We try to match Churchill drink for drink… send help.
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2022
- Winston Churchill consumed a legendary amount of alcohol and smoke on a daily basis. We’re joined by friend, comedian, and Churchill nerd, Andrew Heaton - to TRY and live on the icon’s schedule for one day. Was Churchill’s drinking routine a clever tactic to reinforce a larger-than-life reputation, or are we underestimating the challenge? For more information on Diamond Crown cigars, J.C. Newman, and to win your own Diamond Crown Whiskey set, you can visit bit.ly/3sJEaFN
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Winston Churchill was also 5'6" and lived to be 90 years old. The man makes absolutely no sense on paper, which adds to his legend.
He must have been a reptilian overlord who is of course disguised as a human. Makes more sense then a perpetually drunk alchoholic chainsmoking primeminister who lead brittain through ww2 and lived to be 90 and according to the coments ...took amphetamines and barbiturates
He always believed he had a destiny from a young age. The amount of crazy stuff he survived through his life is phenomenal.
Churchill was a young soldier in India, they could not drink the water there as it wold make you sick so they had to either mix it with alcohol (which killed the nasties in it) or at least drink something like beer. My grandfather who was also in the British army of that era ended up moving to Spain because he got sick of paying the high taxes on tobacco and booze, he literally drank gin all day, and chain smoked. Lived to 96. It's weirdly common for that generation. Almost like their body adapted to it.
@@nikc888 Do you hear a lot about those that died at 50 or 60? No. You only hear about those who lived to be 80+ who were chain smokers...
Very rich man with access to everything, the best food, full nutrition as a child, a doctor as fast as a poor guy could run and get him one, never did manual labour, etc etc etc.
It's no different now. The queen, Prince Phil, Murdoch, Kissinger, that old walking army dude last year, Soros, the old ginger fella who owned lad Vegas, king of Oman who just died or wherever it was. All hit their 90s at least afaik
As a famous drunk poet once said: “I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing but I’m drunk enough to really enjoy doing it”
RIP
"a liquor captain never abandons a sinking shit-ship"
Ah yes, the same great man and his famous war speech "Julian"... *SMASH*
ah yes, Jim Lahey, the great
Lim Jahey. Nice to meet ya bud.
"There are two kinds of problem drinkers: Those who drink too much and those who drink too little!"
-Churchill
The fact that he was drinking a glass of water every hour throughout the day probably contributed a lot to how long he lived, since the amount of whisky was pretty minute
@@i_omac8614 No, Minuet is not the word he was looking for, Minuet is a particular type of dance/music that originates from France and linguistically comes from the French and Italian words "Menuet" and "Minuett." Minute has several definitions and at least two different pronunciations.
@@MugenHeadNinja The word he was intending was menstrual.
Right
Came from long expeditions without! ..H2O
@@MugenHeadNinja all the slaps in the world are not enough for a annoying person like you
One prestigious lady once said to him, “Sir, if I were your wife, I’d poison you’re tea.” He instantly shot back, “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
Lol I feel that
What a legend indeed.
Who was this prestigious lady?
@@kaelkirkby9191 Nancy astor, the first women mp
🤣
Churchill once said that a magnum sized bottle of wine is a good amount for a lunch of two people, especially if the other person is drinking water
Churchill also once said "thenatzlensjkaööögn"
@@maggoteater2290 baaaaah the french
@@ethanwiley7605 That was Orson Welles, though the principle does apply.
@@maggoteater2290 "ineneeeventhahiswaweeinenado"
I don't normally rewatch stuff. But four times this has appeared in my feed, and four times I have sat through the entire thing. The chemistry between these two is just fantastic and a joy to watch and hear.
me too haha
This is my second time through, and hey, if it shows up again, I'll definitely be watching it again!!
No one needed your insight since it adds nothing.
@@VTheMighty Someone's upset a random geezer on the internet had positive engagement. Hope the rest of your day goes better, chap, and thanks for getting me to watch through once again, always enjoyable.
I know right? I wish they'd make more videos like this together. I'd also recommend Cold Ones if you're into similar kind of content :D
Btw, cigar bands (reusable and made from silk) were popular among the upper class to keep fingers and gloves protected from the nicotine and smoke odor before paper ones were repurposed into advertising
As an Englishman I too spend all day adding "u"s to words.
It's the only honourable way to add colour and flavour to a world that can often provoke rancour and ruin my demeanour with it’s odour, undermining my ardour, candour and fervour.
This comment needs *more* likes. 👍🏻
I learned to read from English^2 books in my local library in Germany as a child, and when we later moved to the US, all of my teachers had really ignorant fits over both my use of 'ou' in words as well as my German 7's. 'Murica
@@rorysimpson8716 america, the land of the free (as long as you colour within the lines)
Bravo.
'Drop the U, it's cleaner' - Ben Franklin.
I think Tyrion Lannister said it best: "It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it if it were easy."
🤣
Have you seen Whitnail and I? Classic English movie with lots of discussion and consumption of alcho.
id rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy 😜
short, heavy drinker and brilliant political mind ? Is Tyrion the Med-Fan version of Winston Churchill ?
@@ryancronk6762 Tom Waits, and just like Churchill, heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has outlived many of his "healthier" contemporaries.
This video is a great reminder to judge a man not on what he drinks or eats or smokes, but what he says and what he does.
