Why Would You Ask That?

We take it easy this week and chat up food— favorite, fictional, and family recipes. It's a chance to learn a little more about your hosts and perhaps try a recipe they offer. Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support .

Michael Bay's use of explosions is meme-worthy, referenced in everything from US comedies to video games to even Japanese manga. How did he get here, and how did his EXPLOSIVE style find his success? CW: Explosions, Gun Use, House Fires, Exploitation of Women, Talk of the Military Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast...

Beneath our feet lies a labyrinth of cheese, specifically, American cheese. How much? The answer is more than a healthy amount of cheese, and the government put it there. The story of America's cheese caves stretches from WWII-era farm subsidies to Reagan-era welfare politics. It's weirder than you think. CW: Classism/Poverty, Food Insecurity, Politics Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [Lice...

Did you know human zoos, where real people from colonized lands were displayed like animals, ran until shockingly recently? From Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo monkey house to 598 Congolese in Belgium's "village" exhibit, this episode uncovers the global history of human exhibitions, the pseudoscience that justified them, and why most people still don't know it happened. CW: violence, racism, kidnappi...

There's the usual laws, like no kissing your wife on Sunday, and then there's the law about keeping ice cream in your back pocket. Remy delivers on weird laws that are still on the books, some of which we can be arrested for very easily. Or may actively be breaking. And that you might be breaking. Right now. CW: Ableism / Disability exploitation, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Sexual content (brief/legal...

Echelon sounds like a conspiracy theory. A secret government project? Cold war private surveilling? And giant golf balls in the English countryside? This week we're digging into the full story of mass surveillance from Cold War spy networks to the devices sitting in our homes and asking how much privacy we actually have left. CW: Government Spying and Privacy Violation, War, Brief talk of 9/11 Mus...

Ed and Lorraine Warren of The Conjuring franchise and more get the WWYAT treatment: knock them down brick by brick. We address their rise to fame and subsequent drift into infamy, the Judith Penney allegations, and the media empire that buoyed their reputation. Please be mindful of the content warnings this episode. CW: Child Sexual Abuse/Statutory Rape Allegations, Grooming, Coerced Abortion Alle...

What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles the speed of reality. How fast can you see? CW: Harm to Animals Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support...

What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about the history of Smell-O-Vision and how it briefly came to light in the movie theatre. Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-th...

What ARE the nephilim? Where did they come from and how did their existence prompt the Christian god to drown 99.999% of humanity? This episode dives in to explore the history and the conspiracy of nephilim. CW: Murder, Death, Religious Trauma   Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/sup...

Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don't see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit. CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism  Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://...

This week, Karen answers a listener's questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let's find out! Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support .

You ever heard of the Bunny Man Bridge? That's fine, Karen and Remy hadn't either, not until M went and blasted them with having heard it first hand. Be prepared for hatchets and a variety of bunny suits and an absolute shredding of the looks of the bridge. CW: Murder, Discussion of Mental Illness Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spr...

Where are the mermaids? Why aren't they filing their taxes? I'll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back in— what's that? It wasn't a real documentary? It's a pseudodocumentary that had a hand in eroding media literacy and fostering distrust in government-backed science?! Now hold on... CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brie...

The typical American education ends in college. People pursue their passions, no matter how small, no matter how... atypical. This episode delves into some textbook "weird" college degrees and perhaps why they are not so weird as people believe, or why they truly are as weird as we think they are. And perhaps... we poke a bit at the USAmerican obsession with simply having a degree. Music provided...

Before clickbait headlines and conspiracy YouTubers, there was The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Join us as we talk lunar lies, Victorian media chaos, and a fake discovery so elaborate it makes some modern conspiracy theories look tame. All that, and one astronomer who just wanted to mind his own telescope. Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://ww...

You ever wonder how plausible it would be to become a real life catgirl/catboy/catbeing? How close we are to having centaurs? Or perhaps you wonder if you could gain some cool animal powers if science just progressed far enough? Well guess what! Remy has the deets on human/animal chimera research! We also discuss the ethics of cannibalism. Again. CW: Animal Cruelty, Racism (briefly) Music provided...

In Russia lies a lake that could hold a sea dragon of either humble or magnificent proportions, which is either big enough to swallow men or small enough to hide, and maybe it glows, or maybe it breathes fire. I don't FUCKING know. This is more of a lesson in research than a lesson on Brosnya, but hey! Somewhere in here there is a dragon, just like Lake Brosno! CW: Big Fish with Big Teeth, Deep Wa...

We're back! We got a question from JJ about something very important: what do bugs think humans are? This episode we delve into bug perception, bug feelings, and bugs... as cows? CW: Bugs (Bees, Spiders, Mites, Flies mostly) Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support .

Hey, folks. This week, we have an announcement.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support .

A silly question has emerged from the crypts this time around! This episode ponders a deeply held curiosity... about Superman's digestive system. When he drops the kids off at the pool, does the porcelain throne explode? When his stomach disposes of the evidence, how much disappears? Are Kryptonian gut germs adapted to Earth? CW: Poop, About 5 minutes of Sex Talk Music provided by Dark Fantasy Stu...

This week, we unzip the metaphorical pants of the internet and crawl deep into the sweaty, scent-marked den of the Omegaverse. What is it? Where did it come from? Why is everyone growling? We’re talking heat cycles, scent ruts, social hierarchies, and the very horny tropes that define the genre, plus how fan creators are challenging and reshaping it. Also, somehow the court system got involved?  C...

With cannibalism past covered last episode, we present cannibalism present. We have five cases of legal (arguably) cannibalism within the last 25 years, from canned human meatballs to a bit of food critique. Join us to learn about the ethics of consuming human flesh in the present day! CW: Death, Cannibalism, Bodily Harm, Eating A Fetus, Moter Vehicle Accident, Harm to Animals (brief mention) Musi...

Cannibalism: The act of consuming another member of your own species. This episode we explore human cannibalism in a historical context— why did we do it? How common was it? How did things change since then? CW: Death, Cannibalism, Bodily Harm, Body Waste, Body Fluids, Medical Harm Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcas...

How did we decide that grinding wheat makes bread? Where did food even come from? Today we explore the origins of food! Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support .