Ken Burns

So, your pandemic of the Spanish influenza thing is the First World War.

So Germans were brewers, and it became very easy to say they had been equating all the 19th century that it's grain.

Beer equals bread.

It's the milk of humankind.

And suddenly they're the enemy.

And so it becomes possible to begin to rev up your population in that sort of the thing that happens when people react by fear.

And I would think it's more the anti-German sentiment.

Most of the brewers, if not all the brewers, were Germans.

And then this sense of social change combining with the anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-Catholic sort of sentiments and the idea too, a very legitimate idea, that as our first episode of three was called,

We were a nation of drunkards.

Alcohol was a big, huge problem.

What we learned is that we couldn't address it by, you know, as Twain said, again, never wrote a bad sentence in his life.

The prohibition of anything makes it worthwhile, you know, or as he also said, nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits, you know, and that's what prohibition is reforming other people's habits.

Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you, Chuck, I'm so glad you brought that up because I said something the other day in some conversation.

This is what I agree with you 100 percent.

And there's always a spiritual dimension to the films that we've made.

You always do.

Because, look, let's just take Article one.

I mean, you know, Amendment one of the Constitution, the First Amendment.