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My family were moonshiners at this time. However we didn't renature alcohol, we lived in the backwoods of Arkansas, and made it from scrach.

"some of you may die....but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" - Federal govt.

That explanation of moonshine had my poor grandpappy rolling over in his grave

Your facts on how moonshine is made is wrong. Bathtub hooch and Moonshine are two completely different animals. Moonshine is clean alcohol made from scratch in a still.

A yes the time when America got so drunk they said let's ban alcohol.

"Alcohol... the cause of and solution to all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson

So you might think, *"But how would methanol poisoning be treated?"* and that's a very fun question to answer! Firstly one should know that methanol uses the same metabolisis route as ethanol but due to some unfortunate reactions methanol turns into formaldehyde, which isn't all that pleasing especially to your eyes. As your eyes are mostly water, they are a nice place for formaldehyde to concentrate first in. This causes usually irreversible blindness, but if you aren't quick you'll lose your life too! That's why you have to start consuming some real ethanol, because ethanol is more eager to be metabolized than methanol and thus stops methanol from being turned into formaldehyde. And here's where the fun starts! Drinking simply isn't quick enough to stop the production of formaldehyde so ethanol has to be given straight into your blood!

The 'war on drugs' has been just about as successful as Prohibition. It simply created a huge and dangerous black market. Remember paraquat pot?

"Hey 42 here" never gets old. Edit: WAIT ITS NOT 42??

For anyone in the future, the original title was "Why Did This Bottle Make People Blind?"

It's like the whole of America had a hangover some people said "I'm never drinking again" and others just doubled down

"There's no sacrifice that I won't make" -American Government It's actually Ironwood but don't worry about it

The temperance movement were the original Karens

Any bottle can make you blind if you jab it into your eye hard enough

"I thought it was guns and eagles" good one😂

Moonshine is made with corn mash. It’s different from bathtub gin

Government: Ideas so good they have to be mandatory, and severely hurting people that don't follow the arbitrary edicts.

"A mild case of death" Lmao

Imagine if we actually learned from history

To be fair, for most of history it was safer to drink alcohol than water.

I find it deliciously ironic that a prohibition law was penned by a man whose name contained not one, but two key ingredients used in the fermentation of alcohol.

And after that the American government definitely learned their lesson and didn’t ban any other substances because it understood the repercussions that would come from that... 👀

Heavy-handed government meddling always results in a burst of creativity from the citizens. They never learn, do they?

11:59 Pet shop, eh? Well, I just have one question. What kind of pet shop is filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at 1 AM?

Yet they keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. You can not ban your way to utopia. No matter how authoritarian you get, the deeper the issue is hidden and embedded. Many parts of Asia has the death penalty for drugs, but people still do drugs. The laws around many things do more harm than the thing they try to control or ban.

Arran would you ever consider doing a Q an A video? We'd love to get to know the person behind Thoughty2. I appreciate your witty remarks and also your ability to make information fun and easy to listen to.

This worked so well, we're doing it again, with drugs.

I live in a house from the twenties and there is a fake wall with several shelves behind it to hide alcohol. I still use it today because its really cool

I thought Moonshine was the name of the alcohol made by hillbilly stills in the woods in southern USA.

0:16 Woman hiding her face in the middle of the frame.

Love your content Thoughty2. You keep on keeping on mate. You record 'em and, we'll keep watching 'em.

There’s a family story of one of my great grandmothers (then a senior) who was making bathtub gin when the bathtub caught on fire. The fire dept was called and she had to explain WHY the tub was on fire. No doubt they found this amusing.

Been binge watching you ever since I found you, love it

I love the obvious analogy one can make between the prohibition of alcohol of the 1920s and the prohibition of all drugs (especially weed) of the later decades leading into this century. The outcome was the same: gangs controlled the sales & distribution of these substances and became filthy rich as a result just as their 1920s gangster counterparts like Al Capone. The loopholes around both problems were also the same such as getting a prescription for alcohol like in the last couple decades we did with weed. People hid their alcohol various creative ways just as people have hid their weed in similarly creative ways! With the legalization of weed crime is going down some and if the government legalizes all drugs crime should come down even more! Passing laws against certain behaviors doesn't stop those behaviors it makes it worse by driving them underground and only makes gangsters rich! So many people have died and continue to die unnecessarily because of these laws and government interference which is the ultimate irony since they were trying to protect people in the first place! Their intentions were good but the outcome was bad. With what happened with alcohol might not have been foreseeable but once that bad outcome was the result one would think they'ed learn their mistake and not repeat it with other forbidden substances.

