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 Annotch Zinski, 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 a particular order here we go starting with you Andy.

My fact is that during prohibition in America the cops responsible for busting speakeasys did

so dressed as grave diggers, farmers, statues, op-goers, cowboys, judges, bums and old Italian

matrons.

What was the penultimate one there?

Bums.

Yeah.

Like homeless people.

Homeless people.

Exactly, yeah.

What was the statue to one?

There 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 Isidol Einstein and Mo Smith and they arrested 4,900 people in, wow,

yeah, I know.

And the conviction rate was 95% they were incredible but they were mainly famous for their disguises.

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