Get a practical lesson on how to build a cult. There are robes, flippers, nipple-based revelations… and somehow, The 8th Seal of the Book of Revelations – called Celeste.
In this unholy guide to spiritual success, we break down the rules for building your own damp, deeply questionable cult. Expect fake prophecies, weird rituals, and punishments involving jellyfish. Obviously.
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Think you’re good at trivia? Pit your wits against The I Digress Podcast! In this chaotic reimagining of Trivial Pursuit, we roll the dice (suspiciously well), leads us through increasingly unhinged questions to collect all six wedges. Along the way, we get to the bottom of Norwegian rivers, pigeon-collecting celebrities, and bucket-related wars that somehow actually happened.
From rigged dice to trick Brontë questions, nothing is safe – including the rules of the game. Or logic.
Featured:
• A completely one-player game of Trivial Pursuit (with suspicious luck)
• Celebrity possessions, moral rules, and sporty diarrhoea
• Bucket wars, pig wars, and the underrated art of pedestrianism
• The sexiest Brontë sister... revealed (spoiler: it’s a beach)
Spotify Tags: comedy podcast, trivia games, Trivial Pursuit, funny quiz show, history quiz, ridiculous facts, celebrity trivia, made-up wars, Brontë sisters, absurd questions, game show chaos, one-man quiz, Ringo vs logic, The I Digress Podcast
What do Vlad the Impaler, Leonardo da Vinci, and Jesus H. Christ have in common? Apparently, a hell of a childhood.
In this historically unverified (but heavily coffee-stained) episode, we unroll a mysterious manuscript revealing the early years of three of history’s biggest icons. From impaling games in the playground to DIY flight attempts with chicken feathers, and JC being expelled on a Friday but miraculously turning up again on Monday – this episode rewrites the past one bizarre fact at a time. All verified. All from the scrolls.
Featured:
• Vlad’s one-man dungeon musicals and violent party games
• Leonardo’s failed inventions (and even worse art class behaviour)
• JC’s school report card, baptism trauma, and glow-in-the-dark head
• Three childhoods you will never forget – no matter how hard you try
Spotify Tags: comedy podcast, history parody, weird childhoods, religious satire, musical theatre, Vlad the Impaler, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, fake facts, ancient manuscripts, absurd humour, fictional biographies, scroll-based nonsense
What do “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Sweet Caroline,” and “Eye of the Tiger” have in common? They all sound absolutely unrecognisable on a slide whistle. In this musical quiz episode, Ringo puts his talents (questionable) to the test while the others try to name tunes that have been tragically murdered by a novelty instrument. There’s shouting. There’s horror. There’s a bit of Queen that sounds like a dying duck. Get ready to hate your favourite songs in a whole new way.
Featured:
• Classic songs played terribly on a slide whistle
• Ringo's descent into musical chaos
• A music quiz where nobody wins
• Listener warning: you may never enjoy 80s rock the same way again
Spotify Tags: music quiz, slide whistle, comedy podcast, 80s songs, song challenge, music trivia, funny music games, unrecognisable tunes, musical chaos, sound effects comedy, quiz show parody, ruined classics
Dancing plagues, beer tsunamis, and war sparked by a severed ear - history is full of moments that sound made up. In this facts-packed episode, we quiz each other on the most ridiculous true stories history forgot to teach us. You’ll hear about a psychic horse solving crimes, a molasses flood killing 20 people, and the royal sibling spat that ended in a 30-year prison sentence. Spoiler: it started with a chamber pot. Welcome to the most absurd corner of the past.
Featured:
• The Great Emu War and other animals humans embarrassingly lost to
• The London Beer Flood and Boston Molasses Disaster
• Psychic horse detectives and failed royal children
• Wars started over ears and chamber pot revenge
Spotify Tags: weird history, historical facts, bizarre true stories, comedy podcast, history quiz, psychic animals, royal family drama, molasses flood, dancing plague, strange wars, animal battles, historical humour
If you've ever tried to explain how to use “the cloud” to your mum, this one’s for you. This episode dives into the chaos of tech support for the elderly - rogue Smarties analogies and desktop folder disasters. With a healthy nod to the realities of ageing, generational shifts, and parental patience, we also get a joke so inappropriate it gets shouted across a café. Throw in mouse-pranking IT mates and a lesson in remote-control sabotage, and you’ve got one hell of a support ticket.
