Meet the Evil Weirdo Who Was the Father of Prohibition - Drunk History
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2018
- Prohibition zealot Wayne Wheeler would do anything - from poisoning people to schmoozing with the KKK - to stop Americans from drinking alcohol.
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The fact that Wayne Wheeler's story is being told derisively by a drunk man for entertainment purposes is beautiful poetic justice.
had to look that one up
So true !!!
Amen
Beautiful!
This is beautiful
"Well I mean, prohibition doesn't sound all that ba-" "And then he hired the KKK..." "...Okay, yeah that's bad."
Not to mention creating a black market which gave rise to gang violence.
I was just saying that’s when it seemed to start going down hill.
uncensor: All that is true. And yet, it has to be said, during prohibition, the social problems caused by alcohol did decrease. And there had been a LOT of them. There are two sides to every story.
black: Bet the KKK don't have much trouble with drining now.
@@milascave2 the KKK probably didn't care about prohibition, they just wanted to murder some folks.
Kudos to the scenic designer who thought of those stained windows
Movie magic (TM)
Came here to say this :)
Lol
"Stained"
Especially when you can just buy the stained glass stickers on Amazon 😂
"IT'S YOUR FAULT I POISONED YOU."
-Wayne Wheeler's legacy
And the legacy of the war on drugs!
That legacy continues. The government still requires adulterants to be added to industrial and medical alcohol so people can’t drink it.
@@censusgary yeah, but that's to save people's lives dude. So some drunk retards don't drink that shit when out of consumable alcohol.
Ty rant no it’s not. I’m a chemist. The real reason industrial ethanol is “denatured” is because of government bureaucracies. You see, ethanol is a substance that is highly regulated by the ATF. So, they want to keep their product on the up and up and make sure no one can even dare slip a little hooch on the side, bootleg style kind of thing. It’s retarded. We have all kinds of dangerous and poisonous chemicals all over the lab, but the real ethanol, that isn’t denatured, is locked up in a special cupboard, with a special logbook with it, just so the feds get their cut of taxes.
@@censusgary NO!!! TAXES!!! Your government would rather see you die than get away with not paying taxes to get a shot of booze!!
a beautiful example of the butterfly effect: farmhand decides to have a drink one day -> national prohibition
Consequences
@@DarwinMustard i wish you'd have watched Key and Peele to understand how funny your comment is
That is the greatest fake stained glass window OF ALL TIME.
glad someone else has taken notice of that fake window, its a work of art.
The stained glass windows in the church are just pieces of colored cellophane taped to a window.
you're watching a history video hosted by a man so drunk he can barely string together the script and you're shocked by the low production value?
Also known as "movie magic".
Pretty high expectations from Comedy Central's RUclips channel, huh?
Chickens don't clap!
I'm sorry, are you saying that's a negative thing?? That was my favorite part of the video! Biggest laugh, by far! XD
meanwhile in an alternate universe: wayne wheeler campaigns against pitchforks
I kept reading “Wage wheelchair politics against pitchforks and was confused.
This is full circle drunk history.
Poo
"Pitch forks? In _my_ children?"
It's more likely than you think.
Peak of human comedy ^
I love how this show has a decent enough budget for period appropriate outfits and settings but still does things like tape colored paper to the window and using obvious stuffed toys for animals
This may be the alcohol talking, but I’m pretty sure they use use stuffed animals to avoid putting the “no animals were harmed in the filming of this episode” or dealing with the ASPCA or PETA to make sure the animals are safe… plus using stuffed animals in scenes is HILARIOUS!!!!!!
What are you talking about? That was a lovely stained glass window.
Wayne: how do we celebrate?
Wayne: MILK SHOTS
He was born to ride a bicycle. That is why his name is Wayne Wheeler.
Well, he couldn't walk worth a damn, what with that old "pitchfork' injury....
Me: Oh he was just wanna stop children from getting hurt the way he did, he's not so bad!
"...... and then he hired the KKK and poisoned people......"