My grandad lived to 98 he ate only small portions, only ate 3 wee meals a day, no junk food at all all home cooked, he had a 6 pack in his 70's, smoked 40 a day till he stopped at 86 (for his health 😂) and drank whisky every night, tea which had to be stewed on the hob with 3 sugars & milk or water during the day he was a farmer who only left our home farm for the 6 years of the ww2, he proved to me that moderation and being happy are the key to longevity
me mum lived to 99 on pure spite 😂
@@JR-tr1df hilarious mate lol
I have read that Churchill suffered from manic depression, and an anxiety disorder. He may have been self medicating. Even today, modern drugs don't control these conditions very well.
Lincoln was told that Grant was a raving alcoholic. Lincoln replied, tell me what he is drinking so I can send some to all my generals.
Grant was a heavy drinker, but also was leading the most brutal American war, while being harrassed and called a butcher. After sending man after man to die he most likely suffered from depression, extreme pressure, self hatred, PTSD, so on, only cure was the bottle sadly.
Edit: It believed at one point he finally broke down and started to cry, this is of course after getting the death report of his men he sent out....
as someone with anxiety, alcohol does manage it fairly effectively
@Ayethere M8 Oh I have pretty severe anxiety. And no, alcohol doesn''t make it go away 100% :)
@@gmart225 makes it 100 times worse the next day tho
The drugs we have today effect the same receptors as alcohol but alcohol has a short duration of action and the pills last for hours.
The problem is the long duration of the pills creates a strong tolerance, alcohol does this too but because of its shorter duration the body has time to adjust.
Both are not very good for anxiety management in the long run and should be coupled with some form of therapy
The man was the very definition of functional alcoholic, and my hypothesis is that he *somehow* pickled himself through liquor, cigars and shear spite to stay alive as long as he did.
He and Grant both.
Look I turned myself into a pickle, Grant!
I'm Pickle Churchiiiiill
My grandma did the same thing.
My uncles all the same ... white rum (generally a fifth) daily and cruised into their mid- to late 90s.
You know your an alcoholic when you consider Winston Churchills daily consumption of alcohol isn't that bad.
One thing to add: as plenty of folks here have said, Churchill built up quite the tolerance over the course of his life, but he was as much of a prodigious eater as he was a drinker! My understanding is that he frequently had as close to a full English breakfast as possible most mornings, and he certainly wasn't skimping on lunch or dinner, which may have contributed to that famous tolerance. Others can discuss the science of it (not my specialty, hahaha), but it's worth noting!
he was a walking dead
This is by far one of the most enjoyable episodes to return to once and a while.
Yup! I come back to it every 4-6 months
The fact he lived to 90 is a absolute miracle.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”~ Winston Churchill.
Why is that a miracle?
@@Gismo3333 Smoking and drinking as much as he did. Plus the stress he must have had from running a war effort. Surprised he didnt have some sort of cancer or disease
Liquid courage that is.
Yes - Do Carry On! Great quote - words to live by
✌
How did we get through this episode without one of Churchill's greatest burns on his drinking!?!???
At a gathering, a lady told him she considered him to be a disgraceful drunk. He replied "Madam, by morning I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly!"
Savage!😂😂😂
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me”
Actually, that never happened... but it is a good story and Winston was a drunk.
Realistically, him being sober in the morning would not last long.
Misattributed
I’m not sure who it was it might have been a random woman. But Churchill was told by one woman….
Madam: Mr. Churchill if you were my husband I would rightly put arsenic in your tea.
Churchill: Madam, and if I was your husband, I would gladly drink it.
My god the dapper gentleman is hilarious. What a fantastic drinking partner. You two bounce of each other so well.
So I'm new to your content, and I am not a huge whiskey person. A lot of whiskey/cigar channels are very worried about looking "masculine." And it was refreshing to see guys hanging out, and not being afraid of "looking gay." Idc if y'all are, but it's nice to see a couple guys that don't give a damn.
I also have no idea how you even got that far in his routine; I would be absolutely plastered.
"I'm at that point where i'm playful and jokey and not yet violent" is my favourite line, deffinitely using this one at the pub
LOL. Yes! Got me too. Giggled a bit and wife gave me a funny look.
Mere moments later: "Fuck you Siri." And so, it begins.
"Parked his car on the steps of parliament and threatened to kill Tony Blair" is probably the most British thing you will hear today
*parks in front of the pairlament
*strides in
*dies
*now government is mandated by law to give him a state funeral
*own’d
A lot of people have said they want to kill Tony Blair. He is one of those cockroaches that can survive anything. Just keeps on going and becoming more vulgar by the decade… 🪳
This is, hands down, one of my most favorite episodes. Thank you.
16:25 I just love how that line is delivered, just that "I am very clever" is so good
Andrew already knows this, I learned it from him, but Churchill also took amphetamine and phenobarbital every day. Barbiturates synergize with alcohol, so the amphetamine was probably what was actually keeping him conscious.
(Edit: Winston took a drug called Drinamyl, which contained amobarbital, NOT phenobarbital, and specifically dextroamphetamine, the right hand isomer of amphetamine freebase.)
Christ, barbiturates with high volumes of alcohol, not only is that dangerous I'm surprised he was able to retain any information he received, his short term memory must have been shit, must have had a good secretary for keeping notes. The amphetamines probably did keep him on his feet but with the barbiturates and alcohol it wouldn't do shit for his memory.
@@andrewrivera1054 Its honestly shocking that he lived through his cigar habit alone. Several of the actors who have tried to keep up with his habit(he inhaled those) got light cases if nicotine poisoning even though they smoked cigarettes before switching for the role.
@@andrewrivera1054 As far as his memory, it was sharp as a trap up untill he declined by age alone.
