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Ep. #40 - What If You Could Predict The Future? [Nostradamus, Baba Vanga, Ray Kurzweil] Aug 16, 2017

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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 Vanga, Ryan talks about J.W. Dunne, and his experiments with time, and Conrad schools us on all things nerdy.
Hot Topics: The Baba Vanga Venga Boys, What Happened To Miss Cleo?, If I Only Had Some Eyes, Predicting 9/11, Nastradamus, Don't Ask The Robot, Billy's Got The Juice, Space Apples, Ray Kurzweil

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Ep. #39 - What If You Were In Two Places At Once? - [Astral Projection, Doppelgängers, Consciousness] Aug 09, 2017

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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 body experiences, astral projection, doppelgängers, the nature of consciousness, and a whole lot more.

Hot Topics: Beavers In The Desert, Lucid Dreaming, LSD, Sensory Deprivation Tanks, Bike Racks Are Hilarious, Pejorative Viking Accents, A Wikipedia K-Hole, Evil Twins, It's Nonsense Until It Isn't, and much more.

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Ep. #38 - What If You Couldn't Remember? [The Invisible Gorilla, Kent Cochrane, BK Doe] Aug 02, 2017

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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 Ryan tells the story of world-famous memory loss patient, Kent Cochrane.
Hot Topics: "A Lie Was Born" Gets Its Own Theme Song, Blind From Burger King, Sing Along To David Icke, Kent Cochrane, 17 Years In The Woods, Invisible Gorillas, and more.

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Ep. #37 - What If You Couldn't Forget? [Hyperthymesia, Savants, Jill Price] Jul 26, 2017

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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 Paravicini, a piano prodigy and autistic savant from the United Kingdom who can't forget any song he's ever heard. Ryan tells the stories of Aurelian Hayman and Jill Price, just two of many people who remember nearly every detail of every day of their entire lives, and some details from other people's lives too...
Hot Topics: It Gets Fuzzy Pretty Quick, Out To Beers, Muppet Treasure Island, Spencer Got Stabbed, Of Course Ryan Hasn't Seen The Sixth Sense, Hoarding Memories, Total Recall, What Happens When We Forget?

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Ep. #36 - What If You Never Came Home? - "The American Dyatlov Pass" [The Yuba County Five] Jul 19, 2017

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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 probably shock you... It did us.

Hot Topics: The Yuba Incident, Shout Out To Basketball, The Mercury Montego Was Fire, Running Into Time-Traveling Bigfoot, 20 Miles Uphill, Oh Fuck Run, Similarities to The Dyatlov Pass, Astonishing Legends.

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Ep. #35 - What If Humans Kept Evolving? - Human Evolution Jul 12, 2017

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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 Be Fuckin', Wearing A Bear, President Kombucha, and Sometimes It's Not Your Night.

Ep. #34 - What If You Found Something Strange? [Toynbee Tiles, Box of Crazy] Jul 05, 2017

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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.

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Ep. #33 - What If We Mapped The Oceans? Jun 28, 2017

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Holy shit the oceans are weird! What's down there? Colossal squids? Buried cities? Alien Octopods? James Cameron? Who knows?!

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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, Bathyscaphe Trieste, Do Fish Explode? Baltic Sea Anomaly, What in tarnation is happening in Antarctica?

Ep. #32 - What If We Interviewed Big Mike? [UFOs, Alien Abduction] Jun 23, 2017

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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.

Ep. #31 - What If You Saw A UFO? [Part 2] Jun 21, 2017

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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 aliens, Pyramids in Antarctica? Are you fucking kidding me?, Also that’s not history.

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