The What If? Podcast Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud
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- Society & Culture
We ask strange, hilarious, paranormal, tough, and mysterious questions — then laugh our way to the best answers we can muster. Join us for the ride.
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Ep. #247: What If You Ran Until You Hallucinated?
In the last 30 years, more than 1,000 people have attempted the Barkley Marathons, but only 20 have finished under the 60-hour time limit.
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Hallucinations and no sleep: Jasmin Paris on her historic ultramarathon
Jasmin Paris first woman to complete grueling Barkley Marathons race
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Ep. #246: What If You Stole a Hotel?
In 2018, Mickey Barreto checked into a hotel. Over the next five years he refused to leave, briefly owned the hotel, tried to take down an international cult, and got arrested.
Go help our guy Bear!
Sources:
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
The History of The New Yorker HotelA loophole got New York City man a free hotel stay for five years until he claimed to own the building
How to Fake-Own the New Yorker Hotel
Missing 411 David Paulides Presents Missing Person Cases from Montana & Oregon -
What If We Helped Bear?
Our guy bear needs some help! He was in a bad motorcycle accident and won't be able to work for a few months while he recovers. Bear's brought us many, many joys over the years and it's the least we can do to give back a little. If you can afford to spare a couple bucks please do!
Ok, thank you, we love you. Bear loves you. We love Bear. And we'll be back with a full episode next Saturday (4/6). See ya soon! -
Ep. #245 - What If David Grusch Is Right?
Hi! We're catching up about the past 5 months and discussing David Grusch's UAP claims.
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Ep. #244 - What If We Sampled the Buffet of Weird?
We've got a bunch of topics today and we kinda get to all of them. Miley Cyrus saw a flying snowplow, Jeremy Corbell started a podcast, somebody's cutting off the internet, Ruby Tuesdays are popping up outta nowhere, there's a mysterious celebrity on some curtains, and Ryan's buying more websites.
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Ep. #243 - What If the Sky Was Full of "Objects"?
We hosted a little live hang out with friends and listeners to discuss the balloons and objects that have been spotted (and shot down) over North America recently. We also talked about Warped Tour, Gucci's Loose Wings, and DJing middle school dances.