Eye Digress

A macabre fascination leads us into a world of real and rumoured stories of people walled up in buildings — from castles and crypts to cottages and campuses. Join us as we quiz each other (and our long-suffering pilot Simon) on which tales are fact, fiction, or just dodgy urban legend. There’s history, horror, and a surprising amount of flapper dresses and mobsters. Plus, we bust some widely believed myths that turned out to be absolute bollocks. Think you can tell real from rumour? Lock yourself in.

Featured:

• Chilling stories of people “immured” in walls from medieval castles to modern renovations

• Real vs rumour: a quiz of creepy myths and true crimes

• Why Everest might look like a burial ground to alien archaeologists

• Our pilot Simon offers free flights… with conditions

Spotify Tags: walled up stories, creepy history, true crime podcast, urban legends, hidden bodies, dark humour, historical mysteries, renovation finds, immurement stories, buried alive, spooky podcast, weird facts

Grab your pens and hold onto your Lonely Planet guidebooks - we’re heading to Egypt! Well, sort of.

From dodgy camel guides to public vomiting and unwanted PDA, this episode dives into the trials and tribulations of navigating Egypt as an obviously Western tourist. Armed guards in convoys, pyramid climbing regrets, and questionable sarcophagus selfies all make an appearance. Whether it’s comparing notes on dysentery or dodging aggressive kids shouting “Bakshish!”, this is a wild ride through cultural missteps, miscommunications, and misadventures.

Featuring

• Travel-themed: The episode centres around personal experiences while travelling in Egypt, blending historical context with absurdity.

• Anecdotal: The host shares multiple travel anecdotes, creating a vivid sense of time and place.

• Culturally observant: The episode offers reflections on social customs, behaviours, and tourist faux pas.

• Humorous and self-deprecating: The hosts reflect on their own gaffes and encounters with a healthy dose of mockery.

Spotify Tags: Egypt travel stories, backpacking fails, tourist scams, camel rides, pyramid regrets, cultural misunderstandings, travel podcast, Middle East adventures, funny holiday stories, public transport chaos, Lonely Planet lies, international travel blunders

Pet butchers for your final farewell dinner. Refrigerated fruit bowls that double as face-cooling stations. Cloud sofas that hover on magnets. Welcome to the finale of The I Digress Podcast, Season 3, where Ringo unveils his portfolio of "decades ahead of their time" inventions.

From alcohol-infused bread created by spilling beer on pub tables to reverse microwaves that flash-freeze warm beers, these aren't just business ideas – they're revolutionary solutions to problems you didn't know existed. Ocean-cleaning roombas, night vision windscreens, and the "light food diet" where pastries make you weightier because... physics?

Equal parts entrepreneurial genius and magnificent delusion, this is innovation at its most unhinged.

Spotify Tags: business ideas, inventions, entrepreneurship, life hacks, innovation, startup ideas, creative solutions, absurd inventions, comedy podcast, season finale

Car crashes, metal slides, and scrotum-stitching disasters. Welcome to the most cringe-worthy episode of I Digress yet.

In this final short episode of season three, our hosts dive headfirst into their most spectacular childhood injuries – and somehow manage to make traumatic brain injuries hilarious. From flying out car windows in the pre-seatbelt 70s to getting fishing hooks through fingers, it's a masterclass in how kids used to survive the most ridiculous accidents.

Featuring: A toddler ejected through a windshield (and living to tell the tale), the world's most dangerous playground slide in Hamilton New Zealand, competitive stone-throwing that ended in blood-soaked blonde hair, a DIY go-kart that nearly castrated someone, and the most anticlimactic tooth loss in history – courtesy of a pillow fight light cord combo.

Spotify Tags: childhood injuries, broken bones, accident stories, 70s parenting, playground disasters, funny podcast, injury comedy, New Zealand stories, chainsaw accidents, emergency room tales, dark humour, sibling injuries

A teenage girl asks "What's a one hour photo?" and suddenly you feel ancient.

In this nostalgic tech-archaeology episode of The I Digress Podcast, the guys excavate the forgotten friction of analogue life – when getting photos developed in just 60 minutes was revolutionary, not glacial.

Journey through three decades of rapid obsolescence across five categories:

• General – from photography to thermostats

• Home – from television viewing to music formats

• Work / Business – from data storage to navigation technology

A bittersweet celebration of waiting, wanting, and the warm nostalgia of technologies that shaped us before vanishing into digital dust.

