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  • @teragram38crows49
    @teragram38crows49 2 роки тому +14924

    Funny fact: Carrie Nation didn't use a hatchet until her husband made a joke about it. After smashing a few saloons with just rocks, Mr. Nation jokingly told his wife she should use a hatchet to do maximum damage to the places. And Carrie told him, "That is the most sensible thing you have said since I married you."

    • @bettyunicorn6132
      @bettyunicorn6132 2 роки тому +717

      Oh hell

    • @whathappened5797
      @whathappened5797 2 роки тому +655

      Roasted

    • @sixohtwo12
      @sixohtwo12 2 роки тому +462

      Definitely a fun fact. Maybe not so much funny

    • @nikolaus2688
      @nikolaus2688 2 роки тому +655

      Well, he married her in the first place. Probably not the most sensible fella to begin with.

    • @cashmsc
      @cashmsc 2 роки тому +399

      Carrie Nation is unbelievably based

  • @genericpinesol
    @genericpinesol 3 роки тому +9685

    My grandma actually witnessed Al Capone do a puppet show in elementary school, what a wild time

    • @sandberg_01
      @sandberg_01 3 роки тому +804

      WOOOAAAH

    • @IPgamer
      @IPgamer 3 роки тому +306

      What was it about lmao

    • @aidenwalsh9124
      @aidenwalsh9124 3 роки тому +568

      My grandpa was al Capone’s chauffeur

    • @danielg6542
      @danielg6542 3 роки тому +364

      I can’t imagine him doing a puppet show out of all things lol

    • @genericpinesol
      @genericpinesol 3 роки тому +770

      @@danielg6542 funny enough, my grandma spoke highly of him and was ironically a very gentle man when it came to kids

  • @funfings842
    @funfings842 7 місяців тому +4556

    "When something is legal, you can usually regulate and control it. But make that thing illegal, anything become fair game," is the national embodiment of "STRICT PARENTS MAKE SNEAKY CHILDREN" and i love it

    • @hawaiian_hero3293
      @hawaiian_hero3293 6 місяців тому

      Guns laws make mass shootings

    • @xbryant2k1
      @xbryant2k1 6 місяців тому +57

      With that mindset, make Cocain legal now, I wanna have some fun with my friends. Drinking ain’t do nothing anymore.

    • @pinchofgoth5477
      @pinchofgoth5477 5 місяців тому +89

      this is only applicable in some cases
      for example, weed is illegal here, which is why most people stay far FAR away from drugs.
      then take a look at the US, where weed is legal
      wheres the regulating and controlling? shit isnt looking too good man

    • @NocturnalPyro
      @NocturnalPyro 5 місяців тому +98

      One of my favorite ideologies I've seen is the idea that, trust gives freedom and leniency, If the parents give a curfew to come home from a party at say 11, and you keep it most of the time and you make sure they know when you have to break said curfew, they will usually allow it since you usually keep it. Eventually the parents can trust you enough to basically not have a curfew.

    • @Isaac-ot6jh
      @Isaac-ot6jh 5 місяців тому +64

      @@pinchofgoth5477weed isn’t nationally legal here, also there are regulations.

  • @Roxas13XIII
    @Roxas13XIII 7 місяців тому +762

    "A woman talking? In public?? That's outrageous!" lmao

    • @hawkeyeten2450
      @hawkeyeten2450 4 місяці тому +26

      Funny thing is, women having power wasn't as big a deal in many states west of the Mississippi River. Argonia, Kansas actually elected a female mayor, Susanna Salter, in 1887 and other western localities even elected all-female town councils partially because they were fed up with blatant corruption or crime and thought women as the "fairer and more virtuous" sex would surely bring more honesty and order. Iowa also allowed women to become lawyers from the 1870s onward!

    • @thatguywhoanimids
      @thatguywhoanimids Місяць тому +16

      Woman talking? *Theres gonna be a tax for that*

    • @jacobwilks9204
      @jacobwilks9204 Місяць тому

      @@hawkeyeten2450 Did having an entire council of women actually stop the corruption, or did the women just become corrupt?

    • @jacobwilks9204
      @jacobwilks9204 21 день тому +1

      4:45 "Ye Olde _Feather Hat_ Shoppe" in the background

    • @dragoe7441
      @dragoe7441 8 днів тому

      Based

  • @P1T9GotSaved
    @P1T9GotSaved 2 роки тому +6246

    "I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. I don't pay my taxes."
    *This enraged the IRS, who punished Al Severely.*

  • @sheevirwin8399
    @sheevirwin8399 3 роки тому +4680

    US Government: makes alcohol illegal
    American citizens: “I’ll drink to that!”

    • @brunogrill3774
      @brunogrill3774 3 роки тому +59

      Cheers bro I’ll drink to that

    • @brianhelmick1105
      @brianhelmick1105 3 роки тому +96

      Thats the best description of US culture and attitudes

    • @RonReagan847
      @RonReagan847 3 роки тому +4

      You couldn't even get the meme right, even though you edited your comment.

    • @sheevirwin8399
      @sheevirwin8399 3 роки тому +16

      @@RonReagan847 what meme? And the part I edited was the change from “USA” to “US Government”.

    • @donz6211
      @donz6211 3 роки тому

      Underrated comment.

  • @SakuraGirl21
    @SakuraGirl21 6 місяців тому +404

    There's one story I like regarding Carrie Nation. A saloon owner in Oklahoma invited Carrie to speak at his business, but she had to promise not to break his bottles. She broke them anyway. After this rampage the saloon owner then made a sign, "All Nations Welcome Except Carrie." It became a slogan, and saloons started to buy them and hang them in their taverns as a reminder to their patrons to be thankful that Carrie isn't here and that they can enjoy their drinks in peace. lol

    • @kingrahzar9351
      @kingrahzar9351 Місяць тому

      I wonder if stephen king heard about this women and was like "yeah I think I'll write a story about a women who kills people"

  • @kracerplayz4033
    @kracerplayz4033 3 місяці тому +223

    the fact that capone was caught not from the murders or the alchohol selling but from the irs getting him for tax evasion goes to show the power of the irs

    • @fredfry5100
      @fredfry5100 3 місяці тому +20

      For what it's worth, not even the Joker will take on the IRS. (Old scene from cartoon era Batman).

