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Revolutionary Talk - Our General · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  Music. Live from the banks of the Sheet
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  Tucket River in the heart of downtown Norwich.
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  It's revolutionary talk here on WREV. 760 AM where patriots
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  talk. The phone and text number is
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  209565. Dave.
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  That's 209-565-3283. Now here's your host, Dave
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  Diamond. I don't know where to begin.
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  The insult, not just to the general but to us right here in
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  Norwich is almost unbearable. I don't know who these idiots in
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  Congress think they are, but for God's sakes, you've gone well.
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  I'd say not too far, but not far enough.
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  But you, you've gone too far. These lunatics down there are
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  ruining things again. We got one general in this army.
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  I'm Dave. It's, it's revolutionary talk
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  here on WREVAM 760 Narch. Glad you're with us today.
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  You can join me 209565, Dave. That's 209-565-3283.
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  You can e-mail me at dave@powder2parchment.org.
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  That's powderthe#2parchment.org. Check us out online as well.
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  There too. I, I I can't even begin to tell
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  you how angry I am. Benedict Arnold, our own general
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  from right here, right down the street here in Narch, He's one
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  of us. He is America's only real
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  fighting general right now. He's the only one that has any
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  kind of success he can hang his hat on.
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  What the Hell's Washington done, huh?
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  Oh, I get it. He's got the experience and he's
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  got the the backing of Congress and he makes the decisions and
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  all that. But what's he done?
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  All he's done is run an army into the ground.
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  We got no powder. What have they?
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  What have they done in Boston? Just sit there.
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  Benedict Arnold's been out fighting.
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  He's been out leading men into the trenches, into the into the
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  into the thickets of things. Do I have to remind you that it
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  was General Arnold's idea to go to Ticonderoga?
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  The cannons that are pointed at Boston right now are only there
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  because of Benedict Arnold. They're only there because of
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  our troops and our leader who went and got them.
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  Benedict Arnold has done more for this country, more for this
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  colony than anybody else you can name in this war.
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  There's no one to even compare to him.
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  This man fights. He's been a leader.
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  He's been been someone out there who has taken on everything that
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  that that that needed to be taken on.
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  And the idea that this kind of stuff should be happening now.
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  Without Benedict Arnold, where would where would we be right
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  now? We wouldn't, we wouldn't be
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  besieging Boston, I can tell you that.
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  And how, how hard did he have to work to get the Massachusetts
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  Committee of Safety, Massachusetts?
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  How hard did he have to work to get them to convince him, to
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  convince them to let him go get those cannons?
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  But it took forever and then you get all the way up there and
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  Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain boys are already up
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  there and and decide to take all the glory.
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  Even after they decided to share the command.
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  Ethan Allen goes out, takes all the glory for it.
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  Arnold storms through the gates with his men, confronts the
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  British officers there. Without even a shot, they take
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  Ticonderoga. Within a couple of days, they
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  take Crown Point as well. Yeah, it took a while to get him
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  down here to Boston. We understand that.
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  But it's Arnold foresight that made that possible.
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  It's Benedict Arnold who did that.
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  Norwich's own Benedict Arnold. And yet somehow or another
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  Congress wants to fete Ethan Allen.
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  Oh, he's the guy. He's the one who did it.
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  They made it seem like Arnold wasn't even there.
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  Might as well not even have bothered.
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  Very man who had spotted the opportunity, carried it through
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  to the to the very end. The man who came up with this
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  idea, the man who who made it happen.
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  And they basically just blew him off.
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  Oh, and then they decided to question his expense accounts.
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  They said, well, you didn't spend that much money.
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  You know, it's not like he was asking for the world here.
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  General Washington keeps a Ledger.
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  Why shouldn't General Arnold keep what?
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  Anyway, it was Benedict Arnold that came up with that idea.
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  It was Benedict Arnold who did all of that for us.
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  And now we're sitting here going, no, it was Ethan Allen.
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  No, I, I, I'm not sure why our, our delegation is allowing this
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  to happen down there. Not sure what's going on.
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  I do know this. That's not the kind of thing
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  that ought to be happening. It's not the kind of thing that
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  we should be standing for. It's not the kind of thing that
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  anybody would tolerate here. And yet here we are putting up
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  with it. Why are we putting up with it?
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  Because we're outnumbered by bigger states, bigger
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  delegations. General Arnold was, by the way,
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  not reimbursed for his expenses, expenses that came out of his
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  pocket. And then they decided, why would
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  we promote him? They said he exaggerated his own
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  role. The man whose very idea this
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  was, the man who led those troops up there, threw all that
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  crap, and they decide that he's that good enough for them and
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  they push him aside and give Ethan Allen all these, all these
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  glories and all these things here.
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  It was an insult to Brigadier General Arnold and it should be
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  an insult to us right here at Narch.
