BONUS EPISODE: The West Point Eggnog Riot
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Once upon a time, the cadets of West Point staged a minor uprising for their right to get shit-faced over Christmas.
Sources:
James Agnew. The Eggnog Riot: The Christmas Mutiny at West Point
https://www.army.mil/article/49823/the_eggnog_riot
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/eggnog-riot
Comments
Every marine (including myself) just got really angry at the revelation of Joe mentioning that we are all in fact: in the Navy.
Zach
2025-01-24 06:42:29 +0000 UTCmy parents thought Pizza Hut was too fancy and expensive so the Pan Pizza Iowa Test Bribery actually worked on me
Shanti
2025-01-20 05:16:32 +0000 UTCHazing students by teaching them how to "swallow and respond immediately" sounds dangerously close to a British hazing tradition
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-12-21 16:02:56 +0000 UTCI almost joined the navy and they tried to shove me into the intelligence service so I went to culinary school instead.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2024-12-21 07:27:18 +0000 UTCGetting kicked so hard you almost shit yourself is the perfect answer to that question lmao
Jalil Henry
2024-12-21 04:07:01 +0000 UTCProbably worth mentioning that the only other person I know who did all three ended up going to West Point lol
Thomas Lee
2024-12-19 23:06:17 +0000 UTCI am one of the rare individuals who has taken the MEAP (Michigan test), the ACT and the Leaving Cert and in retrospect I enjoyed the Leaving Cert faaaar more than the MEAP or ACT. It's just sad that it would be logistically impossible to implement in most states because of the way it's graded.
Thomas Lee
2024-12-19 22:57:41 +0000 UTCThat reminds me of an alcohol-induced riot in my home country in 1873. Just to give an example from "continental Europe," I give you the "Frankfurter Bierkrawall" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Bierkrawall. The too long didn't German is: A riot started when beer prices had increased at around 1600 on April 21. 1873 at a local fair. Breweries and taverns were vandalized when the mob took to the streets. Some brewery workers defended themselves with a hose and boiling hot beer. Local Police got immediately overwhelmed; six companies of local Prussian infantry were mobilized. The affair lasted till midnight, and the result was: 20 people dead, including a woman and a small boy, because soldiers had fired live ammunition, and 300 people got arrested.
Johannes Bauermann
2024-12-19 16:39:58 +0000 UTCAh the yellow Russian, the official drink of the mango Mussolini
Rick Carter
2024-12-19 16:27:37 +0000 UTCas another michigander i can confirm. i once had a teacher conveniently “accidentally” leave a lesson with a bunch of math shit up on the board during an exam for kids to cheat off of
Illuin DB
2024-12-19 04:06:22 +0000 UTCReal men don't spit, they swallow.
Alistair SM J
2024-12-19 01:44:00 +0000 UTCMichigan school system discouraging us from doing a Decan Blues though budget community theater.
Grumpy Bowlart
2024-12-18 23:14:12 +0000 UTCIN used the ISTEP test, if I recall correctly
Derek Giffin
2024-12-18 22:19:04 +0000 UTCJoe, the Michigan standardized test was called the MEAP (pronounced meep) it sucked and my school also begged us to take it seriously and bribed us with food
Sunny.p
2024-12-18 22:08:31 +0000 UTC1000 pts to Tom for refencing skrewdrivers greatest hit. What was the last thing to cross Ian Donaldsons mind before he died?....the windshield
Jonathan Sutter
2024-12-18 21:20:06 +0000 UTCCoastal-ish
Alistair SM J
2024-12-18 19:24:00 +0000 UTCEthan Allen Hitchcock is a figure LLBD could feature: kind of the Hamlet of American empire
Chris Lombardi
2024-12-18 19:14:26 +0000 UTCEggnog is good leave my eggy wife alone
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-12-18 18:12:56 +0000 UTCJar of Flies EP for the win.
Matt Schubert
2024-12-18 18:09:44 +0000 UTCFrom the South, kind of, and it’s us too.
Matt
2024-12-18 18:03:51 +0000 UTCI’ve heard of this because The Dollop did an episode on it years ago, but I want to hear what some former soldiers say about it.