    • @that1nerdyblackgirl736
      @that1nerdyblackgirl736 2 місяці тому +9

      The IRS is the only thing that scares me shitless

    • @esutton26
      @esutton26 Місяць тому

      You can dodge a car, a wrench, a bullet. But try to dodge the American IRS, they will get you in the end.

  • @RdTrpBrgr
    @RdTrpBrgr 3 роки тому +1461

    "For all his murdering, the IRS finally got Capone on Tax Evasion."
    And that's why the Joker pays his taxes.

    • @thebowler5506
      @thebowler5506 3 роки тому +98

      Unlike a certain green dinosaur from the ever popular Nintendo franchise

    • @cottoneyejoe8285
      @cottoneyejoe8285 3 роки тому +104

      @@thebowler5506 Trying to get yoshi to pay his taxes is like trying to ban alcohol in the United States.

    • @dirtegarbage
      @dirtegarbage 3 роки тому +36

      @@cottoneyejoe8285 all must pay their tax before the great bologna bucket

    • @canaanclb
      @canaanclb 3 роки тому +78

      "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman. But the IRS? Nooooo thank you!"

    • @TheRightPart
      @TheRightPart 3 роки тому +12

      Obscure TNBA reference? I likey!

  • @Gabowsk
    @Gabowsk 3 роки тому +8570

    American Starter Pack:
    - Drink Beer
    - Shoot Guns
    - Mud Wrestling.

    • @imcarlosjr4898
      @imcarlosjr4898 3 роки тому +61

      Yup

    • @annoyingperson2255
      @annoyingperson2255 3 роки тому +95

      And communism
      Take a joke please

    • @KH29_
      @KH29_ 3 роки тому +360

      @@annoyingperson2255 *capitalism*

    • @flamesword2354
      @flamesword2354 3 роки тому +274

      @@annoyingperson2255 that's the stalin pack

    • @NumptyDumpty33
      @NumptyDumpty33 3 роки тому +229

      @@annoyingperson2255 wrong one dude that’s actually the Soviet Pack which is Drink Vodka,Shoot AK-47 and carry hammers and sickles.

  • @user-gv7kz6pn6c
    @user-gv7kz6pn6c 3 місяці тому +69

    My paternal grandparents made beer and wine in their basement. Well, actually, my grandmother made the beer and wine from recipes passed down through her family. My grandfather owned a produce store so he could supply my grandmother whatever she needed. The local ice cream truck driver supplied the empty root beer bottles for my grandmother to bottle the beer and wine in. My dad recalled hearing “pop-pop-pop” noises at 1 AM from the beer bottles that were over-carbonated.
    It was a great business model. My grand father could write off whatever produce was used as spoilage, the ice cream man sold adult root beer as well as kids root beer so everything was listed as root beer. No doubt they supplied some local speakeasies. My grandmother even had a potato beer recipe.

    • @kevin8712
      @kevin8712 23 дні тому +6

      The Irish would kill for that potato beer recipe.

  • @tomasaurusstack6200
    @tomasaurusstack6200 3 місяці тому +94

    My grandmother was a maid at alcapons house, supposedly he treated her very well and treated her to a few nights on the town, she even referred to him as uncle al whenever she spoke about him, I never met her but she seemed pretty cool

    • @SCP-DrRayn
      @SCP-DrRayn 2 дні тому

      That's really cool, this is why I like to look in the comments of Oversimplified videos. I get to learn stuff like this 😊

  • @theraginginfernape9496
    @theraginginfernape9496 3 роки тому +410

    Al Capone's defense in a nutshell:
    *"I don't kill people. That is my least favorite thing to do"*

    • @hello_world2767
      @hello_world2767 3 роки тому +27

      caponeeeee that kills people!

    • @vishnu4234
      @vishnu4234 3 роки тому +9

      woooaaahhh!! with a head spin.

    • @genericperson753
      @genericperson753 3 роки тому +11

      His best defense:Wow on the day of the trial it seems that all of the witness have vanished for unknown reasons.I wonder why.

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 3 роки тому +3

      @@genericperson753 They Got Out of Town!!!

    • @maplesyrupminer437
      @maplesyrupminer437 3 роки тому +3

      Llamas with hats and oversimplified.
      Nice

  • @nottreblinka4119
    @nottreblinka4119 3 роки тому +465

    So basically this was a "You weren't supposed to do that" moment on a nationwide scale.

  • @Someguyfromtheinternet36
    @Someguyfromtheinternet36 3 місяці тому +170

    Snorky actually said he got scars from fighting in "The Lost Battalion" in World War One. He didn't even let the fact he never served stop him. What a guy.

  • @jereico7587
    @jereico7587 Місяць тому +22

    The way I always remembered the Amendment numbers for these- "You can't drink at 18, but you can at 21"

  • @CoolNinja925
    @CoolNinja925 3 роки тому +719

    "We want to ban alcohol!"
    "This enraged his father, who punished him severely"

  • @bakatraitless
    @bakatraitless 3 роки тому +624

    Woman: “For the last time, stop calling me-“
    Mobsters: “EY COME ON, IM WALKIN’ ‘ERE•

  • @theodoregamer9105
    @theodoregamer9105 7 місяців тому +1389

    The War on Drugs proved that America truly learned nothing from Prohibition.

    • @yasirpanezai5690
      @yasirpanezai5690 3 місяці тому +85

      War on drugs was basically to incarcerat people

    • @asdf0747
      @asdf0747 3 місяці тому +119

      @@yasirpanezai5690 Nixon said on record that they banned Cannabis to arrest anti war protestors.