Also me: This sick bastard got to go!
😂👍
that just so damn wrong in many many levels.
He didn't mean to poison them. He was trying to make it impossible to get alcohol by just buying ethanol. However, the KKK thing is a different issue. He basically hired thugs to do his work. Not saying what he did was ok, but people seem to be hung up that it was the KKK. Dude would've hired the mob if they were as strong at the time. Those salons were outlawed and people didn't care. Both sides were breaking the law. One last thing, alcohol issues declined like hell when it was outlawed. In honesty, prohibition failed due to poor administration of the law.
Monkofpo you can’t just add poison to stuff you KNOW people are drinking and then NOT tell them. Like, there needs to be a PSA, and a label on it, explaining the hazards, AND a huge campaign for education of how this stuff, that these people drink everyday, is now different and will kill you. It’s basic safety 101 shit.
@@crystalraf There was, but people didn't give a fuck. Also, the lawmakers that didn't want ethanol fully undrinkable to the point of death were called criminals etc etc when prohibition was in effect. Never, and I mean never take what is said in drunk history as fact. This is due to how companies were already adding preservatives, poisons, and much more into ethanol before prohibition even started. In fact, companies were doing it a decade and a half before. They just weren't mandated by the government. However, I will admit that the government didn't do a full ad campaign about it either when they mandated ethanol to be fully undrinkable in 1926 (until 1927 where the deaths fukin skyrocketed.), but it was common knowledge that ethanol had poison in it. Even back then it was pretty insane to drink ethanol. Hell, people are still drinking it today knowing wtf is in it, but they are also the same people that chug moonshine. You should blame the mafia more than anything that stole ethanol and then used it to make shady alcohol without telling people where it came from.
P.S, Most nations made ethanol undrinkable or poisonous by 1910. Some of it was needed to preserve the alcohol though, or the best thing. Filler to avoid taxes. Also, people do know the 18th amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol, not consumption right?
I used to be drunk like you. But then I took a pitchfork to the knee.
This reference is an antique. Thank you.
Which Hold do you protect? You're the first guard I heard say that! Lmao
😄That is so Skyrim.
Drunk history on drunk history.
The thing I find crazy about Wayne is that he was somehow able to convince EVERYONE. He told workers that alcohol kept them subjugated AND told the factory owners that it made the workers lazy and unproductive. He convinced racists that alcohol made African-Americans rowdy and dangerous AND civil rights advocates that alcohol hindered their progress towards equality. Wheeler convinced literally EVERYONE in America that alcohol was bad.
Say what you will about his tactics and true motivations, he knew how to convince people.
You watched oversimplified;)
@@Jay-kx5cb (In the Walter white voice) you’re gd right.
i know this quote :) Wait, we all watched the same thing....
WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHH
My great uncle always made us laugh telling the story when he was a bootlegger who got caught and was to be tared and feathered, but nobody brought tar... so they just threw feathers at him as he ran away. Yes, he got feathered! (It was funnier the way he told it.)
For the record, menthanol is still, to this day, in lab grade ethanol, and drinking it can make you go blind.
That just means you havent found the analytical grade stuff, keep looking.
Denatured spirit is still very common for tax reasons though, because most countries waive the alcohol tax if you make it undrinkable. Also has the added effect of preventing undergraduate chemists using up the solvent too fast... That said, theres a few hundred litres of neutral (no additives) spirit lying around at work, and I've never seen any of my coworkers decide that right now would be a good time for a shot.
@@karl0ssus1 I mean. I know how to get the analytical grade stuff. One of my labmates goes through gallons of the stuff synthesizing his samples. But it requires special licenses/permissions. The general stuff we get for like. Cleaning purposes and such isn't safe though.
Like touching myself?
Methanol is the major reason why it's still illegal to make Applejack the old fashioned way. By scraping off the ice when you age it in the barrel in the winter (which is how you concentrate the alcohol content), methanol stays behind, concentrates, and floats on top of the after you skim the water ice, leaving it toxic if you don't burn it off.
