Oh i get it, this guy does it and he’s matching Churchill but i do it and i’m an alcoholic

And he lived to be 90. In awe of that lad's liver, the absolute unit.

Churchill after the third whiskey and ginger ale: “This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is I think, perhaps, the end of the beginning”

“I’ve taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” -Sir Winston Churchill

I was reading an autobiography by someone who had dinner with him once and he said it was just extraordinary. He would have a sip port, then a mouthful of food, then a sip of champagne, a puff on his cigar, more food, then more champagne, he never seemed to stop. But what he also noted was that Churchill never seemed to stop talking as well. He was baffled how he managed to achieve it.

it was Churchill who declared: “Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s champagne!”

Churchill was a sly alcy. Those "little" eye-openers in the morning we're probably to stave off withdrawal, but seemed innocent enough because they were just a tipple. Progressively drank more throughout the day, nap mid day because you know you can't drink the whole day and stay up until midnight without other substances or a nap. Definitely a functional alcoholic. That he lived as long as he did wasn't because he didn't drink a lot. Just lucky. For every Churchill there's a Christopher Hitchens who actually does get the cancer or liver damage or heart attack/stroke.

Considering he was obese for most of his life it’s astonishing he lived to 90. I feel like if I drank like him I’d die at 65-70.

Everyone: "Never mix grape and grain." Winston: "We shall drink Johnnie Walker, we shall drink Paul Roger, we shall NEVER surrender."

He drank all morning, took a nap, and drank the rest of the day but still got work done. Sounds like *functional* drunk history.

Add to this the constant smoke of those infernal cigars the size of tree branches, and the diet, which I imagine consisted entirely of soft-boiled eggs, caviar, oysters, and steak prepared rare, or maybe a roast goose. Lived to be 90. My man.

Everyone: Has to drink water to survive. Churchill: Has to consume an entire liquor store each day to survive.

He started sounding more and more like Churchill as the video went on.

"It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy." - Tyrion Lannister

Interestingly , there is a non alcoholic drink served in Turkish cafes named after Churchill . Its’ made by adding a bit of lemon juice and salt to mineral water . Appearantly it was what he had ordered when he visited Turkey .

Reading about these great men from history always left me with the same feeling. These guys were all alcoholics. Amazing what they could accomplish despite the obvious serious stress.

We shall drink on the beaches, we shall drink on the landing grounds, we shall drink champagne in the fields and in the streets, we shall drink whiskey in the hills; we shall never surrender our sobriety!

Pretty impressive. Now you need to go up a level and do hunter S Thompson’s daily drink and drug regime

Love that Churchill take took little doses through the day but once night hits it’s time to get after it. Dude was an absolute Unit of a man

i used to be a heavy drinker and can not stress what tolerance does, i could drink a six pack while hiking like it was water a year later and i cant do more then two doing nothing lol

I understand you were matching him drink for drink; but imagine implementing his cigar smoking with this.

The fact that I'm not impressed by the amount of alcohol at all makes me realize i need to get my shit together drinking-wise, thank you.

I love the fact as he continues with this, he starts sounding like Churchill.

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Hunter S. Thompson daily routine.

"I have taken more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken out of me" Winston Churchill

1:02 - that definitely fizzed over the edge didn’t it 😂

Really makes you understand why Churchill was constantly slurring in his speeches

It's funny how his day progressed, he started slurring the same way that Churchill did. 😂

This video is incredible. More people need to be seeing this.

He only had the weight of the world on his shoulders

I don't know if the story is apocryphal, but I read somewhere that one pint champagne bottles were made exclusively for the British market, but French producers continued bottling some of their output in this size throughout the occupation as a sign of defiance (and presumably as a vote of confidence that the market would return in due course). Churchill expressed his preference for one pint bottles based on his judgement that a standard 70 cl bottle is too much for one person to have with lunch, but not enough for two (which is a good call IMO).

He was a big dude, paced himself and usually drank while eating. Absolutely do-able.

