The What If? Podcast

Today on The What If? Podcast , you'll hear our first ever crossover episode, with the dope dudes from the Not Alone Podcast!  Today we're talking about The Philadelphia Experiment , an alleged military exercise in 1943 that made a US Navy Destroyer literally disappear. But not just turn invisible - as the story goes, when it left the line of site, the Destroyer and all it's sailors entered other...

What's scarier than three men disappearing without a trace, at the same time, in a lighthouse, on an island, in the middle of the North Atlantic Sea? As we discover, this week on The What If? Podcast: not much. In today's episode we delve deep into the mystery of Eilean Mor, an island off the coast of Scotland that houses.... A lighthouse. And in 1900, three men disappeared from that very lighthou...

In part two of our series on Skinwalker Ranch, we take a look at the National Institute of Discovery Science 's investigation and some possible explanations for all the bizarre happenings.  Hot Topics: Robert Bigelow, The Hunt for the Skinwalker, Bulls in a Chinese Trailer, Portal-Hopping Bigfoot, Self-Destructing Sasquatch, Dr. Jim - We Accept, Who Has The Answers?! Support us on Patreon! Fill ou...

We feel like we tell you guys things are about to get weird every week. Well this week, we're getting weirder than... Maybe we've ever gotten. On this episode of The What If? Podcast, we dive into the strange tale of Skinwalker Ranch. A 500 acre plot of land in southeastern Utah that has been home to sightings of nearly every paranormal phenomenon that's ever existed. UFOs, orbs, bigfoot, skinwalk...

We take our very first step into the world of cryptozoology on The What If? Podcast, with one of our wildest episodes yet. Yep, that's right folks: Bigfoot. Or if you like, Sasquatch, Yetis, Skunk Apes, Gigantopithecus - whatever folklore term meets your needs. We have another very first on this episode, which is that the homie Dan (aka DJ Name) brought his own soundboards. That's right folks, dou...

Crystal balls, ominous prophecies, and scientific predictions abound in this week's episode of The What If? Podcast. We're joined by the superhomie Conrad Schoenleber, as we talk about predicting the future, in all the ways that we as humans try to figure out what's coming. Get ready for a big dose of oracles, seers, savants, soothsayers, and more. Spencer tells us about the blind oracle Baba Vang...

Have you ever felt like you left your body? Even for a moment? Seen an identical look-alike of yourself, somewhere out in the real world? Have you ever willed yourself free from your form, and traveled through space? Well, we haven't either - at least, mostly. But boy oh boy, are we about to talk about it today. Friends of the show Eric Mayson and Chance York join us this week as we discuss out of...

We journey back into the mind this week, and back into human memory. Last week's episode was all about remembering, but this week we flip the question on its head, and tell stories about people who forget. What is amnesia, and what happens to the people who get it? We talk about how unreliable our memories really are, myths about memory, and more. Spencer tells the story of "Burger King Doe," and...

Our memories don't always work the way we wish they did. But most often, it's because we can't remember things. But what if your memory worked very differently than that? What if instead of being unable to remember - you were unable to forget? On this week's episode of The What If? Podcast, we explore people with memories that work in strange and mysterious ways. Spencer tells the story of Derek P...

Dim the lights and strap in for a doozy, folks. This week Spencer and Ryan recount the strange and terrifying mystery of The Yuba Incident, sometimes referred to as: The American Dyatlov Pass. In Northern California in 1978, five friends left a basketball game they were attending on a Friday night, and none of the men ever came home. What may have happened, and how they were discovered, will proba...

The guys are talking human evolution, futurism, and breakaway civilizations. Ryan breaks down several types of human evolution.   Spencer ponders evolution in space and thinks the gray aliens might be a new species of humans. They also pitch a new drunk, home renovation TV channel, HGBS. Hot Topics: Human Evolution, Breakaway Civilizations, HGBS: Home and Garden Bullshit, Inspirobot, Tall People B...

The guys are talking about finding weird stuff. Spencer’s breaking down the Toynbee Tiles, and Ryan’s talking about the box of crazy. Sharks are also mentioned. Hot Topics: Box of Crazy, Toynbee Tiles, Arnold Toynbee, Sevy Verna, Sharks Eating Sharks, Sharks Eating People, People Eating Sharks, Reddit, Imgur, Limewire, Russian Nesting Sharks, Bruno Borges, and much more. Support us on Patreon Resu...

Holy shit the oceans are weird! What's down there? Colossal squids? Buried cities? Alien Octopods? James Cameron? Who knows?! OUR PATREON PAGE The guys are talking about mapping the oceans, and how little we really know about them. Turns out that whole "We know more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the ocean" thing is true.  Hot Topics: Oceans, James Cameron, Titanic, Jacques Piccard,...