Spotify Tags: technology evolution, digital transformation, nostalgia podcast, tech history, analogue vs digital, innovation timeline, consumer electronics, format wars, planned obsolescence, generational technology

From scorching Spanish streets to frozen Danish jaws, Ringo takes us through his most physically punishing travel experiences in this bite-sized episode of The I Digress Podcast.

Starting with a brutal temperature swing from 45°C Goa to -6°C London (while wearing flip-flops and shorts), the stories escalate through a jaw-freezing Copenhagen winter that left his ex-wife unable to speak, and a Toledo heatwave so intense the streets were completely deserted.

But the real extreme? A 72-hour sleep deprivation marathon fueled by caffeine pills and loud music to meet a professional registration deadline. From Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon, Ringo pushed through three days without sleep, followed by an 18-hour recovery coma.

Short, sharp, and perfectly relatable for anyone who's ever been caught in the wrong clothes at the wrong temperature.

Spotify Tags: travel disasters, extreme weather, sleep deprivation, temperature extremes, funny travel stories, short podcast, personal anecdotes, weather stories, travel fails, endurance challenges

REAL - Chimps shoving grass up their butts as a fashion trend. Octopuses assembling IKEA furniture. NASA throwing paper planes from space stations.

In this science quiz episode The I Digress Podcast try to spot fake headlines among real scientific studies.

The boys test your BS detector with three categories of bizarre research:

• Animal Kingdom absurdities

• Space exploration experiments, and

• Psychology mind-benders.

From pearlfish living inside sea cucumber anuses to Ukraine's space message featuring breakfast TV hosts, the line between legitimate science and complete nonsense has never been blurrier.

This clickbait science challenge will make you question everything – including why scientists dropped gophers on Mount St. Helens and whether reality TV actually affects your snack choices.

Spotify Tags: science quiz, weird science facts, animal behaviour, space research, psychology studies, educational comedy, fake vs real, scientific method, IFL science, research quiz, bizarre experiments, science podcast

Fake job applications. Police raid pranks. Superman school drop-offs. Sand in lemonade. Some childhood pranks are harmless fun. Others leave lasting scars.

In this sibling rivalry meets comedy chaos episode of The I Digress Podcast, our hosts share hilarious prank stories gone wrong – think family dysfunction, but with answering machines and corrugated iron. From convincing a brother that cat-toilet sand improves lemonade to accidentally triggering police raids with fake sex recordings, it's a masterclass in sibling warfare and childhood trauma.

Laugh, cringe, remember your own childhood pranks.

Spotify Tags: sibling pranks, funny family stories, childhood pranks gone wrong, brother sister pranks, hilarious prank stories, family dysfunction, comedy podcast, sibling rivalry, embarrassing childhood stories, Australian humour

Radioactive beauty products, steel-toothed villains, and the Queen of Diamonds trigger card. Welcome to the darker side of espionage fiction.

In this literary deep-dive episode of The I Digress Podcast, we explore three spy classics that couldn't be more different from each other:

• The Spy Who Loved Me: Ian Fleming's experimental departure

• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold: John le Carré's morally complex Cold War masterpiece

• The Manchurian Candidate: the chilling prescience of sleeper agents

Discover why Fleming's Bond book reads more like a psychological thriller than a glamorous spy romp, how communist ideologies blurred the lines of loyalty during the Cold War, and whether sleeper agents are still walking among us today.

Spotify Tags: spy fiction, James Bond analysis, Cold War thrillers, book club podcast, literary discussion, espionage stories, political fiction, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, Manchurian Candidate, brainwashing, sleeper agents

Eight Spanish CDs, one rental car, and zero ability to understand anything beyond "sí" or "no."

In this episode of The I Digress Podcast, the guys take us on a linguistic disaster tour of Spain.

From San Sebastian to Granada, past mysterious walkers on the Camino de Santiago and through torrential sunflower fields. Discover why staying in certain historic hotels makes you unwelcome with the locals, and how Christina Aguilera unexpectedly saved the soundtrack.

Also featuring: cork trees that look like animal attack victims, government-run castle hotels, and the universal struggle of driving on the "wrong" side when there's no one else around to copy.

Spotify Tags: Spain travel, road trip disasters, language learning fails, Spanish adventure, travel comedy, cultural mishaps, European travel, funny podcast, vacation stories, driving abroad