@@PostPatriot1978 and he lived to the age of 90. 90! Those aristocratic genes man
That was the early days before science knew much about those drugs and the general idea was if a doctor said it was ok, it was 100%safe. And what he got was probably as clean as it gets out of a lab.
The barbs and amphetamines that gave them a bad name 3 decades later are poorly synthesized from pharmaceutical industry labs or made by backyard chemists from industrial grade chemicals like cleaners and all that.
I wouldn't mind getting some of that Sandoz Industries stuff from back then. People who said they got dosed back then say it was way, way better and cleaner than any of this these days after the recipes have been tainted.
At the beginning when they thought Churchill exaggerated the amount that he drank. Genuinely, having grown up as the son of a pub landlord, I can say that he probably drank way more. 'Superhuman' drinking is known in England as 'Getting on the piss' and I have known men to drink 20 pints (60 units) of strong beer every single day, which is way more than a recommended WEEKLY amount.
I used to drink 24 beers a day . This all can be possible and manageable but not for a lot of people. People get to rowdy as we say in Canada
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@@spryatol2808 For a while I was drinking a bit too much, and once in a while I got pretty drunk, not blackout drunk but balance was a bit of an issue. However, at one particular night I went overboard (on my own terms of course) if I can recall I drank about 75% of the bottle of a cheap whiskey I bought mixed with coke, the drink of course (50cl apparently) a full bottle of Jager in the form of Jagerbombs (35cl) half of bottle of a, please don't laugh, Rose (75cl) mixed with soda. After, I called my friend who was working late, said some stupid stuff, we both laughed our asses off, then he prank called me with one of his female coworkers and I called it a night. Tomorrow morning I got up with immense pressure around the area of my kidneys, it continued on for a while and at this time I think I got used to it, I don't even feel that sensation anymore but I don't think I'm better. And out of fear and laziness I don't go to a doctor, since the outcome might come out as "Your drinking days are over." and I don't think I can handle that, not at my mid-twenties.
HOWEVER, my main point, in the form of a question, is: How the f*ck do you drink 24 beers a day and not have any problems with your health? My dad was a hard drinker for the most part of his life and passed away from something unrelated and on top of that my mother's side are slavic, and still drink a f*ck ton while nearing their 80s, so genes aren't suppose to be a problem. I don't get it. I don't wanna be miserable throughout the rest of my life... Anyways sorry for the "book" I've just typed and thanks for reading.
2 pints an hour for 10 hours a day thems whats makes the alcoholics, in most pubs known as “the regulars”
My grandfather is Irish. My grandmother's side is French specifically Norman French going way back with Scandinavian roots. Born in Canada.
I can drink like a frigging fish. Don't drink suoer often but cask strength whiskey and rum and a 750ml bottle by myself is nothing. I think it's just genetic honestly.
I went out with a friend on Friday and hit a few bars, I am 6’4 and 250lbs and I was done for the night after 4 pints, a corona and 2 shots. 20 pints a day? Not only is that just an insane amount of liquid but I would be beyond alcohol poisoning at that point
This is the first video I ever watched from you guys. I was cackling with laughter through the whole video! And I love scotch and cigars, I can’t believe I hadn’t stumbled across this video and channel sooner! Shout out to WhiskeyTribe and the RUclips algorithm!!!
Alcohol addiction actually destroyed my life. I could remember several years ago after divorce with my wife which brought me into my disastrous journey with Alcohol. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Ireland. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I'm really happy for you that your wife decided to help you...I hear about alot of family members or so called friends shutting an addict out of their life, which since most addicts do it to mask emotions to me is the worse thing someone can do to an addict.
How do i reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
As a once long time alcoholic I can tell you it's all tolerance. I could function pretty much no problem on over a liter of whiskey. Getting close to the second liter was an issue though.
What brand of whiskey was your go to?
@@Furio666 Jim Beam mainly because I was pretty broke at the time. Jameson or Makers when I had the money.
@@gibbyg2001 oh yeah man. When I was really heavy in the booze (Evan Williams and Miller Lite) it was a couple doubles to get me going, a “tasting” at work (liquor store), and another fifth with a few beers at home after work. Never really ever felt all that drunk, just felt like shit 24/7. Before that it was like 18pk of beer at night, tall boy at lunch, rinse and repeat. Again, only ever felt drunk at night after the 18 was gone. It’s 100% tolerance. Little practice I could finish this day like it was my fkn job.
Yeah, as a previous functioning alcoholic myself, this didn’t even look like a lot to drink. Like a WHOLE day to drink that? With a nap? No problem.
Hell a friend of mine use to drink a handle of vodka a day, and then go to the bar.
He was a bit worse and less functioning than I was.
Absolutely, the cigars would wreck me way worse.
The guy without the beard has an incredible voice. He needs to go into voice acting if he isn’t a voice actor already
Funny, I was thinking that about the guy with the beard.
Lolol except he literally says he has a podcast 🤣
The clean shaven guy?
He reminds me of Dan from Deadwood. Just smaller.
He sounds like a posh american
Ha! I think you have to grow into such habit. Trying it for a day would certainly have consequences. 🙂There are tree things to consider regarding the drinking: Champagne: 1- Churchill drank brut champagne, that is champagne that did not get added sugar after riddling the bottles, less sugar less alcohol. 2- champagne of the 1930s had less alcohol in it then 'modern' champagne and the alcohol was strictly natural and not induced with glycol, 3- the bottle he drank wwere imperial size so about 530ml not 750ml like our current bottles.
