THE INTERVIEW
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes won the 2024 South by Southwest Audience Award for his directorial debut of the feature film "My Dead Friend Zoe," which he also co-wrote and produced. The film is a creative take on the post-war experience and a tribute to veterans of all generations. Hausmann-Stokes, who served as a paratrooper with the Army in Iraq, talks about the film, his military experience and how he helped co-found an organization for military veterans in the entertainment industry, Veterans in Media & Television, in the basement of American Legion Post 43 in Hollywood.

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Veterans in Agritherapy - Celebrating Community Gardens week

DOD commits $9.8 million to study psychedelics for active-duty troops

Special Guest: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes.

Links:

• Watch video of this episode on YouTube
• Join The American Legion
• Be The One | The American Legion
• Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
• My Dead Friend Zoe | Official Website | February 28 2025
• Make the Connection | Videos & Info for Military Veterans
• Merit x Zoe - a Short film by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
• Agritherapy: Healing Through Farming and Gardening - Warrior Allegiance : Are you VA Rated 90% or less? Let’s talk.
• Veterans and Entrepreneurship | Home
• Free farming and beekeeping opportunities for Veterans - VA News
• The Therapeutic Grounds of Farming: Helping Veterans Manage PTSD
• DOD commits $9.8 million to study psychedelics for active-duty troops

THE INTERVIEW
Fans of the paranormal, the fantastical or the downright frightening will enjoy our visit with former Army Intelligence officer R.C. Bramhall who talks about his book, "Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal and Unexplained."

He shares how he came to write his book, and we discuss everything from cryptid encounters to creepy hauntings - even the story of a ghost plane pulled from the pages of The American Legion Magazine.

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Postal worker finds WWII era letters and drives hours to deliver them

Down the Reddit Rabbit Hole: What makes the U.S. military so powerful and effective?

Marine shielded student from grenade with his body...and survived

Special Guest: R.C. Bramhall.

Links:

• Watch video of this episode on YouTube
• Is Bigfoot being studied by the US military? - Quora
• Lt. General Martin R. Steele, US Marine Corps (Ret.) on Advisory Panel of FDA Rejecting MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD
• FDA Advisory Committee voted against MDMA therapy, what's next
• MDMA faces FDA panel in bid to become first-of-a-kind PTSD medication | AP News
• Resolution No. 5: Emerging Therapies to Address Veteran Suicides | Digital Archive
• The American Legion [Volume 135, No. 3 (September 1993)] | Digital Archive — Story on Page 30
• Author R.C. Bramhall | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
• Postal worker finds WWII-era letters, drives 5 hours to deliver them - The Washington Post
• Marine shielded his student from grenade with his body — and survived