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Since I keep getting comments implying I don't know the difference between England and Scotland I'm pinning a post about this. The ancestor I refer to in this video was indeed an English immigrant who came over from Glasgow Scotland. He was born in raised in Tipton in the English West Midlands. He went to work in Glasgow in 1846 where he lived until 1866. From there he went to America. He was indeed English not Scottish.
Great info. Found your channel and Ican’t stop watching. Keep up the good work!
Interesting fact about alcohol / Beer as the heart of America.
The 1st settlers to land in Virginia only landed there because they ran out of beer. They then proceeded to brew beer from acorns.
The 1st settlers was actually headed to Florida to meet up with Spaniards with the hopes to find gold.
If those Virginia settlers hadnt ran out of beer perhaps America would of never formed.
Basically Thanks to Beer America was born.
I remember the term Freedom Fries 🍟
@@austinjeffris38 yep
Another detail on Capone's arrest: the feds and IRS had raided Capone's business office and took nearly countless documents to look for evidence to use against him. This would be the first high-profile case (perhaps the first case ever) that handwriting analysis, particularly signature analysis, was used.
remember: the fbi couldn't get capone, the IRS did. never mess with the IRS
(Note if your going to be a gang leader and a mass murder pay your taxes)
Lol that's why the Joker paid his taxes in the Batman the Animated Series
@@aredjayc2858 lol
Which means te the U.S. government wanted it's cut of the action.
@ARedJay C are you serious lol 😂?! Granted I never really watched that show, but I figured the Joker being Joker didn't bother with things like that besides causing chaos and mayhem.
Still though it's freakin hilarious that even the Joker fears the IRS 😂.
"Beer as a family Drink, you could even give to your children"
Me, a german: * laughs in legally drinking beer at age 14*
Actually you can legally drinking beer at the age of 16 in germany. But the farther you go out on the land the less the people care about it lol
@@felixjohnson2734 IF you are with your legal guardians (therefore proving that you have their consent), it drops to 14. Otherwise legal drinking age is 16 for beer, wines and sparkling wine and 18 for hard liquor.
14? ROOKIE NUMBEER i drank alcohol at 9-12, People didn't care bout it. Epic Serb
Yeah i know but my parents did not allow me do buy beer or wine
@@felixjohnson2734 but that doesn't mean, it's nit technically legal
One the funniest things to me regarding dry counties is that a county near me, Moore County in Tennessee, houses the Jack Daniel Distillery. Major distillery and you can't even buy it in the county it's made in.
No but you can pay 12 dollars to sample it during the factory tours now
I live not to far from Moore County and that shit cracks me up
Well technically they do sell souvenir Jack Daniels bottles at the distillery. It just so happens that those "souvenir" bottles includes complimentary Jack Daniels whiskey inside. (Hello from Knoxville, fellow Tennesseans)
Jack Daniels, that's the one. i knew one of them was in a dry County, but couldn't remember which one
@@Kolopiomo
I used to live right outside Nashville.
A few things I wish oversimplified touched on was how unsafe drinking water was at the time. Honestly, of the two, Alcohol was the healthier and comparably safer option. And that Saloons were more then a place you could go to get drunk. Many served as post offices, barbers, dentists, eateries, and translators for newly arrived immigrants. German culture in America thrives during that time because of saloons. Does this excuse the rampant alcoholism? Hell no. Just thought that it was interesting.
This was true for most of human history, actually. It's why wine was a big deal through antiquity and the Middle ages, and where the stereotype of the drunken sailor comes from. They were at sea for months at a time and water even in sealed barrels will only keep for a few weeks. After that, booze is all that's left.
Actually, our ability to metabolize alcohol is a huge evolutionary advantage. Because of this, our primal ancestors could eat rotting fruit that most other animals couldn't. It was a food source that, while not ideal, did the job, and we didn't have to compete for it.
Hence the name, Over Simplified
Another important aspect that often drinks had a lower alcohol content than they'd have nowadays. Although methods to increase the alcohol content were becoming more prevalent.
@@robert-janthuis9927 which is actually kind of ironic because until the late middle ages or the Renaissance, wine typically had to be watered down because its alcohol content was so high.
