The Digression Podcast
Chris and Jody are Air Force vets who enjoy military history and folklore. This is their podcast. They tell stories. They digress. A lot.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
10. Haunted Military
Our military serves to project power around the globe and those who serve are often subject to extreme violence. Who knows how stress coupled with the violent nature of military work affects a soul s…
9. Pits: The Last Full Measure
Everyday folks probably aren't too familiar with Bill "Pits" Pitsenbarger, but now, tens of listeners of this podcast will know him and the heroic act that earned him the Air Force Cross and eventual…
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 i…
7. Apollo 11 at T+50-Years
The Digression Podcast Guys were 6 and 2 when Neil Armstrong stepped down from the ladder of the Lunar Module, "Eagle", onto the surface of the moon. In fact, it's very likely, they were asleep at t…
6. Darwin Awards
Each year, the Darwin Awards pay tribute to those individuals who "improve our gene pool--by removing themselves from it in the most spectacular way possible." Named after Charles Darwin, the Englis…
5. D-Day + 75-Years
The year 1944 dawned over a vast panorama of invasion preparations in England. Huge quantities of materials were readied in dozens of depots throughout England. The air forces stepped up their assaul…
4. I AM THE IG!
In anticipation of State Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz report on possible FISA abuse by the DOJ and FBI, we thought we'd share some of our experiences with the inspection side of the …
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 At…
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 Engl…
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 that the only accounts of sightings of or encounters with the …
Show Trailer
Two old vets talk military history and folklore. Telling "war stories" from the unique perspective of an insider, their discussions are humorous, irreverent, and as Patton would say, colored with the…