Why Would You Ask That?

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.

Episodes

Caged Humanity

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.

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Let's Break the Law

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), Religion

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Giant Golf Balls Full of Spies

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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War on the Warrens

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, Manipula...
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The Rate of Reality

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

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Scentertainment

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.

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Tall Tales: The Nephilim

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 

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Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal

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 

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Do Mi So What?

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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There's NoBunny There

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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Mermyths

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

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Degrees of Ridiculousness

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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The Great Moon Hoax

October 28, 2025 • 73 mins
Before clickbait headlines and conspiracy YouTubers, there was The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Join us as we talk lunar lies, Victorian media chaos, and a fake discovery so elaborate it makes some modern conspiracy theories look tame. All that, and one astronomer who just wanted to mind his own telescope.

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Splice It Real Good

October 13, 2025 • 66 mins
You ever wonder how plausible it would be to become a real life catgirl/catboy/catbeing? How close we are to having centaurs? Or perhaps you wonder if you could gain some cool animal powers if science just progressed far enough? Well guess what! Remy has the deets on human/animal chimera research! We also discuss the ethics of cannibalism. Again.

CW: Animal Cruelty, Racism (briefly)

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BrosNowhere to Hide

September 29, 2025 • 55 mins
In Russia lies a lake that could hold a sea dragon of either humble or magnificent proportions, which is either big enough to swallow men or small enough to hide, and maybe it glows, or maybe it breathes fire. I don't FUCKING know. This is more of a lesson in research than a lesson on Brosnya, but hey! Somewhere in here there is a dragon, just like Lake Brosno!

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A Bug's Eye View

September 15, 2025 • 47 mins
We're back! We got a question from JJ about something very important: what do bugs think humans are? This episode we delve into bug perception, bug feelings, and bugs... as cows?

CW: Bugs (Bees, Spiders, Mites, Flies mostly)

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An Announcement

July 28, 2025 • 1 min
Hey, folks. This week, we have an announcement. 

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Steel Abs, Steel Bowels

July 21, 2025 • 35 mins
A silly question has emerged from the crypts this time around! This episode ponders a deeply held curiosity... about Superman's digestive system. When he drops the kids off at the pool, does the porcelain throne explode? When his stomach disposes of the evidence, how much disappears? Are Kryptonian gut germs adapted to Earth?

CW: Poop, About 5 minutes of Sex Talk

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Omegaversed

July 14, 2025 • 79 mins
This week, we unzip the metaphorical pants of the internet and crawl deep into the sweaty, scent-marked den of the Omegaverse. What is it? Where did it come from? Why is everyone growling? We’re talking heat cycles, scent ruts, social hierarchies, and the very horny tropes that define the genre, plus how fan creators are challenging and reshaping it. Also, somehow the court system got involved? 

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Tales of Cannibalsm Present

July 7, 2025 • 93 mins
With cannibalism past covered last episode, we present cannibalism present. We have five cases of legal (arguably) cannibalism within the last 25 years, from canned human meatballs to a bit of food critique. Join us to learn about the ethics of consuming human flesh in the present day!

CW: Death, Cannibalism, Bodily Harm, Eating A Fetus, Moter Vehicle Accident, Harm to Animals (brief mention)

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