@@David-ee9nc Yeah, but it would've taken all but 2 seconds to say that in a twenty minute video.
I wish that Wheeler had lived long enough to see the end of Prohibition simply because I would love to know what his reaction would have been.
He probably drowned his sorrows LMAO
"Send in the lions!"
.......
"Where are the lions?"
"They're passed out drunk from celebrating, sir."
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
@@frostyguy1989 “OoOOooh NOooOoo”
The bar having a sign saying "All Nations Welcome Except Carrie" is a sign that humor hasn't changed in the course of human history, 😂😂
Fun fact: the jury declaring someone not guilty even if they believe they're guilty (or vice versa) actually has a name! It's called Jury Nullification, and as far as I know you're probably not supposed to know it's an option
Don't ask, don't tell situation. Jurors can't be punished for making a "wrong" decision and after all, they are considered the finders and triers of facts.
We had a prohibition era in Norwegian history as well. It lasted from about 1915 until 1927. There were a lot of smugglers who operated and smuggled liquor into the country, many were arrested jailed for smuggling. Doctors wrote prescriptions to patients for alcohol. The prohibitions even went so far that Portugal and Spain threatened Norway with stopping their import of fish from Norway unless Norway started buying Portuguese and Spanish wine. This led to them putting high import tolls on norwegian fish. Of course moonshine became very prevalent as if it was not already. It ended in the government monopolizing the sale of liquor which still is present today. There are no liquor stores whatsoever in Norway today. Everything that is more than 4,7 percent or something has to be sold on Vinmonopolet. In grocery stores and supermarket you only get a maximum of 4,7 alochol cider, beer and wine.
My great grandfather had worked for Al Capone in his early days. Mostly just bootlegging moonshine. When he saw the rivalries taking lives of people transporting, he got out.
Part of the reason that doctors were giving alcohol prescriptions was to treat people suffering from alcohol withdrawal. Withdrawal (also called DT's) was awful and widespread. Many docs gave out "bitters" which were vitamin tonics fortified with a bit of alcohol to stave off the tremors.
I love the way you legitimize the information coming across in the cartoon. If only we would have this way back when during our very boring Social Studies classes. I am Canadian and our experience with Prohibition is very
similar to yours in the States. Our illegal alcohol came flooding across the border so very few towns and cities were actually dry, only on paper were Canadians denied legal alcohol, but illegal alcohol was the very same as it has always been. Growing up on a farm during the 70s and 80s, hardly a barn or bunk house was found without the remains of our grandfather’s still. Even some of our older Scott’s neighbors had whiskey brewed in the 20s and 30s stored in oak barrels to toast in the New Year or to Wet the Baby’s Head( toast to a new child in the community )! This was really interesting and thank you for informing us on these topics that my sons really did not learn one thing about.
3:40 Not to mention the dubiousness of many sources of water back then, that we kind of take for granted nowadays. Alcohol kills bacteria, so people were less likely to get sick from drinking alcohol than they were from drinking water.
as it should be known, historians who are flexible enough to cover most historical topics and still be comprehensible and well informed to them makes a real great historian. glad youre on youtube, its a great binge when im playing solo videogames or just bored, keep it up man, its incredible how you are able to keep the content super transformative and be able to still say things that bring the light to an otherwise dimmer topic. (high five)
Centuries ago while I was in college. I ended up getting a internship at the Daniel Boone national forest in Kentucky. Wasn't expecting a dry County. Closest place to get it was in Tennessee. So I go down there....lol. The Tennessee side of the border was all about liquor stores. The advertising on the Kentucky side was all about "play lotto here".
12:15 “all nations welcome except Carrie” that’s hilarious hahahaha
In Denmark we had simular alcohol issues, but instead of making it illegal the politicians raised tax on alcohol by 1200%
To be fair, we did that too.
So funny how he guesses something about to be said in the video. Its like he's playing chess and he's 5 moves ahead.
17:57 - there’s still a restaurant in my town that serves Freedom Fries rather than French Fries 🇺🇸
There was no war while Trump was president. In fact he made the decision to leave Afghanistan in an ORDERLY MANNER removing people and supplies before abandoning the country.
