Anything & Everything & $hit... Podcast

A working phone booth sat 15 miles down a dirt track in the Mojave Desert, and for years it rang like it was waiting for the right person to pick up. AJ from the Why Files tells the Mojave phone booth story, how one strange number spread through the early internet, and why people drove for hours just to answer a call from a stranger. The farther you get from the city, the louder that ring feels, a...

Ever feel like reality is a half-step out of tune—time racing, people colder, headlines blending into the same script? We follow that off-kilter feeling to its source: attention. Events can be real while the frames wrapped around them are engineered to train our emotions and forecast our behavior. When inputs are curated, outputs get predictable—and that’s how power scales without showing its hand...

A playoff race derailed in real time. A fake spike, a silent replay buzz, and a ruling that reached back past the next snap—then bottles rained and the game was called with 48 seconds left. We walk through BottleGate frame by frame, talk through the letter of the rulebook versus the spirit of competition, and ask a bigger question: when institutions err, who pays the price? From there Justin and E...

A door swings open by itself, a siren howls outside, and adrenaline spikes before a single word is said—then we dive headfirst into the hardest questions about reality, power, and trust. We start with CERN’s Run 3: 13.6 TeV collisions, new exotic particles, quark–gluon plasma, antimatter experiments, and big questions about extra dimensions. Alongside the legitimate science, we explore why talk of...

On this episode of Anything & Everything & $hit…Podcast, Justin & Erik discuss how Congress sneakily passes a law to shut down electric cars “for safety” reasons at will, time travel is real and AI has been around for decades, the issues surrounding dynamic pricing and AI driving up prices, draining your wallet, the crazy future AI has predicted, as well as Hollywood's twisted and...