From the Vault: Goblet of Eggnog
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this classic holiday episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the history and invention of the eggnog, how it became such an iconic holiday beverage and some curious historic goblets associated with the consumption of this rich, milky draught. (originally published 12/15/2022)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, welcome to stuff to blow your mind. |
| 0:13.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:15.3 | We're mostly off this week for the holiday. |
| 0:18.7 | So we have a vault episode for you today. |
| 0:23.3 | This is going to be one from a few years back. This is this one originally published 12, 15, 2022. |
| 0:27.7 | It is our episode on the invention of egg knock. |
| 0:32.0 | So let's drink up. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:49.8 | And I'm Joe McCormick. |
| 0:51.5 | It's that time of year again. And by that time, I mean, it is the holidays. |
| 0:56.7 | We're knee deep, perhaps waist deep in the holidays. And there's no going back. We might as well |
| 1:02.6 | just push forward at this point. Like it's just as much effort to keep going as it would be to turn back. |
| 1:09.6 | So once more, we have a holiday episode for you. |
| 1:12.8 | It's actually going to be our third installment in our holiday invention series, where we |
| 1:18.5 | more or less give the invention treatment to various holiday decorations, traditions, and toys. |
| 1:25.2 | This year, we're going to be looking in earnest at eggnog. Is eggnog an invention? |
| 1:31.3 | Sure, we can stretch the definition. I think that's okay. I think so. I mean, we did an invention, |
| 1:36.2 | a full-blown invention episode about the Mai Tai, which we, you know, we had Jeff Beach Bombary on as a guest to talk about that. |
| 1:44.1 | Eggnog is not something that occurs naturally in the world. It must be. You know, we had Jeff Beach Bombary on as a guest to talk about that. |
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