Dry America: The Prohibition Debacle

<p>It makes perfect sense that a comedy podcast would cover this week’s topic, because prohibition was a joke.</p> <p> If you’re not familiar with the story behind the bootlegging, moon shining, home-brewing chaos of 1920s America, you’ll want to listen to this week’s episode and learn all about the giant clusterf*** that was the 18th Amendment.   </p> <p>~</p> <p>Join the MFFI community and vote on episode topics via <a href='https://discord.gg/4KUWbgj4PN'>DISCORD</a></p> <p>~</p> <p>In this episode:</p> <ul><li>Prohibition Through the Ages</li> <li>The Code of Hammurabi</li> <li>Beer Bartering</li> <li>The Puritans, Pilgrims, and Alcohol</li> <li>The American Temperance Society</li> <li>Women's Christian Temperance Union</li> <li>Drys vs Wets</li> <li>Visitation Bands</li> <li>Carrie Nation</li> <li>The Anti-Saloon League</li> <li>Wayne Wheeler</li> <li>Wheelerism and Pressure Politics</li> <li>Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan</li> <li>Blue Mondays</li> <li>World War 1 and the War Against German Brewers</li> <li>The Food and Fuel Control Act</li> <li>The Alcoholic Blues </li> <li>The Volstead Act and an Epic Mustache</li> <li>The 18th Amendment </li> <li>Connecticut and Rhode Island, Heroes</li> <li>Woodrow Wilson's Veto Attempt</li> <li>The Conundrum of Enforcement</li> <li>Section 29</li> <li>Vine-Glo</li> <li>Warren G. Harding Flouts the Law</li> <li>Congress Flouts the Law</li> <li>Congress and the Man in the Green Hat Flout the Law</li> <li>Everyone Flouts the Law</li> <li>Smuggling, Brewing, Bootlegging, Bathtub Gin, Moonshine</li> <li>NASCAR</li> <li>Denatured Alcohol</li> <li>Al Capone</li> <li>The Stock Market Crash</li> <li>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</li> <li>Repeal</li> </ul> <p>~</p> <p>Join the Midnight Masses! </p> <p>Become an Insomniac by dropping a review, adding us on social media, and contacting us with episode ideas. </p> <p>And we now have Midnight Merch! Show your Insomniac pride and pick up a tee shirt or coffee mug to spread the word! </p> <p><