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  A lesser man would have gone home.
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  A lesser man would have quit. A lesser man would have said,
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  you know what, you know what I mean, fine, but not General
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  Arnold. General Arnold hitched up his
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  britches, put on his big boy britches and went down to
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  Cambridge to meet with General Washington couple of months ago.
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  Do you know this? Congress in their infinite
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  genius, has decided that we need to invade Canada.
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  The reasons we need to invade Canada should be pretty obvious.
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  I mean, what's there? 70,000 people up there and they
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  could be our allies, I guess. So the idea is we go up, take,
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  take Montreal, take Quebec, and then everything will be fine,
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  right. But they're, they're not sending
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  General Arnold, the man who already knows his way around up
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  there anyway. Benedict Arnold went over to to
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  Cambridge to meet with Washington and came up with the
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  idea of marching through Maine. They're going to go up through,
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  I shouldn't tell you this, it's going to be in the papers
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  tomorrow anyway. But he's, he's going through
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  Maine, northern Massachusetts, going up there on his way to to
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  Quebec. Of course, they had to buy a
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  bunch of boats and stuff. And you know, I mean, again,
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  General Arnold already paid for a bunch of this crap out of his
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  own pockets. You know how hard it was to get
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  all this stuff to organized for, to doing all this.
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  And yet despite all of that, despite the fact that he has
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  been insulted over and over again, despite the fact that
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  he's been ridiculed, despite the fact that he has been lied
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  about, despite the fact that he is the only fighting general
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  this nation has the insults that have been thrown his way.
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  He didn't quit. He's still up there, still
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  leading this thing, and God bless him for that.
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  Come take your news brew and 1 cup strong coffee, stronger
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  opinions and no loyalists allowed past the hearth.
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  Missus Tuttle's Coffee house right down here on Nards Green.
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  I in there all the time myself. Where rebellion tastes like
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  roasted beans and liberty is stirred with cream and sugar.
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  That's Missus Tuttle's Patriot coffee house.
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  Nards Green right here. We'll be right back.
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  Welcome back to me, Dave. Revolutionary talk right here on
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  WREV 760 AM Narch. Look there, General, General
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  Arnold has this organized man. He is, he's got bateaus.
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  Those are those little flat bottom boats, the French shoes
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  and and he's got supplies. He's headed up the Kennebec
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  River right now. Talked to one of them yesterday,
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  one of his leading, one of his majors yesterday.
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  Spirits are very high. I, I don't want to promise you
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  anything because you know, it's wartime.
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  Who knows what what happens, but it could, this could actually be
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  a very good thing. It could be a very quick thing.
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  We could conquer Canada very quickly.
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  We did it in seven in, in the Seven Years War.
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  Why should it take any longer now?
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  There's not any more people there now.
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  Most of them are French. They hate the English anyway.
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  It'd be on our side. They'd be good allies and we can
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  control the whole. The whole Saint Lawrence Valley
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  would work out for us anyway. Spirits are very high in the
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  army right now, and I think one of the things they really like
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  is that unlike some other generals I could name, General
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  Arnold is right there in the thick of things.
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  He's right in there with the men.
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  They keep telling me over and over again.
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  I keep getting messages from from folks.
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  He's right here with us. He's a leader.
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  He's a man we will follow to the end of the earth.
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  I I know it's early. I know things, you know, you
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  can't guarantee anything. But look, boldness is is in the
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  air. And this is a very bold move.
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  We got to do something. We ain't got enough power to to
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  attack Boston. All we can do is barely hold
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  those lines. They thought Quebec was weeks
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  away. They didn't know it would be,
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  you know that. We don't really know what's
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  going to happen with it. But General Arnold knows that
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  the prize is worth it and he's the leader to take it.
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  And while the King is declaring us an open and avowed rebellion,
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  while his ministers are are planning campaigns, while his
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  agents are over here buying your maps, don't sell them your maps,
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  folks. Don't help them.
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  While he's getting ready to ship those Germans over here, send
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  Navy convoys. While Congress dithers about
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  whether or not we should build a Navy, Arnold is out showing us
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  what a real rebel general can do.
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  He can take the fight north, and he can take this to them.
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  That's the kind of leadership we need, and God bless the man from
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  right here in downtown Narch. We need more General Arnold's a
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  few less Ethan Allen's in the world.
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  Cloth for your coat, nails for your wagon and a sail.
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  I'm sorry. An ale that warms the marrow.
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  I'm getting old, folks, and it's hard to see in here with this
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  candlelight. Marlow and Sons keeps Narch
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  supplied from boot to belly. Trade in honest coin or sign for
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  credit. Taste of Home in every cup.
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  And no one's been short a loaf after visiting their cellar.
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  That's Marlow and Sons, sundry and stout.
