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Ep. #111 - What If The Vatican Archives Are Full Of Secrets? Dec 12, 2018

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The Vatican Secret Archives, located in Vatican City, contain a wide variety of catholic documents dating back to the 8th century. Because access to the archives is highly regulated, people have speculated they contain all sorts of mysterious items and documents, including proof of alien life, predictions of the coming apocalypse, and a time machine. This week we ponder whether or not they actually do contain these oddities, and if not - why the veil of secrecy over the archive itself? Join us this week, on The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: HEY KIDS LOOK AT HELL, The Chronovisor, It's The Devil's Work, Unsealed: Alien Files aka Bootleg Ancient Aliens, and much more.

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Ep. #110 - What If You Lived In Isolation? - Pt. 3 - Lykov Family, Old Believers Dec 05, 2018

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We travel deep into Siberia this week, for our final installment in our three-part series on isolation. Under religious persecution, from the Communist Party in Russia, the Lykov family, from a sect of what was called the Old Believers, decided to renounce traditional society. They fled threats of death and destruction, deep, deep into the remote Siberian wilderness - the taiga - where they lived as a family of six, unseen or interrupted by the outside world, for 42 years.
In 1978 they were discovered by geologists, prospecting the Siberian wilderness, and were told of all the things they'd missed since they'd been gone. The Lykov family later came to be known as "the hermits who missed World War II" having been so removed from the world, they had no idea it had happened. Not the space race. Not television. Nothing.
Hot Topics: Eating Your Shoes, P*ssed Off Pizza From Wisconsin, No Thanks, Forcibly Shaved, and a whole lot more.

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Ep. #109 - What If You Lived In Isolation? Pt. 2 - HI-SEAS Nov 28, 2018

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Boy oh boy, when we said we had a part two coming, we didn't know it'd be all this. But here we are, back again to talk about the strangeness of isolation. When it comes to living in isolation, the concept takes takes a few different forms. This week on The What If? Podcast, we do a follow up on last week's eerily timed episode, and put out an update on John Chau, the American missionary who was killed on North Sentinel Island, just days before we put our episode on The Sentinelese people.
From there, we shift gears to talking about isolation in space. NASA has spent millions of dollars over the years, studying the effects of isolation on both individuals and groups. One of their most prominent studies has been on Hawaii, in the execution of the HI-SEAS program. Six missions over the past five years have gone, to varying degrees of success, in creating an analog world that recreates the isolation of a mission crew on (or on their way to) Mars.
How did it go? Why did the sixth mission fail after just four days? How much can we make fun of NASA's bad YouTube videos? Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Ep. #108 - What If You Lived In Isolation? Pt. 1 - The Sentinelese, Jarawa Nov 21, 2018

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Even with the globalized world we live in, there are an estimated over 100 uncontacted tribes of people, living with minimal interruption from the outside world. Some, with histories going back as far as the Stone Age. Today, on The What If? Podcast, we explore two of the most famously isolated groups of people in the world, and discuss how the came to both be - and how they attempt to stay - in isolation.
This week, we'll explore North Sentinel Island and the Sentinelese, along with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the center of the Indian Ocean. We'll learn about what we know about their customs, their hostility towards others, the threats they face, and a whole lot more.

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Ep. #107 - What If Oumuamua Is An Alien Probe? Nov 14, 2018

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On October 19th of 2017, an interstellar object was observed in our solar system for the very first time. Observed through Hawaiian telescopes, scientists named it Oumuamua. What has followed, is a curious exploration into what, in fact, this interstellar visitor actually is. The topic of of borderline scientific brawls, new Harvard papers this week suggest the possibility that Oumuamua is in fact a solar sail, hull, or ship-based alien probe.
This week, on The What If? Podcast, we dive into what makes this object so different from the comets and asteroids we're familiar with, and why the hypothesis of some very smart people lead us down a line of questioning, that entertains the possibility of alien life.
Karen J. Meech's TED Talk on Oumuamua.

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Ep. #106 - What If An Entire City Disappeared? - Qinling Village, Angikuni Lake Inuits Nov 06, 2018

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Well gang. Sometimes one person goes missing. But apparently, sometimes a lot of people go missing at the same time too. It's a weird one this week (ain't it always?), as we explore the truth (or maybe the lack thereof) of when a whole buncha stuff goes missing all at once. Is it UFOs? Is it holograms? Is it just one big bucket of malarkey?
This week we explore a Chinese city in the mountains that went vacant overnight, an Inuit village reported creepily and quickly empty by a Canadian trapper, and an Iowan city that had to defend the fact that it truly existed. It might be BS, but it's gonna be fun no matter what. Find out more this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Ep. #105 - What If Poltergeists & Ghosts Are Real? - Enfield Poltergeist, York Treasure's House Oct 31, 2018

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Happy Halloween, you beautiful weirdos! It's a spooky night for spooky frights, so we're diving deep into more topics of the season. And that means ghost, poltergeists, levitations, hauntings, and enough tricks and treats to take you right through pumpkin carving, and straight into mulled wine and candy giving (and/or eating).
This week, we're talking UK ghost stores specifically, going to England to talk about the Roman ghost squads walking through walls in the York Treasurer's house, and levitating children, volleyed Legos and marbles, and a bunch more. We promise, Ryan only takes on a British accent once, and it's mostly kind of Australian. So don't be too scared.
Hot Topics: The G****** Seasons, S*** Went Bad Real Quick, Is It Trash: Halloween Candy Edition, Spooked As Heck, The Enfield Poltergeist, Historically Accurate Ghosts, and a whole lot more.

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Ep. #104 - What If You Disappeared? Pt. 6 - National Parks, Stacey Ann Arras, David Paulides Oct 24, 2018

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Look, we'd stop doin' episodes about this if y'all stopped goin' missin'. But here we are. On part six, and people of this ding-dang universe keep bein' hard to find. This week we dive deep into the disappearance phenomenon, as it relates specifically to the folks who go bye-bye in National Parks of the United States.
We talk through David Paulides's take on why people go missing in the US parks system, why we disagree with him, and the curious case of Stacey Ann Arras, a 14 year old girl who went missing in Yosemite in the 80's. We'll get to the bottom of it, on this week's episode of The What If? Podcast.
Hot Topics: The Internet In Your Ears, Cop Face, Just For Men, Animal Attacks, Ryan's Never Going Camping Again, and much, much more.

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Ep. #103 - What If Vampires Are Real? - Dracula, Spooktober Oct 17, 2018

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Y'all, Halloween is right around the corner. And that means we're diving deep into a seasonal classic - Vampires. Where in the heck are they from? How in the heck do you kill one? What in the heck are modern day vampires doin' tryin' ta eat each others' essence!?!? Find out right now on this week's episode of The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Spooktober is Upon Us, It's a Tricycle, Godd*mmit, Show Me All Your Vampires, Say Y'all Didn't Happen to Do A Buncha Drugs Did Ya?, Yes Daddy

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Ep. #102 - What If You Faked Your Own Death? - Tupac Shakur Oct 09, 2018

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On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was shot four times after leaving a boxing match in Las Vegas. He died six days later. The murder has never been solved, spurring speculation that Tupac may have faked his own death to escape death threats, legal issues, gang life, and more.

Is 2pac actually dead? If so, who shot him? And if not, where is he living how? Is Tupac in Cuba with his godmother, hiding out? Is he "alive" in just generic photos of lookalikes wearing bandanas? Find out on this week's episode of The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Captured! By Robots, Wizkid's Hennessy, Suge Knight, Bear Likes Our Bulls***, Wait til' you see my alien, What If? Is NOT For the Children, and much more.

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