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That being this was an excellent way to spend 20 minutes and I discovered Andrew Heaton, that is a very good day. Thank you.
Andrew Heaton is a surefire way to get me to watch literally anything.
“People are overblowing his drinking. He would only have two or three shots of top shelf whiskey in the morning. After which he would have a pint of champagne with lunch. That’s no big deal” lol
A pint of champagne is like over half a bottle lol
@@tweisbek2 Which is not much really.
@@tweisbek2 And champagne is only around 12% alcohol. It's like having a few beers. He averaged less than a drink an hour which is slower than the human body processes alchol. Add on top of that the fact that he drank regularly and would have had a tolerance, and he probably didn't even catch a buzz unless he went out of his way to.
@@ev6558 was this his everyday though? He was human, if this was his minimum amount he would drink i wonder how much he would drink when stressed/celebrating.
Thats absurd
“Smoking cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by it’s shape; You stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!” Churchill.
I come back to this video from time to time. It doesn't get old.
he was chill like that.
I was a pretty hard alcoholic in my late teens through my twenties. While it doesn't seem tenable that Churchill drank this amount on a daily basis - to an alcoholic, it absolutely is. You have to remember that he lived like this day in and day out for decades.
Your body adapts to the alcohol and eventually, you build a tolerance. At my worst, I was drinking a 30 pack of Milwaukee's Best Ice, and a 5th of either Jack Daniel's, Evan William's, or Wild Turkey (Those were my usual.) And that all varied. That was damn near daily.
Churchill was doing it much longer than I was, so his tolerance must have been impressive.
But it is absolutely possible, especially considering it was a part of his daily routine for a long time.
Hope you're doing well now!
And then you get korsakoff's syndrome
He also lived to a very advanced age, in an age where most senior doctors trained via apprenticeship and permanganate was considered a useful mouthwash
that's insane. I didn't realise that was even possible to do without dying. Amazing what your body can get used to
@@charlesc.9012 Permanganate is a good mouthwash, what do you mean
“Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal;
It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Churchill would be proud of you boys.
This is phenomenal banter.
I genuinely wasn’t expecting to see Andrew Heaton in this, but I’m happy
The cigar band serves a triple purpose. It helps hold the wrapper intact, protects the fingers from stain and scent of tobacco, and is an eye-catcher due to the design..... I just had to know!
I hear you.. But.. Cigar beans
"Cigars are comprised of three different types of leaves: filler leaves, binder leaves, and the wrapper. Binder and filler tobacco leaves make up the interior of a cigar's ingredients. Binder leaves come from the middle of the tobacco plant and are harder and rougher to the touch."
That's what I googled. woo, knowledge
@@Broockle "..... I just had to know!" Is the indication that I Googled. I apologise if my comment offended you in anyway. I hope you can get over this trauma and continue on a positive path. Please remember that my thoughts are with you on this long journey to recovery.
@@g3ntl323
uhh... o... I think I know what happened.
You think I'm correcting you smh?
Not my intention at all.
I thought I made that clear with "woo knowledge". my bad.
Hope I didn't offend you smh.
Helps protect the fingers.... False. How the hell would anyone believe that bs?!?
Churchill's daily drinking and eating habits were essentially me at a wedding weekend.
As an Englishman that plate of Fish and Chips was almost as offensive as cutting in line!
"Mr Churchill you are drunk..."
"Yes madam, and you are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober."
“Mr. Churchill, if I were your wife, I’d poison your tea!”
“Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it!”
When he said "it's called edging" I nearly lost it. Andrew is staggeringly funny.
This episode was absolutely incredible. I've done three cigars in a day once ever and that exhausted me. I can't imagine going through that many. The humor in this episode made it so damn enjoyable. Cheers gentlemen, thank you for doing this research for all of us.
I couldn't imagine smoking that much. I remember going too hard on a single cigar and ended up getting nicotine sickness. Now, if I even remotely feel sickness coming on, I stop, it was awful. Though I am a lightweight when it comes to all things intoxicating.
Pretty sure we need a Junkies edition
@@ericmcdaniel2719 preferably a Meth Head.
@@braxlucky5718 "matching Ozzy stab for stab"
@@ComeGetSome5297on weekends, if I go out for lunch, then dinner and after dinner, I've gotten up to 6 cigars. And I'm talking about 2 robustos, 2 toros and 2 torpedoes.
i just want to say this was a thoroughly enjoyable episode with much laughter to be had by me. please if you can good sir do more of these maybe in a series of different people trying on Churchills daily routing for some fun and frivolous frolics (Although Andrew Heaton's whit is very sharp, good job good sir). Awesome, got my sub 1y after it was made 👍
You guys got the balls to smoking cigars in a video. Respect 🙏
The only person in history that I know of that could out-drink Churchill was Oliver Reed. He used to start the day with a pint of gin and orange which was around 80% gin. This was not a maleria thing, it was an Olly Reed thing. He owned his own orchard and cidery, specialising in over strength scrumpy. He drank every single batch himself. According to Ronny Wood (his neighbor and close friend after thier initial encounter involving a helicopter, a shotgun and a buck ass naked Oliver) he refused to allow anyone else to so much as taste his cider. It was his and his alone.
And died after a drinking competition with English sailors.
@@bananaempijama That's my boy! Go out swinging and swigging.
Oliver Reed...did he not play the violent robber Bill Sikes in the musical Oliver?
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 The very same.
Andre the Giant probably wipes the floor with them all if the stories are true.
