2018-07-07
44 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Brisbane.
My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that during prohibition in America the cops responsible
for busting speakeasies did so dressed as grave diggers,
farmers, statues, opera goers, cowboys, judges, bums and old Italian matrons.
What was the penultimate one there?
Bums, okay.
Like homeless people.
They weren't dressed as bottoms on their way to a fancy dress party.
Although they probably could have done, they were incredible.
There were two agents and they had this massive, they were the best prohibition enforcing agents.
So prohibition 1919 to 1933,
alcohol sales were banned across America and there were these guys called Isidore Einstein and Moe Smith and they arrested 4,900 people.
Wow.
Yeah, I know and the conviction rate was 95 percent.
They were incredible but they were mainly famous for their disguises.
So they had a dressing up box.