We're talking about the recent news that the U.S. government ran a secret, black budget program to research unidentified aerial phenomenon from 2007–2012. The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was headed by Luis Elizondo, who is now working with Tom DeLonge's company, To The Stars. Hot Topics: The Nimitz Incident, Pee Wee Herman, We Have Been Hoodwinked Maybe Bamboozled, Dr. Tight Shirt, Sekret Meetings, Bobby Bigfoot Has A UFO In His Garage, Skinwalker Ranch, Tom DeLonge Makes Me ...
Dec 20, 2017•1 hr 17 min
We're talking about hacking. Ryan runs down the history of hacking, starting with model trains and long distance calling. Spencer talks about Gary McKinnon and how he stole pictures of UFOs from NASA. We also play the What In The F%$K Was That!? Wikipedia game. Hot Topics: Gary McKinnon, Phone Phreaking, Gef The Talking Mongoose, Dog Spinning, What In The F%$K Was That!?, We Have Been Bamboozled, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Hackathon, 1337 h4x0r, Self-deprecating Worms, and much more. Support us on...
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Area 51 has inspired more speculation and conspiracy theories than probably any other place on Earth. Today, we're trying to figure out what's really going on in there, and how many aliens live inside. Ryan runs through some of the history of the site, including the development of the U-2 and A-12 spy planes. Spencer takes a look at the story of Bob Lazar, who allegedly reverse engineered alien spaceships at Area 51 in the late 80s. Hot Topics: Area 51, Groom Lake, Oops, I'm Garfield, 50% BS - 5...
Dec 06, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Spencer and Ryan are talking about pyramids. Egyptian pyramids, Sudanese pyramids, Chinese pyramids, even underground pyramids. Who made 'em? What's in 'em? How many aliens were involved? As usual, many questions are asked, and few are answered. Hot Topics: Does Ivory Come From Elephants, The Great White Ninja, Brick-Pyramid-Sh*t-House, Cholula Pyramid Storage Tank, The Kingdom of Kush, Sparkling Barf Water, Naturally Ass-enced. Support us on Patreon and get an extra episode every Friday. Listen...
Nov 29, 2017•1 hr 10 min
We're back from our world travels and we're talking about Antarctica. It's real strange down there dudes. Antarctica is larger than the continental United States, it's never been warmer than 58 degrees, there aren't any time zones, and there's just one native insect species. Oh, and it's full of UFOs and Bigfoots. Hot Topics: Antarctica, Operation Highjump, Rodney Marks, whale tanks, seal sounds, no more dogs, we're a bit rusty, and much more. Support us on Patreon and get a full extra episode e...
Nov 22, 2017•1 hr 12 min
We're back with part two of our series on secret societies, and things are definitely getting weirder. Dude parties in the woods (Bohemian Grove), dude parties in private buildings (the Freemasons), and frankly just too many dudes behind closed doors. Are they deciding our fates? Rigging the world for riches and destruction? Find out this week on another wild and weird episode of The What If? Podcast . Support us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week. Listen to Big Cats on Spotify....
Nov 15, 2017•1 hr 6 min
To listen to this week's episode, you have to know the secret handshake, the secret codeword, and engage in your first Stone Cutters initiation - that's right - we're talking secret societies today on The What If? Podcast. Strange rituals and the histories of the nefarious and secretive groups of people that supposedly run the world. In part one of our two-part series on secret societies, we actually join The Illuminati, so you're gonna wanna listen in. Hot Topics: Freemasons, Stone Cutters Simp...
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 4 min
On today's episode, we're talking to Randall Nickerson, director of the upcoming feature-length documentary, Ariel Phenomenon. The film tells the story of 60+ elementary school students who, in 1994 in Ruwa Zimbabwe, saw a UFO land near their school. Two beings climbed out of the craft, and students who made eye contact with the beings received messages about the future of our planet. Randall has contacted many of these students as adults, and they've agreed to be involved with the film. He's al...
Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Part two of our series on the myths, legends, and stories that influenced Netflix's hit show Stranger Things . MK Ultra is referenced in Stranger Things season 1, and it is implied that Eleven’s superpowers are the result of MK Ultra experiments on her mother, Terry Ives. MK Ultra was a very real CIA program that ran from 1953–1973. The program involved more than 150 human experiments involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy. Hot Topics: I am disturbed, why am I doing thi...
