''Prohibition'' - OverSimplified REACTION

[@NewGuy2534]

Fun story about Carey Nation. A lot of Saloons and bars had a plaque that read “All nations are welcomed... Except Carey.”

[@Senaleb]

Btw those shanty towns that were created in parks were named "Hooverville" as a jab to the president.

[@chriswhinery925]

The reason the story of George Remus getting acquitted for killing his wife seemed so unbelievable to you guys is because Oversimplified left out some very important context that makes the story actually make sense. In addition to stealing all his stuff, his wife also tried to have him deported from the country, and when that failed she hired a hitman to try and have him killed. George found out about this when the hitman had a change of heart at the last minute and confessed the whole scheme to him. Then, at the trial, Remus pled insanity. Based on everything she had done to him, it's not that hard to imagine why the jury would accept that he hadn't been in his right mind when he did it. And it's not like he just got away with it with no punishment. Since he pled insanity, a verdict of "not guilty" just meant he goes to an insane asylum instead of a prison. He spent 9 months in an insane asylum during a period of history where asylums were truly awful places to be in, so it's not like he face no punishment at all.

[@lazymansload520]

Remus portrayed himself as a victim of prohibition, which the jury already hated. He claimed he wouldn’t have shot his wife if it weren’t for prohibition, which is how he got off so easy. This is probably why laws shouldn’t be so draconian, it makes people sympathetic to murderers who also hate a draconian law.

[@coyotelong4349]

Remus may have been a slimy, immoral scumbag but he was very clever

[@user-pm2zv9fs5r]

@@coyotelong4349 true. he was a lawyer after all, he definitely knew what to say

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

Love how Spaghetti Jeff is a reoccurring character in the Oversimplified lore. He's like an immortal, silently observing all major events in history

[@TheForsakenEagle]

Spaghetti Jeff is the League of Shadows in Oversimplified lore.

[@coyotelong4349]

I’m still mad that he lost the city magistrate election in Bologna to The Bucket I mean, The Bucket is pretty great and all, but Spaghetti Jeff was the true anti-establishment reformer candidate

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

@@coyotelong4349 it's pretty much confirmed at this point that the Bucket rigged the election. There are several eye witnesses who saw votes that were for Spaghetti Jeff being tossed into rivers and stuff. And of course the Bolognese fake news is fawning over the Bucket. But we know who truly won the election!!!!

[@anonymousperson3023]

@@bakthihapuarachchi3447 yep. The Bucket won the election. There is no evidence of any voter fraud. Your spaghetti Jeff is just a bad candidate. The end... And dont riot at the capitol because your candidate is terrible

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

@@anonymousperson3023 hell yeah we'll riot! We want our freedom from the WORLD!!!!!

[@Greatdanewrangler]

My grandpa had family members who ran moonshine during prohibition..lol

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

sweet :) lol -Dave

[@Aagggyy]

@Finnic Patriot Really?! Nobody? Any theories?

[@Bleach-nt9ey]

@@Aagggyy plane crash or ship wrek bak to home

[@tuckinatorinator787]

It's a point of pride in America to be a part of a family of moonshiners who got away with it

[@joeymonster5591]

That's crazy cuz my great grandfather was a bootlegger and moon shiner too lol

[@theeternalsuperstar3773]

11:03 I love how almost no one cares that Wheeler overthrew THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OF OHIO!!!

[@pashauzan]

The real reason Ohio wanted to take over the world

[@gregorycourtney1532]

I care, but I am from Ohio. Seeing someone have that much influence on my state government is frankly terrifying.

[@theeternalsuperstar3773]

@@gregorycourtney1532 I feel that.

[@Tamaki742]

I'm not American, so what's the significance of this?

[@formorian5]

@@Tamaki742 The representatives and governer are basically the elected leaders of that state. Wayne Wheeler rounded up support against ALL of them and got them removed from office and replaced with ones that supported his agenda. One man forced a state's entire ruling body to change, just because they disagreed with him. That's scary.

[@davidrichards6509]

And if there had never been Prohibition in America there wouldn't be a NASCAR because NASCAR started off as amateur races to see whose stock car was the fastest between guys whose main occupation was outracing the feds to deliver illegal moonshine.