"If I were your wife I would poison your tea!" "If I were your husband I would drink it."

winston churchhill was also a lot bigger and had more mass than you to be able to take that much alcohol. The man was not a thin man...

you can’t drink like Churchill unless you eat like him too. You’re besotted by lunch - but to a trained alcoholic on a 4kcal+ daily diet, this is a light day of drinking. Essentially like… what, 8-10 drinks? Usually bad if done everyday like Churchy, but in general, 8-10 drinks over 14 hours should be an almost imperceptible level of intoxication. Church probably just rode a steady low buzz for his entire life, and that’s how he stayed comparatively/relatively stress free and lived to 90.

“My afternoon nap was, uh, very, un, very restorstarative.” Yeah, it was really kicking in there.

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

One can’t start at Sir Winston’s level. It takes a lifetime of steady drinking.

Good to see the Telegraph doing great journalism as always.

I'm still baffled that Winston managed to live into his 90s, IMPRESSIVE!!! 😳

Your forgetting one thing: Churchill was MASSIVELY obese and ate insane amounts of food, allowing the drastic absorption of the alcohol.

so basically he was an alcoholic

Not going to try and discover what it is, but something about this video keeps pulling me back and puts a smile on my face every time.

“We must work. We must work and we must drink” sounds like it could have come straight from Churchill himself

Oh no, officer - I'm not drunk. I'm Churchilled.

An alcoholic and a chain smoker and yet, lives longer than many many people.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." Pope Gregory the 9th

All this is is a functioning alcoholic keeping the shakes away till he can get drunk again in the night

I imagine he drank as much as he did as a result of Gallipoli and then joining the fight first hand in the Western front in WW1. I'm guessing after that is when it got to this habitual level

Do wolf of Wall Street daily drug routine

“We must work. We must work and we must drink.” Words to live by, my friend

Marlin, this was an amazing show of your dedication to historical accuracy

defeated by glasses of whiskey? wheres that churchill spirit? We will drink them on the beaches and on the ocean and in the air. We will never surrender

With his job and responsebility i would be a heavy drinker too.

Lol, great video, thanks! I actually can feel a connection with Winston Churchill now!

His favourite wine was Melnik 55 from a small village in bulgaria, i stumbled across the village by chance whilst backpacking and bought a bottle from the original winery that sold to churchill, hasnt changed much in 80 years

Remember, 'If you wanna run cool, you've got to run on heavy, heavy fuel' - Mark Knopfler

360p? Did you film this with Churchhill?

If I had his pressure and responsibility during the war, I would probably drink too. But he still came out victorious!

“ if you were my husband I would poison your tea” “ madam if I was your husband I would drink the tea”

Low expectations for this random video but I loved it hahaha, so genuine.

Doesn't seem too bad (I say that as an Irishman), but doing it every day for an extended period of time would be the killer.

I love how this dude from The Telegraph was essentially paid to drink all day. What a legend.

If I had to guess, all of the drinking of champagne and soda water was a method to treat indigestion that he probably had for being overweight. He probably suffered from Gerd or acid reflux and back then they didn’t know what it was but he had found out as I did years ago that drinking something like a Coke or a Pepsi or in his case just soda water helps the digestion tremendously. He just like to put a little bit of scotch in there because it made it like a cocktail rather than just bland soda water is my guess. And Champagne is probably a lot more enjoyable to drink with dinner then plain soda water. It was very common back then to have an apéritif before dinner and a cognac afterward so that doesn’t surprise me that he would follow those traditions nor would it have surprised me that he would have a glass of wine or whatever during meals. He was also a noted cigar smoker which also gives you bad indigestion in a lot of cases. I used to work for two different people that smoked a lot who both ate baking soda right from the box with a spoon to treat their indigestion and heartburn. So again he may not have realized exactly why this diet of soda water was helping him but I do think he was using it because it made him feel better. These are the explanations that best make sense to me anyway.

So Churchill used to micro dose whiskey... hmm

1:30-1:47 Now I'm beginning to understand why Sir Churchill talked like that.

based off what he says in this video, assuming he had a couple of double brandies or so after the evening champagne, and that 3 whisky mouthwashes = one 25ml shot of whisky, i worked out that churchill had around 23-25 UK alcohol units over the day..