    • @connorbosley4431
      @connorbosley4431 3 місяці тому

      America never learns anything, look at mass shootings as well

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 3 місяці тому +4

      We should use the military next time

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 3 місяці тому

      @@asdf0747good

  • @RedBlitzen
    @RedBlitzen 2 місяці тому +26

    What I learned from this video.
    1. Never give an order you know won't be obeyed.
    2. When seeking to cure a disease, cure the disease, not its symptoms.
    3. The first step to create a paradise, is to get people who would want to live in one.

  • @FranciscoFernandezD
    @FranciscoFernandezD 3 роки тому +2581

    Everyone: We want the Napoleonic wars
    Oversimplified: I’ll look into that

  • @Dragonspirit223
    @Dragonspirit223 3 роки тому +1122

    "I'm crazy enough to take on the Batman, but the IRS? NOO SIR!"
    -The Joker

    • @hershloodu8925
      @hershloodu8925 3 роки тому +27

      I mean he had good reason to be afraid.

    • @csd1919
      @csd1919 3 роки тому +51

      the IRS would actually kill him instead of batman.

    • @godzillafanboy1824
      @godzillafanboy1824 3 роки тому +5

      a sad man and his potato kid was poor and why were they poor there was a sad egg who was smart and his mommy is a trex with apple sauce and a sad depressed angry cat on top and that is why the taco is angry. that is called crazy

    • @PHSDM104
      @PHSDM104 3 роки тому +4

      That was one of the best episodes of Batman:TAS.

    • @Palora01
      @Palora01 3 роки тому +3

      Outdated joke, Microsoft has pretty much castrated the IRS and made it a lot easier for all corporations to get away with tax evasion and fraud.

  • @mastergamernoah2387
    @mastergamernoah2387 3 місяці тому +32

    2:23 “Oh crap, women! RUN!!!”
    Literally me

  • @avery-mj3gl
    @avery-mj3gl 5 місяців тому +122

    prohibition didn't lose, it merely failed to win

    • @skywolf8978
      @skywolf8978 2 місяці тому +4

      I applaud your reference to the over simplified Civil War videos. But honestly, the same thing could've been said for Wheeler. He didn't lose prohibition; he simply failed to win its longevity.

    • @mitcheltse
      @mitcheltse 13 днів тому +1

      haha lol american civil war refrence

  • @Ace-676
    @Ace-676 3 роки тому +1039

    "Then you become homeless"
    "You turn to crime"
    "And uh, uh oh"

  • @AxShadexSwag
    @AxShadexSwag 3 роки тому +1914

    I felt personally attacked when Thelma called Mitch stupid.

  • @sugarcrash5053
    @sugarcrash5053 6 місяців тому +117

    Okay but the guy tasting bath water WAS weird, he had a point

  • @ainsleycousins5311
    @ainsleycousins5311 5 місяців тому +33

    I did a project on Carrie Nation, she had husband probems because of alchohol and went out smashing saloons like crazy- she would even sell axes as a sort of tourist souvenir, where the money made would go to paying to get carrie out of jail whenever she was arrested XD

  • @lunettasuziejewel2080
    @lunettasuziejewel2080 Рік тому +4406

    In *slight* defense of Remus, his wife *had* previously hired a hitman to kill him; the only reason he wasn't killed is because the hitman thought he'd be double-crossed, and instead told Remus about the plan.
    They are all terrible people.

    • @SlightNegative
      @SlightNegative 11 місяців тому +538

      "This may strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die."

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney 11 місяців тому +220

      Obviously, this short video can't cover everything, but that should've been a major point, considering the jokes about Remus being cheered in the courtroom.

    • @Elenrai
      @Elenrai 10 місяців тому +85

      I mean Remus is kinda respectable out of the lot of them.
      His morals were always consistent, had he been a european I am willing to bet both my balls he would have done like my family and formed resistance cells during the fun time when the germans were busy occupying us and yeeting grenades into street cars...
      Technically illegal but I bet none of you would complain anyone breaks the rules to secure your freedom and liberty and diabeetus riddled grandpa when he was kept alive by "Terrible people"(according to the winners, dont get over your head as a partial winner, remember Athens?)

    • @ritam8767
      @ritam8767 10 місяців тому +116

      ehhh i kinda like Remus. Like him for his violation of Prohibition, and although murder isn't justified, his wife didn't just betray him, she destroyed his life by selling everything he owned.

    • @finemernop7201
      @finemernop7201 9 місяців тому

      @@ritam8767 You tried to kill George Remus? There's gonna be a tax for that.

  • @DrewDurnil
    @DrewDurnil 3 роки тому +102673

    "We want to ban alcohol!"
    "There's gonna be a tax for that"

  • @Sleepy4213
    @Sleepy4213 5 місяців тому +20

    “You shouldn’t force your own morals on people who don’t share them” If only we could get half the population to follow this rule.

  • @justagamer7755
    @justagamer7755 4 місяці тому +40

    It’s so hard to believe that this is already 3 years old, I remember watching it the day it came out.

  • @jackdamascus4506
    @jackdamascus4506 2 роки тому +2659

    The fact that he drew every saloon in Kansas differently instead of copying, proves how much we underestimate this lad

    • @bozotron100
      @bozotron100 2 роки тому +28

      Wow 😯

    • @minecraftgreifer4045
      @minecraftgreifer4045 2 роки тому +14

      Is it bad that for your profile picture, before I even read the text, I knew it would say we cant expect god to do all the work?

    • @guenffer
      @guenffer 2 роки тому +5

      @@minecraftgreifer4045 ???