4c1dr3fl3x huh. You learn something new everyday
Irony is being drunk while talking about the prohibition
Additional bit of irony:
My great-grandfather was a bootlegger so he could send his kids to a Catholic private school
Not really
I apologize on behalf of my entire family
Apology not accepted!
Now drop down and give me 30... Barrels of whiskey.😁
You buy the next round and all good
Apology accepted
@@xXxJSCOTTxXx whisky*
Apology accepted
"And that's when he went to Michigan." We all go to Michigan when we die.
I thought it was Florida.
Painkiller Jones Florida is the birthplace of crazy.
No, it's New Jersey
Everything is legal in New Jersey
Funny enough Hell is a town in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Got to appreciate this guy's logic drinking is evil but putting poison in you something you know that people are going to drink perfectly fine
They said “Wayne Wheeler” so many times it doesn’t even sound like a name anymore
They should make a movie about him and get Whill Wheaton to play him!
Punkwrestle Watch with wonder as weirdo Wayne Wheeler turns wine into water with Will Wheaton.
Whiny Weiner
I'm old, and MY mother remembered going to temperance meetings with my grandmother...my mother grew up to be an alcoholic
Liza Tanzawa : In AA circles, it’s said that teetotalers typically come from families with a history of alcoholism. They know how big a danger alcohol poses to people with their genes, so they abstain. Or they fall off the wagon, and fall hard.
My grandma was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
"Mom, that farmhand is acting sloppy"
So THIS is the guy responsible for my family's brewery getting shut down
Which brewery did your family own? Very interested in brewing history of America.
The Knapstein brewery in New London WI
@@dirtyblonde1011 I'll look it up! Thanks for sharing!
Make your own call it Pitchfork
Taylor Knapstein Holy shit dude, thats awesome. I mean not the getting shut down part but like ur family had a brewery in Wisconsin
I know people quite often use the word ‘ironic’ incorrectly. But I feel this is truly ironic.
"Why'd you laugh?"
"Cuz I was seeing two of you"
I love how this is about a man’s life journey to abolish alcohol consumption and the story is being told by a man who’s drunk lol
My great grandparents were bootleggers. My great grandmother made her own wine all the way up her 90’s. Bootlegging, illegal gambling and brothels were huge in my hometowns during this era. We were a major stop on the way to Chicago from Indianapolis.
Gem City
Did they meet in the brothel?
JohnNNJ HAHA! No. They met at church. It was the Depression. Folks were trying to make a living any way they could at that time. But now that you mentioned it I did have a great great grandmother on the other side of the family who along with her two sisters were Madames of a “cat house.”
@@BeeKool__113 It's amazing what you find out about your ancestors. I heard that my grandmother and her twin sister and brother were boot leggers and gamblers in Louisiana. They did something to piss off some dangerous people, and all three had to leave town and change their names. I don't think I ever found out what her Government name was. She was a horrible hateful woman.
Indiegirl007 : Family history is interesting. When I started looking into my family tree, I found out how many of my ancestors went insane. I’m not kidding. But I’m still glad to know more about my family background.
Bwahhaha I love how production “tried” wither the stain glass windows but ran out of cellophane with the scene behind the pulpit.
Wayne Wheeler must be the best historical name to say while drunk - “Wayne We-wer” - and could he say it a few more times? 👍🏻🤣👏🏻
1:25 the glass in the background LOLOL
"Evil weirdo" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a way to be remembered
this show taught me more about history than my history teacher has.
Drinking game! Drink every time he says "Wayne Wheeler".
Yeah, certified brain genius drinking game!
Never underestimate a man who got his feelings hurt, especially as a kid.
kissit012
Pretty sure getting stabbed hurts more than just your feelings.
The stained-glass window at 1:20...
Whoever made that, awesome.
“Why would my own government do this to me?”
