Boston’s Rebellion: Samuel Adams and the Fight for Liberty | The American Story | Ep 5
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:05.0 | Mom! |
| 0:06.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:08.0 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:14.0 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So its phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:32.6 | The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows across the worn wooden beams of a room above, |
| 0:42.3 | the green dragon tavern. |
| 0:44.3 | A tight-knit group of men huddle around a scarred oak table and a haze of tobacco smoke. |
| 0:50.3 | Their voices, a low rumble of spirited conviction. |
| 0:56.5 | They call themselves the Monday Night Club, |
| 0:59.9 | a small collection of local tradesmen, merchants, and writers who get together over tumblers of ale to discuss liberty and tyranny, |
| 1:04.9 | ideas at this time that can get them killed. |
| 1:08.5 | At the head of the table sits a stocky middle-aged man with ink-stained |
| 1:12.8 | fingers and eye sparkling with energy and wisdom. His clothes are noticeably more worn than his |
| 1:19.3 | colleagues. He fidgets with a quill, his hand trembling slightly from age or exhaustion. Maybe both. |
| 1:27.2 | That man is Samuel Adams. |
| 1:30.9 | Across from him sits his cousin, John Adams, 34 years old, clean-shaven, cautious, but never |
| 1:37.8 | shying away from a political debate. He's a farmer and a lawyer with a growing practice. |
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