    • @averageyoutubeuser851
      @averageyoutubeuser851 2 роки тому +4

      @@guenffer fallout new Vegas

    • @sny-sodathe3rd618
      @sny-sodathe3rd618 2 роки тому

      @@guenffer he’s talking about Jack Damascus’s profile picture

  • @BOLTZtheCLOWN
    @BOLTZtheCLOWN 3 роки тому +13854

    These need to be shown in schools

    • @dionelmejia8093
      @dionelmejia8093 3 роки тому +204

      I agree

    • @NolanSchuster4
      @NolanSchuster4 3 роки тому +387

      My apush teacher basically covered all of this in class but yeah it should be shown in school.

    • @sirwansirwan6614
      @sirwansirwan6614 3 роки тому +58

      @@dionelmejia8093ج🚪🚪🚪🚪🧹🧹🍒🍌🍍🍍🍓🍍🍄🥔🍆🍑🥑🍐🍏🍅🍎🍎🥭🥝🌽🌰

    • @dionelmejia8093
      @dionelmejia8093 3 роки тому +198

      @@sirwansirwan6614 why the food emoji lol

    • @darrel9452
      @darrel9452 3 роки тому +291

      At my school my history teacher shows theses videos in class

  • @polmeister.
    @polmeister. 4 місяці тому +19

    Kids: “Can I drink this?”
    Teacher: “Do you want to explode?”

  • @reddude9415
    @reddude9415 4 місяці тому +21

    Cool little fact, my great grandmother, Ran a little restaurant in deep Chicago, and every day according to her testimony, Al Capone himself would walk in, order something and call her “toots”

  • @CaliRR
    @CaliRR 11 місяців тому +4431

    A fact about the moonshine stuff: during prohibition, many moonshine runners had tuned up cars to outrun the police. After prohibition, they had no need to run from the police to sell it, so they started racing each other for money and respect. In 1948, a group of men got together in a hotel at Daytona Beach to establish a sanctioning body for these early stock car racing events. That sanctioning body became what we call NASCAR

    • @fpcooper95
      @fpcooper95 9 місяців тому +122

      I just learned that because of the race in Chicago 😂

    • @linea.rossetti3870
      @linea.rossetti3870 9 місяців тому +13

      D

    • @onethreeseventhree
      @onethreeseventhree 8 місяців тому +179

      i did not need to know that nascar was caused by alcohol but now that i know i feel so enlightened

    • @hankgaming3
      @hankgaming3 8 місяців тому +26

      Thanks for this information I will now forget everything about it

    • @elibedard6373
      @elibedard6373 8 місяців тому

      NASCAR was caused by alcohol? That explains everything.

  • @allandejesusjr.1722
    @allandejesusjr.1722 3 роки тому +2913

    Congress: No More Beers Guys
    Americans: Cheers to that

    • @Kriegerbieger
      @Kriegerbieger 3 роки тому +75

      Cheers I'll drink to that

    • @CoolzerYT
      @CoolzerYT 3 роки тому +16

      They are drinking apple juice

    • @murdasippislim
      @murdasippislim 3 роки тому +34

      @@CoolzerYT hey HEY... sparkling apple cider these are fine people not peasants

    • @jefferyboudreaux2361
      @jefferyboudreaux2361 3 роки тому +6

      Release the lions

    • @zerieth6620
      @zerieth6620 3 роки тому +6

      @@CoolzerYT Apple juice... Suuuuuuure let's go with that.

  • @Irisverse
    @Irisverse 4 місяці тому +8

    Fun fact: the government of New Zealand also attempted prohibition around the same time, and very nearly managed to make it happen. They passed a national referendum in 1919, and the people who voted for prohibition actually slightly outnumbered those who voted against it... until 40,000 troops returning from World War I came back and swung the vote in the other direction.

  • @nezhamapsofficial
    @nezhamapsofficial 3 місяці тому +10

    Fun fact: In The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass explains how slave masters gave their slaves uncanny amounts alcohol and other guilty pleasures to disgust themselves with what freedom has to offer; this also disgusted them with freedom itself.

  • @zaregoto6022
    @zaregoto6022 3 роки тому +214

    "If they can get Capone, they can get you." - Saul Goodman
    Don't look down on the IRS even the joker is afraid of them

    • @gabevenderdahl1642
      @gabevenderdahl1642 3 роки тому

      @free wifi not if I go to the moon! See ya suckers!

    • @beatriztrigo4731
      @beatriztrigo4731 3 роки тому +1

      This reminds me of that ep were a mobster tried to screw the Joker over my having him inherit millions of dollars and then be unabel to pay his taxes.

    • @gabevenderdahl1642
      @gabevenderdahl1642 3 роки тому

      @free wifi damn it, I should’ve known the true reason for the space force

  • @havokx9139
    @havokx9139 3 роки тому +972

    Police Officer: *looks at Al Capone funny
    Al Capone: WOOAAAAHHHHHH

    • @wosh253
      @wosh253 3 роки тому +34

      LOOK AT YOU WITH THE CRAZY TALK

    • @Kyle0ng
      @Kyle0ng 3 роки тому +20

      AYYYYYY OHHHH LOOK AT THIS GUY

    • @FreaKCSGOHacker
      @FreaKCSGOHacker 3 роки тому +18

      I'M WALKIN HERE

    • @bobagingo_
      @bobagingo_ 3 роки тому +12

      WOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @LoganB591
      @LoganB591 3 роки тому +12

      Meanwhile: *his arms turn to jelly and his neck doesn’t exist anymore*

  • @skturbo107
    @skturbo107 6 місяців тому +77

    I just got a Domino’s ad with the best timing possible.
    “And there was plenty of murder, because GET 50% OFF DOMINO’S PIZZA RIGHT NOW!”

