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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

NEH143 - If You Dress Up Like Indians and Throw Boxes of Tea Into a Harbor Everyone Knows What You Mean Even If You Don't Say the Words Boston Tea Party

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Matt Whitman

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Nehemiah 12 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

So, I don't know how they do inaugurations in France, but imagine that a new president of France gets elected, gets chosen, and to get everything going on their first day.

0:32.6

They're like, all right, we're gonna do a special ceremony.

0:35.0

And it's gonna be at Normandy Beach.

0:38.3

And the way we're gonna do this,

0:39.7

we're gonna have all the people gather around.

0:42.2

There's gonna be like grandstands and temporary seating and everything. have all the people gather around there's going to be

0:42.6

like grandstands and temporary seating and everything and then we're

0:45.4

going to have a bunch of boats come in from the English channel and they're

0:49.6

going to land and soldiers are going to run off of the boats on to Normandy Beach.

0:55.0

Now even if nothing was in any way said about D-Day,

1:00.0

wouldn't you just look at all of that ceremony and think to yourself, oh, well, it's iconic.

1:06.3

It's obviously a nod to D-Day.

1:09.5

See what we're doing there.

1:11.3

If there were an event that was celebrating the feisty rebellious

1:17.8

spirit of the United States of America and a politician wanted to put on this event and they did a thing where a whole

1:26.1

bunch of people were on an old clipper ship or some old wooden boat and they pulled up

1:31.6

into a harbor as a bunch of people were gathered around and

1:34.2

there's the American flags flying and music playing and they all took a bunch of

1:38.3

boxes labeled tea and they were all dressed up like Indians and they threw the tea off of the boat into the water.

1:45.6

Even if they didn't say anything about the Boston Tea Party,

1:51.6

you would be able to look at that and go, okay, I was probably intentional, that's very iconic.

1:57.0

I see what they're hearkening back to, whatever is happening here today politically, they're trying to attach it to this previous thing

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