Welcome to Calm History. I'm Harris, and this podcast is my quirky mix of education with sedation.

So go ahead, lean back, put up your feet, and settle into my time machine of tranquility.

I hope this episode distracts and relaxes your overactive brain squirrels.

This episode centers around prohibition in the United States.

You know, that time during the 1920s, when alcohol was outlawed.

Here's a famous chant from those dark and dry times.

Whiskey is risky and rum is dumb.

You'll only find tea in my tum-tum.

Okay.

No one really said that.

I made that chant up to amuse myself.

But it is true that prohibition was the era of moonshine, bathtub gin, rum runners, bootleggers, speakeasies, and juice joints,

which also meant that many U.S. cities were overflowing with smugglers, mobsters, dirty cops,

and corrupt officials. Today's episode is going to highlight the true story of some undercover

agents who will infiltrate

and try to clean up this dirty business.

Operation Prohibition

A True Crime Story about booze, bootleggers, and bribes.

The following factual story may sound fictional in many parts,

but almost every detail is true.

The main character, Lawrence Fleischman,

was a real person who worked for U.S. customs.

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