I lived in a town in Eastern CT that was a dry town until the late 1990s. I remember the adults in my neighborhood taking turns getting orders for whoever's turn it was to drive to the next town to get booze.
Another key reason alcohol was so widely consumed back in the day was because it was one of the safest drinking options available. In the days before public sanitation and modern water purification techniques, even drinking water left you vulnerable to diseases like cholera. Alcohol, for all its problems as a mind-altering substance, is a powerful disinfectant, which made it much more sanitary and safer in pre-industrial times.
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Having lived in Austin, TX for 11 years, here are a few things relavent to the video.
1) Anti-German sentiment. Between Austin and San Antonion are a couple German towns, New Braunfels and Gruene. Prior to WWII, New Braunfels was Neu Braunfels and Gruene was spoken with the German pronounciation, which sounds more like grin than green. As a side note, there are brown cliffs along the river that flows through New Braunfels. The changes became permanent. The Nue has remained New and Gruene, while still being spelled German is pronounced in English, "Green".
2) Texas is one of the states with "dry" counties where the sale to alcohol isn't allowed. While not being able to sell alcohol, some restaurants will allow people to bring their own and drink it at the restaurant.
3) Mexico has been permanently impacted by prohibition in the US. Along the US/Mexican border, people would just hop the border to go drink. This is a trandition that still goes on today in Texas. This has lead to some border town popping up and towns that were already there become larger. In Texas, it is often the case that the town on the Mexican side of the border is larger. In short, it wasn't just the US impacted by prohibitin.
Why did all these people think drinking was a religious issue if Jesus gave out wine multiple times in the bible?
Because religious people are hypocrites.
I remember a history teacher I had telling the story of how his granddad got caught bootlegging, but it just so happened he was supplying the speakeasy the cop went to. After that he always got help from the cop.
17:57 well they aren’t French anyway so why would the French care if we stopped calling French fries French
They wouldn’t
they wouldn't its more of an american thing to stick it up to the french whether they cared or not
18:40 In Ontario, the city I live in was once named Berlin but during WWI it was decided to change (by a very few votes)
If been a subscriber since 100 thousand subs and it’s really cool how fast you have grown
It weird to think about how getting alcohol differs from state to state. When I went to Cincinnati and I was in KY. I was blown away by the fact that you could buy liquor from a party store. In Idaho anything that's not beer/wine can only be purchased in a state ran liquor store. Also, if you want to open a restaurant that serves alcohol, you might not be able to because there's only so many liquor licenses. How many a town can give depends on it's population.
On his tax return, Al Capone’s occupation was “Used Furniture Dealer.”
Strange, I’ve been in the former Temperanceville several hundred times, and had absolutely no idea about the history. Thank you.
One of Remus’ speakeasy’s is still open in Cincinnati called the Mount Adams bar and grill. And I went to highschool with his great great grandson.
Woman: talks to Dr Spanky about inventing time travel
VTH: This is absolutely 100% true
"Jesus don't like no acahol."
Jesus -Turned water into wine
Growing up in KY, my parents always laughed that Bourbon County was dry and Church County was wet, however that’s no longer the case. Though Lynchburg, in Moore County, TN, where Jack Daniel’s is made, is still dry…. I assume because the residents just want to use that as an excuse to not drink Jack Daniels.
During a US history course in college, the professor pulled up a good search for Carrie Nation. She clicked on the thumbnail of her and was directed to a fake Celebrity porn site. One of the funniest things to ever happen in class.
So a woman gets sentenced to life in prison for small scale distribution while the man (Remus?) who killed his wife and distributed tonssss of liquor is found not guilty..... smh
Fucking hell, shut up about the past being unfair, it was. Now get over it and stop crying about things from a hundred years ago
My dad grew up in Indianapolis in the 40s and said every house along the street had a false wall or hidden area where they could make wine, moonshine or beer that had been built during prohibition
I’m pretty sure the judge replaced the jury before the actual trial began. Had he done that in the middle of the trial, the judge would’ve probably lost his bench and it would be an easy appeal.
