BONUS: Pete Ellis, The Drunken Madman Who Revolutionized Amphibious Warfare
Pete Ellis was a marine who not only foresaw the pacific theater of WWII, but pretty much invented the modern US Marine Corps. He was also a drunken madman who went on one of the worst spying missions in American history.
Sources:
Dirk Ballendorf. Pete Ellis: An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pete-ellis-father-of-amphibious-warfare/
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1983/november/earl-hanock-ellis-man-and-his-mission
Comments (39)
Still one of my favorite episodes. I too am better drunk than any of these other mother fuckers. :)
Also one day I will make someone eat the reverse sandwich.
I wonder if Pete’s superior officers sent him on the mission because they knew Pete would have gone along with it. Pete might not have done well with being told: “You need to take a break before you end up in an insane asylum.”
Damn! As someone that struggled with severe alcoholism for years including puking blood from time to time, this is a level of alcoholism that is unachievable in this day and age. What the fuck were livers made out of back then?
Should not have tried eating lunch while listening to this. So much vomit noises
I’m picturing Ellis as Jack from Father Ted.
DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!
Great show, but one small thing: It's not Luka, KS, like, "My name is Luka." it's Iuka, pronounced "Eye-uka." I've been there! It did not enrich my life in any way whatsoever!
Blacked out expats are the US's greatest export.
What with deindustrialization, what else can we export? We need to unionize the blacked out expat factory.
This episode you guys mixed up the banter at the start and it was much more interesting to listen to that as well. I can only hear about the gym so many times before I start zoning out. Variety is the spice of life. That question from the legion part was also pretty neat.
As a nurse who has taken care of several EtOH withdrawal patients, can confirm that DT can kill you real bad.
"I actually conduct amphibious landings better when I'm drunk" Also, this man is basically real-life Rick Sanchez.
By the juice of the saffo, Pete Ellis will use his powers
Ohio must be destroyed, yes.
I had a philosophy class in college. It was a 7pm lecture on Thirsty Thursday and I didn’t have class on Friday so I’d pregame and go to this dope PHIL class. I’d smoke a cig with the prof and he told me he was drinking straight liquor in his steel coffee thermos
This episode rules lmao incredible work!
He died doing what he loved: drinking
this feels like irl Harry DuBois our boy's exceptionally fucked yet somehow competent
The guy named his plan to invade Micronesia as Plan D. day
Now I want to know what Joe was originally researching when he stumbled across this character. Maybe call it out in that episode.
Delerium Tremens is also a beer from Belgium
Tastes like Necco wafers.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Boozehounds! Teenage Mutant Ninja Boozehounds! Teenage Mutant Ninja Boozehounds! Drunkards on the front porch! Mutant *BLAAAAAARGH!*
Two things for Tom: 1) Was your teacher Father Jack from "Father Ted"? 2) Love that Christy Moore song! He's an absolute legend!
This Peter guy and the following investigation of his death afterwards screams to me a Delta Green scenario.
You'll never guess my middle name....
Had no clue about Christy Moore being a crippling alcoholic, but having watched all the old Planxty live shows I can find on YouTube that explains a lot lol
As a recovering alcoholic who had to withdraw without medical attention a couple times (largely because of pride) I cherish this episode. Those seizures are no joke. That song is pretty spot on. Imagine you can't sleep and can't sleep and then you hear a door slam and you run out and your heart is pounding and you can't figure out what made the sound.
One of the most entertaining stories I've ever heard of someone drinking themselves to death.
You've confused Rob Ford, Toronto's crack smoking mayor, with Marion Berry, Washington DC's crack smoking mayor. Both of them got caught on video; easy mistake to make. And the bitch did set him up, or at least the FBI used her to set him up because of a personal vendetta against DC's Black mayor who was so popular he got reelected even after the videotape. But it's still his damn fault for letting his ex girlfriend convince him to smoke crack in a bid to get her to sleep with him. If you're trying to lay pipe and you wind up hitting the pipe, you've gone wrong
Not the worst mayor though, all things considered.
Oh my god best episode ever!
This has to be one of the funniest LLBD episodes
I’ll take one “drink whiskey vomit blood shirt”
Holy shit Tom
I want you to know how much I love Tom for that intro lol btw Aiden all the way, Big is a piece of shit!
Never thought the first thing I’d hear in this podcast is “woke Don Draper” 😆
Woke Don Draper has incredible potential to piss off the most insufferable kind of dude and I look forward to future development of the character.