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🗓️ 4 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jeff Singer. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Mike Fox. |
| 0:08.5 | And guess what holiday is just about to dawn upon us? |
| 0:13.7 | Repeal Day. |
| 0:15.1 | December 5th is the 92nd anniversary of the repeal of alcohol prohibition. |
| 0:22.5 | And, you know, Mike, I think, you know how we have a lot of kind of traditions on Memorial Day |
| 0:29.1 | and July 4th and Veterans Day where we have ceremonies and events honoring our fallen heroes |
| 0:37.4 | or the Declaration of Independence or whatever. |
| 0:40.2 | I think we should have similar events on repeal Day, don't you? |
| 0:43.4 | You know, events where we talk about all of the harms that prohibition inflicts upon society |
| 0:49.6 | in so many different ways. |
| 0:51.3 | What do you think? |
| 0:52.3 | Oh, yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:53.4 | And I mean, obviously we repealed alcohol prohibition 92 years ago, |
| 0:57.4 | but drug prohibition is stronger than it's ever been. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, and think about all the harm, just like alcohol prohibition, |
| 1:04.5 | the harms that it's created, you know, alcohol prohibition made two-bit gangsters |
| 1:10.8 | into, you know, wealthy, basically |
| 1:16.2 | warlords who controlled cities like Chicago and corrupted politicians. |
| 1:21.6 | It, you know, ruined the lives of so many otherwise innocent people who, you know, would get involved with felony convictions |
| 1:29.8 | that made it impossible for them to get new work in the future. |
| 1:33.4 | And, of course, it killed a lot of people, not just people fighting over territory for distribution |
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