The movie also has Capone’s lawyer change his plea to guilty. Except that wouldn’t work. A lawyer can’t make a decision for his client, and acting against the client’s interests would probably get him disbarred. Capone would just fire him and hire a new lawyer
Frankly, one of the craziest things about the history of vice laws in general since they became a thing in the 19th century..is that the effects were accurately predicted centuries and centuries earlier in the works of moral philosoohers like St. Augustine of Hippo, who in the 5th century accurately described the effects of prohibition.
Watching a Prohibition vídeo, a Jack Daniels AD appears, oh internet, You know me so well
This video makes it look like Americans were smashed all the time. In fact, beer was made in three stages back then. The least alcoholic was for children (basically what we call NA beers now) the middle for normal drinking and the good stuff for sitting back and enjoying a beer. You could drink a ton of the lower values and not get drunk.
Who would have thought we would be EXCITED to see a video of a history teacher reacting to a video. Awesome work.
“So secret, that EVERYBODY knew about them” is honestly funnier than it probably should be
19:52 : *hamilton tune* imagine what gon' happen when they try to tax our whiskey...
I love this guy not only he talks about the vid but other stuff we don't know 🤣
Abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol, and women's suffrage were intertwined 19th c. movements.
"Before you think that's silly...[explains that we were recently silly]."
Chris have you seen Boardwalk Empire? One of my favorite shows of all time. Definitely worthy of checking out 👊🏽
We also have NASCAR because of prohibition. Most of the early drivers were moonshiners in fast cars.
And Al Capone earned the scar when he was trying to get with this woman he liked. After countless times of her rejecting him, he tried to force her to be with him and the woman's brother, named Frank Galluccio defended her, slashing him in the face with a knife.
Oversimplified Quality in General got much better since the last video I watched from them (Civil War)
My great great grandparents ran a small speak easy in their garage. I was lucky enough to have known my great grandpa, he was in hes mid teens when he was helping his father run the speakeasy,.
What a cool story to have in your family history!
@@VloggingThroughHistory it really is. He lived to 103 !
Is there any video about Al Capone?
I found that part very interesting :)
Great commentary very interesting you always have stuff to add
Quick comment about the war on terror : France agreed with the rest of NATO to go at war with Afganistan from the get go. It's Irak that we refused to go as part of the coalition because it was not supported by the UN (the afghan war was not either, but arguments can be made that US acted in self defense, which was not a possible justification for the invasion of Irak). That's why the French fries => Liberty fries is more a 2003-2004 thing than a 9/11 thing.
There's something left over from the toxins placed in some materials for moonshining.
If you buy industrial alcohol (like the stuff that can power cars) it's made extremely bitter to discourage consumption.
I wonder if some of the late 19th century alcoholism wasn't exacerbated by untreated PTSD of Civil War veterans.
They definitely oversimplified Herbert Hoover, and prohibition.
12:28 He turned water into wine, I think hJesus liked alcohol
CARRIE WAS THE FIRST KAREN LMAO. "All countries allowed but Carrie (Karen)" lmao
it wasn't just americans back in the day it wasn't uncommon to consume watered down alcohol it was used in the belief it would purify the water
I just got a beer ad on this video,
Should also be noted that beer was often drank early because water purification really wasn't a thing. You'd get sick from water. Beer, because of the distillation process, was purified, and kept well.
Keep in mind that Germ Theory really didn't get wide acceptance until 1890, until then Miasma Theory was the dominant theory. So it wasn't because early people were raging drunks that they drank alcohol, but because alcohol was generally safer to drink than water. For many of them, the idea of microscopic organisms in the water making them sick, was an utterly foreign concept.
Kansas or at least some counties won’t sell alcohol on Sunday’s. Also 3.2 beer is only available in other counties/states.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt has a fun story after Prohibition. Against Al Smith's presidential campaign she raised a whole lot of anti-catholic sentiment. Smith lost (duh) and when Hoover was elected Willebrandt didn't get what she expected (a promotion to Attorney General). Which lead to her resigning her post as Assistant Attorney General and going into private practice. One of her cases? Defending Vine-Glo against the US Government. Later on she also converted to Catholicism.