Oct 27, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Part one of a special two-part series on the myths, legends, and true(?) stories that inspired Stranger Things . We're focusing on The Montauk Project, an alleged secret government program that carried out human experiments in an underground base on Long Island, NY between 1971 and 1983. Get ready for stories of time travel, dimensional portals, psychic spying, and interdimensional bigfoot, and how they all tie into Netflix's hit show. Hot Topics: Stranger Things, Demogorgon, Montauk, Preston Ni...
Oct 25, 2017•1 hr 1 min
It's our 50th episode! Today, we're talking structures on the moon, the spaceship moon hypothesis, and weird obelisks on Mars. Ryan runs through some of the better-known moon structures and Spencer describes how the moon is probably a hollow egg full of lizards. Hot Topics: Moon Structures, Moon Bases, Ancient Aliens, It's Full Of Lizards, That's Not How Science Works, Space Spiders, Tower Cube, Mars Obelisk, Spaceship Moon, Hollow Moon, and much more. Support us on Patreon and get an extra epis...
Oct 18, 2017•1 hr 11 min
These days, the concept of time travel is ubiquitous, but it hasn’t always been. The first reference to a time machine wasn’t until 1895 when H.G. Wells published The Time Machine . Spencer runs through a brief history of time travel, Ryan thinks aliens are us from the future, and we try and solve some paradoxes. Hot Topics: Time Travel, Time’s Arrow, A Poem About My Favorite Taco, An Existential Crisis In Every Box, I WANNA DIE, Time Storms, UFOs are Time Travelers, and much more. For just $5 a...
Oct 11, 2017•1 hr 16 min
We're wrapping up our three-part series on mysterious disappearances and missing people. Adrian Gorder's in the house for a deep dive into the case of the Death Valley Germans. On October 21, 1996 a park ranger in Death Valley National Park found an abandoned mini van, 2.5 miles from the nearest road. The van belonged to a German family vacationing in California who had apparently vanished without a trace. The case went unsolved for over a decade until a rogue badass, Tom Mahood, stepped up to f...
Sep 27, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Y'all couldn't get enough of the disappearance stories brought to light by David Paulides and his Missing 411 work. So friends, today, we dive back into the vast web of strange tales surrounding people who go missing under mysterious circumstances. We tell more previously unheard stories on our podcast, from Paulides' books and his newest movie, and discuss what in the world we (and he) think is happening. We learn a whole lot today, including the fact that Spencer barely leaves his house, Gorde...
Sep 20, 2017•1 hr 10 min
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 dimensions and locations. Is time travel real? What about space travel? Can the military bend time an...
Sep 13, 2017•1 hr 3 min
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 lighthouse without a trace. Listen along, and find out how and just maybe why they never came back. Hot Topi...
Sep 06, 2017•1 hr 17 min
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 out our survey!...
Sep 01, 2017•1 hr 3 min
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, skinwalkers, cattle mutilation, poltergeists, and nearly every other weird element you can think of. It seem...
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 8 min
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, double the soundboards—double the fun. Spencer talks about inter-dimensional Bigfoot portals. Ryan reco...
Aug 23, 2017•1 hr 30 min
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 n...
Aug 16, 2017•1 hr 21 min
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 mo...
Aug 09, 2017•1 hr 27 min
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...
Aug 02, 2017•1 hr 38 min
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'...
Jul 26, 2017•1 hr 27 min
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 Mont...
Jul 19, 2017•1 hr 48 min
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....
Jul 12, 2017•1 hr 13 min
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 Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles The Box of Crazy on Reddit Button Poetry Music by Big C...
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 36 min
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, Bathyscaphe Trieste, Do Fish Explode? Baltic Sea Anomaly, What in tarnation is happening in Antarctic...
Jun 28, 2017•1 hr 12 min
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.
Jun 23, 2017•1 hr 24 min
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....
Jun 21, 2017•1 hr 34 min
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.
Jun 14, 2017•1 hr 15 min