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me!"

Now do Boris Yeltsin

Honestly if every decision I was making ended with men dying, no matter whether it was the right or wrong choice, I would probably drink that heavily as well

I watched this and was immediately reminded of the Mitchell and Webb sketch 'The Inebriati'. Basically it's about a secret society that believes that every human is at their peak when very slightly tipsy - specifically, 1 and a half glasses deep. The reasoning is that you're drunk enough to be more self-confident, relaxed, and friendly, but not drunk enough that you're starting to fuck shit up.

I wish at the end of the video he would've recited some of Churchill's famous quotes, because he probably would've totally nailed em

The fact that this man led Britain through a world war hammered and Boris Johnson cant even lead it sober is quite something

The time you realize when one of the greatest leaders of the Free World was practically drunk the mosr of the time.

I can tell how it's so hard to understand Churchill sometimes. He's just always drunk and slurring words so much that he even does it in his rare moments of sobriety

At least we now know the reason for him always sounding drunk...

Since covid started and I started working from home, I get Winston's vibe. I was doing 4 fingers of Johnny black label and sprite ever hour. Would go through the big bottle every 2 days

Churchill was much much heavier than this guy, and his scotches weren't consistently light

The working in bed, the napping, the constant dosing of alcohol, the cigars, all helped to offset the enormous stress he was under 24 hours of every day of the war years.

Winston Churchill's daily alcohol regime 🤝 Warren buffet's weekly diet

For the very small amount of drinks in the morning, the body should be able to more than easily process that if you keep it at a drink per hour. Afterwards the other bigger drinks might be a bit of a problem but tolerance does get built up over time. I will say, he probably was not acting sloshed like this guy is by 6pm.

I had a coworker who would drink a 60 Oz of vodka on 12 hour shift must have been a distant relative. Never seemed drunk no sleared words. No unsteady steps. A few times went out after work I seen him drink 10 double jack and cokes. Walk home no problem. Was older man said he didn't start drinking until he got home from Vietnam. Was married two kids. But wow

Churchill was fighting a war, Churchills liver was fighting Churchill…

And to think that in these very concrete routines Debord and Churchill would have admired each other mutually. As a heavy functional drinker myself you really have to live and enjoy day drinking to understand the subtleties of some of the combinations and the schedules of these proud drinkers.

When your first is at 9am you know it’s going to be a wild day

Red Label is so rough maybe drinking it with majority soda makes sense. Hitchens drank Black label. Much better stuff.

I am so old, I remember seeing a newsreel at the movie theater about Churchill's death.

This guys liver was the real MVP of the Second World War.

Working class drinking the same amount: Alcoholic idiots Aristocrats drinking the same amounts: Misunderstood sigma genius

The weird thing is that Churcill died at the age of 91. An impressing age for a overweight, drinker and chain smoker.

Only a total sociopath or psychopath would endure leading a country through WW2 while being sober.

It's that restraint that gets him through the day. If I start drinking I'm the morning I don't think I'll be able to hold back getting super wasted by the time dinner rolls around

'The day i tries to match Churchill drink by drink' ... Is also the day I died.

When someone says a weak drink they don't mean 0.01oz of whiskey

I hear people say all the time that “Champagne goes right to my head”. I’m not a raging alcoholic or anything but I could always put champagne down like water.

I got an ad for alcohol free beer before this vid, the irony

...it's called an " eye opener" that first drink 👍

Hunters S Thompson daily routine, 3:00 p.m. rise 3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills 3:45 cocaine 3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine 5:11 coffee, Dunhills 5:30 more ice in the Chivas 5:45 cocaine, etc., etc. 6:00 grass to take the edge off the day 7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas.) 9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously 10:00 drops acid 11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass 11:30 cocaine, etc, etc. 12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write 12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies. 6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo 8:00 Halcyon 8:20 sleep

Thank you for your service

An old American saying goes "beer before liquor, you've never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear." I see Winston was aware of this rule by abstaining from beer 😂