29:23 Fun fact: Not only did you have the “grass is greener” effect for communism, you also had it for capitalism. Many Eastern European countries that wanted to get out of the Soviet Union and were super on board with Western prosperity under capitalism later found out that Capitalism too seemed better when they didn’t have it. Many became disillusioned and adopted the attitude of “Well shucks, things may not have been great under communism, but at least we had a baseline standard of living instead of our current poverty.” Higher ceiling, lower floor.
(NOTE: I am _not_ trying to start an argument about which political and economic systems are better; please don’t start that. I’m simply noting that most things seem far better when you can’t have them than when you do - like immortality, or the McRib. It’s a common pattern throughout history and I just thought it was interesting to point out that communism and capitalism were both greener in the farther fields during the Cold War.)
Yep, the movie is called Capone.
Before this video and throughout the video the ads were beer ads 🤣
32:10 she basically ruined his life as well, soo ... self defence?
Not to get political, but the parallels between this and gun control are very eerily similar.
I think it's worth noting myself just how much modern plumbing and water works really changed society in that regard. Getting clean, potable water wasn't an easy or given thing for most of society. You can and would get sick drinking river water even if you settled on it. In part due to just natural processes and in part due to people using rivers as their own garbage dumps and sewers after all. Alcohol however didn't have those problems. Not only that the process of making an alcoholic drink also preserved it, so it'd remain potable for a lot longer.
The frankly majesty we have of being able to just turn on a tap and get fresh, clean water is astounding when you look at it through the historic sense. That we have plentiful, cheap, ready water.. and some people aren't happy with it and demand more purity in bottled water (which is mostly just tap water anyway by the by...) would probably leave anyone from the 19th century absolutely gobsmacked.
Funny story about my Great Grandma "Granny." My Dad and his brothers called her Granny for good reason, she looked, sounded, and acted like Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. Sleep in till 7 AM, half the day has been wasted! However, there was one thing that she was not like Granny. NO ALCHOHOL! When she was 90 years old, she went on a plane for the first time to visit a relative in Florida. When the pilot learned that a 90 year old woman was having her first plane ride, he went back to welcome her aboard. He then made his mistake. He offered her a drink. Granny went into him and lectured him about the evils of drink, and he quickly wished he had stayed in the cockpit.
That's awesome. Also, anyone who is lucky enough to have a living great-grandmother calls her Granny. Mine lived until I was 22 (she was 97), and I loved listening to her stories. However, unlike yours, mine loved to drink until about the last year of her life. She would go to the bar with my aunt, who took care of her, every Sunday, and even though she was wheelchair bound, she would still get on the dance floor, dance as much as she could, and flirt like crazy. I miss her every day.
@@TheNeonParadox I called mine Nanny and my great grandfather Granddad, they lived to be 87 and 92(?) respectively, and granddad was a WWII and Vietnam vet. RIP nanny and granddad kindest souls
My family called our great grandmother gg. She lived until she was 93. Her sister was 103.
“9/11 was 20 years ago.”
Me, who was a junior in high school on 9/11: Well, I feel old.
I hear ya. I was on my honeymoon on the first anniversary of 9/11.
I was in my second year of college, so I hear ya.
I wasn't even born yet
I wasn’t even born yet, and I’ve graduated a year ago
I was just two months old when it happened
"Dr. Spanky you were on the verge of discovering time travel but what did you discover instead?
The sweet sweet taste of whiskey"
*pauses video* Ok this is 100% true
LOL. I THOUGHT THE SAME. 😂
It’s a true story 😳
I just rewatched and just noticed where he paused it and its hilarious
@@DebsStuffs me too lol
If you told me, word for word that this actually happened, I’d believe you.
Man i hated history class in school. Literally just fell asleep. Now im overly obsessed with it. So fascinating.
Megamind was right. "PRESENTATION!"
History is very touchy when it comes to teaching it. I think that, more than any other school subject, it all hinges on who your teacher is. A math or science teacher can really just teach from a textbook and you can still understand it. Teaching history requires more than just the ability to relay facts, it requires the ability to tell a story. More than any other subject, a history teacher needs to be passionate about what they teach in order for their students to like it.
