Category: Folklore
ep 31: Military Murder
What drives military members to murder? Maybe it's the violent nature of the work; or some childhood trauma; or a psychological disorder; or maybe they're just bad people. Maybe it's all of these things or a combination or none of them. The truth is we often don't know what compels someone to kill. If you're…
ep 27: Snooze You Loose
Most of you have probably heard of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the self-proclaimed "Napoleon of the West," and the story of the Alamo. What you probably haven't heard is how, just a few months after the Alamo, Santa Anna parked his army directly next to Sam Houston's much smaller American force by the San…
ep 25: To Boldly Digress
The Amazing 25th Episode Podcast Spectacular! Of course, it's really no different than our regular episodes...okay, so it's a regular episode, but it's special because it's number 25--a podcast milestone! To celebrate #25, we talk about the origin of The Digression Podcast on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And, as…
ep 12: Giant Voice
This is the story of Chris, who takes a job hauling a mobile long-range acoustic device from Florida to San Diego which results in a spiraling digression into the hilarious deficiencies of the giant voice system at Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea, with a few stops along the way prompted by a snake, a couple…
ep 10: Haunted Military
Halloween is fast approaching and what better topic for this month's podcast than The Top 10 Most Haunted Military Sites? Our military serves to project power around the globe and the men and women who serve are often thrust into dangerous and violent situations. Needless to say, the stress endured by these soldiers, sailors, airmen,…
ep 8: Recovering the Kee Bird
In 1947, a US Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress, dubbed the Kee Bird, crash-landed on a frozen lake in Northern Greenland. The crew was rescued, but the Air Force abandoned the aircraft and struck it from its inventory. And there it remained, untouched, for forty-seven years until a small team of aircraft recovery specialists attempted…
ep 6: Darwin Awards
In this podcast, we share some personal stories and lessons learned from the Darwin Award-worthy antics we observed throughout our military careers. Things like, benzocaine burns your eye; never park in front of a loaded F-16; jet intakes suck…A LOT; the GEICO squirrels are REAL; what goes up must come down; and evidently, there’s a…
ep 4: I AM THE IG!
In this podcast, Jody and Chris talk about their experiences with the Air Force Inspector General. In sharing their IG insights, they find an F-4 in the ceiling, look for the “War Wagon”, learn why the amnesty box is never a good idea, dig into jet skies on the flight line, explore when an ambulance…
ep 3: The Maco Light and Other Ghost Stories
The Digression Podcast Guys April 27, 2019 0 Comments on ep 3: The Maco Light and Other Ghost Stories
A hundred years and a thousand storytellers have blurred the legend of the Maco Light and we’re not going to make it any clearer. Joe Baldwin was a brakeman and was traveling in the caboose of an Atlantic Coast Line train through the little town of Maco, North Carolina, when all of a sudden it…
ep 2: UFOs Over Rendlesham Forest
On the night of Christmas day, December 25, 1980, and into the early morning hours of December 26th, there were massive reports of UFO activity in the Rendlesham Forest area in the southeast of England. The forest is situated between…
ep 1: The Hard Stand Monster of Alconbury
The Digression Podcast Guys February 23, 2019 0 Comments on ep 1: The Hard Stand Monster of Alconbury
Is it a man or just a cruel joke played by the universe as a testament to man’s baser instincts? Hell, we don’t know. What we do know is…