[@chaosXP3RT]

My great grandpa claims to have once met Al Capone while fishing on the shore of a lake in the northern Wisconsin woods

[@chaost4544]

Man... we need a whole video on George Remus. His story is a damn movie needing to be made.

[@lemontart1883]

Lynchburg, in Moore County TN, the home of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, is ironically still a Dry County. I’ve been to the distillery there, which is a tourist attraction. You can buy limited amounts of whiskey at the gift shop there (overpriced though), and get a bit buzzed off the air in some places, but you’d have to make your own alcohol to get drunk within the county borders and that would be illegal. I guess it works out okay for the residents there though, because Jack Daniels is a big employer there and they couldn’t be the #1 American whiskey in the world if their employees were getting drunk all the time on their product.

[@remo27]

Actually, this video left something very important about Remus's wife out which explains why he got off. She didn't just screw him over financially and emotionally: Her or the Prohibition Agent she was banging or both tried to have him killed. So it was felt she deserved her fate.

[@chriswhinery925]

I'm not sure it was so much that the jury thought his wife deserved it, it was more like they accepted George's insanity plea because after everything she had done to him it was pretty easy to believe that he wasn't in his right mind when he did it. And on top of that, he didn't just get acquitted and go on with his life. He pled insanity, which means a not guilty verdict results in him going to a mental institution instead of a prison. He spent 9 months in an insane asylum during a time period that was not exactly famous for compassionate treatment of mental illness patients. Asylums were absolutely horrible places back in those days. So it's not like he faced no punishment.

[@Architraz_PHX]

To be fair Carrie Nation was 6'-0" tall (1.83m). A woman that tall with rocks and swinging a hatchet would be someone I'd avoid as well.

[@Tamaki742]

"Here's Carrie" is a Stephen King crossover that I don't want to imagine.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The drinking age in America is mostly about reducing drunk driving. Which it kinda does, although it does increase youth binge drinking. Just one of those tradeoffs.

[@TheMasonK]

I’m from Wisconsin where bootlegging was extremely common. Al Capone had to drive through my town to get to his summer home. He actually drove right by where my house would be built all the time.

[@charlieeckert4321]

I just learned that the captain of the Mayflower owned the Mayflower Pub in London. Might be where they got their beer.

[@brycealthoff8092]

I have family in Mississippi who live in a dry county. No booze is allowed to be bought, sold or made. However, the counties surrounding them are not dry. Every gas station and convenience store over the county line has a full liquor section. So all you have to do is cross the county line, pack the car with your favorite social lubricants and go home. Effective law right?

[@johnmichaelchance1151]

My county in Mississippi used to be dry but now we have two of the biggest liquor stores for the surrounding counties.

[@brycealthoff8092]

@@johnmichaelchance1151 I find that incredibly amusing.

[@JPMadden]

There is a small wealthy town near me in New England that until 2011 was "semi-dry." Since the end of Prohibition, sale of alcohol for off-premise consumption had been banned, but it was legal to serve liquor at the local expensive restaurants, the country club, and the yacht club. (Wouldn't want the few poor people in town to drink and cause trouble.) Eventually a local referendum changed this absurd law.

[@brycealthoff8092]

@@JPMadden indeed. Everyone knows it’s only poor people who cause trouble when under the influence.

[@Tamaki742]

@@brycealthoff8092 Yea, no rich kid would drive at full speed in an expensive car and kill a bunch of people under the influence.

[@TalesofanEnigma]

I love you guys. can't believe you guys don't have 100k subs yet.

[@randomzergling]

Most reaction channels grow very slowly

[@OceanLily]

The drinking age has more to with the driving age in America. There were so many 18 year olds driving drunk and getting in horrific accidents. So the choice was drinking or driving and since cars are a necessity driving won.

[@Cugastratos]

Exactly this. Too many drunk driving 18 year olds. The statistics went down for accidents and deaths caused by drunk driving.

[@doesntmatter46]

After prohibition, many states set the drinking age at 21, others at 18. It wasn't until the 1980s that Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, would pressure Congress to make it 21 nationally, and even then, the US Federal Government could only incentivize states to change the drinking age. Louisiana didn't change the drinking age to 21 until 1996.