I used to be the same, I despised history for most of my life. But then I had a really good 7th Grade History teacher, and I learned just how much I actually adore it. Now most of my entertainment these days comes from videos like this one. I even almost ended up going for a history degree before life decided it had other plans for me.
Either way, my ultimate point is that History is hard to teach. *Very* hard. The teacher needs to know the subject well, but also be genuinely passionate and be a good storyteller. And frankly, not every teacher is able to be like that.
Stumbled across your channel the other week, and i absolutely love it. Your informative bits, you add into these reaction videos are really whats sets your channel apart. I think its only a matter of time before the youtube algorithm picks your channel up and you explode! Keep up the great videos man!
You're very kind, sir! Thank you.
You weren't wrong... 100k subs
@@VloggingThroughHistory I know, it's the internet, BUT I'm 50 yo and couldn't help but love OverSimplified's videos. These additions of yours really enhance the experience and even make me more of a fan of OverSimplified's work since the facts seem to be reasonably validated. While I know this could be gamed, and that 'History is written by the winners' has .such Truth in it, I still very much appreciate your efforts.
Just came from the American Civil War vid.
I'm sure someone has mentioned this, Jack Daniels is distilled in a dry Kentucky county.. talk about irony
Tennessee*
@@nicholasc3694 It is quite ironic, I'm glad daviess county ky isnt dry. Glad I can drink Kentucky tavern that my aunt probably bottled at work. My old middle school is right next to glenmore distillery where Kentucky tavern and other bourbons are bottled.
It's great that you are growing so quickly!I like how you aren't biased towards just American history.
Very cool
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Carrie A Nation is buried in our local cemetery and I live really close to it
Awesome. Where is she buried?
@@VloggingThroughHistory Belton mo cemetery
Go visit the old bag
@@VloggingThroughHistory one of us
I had a history professor that really tried to defend prohibition. They put up this chart about how drinking went significantly down in the US during prohibition. Statistics bother me. So I asked “how were these numbers gathered.” Apparently by public questionnaire. “Ok, so who is going to admit to someone that they break the law. That’s like asking someone off the street if they do heroin. If the same standards were used I’m sure that they would say that the war on drugs has been a great success since people say they don’t use drugs.”
That professor did not like me very much.
"and you doctor spanky, you were on the cusp of discovering time travel, bug what did you discover instead?' 'alchohol"
"this is completely accurate"
Me: wtf someone almost discovered time travel?!?!
“Pilsner, traditional Czech beer”
Wow, even the bottle, even being cartoonish, is right.
Úspěchy máme i v zahraničí :)
Pilsner, the traditional Czech beer made by the Germans.
@@dannymunch4633 Created, not made. And a German, not Germans.
Wait… I thought Pilsner is German?? It doesn’t even sound czech.
@@linajurgensen4698 Pilsner Urquell in German, Plzeňský Prazdroj in Czech. It’s from Plzeň, CZ.
"you wouldn't download a car"... trust me, if I could download a car, I would have. And not once.
*Laughs in 3d Printer*
I remember reading that coffee helped spark the first industrial revolution. Apparently everyone was just drunk beforehand, and coffee was a new way to consume water while being able to remove bacteria/viruses etc.
@@smortboi1320 that’s wild I now have a whole new fascination with just sitting in a Starbucks on the internet now lol
Where there's a market there's a way ya know?
Coffee is the fuel of modern society
Well, coffee definitely had an impact in Europe. When the Ottomans discovered coffee plants in Yemen, they came with the idea of drinking it and to create purpose-built public places for its consumption, which were the first coffee shops. They were not only a great source of revenue for the Sultan, but also a place to hang out with people and discuss ideas. At some point, Western Europeans (maybe some battles like Lepanto played a role on it) liked the idea and introduced coffee consumption in Europe... And the rest is history.
Good. I am not the only guy that loves history that is from Ohio.
