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Operation Carrie Nation Pt 1 of Just Say No America!

Operation Carrie Nation Pt 1 of Just Say No America!

Season 6 Episode 327 Published 4 years, 10 months ago
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Episode 327: Operation Carrie Nation Pt 1 of Just Say No America


This week Host Dave Bledsoe is INFURIATED to learn he cannot submit his bar tabs to his health insurance, even though his “doctor” (it’s just a guy at the bar) says they are “medicinal”(because it isn’t). On the show this week kick off Part One of Just Say No America with the early days of temperance in America, one hatchet wielding granny at a time. (it’s CHOPPING time!)


Along the way we learn that Dave just needs a hug. From there we dive into the drinking habits of early America (they drank like Dave!) and then into the first steps toward telling folks that MAYBE drinking all day every day isn't the best idea! (tell that to Dave’s “doctor”) Then we meet the woman who would do ANYTHING to stomp out Demon Alcohol from America, even if it meant taking a hatchet to every saloon in Kansas: Carrie Nation! (She’s fun!)


Our Sponsor this week is Ray’s Rehab because we KNOW you aren’t gonna actually QUIT, why not learn how to hide it better? We open the show with a modern day Carrie Nation and close with the Women's Choir at Concordia College telling us we aren’t going to be making out with them any time soon!


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Citations Needed


America Has a Drinking Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/


Early American Alcohol and Tobacco Use

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/dlm_uploads/2014-Early-American-Alcohol-and-Tobacco-Use.pdf


Carrie Nation Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation


The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Use_and_Need_of_the_Life_of_Carry_A/tsy6J9rtocwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=carrie+nation+marriage&pg=PA166&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=smashed%20the%20mirror&f=false


Activist Carry Nation Used a Hatchet to Smash Booze Bottles Before Prohibition

https://www.history.com/news/carry-nation-temperance-prohibition-alcohol


Uncited Additional Reading:


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/

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