XP
You say 'evil weirdo' and I immediately think of Stephen 'the Creepy Skulker' Miller...
research why weed is illegal in the US...it's even pettier than Mr Wheeler's hate of alcohol... #GLAD2BCANADIAN
I think Adam Ruins Everything already covered that topic
@@bearpetunia he's been wrong about so much stuff tho
@@bearpetunia not tryna counter argue or anything. I like watching his stuff. Just saying
spoilers: racism
Thank you, Mr. Anslinger. 🙄
That stained glass window though 😂
The beginning: "oh I'm about this, he seems chill"
The Klan enters the picture "WHOP THERE'S THE EVIL WEIRDO COMING IN"
Shoutouts to our main man at the Schmoedown, SAM LEVINE! :)
I was thinking the same thing and then I was like wait that's right his an actor too lol
1:19 stained glass that would make St Peter’s Basilica blush
LOVE the taped up "Stain Glass". HAHA!!
I am on a Drunk History binge. If I could have one thing for Christmas, it would be for the cast of these to be listed in the description!
Haven’t had a drink in 8 years and I still love this show. Will say, I don’t envy the hangovers they must have though 😂
Of course Bill Hader would stab a kid with a pitchfork. That's so Hader.
That is not Bill Hader! How drunk are you?
before Lying Ted, before Joseph McCarthy, we had Wayne Wheeler
Those stained glass windows were amazing. Lmfao
Awww love Samm Levine! From Film History to drunk history, he’s got all the skills #Schmoedown. Hope to see him in more of these 🏆🍺🇺🇸
SCHMOEVILLLLLLLE! :)
So if someone time traveled to the moment when Wayne wheeler was stabbed in the leg by a pitchfork to prevent he would have never outlawed the drinking of alcohol
It could have been someone else, but it might have succeeded if it wasn't into banning ALL alcohol, underfunded, underdeveloped to account for consumption rather than production, and blatantly racist and anti-Catholic.
The stained glass windows were the best!😄
The gels scotch-taped to the windows! haha
The “Inglorious One” Samm Levine!
To be fair I think it is a shame because during the era of the prohibition they had a good point. Alcohol can destroy families and really hurt people.
Most medical issues and accidents are caused by alcohol and alcoholism leads to bankruptcy and abuse. They just needed a better way to deal with it than they did.
Superlightnin : Yes, it’s not that alcohol doesn’t cause harm; it’s that Prohibition wasn’t the best solution.
Take a sip everytime John says "Wayne Wheeler".
LoL that's a great episode
0:39 Wayne Wheeler decided alchohol's bad. I'm going to spend the rest of my life fighting against alcohol.
Hey, good for him.
Absolutely!
I think this is the most ironic video in history
Great Story and story teller!!
The tar bucket and feather bag got me 😂
A drunk history episode on prohibition? It's a match made in heaven!
How much of what we see people fighting against today is solely focused on stopping now is based on a some shitty experience as a child? Insert political or social example here.
This is ultimately false. Even if this personal account is true, it's not like it was, "I want alcohol prohibited because a drunk man pinched me with a pitchfork when I was seven". Say what you want about prohibition, but it certainly reduces violence, specially domestic violence. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151120
www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/stop-family-violence/prevention-resource-centre/women/who-facts-on-alcohol-violence-intimate-partner-violence-alcohol.html
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170096/
_>_
*Insert KSI lol face here*
school shooting?
Audrian Rafaladhika dayum
The war om drugs
the light switches on the wall, lol
And now a drunk guy is telling his story...I love it!!
He also left out the part that adding petroleum created an oil industry & our cars dependent on gas.
Alcohol is still one of the worst drugs though
Yeah but prohibition never works for drugs or alcohol.
As a recovering alcoholic I agree with you, but as with everything if it’s used safely and in moderation it’s not a problem. It’s so ingrained in our society, but I wish there were more honest awareness on drinking and people would take it seriously.
@@nooooooooope3809 Most people think they can recreationally drink. Many cannot. If you look at the number of people who feel that they need to have a drink to have fun when they're out, or to do things that they can blame on alcohol...I'm with Sjorben on this one.
