The What If? Podcast

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Ep. #30 - What If You Saw A UFO? [Part 1] Jun 14, 2017

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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.

Ep. #29 - What If You Lived Forever? [Life Extension, Ray Kurzweil] Jun 06, 2017

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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.

Ep. #28 - What If The World Ends? - Part 2 [Doomsday Preppers] May 31, 2017

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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 more.

Music by Eric Mayson

Ep. #27 - What If You Could Record Your Dreams? May 24, 2017

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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.

Ep. #26 - What If The World Ends? - Part 1 [Apocalypse Scenarios] May 17, 2017

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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, No One Goes To Earth Anymore - It’s Too Crowded, Killer Tofu.

Music by Big Cats

Ep. #25 - What If You Were Visited By The Men In Black? May 10, 2017

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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 cloaking device.

Hot Topics: Men in Black, Ingrid Cold, Woodrow Derenberger, flying space lamps, lipstick-wearing robots, magic tricks, telepathic aliens, WWII bomber planes, 90s CGI, and much more.

The Real Men In Black - Nick Redfern

The Mothman prophecies - John Keel

Visitors From Lanulos - Woodrow Derenberger

Music by Big Cats

Ep. #24 - What If You Disappeared? [David Paulides, Missing 411] May 03, 2017

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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 Grandma, Mount Shasta reptilians, Bruno Watch 2017, Aurora Steve, Gotcha Bitch, Watch Out Little Bitch, Ghost Stories, Henry McCabe.

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Henry McCabe voicemail

Bruno Borges updates

Ep. #23 - What If The TSA Isn't The Answer? Apr 26, 2017

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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 Intoxicated, Don't Bring _____, ______, or ______ Through Security.

Ep. #22 - What If It's All Connected? [Coincidence, Synchronicity] Apr 19, 2017

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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 fake coins, and the story of Reino Hayhanen. Chance finds some percussion.

Hot Topics: Coincidence, Synchronicity, Carl Jung, The Wreck of the Titan, Amir Temur, Russian Spies, Reino Hayhanen, Space Dolphins, Bruno Borges, Sorry Wisconsin, My Hear Will Go On, Potty Training Breakthroughs, Timbaland Steals a Sheep, 500 Year Old Curses, Sean Anonymous, June 22nd, and Much More.

Carl Jung - Synchronicity

Morgan Robertson - The Wreck of the Titan

Molecular Hydrogen on Enceladus

Russian Spy Nickels

Tamerlane's Curse

Music by Big Cats

Ep. #21 - What If You Found Buried Treasure? Apr 12, 2017

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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 130,000,000 fake British pounds in order to bring down the English economy.

Hot Topics: Bruno Borges, Codex Seraphinianus, Golden Owls, The Secret, Nazi Gold, Reptilians, Shoutout to Sweden, Reverse Shoutout to Wisconsin, French Music, Let’s Crowdfund a Treasure Hunt, Fairies, Muppet Treasure Island, Three Quarters of a Swedish Man, and much more.

Operation Bernhard

La Chouette

The Secret: A Treasure Hunt

Bruno Borges

On the Trail of the Golden Owl

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