Anything & Everything & $hit... Podcast

Social media can turn a real disaster into an instant story war, and the Venezuela earthquake segment shows why. Reports of bright “scanning” beams and strange sky flashes traveled faster than verified details, pushing people toward theories about secret weapons, HAARP, CERN, or even aliens. The more intense the footage looks, the more our brains crave a villain and a clean cause. But large earthq...

Social media can turn a real disaster into an instant story war, and the Venezuela earthquake segment shows why. Reports of bright “scanning” beams and strange sky flashes traveled faster than verified details, pushing people toward theories about secret weapons, HAARP, CERN, or even aliens. The more intense the footage looks, the more our brains crave a villain and a clean cause. But large earthq...

Smart home security is not just about locking your Wi-Fi router anymore. The modern “Internet of Things” turns ordinary household devices into networked sensors, and the episode highlights how anything with a battery plus a remote connection can become a privacy risk. Smart TVs, voice remotes, phone chargers, light bulbs, even USB wall outlets can collect data or become entry points for hackers. T...

Black ice that nobody can find. A Boeing 777 that seems to vanish from the planet. A courtroom appearance that makes you say, “Wait… is that the same person?” We sit down and take a hard look at three stories that keep pulling people back because the clean, official version doesn’t fully satisfy the details. First up, we dig into Cliff Burton’s life and death, from the promise he makes after losin...

Your next car might not just drive you, it might watch you. We talk through the looming 2027 mandate tied to Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and what “advanced impaired driving technology” could mean when it turns into passive, continuous driver surveillance. We wrestle with the promise of safer roads versus the ugly edge cases: false positives, engines that shut down a...

Joey Belladonna helped define Anthrax’s sound, then suddenly he’s out and the “rock star” life gets replaced by regular work and quiet survival. Justin & Erik walk through the real story behind one of thrash metal’s most dramatic lineup changes: the creative strain during Persistence of Time, the personal weight behind the lyrics, the warning signs around drugs and alcohol, and the moment the...

Your next truck might come with more than a tailgate and a touchscreen. Justin and Erik dig into Ford’s newly filed patents that describe in-cabin cameras, driver monitoring, and biometric scanning that could decide whether you’re “fit to drive” and even run identifying data in real time. We talk through what that means when you’re stressed, sick, or reacting to an emergency, and why connected veh...

The news feels like it’s glitching on purpose: one day it’s “war,” the next day it’s “victory,” then it’s “negotiations,” and somehow we’re all supposed to nod along. Justin and Erik have JP Sears kick things off with a ridiculous cold open, then pivot hard into the Iran Israel conflict narrative, the way public opinion gets steered, and why confusion is one of the most effective tools in modern p...

You can walk through downtown Denver and never realize you’re standing on top of a different city. We get into the Denver Underground beneath Larimer Street, the buried storefronts and bricked-up corridors, and the official 1864 flood story that says the streets were raised over time. Then we lean into what still doesn’t quite sit right for a lot of curious people: the scale of the engineering, th...

EP.17 - NASA is heading back to the Moon, but the weird part is how many people barely heard about it. Justin and Erik react to the Artemis II launch, why it felt like the date showed up out of nowhere, and how that kind of quiet rollout practically invites doubts. We get into the modern trust problem around space news, from flat earth arguments to the confusion people have when a livestream switc...

A movie that was mocked as a goofy 1980s alien flick ends up feeling like a field guide to modern life. Justin & Erik dig into why They Live still hits so hard, from the “glasses” that strip away the pretty filter to the uncomfortable idea that control doesn’t need lasers or spaceships. Sometimes it just needs money, incentives, and a population that’s too tired to fight the signal. From there...

Ep. 12 2.21.26 First off, an enormous congratulations to the USA Hockey Team on their Gold winning Olympic season! On episode 12, we discuss how CERN is notorious for causing a commotion with our reality and now they’ve supposedly brought back demons from the future. There’s been a global satanic cult within the elite class for decades, but just how many decades is the question, and who are these...

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...