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  I'll be buying some more candles when I see them a little bit
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  later today. Stay with us.
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  We'll be back with your phone calls in just one minute.
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  Welcome back. It's me, Dave Diamond.
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  It is revolutionary talk right here on AM 760.
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  WREV. I look, I I don't I'm proud of general Arnold proud of
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  the fact that he's one of us, that he's from here, proud of
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  the fact that he's leading men in a way that no other no other
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  rebel general, no, no other continental general has done and
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  he will continue to do it. Phone lines are lighting up.
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  Let's go to line 1 fire away. I'll.
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  Tell you, plain, Sir, I'll follow Colonel Arnold anywhere.
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  He's no gentleman officer, hiding behind a desk.
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  He's in the mud with us, hauling boats, cursing the rain, eating
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  the same rotten rations. He fights the way we fight, and
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  that's why the men trust him. If Quebec can be taken, Arnold
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  will be the one to lead us there.
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  Yeah, I, I look, I agree. I, I think he's the best we've
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  got to offer. And with men like him, we can't
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  lose. That's the that's the great
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  thing about all this. By the way, he's a general, not
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  a Colonel. But you know what?
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  I'll let you go Line 2GO. Well, am I?
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  On Yeah, stop. God I hate people that callers
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  line 3. Go ahead.
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  My good Sir, you. Speak of this.
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  Quebec scheme as if it were no more than a jaunt to market.
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  Have you any notion of the expense these bateau cost us
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  dear? The provisions even more, and
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  all to send men trudging through swamps and forests on the faint
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  hope the Canadians will welcome them with open arms.
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  Congress has already drained our credit, strained our paper near
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  worthless. We have an army outside Boston
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  starving for powder and pay. Yet here comes Arnold,
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  clamouring for boats and coin to chase a phantom.
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  Mark me, Sir, we cannot afford it.
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  War is dear enough without throwing away treasure, and
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  lives on a wild March to the north.
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  It is folly, pure folly, and I will not have my name tied to
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  such reckless adventuring when our very survival hangs by a
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  thread in Massachusetts. Now, I, I know that voice,
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  that's, that's Congressman Galloway from Pennsylvania.
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  He's, he's just a Dickinson clone.
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  He, he, he hung up. Look, you, you guys have been,
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  you guys have been just fiddling around down there for too long.
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  As it is, at least General Arnold is out leading somewhere.
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  You sent Washington to Boston. What's he done?
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  Nothing. It's it's time for you guys to
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  own up to this. You need to be supporting
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  General Arnold. You need to be supporting this
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  campaign into Quebec. You need to understand that this
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  is this is the boldness that we need.
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  Or we can stand around and go, oh, it's too expensive, let's do
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  this. It's too that line 3.
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  Go ahead. Canada will never join your
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  rebellion. Yes they will.
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  The French there are content under the King's roof, and they
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  remember well enough. What day was the last war?
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  Do you truly believe they'll throw in with a pack of ragged
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  farmers marching through swamps behind this fellow Arnold?
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  Nonsense, He was breezed. He will start and he will fail.
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  And when he does, you'll see just how foolish this rebellion
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  has become. Loyalist Bob God, you sound like
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  a subject of His Majesty and good Lord, you're just a you're
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  just a quill and Lord N Inkwell, aren't you?
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  Dripping fear and civility instead of actually ink.
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  If Canada's too far away for Arnold to reach, it's only
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  because your imagination stops at the end of a teacup.
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  I'd tell him not to call anymore, but the boss tells me I
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  can't ban collars. So there you go.
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  But you heard, you heard the soldier there, folks.
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  I mean, that's the same thing. They're telling me they would
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  follow Benedict Arnold to the end of this, to the end of this
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  war. He's the leader we need.
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  He's the spirit that we need, and he's going to get this done.
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  Congress may have overlooked him.
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  They may have insulted him, but he is out to prove himself again
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  and he will do it. General Washington's got faith
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  in him. Look, I, I'm hard on Washington,
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  but it's only because he hasn't done anything yet.
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  Looks good in the uniform. Looks really tall.
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  Saw him the other day. But he's at least he recognizes
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  the the spirit that Benedict Arnold has.
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  At least he understands that Arnold will go out and actually
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  fight. Mark this day, my friends,
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  October 3rd, 1775. General Arnold is on the move.
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  When he gets to Quebec and takes it, it will change this war
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  because Britain will lose all of that northern connections that
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  they have and this time there won't be any Ethan Allen to go
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  see. I did it and I will not allow
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  Congress to get away with disrespecting our General
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  Benedict Arm and the king has brand US branded us rebels.
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  We answer with Benedict Arnold leading men through the
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  wilderness. That's the kind of rebellion
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  I'll follow to the end. Have a great weekend everybody.
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  See you Monday, everybody. Have a great weekend.