Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things (DetectiverySOM)

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard the terms Uncanny Valley, or Anthropomorphism...yes, great.  No, we that's great to...cause your in for a treat.  In order to understand what these terms mean, well, your just gonna have to listen...your mind will be totally blown open...or swirled into a liquid gelatin mass, that is probably more likely... Have you ever been walking down the street, or in...

Send us Fan Mail Incel, "Involuntary Celibacy"...what in the hell is that!  Well, in Episode #95, we launch ourselves into the world of Incel's.  If you have no idea what this is, then your in for a bumpy ride, cause shit's gonna get weird... We look at the concept of Incel mental mindsets, to celibacy itself, where is it rooted, how have so many men gravitated toward this ment...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever ventured outside the great US of A, planned a wonderful vacation to a country of your choice.  Well if you have, maybe you've wondered what it might be like to get arrested and jailed in another country...well then you don't want to miss this episode!!! We take a tour into prisons around the world, and discuss the good cushy prisons, and hit on some really,...

Send us Fan Mail 1993, the year that brought us all a heaping amount of classic movies, to include, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Tombstone, and so much more.  Including the movie we are doing a review on Falling Down, the only way we can here at Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things.   So, grab some popcorn, and some Jujubes...sit back and take it all in.  We take a deep dive...

Send us Fan Mail Well, the alien's have come to Earth...and they are not friendly, yes, they are bugs.  For our alien invasion apocalyptic diabolical event we have chosen Mantis like creatures from some unnamed planet in the universe.  So, what do you do now, the invasion is here...and it's kind of a little bad...actually, really bad.    Join us for an imaginary tale to discuss what migh...

Send us Fan Mail So, you wanna be Batman...well so do we, but before you make that life altering decision, you might want to listen to this episode.  Join us as we breakdown the world of Batman, and how difficult it would be to actually make an attempt at being a real life Batman.  Yeah, things get a little weird, and there is a bit of mayhem!  We breakdown becoming Batman into 5 aspects:  1)  Phy...

Send us Fan Mail Here we go, a Grab Bag Episode extravaganza - the 1970s.  This episode is full of captivating, stimulating conversation, total hilarity and mayhem... As we do with all of our grab bag episodes, we have a series of torn up slips containing topics from the 1970s, we dumped into a hat.  We pass the hat around, reach in and pull out a slip, read it, and let the shenanigans begin.  The...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we tackle some very heavy topics, PTSD, Peer Support, Recruitment and Retention.  To help us tackle these intense topics, we are joined by Veteran Police Officer, JC, with over 18 years of experience.  He has worked in detentions, patrol, CSI, SWAT, FTO, Honor Guard, and has been a sergeant.  JC has been through some tough times both in his personal life and in his...

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood movies, TV cop shows, we've all seen them, the Departed, Negotiator, The Big Easy...all movies made in Hollywood about police corruption.  Well, have we got a doozy of a show for you.  This story is not pulled from a Hollywood script, this episode is about Joseph Miedzianowski, media called him Chicago's most corrupt cop!  Truly a mind bending story, when we we...

Send us Fan Mail In October of 2002, Washington DC, was gripped by fear as 2 men held the nations capital city captive, murdering people at random.  2001, 911 happened, so much news media was covering the war moving to the Middle East, but in the DC area, nothing was normal.  DC had just begun the recovering from the attack on the Pentagon, then these to idiots decide to commit their heinous acts...

Send us Fan Mail Who are these men we speak of, Izzie Einstein, Moe Smith, Alan Pinkerton, and William Fairbairn.  Throughout history people have played a part in the shaping of our world, in one way or another.  First we start with Izzie Einstein and Moe Smith, a pair of prohibition agents who shaped the landscape for future task force style investigations, often times going undercover to bust il...

Send us Fan Mail Music, ahh, the soothing sounds of your favorite music lifting your spirits throughout the day...hey, not so fast idiot...turn that shit down!!!  Does this remind you of your parents, maybe without the idiot part.  You can't listen to that at work, that music is offensive...you cretin!  So, where do you stand on this, music at work, yes...or a fat no.   Should your department...