    • @envyofthegodsabove
      @envyofthegodsabove 27 днів тому +3

      The perfect allegory for America and capitalism lmao

  • @EdgyShooter
    @EdgyShooter 4 місяці тому +13

    Such an interesting juxtaposition, the fact that everyone was committing a crime made social divides break down, but at the same time brought a level of corruption never before seen and handed huge amounts of power to the mob

  • @pudpudjd
    @pudpudjd 2 роки тому +6549

    Fun fact: when prohibition was abolished, the people who ran moonshine in their cars, which were heavily modified to outrun police vehicles, figured the best thing to do with the vehicles was race them, which eventually led to Stock Car Racing.

    • @CJM-rg5rt
      @CJM-rg5rt 2 роки тому +74

      "Qxir"

    • @DaShoopdahoop
      @DaShoopdahoop 2 роки тому +250

      I see this as an absolute win

    • @deandrenicholas2545
      @deandrenicholas2545 2 роки тому +107

      I learned that from Ricky Bobby...

    • @Zeoxis6
      @Zeoxis6 2 роки тому +60

      Yeah, I bet there'll Never Ever be something quite like it again.

    • @CookiedoughProductions
      @CookiedoughProductions 2 роки тому +59

      This is the greatest thing moonshiners have ever done

  • @nathanielcard7509
    @nathanielcard7509 3 роки тому +455

    Oversimplified: Releases Prohibition
    Me: *still silently awaiting Napoleonic Wars*

    • @yanivrubin4166
      @yanivrubin4166 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah!!!!

    • @fa1con730
      @fa1con730 3 роки тому +5

      I’m serious! I would’ve loved Napoleonic Wars, although this episode was good I guess.

    • @fork2309
      @fork2309 3 роки тому +5

      Nam would be cool too

    • @ansaral-tawhid8790
      @ansaral-tawhid8790 3 роки тому

      I'm waiting for the arab conquests

    • @spoopyloaf8832
      @spoopyloaf8832 3 роки тому +1

      Well this one had a beginning and end and was long so no part 2

  • @vinayxd9557
    @vinayxd9557 7 місяців тому +12

    When I was watching this, when it said "there was plenty of murder" at the "plenty" it showed a hungry jacks* commercial of its bubble gum drink
    *Hungry Jacks is basically Australian Burger King

  • @googolplex9535
    @googolplex9535 7 місяців тому +11

    Prohibition: * Gets repealed *
    Al Capone (in prison): WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

  • @soursyrup6065
    @soursyrup6065 3 роки тому +416

    "The divorce upset Remus, who killed his wife severely."

  • @DigiNeko
    @DigiNeko 3 роки тому +32575

    This angered wayne, who punished them severely

  • @FutsuDokou
    @FutsuDokou Місяць тому +6

    11:17 the best "OHH NOOOO" to date

  • @beans8938
    @beans8938 3 місяці тому +8

    “Stop calling me fat Susan!”
    “AW C’MON, FORGET GET ABOUT IT, IM WALKING ‘ERE”

  • @rohanguhathakurta1178
    @rohanguhathakurta1178 3 роки тому +333

    “Don’t call me fat Susan!”
    *Italian intensifies*

    • @patatoth6646
      @patatoth6646 3 роки тому +7

      i´m walkin here!

    • @tedscheett9420
      @tedscheett9420 3 роки тому +4

      (Pinches fingers and shakes hand)
      EY, FOUGITTABOUTIT!!!

  • @romanproductions2160
    @romanproductions2160 3 роки тому +350

    “We want the Napoleonic Wars”!
    Oversimplified: *Want some alcohol?*

    • @degamejager4850
      @degamejager4850 3 роки тому +13

      He releases an standalone video followed by an 2 part video followed by an standalone video etc etc. So the next videos will be an 2 part. The napolic wars are to big a subject to fit in 1 video so it probably will get it next time

    • @fredbarker9201
      @fredbarker9201 3 роки тому +2

      What De gamejager said ^

    • @thegoldengamer9315
      @thegoldengamer9315 3 роки тому +1

      @@degamejager4850 I agree

    • @CalifornianCuttlefish
      @CalifornianCuttlefish 3 роки тому +1

      Me: I want the Celts! Oversimplified: how bout beer? Me: OK

    • @tricksor6589
      @tricksor6589 3 роки тому

      or the 7 years war

  • @StarlightViolets
    @StarlightViolets 6 місяців тому +11

    I like the continuity of the tabloid magazine announcing Spaghetti Jeff gave birth to twins after the pregnancy was mentioned in a magazine from the Russian Revolution videos 😂

  • @30frogsinatrenchcoat
    @30frogsinatrenchcoat 5 місяців тому +12

    This is my comfort video, I’ve seen it like… 30 times? Thank you oversimplified for making such informative, entertaining, funny videos.

  • @McMannis505
    @McMannis505 3 роки тому +512

    “If you tell Americans not to do something that is the one thing they will definitely do”.
    That is one of the most accurate statements about us that I’ve ever heard.

    • @thunderflare59
      @thunderflare59 3 роки тому +15

      If only the American government understood that.

    • @QW96858
      @QW96858 3 роки тому +2

      I agree

    • @trla6505
      @trla6505 3 роки тому +2

      *humans*

    • @MobiusPeverell
      @MobiusPeverell 3 роки тому +13

      That's generally the case for most people, not just Americans.

    • @trla6505
      @trla6505 3 роки тому +1

      @SuperSydneyPerson 1 so i recently saw a map about the air condition of the california cost and dame, mask should be keep there aleays

  • @beonbyMusic
    @beonbyMusic 3 роки тому +740

    Prohibition: Gets ratified
    Americans: So anyway, I started drinking

    • @ohmygoshitscole
      @ohmygoshitscole 3 роки тому +6

      Everyone: let’s all celebrate with a nice big toast

  • @PrimalTexan
    @PrimalTexan 3 місяці тому +12

    So because a bunch of people didn't like booze is the reason like 12k is missing from my paycheck annually?!?!

    • @rachelk4805
      @rachelk4805 24 дні тому

      Can you imagine having the tax AND being unable to legally drink?