Featuring
• Anecdotal and relatable: The episode mines the comedy gold of intergenerational tech gaps.
• Observational: The hosts reflect on ageing, change, and the slow decline of digital patience.
• Warm-hearted: Despite the mockery, there’s genuine affection in the storytelling.
• Humorous and tangential: The stories meander in typical I Digress fashion, making pit stops at family dysfunction, inappropriate humour, and inevitable future self-awareness.
Spotify Tags: tech support fails, elderly parents, digital disasters, Zoom chaos, intergenerational humour, computer problems, family tech support, hilarious phone calls, remote desktop drama, funny family podcast, ageing and technology, parent jokes
From a sandwich-stealing dog to a racist Labrador, we dive deep into the animal kingdom’s lesser-known bastards. We ask the big question: are these just quirks of nature or are some creatures just straight-up arseholes? You’ll meet a penguin who pushes his mates to certain death, a chimp who stockpiles rocks for sneak attacks and a drunk kangaroo with anger issues. And that’s just the first half.
Featured:
• Real-life stories of animals behaving like absolute knobs
• Infamous creatures: Santino the chimp, Alex the bully parrot, and Boris the Berlin boar
• Species-wide arseholery: keas, Adélie penguins, and Scottish seagulls
• A philosophical debate on whether humping your dog bed counts as dominance or shame
Spotify Tags: animal stories, misbehaving pets, nature gone wrong, funny animal podcast, animal psychology, true animal stories, dark humour, animal villains, science and comedy, unexpected wildlife behaviour, pet owners, animal fails
Technology is transforming how we age - but is it making things better or just weirder? In this episode, we explore memory implants, balance-enhancing tails, smart toilets that judge your habits, and AI companions that are maybe a bit too lifelike. We also revisit our dream of a retirement village run by lunatics and consider what immortality would actually feel like. Get ready for the future… with dentures.
Featured:
• Emerging tech for elderly care, from implants to home robots
• The strange appeal of prosthetic tails
• A smart toilet that gives feedback you didn’t ask for
• The ethics (and cringe) of eternal life with a sex robot
Spotify Tags: ageing technology, future of ageing, health tech, weird inventions, AI companions, smart homes, immortality debate, comedy podcast, tech ethics, retirement jokes, futuristic living, old age and robots
Step aside, Einstein — Professor Ringo is here with a Nobel Prize–worthy set of theories. From time moving slower when you're a kid, to alien abductions being repressed memories of nappy changes, to your mirror showing a remembered version of your face, this episode boldly goes where no science class ever dared. It's speculative. It's hilarious. It's possibly complete nonsense. But it's definitely entertaining. Prepare to question your perception of time, space, and your own reflection.
Featuring
• Pseudo-scientific: The episode pokes fun at homemade theories and speculative ideas, blending science with humour.
• Philosophical and absurd: Ideas range from thought-provoking to completely ridiculous, with no firm line between.
• Conversational: The hosts debate, challenge, and mock each other’s theories in real-time.
• Humorous storytelling: Each theory is wrapped in anecdote and banter, making even alien probing a laugh.
Spotify Tags: funny science theories, homemade philosophy, time perception, alien abductions, parenthood comedy, weird science, observational humour, mirror theory, childhood psychology, absurd logic, sleep science, Nobel prize satire
It starts with perverts and ends with necrophilia. This episode dives into history’s lesser-known (and wildly inappropriate) figures – from questionable “celibacy tests” of the most famous to a British PM oversharing in all the wrong ways. Then it gets weirder: bestiality, necrophilic scandals and more ancient deviants than anyone asked for. It’s uncomfortable, hilarious, and definitely not safe for dinner table chat.
Featured:
• A wise man’s disturbing methods for testing self-control
• Why Ancient Greek statues might not be as innocent as they look
• A royal fascination with fish
• Zeus, swans, and far too much mythology-based kink
Spotify Tags: historical perverts, weird history, uncomfortable facts, dark comedy, ancient scandals, mythology madness, comedy podcast, inappropriate heroes, taboo humour, infamous leaders, twisted stories, NSFW podcast
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