We try to match Churchill drink for drink… send help.
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- 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
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
🤣
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.
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
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"
@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree For some reason this translates to "CbrilJ_EoncEbQfQ1-KXMHA has a lot of equipment" in English, just thought you should know
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
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.
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.
He was a raging racist, so where does that leave us
Ok then, I'll judge Churchill for saying that he didn't have a problem with the Germans killing Jewish people, and I'll judge Churchill for stopping supplies going to India when there was widespread famine because he wanted them to suffer.
Lmfao what a weird take , you must be swayed easily by peoples addictions
@@carltonascarf7694holy mother of uneducated
@@carltonascarf7694No one had a problem with the Germans killing Jewish people, it was only that they invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Other than that nothing would have happened, the Germans were ignoring the treaty of Versailles for many years and no one did a damn thing.
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
✌
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.
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.
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
odour*
you forgot the unneccessary u
The English language was invented by the English mate
well Normans had a lot to do with it
@@cyvynyvytv in many ways, American English is closer to the original
@@PlutoTheSynth odor* Americans dont use old English grammar rules. many many words especially ones with "ou" in them get simplified in modern English dictionaries
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.
"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… 🪳
"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.
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.
People were made of tougher stuff in his day.
@@Ross-y8cI guess, it is not only that, but the approach. He didn't drink to counter stress, it seems. Neither did he do it to get drunk - he had moderation . In the end, he lived a healthy life (even if not exactly healthy by the book).
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
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
“As an extrovert who enjoys drinking this has been a great way to kick off my day”! Fantastic 👌
"There are two kinds of problem drinkers: Those who drink too much and those who drink too little!"
-Churchill
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.
“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.
That’s actually pretty sweet
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.
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 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
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
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?!?
“Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal;
It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Churchill would be proud of you boys.
19:10 "So, ideally, this should be the apex of our wit."
This had me laughing for two solid minutes, just amazing
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.
@@cargumdeuwhich he commanded
@@jameson1239 not really, but he was First Sea Lord and had to fall on his sword as a result. He was behind the idea, but not responsible for the Navy's poor execution of it.
Churchill's daily drinking and eating habits were essentially me at a wedding weekend.
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
16:25 I just love how that line is delivered, just that "I am very clever" is so good
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
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
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
I love the part about “Nice accent to his character” the man was a bloody drunk 😂😂😂… great man without a doubt though.
When he said "it's called edging" I nearly lost it. Andrew is staggeringly funny.
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 😅
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
Bro was drunk and high simultaneously, and still drafted the greatest speeches of world history…
*H O W?*
"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
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.
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
1:10 "he added the Johnny Walker to disinfect the water for malaria," except you don't get malaria from water...
Shhhhhh! Everyone around me thinks you do 😅
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 😂
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
“If you’re going through hell keep going.”
~Winston Churchill~
Rather inspiring words from a man whom defied many odds.
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.
Pretty sure, King George 7th was the monarch during WW2. Elizabeth didn't become queen until the 1950s.
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"
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.
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.
He's daughter in law said " He was always crying" That's deep depression. He suffered allot
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
@@realtalknotsmalltalk 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.
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.
Please bring back Andrew. He's so friggin hilarious!
I’ve never seen this channel which is criminal considering this is 2 years old but the production of this is great love it
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.
Just a quick blurb. The most alcohol I’ve seen consumed was working on a German cargo ship back in the eighties. The whole crew would carry a six pack of black label beer at all times while working , the supply trucks would not stop bringing load upon load of beer. They never stopped drinking and never got drunk. Unbelievable.
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.
His grandson once came into his room one morning after the war. His grandson asked:
Grandad, are you the best man in the world?
He replied
Yes, now bugger off
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.
Just came across this video by chance. As a British, you were VERY respectful of our country which I really appreciate. Have a great week fellas
Oh I spoke too soon
@@vonvardLOL 😂 sorry man but that second comment was very funny
Having Andrew on this show is the crossover I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed
I was friends with Winston Churchill's nephew Spencer , and the old guy told me stories of the drinking and said it was very regimented.... Winston Churchill would start at ten o'clock in the morning and would always drink the same thing every day and it included walks in the garden with a cigar....The hilarious thing was that Spencer looked like Winston Churchill and also liked his booze.
The quality, the comedy, and the craftsmanship of these videos have gone up dramatically. Well done!
