Why Would You Ask That?
Remy, Karen, and M answer your bizarre questions! We will talk everything from trivia to true crime to paranormal fun— and when we get questions, we'll ask our own and pile on. We HAVE to know. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-would-you-ask-that--5784165/support.
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October 5, 2026 • 60 mins
Join us as we learn about the incredible work of Dr. Harvey Wiley and his crusade against corporate greed, food lobbies, and small time fraudster's alike. One man's mission to make sure food is exactly what it says on the tin led to an insane experiment that laid the foundation for none other than the FDA.
CW: Human Experimentation, Poison Consumption, Physical Illness, Several Minutes Talking About Poop, Death, Tuberculosis...
CW: Human Experimentation, Poison Consumption, Physical Illness, Several Minutes Talking About Poop, Death, Tuberculosis...
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September 8, 2026 • 54 mins
Part 3? Kind of. This episode is not about idioms but is from a question we received about "culture-bound syndromes" based on the idiom running amok from our Spilling the Beans episode. You don't need to have listened to parts 1 and 2 to understand this episode. It's all about how the term "culture-bound syndrome" was born and died in a flash. We take a look at what some of these syndromes were/are and what the APA is doing to fix ...
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August 11, 2026 • 46 mins
It's aquatic. It's humanoid. It's arguably a mermaid. It was invented by anonymous forum posters and somehow ended up in a paranormal magazine next to a "real" 1958 sighting. This week we chase the Ningen from 2chan to Antarctica to your Pokédex, and detour through the wider world of monsters the internet built from scratch.
CW: Whaling, Survival Situation Talk
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CW: Whaling, Survival Situation Talk
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July 28, 2026 • 66 mins
In 2023, Channel 4 aired a mockumentary called The British Miracle Meat, hosted by Gregg Wallace, that got 408 Ofcom complaints in 23 minutes flat. This week we get into how it pulled that off by borrowing a centuries-old literary con, and why horrifying your audience might genuinely be the most effective way to get anyone to care about a crisis they've been ignoring for years.
CW: Simulated Cannibalism (including of childre...
CW: Simulated Cannibalism (including of childre...
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July 13, 2026 • 17 mins
Frozen in your own body, convinced something’s in the room with you? This mini unpacks what sleep paralysis is, why it can feel so terrifying, and how those night visits turned into stories of hags, nightmares, and bedroom demons. M shares personal experiences and practical tips for what you can actually do if your sleep is being disrupted.
CW: Sleep Paralysis, Fear, Blood Mention (a few seconds), Choking
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CW: Sleep Paralysis, Fear, Blood Mention (a few seconds), Choking
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June 16, 2026 • 47 mins
We take it easy this week and chat up food— favorite, fictional, and family recipes. It's a chance to learn a little more about your hosts and perhaps try a recipe they offer.
Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]
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June 2, 2026 • 69 mins
Michael Bay's use of explosions is meme-worthy, referenced in everything from US comedies to video games to even Japanese manga. How did he get here, and how did his EXPLOSIVE style find his success?
CW: Explosions, Gun Use, House Fires, Exploitation of Women, Talk of the Military
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CW: Explosions, Gun Use, House Fires, Exploitation of Women, Talk of the Military
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May 19, 2026 • 47 mins
Beneath our feet lies a labyrinth of cheese, specifically, American cheese. How much? The answer is more than a healthy amount of cheese, and the government put it there. The story of America's cheese caves stretches from WWII-era farm subsidies to Reagan-era welfare politics. It's weirder than you think.
CW: Classism/Poverty, Food Insecurity, Politics
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CW: Classism/Poverty, Food Insecurity, Politics
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April 20, 2026 • 100 mins
Did you know human zoos, where real people from colonized lands were displayed like animals, ran until shockingly recently? From Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo monkey house to 598 Congolese in Belgium's "village" exhibit, this episode uncovers the global history of human exhibitions, the pseudoscience that justified them, and why most people still don't know it happened.
CW: violence, racism, kidnapping, dehumanization, non-cons...
CW: violence, racism, kidnapping, dehumanization, non-cons...
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April 6, 2026 • 95 mins
There's the usual laws, like no kissing your wife on Sunday, and then there's the law about keeping ice cream in your back pocket. Remy delivers on weird laws that are still on the books, some of which we can be arrested for very easily. Or may actively be breaking. And that you might be breaking. Right now.
CW: Ableism / Disability exploitation, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Sexual content (brief/legal context), Death (brieth), Re...
CW: Ableism / Disability exploitation, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Sexual content (brief/legal context), Death (brieth), Re...
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March 23, 2026 • 84 mins
Echelon sounds like a conspiracy theory. A secret government project? Cold war private surveilling? And giant golf balls in the English countryside? This week we're digging into the full story of mass surveillance from Cold War spy networks to the devices sitting in our homes and asking how much privacy we actually have left.
CW: Government Spying and Privacy Violation, War, Brief talk of 9/11
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CW: Government Spying and Privacy Violation, War, Brief talk of 9/11
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March 9, 2026 • 82 mins
Ed and Lorraine Warren of The Conjuring franchise and more get the WWYAT treatment: knock them down brick by brick. We address their rise to fame and subsequent drift into infamy, the Judith Penney allegations, and the media empire that buoyed their reputation. Please be mindful of the content warnings this episode.
CW: Child Sexual Abuse/Statutory Rape Allegations, Grooming, Coerced Abortion Allegations, Domestic Violence, ...
CW: Child Sexual Abuse/Statutory Rape Allegations, Grooming, Coerced Abortion Allegations, Domestic Violence, ...
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February 24, 2026 • 54 mins
What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles the speed of reality. How fast can you see?
CW: Harm to Animals
Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]
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CW: Harm to Animals
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February 9, 2026 • 68 mins
What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about the history of Smell-O-Vision and how it briefly came to light in the movie theatre.
Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]
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January 26, 2026 • 68 mins
What ARE the nephilim? Where did they come from and how did their existence prompt the Christian god to drown 99.999% of humanity? This episode dives in to explore the history and the conspiracy of nephilim.
CW: Murder, Death, Religious Trauma
Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]
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CW: Murder, Death, Religious Trauma
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January 12, 2026 • 39 mins
Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don't see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit.
CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism
Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]
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CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism
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December 22, 2025 • 58 mins
This week, Karen answers a listener's questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let's find out!
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December 8, 2025 • 50 mins
You ever heard of the Bunny Man Bridge? That's fine, Karen and Remy hadn't either, not until M went and blasted them with having heard it first hand. Be prepared for hatchets and a variety of bunny suits and an absolute shredding of the looks of the bridge.
CW: Murder, Discussion of Mental Illness
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CW: Murder, Discussion of Mental Illness
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November 24, 2025 • 77 mins
Where are the mermaids? Why aren't they filing their taxes? I'll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back in— what's that? It wasn't a real documentary? It's a pseudodocumentary that had a hand in eroding media literacy and fostering distrust in government-backed science?! Now hold on...
CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brief mention of Covid-19<...
CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brief mention of Covid-19<...
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November 10, 2025 • 44 mins
The typical American education ends in college. People pursue their passions, no matter how small, no matter how... atypical. This episode delves into some textbook "weird" college degrees and perhaps why they are not so weird as people believe, or why they truly are as weird as we think they are. And perhaps... we poke a bit at the USAmerican obsession with simply having a degree.
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Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [Li...
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