Theme Stream 1/17/24- Episode 246: Prohibition

January 17, 1920– Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.

Bed music: Drink Before the War (loop) by Sinead O'conner, from The Lion and the Cobra (1987)

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