The guys sit down with Mike Knox to talk about his UFO and alien encounters. He shares several stories about tracking UFOs on radar over Lake Superior, gray aliens healing his separated achilles tendon, and being abducted from his hunting property in western Wisconsin.  Hot Topics: UFOs, aliens, abduction, frozen pizza, air force, radar, nuclear weapons, and much more. 

The guys wrap up their conversation about UFOs. The Ariel Zimbabwe incident, UFOs and nuclear weapons, Chilean Air Force UFOs, 15-foot tall praying mantises, and beautiful, blond-haired space tutors are all discussed.   Hot Topics: How is Ancient Aliens still on the air?, For real, There are 150 episodes of that show, How many times can you talk about Nazis and the occult?, That’s not even about a...

Spencer and Ryan are discussing UFOs and aliens. They break down their recent trip to a MUFON meeting, Big Mike’s story, and some of the better-known UFO sightings. Hot Topics: The Battle of Los Angeles, Betty and Barney Hill, UFOs, Aliens, MUFON, Big Mike, J. Allen Hynek, Close Encounters, Alien Abduction, Grays, Beautiful Blond Space Tutors, 15-Foot Tall Space Bugs, and much more.

Max is in the house to talk radical life extension. We break down Ray Kurzweil’s three bridges to eternal life, the social and economic effects of living longer, and a bunch of other stuff. Hot Topics: Elysium, Ray Kurzweil, Palo Alto Prize, Bruno Watch 2017, Really Old Lobsters, Ryan is a Highlander, Your Weekly Dose of Existential Dread, Nanobots, and much more.

The guys are preparing for the worst in part two of their conversation about the end of the world. Taxidermied raccoons prepared to explode, secret government underground lairs, and Y2K are discussed.  Hot Topics: Jimmy's Cats, Doomsday Preppers, Y2K-Compliant Refrigerators, My Basement Meat Stash, FREE GUNS, No More Of Miley Cyrus' Lewd Acts, NO MORE SLEEPOVERS, Project Greek Island, and much mor...

Sean Anonymous, Eric Mayson, and Chance York join the party to talk about dreams. The guys are discussing precognitive dreams, dream recording, lucid dreaming, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Recorded live at the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis, 5/16/17. 

The dudes are talking about the end times! Spencer thinks solar flares and GPS failure will be our undoing, Ryan thinks it might be runaway nanobots, or maybe ebola. Part two is coming next week and will cover fun ways to prepare for the imminent apocalypse.   Hot Topics: Driving Into The Ocean, The Spanish Flu’s PR Problem, Dino Wipeout, Super Bacteria, Human Extinction, Deer Mummies, #DONWUWWY,...

The dudes are talking about the Men In Black - not the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones kind, but the witness-intimidating, lipstick-wearing, maybe-from-outer space kind. They discuss the story of Indrid Cold and Woodrow Derenberger’s trip to the planet Lanulos, the time a robot in black threatened to make Harold Hopkins’ heart disappear, and Collin Bennett’s experience with a holographic UFO cloaki...

The dudes are talking about people who have mysteriously vanished. They try and get to the bottom of the Missing 411 series by David Paulides. Is it bigfoot? Aliens? dimensional portals? They also have a Bruno Watch 2017 update, the tale of Robot Grandma, the Henry McCabe voicemail, and some listener-submitted ghost stories. Hot Topics: Missing 411, David Paulides, A Sobering Coincidence, Robot Gr...

We're back with our second live episode! Eric Mayson and Chance York join us to talk about the TSA. Mayson tells a story about flying without an ID, Chance shares some insights from Malik, Spencer needs help with his pants, and Ryan shows us the TSA's Instagram feed.  Hot Topics: Bomb Water, TSA, Bags of Dicks, Stanford Prison Experiment, Security Theater, Follow us on Instagram Bro, Flying While...

Chance York is here to talk about coincidence and synchronicity. We start out with Carl Jung's groundbreaking work, Synchronicity. Spencer describes the curse of Amir Temur, the 14th century conquerer who possibly cursed Joseph Stalin, and The Wreck of the Titan, the 1898 novella that seemingly predicted the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Ryan tells us about Russian spies sending messages inside...

We’re on the hunt for buried treasure! Ryan’s on the trail of the golden owls, and Spencer’s going on about The Secret, a fantasy book about Fairies who buried twelve gems across the United States. We also cover Bruno Borges, the Brazilian alien enthusiast who went missing after spending three weeks making a wild art installation in his bedroom, and the Nazi’s Operation Bernhard, a plan to print 1...