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
Comments (57)
Nate is such a good wife-guy. Also, man, as the resident “computer guy” of my household I felt the “6 hours of unfucking the internet at 3am because you know your partner is going to be upset if it’s not working” in my soul.
The classroom I taught in last year still had a map with Yugoslavia and Zaire on it.
An American wizard is called a Klansman.
This is my new favorite episode.
My highschool was also a modified open concept building. It had 3 classrooms in the entire building with windows. My class was 2500.
Every marine (including myself) just got really angry at the revelation of Joe mentioning that we are all in fact: in the Navy.
my parents thought Pizza Hut was too fancy and expensive so the Pan Pizza Iowa Test Bribery actually worked on me
While I disagree with Joe's takes on horses, I'm glad we are on the same page about eggnog. I also don't like drinking milk, or most products like yogurt, but I do like ice cream, so I'm not sure if we're totally on the same page.
I went to a cubicle school too! Our motto was "no walls no limits"
as a texan, nate's so right about frequently wishing that tree landed 6" further to the left
Jason Everman didn't actually play on Bleach. But he did pay for the recording and I believe was never paid back.
“The world’s nastiest nog.”
As someone who also went to a retro-fitted open-concept school… it truly was a hell-hole architecture-wise. School designers in the 70s had to have been on the weirdest drugs to design that.
Pretty sure my old middle school may still use this layout.
Are Nick and Nate the same people?
NORWICH UNIVERSITY MENTIONED HOLY SHIT LET'S FUCKING GO four years in the gulags of Vermont sure was a time
Both of my sons are VMI grads and each knows a few Norwich guys.
Hazing students by teaching them how to "swallow and respond immediately" sounds dangerously close to a British hazing tradition
i guess there are only so many ways one can invent to make another person's life miserable with limited resources
I almost joined the navy and they tried to shove me into the intelligence service so I went to culinary school instead.
Getting kicked so hard you almost shit yourself is the perfect answer to that question lmao
I 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.
Probably worth mentioning that the only other person I know who did all three ended up going to West Point lol
That 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.
Ah the yellow Russian, the official drink of the mango Mussolini
Real men don't spit, they swallow.
Michigan school system discouraging us from doing a Decan Blues though budget community theater.
IN used the ISTEP test, if I recall correctly
Joe, 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
as 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
1000 pts to Tom for referencing skrewdrivers greatest hit. What was the last thing to cross Ian Donaldsons mind before he died?....the windshield
Ethan Allen Hitchcock is a figure LLBD could feature: kind of the Hamlet of American empire
Eggnog is good leave my eggy wife alone
I’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.
Not sure if I listen to 90s grunge bc I’m depressed; or if I’m depressed bc of my love for 90s grunge.
Jar of Flies EP for the win.
HUZZAAAHHH!
At 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.
This is every night at llbd officer's academy
losing 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
I can just envision Russel Crowe looking at pigeons moving patterns to find better way to use artillery on the British.
Tom - I would suggest corduroy would be even better for a Fleshlight. Sometimes, as an asexual non-binary AFAB, I do worry myself.
Minor correction for Joe: West Point is not coastal...it sits overlooking the Hudson River...beautiful campus
Coastal-ish
Oh no...my daughter is applying to IU-Bloomington
Lol I just saw a Tasting History episode about the egg nog riot. Looking forward to y'all's take on it.
Haven't listened yet, but I love that the title looks like it could be a WTYP episode, without batting an eye.
The 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.
From the west coast, it's not just the midwest
I 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.
I had that, but the school was too cowardly to actually have a DUI guy talk.
Tom, 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.
If 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.
Alright GENERATION WAR Wait fuck I'm a zillenial
I needed this this morning
Two Christmas themed episodes in December in the same year. This is unprecedented.
Perfect 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!