The Road Less Traveled

This special episode of The Road Less Traveled podcast is meant to be a sleep tape: Listen, relax, and fall asleep. I don't want you to make it to the end of the episode, I want to send you to dreamland. Rest easy listeners.

This unexpectedly became the second part of last episode due to the length of the story. I was dispatched to the Mendocino Complex fire in California in 2018 while I was part of an inmate wildland firefighting crew after only a week of "training." Nearly died in the beginning. Exciting!

I never would have expected that I'd be conscripted to be a wildland firefighter while I was in prison. The training left a lot to be desired, but I did get my certifications! Find out what that experience was like in the first part of a multi-part firefighting episode. Thanks for listening and sharing.

Being at a minimum security "prison camp" was a lot more exciting and violent than I thought it would be. Join me on my podcast as I recount the surreal experience of that first week. Thank you for listening and being respectful. - db

The day finally arrived that I'd go from a maximum security prison to a minimum security "camp". This episode details what some of those thoughts and emotions are like when your fate is completely out of your hands. It got weirdly better and also worse from there. Thank you for listening and being respectful.

Ever wonder about some of the more interesting aspects of prison like how people smuggle in drugs or what boredom drives people to? I didn't, until I experienced it firsthand. This episode is a medley of things I found interesting when I first got to prison. Thank you for listening and being respectful.

Today's episode focuses on "proximate cause" of an incident, who's at fault, and who's responsible. I also pick out some major headlines to tie my examples together from school shootings to open murder. Hard topics. Hard questions. No anwers. Thank you for being respectful.

Not sure how I forgot this jail story... probably because it's pretty gross, given the content. This one isn't for the squeamish. Thanks for listening.