Jody Hanks and Chris Rash of The Digression Podcast

This week on Podcaster Stories, I sit down with Jody Hanks and Chris Rash of The Digression Podcast.

The Digression Podcast was born out of just about every conversation Chris and Jody ever had. What would ordinarily be a five-minute conversation easily becomes an hour and a half of asides, anecdotes, detours, transitions, tangents, war stories, wanderings, and ramblings.

Topics up for discussion this week include:

how their 20+ year career in the US Air Force built their close friendship, and resulted in the podcasthow Chris "maintained people" and how that shaped his later lifehow their show had been prepping itself for 10 years offline before becoming the podcast it is todayhow afternoon scotch and sake drove their creative juiceswhy tech was their biggest challenge when it came to starting the showhow the show grew from a once-a-month experiment to today's free-flowing version why engagement from their audience, and the feedback they get, is one of the best parts of doing the showwhy their goal is to entertain, but to also discuss deeper topics on the show, like the military deaths at Fort Hood as well as sexual assault in the armed forceshow their own personal experiences offer insights into personal issues experienced in the militarywhy the Apollo Moon Landing episode they did for the 50th anniversary remains a favouritehow both Jody and Chris have a personal connection to these NASA missionswhy they don't let conspiracy theorists and flat earthers get to themhow they got involved in rebuilding programs at Fort Keesler in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina  how conditions were like an overseas deployment when it came to the facilities and hospital at Keeslerwhy it was key to rebuild the people and their morale first to start rebuilding the basehow Chris, his wife, and their newborn had to live in a ramshackle RV immediately after the birthhow they had to face two more hurricanes while they were rebuilding Keesler, and deal with the additional damage they broughthow the way a young airman graduating from Airman Leadership School was treated highlighted the changes that needed to be made at the basewhy they had to change the lame squadron "cheer" into something more inspiringhow much of a culture change they had to initiate at the tophow they improved the fitness of those under their wing to be amongst the best on the basehow Jody and Chris have heard from people since they retired on why the processes and personal touch they put in place is missedwhy the best way to go through life is to not take things too seriouslytheir best piece of advice for new podcasters

Settle back for an entertaining episode where two air force vets share their lessons on life, military service, building loyalty, and more.

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