True story: This video inspired me and my best friend to do this last Halloween. In case you were wondering, it's actually way harder than you think
Tell ‘em you’re a frat boy…
And here you are bragging about it…your parents must be so proud.
@@Mydogisbetterthanyou1go get 15 more booster shots beta
@@shanefowler9443 I've had 18 covid shots, evenly dispersed between the J&J, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines. I'm the only one in my massive family who hasn't had covid, and they all got vaxed too, although nowhere near to how many i've had. I've been exposed multiple times, f'd my girl while she had it, ate out of the same bowl, with the same fork, and drank out of the same glass as my best friend who had it, and never contracted it. The vaccines work, you just gotta mix and match them, and get a bunch.
@@shanefowler9443Bro what lmao, go back to the Incel corner of the interwebs
My grandfather smoked Harvester cigars all day every day. He woke up to a lowball whiskey sour and a teaspoon of cod liver oil every morning and would have a drink or two throughout the day, He lived well into his 90s. He was a tall thin very happy and jolly man who loved fishing.
The most profound effect of heavy drinking for me, and for most people ,is the morning bounce-back anxiety as the booze wears off. The only way to hold it off is....more booze . But it's still there all day and in a way kind of acts like speed and creates this loop where it let's you drink more as it makes you NEED to drink more . So in my opinion thats the real reason he started the day with some watered down scotch . It was the 30's and 40's after all, he would have known plenty of other ways to keep his water safe I've known many around the clock drinkers that I never saw actually drunk . They just kept one drink ahead of the withdrawal anxiety . Had neighbors that between the 2 of them would go through a gallon a day of Cutty Sark and still go about their business. I keep it down to a few a night with a cigar myself now. If I go past 4 that bounce back hits me.
Real tho i accidently became alcoholic last year
I didn't even know withdrawal was real but it was honestly the worst pain i've probably felt
I freaking loved this!!! I want to try the Churchill challenge but fear bankruptcy and divorce!!
I think my wife and I will try it together.
Speaking as a Churchill, our spouses tend to keep up with us
@@safetymikeengland well? What are the results?
would be wonderful with fancy upper class meals also, hope you do try it!
@@safetymikeengland ...And that's the last we heard of him 😂
"I could punch a few Belgians" is my new favourite whiskeytribe quote
Please do
My advice, don't go to Beguim.
First of all they'll beat the shit out of you,
plus, the country is a toilet.
As a German I can also back this statement
@@jonhelmer8591 Laughing my Belgian *ss off. 😁
Come at me
Entertainment every second. Andrew has some serious David Tennant hair - 100%. Respect.
5:20 There's the whisky kicking in.🤣
I'll give Winston a break, he went through a clusterfuck nobody would keep their sanity without getting soooo hammered.
i'm sure some level of guilt over his horrendous treatment of the Irish helped fuel the drinking.
@@CloudianMH Don't forget Gallipoli, which was one of his commands and a failure of monumental proportions. A lot of people theorize he had deep regret and self-loathing for how many men he got killed in that invasion.
@@justusbladetooth nonsense, that was the military's blunder, they landed on the wrong beach.
He whiskeyed down his water. That is truly a bold and innovative move, and just one of many reasons why I can see the amount of respect he's shown by the British people.
*Whiskyd. This is Scotch whisky, not Irish whiskey. Also he is actually more of a controversial figure than non Brits realise. His sexism, racism, collonialist outlook, and his military incompetence in the first world war as well as his ignoring of major details and events in the second world war mean he is not actually as revered as perhaps he once was. His legacy seems more as a 'mad lad' than as a great leader nowadays. The Bengal famine, the ignoring of intelligence regarding the holocaust, adn the WW1 failings at Gallipololi (his personal fault) are looked at under a different lense nowadays.
@@citizenerased1992 What a load of nonsense. Churchill had organized a relief effort for the Bengals that couldn't get through because the Japanese were blockading the major shipping routes from AUS to India with submarines. Once the blockade was lifted, the famine ended.
He personally took responsibility for Gallipoli and stepped down the Lord of the Admiralty, serving the rest of the war as a Captain of an infantry company in Flanders. If you had read any biography of Churchill, you would know this.
Ignoring of intelligence regarding the Holocaust? The fuck? What the hell were the British supposed to about it? Not only was the Holocaust taking place in areas far, far away from the British isles, it would take until 1944 when Britain and the United States felt confident enough to launch a major counteroffensive after the Italian campaign had become a stalemate. If anything, Britains victory at El Alamein prevented the sizeable Jewish population of then-Palestine, now Israel to fall into the Germans hands.
So would you rather be taken over by nazis or what…
@@Donnerbalken28revisionist historian says what?
"They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits"
damn youre right, churchill was a living saint xD@@Donnerbalken28
Amazing chemistry and incredibly funny
This was amazing. You should do more historical alcoholic re-enactments with Heaton. It could give him new ideas for losers pretenders and scoundrels!
who is heaton?
@@colinvannbohemen11 check the description
The Hunter S. Thompson day
The greatest eccentric guy in British history was Lord Bath, who died a few years ago. He opened the first safari outside of Africa in the grounds of his mansion, had chicks who he called "wifelets", hippies stayed there in the 60s taking acid and shit and he spent a lot of his later life painting. What a dude
yea I used to know him great guy
Just saw this today. This is probably the coolest YT video I have ever seen
the editing of this is sublime, love the dazed look at 20:15 then a few seconds later it cuts back to him opening another bottle
Cigars man. They always up the hangover effects for me and I've never even sniffed 5 or 6 cigars in a day. Good lord. But that said, this is the kind of shenanigans I have been wanting to see! More please, sirs.