  • @deborahcunningham532
    @deborahcunningham532 7 днів тому +2

    My social studies teacher played this in our win class and I loved your channel so much I went home and found your channel and subscribed😭❤❤

  • @TheManiac-nw8ru
    @TheManiac-nw8ru 3 роки тому +10808

    This guy is an intersection between boomer humor, millenial humor, zoomer humor, and jokes 1st graders would make

    • @georgy2596
      @georgy2596 3 роки тому +845

      He’s also part college history teacher

    • @vizaloron9242
      @vizaloron9242 3 роки тому +474

      Generation alpha humor

    • @nontent5641
      @nontent5641 3 роки тому +215

      @@vizaloron9242 the one true generation

    • @anawesomepet
      @anawesomepet 3 роки тому +104

      So.. where the point of humour in space intersects the 1st grader humour line in time?
      Ah, so Oversimplified is the only place in time that you get the best content in!

    • @fuav66777j
      @fuav66777j 3 роки тому +46

      I mean he has some of the most boomer jokes about “AmEriCa BaD”

  • @vittxrio5198
    @vittxrio5198 3 роки тому +864

    "We drink beer, we shoot guns, we mud wrestle!!"
    The most American thing in 19th century.

    • @zulu0489
      @zulu0489 3 роки тому +8

      Obviously, you don't know Germany...

    • @anondescriptbullet
      @anondescriptbullet 3 роки тому +9

      wait, Americans _don't_ do this now?

    • @deadperson6227
      @deadperson6227 3 роки тому +4

      It would actually be the 20th century not 19th. The 19th century was the 1800s.

    • @infiniteannus3389
      @infiniteannus3389 3 роки тому +2

      @@anondescriptbullet Nah, we mostly complain about things that aren’t issues and don’t talk about actual issues

    • @Jjb-gk4ce
      @Jjb-gk4ce 3 роки тому +2

      @@zulu0489 a thing can be both American and German. America also has a lot of Germans

  • @AlGeneratedComments
    @AlGeneratedComments 2 місяці тому +3

    This video from OverSimplified is such a fun and entertaining way to learn about the complex history of Prohibition! I loved watching the humorous and lighthearted animations, and it was great to see how the complicated political and social environment of the 1920s was presented in such an accessible manner. I especially enjoyed the comedic delivery and creative use of imagery to illustrate the various aspects of Prohibition. This video is a great way to learn more about a significant and often overlooked period in American history.

  • @72carguy
    @72carguy 4 дні тому +1

    The 30 second clip starting at 24:10 is the greatest Oversimplified clip to date, in my opinion.
    “I’m walking over here!”😂😂

  • @mridulsharma7994
    @mridulsharma7994 3 роки тому +1540

    "This guy bluntly admitted to murdering his wife."
    "Not guilty"
    Andrew Dufresne dislikes

  • @RazorSharpMC
    @RazorSharpMC 3 місяці тому +5

    Those shacks set up in parks and other places are called Hoovervilles

  • @dominiqueisunique41
    @dominiqueisunique41 3 місяці тому +4

    For anyone curious, the newspapers say “Smash that like and subscribe button. Hey, thanks for taking the time to read this.” 18:36

  • @mariewilliquette7816
    @mariewilliquette7816 2 роки тому +5570

    I like the idea of just owning a canon randomly as a bartender

    • @Naharu.
      @Naharu. 2 роки тому +344

      You never know when you might need to blow up some praying women

    • @mariewilliquette7816
      @mariewilliquette7816 2 роки тому +292

      @@Naharu. they’re just standing there… menacingly….

    • @thetallone7605
      @thetallone7605 2 роки тому +218

      I just want to know how many times he had to break up bar fights with the cannon.

    • @mariewilliquette7816
      @mariewilliquette7816 2 роки тому +28

      @@thetallone7605 skskdjkdjd

    • @wokedog1799
      @wokedog1799 2 роки тому +70

      It's perfectly legal to own certain black powder cannons, so I mean you could

  • @Sheltered
    @Sheltered 2 роки тому +6272

    Fun Fact: The oldest brewery in America survived through prohibition by selling ice-cream out the front.

    • @shreberry5164
      @shreberry5164 2 роки тому +299

      And I thought George Remus had Big Brain

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 2 роки тому +138

      Did that ice-cream contain alcohol?

    • @Sheltered
      @Sheltered 2 роки тому +471

      @@ceu160193 nope but they sold that shit out the back of course

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 2 роки тому +260

      @@Sheltered They missed great opportunity then, since no one would suspect ice-cream to be way to get drunk.

    • @shaolinotter
      @shaolinotter 2 роки тому +37

      yuengling?

  • @user-my2uk3hg3w
    @user-my2uk3hg3w 15 днів тому

    7:30am - poured myself a glass of wine just to watch this. absolutely one of ur best videos yet...u r a gem to the youtube world and i love all ur videos...

  • @missyjo2475
    @missyjo2475 3 місяці тому +4

    I think I can oversimplify this even more.
    Prohibition was started by people who wanted to control other people because of beliefs and then poisoned them when they wouldn't be controlled.
    Less than 30 minutes.

  • @spicyscone9035
    @spicyscone9035 3 роки тому +421

    no one can say “smashy smash” as eloquently as oversimplified

  • @beccag2758
    @beccag2758 3 роки тому +269

    Oh my gosh, that “You wouldn’t steal a car” ad gave me serious childhood flashbacks😂😂

    • @Callum-M.
      @Callum-M. 3 роки тому +6

      You wouldn't steal a beer

    • @baronvonbeandip
      @baronvonbeandip 3 роки тому +1

      You wouldn't download a car?