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

Interesting, here we see an adult as 18 and they are held account as such be it breaking the law or looking after themselves, driving, drinking, voting.. Seems to make more sence but then I don't drink 🤔... Kev 👍

[@doesntmatter46]

@@HypeTrain-Follow I agree, 21 is pretty arbitrary, and 18 across the board makes the most sense. But now that I'm a bit older, I have come to really enjoy the lack of teenagers in bars...

[@ravanpee1325]

@@doesntmatter46 They don't learn to handle alcohol properly and get hardcore wasted in college. First beer in Europe with 14 and parental oversight

[@justinwilson980]

The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro is a good Al Capone movie

[@JPMadden]

At 23:55, Kevin Costner is mentioned. That's a reference to the excellent movie "The Untouchables." Also starring are Sean Connery as an Irish cop and Robert de Niro as Al Capone.

[@Peg__]

We found bathtub gin and rolls of money hidden around our Grandparents' house after they passed. (Around the year 2000)

[@JPMadden]

My Irish-American grandmother was a teenage girl in the 1920s. She helped her father run a small grocery or general store near Boston. She told me they had a hidden compartment under the floor where they kept illegal liquor that they sold. I wish I had asked her for more details.

[@DrknssRules1]

Prohibition was always amazing to me since I actually don't drink. Seeing all that play out was just fascinating.

[@matthewcostello3530]

during the early 1900s alll you had to do was sell only one brewery's beer and they'd set up a bar for you, and they'd deliver a roast or a ham or a turkey and some potatoes, so for the price of a drink you could help yourself to the food at the end of the bar, a nickle for a beer and a full supper, Men didn't come home til closing time and then some, spend a weeks wages then piss it out or throw it up, there were more bars per capita then other stores, and any decent size town would have at least 10 breweries, alll the men were drunk and chidren and wives went hungry

[@thanquolrattenherz9665]

there are beers specialy brewed for childreen and are even sold to this day in germany. they are pretty good.

[@chaost4544]

I grew up in Belton, Missouri which is her final resting place. I used to have Cub Scout meetings at the cool little museum that explores her exploits. I can't lie... she was kind of metal. Ironically, when I grew up in that town in the 90's you could still buy alcohol through a drive through and was one of the few places in Missouri where that happened.

[@seanbrummfield448]

Not to be mean or rude, but FINALLY!!!!! lol

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

lol, we thought we'd keep you all hanging :) -Dave

[@seanbrummfield448]

@@HypeTrain-Follow It worked. lol. Great reaction though.

[@Blondie42]

The "shanty towns" that came about during the depression were called Hoovervilles as an insult to the president.

[@the_fixer2593]

So in regards to George Remus, to be fair to him and the Jury; Remus' wife had turned in all of his millions of dollars to the Prohibition agent she was having a affair with. Understandable, but then the Prohibition agent, rather than turn the money in, resigned and claimed all the money for himself; and Remus' wife left him only $100 in his bank accounts on top of selling all his stuff. Then, adding to that, one of the two of them (no one knows which) hired a hitman to kill Remus once he got out of prison; but then the hitman found out what the wife had done and felt guilty and told Remus. That was the reason why Remus killed his wife; not because of her stealing all his stuff and divorcing him and having an affair with one of the agents who helped catch him. Although that likely helped push him in that direction. That's why the Jury let him go (provided he went to an insane asylum, which he did for 7 months), because while he did plead insanity and killed his wife; his wife did screw him over, and tried to have him killed.

[@GearShotgun]

As Chris Rock said, "Now I'm not saying he should've killed her, but I understand"

[@applelover98]

ROTFLMAO! Like Prohibition stopped my ancestors from making beer, wine, and bathtub gin.

[@davidmatheny1993]

The roots of NASCAR racing came from bootleggers trying to make their cars fast enough to outrun the police. A famous route for that here in Georgia was known as "Thunder Road", which is State Highway 9 from the mountains down into the Atlanta area.

[@tcsam73]

I had a great grandfather who was the Justice of the Peace in his small Pennsylvania town, and he also happened to be a rum runner. He'd escort prisoners to places like Philadelphia, and then he'd stock up on booze and take it back to his home town. He didn't get rich off it, but the town was well stocked for booze.

