The What If? Podcast
We ask strange, hilarious, paranormal, tough, and mysterious questions — then laugh our way to the best answers we can muster. Join us for the ride.
Episodes
In the last 30 years, more than 1,000 people have attempted the Barkley Marathons, but only 20 have finished under the 60-hour time limit.
Sources:
Hallucinations and no sleep: Jasmin Paris on her historic ultramarathon
Jasmin Paris first woman to complete grueling Barkley Marathons race
In 2018, Mickey Barreto checked into a hotel. Over the next five years he refused to leave, briefly owned the hotel, tried to take down an international cult, and got arrested.
Sources:
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
The History of The New Yorker Hotel
A loophole got New York City man a free hotel stay for five years until he claimed to own the building
Our guy bear needs some help! He was in a bad motorcycle accident and won't be able to work for a few months while he recovers. Bear's brought us many, many joys over the years and it's the least we can do to give back a little. If you can afford to spare a couple bucks please do!
Ok, thank you, we love you. Bear loves you. We love Bear. And we'll be back with a full episode next Saturday (4/6). See ya soon!
Hi! We're catching up about the past 5 months and discussing David Grusch's UAP claims.
We've got a bunch of topics today and we kinda get to all of them. Miley Cyrus saw a flying snowplow, Jeremy Corbell started a podcast, somebody's cutting off the internet, Ruby Tuesdays are popping up outta nowhere, there's a mysterious celebrity on some curtains, and Ryan's buying more websites.
We hosted a little live hang out with friends and listeners to discuss the balloons and objects that have been spotted (and shot down) over North America recently. We also talked about Warped Tour, Gucci's Loose Wings, and DJing middle school dances.
On August 16, 1942 a U.S. Navy blimp took off from Treasure Island, just outside San Francisco. Five hours later it crashed 11 miles away in Daly City, CA with no one aboard. The two men aboard the blimp were never found.
Spencer is using his penchant for conspiratorial thinking for good and trying to find buried treasure in St. Paul. Ryan is cold. No one is talking about blimps.
We're doing a live call-in show on Monday, 2/13! Join us here!
Last year, Filippo Bernardini was arrested at New York's JFK airport and charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing over 1,000 unpublished and draft manuscripts from authors and publishers around the world. Strangely, it doesn't appear that Bernardini ever tried to profit from the thefts–the works were never leaked or sold, and no clear motive has been identified. Lucky for you, your two favorite dum dums ar...
Sali Sheppard-Wolford really went for it with her 2006 book Valley of the Skookum: Four Years of Encounters with Bigfoot. There's bigfoot, sure, but there are also UFOs, government conspiracies, poltergeist activity, time travel, astral travel, men in black, psychic warfare, flying tombstones, and phantom trains. This book has it all!
Ryan's new record, Before What Came After, comes out this Friday!
We're joined by Rob Kristoffersen of Our Strange Skies to break down the latest documentary from our least favorite investigator, Davey Copface.
References:
S.J. OFFICER ACCUSED OF FALSE SOLICITATION AUTOGRAPHS
Assault Suspect Says S.J. Police Beat Him
Ray Salmen:
Family of B.C. drowning victim turns to recovery team from Idaho for help
Some people thought the world was going to end on December 21, 2012. Ten years later, we're taking a look back at what people were expecting.
Check out Ryan's new EP, Before What Came After, releasing January 20th.
Watch The Race to Alaska (with an original score from Spencer). “Bracing, immersive and wonderfully congenial, this film is a tribute to the spirit of adventure.”
- Vancouver International Film Fest...
The first three episodes of Spencer's new podcast, Dang! That's Weird are out now. Enjoy this episode with the one and only Rob Kristoffersen of Our Strange Skies, and subscribe to Dang! That's Weird on your favorite podcast app.
Some things just can't be explained. Like a bipedal human-sized lizard carrying an orb through the Adirondacks.
Today we're talking with Rob Kristoffersen, host of Our Strange Skies, about one of the...
The Layers Lair is back for season 2, and that means the GBBO competition is back too! Spencer and Katie break each episode of the Great British Bake Off, try to understand British slang, and have a dang blast along the way. Check out this first episode, subscribe to The Layers Lair, and get your entries in for week 1 of the competition!
hi! we recorded a new episode!
This week we're talking about Google's LaMDA language program and Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who thinks it's sentient.
Last January, we recorded an episode about a weird movie called Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey. We took it down after about a week because we decided to do a bigger project about it. That project turned into a podcast called Finding Quantum Quest. Now, more than a year later, we look back at that original episode to see what we got right, what we got wrong, and where we just missed the mark completely.
Note: This epis...
OH BOY. We have a very special episode for you this week. We're returning to the Tingleverse and we brought a few friends with us. Ryan and Chance York are reprising their roles as Young Baby Sir Plinkington the bad boy unicorn and Scaly the Blue the velociraptor wizard, and they're joined by Lydia Liza aka Smorgas Bord the true buckaroo and Eric Mayson aka Lump T. Brandon the charming bigfoot.
Please check out Lydia Liza on ...
We're selling houses, watching 90s movies, and reading books about dinobeavers! This week we're discussing the new book from George Knapp, James Lacatski, and Colm Kelleher, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
Make sure to check out Finding Quantum Quest. Episode 4 drops tomorrow!
Jack Parsons had a hell of a life. He summoned the devil into his bedroom when he was 13, helped invent modern rocketry, performed sex magick rituals with L. Ron Hubbard, and then blew himself up in his garage. He also co-founded JPL.
Episode 3 of Finding Quantum Quest drops tomorrow! Go listen and subscribe right the heck now!
Some people just gotta dig!
Seymour Cray dug tunnels so the elves could finish his coding. William Lyttle said of his tunneling "there is great beauty in inventing things that serve no purpose". Elton McDonald was "getting away from regular things, away from life. Nothing in particular. Just life itself.”
Episode 1 of Finding Quantum Quest is out now, and episode 2 drops tomorrow! Go listen, subscribe, and share!
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