    • @MysticTruhan
      @MysticTruhan 3 роки тому +1

      You wouldn't download a beer

    • @marvinfootpenis819
      @marvinfootpenis819 3 роки тому +1

      Gets a 3D printer. Bout to start downloading a Buick Grand National

  • @A_gr3mlin
    @A_gr3mlin 4 місяці тому +3

    3:08 😂
    “I don’t know what she’s talking about”
    “Do you take care of your family?”

  • @ianmcgeehan4627
    @ianmcgeehan4627 4 місяці тому +4

    What can we learn today? That people will enthusiastically guve up freedoms for only the mere promise of security. While government power brokers lack for neither.

  • @Ind0Lee_K.O.
    @Ind0Lee_K.O. 3 роки тому +2213

    The world is literally sitting on the edge of their seats for the next oversimplified video

    • @snipman06
      @snipman06 3 роки тому +17

      True

    • @catonachair4159
      @catonachair4159 3 роки тому +14

      Totally

    • @seanpayne2470
      @seanpayne2470 3 роки тому +22

      when’s it gonna drop 😖

    • @lanita.honeymoon
      @lanita.honeymoon 3 роки тому +27

      I hope oversimplified uploads soon

    • @jeffreyxu6430
      @jeffreyxu6430 3 роки тому +42

      @@lanita.honeymoon I hope so. I know these videos take a long ass time and people have a life outside youtube, but I need more oversimplified videos

  • @kanedafx
    @kanedafx 3 роки тому +445

    "He was offered a drink within 35 seconds of being in New Orleans." - that checks out.

    • @jacquelinelugo5518
      @jacquelinelugo5518 3 роки тому +22

      As someone who has live most of her life in New Orleans I can confirm

    • @ChemySh
      @ChemySh 3 роки тому +5

      I was one day introduced to someone from New Orleans. I am now an alcoholic thanks to him.

    • @dontreadmyprofilepicture3943
      @dontreadmyprofilepicture3943 3 роки тому

      Don't read my channel name

  • @koopatroopa7968
    @koopatroopa7968 5 місяців тому +6

    You forgot about one thing, Al Capone was done in by his own lawyer, a certain EJ O’Hare, Who inspired his son, Edward Butch O’Hare, to become a fighter pilot during WWII, Butch then managed to stop an entire Japanese task force of 8 Betty bombers from hitting his aircraft carrier, The USS Lexington. He shot down three bombers, and spooked the rest of the pilots so much that they all missed the carrier! And that’s how we got O’Hare airport.

  • @Ezolder1
    @Ezolder1 4 місяці тому +5

    TLDR: Prihibition was a result of mass hysteria

  • @theforevergamemaster
    @theforevergamemaster 3 роки тому +246

    " I just help people retire, from life" - Al Capone probably

  • @Werrf1
    @Werrf1 2 роки тому +4993

    The lesson of prohibition is that extreme solutions rarely work, and it's better to regulate than to ban.

    • @TheMaztercom
      @TheMaztercom 2 роки тому +105

      8 think is better for the goverment to tax the shit out of them, they can legalize drugs and tax the sht out of that too, cause addict will do the necessary, they will get so much money, and people who dont get drunk, and dont use drugs, will have a better life with all the economy growth, drunk and addict will make buying all that sht ez

    • @_Iscream
      @_Iscream 2 роки тому +79

      But then things get so heavily regulated that the black market thrives. Leave things to the free market.

    • @TheMaztercom
      @TheMaztercom 2 роки тому +55

      @@_Iscream nah, free market is black market but without crime, if you regular things, you can control them, if you legalize drugs, and then control them, you can make sure no one use drugs, cause you can make drugs almost impossible to buy cause you tax the sht out of it.

    • @_Iscream
      @_Iscream 2 роки тому +71

      @@TheMaztercom The black market is just an underground, crime-riddled free market. If you make them too expensive, it’ll just bolster the black market businesses. And there’s nothing wrong with drug use. Why should we try and force abstinence?

    • @TheMaztercom
      @TheMaztercom 2 роки тому +26

      @@_Iscream nothing wrong with drug use? Are you ok? Drugs only make weak civilizated people, one that cant solve problems but need to use something that release some químics to feel good, is the same as the alcohol, afdictive stuff, that doesnt bring any benefit but temporal químics, without mentioning the brain and health problems that they can cause, abstinency is better, first cause it make a person develop autocontrol, second cause is the most evolutionate and civilized way to go, but anyways, I dont know why the black market would sell them cheaper, it doesnt make sense takin in account you just can temporaly shut down the taxation so they go out of business.

  • @janstosius6363
    @janstosius6363 6 місяців тому +4

    idk how often I've watched this video, but why did I only notice Waldo yet?
    ... is there a waldo in every video?...
    31:40 here is waldo

    • @Korum211
      @Korum211 6 місяців тому

      Oh my god you're right

  • @chungliulam-sq8qo
    @chungliulam-sq8qo 22 дні тому +2

    “We need probation!”
    “This enraged the men who kept them back severely“

  • @randomteen9838
    @randomteen9838 3 роки тому +3419

    a moment of silence for that guy who proved himself not stupid by accidentally setting his house on fire and getting eaten up by alligators

  • @barbarianremover2463
    @barbarianremover2463 3 роки тому +565

    *"Telling the Americans not to do sth, that is the one thing they'll definitely do"*
    is the most Americans thing I heard.

    • @zacbouch42
      @zacbouch42 3 роки тому +12

      And as a Canadian I can say: Thank God we have the United States as neighbours, I wouldn't want another push over country like ours when shit goes down . God Bless America !

    • @goofygrandlouis6296
      @goofygrandlouis6296 3 роки тому +2

      Well, none of the Prohibition would have happened if men had *not* listen to their wives.
      Now they've also ruined the Scouts, Marvel, covid, the NFL, video games, open spaces..
      NO'MAAM !

    • @mr.kevin1206
      @mr.kevin1206 3 роки тому

      I entirely agree with you sir

    • @agentsus3032
      @agentsus3032 3 роки тому

      It's not that surprising when you remember what happened in the 1700s...
      And yeah, true I guess.

