean Connery as an Irish cop and Robert de Niro as Al Capone. 5) There is a small wealthy town near me in New England that until 2011 was "semi-dry." Since the end of Prohibition, sale of alcohol for off-premise consumption had been banned, but it was legal to serve liquor at the local expensive restaurants, the country club, and the yacht club. (Wouldn't want the few poor people in town to drink and cause trouble.) Eventually a local referendum changed this absurd law.
The county in Tennessee that Jack Daniels whiskey is produced in is dry. That means when you tour the distillery, you can't sample the product.
34:50 come to Chicago! I'll treat you blokes to the Untouchables Tour, which is a tour of the Chicago mafia during the Al Capone era, as well as treat you to deep dish at Lou Malnati's!
My town just lifted its prohibition on the sale of alcohol in its city limits only 14 years ago. It was normal to me growing up for my dad or grandpa to be gone at least half an hour on a beer run
Living in Cincy across the river from KY, I have amazing access to the best bourbons in the US. There are tons of people here in the US who can barely find Buffalo Trace let alone Eagle Rare and that Weller is very hard to find outside the Midwest.
You should have an Office Blokes Travel channel and the KY Bourbon trail should be #1 on that list.
During quarantine, where my dad lives in Indiana, the citizens protested to have alcohol be a necessity lol
the blindness comes from consuming wood alcohol, (methanol) the first pulls off of a still contains methanol so the first shots must be discarded. the government put denaturing agents in things like rubbing alcohol so people wouldn’t be able to consume it. some people didn’t heed the warnings or didn’t know. I don’t know if they ever used methanol for a denaturing agent.
My great great grandfather made moonshine during prohibition and a couple other family members were bootleggers
Watched y’all watch a few these it’s awesome that American history is so unknown and fascinating that y’all just sit quietly and watch
There are counties in the state of GA to this day where Sunday is either a dry day or they begin sales at noon, after church. Where I used to live it was dry Sunday which was a culture shock since I had just moved from Miami FL where there’s nothing dry about that city.
Weed being a gateway drug all depends on the person. Im my opinion, I believe that if you have an addictive personality you will tend to go towards harder stuff but that’s in everything. Even legal drugs, like prescribed medicines, if you have an addictive personality then you’ll be abusing it. I’ve seen many people entering the ED pretending to be in dire pain to get that pain injection and then that prescription.
The end of prohibition became the birth of the famous Budweiser Clydesdale.
I don’t drink so didn’t get a drink but I sparked a blunt up lol
Me too bro... me too. hahaha
I actually grew up in a city which was a "dry city" until about 10 years ago.
Hey yeah! Gaz. My mom use to give me a little brandy in tea for monthly menstrual cramps. The brandy relaxes the contraction of the uterus lessing the pain during mentsruation. This is an old remedy. The funny thing is I became an adult I never drank alcohol. I can't tell you the last time I had a wine cooler or a beer. It's just not my stick. I guess when you see enough drunk uncle's you just go nope I don't want to end up like that.
Hey men, I'm not sure if you're wary about reacting to videos that are long but I wouldn't be per-se. It doesn't bother me at all, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. I think it's totally fine, in fact I like the longer videos more sometimes!
Eagle Rare!! I love that stuff.
My great grandfather was a New York City fire fighter and they use to transport alcohol in the fire trucks for the mob in NY during prohibition.
STELLA!!!!!! A little Streetcar Named Desire reference. Also, I love Buffalo Trace bourbon. Well done.
Whiskey with honey and lemon when i was sick as a kid...and i'm a 49-year-old American
0:36 I’m pretty confident, 90% of the time I watch your videos. I have a beer in my hand.
I go drinking in a working man's club in Sale, one of the last in the UK I believe and a pub my dad goes in, in Bagley still has a vault interestingly
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Dave: America got literally everything in its existence from the great United Kingdom!
😂😂
I’m from Oklahoma and you couldn’t buy liquor by the drink until the 80s. If you wanted to drink in a bar or club you had to bring your own bottle and pay the bartender to pour it for you. Now we have legal weed and all other drug possessions are misdemeanors. We’ve come a long way.
The actual women's protest slogan was "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!"
The movie "Lawless" w/ Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce. Based on the true story about the Bondurant brothers during prohibition
I’m actually related to Andrew Volstead who sponsored the bill
In my state (Georgia), Alcohol can't be sold before 8am and after 11:45pm Monday-Saturday. Also not before 12:30pm on Sundays and in some counties not at all on Sunday.
23:55 The blindess was caused by moonshine that had been run through a lead car radiators. As the alcohol vapor cooled in the radiator 'worm', the lead would leech into the alcohol and contaminate it.