Send us Fan Mail I love myself a great story, maybe even find myself self engaging in a great true crime story (this comment is not shared by everyone on this podcast, this was vocalized with a tirade of curse words!), but not always.  However, every so often we find ourselves stumbling across a story from headline news that captivates a community, a true to life mystery.  Maybe it started on the...

Send us Fan Mail In 2018, a movie hit the theaters called The BlacKkKlansmen, which tells the story of Ron Stallworth a rookie police officer who worked for the Colorado Springs Police Department who was monumental in an operation to take down the KKK in Colorado Springs in 1978!  Excellent movie and a great true story!   In 2014, Ron Stallworth released a book titled the Black Klansmen, the book...

Send us Fan Mail His reign was just over a decade, but yet he amassed billions...at the peak of his reign of terror, he was considered one of the richest men in the world, all obtained from cocaine trafficking.  Call him a drug kingpin, drug lord, the king of cocaine, who preyed on the weak, and destroyed anyone who got in his way.  Somehow, he maintained his legions with the communities by shower...

Send us Fan Mail The year was 1934, the day was May 23rd, a fine spring day, Bonnie and Clyde were on the run.  Unfortunately, they had 2 of Texas's finest on their trail...Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, also known as The Highway Men.   Bonnie and Clyde went on a 2 year crime spree, robbing, stealing, and killing...they met their fate during a planned ambush near Beinville, Parish...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things Grab Bag Episode!  Here is how one of our Grab Bag Episodes work, we literally have a hat full of tiny pieces of paper with topics for discussion written on them.  One of us reaches into the hat and pulls out a topic and reads it.  We don't make any preparation on the topics, so we each write our own topics on a pi...

Send us Fan Mail If you know rock music, and listen to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath wrote the song War Pigs, I am convinced they had these two characters in mind.  This the story of Irma Grese, a nightmarish player from the Nazi war machine, and Otto Skorzeny, who remained a free man after WWII ended in 1945.  We still, have no idea how he pulled that one off!  While Irma Grese was hounding pri...

Send us Fan Mail It was 1967, Hollywood grabbed their chance at making a movie about a legendary WWII unit called the filthy 13.  Hollywood, taking to their naming conventions, decided on the Dirty Dozen for the name, starring Lee Marvin.  Maybe you've seen it, maybe not.  So saddle up, tighten your paracord as we take you on a time machine back to WWII, with the legendary James Elbert "...

Send us Fan Mail Happy holidays!!!  If your holiday season is just a little to cheery, we here at Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things have got you covered.  Jump into the tale of Marvin John Heemeyer, the fella who built a giant bulldozer death machine, and took it on a joy ride through a mountain town called Granby Colorado.      Mr.  Heemeyer had a little to much time on his hands...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we take you on a journey into some of the quirky and bizarre humans we have had the pleasure of meeting throughout our years in law enforcement.  These people come from all walks of life, and different perspectives...so buckle up, come on in and enjoy the ride.   This episode is full of comedy, misunderstandings, the human experience, sprinkled with a littl...

Send us Fan Mail Here we go down the road less traveled...well, unless your on a dirt bike and come across a tiny humanoid creature skittering across the roadway...yup...that happened.  Or, if you've ever heard a bump in the night, looked out your bedroom door, or out the window unable to see anything...was it just the wind, or a visiting Cryptid, or beast from the underworld...that's wh...

Send us Fan Mail The adventures of John "Liver Eat'n" Johnson...yup, quite a nickname.  You may know him as Jerimiah Johnson, from the Robert Redford movie made in 1972 titled Jeramiah Johnson.  The story of this her fella, is nothing short of legendary, and most would agree, a bit of villainous debauchery.  Let's just say, he had a bit of some vengeance, revenge, and or hate r...

Send us Fan Mail So, if you go on the ole trusty internet and Google unsolved serial killer cases, the numbers are a little concerning.   There seems to be quite a few unsolved serial killer cases.  The reasons for these cases remaining unsolved is a mystery, some are just lucky, others are related to the decade in which they occurred and the lack of criminological scientific upgrades.  Others are...

Send us Fan Mail WE ARE BACK!!!!   We hear the thunderous applause!!!  After a short break, and we jump right into the hellish story of John Christie a serial killer who was active in London from the mid 1940's to the early 1950's.   The story of John Christie, is nothing short of disturbing, and stomach churning.   Join us as we take you back in time to this horrific story of murdering...