I am actually from kirtland Ohio
Pickaway 🤟
did you know that in 1895 there were only 2 cars in Ohio and they crashed into eachother
Through history in europe, since the fall of Rome, people drank alcohol because it was a way of purifying the water. Most fresh water sources were polluted by bacteria (cholora etc) which were distroyed by heating the water. But heating water is expensive, so you make a product like weak beer which not only is safe to drink but can be stored. With the industrial revolution came improved public health (mostly), which included improved water quality - the fountains described are a reflection of this, thus the drinking of alcohol for public health in cities no longer became a necessity in most situations.
And there's also the fact that the strength of alcohol in the last 200 years has skyrocketed compared to human history because of distilleries. So people would drink 'beer' in medieval times but it was a lot closer to water anyway
That's why I heard that european people handle alcohol better than chinese people. Instead of using alcohol to purify water, for centuries Chinese people used tea and thus avoided a natural selection for alcohol unlike europeans.
Thats a myth, the alcohol levels in the beer they wouldve drank were not high enough to stop life from growing in it.
One thing that truly bothers me is how many people seem to forget that the things we take as basic human things, like clean drinking water, was hardly a guarantee.
I appreciate the time you have taken in each video I have watched of yours to mention that it was a different time.
Still to today, a billion people or so don't have access to drinkable water
shamsudeen m a I can't recall off the top of my head but I think it's 1/3 of the worlds population has drinking water that's considered unsafe for human consumption.
@@sirshotty7689That sounds a bit high, but my cynical side says it's probably right.
@@operator8014 so the 1/3 statistic was from a monitoring program from the span of 2000-2017. There was a newer statistic that states that in 2020 74% of the global population used safely managed drinking water services. Meaning that it’s safe for consumption, readily available, and within close proximity of the population. Do with that what you will. Either way whether 1/3 or 1/4 while it’s a major difference it still means a lot of people don’t have quick access to safe drinking water.
I think you'd really love the channel 'History Buffs'. He talks about the accuracy of historical movies, and I'd love to see you react to some of his videos!
I do love that channel!
He doesn't tend to be very good on the actual history, though, he tends to just go with pop-history or the kind of shocking did-you-know narratives that aren't given much credence by historians. His Agora video is somehow worse history than the movie itself and his views on Alexander are kind of, um, _insteresting_ as well. Not to mention the long stupid rant after Dances With Wolves where he shows a picture of a CS gas grenade and claims it's a concussion grenade.
@@CruelestChris it really wasn’t a long stupid rant, he was relating the death of the west and the decline of Native American society to the expansion of the pipeline. Which is illegally being built on *their* land
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No, the particular part I'm talking about is when he starts talking about "concussion grenades" while showing an image of a casing that clearly shows "CS" (tear gas) and then a diagram of a tear gas grenade from the manufacturer's website that shows it's not what he says it is. "Concussion" is a type of _lethal_ grenade also known as an "offensive" hand grenade, where the primary mechanism of wounding is blast rather than fragmentation (such that a soldier can throw it and not immediately have to take cover as with a "defensive" frag grenade). Even if you assume he was educated in grenade nomenclature at the school of Call of Duty, that would make it a stun grenade, which the grenades he shows aren't either.
He fixates on it being an "instantaneous blast" grenade without noticing this "blast" is only from a tiny detonator with no explosive payload (ie it's what's called a bursting-type chemical grenade, a type designed to deploy its contents instantly with a small explosive charge rather than over time as in a burning-type), and fails to notice that the filler is the entire body of the grenade and is listed as OC (pepper spray), CN (mace) or CS (tear gas). The right answer isn't just within reach, it is _in his hand!_
Also I don't think the courts have ever ruled that the pipeline's construction is anything but legal: the case that's dealing with whether Trump had a right to issue the permit for construction is still ongoing.
He has some interesting vids, and I usually watch everything of him. But I have my questionmarks about some of his findings. Full of praise about Waterloo, whilst that movie ignores a significant number of non-Brit coalition members (only half of Wellington's army was British IIRC). Midway also looks like a Pearl Harbor ep II to me (Zero's strafing the streets of Honolulu between three tops?) instead of a realistic war movie.
