S3E7: Judgement Day
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Hey there, it's your host, Ed Helms here. Real quick, before we dive into this episode, I wanted to remind you that my brand new book is coming out on April 29th. It's called Snafu, The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screw-Ups. And you can pre-order it right now at snafu-book.com. Trust me, if you like this show, you're gonna love this book. It's got all the wild disasters, spectacular face plants we just couldn't squeeze into this podcast. And here's the kicker. I am also going on tour to celebrate. That's right. I'm coming to New York, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and my hometown, Los Angeles. So if you've ever wanted to see me stumble through a live Q&A or dramatically read about a kitty cat getting turned into a CIA operative, now's your chance. Again, head to snafu-book.com to preorder the book and check out all the tour details and dates. Or just click the link in the show notes. That'll work too. Okay, that's it. On with the chaos. This is Snafu Season 3, Formula 6.
Previously on Snafu. As Mabel Walker Willebrand was doing everything in her power to stop the tide of liquor washing into America.
Clan took over the city. Drys and wets clan and anti-clan contending forces.
Prohibition agents were enforcing the law by repeatedly breaking it.
By putting a prohibition agent, Dugan Hart, on trial for manslaughter, it's making him a martyr of prohibition.
And the U.S. government kept upping the ante in their misguided plan to get people to stop drinking.
When the federal government starts coming up with formulas, they supercharge poisons into the alcohol that the bootleggers are stealing.
1928 was a momentous year. At the movies, the world was introduced to a dapper mouse named Mickey and a nifty new innovation, sound. Radio had just gone national and the World Series was heard from coast to coast, much to the delight of Yankee superfan Alexander Gettler, who's tuning in to hear the Yankees sweep the Cardinals as he's slicing and dicing bodies in his lab at Bellevue Hospital. Yep, 1928 was a real barn burner, all right. But most of all, because it was a big election year. The presidency was up for grabs. In one corner was Herbert Hoover, Republican and the guy for the dries. In the other corner, the wet warrior, longtime governor of New York, Al Smith.
I am entirely unwilling to accept the old order of things as the best unless and until I become convinced that it cannot be made better.
As Al's speeches buzz over radios across America, I can picture Mabel Walker Willebrand sitting in her office at the Department of Justice, listening and fuming. You might remember that Al thumbed his nose at the law and repealed the state's prohibition enforcement statute five years before. Well, that put Al in Mabel's crosshairs. In Mabel's eyes, Al was a man so morally bankrupt that he swept the Constitution aside to appeal to the masses. And appeal he did, promising to take his wet agenda all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Mabel wasn't having it.
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