This also birthed "stock car" or nascar today from the moonshiners driving their cars raoidly through forests without any light on at all. The drivers where petrolheads and startet racing their stock cars and started tweaking them to make them go fatter. Then a raceseries was born

And we still haven't learned our lesson that prohibition doesn't work.

this guy changed how i see the world

The cautionary tale what happens when you allow moral busybodies gain political power. Something people should be very weary of today.

Hey thoughty, thank you for what you do. I listen to your videos all the time during work and down time ❤️

You left out the transportation of long tubes of alcohol smuggled in the hip boots of certain travelers. This was the source of the name "bootleggers."

"42 here" Ahh, reminds me of a time before Covid. Before mask. Before lockdowns. Never change. We need something familiar in these times.

The bootleggers didn't need to make the alcohol. Often they just snuck it across the Canadian border where it was still legal.

My grandfather was a moonshiner in the great state of Tennessee. You can “still” get moonshine in the hills if you know certain people.🌙🔥🤪👍

Thank you for always posting

Your daily reminder that no law is insignificant enough that the government won’t kill you to enforce it.

Potions of blindness cannot last forever. In any case, just drink some milk after, everything should be fixed.

great vid mate, well written and interesting facts...

I do like your research keep it up mate

Me: **looks at rise of kingdom ad** everywhere I Go, I see his face

Can we just stop and recognize how addicted some of these people must have been during this time.

Glad you got a sponsor. Thx for the vids

been watching this channel for years now cool to see how much the vids have changed

I come from a dry country where a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label costs on average $270 on the black market, almost double during the holidays. Personally I consume a 99.5% un-denatured ethanol (I dilute it) that I get from a local chemicals company for about $12. I reserve the imported stuff for special occasions

- Give me capitalism! *the roaring twenties* - Not at that level, please!

Thanks a lot for these videos. I'm really enjoying them!

I have seen so many videos in such a little time period. Good job

Honestly you have the best content ever. Been a fan before the stash even.

What is with people having such a strong desire to escape their own senses?

Well presented- I always learn something here!

Very interesting topic today! Thanks!

As a proud American... eagles and guns are definitely correct. I've actually tried moonshine before though... it was blueberry pie flavored.... I don't think it was made the same way as in the 20s... but I can't say for sure lol

at one point the title was: "Why did millions of people pay to drink this bottle of poison" seems like he felt the one about going blind was better tho

Billy Sunday was such a famous charture that he is even mentioned in the song Chicago...By Frank Sinatra and others on the line "The town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down".

Me: *Blinds my friend with a bottle* My Friend: *rolls around on the floor clutching his eyes and screaming* Me: I guess you can say we do a little trolling.

"Why Did This Bottle Make People Blind?" - Original Title

The three big ethnic groups among alcohol providers in Prohibition Era Chicago were Sicilians, Irish, and Croatians. My grandfather and his sister, my Great Aunt Teta Maria, made their own wine in the city and I suspect provided some to neighbors and businesses. Grampa made quite a bit of money at the time, surprising for someone who spoke next to no English, and Teta Maria had a basement full of wine casks (Grampa had homemade red wine mixed with Seven-Up for breakfast every morning). If you're ever in Las Vegas, you can see the original St. Valentine's Day Massacre wall on display at the local crime museum. On school field trips in Chicago, we would pass the garage where the massacre occurred, and the nuns would point it out to us.

Also happened in Kenya, in the early 2000's, The illegal liquor goes by the name Kumi Kumi (from Swahili 'kumi' for 'ten'). It resulted in alcohol poisoning thus hospitalizations, blindness, and death.