TL&DR he makes entertaining vids, but I would take it all with a grain of salt.
40:00 I remember reading that Capone would walk around with a Tommy Gun because the technology was so new there were not any laws prohibiting it for a time. Not sure if that is true.
Well, the National Firearms Act, which cracked down on (without prohibiting, that came decades later) machine guns, was passed partially in response to the gang violence of Prohibition, so there may be something to this.
5:48 Although that is true, here's a little fun fact many of you might have not known, about 60 percent of women at that time opposed the women fighting for the right to vote. They did that because the right to vote would naturally come with many big responsibilities they couldn't fulfill while also being the main parenting figure to their child/children. Just a little something I thought would be interesting to say
I agree with you that not all women supported the right to vote (or the later equal rights amendment - I even wrote a brief paper on that in my Constitutional Law course while studying to be a paralegal). I haven't heard the 60% figure before, though. Do you have a source for that? I'd love to learn more!
I was raised in Topeka, KS & I never knew Carrie Nation smashed a saloon here in town. The main local historical event I learned about was Brown vs Board. Makes me wonder what else happened in Topeka that I never knew about! Lol
Is the saloon still there?
@@Jasper-Holland no idea! I would have to look into it to see where exactly it was located
12:30 meanwhile Jesus: turns water into wine, after people had already drunk a ton, so they could get even more smashed.
Based dude
@@Psycorde I wish I knew wtf "based" means. I've seen it used so much for the past year and I still haven't come close to figuring it out
@@racool911 I'm fairly sure it's something Redditors use, usually in response to a political point, mostly when it's right-winger, when they agree. Not sure why, but everyone seems to be using it.
@@somethingoriginal72 Hilariously I've seen it used on every platform besides Reddit. At first I thought it was biased but misspelled but now I'm not so sure. And I first saw it on political posts too, but now I see it everywhere
@@racool911 I think it was originally used as a Reddit political term, but now people use it to mean pretty much everything.
It's funny how when we learn about the roaring 20s in elementary school, we learn about how people partied and listened to jazz music, but while that was all happening, bootleggers were smuggling alcohol and mobsters were shooting each other in the streets.
You learned about the roaring 20s? I'm entering high school and all school has taught us history wise is the discovery of America and the American revolution about 8 times over
@Conner Wine true, I'm talking about how my schools wouldn't even talk about the parties or jazz from the 20s, or any kid friendly history, only the american revolution
@Conner Wine The Revolution was *not* kid friendly if you really go deep into it.
@@PokeMario-pk4ot yo, take this class called APUSH junior year, it's not too difficult and it really dives deep into US history. I'm taking it rn.
@@PokeMario-pk4ot I think its mostly taught in 9th grade
46:27 Are we just going to ignore that Waldo from "Where's Waldo" in the background?
Well spotted 😂
My great grandad was actually a moonshiner during this point. He was friends with the chief so hed warn him and theyd hide it all
During this video i realised 2 things
1: theres a batman picture hanging on the wall of the courtroom
2: its 1500 prohibition agents not 15000...
How the hell did they expected to enforce this ?
Yeah, he didn't say 15,000
I think they expected that local and state police would help shoulder the burden, but most state governments couldn't have cared less about spending money on enforcing Prohibition.
@@DavidSSabb for a variety of reasons it has to be said.
Some thought "Prohibition? What a load of hogwash!"
Others went "We have more important things to do! Like dealing with ACTUAL crime!"
and again others "Why should we deal with that? That's Federal stuff. Not our problem."
They literally thought they lived in a Saturday morning cartoon. Except Clutch Cargo wouldn't arrive for another 30 or so years.
You do a great job man; this is my third video of yours and you have phenomenal input making great original content even better. Well done!
I appreciate that! Welcome to the channel.
I’m from Ohio, born and raised. I am a history buff and i law student. Learning about that case about your great great grandmother would’ve been amazing 🙏🏾💯
PLEASE TELL ME YOU'RE JOKING PLSSSSSS
If I could say anything about Wayne Wheeler, and this is pure honesty, it's that he contradicted himself time and time again.
For several hundred years, it was often safer to drink alcohol than water