Are you with me on this? We all love those stories that glorify the roaring 20s when folks whispered a magic

password to get into speakeasies and gin joints for some illicit partying during prohibition. But it wasn't all a roaring

good time. Would our government purposely poison the public to try to stop them from drinking?

Guess what? Turns out the Fed... to try to stop them from drinking?

Guess what?

Turns out the feds ordered industrial alcohol makers

to add poison to what they sold,

to scare the public to death,

may be killing as many as 50,000,

and blinding or paralyzing hundreds of thousands more.

I'm Patty Steele, dying for a drink, literally.

Next on the backstory.

At one of the most famous restaurants in the world,

there's a table in the corner,

where the most incredible conversations on the planet are happening every week with owner Ruthie Rogers and amazing guests like Martha Stewart

I did have an affair with one of his best friends Jimmy Fallon.

Do you want a zip line over your dad

while he gets attacked by alligators?

And Paul McCartney.

John and I hitchhiked to Paris.

We've saved you a seat.

Ruthies Table 4.

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