The Boston tea party was the smuggler's attempt to stay in business. This episode is airing july fourth? That day when americans jump up and down and detonate explosives to celebrate their independence from britain. The story you tell each other about your nation's independence is full of holes. You need a new story. So i'm going to do you a favor. I'm going to give you one. Let me spell it out for you. Underneath the lofty rhetoric of the patriots of new england was a vast smuggling operation, illicitly supplying the residents of the new world with their drug of choice, boohe.