@@nooooooooope3809 Spoken like a true functioning alcoholic ;) lol
@@roguishpaladinI like socially drinking but I definitely don't need alcohol to have fun.. just a good mix of anti depressants!!
3:12 Those better be frothy mugs of water, if you are so against the devil’s drink! 🤣
Those stained glass windows!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why does Derek always seem so sad, and then one moment he laughs, then he’s sad again...btw Derek is super adorable tbh. 🥵💕
Sorry good fellows, but I must contest this! While you got your facts on Wheeler correct, it was, in fact, Neal Dow, Mayor of Portland Maine and Brigadier General, whom earned the nickname "Father of Prohibition" (As well as "Napoleon of Temperance") due to getting some of, if not THE first, prohibition laws passed in America (known as "The Maine Law"). All this he did nearly two decades before Wheeler was even born!
I'd still give Wheeler the title over Neal Dow just because while Neal Dow may have been the first, the reach of his prohibition is minuscule compared to Wheeler.
@@Lastrit_JME :D A debate! There is no denying that Wheeler's influence was widespread indeed- but would he have been so effective in getting the 18th amendment passed had not Dow set precedent with the prohibition laws he first lay down? Surely there can be no denying the influence of Dow's actions- heck, he may have very well been a direct influence on Wheeler himself! (but that is, of course, just wild speculation and should hold no sway in a debate, lol.)
Senior Bacon Id argue that even without Dow’s precedent Wheeler could have still passed Prohibition laws the way he did fairly easy. As a member of the Anti-Saloon League (ASL), and the head of its legal department, he had a pretty heavy arsenal of funds at his disposal for his numerous pro-prohibition lawsuits. It’s worth mentioning that not once during these campaigns or lawsuits did he ever sight precedence as an argument.
@@Lastrit_JME Ahhh, but if we're talking groups, Dow was the founder of the temperance group known as the Maine Temperance Society (founded in 1827). That aside, though the Maine Law was repealed in 1856, due in no small part to the Rum Riots of 1855, in which one civilian was killed and seven others injured, causing a national scandal, you cannot deny that Dow had set precedent- Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island quickly followed suit, passing similar laws, culminating in Kansas being the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages statewide in 1881. (This being said, I must correct myself from earlier- it was in fact Tennessee which enacted the first ever prohibition law, not Maine (though Maine's was more strict and well known.) on January 26th, 1838- They passed a "soft" law that made it a misdemeanor to sell alcoholic beverages in taverns and stores, and used the resulting fines to better their school systems.)
@qis2spent XD We did enjoy it though! :P We're just having a fun debate as to whom was really the father of prohibition is all. (Or, at least, fun for me, I don't presume to speak for Lastrite, lol.)
i didnt read the title and just played this... got my beer ready and then hear the story is gonna be about prohibition LOL
I love the stained glass windows 🤣
Anti-Saloon League sounds like a sick punk band.
In all fairness, people were drinking insane amounts of alcohol back then.
People drank more during those times *BECAUSE* of prohibition.
Alcohol isn't like other drugs anyone can make it at home. Just get some edible plants let it ferment then filter it.
Banning alcohol created a huge black market ran by gangster and the mafia. People drank in hidden speakeasy bars. Since gangster controlled the whole liquor business they made sure to turn people into alcoholics. Drinking was at it's highest rate ever. Law enforcement didn't stop them because the criminals made so much money they could pay them off.
Eventually to stop all the alcoholism and rampant crime the government ended prohibition so they could better regulate alcohol.
@@waynehayes912 they haven't STOPPED alcoholism.
here again after watching oversimplified's prohibition video, love this sm!
The crappy taped on cellophane "stained glass" window is fantastic.
I never want to hear the excuse "men didnt want to give women the right to vote because women would vote for prohibition" again.
The guy who played wayne wheeler was also in That 70s show for an episode.This is absolutely irrelevant i just wanted to say this.