[@supmaidoods8753]

Wow thats sounds awesome. I live in Pittsburgh and my great grandfather helped rum runners but never got to rich off of it

[@cathypagel7325]

Some counties still have prohibition to this day in Kentucky and Tennessee the reason moonshine was invented and to this day is illegal. 16 States in 2002 dont serve alcohol on Sunday!

[@Alphasnowbordergirl]

The 21 years was not something national until much later. In some states it was legal at 18 until 1984 when it became national.

[@cpcoultertweedles7216]

If you want a good Al Capone movie, I'd go with The Untouchables. Reasonably historically accurate, very entertaining, and a true classic

[@shard4756]

My great grandpa made moonshine in the basement in New Jersey.

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

Cooollll.... 😁 👍... Kev

[@Idlemage]

Had a great grandad who had a speak easy was an interesting find

[@johnortmann3098]

The U.S. briefly flirted with a drinking age of 19 in the '70s but soon returned to 21. One of the major differences between the U.S. and elsewhere is that anyone over 16 is driving around in cars, which led to even more drunken wrecks when the age was lowered.

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

Yeah it's just a strange consept to us as here you basically turn adult at 18 where driving voting drinking ect feel linked.. 👍😊.... Kev

[@johnortmann3098]

@@HypeTrain-Follow I turned 19 when that was the drinking age and boy did I drive hammered. In those days if the cops saw you weaving all over the road they'd pull you over and tell you to go home and sleep it off. Nowadays they'd throw the book at you.

[@SonOfMuta]

22:52 It was only 19 minutes. Not 90

[@Bob-lr2xp]

If it's one thing these Oversimplified videos have taught us, it's that when groups of women protest something, it's going to end in disaster. Prohibition, The Russian Revolution, and the French Revolution.

[@intello8953]

Are you trying to say women shouldn’t protest 🤔 I’m kidding........ are you?

[@Bob-lr2xp]

@@intello8953 I'm saying I have pattern recognition regarding these videos.

[@intello8953]

@@Bob-lr2xp well didn’t that one rich lady protest and other women that supported her to lift prohibition of alcohol

[@kedemesmonroe5888]

Women have more balls and speak if they don’t like the law lol

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

And this is why the can't prohibit cigars

[@davidrichards6509]

So if the 16th Amendment creating the federal income tax hadn't been passed to pay for the loss of federal income from passing the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol then Al Capone may never have gone to prison for tax evasion.

[@gmunden1]

Try "Drunk History" Prohibition story of Carrie Nation. It is hilarious.

[@kinjiru731]

Enjoyed your reaction, as always. :)

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

Cheers 👍... Think dave was worried uk would do same hahaha...🍺.... Kev

[@austinhoover2659]

Being an American with this surname as a history nerd.......... yeah....

[@matthewcostello3530]

FDR m ade beer legal with 11,000 restrictions on the making of it

[@patriciam1932]

I don't know why I hate the guy smacking his lips so much but I do, please don't judge

[@ravanpee1325]

Puritans acted like the talibans

[@occamsrazor1285]

Hypothesis: Prohibition actually saved the US economy from total collapse in the Great Depression.

[@jamcalx]

It always comes down to Ohio.

[@Burneri]

24:45 yes drinking was fine but manufacturing was against the law and it was homemade beer so illegal...

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

Yeah moonshine 😂... Kev 👍

[@michaellindley2292]

Wow women started prohibition, just like a woman to get in the way of a mans good time.🤣

[@gojira4036]

So I can become a massive hypocrite too?

[@cynicalcitizen8315]

Prohibition was a massive disaster and was poorly thought out.

[@sarahswanson838]

nevveeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr trust Wikipedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@spooky_lxix9042]

I'm sorry for this but the guy on the right look like that one villain from black panther (the guy with robot arm) but got addicted to drug

[@chrisvoss4465]

crazy ow similar this can be related to current american events,im very worried for the next 4 years

[@simiankleurde1544]

Please react to Geography Now Israel

[@FXD609]

Woooo been waiting for you guy's reaction \o/

[@HypeTrain-Follow]

It's been a little to long, sorry -Dave