Matt
2024-12-18 18:02:54 +0000 UTCNot sure if I listen to 90s grunge bc I’m depressed; or if I’m depressed bc of my love for 90s grunge.
Matt Schubert
2024-12-18 17:32:12 +0000 UTCHUZZAAAHHH!
19ZXB Donkey brains
2024-12-18 17:23:41 +0000 UTCAt my high school we did the faux drunk driving thing but with real people as actors, I got to be the drunk driver who killed someone. It was even more fun because they poured a bunch of natural light all over the fucked up car and sprayed some on me so I smelled like beer. they arrested me as “example” Missouri is great.
Nezvar1
2024-12-18 16:16:33 +0000 UTCFrom the west coast, it's not just the midwest
Harles Barkley
2024-12-18 15:00:48 +0000 UTCThis is every night at llbd officer's academy
Thomas Layton
2024-12-18 14:50:44 +0000 UTCI can just envision Russel Crowe looking at pigeons moving patterns to find better way to use artillery on the British.
William Shackelford
2024-12-18 14:23:23 +0000 UTClosing it at the beautiful mind shit I was in the middle of joining ROTC while under the beginnings of schizophrenia so that's something that def could happen
Lain of the Wired
2024-12-18 14:06:08 +0000 UTCTom - I would suggest corduroy would be even better for a Fleshlight. Sometimes, as an asexual non-binary AFAB, I do worry myself.
LeobaL
2024-12-18 13:43:35 +0000 UTCMinor correction for Joe: West Point is not coastal...it sits overlooking the Hudson River...beautiful campus
LoveTheBeach
2024-12-18 13:39:00 +0000 UTCOh no...my daughter is applying to IU-Bloomington
LoveTheBeach
2024-12-18 13:37:16 +0000 UTCYeah it was a mother who was the victim of the dude who was drunk and hit her daughter’s car. So they had the victim and offender both there before we went to see the crashed car. It’s almost like when D.A.R.E. With LEO would come to schools to talk about the “dangers of drugs”.
William Shackelford
2024-12-18 13:24:44 +0000 UTCLol I just saw a Tasting History episode about the egg nog riot. Looking forward to y'all's take on it.
Page Chase
2024-12-18 13:24:01 +0000 UTCI had that, but the school was too cowardly to actually have a DUI guy talk.
Jonathan Grafton
2024-12-18 13:18:32 +0000 UTCHaven't listened yet, but I love that the title looks like it could be a WTYP episode, without batting an eye.
Jonathan Grafton
2024-12-18 13:17:17 +0000 UTCThe way that Nate is describing his middle school reminds me of my middle and high school in Kansas. There must be a uniquely Midwestern desire to put children in soul sucking cubicle prisons.
Annalise Olsen-Fana
2024-12-18 12:57:13 +0000 UTCI definitely had the drunk driver wrecked car thing as well. when I was in high school they also did the drunk driving awareness thing. They had the dude, who was still in prison at the time, come speak to the entire school. And after wards we were all instructed to go walk up and see a totaled vehicle with a mannequin in it.
William Shackelford
2024-12-18 12:43:23 +0000 UTCTom, I really need to know if you laughed for the reason I think you laughed when Nate said "Mega Milk Country." I need to know if your brain is as internet-broken as mine.
Alex Duggan
2024-12-18 12:22:54 +0000 UTCIf anyone is going to extract audio from Joe’s eggnog critique. I think someone should splice when he said “ you know I really wanna get drunk on something thick and creamy” and create a club banger where that audio drops as soon as the bass drops. Summer Song of 2025 I could see.
William Shackelford
2024-12-18 12:09:45 +0000 UTCAlright GENERATION WAR Wait fuck I'm a zillenial
Nadie Southpaw
2024-12-18 11:30:24 +0000 UTCI needed this this morning
Sean MacLeod
2024-12-18 11:02:52 +0000 UTCTwo Christmas themed episodes in December in the same year. This is unprecedented.
Saint Muerte
2024-12-18 10:52:21 +0000 UTCPerfect timing, I'm about to start cleaning and can only gain executive function whilst simultaneously listening to a podcast. Thanks for inadvertently helping keep my house tidy, Marie Kondo would be proud!
Alex Duggan
2024-12-18 10:51:44 +0000 UTC