"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? 🤔
Yeah every Churchill bit is amazing, but Neil degrasse tyson holding you in a headlock while whispering "nebulas are gas" had me choking
I stumbled on this video and have to say this was awesome to watch. Ya'll seem like two friends hangin out and the history throughout was awesome. SUBBED.
I am from the UK and you guys cracked me up the whole way through, I didn't know Churchill was such a beast drinker. This was a great watch going into the weekend... 🥃
There are several good comments emphasising the role of alcohol tolerance to which I would add that Churchill was basically a (late) 19th century aristocrat and while alcohol consumption was generally substantial in that era, it would have been particularly so in the upper classes, further allowing the build up of tolerance.
Drinking whisky and champagne and other prestigious and expensive types of alcohol was a social signifier and you can see the problems it creates for modern people who don’t drink daily when they try to emulate certain past diets, alcohol included.
While alcohol problems is often reflexively thought of as a lower class issue, it’s often the case that average alcohol consumption increases with income, probably not least because a more “comfortable” lifestyle affords more frequent and more socially acceptable occasions for drinking (e.g. the prevalence of alcohol with meals, receptions, networking or discussing business over a glass etc.).
Yes the modern European suffers immensly for not drinking as much as our grandfathers and it should be remedied immediatly. Good words sir!
Its also worth noteing the upper class can afford pharmacutical stimulants (Churchhills medical records note amphetamine prescriptions since the late 30s) that can keep them up running and sociable beyond the point a lower class person of the time would be under the table
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
Lady Astor fameisly said... I do believe Mr Churchill you are drunk.. And he replied.. Yes I am madam, but you are ugly, but I will be sober in the morning 😅😅
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
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
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 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
"So if youre also a drunk" that got me lol 😂
With the understanding this is an older post, all the negative energy all over the internet made this a breath of fresh air. Two dudes enjoying drinks and cigars for an entire day, talking about Churchill and very little else. Refreshing.
As a lifelong Churchill fan this was my favorite and funniest Whiskey Tribe video ever.You did though forget to include the two daily baths in with the booze,cigars and nap.
You are his fan but do you know he was a mass murderer.. It's a fun fact for you..
Rex's self control when Queen LaQueefa is introduced was impressive. I wouldn't have been about to resist the joke.
Queen LaQueefa the Third, even. Amazing stuff.
he was chill like that.
Very fun episode! Haven't seen anyone mention this but, I have to say that the reason he was likely able to function at a high level while smoking a ton and drinking a ton is he was proportedly heavily prescribed amphetamines during the war years. I really think that gives the clearest indication as to why he could do this day in and day out.
Maybe they should do another one with the purported amount of amphetamines Churchill had..
Very good point
Oh my God. Amphetamines, booze and cigars. The guy took 'heart of a lion' to another level.q1
when I was brought up, in England in the fifties and sixties, the man to admire was the man who drank a lot, yet maintained self control. Losing self control was lethal to the reputation. A bit like pontoon, the more points the better but you're lost if you pass 21.
I have no doubt that Churchill drank plenty, but he had an incentive to exaggerate how much..
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 reaction to cigar beans at 5:19 is perfect
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!!!
Absolutely terrific guys. Loved it! I can see Churchill scowling and shaking his head at your wretched weakness.
I totally cracked up at 04:15 'I'm playful and jokey,but not yet violent' HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Man this is one funny video. I catch myself coming back to it sometimes before a night out. It just has that vibe…
"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!”
This is an instant classic! I've already watched this four times. The two of you have an awesome dynamic!
This is, hands down, one of my most favorite episodes. Thank you.
I stopped drinking and can relate to your experience 😁 but you are truly blessed and gifted.
What a delightful show.
Andrew Heaton?!?!?!?!?!?!??! Im so happy. Please get him involved more if you can. Especially talking about alcohol regulation and laws would be fun.
From my interactions with older people most of the longevity is from not giving af. My Grandfather beat cancer during the 2020 plague while drinking binge drinking whiskey he went in person to buy and smoking weed. He's still racing boats and fixing cars. While still having time to geek out about freaking artisan swords with me every other night!!!!
Pretty sure the guys who are built differently have the unintentional mind over matter but I still think it's rare.
He sounds like a hoot!
Being British, I would have queued in the rain with my 'stiff' upper lip to watch this episode. Andrew was very funny and Rex, who's idea for the show this probably was, didn't disgrace himself. I definitely approve of the shenanigans and that amount of cigars would level a horse, great show!
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.