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🗓️ 22 June 2017
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Doe Boys. |
0:30.0 | Money is this man's God and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country. |
0:41.0 | These words were written by a minor revolutionary war officer named John Brown and a hand-built distributed in 1776. |
0:47.0 | The man Brown publicly accused of treasonous desires, a captain in the Connecticut, Nolisha, named Benedict Arnold. |
0:54.0 | Much like the famed presidential daily briefing of August 2001 that read, been lot and determined to strike US. |
0:59.0 | Delivered while then President Bush was on one of many vacations, Brown's warning went ignored by the powerful and Arnold conspired in secret with the British until 1780. |
1:07.0 | That year, after receiving command of West Point, Arnold offered to surrender the military installation of British General George Clinton in exchange for 20,000 pounds. |
1:16.0 | He would face court martial for his treachery but evade capture by formally defecting to command British forces. |
1:21.0 | But prior to becoming the most recognizable symbol of treason in American culture, at least until the Confederacy came along, Arnold had established as a life as a pharmacist and bookseller in New Haven, Connecticut. |
1:31.0 | New Haven founded in the 1600s as a fundamentalist theocracy by a splinter group of puritans who felt the pilgrims weren't puritanical enough. |
1:39.0 | It's also the home to Yale University, the garfunkel of the Ivy League. |
1:45.0 | And Lewis's lunch, the first known restaurant to sell a dish known as the Hamburger Steak Sandwich in 1900. |
1:52.0 | During the 20th century, the evolution of Lewis's lunch's signature item would become the definitive American food. |
1:57.0 | Through a country that originated, though a country that originated as a British colony, America's largest ethnic population is German, which is reflected in the nomenclature of the hamburger from Hamburg and the Frankfurter from Frankfurt. |
2:08.0 | In October of 1780, Arnold wrote to General George Washington attempting to justify his actions. |
2:13.0 | Love to my country actuates my present conduct, however it may appear inconsistent to the world who very seldom judge right of any man's actions. |
2:21.0 | Yet he would leave that country and live out his life in exile in England, never setting foot in the new nation of the United States of America. |
2:28.0 | In the Democratic Constitutional Federal Public that is the US, a country founded in rebellion deroyalty where no one holds a title, the closest we have to a monarch, is the titular mascot of a Florida Quick Service chain founded in 1957, which serves the sandwich that originated in Benedict Arnold's pre-war hometown. |
2:49.0 | This week on Doe Boys, we return to Burger King. |
2:58.0 | Welcome to Doe Boys Live! How you doing, Max Funken? |
3:13.0 | I'm Nick Weiger. Boy, what a day me and Mitch had. We'll get into that one second. Boy, let me introduce him. My co-host, the Boston Cream Strangler, the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell! |
3:44.0 | Hey, everybody out there one doing! Yay! Thanks for coming out. I like how your ears stay with the tape for this share away from me. That's what I wanted. I don't want to be too close. |
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