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How The Green Mountain Boys Broke Benedict Arnold

Softcore History

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolution was a crucial, if militarily uneventful, victory early in America's fight for independence. The capture cut British Canada off from the 13 colonies and supplied important heavy artillery to force the British out of Boston. And it was all accomplished by glory hounds Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, a ragtag group of men more interested in capturing the fort's booze than the fort itself, and what sounds like the worst spy plan in U.S. history. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠the Softcore History Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.  Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to ⁠⁠Quince.com/SOFTCORE⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Rob Fox⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree ⁠⁠⁠ Dan Regester ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/danregester/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up? Welcome back to Softcore History. I am your host for the week. Rob Fox joined, as always, by Dan Regester.

0:06.2

Taking it easy. It's a holiday weekend. No one's probably listening to the podcast. We could say whatever we want.

0:12.7

It's like we're paywalled. Truly, because nobody's here. About 12 people, we appreciate you.

0:18.0

Play it by the pool for Memorial Day. We won't, and we won't say

0:21.7

anything messed up. Or the beach. Anybody that has their Bluetooth speaker, it's a domination move.

0:29.2

Yeah. Don't play your music. Play us. That's the worst thing. If you want to be the worst human

0:35.1

being on Earth, blast a podcast on the beach from your

0:37.8

Bluetooth speaker. There's a point where I would throw hands on the beach. I think that's the point.

0:44.8

I think that's the point. A hundred percent. Also, like, I feel like publicly playing a podcast

0:51.6

is like, it's so personal. personal it tells you it tells people immediately

0:56.3

everything you are as a human being a lot of people adopt it as their own personalities

1:00.7

some of these bigger podcasts they do a hundred percent definitely not us you don't want to be us

1:05.7

no you don't want we're not don't let us be your personality we're in a role model I. I'm certainly not. In the words of Charles Barkley. Certainly not. To be an unemployed father at three. The last person you want to be a role model. I was unemployed for an entire school year. So yeah, look at me. How was that school year? Pretty good. It was August to May. Learned a lot. Learned a lot during that school year. Yeah. It was like college. You really found yourself. Almost had to take the bus that school year. Almost got down that bad that school year. It's all right. Like the bus feels shameful until you're on it and you realize, oh, well, everyone else on the bus is on the bus. Yeah, they can't judge me. Yeah, right. It's the people outside of the bus. Right, looking into the windows at that moving zoo. They're walking. At least I have wheels. I have transportation. Yeah. I mean, I'd be fine. I feel like if I didn't live where I lived, I wouldn't even care about riding the bus.

2:02.1

I'd be like, good.

2:03.2

Because I want a self-driving car.

2:04.3

I want to get on my phone and not fucking think.

2:05.8

I don't want to drive. I don't want that at all. Sounds terrible. Self-driving cars. I want to take a nap. I'm not relying on it. I'm never going to take a Waymo.

2:13.5

In fact, I'm going to start doing Waymo terrorism.

2:16.6

No, I am going to take Waymo's at the first opportunity on the hopes that it accidentally drives me through an active shooting so I can sue Google.

2:24.3

There you go.

2:25.1

I like the people that call multiple Waymoes into the same location and then they cause a blockade.

2:30.1

That's what happened.

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