Two Dumb Reasons The American Revolution Happened

Softcore History

Comedy, History, Improv

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A number of noble ideas and beliefs inspired the American Revolution. But history is layered. And full of morons. In this episode, we focus on two such morons: a banker/gambling addict whose financial ethics (and judiciousness) almost single-handedly precipitated a global banking crisis that led directly to the Boston Tea Party, and a very famous, well-meaning whistleblower who put WAY too much faith in the ability of political radicals to act reasonably.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.Look for Liquid Death’s healthy beverages on Amazon or at a store near you. AND Softcore History listeners get 20% off their first Liquid Death apparel purchase available exclusively at LiquidDeath.com/SOFTCORE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:08.0	What is up?
0:09.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:12.0	I am your host for the week, Rob Fox.
0:16.0	Joined as always by a dancing, Jake Goldman.
0:19.0	What's up, baby. And Dan Regester, happy 4th of July holiday,
0:24.4	whatever you want to call it.
0:25.8	This is getting released on the third.
0:29.5	Yeah, so I guess happy.
0:31.1	Happy just fourth week. Well, that's happy we won the Battle of Gettysburg.
0:35.2	Gettysburg was won on July 3rd.
0:38.0	1863, actually, so this is the 160th anniversary.
0:41.5	What are you doing? What are you doing?
0:43.0	We're talking about Britain.
0:44.0	I know what we won?
0:45.0	We won a lot of important stuff on.
0:47.0	Actually, we didn't win shit on July 4th.
0:49.0	July 4th was like, I declare bankruptcy the Michael Scott meme.
0:52.0	You know what I mean? It's like oh you declare
0:53.7	independence then we still had to go actually fucking get it. Yeah Jake I like how you
0:59.2	maneuvered your microphone. Oh sorry sorry. I saw you looking to me like what the
1:05.6	You and Rob just have like the hardest struggles. I have no mic presence for
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