He was also in Freaks and Geeks
Shea Marie oh yeahhh ur right i forgot about that, i just always see him as lance crawford the weirdo in the one episode of that 70s show
Nothing better then being drunk, watching drunk history
The rubber pitchfork continues to cause me to burst into laughter every time I watch this
The Prohibition was an actual good force. It help alot against social problems such as domestic abuse. One cannot really compare drinking in the past to what it is today. It was really out of hand back then. It wasn't "stopping people having fun", more as stopping or combating a national health crisis.
Overall it was more bad than good
@@Brams2777 My point was that it was wrong to mock people who were actual victims of domestic abuse trying to stop it from happening to other people. Wether it was the best way of going about it, I don't know. Prohibiton did lead to a jump in crime and murder, but it did help with the alchoholism pervaisive in the American cultur and daily life.
@42 jade Suurre it isn't related to domestic abuse, but I will repeat myself. My main point was that it was pretty shitty of the "Drunk History" show to make fun of victims of alchoholism (such as families and stated in the show it's self, injuries). Whether prohibition was effective or not is diputable and the poisoning of industirial ethanol was a abhorent step, yet mocking vicitims of alcholism, who are taking an active stance to ending it, is a bit over the line. Right? Of course DRUNK History may be a bit biased in this regard :).
I feel you.
@42 jade ever heard of wife beating husbands. Its, mainly, for that reason that feminists were very supportive of prohibition. Their husbands would come back from a bar in a drunken rage and, thus, a beating occurs.
This is so reminiscent to Donald Trump story the reason he became president because Obama punked him in the audience.
I remember that.
Looking at Trump in the audience after that Obama roasting I knew he was going to make him pay.
He always was a privileged racist authoritarian but even he didn't think he'd actually win!
the best one yet by default lol
New drinking game: take a shot for every time the narrator says “Wayne Wheeler”
Another example of what can happen if you let Christian fanatics out of the church. Will we ever learn
DM Less your taking about religious fanatics..I’m a Christian and I’m about to start making wine...don’t judge all Christians by the few crazy’s who lost their way
@@kippd2265 I understand, and I don't always. I do have a spiritual side. I am against organized religion, as well as religion in politics. I do have religious friend, and we do have constructive debates about religion. They are accepting of my views, and I there's.
DM Less glad to hear that..religion amongst other things, has been used to keep everyone in their own prison and divided.. I learn more and more everyday myself, but I do know the power of Jesus Christ is real and he is way more “hip” if you will, than most would be led to believe...heck, he turned water to 🍷
@@kippd2265 Jesus was a cool guy, I would drink a bottle with him. I just don't think he would be at all happy with the current state of religion, and Christianity in America.
I don't know about what Christians are like elsewhere, if they are similar to evangelicals in the states.
I like this series and all the comedians but I think it would be just as funny if not more, if they didn’t have to pretend to be drunk. Just my dumb opinion. I’m gonna watch it anyway.
It brings me so much pleasure to watch this while quite inebriated
Great teacher, Great video 👍👍
Wayne Wheeler, the worst Wayne of all.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I'm guessing they "accidentally" forgot to put that dude was a Democrat.
Is that relevant?
@@jakepullman4914 fuck yes it is. Plus. I just like stirring shit. A job holding, functional troll if you will.
Just like you accidentally forgot the Democrats party of the old days is the GOP of today. Dixiecrats basically caused a switching of sides. This is always conveniently forgotten about.
@@missfunkadillywhat's the purpose of finger condoms?
Derek Wayne is always so chill
The colored paper poorly taped to the window kills me. To.this.day!😂😂
So he like Trump.
phugh drumph amiright
orange man bad
I jus wanna be involved in things
They were drinking milk at the celebration of the start of prohibition. Omg! 🤣
Nice! Way to post this on the 5th of December, the day prohibition was repealed.
The “stained glass windows” of the “church” are amazing. Just taped pieces of tissue paper. I fucking love this.