Absolutely. The feel in your mouth after a day of drinking and 1-2 cigars make the hangover alot worse!
Age ups the hangover for me
Whenever I throw cigars into the mix it feels like I gargled broken glass the next day.
I love sniffing a few cigars
When I got my current job I drank about a pint of whiskey and a cigar and blacked out for two hours and then carried on with my evening 😅
The fact that Churchill lived as long as he did with this habit is mind-blowing. Many people would need to have their stomachs pumped by the second or third day, and eventually die to alcohol poisoning.
Ethanol is a CYP2E1 inducer, which is also one of the enzymes that metabolizes ethanol. So regular, heavy drinkers will actually start to metabolize it more quickly. That much drinking daily will surely kill his liver, but unlikely to get to acute alcohol poisoning unless he's having 20 drinks within an hour or two.
Died at 90 and was an alcoholic. What a man's man🤣
I am a functioning alcoholic and honestly this amount is more than doable. Sober 2 years so far
Nah, he is technically consuming alcohol at a metabolic rate (his body is digesting it at about the rate it is being drunk). This is generally assumed to be 1 ounce per hour by the way, though of course the actual science is far more varied and complicated. 15 drinks is a lot, but over 15 hours it is far less impactful
@@matthewsherman4734 yup, he basically kept a buzz throughout the day every day. That's how I lived for a while, 11 months sober today.
“I totally wanna fight germans” “ill fight all of you come find me” this is so chaotic and i love it🤣
That made me laugh way too much and i ain't complaining. Cheers 🍺🤣
This would actually be a cool series trying to match someone from history drink for drink to see how close you could get to whoever it was you were trying to match.
depending on who, it could end badly
MAKE IT SOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
They should try to match Andre the Giant in drinking beer xdd.
I’d love to see the Wade Boggs drink for drink
Hunter.S.Thompson - Everyone dies, though it'd be a lot easier on you without the drugs lmao
A true accomplished drinker is someone that builds up too a distinguished level over a lifetime. My father was one of these men.
The day we gathered to send him on his way too the big bar in the sky I had many people say the same thing to me.
"Joe, I knew your Dad for a long time and even with his reputation for drink I never saw him out of control or drunk."
At that point I had to correct them. You are correct he was never out of control. (a sing of a good drinker)
BUT I have news for you. You never saw him sober. Technically he was drunk within a hour of waking up.
I have nothing but respect for Mr. Churchill, that said I feel he was a lot like my Father with his ability to drink.
Dude your father must have been the life of the party.
@Heramb Hasabnis This was the way they were raised back in the day. Had a drink with breakfast and one before going to bed. And his hand was never empty in between the two. He always told me if you can't drink like a gentleman then you should not be drinking at all.
That’s a hell of a quote. I’m going to start using that!
@coffeelover6977 First of all, understand. I mean no disrespect. Your perception of how drunk you think you are or are not is irrelevant. Especially at the lofty age of 21. It is more about your performance proven over many years. Quite a few people think they are very good drinkers, especially when they are young. Over time, they discover they are not quite as accomplished as they thought that were. After you have had 40 more years of experience, I'd be curious to see if you have the same opinion of your drinking abilities. Or better yet, if other people share, you're opinion of your drinking abilities. Find an old person that you respect and show them my comment. I would be willing to bet that they will agree 100%.
@@joedunbarjr I've done my 40 years, I used to be black out drunk and appear only relatively drunk, never angry and having great laughs...apparently. Only a few people who knew me well could tell the person I was talk to that I would have no memory of the conversation. I can still drink but I don't like I used to because I hate having to ask what I did last night and the 3 day recovery is brutal
This might very well be you guys' best video EVER!
As a history buff, avid American Anglophile, whiskey (and brandy) lover, and long-time cigar aficionado, I found this video especially interesting, such a great idea, and superbly executed. Great guest! Love the cigar content! The max cigars I can smoke per day is two. After that, it's a lost cause, so the cigar count you guys hit was daunting! BTW, a lighter-colored cigar does NOT necessarily mean it will be mild and a darker cigar does not necessarily mean it will be strong. The filler leaf and ring gauge (thickness) is more influential on the strength. Extra btw, JC Newman is a fine historic cigar company!
At a certain level of alcoholism, you're not able to function without alcohol. I guess that was true for Churchill as well. The company I work for was actively selling beer during work hours until the mid 90s. My coworkers love to tell stories from that time.
Fantastic entertainment, chemistry was brilliant between the guys and what a lovely little history lesson.
Long live Winston Churchill memory.
Long live winston churchill memory? How about long live the memory of the people who were victims of his genocidal ways.
@@t00bgazer nar I prefer to remember him, his genocidal ways won a war against WHO? Hitler!? Who was a picture of perfection by your comment 😂 as demolition man once said, "send a maniac to catch a maniac" and it worked a bloody treat.
I can think of many who wouldve treated the indians and irish much worse, people that wouldve made hitler blush. At least winston had respect for the soldiers of the empire and felt guilt over his fuckups which was more than many of parliament's paper pushers even of today.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 Although he was an absolute idiot when it comes to war and logistics. His leadership skills were something to behold as to rally Britain together.
@@puma2334 yh i was praising the guy despite his faults.
This looks fun, I thought, I'll just go a get a cognac and sit and watch it. So here I am with a glass of Leyrat. Love living in France. Love it.