    • @dbclass4075
      @dbclass4075 3 роки тому +2

      @@goofygrandlouis6296 Back then, they do have a point: significant amount of domestic abuse have alcohol as contributing factor.
      Problem nowadays, they went too far and become Karens.

  • @tobedecided7103
    @tobedecided7103 5 місяців тому +2

    7:28 was just pure genius, from both Wayne Wheeler and Oversimplified

  • @dheiyomain6775
    @dheiyomain6775 3 роки тому +155

    Im just dying when oversimplyfied said "Hey im walkin here!" in a realy thick Italian accent

  • @23_island
    @23_island 6 місяців тому +4

    are we going to ignore wlado in the back of FDR's statement

  • @cristianchavez7178
    @cristianchavez7178 3 місяці тому

    Yep!! Galena Park, near Houston, TX. Is still a dry town.

  • @TheGrimStride
    @TheGrimStride 2 роки тому +8514

    Imagine being hated so much that when your husbands admits to murdering you, the jury finds him innocent and everyone cheers in celebration

    • @damaniresida9887
      @damaniresida9887 2 роки тому +81

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @user-qz3hb9kk5u
      @user-qz3hb9kk5u 2 роки тому

      The thing is, Remus was a piece of shit who cheated on his first wife with the woman he later kills

    • @ansonhung3293
      @ansonhung3293 2 роки тому +46

      Lol

    • @amazingabhi5014
      @amazingabhi5014 2 роки тому +36

      Aww man I’m sad now

    • @shotgunsideshow8958
      @shotgunsideshow8958 2 роки тому +559

      @@amazingabhi5014 that somebody who sold all of her husbands belongings, took that money for herself, had an affair and then filed for divorce, got what she derseved? (though I can understand that he got away without nothing more than a small hitch is a bit much)

  • @jakubmarszaek9892
    @jakubmarszaek9892 2 роки тому +3966

    Wayne Wheeler is embodiment of a meme "i'm playing both sides to always come up on top".

  • @eviljoshy3402
    @eviljoshy3402 7 місяців тому +1

    In NJ, Ocean City is a "dry island". It's illegal to sell/serve alcohol on the island but there's no law against consuming it. Needless to say right before getting to the bridges that lead onto the island there's liquor stores.

  • @danielhill2318
    @danielhill2318 6 місяців тому

    I can't wait for the next video this makes learning history fun and inspires me to read more history books thank you

  • @creativepop8196
    @creativepop8196 3 роки тому +220

    Basically
    Al Capone: "I killed them"
    "So you murdered them"
    "WOOOOOAAAAH"

    • @tanapatyangkaew4649
      @tanapatyangkaew4649 3 роки тому +2

      Al Capone Michael Jackson

    • @GalluZ
      @GalluZ 3 роки тому

      Kimi Raikonnen had the same energy with his 'bwoah'

    • @mengienghinamwaami4894
      @mengienghinamwaami4894 3 роки тому +1

      Idk murder sounds worse than killing someone

    • @wraithdino1217
      @wraithdino1217 3 роки тому

      @@mengienghinamwaami4894 killing can be accidental murder is intentional

  • @San-uv9ue
    @San-uv9ue 3 роки тому +762

    But oversimplified George Remus didn’t kill his wife, the vikings did

    • @never8931
      @never8931 3 роки тому +61

      And you would be wrong. I dont why you would think that.

    • @brrrrrtenjoyer
      @brrrrrtenjoyer 3 роки тому +52

      @TrashDiaper 0211 Lol that's part of the phrase. You just r/wooshed someone for no reason.

    • @zyphru1200
      @zyphru1200 3 роки тому +30

      @TrashDiaper 0211 r/woooosh

    • @zyphru1200
      @zyphru1200 3 роки тому +17

      @@brrrrrtenjoyer a man of culture i see

    • @kingryansyoutubechannel7469
      @kingryansyoutubechannel7469 3 роки тому +29

      But hey, if you love Vikings so much, then why don’t you check out today’s sponsor!

  • @harry.t9523
    @harry.t9523 3 місяці тому +1

    7:19 (while paused):
    Quite the list of Wanted posters here, including a long running Oversimplified gag.

  • @keirgomcginlay2044
    @keirgomcginlay2044 3 місяці тому

    I love this video and many of the societal points within about just how hard it can be to get people to stop doing a bad thing but... the moment where it talks about America as a land that 'loves liberty and freedom' banning the private consumption of alchol as if it has betrayed it's principles when Slavery had only been ended less than 80 years ago in the country...

  • @Elementar
    @Elementar 3 роки тому +2831

    26:16 the bucket

  • @alero1758
    @alero1758 3 роки тому +849

    Everybody gangsta till OverSimPlified remembers his password

    • @odoggo7012
      @odoggo7012 3 роки тому +8

      Lol

    • @FirestormX9
      @FirestormX9 3 роки тому +2

      Best comment xD

    • @pogi-si-boni
      @pogi-si-boni 3 роки тому +13

      Cut him some slack, he has upload gaps because his animations are so damn good.

    • @FirestormX9
      @FirestormX9 3 роки тому +2

      ahh guys i think he/she meant it as a joke, it's just for the way it can be pictured, not the way that means to imply more burden on OS. Ofcourse these videos take a long time to make, just look at the quality of the content and research. Plus the animation and script. Don't even know how many are there in the OS team but might as well be just one.

    • @chasepaul6499
      @chasepaul6499 3 роки тому +2

      This guy is literally the only reason i am not failing history

  • @Guntherson220
    @Guntherson220 2 місяці тому +1

    U.S. Government: Damn, no matter what we do we just can't nail this Capone guy!
    Al Capone: I don't pay my taxes.
    U.S. Government:... oh no...
    IRS: [One-Winged Angel Intensifies]