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ah yes the good ol’ booze bottle

Hello Arran. Jolly good show you got going here. I always enjoy every presentation. But, I'd like to know what software you use to edit your videos

YOU HAVE ONE OF THE BEST CHANNELS .....I ALWAYS ENJOY

Hey, potato here...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.-"

My great great great uncle, on my mom's side, was a rumrunner during this time. One of our old bars in my town was actually a Speakeasy for a little while, disguised as a burger joint.

My Great grandpa was a big partyier! He would buy barrels of whiskey and gin. 10 grand a barrel.. He lived in a mansion in Oak Park. West side of Chicago. Famous people from all over the country came to his parties! Ty Cobb and Gloria Swanson to name afew. One day one of the Help told him he could get a barrel for a grand and my Great Grandpa's response was," Thank you but i would rather live" 😄

I skipped his rise of kingdoms ad segment. Only because I already have the game😁

Honestly, this man’s channel should be taught in schools. Very educational and interesting too. We needed stuff like this to keep our attention.

My great grandparents used to bootleg alcohol from Canada to Detroit. Best part is my great grandpa was a Detroit cop. You can see records where my great grandma told the border her name is Katherine Jean instead of Jean Katherine, and changing their surname by one letter, making it a whole different ethnicity.

"Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems." (Homer Jay Simpson)

it's as though the moral authoritarians that screetch "think of the children" "if it could only save just one life" and "nobody needs this" care more about pride and control than actually helping people, but don't worry the government is always there to help you.

Great opening in this video. I guessed where it was going but that didn't detract from its ginned up twist.

Prohibition must have been an interesting time. My Aunt Mary was a flapper and Uncle John worked for Al Capone. Family lore has it that Grandma had Capone over to the house for dinner on a few occasions but I have no idea if that's true.

Let's stop people breaking the law by breaking the law ourselves... Nice

Women pushed for this ban on alcohol. They also pushed for the war on drugs.

Thoughty we still have odd liquor laws in various places around America as a hold-over from prohibition. My grandfather was a pharmaicst in Boston and he made what was called "bathub gin". My grandmother would deliver it to customers in a baby carriage. My grrand mother would force her younger sister to along on the deliveries. It was a good cover. In the 1920s nobody would even think of stopping two woman pushing a baby carriage.

I'm from a town that has America's oldest brewery. Yingling. And they are proud to tell anyone who will listen that during prohibition they just kept making alcohol but they pretended they were selling ice cream .he'll even take you down and show you the tunnels they used.

It made people blind and, oddly enough, made their palms grow hairy...

Actually seems pretty reasonable when you look at the “average” alcohol consumption. Can’t blame them at all. Moderation people! Always in moderation!

We had some bottles that we couldn't account for at waste processing.. They hade some chromium sulfate type shit in them. We found them in Puerto Rico, full of home made wine. One of our guys took them and sent them to his brother. We noticed because we had no record of triple rinse and proper disposal (smashing).

I honestly can't wait for new videos you post

We now only drink 10% of what was drank 100 years ago? Maybe we were just not ready for Prohibition at the time then.

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"In North Carolina way back in the hills...there lived my pappy and he had him a still....he brewed white lightning when the Sun went down...he'd fill up the jug and pass it around"

Aaran, the fact that you still make fun of your own 'stach really appreciates me :-) Fan since the early days and your content is getting better every time! You are in line with PBS, VSauce (hope he will find his YT password someday), Joe Hanson and the YT-Brothers (aka SciShow). Please let your awesome content keep coming!! :-* Cheers!

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Great video, keep it up!! Thanks for 2 likes. 🥳

Methyl Alcohol isn't just 'added' to alcohol to de-nature it. When alcohol's distilled from fermenting mash, the first portions from the still contain methanol. It's produced from pectin in the mash and has a lower evaporating point then ethanol (drink alcohol). *ALWAYS* toss it out. _( Pectin's nice for making jelly, not liquor. )_

You are without a doubt one of the finest gentlemen I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know hair on UKposts thank you

4:04 “Face like a smacked arse” 4:15 “completely pished” Is Arran turning Irish?