Some people work better when they feel better. Churchill was a smart, veteran drinker. He knew his limits, what amount he could imbibe and still be productive. FDR also enjoyed a cocktail or three before dinner. It's usually an inexperienced drinker who gets hammered and makes a spectacle of themselves. And of course Churchill's adversary in Germany was a teetotaller, never drank or smoked. I forget his name.
Personally I think there are a couple of factors that aren't being addressed in the video that make this... I guess you could call it a "challenge", so much more difficult than it would be: #1: Churchill progressed into it: he built his tolerance up to it and made it a habit, so someone who doesn't drink or smoke even remotely as heavily won't be able to compete; #2: I think Churchill's meals, almost always something of a varying level of extravagance as well as being more substantial than what you guys had, probably helped combat the negative effects of the alcohol and the smokes; #3 (and this is the big one in my opinion) Churchill did all of this passively: because of how times have changed, you aren't smoking inside your house, office, bedroom, etc. you're having to allot yourself time to smoke and that's what you're concentrating on, Churchill, however, was able to smoke in bed, around the house, and, most importantly, his office.
What makes the passivity of his smoking and drinking the most important? This could just be me, but when the cigar is not at the forefront of your mind, you can breeze through it no issue. I've had plenty of times where I would smoke a cigar and talk to someone, focusing on the conversation, hardly paying any mind to the smoke outside of being sure it stays lit, and it feel like I'm breezing through my stogies like they're cigarettes (a couple of nights ago I was able to smoke 3 without issue while shooting the shit with a friend). But, if I'm sitting outside, not really having a conversation, not really doing anything besides having the smoke: one cigar is enough and can feel like a chore depending on the size and taste.
You're also forgetting the amphetamines, cocaine and barbiturates
@@rohanlorange3660 Yeeeaaahhh
Yeah and the speed
seconded about the thinking - when I'm drinking I don't wanna think too much or it feels like I'm burning off the alcohol
One thing to think about is that the older wine yeast didn't give as strong wine as today. The wines was mostly around 8-9% not 12-14 as today. Also do we know if Churchill smoked the whole cigarr.
By far...the funniest thing I have seen all week. As a “former” day...and night drinker, I can fully appreciate and understand the ups and downs of a LARGE amount of alcohol day in and day out.
Hilarious I needed that! Thank you
What a guy we need another leader like him
Apparently at meal times not only was he constantly drinking, constantly smoking, constantly eating, but also constantly *talking*. No one at the dinner could get a word in. Incredible.
Great episode! To make it even more realistic, though, maybe you should also eat what Churchill ate - he liked to eat as much as he liked to drink. Just imagine, starting with a Full English Fry-up, a three course lunch, afternoon tea, and then a lordly supper. The man was an absolute legend!
Honestly, the food would probably help.
@@Vikingwerk my thoughts exactly
Yes!
@@cuy50 I don't need to imagine...
@@cuy50 he held it in all week to get more done. Release on the weekend.
As a Brit, thank you for a fantastic video. As all will probably know, Churchill could have done little in the war without Franklin D. Roosevelt. In some ways, I would have thought that due to overcoming his health problems FDR was, in determination even greater a man. All said and done, these two giants helped save the world for us all. In these uncertain times, let's step back, see the reality of life at the moment and honour them with our future actions. May they both, and all the others that gave so much and that we owe so much to, rest in peace.
this is one of the best youtube videos ive ever watched
Winston Churchill was also the all time best comeback artist.
"If my husband did that I'd poison him"
"If you were my wife I'd drink it!" 🤣🤣
One thing though, for such a successful man he had MORE failures than anyone else in history. Truly.
People who are really successful usually do
Really? the most failures of any person…..ever?
Don't forget about Abraham Lincoln.
If there’s one thing that Mark Twain and Winston Churchill would have in common is there witty quotes.
He was responsible for the Bengal famine
Fun fact, he was actually offered the Dukedom of London for his outstanding leadership during the war. After a while of thinking he refused on the grounds that the lifestyle of a Duke would be too expensive for him.
Additionally, he was also the grandson of the Duke of Marlborough.
He was an outstanding man and will live on in history and in my mind for the brilliant person he was.
That and because he wanted to remain a member of the House of Commons.
Coward, drunkard, war criminal... truly outstanding! Read David Irving's "Churchill's War"
I laughed like I was at lunch with these fools😅❤😂
Brilliant video guys. Shed a tear when I saw the 'fish sticks' come out
A number of the men from that generation and the next were what I classify as “Olympic Drinkers”. I’ve seen it. These men could drink amounts of hard liquor at levels it would flatten most of us, yet they would still be functioning at a higher cognitive level than most people. In fact, most of them used this ability to their advantage by getting information from you (while you were toasted) could use this to their advantage to leverage people to do what they wanted. That’s my contribution to how it was.
I agree with this statement..
To be fair it's easy to underestimate just how much you build up your tolerance when you drink like that every day. I used to be almost as bad in uni and you kinda hit a point where you just work through it.
It's a matter of historical record that the first time Churchill met Stalin, Stalin drank Churchill under the table with vodka and Churchill had to retire early complaining of a headache. No doubt, Stalin was trying to do exactly that: get Churchill sloshed and then extract concessions from him.
That’s also known as a functioning alchoholic
@@RottingFarmsTV Agree wholeheartedly. For the most part dealing with them was unpleasant.
Please bring back Andrew. He's so friggin hilarious!
I tended bar and waited tables for almost 20 years. At least 3/4 of that was this steady state drinking. It's simultaneously awesome and spiritually exhausting.
Dude i just want to say I'm very pleased with this video. You guys made it perfectly funny and factual. I feel like I could watch many like this. Great job.
