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Why Would You Ask That?

Why Would You Ask That?

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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.

Recent Episodes

OCT 21, 2026
It's Not Race, It's Recessive: Part 1
Some diseases really do run in certain ancestries. Others just look that way until you factor in poverty and colonialism. We dig into which is which, what these conditions actually are, and the surprisingly strategic reasons evolution let some of them...
66 MIN
OCT 5, 2026
The Poison Squad
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...
60 MIN
SEP 8, 2026
Cultural Concepts of Distress
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...
54 MIN
AUG 11, 2026
100 Feet of Human
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...
46 MIN
JUL 28, 2026
British Miracle Meat
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...
66 MIN