The Eggnog Riot

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jefferson Davis was a malcontent long before the American Civil War. The Eggnog Riot or Grog Mutiny was an 1826 drunken Christmas rebellion by dozens of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point including the future President of the Confederate State of America firmly in the midst of the party gone horribly wrong.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this and sports shows on the higher tier.Rob Foxhttps://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regesterhttps://www.instagram.com/danregester/ https://twitter.com/dan_regester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:14.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:17.6	I'm your host for the Weekdown, Register. And let me be the first to wish you a
0:22.9	happy Christmas. That's the British way to say it. Happy Christmas. That's Ralph Fox. I'm always
0:30.1	joined by him. And we have a special guest today. The very merry, Scott Lopez. Yeah,
0:35.7	I dressed like Santa's greatest elf today. Don't like how you said
0:39.4	Happy Christmas though. That was, did you watch Harry Potter or something? Is that where that came from?
0:43.7	It is a Christmas movie. Happy Christmas, Harry? Happy Christmas, Harry.
0:48.9	We'll get you one of those sweaters that Ron gets every single year. I was trying to do the Chris
0:53.2	Berman thing. And let me be the first. No one knows who that is. Everyone knows who Chris Berman is. He's a legend. Yeah, based on the age of our listeners, they know who Chris Berman is. Back, back, back, back, back. Just looking at the stats on the back end.
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1:17.1	It's a reference that works, absolutely.
1:19.6	Also, welcome in to our new subscribers, our new listeners,
1:23.2	if you somehow found this after watching one of our sketches that little Robbie boy over there
1:30.5	wrote and acted in.
1:31.8	Hello.
1:32.7	But Dan beautifully shot and edited.
1:35.6	I'm not on-air talent.
1:37.4	And that's a great way to kind of get into this episode.
1:40.6	Yeah.
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