The fact that he made it to 90! Years old is just incredible. His liver must have been something special.
Well, this is a more exaggerated version of it. Churchill definitely drank a decent amount, but he liked to exaggerate it - he thought it was good propaganda/made him seem manlier to be able to handle 10 cigars and massive amounts of alcohol a day.
The scotch drinks were probably more watered down (his daughter or secretary describing it as mouthwash), and the rest seems like too clean a figure (a whole bottle of champagne twice a day) along with a stiffer pour of cognac than he'd probably have had. But for a regular routine? Yeah, still quite a bit of drinking compared to what we're used to today, but manageable.
@@mattgopack7395 i just assumed this was his most intense days/bad days i can imagine him staying up all night smoking cigars tbh thinking of wtf hes gonna do
It was a British liver, sir! Far superior to the ordinary continental one . . .
Health effects aside, Churchill would have had a high tolerance for alcohol. The amount of alcohol he drank is ridiculous for a regular person who doesn't drink very much, but for a seasoned alcoholic it's just Tuesday.
Yea, I work with a few guys who put away a fair amount of booze every evening, they don't seem any worse for it and are rarely ill or off work , we usually say ' he'll out - live us all'
Winston had good genes and the best doctors in the land his whole life e.g. the current Royal Family 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Yeah every Churchill bit is amazing, but Neil degrasse tyson holding you in a headlock while whispering "nebulas are gas" had me choking
20:28 , i can picture Winston just nice a toasted, popping champagne while the queen screams away in the back
Now do boris yeltsin
Boys would be rolling down the stairs
Rex making a british "queuing" joke just confirms why I remain a part of this community. And, as if that wasn't good enough, this dude worked for Bercow? Easily the most effortlessly funny politician on the face of the earth.
Seeing even a one man line made me miss the US and UK as an American living in Italy.
Bercow got a hell of a lot less funny before he got fired. He flipped to labour so he could have a social life stabbing a bunch of people in the back on his way out.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 Or...he, like many conservatives, including those on this side of the pond, became disillusioned with the populist slant of conservatism that's been popping up, specifically in the US and UK. It's why I haven't voted Republican since 2012. The current incarnation of conservatism is toxic, and all it takes is a critical analysis of the talking points to realize "oh, these people don't have a small government agenda anymore, they have a cultural agenda. That agenda is to reject anything that might buck the status quo". But hey, you're free to rationalize why your opinion of the man changed over the years. I'll happily enjoy the compilations of his soliloquies on the house floor.
@@reikoshea Have you read you wrote? Have you read it again, considering your target audience?
If you had, you'd understand why being called "toxic" by someone like you pretty much immediately ends any hope of an engaged conversation or debate. I'm assuming you did those things because to feel as high and mighty as you seem to be feeling you must at least think you're a decent person, and decent people consider others' perspective and generally attempt to be amenable.
So, since you're a decent person that did your due diligence, and posted that anyways, what were you really trying to accomplish? Self gratification, like every other armpit-weasel with a keyboard? If you were going for like, reeeeeeeeeeeeeally dry humor, maybe you should target a different audience. Lewis Black levels of dry usually lands better with the general US comment leaver in my experience, so maybe add a spritz of ironic courtesy next time.
@@rufusconnolly8489 I, of course, re-read my previous post before making it. If I could write like that without editing, I'm definitely wasting my time in my current profession.
The fact of the matter is I have no intention of debating my perspective nor do you (otherwise you wouldn't use a term like "someone like you").
My original post was meant to signal an appreciation for subtle moments in the sketch that may not be appreciated by most American viewers.
My reply to the previous poster was to say "I see your disdain for Bercow, but as an American that follows British politics pretty closely, you may want to look at yourself to see if it's really Bercow that has changed or the Tories". There was no debate to be had there. Maybe a call for self reflection, but it was a less than subtle middle finger for dragging politics into a place where it had no business being discussed.
I wasn't responding to seem high and mighty, because, as previously mentioned, this isn't meant to be a debate. I responded because someone took something that was initially apolitical and spewed political sewage on it like said sewage was welcome or warranted.
I'm responding to you now because you used the term "someone like you" as though I were a life-long bleeding heart liberal. That assumption couldn't be further from the truth, but you've made up your mind about who I am just like I've made up my mind about toxic populist conservatism.
It's ok though. They're just words. In a day you'll forget you ever decided to wade into the cesspool that is political commentary on apolitical youtube videos, and you'll go back to worrying about immigrants stealing jobs that are now left going unfilled, and an immigration system that's letting fewer and fewer people legally immigrate. Or whatever is today's new target of outrage.
And, in case it wasn't clear. This post wasn't meant as some kind of debate of your "ideas". This is yet another not-so-subtle middle finger to say: My original post was meant to be apolitical, and I find it's devolution into something that is obviously political as distasteful as the ones who dragged it to this place.
"This is the last drink of the morning" 😂 cracked me up harder than I have in so long. The context surrounding that was just PRIME!!!!
Prime... Minister? 🤔
Welcome to the regular regiment of laborers if you remove the nap. You know, the people who build everything you have.
I’ve watched this video at least five times since it’s come out. I love it lmao
Had a chef once who´d slam down 8 beers before even coming to work and the while working he´d sip on the wine we used for cooking. Dude was 100% functional.
Typical chef tbh
The only folks who drink more than chefs are drywallers.
@@trequor and thats only if the drywaller didnt find meth first
Sounds about right for a high stress job with extremely long hours and not much time for anything else