147 - Revolutionary War

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Less than a week after the 4th of July, we Suck into the birth of the United States of America. We glance at some of the war's important battles and important figures, but, more importantly, we dig deep into the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. What went down between King George and the Founding Fathers that left colonists feeling like going to war with arguably the most powerful empire in the world was a good idea? How important was George Washington to America's eventual victory? If not for the French and Indian War two decades prior to the Revolutionary War, would the United States be part of the British Commonwealth today? We take a break from true crime and dig deep into US history, today, on Timesuck! Feel the Heat preorder Link: https://bit.ly/2WVJuax Donating $2600 this month: 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida Rescuehttp://100plusabandoneddogsofevergladesflorida.org/ Come to my standup special taping at Crofoot in Detroit on Friday, October 18th. Two shows! First is at 6:30PM: https://bit.ly/2N3E1tP Second show is at 9PM: https://bit.ly/2FoADU6 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) July 26-27 Cincinnati, OH West Liberty Funnybone CLICK HERE for tix! August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** August 11th - Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Hims! Try hims for a month today for just $5 ForHims.com/timesuckED The Great Courses Plus! Get an all-access trial, for FREE, with thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/FQN9NQebk2A Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	In the late 18th century, a relatively small, rag-tag group of American colonists would defeat
0:05.3	the military of the most powerful empire in the world, the British Empire, and they gave
0:10.1	birth to a nation that would itself soon become the most powerful nation in the world, the United
0:14.1	States of America, a nation that ironically would save Britain and the rest of Europe from
0:18.0	almost certain defeat at the hands of the Nazis just over a century and a half later.
0:23.0	Today, just days after the 4th July, America's Independence Day commemorated the United States'
0:27.8	Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776, were breaking down the events of the Revolutionary
0:34.3	War and maybe more importantly, the events that led up to the Revolutionary War. Following the
0:39.9	end of the French and Indian War in 1763 that kept France from kicking early American colonizers
0:45.3	out of the Ohio River Valley and perhaps off of the continent itself, Britain was deeply in debt
0:50.6	and decided to tax the American colonies to help repay that debt. And the colonists, well,
0:55.6	they didn't care for that decision, they didn't like taxes, and they really didn't like how they
0:59.2	had no say when it came to being taxed. They were irritated by the whole taxation without
1:04.1	representation situation. And the harder Britain tried to collect money for a war that did in fact
1:09.6	protect and save its early American colonists, the more those colonists grew weary of being governed
1:14.5	by a nation that felt less and less, like they were a part of a nation that felt more and more
1:20.4	like a foreign ruler. And eventually barely a decade removed from a war where Britain had fought
1:24.9	on behalf of American colonists to protect him from the French, the Americans now fought against the
1:30.6	British and were eventually aided by the French. Funny how your greatest enemy one day can become
1:36.6	your strongest ally the next. How exactly did this war begin? Why was it really fought? How much do
1:43.2	you know about the most important war in American history? Find out all of this and more and hopefully
1:48.9	have some laughs along the way in this patriotic, yah yah yah, edition of TimeSuck.
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