Hypotheticals

Hosts: Rob & MikeCould you defeat the Russians with a new any% Mario 1 world record? ie: what if video game competitions determined who won a war?https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41552709-the-uninhabitable-earthhttps://rockykanaka.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & Matt & KateWe ask what if animals did what they probably should have millennia ago: unite against us humans.https://www.youtube.com/@DarkMatter2525/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/@AntsCanadahttps://www.netflix.com/title/81054847https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvPnZnBXc4https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattWe ask what would you do if you became a vampire. There's a lot more practical answers than you'd think.Content:https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNowhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V_jMdRbbTrmBVJB6FDzgwhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Chip Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob, Kate, & MattYep, it's a weird one especially since a lot of people don't know ow to code, even some developers. So what happens if everyone suddenly forgets how to?Recommended content:https://www.youtube.com/@AdamSomethinghttps://www.netflix.com/title/81591296?source=35&fromWatch=truehttps://www.youtube.com/@TLDRpodcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & ShilohWe don't discriminate against Sith or Jedi, everyone gets everyone's powers.Suggested content:https://www.youtube.com/@DGR_Davehttps://www.youtube.com/@AdamDoesNotExist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattI'm sure fans of The Craft would like to see the crew go after a xenomorph.Content suggestions:https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilothttps://www.youtube.com/@KillTheCompShow/videos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeI can't imagine the podheads would be excited if all the effects were the opposite of before.Content suggestions:https://www.yourownbackyardpodcast.com/https://www.youtube.com/@ChefStudioChannel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattWe borrowed heavily from Torchwood Miracle Day. But only what if killing was impossible.Recommended content:https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryofHumankindhttps://www.hilariousworld.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hots: Rob & KateThat's right, we're doing what Ron DeSantis never dreamed of: invading Disneyland.Content recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/@LostFutures1https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts; Rob & Matt & MikeThis could have easily been a "what would you do if you had time travel?" bu that's too much for an episode, so the time machine has a broken gear and can only go to when the library of Alexandira existed.Content recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/professordaveexplainshttps://www.storyofbible.com/the-bug-bible-and-other-unusual-bibles.htmlhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/22eUIsoURgq3GFNo6yAIUDhttps://www.youtube.com/@Nikos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattIt's about time Dennis Hopper claimed revenge. But yeah what if the actual mushroom kingdom invaded? Apologies to those hoping for some new Yoshi lore.Content recommendations:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blindspot/id1567282609https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGe265pwvUhttps://petapixel.com/2025/07/28/someone-saved-a-digital-image-file-to-a-bird/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & KateNow I'll be honest, there's a lot of things we probably didn't cover because we went on tangents about nuclear accidents. But anyway we ask what if we did actually militarize the boyscouts and I learned we kinda do already.Content:https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vidshttps://www.thiswarofmine.com/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2238470/Grimshire/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob, Kate, Matthttps://www.youtube.com/@JessieGender1kids in the hall preachergrimshire Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeSo we went through a few topics so this one will be a surprise!Recommended content:21st centry federalistold man's warfilms to be buried with Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob, Matt, & ShilohContent:https://themoth.org/radio-hourhttps://www.youtube.com/@JoshJohnsonComedyhttps://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/cagcast-video-game-podcast.55/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & Kate (new host!)Uber isn't great but it gets weird if any job can be called via UberRecommended content:https://www.youtube.com/@PolterGibbstElizabeth Moon - fantasy author, new short stories coming out Tales from the Stinky Dragons Podcast for D&D Womble - For all your bullshittery gaming needs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeWhat if you were forced to listen to terrible podcasts?Amish computers: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/zyi2ti/til_there_is_an_amish_computer_it_doesnt_have/Hard Landing Podcast: https://www.hardlandingspodcast.com/the new world review (sorry, no link) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattOk, I'll be real. I stole this idea from the 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Matrix. There are really some horrible outcomes if you can only taste chicken no matter what you eat.Anyway, content:Say Potato, https://www.facebook.com/groups/it.humor.and.memes/posts/30303169522615443/Three Arrows: https://www.youtube.com/@ThreeArrows Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeHonestly this one is closer to reality than maybe I was willing to admit: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/online-fundraiser-woman-used-racial-slur-raises-675k-racist-support-rcna204923Don't be a terrible personContext for that comment about the foo fighters https://skepchick.org/2024/09/how-dave-grohl-foo-fighters-put-actual-lives-at-risk/Content:https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1903340/https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoryoftheEarthhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_jTM8W3NwgnGdQTs7BJpw Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattI thought of this question for no particular reason and it has no bearing on current events at all. I would say it means that anyone running for president must really want it.The content:https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/stuff-the-british-stolehttps://www.youtube.com/c/HistoryoftheUniverse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattContent:https://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773https://www.youtube.com/@pat_finnerty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeI have no idea why I thought of this, sorry FBT agent, this is all comedy, just like the rest of the podcast.Content:https://open.spotify.com/show/2QNPUsUcUJrrl7pIaMRLsMhttps://www.youtube.com/user/GoneToTheSnowDogs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattYou know what, we totally forgot to talk about the moon. Email [email protected] and let us know what you think happened to it.Other content: https://www.youtube.com/@ContraPointshttps://open.spotify.com/show/1tImtAItoNbs2LikGCz4R7 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hank Scorpio is probably one of my favorite Simpsons characters and I think he should get a 2nd chance since he didn't manage to take over the world:Content recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/@WoodfordStephen/videos Some political takes from a guy who generally debunks irrational thinkinghttps://www.instagram.com/popcorn_paws5?igsh=Z2Q1NjlwZnhwdnpx a doggo channel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattI swear this is a coincidence. I don't think Matt looks at the list of topics before we start. This time we speculate what happens if aliens become addicted to McDonalds.Content recommendations:TL:DR podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1VinNabTsipd6duX1azsF3Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo/videos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattNo alien is safe from the food industry!Content recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/@mrnightmareI think this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Finger Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattSorry for the late edit, this is not about Reagan again, it's about having portals and how we'd use them (poorly).Content:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drk-mode/id1553374238https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scamtown/id1759446975 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob, Mike, & MattDo you hate Reagan? I sure do.Recommended content:https://gimletmedia.com/shows/scaredy-catshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw7PhlnAr4pZZz2QubIbujHhttps://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagtBonus references:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/the-astrologer-who-managed-the-reagan-presidency/id1373812661?i=1000416645569Mister Deity pls come on show: https://www.youtube.com/@misterdeity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & JohnLaws are hard enough to follow, this makes it worseWe have socials now!https://bsky.app/profile/hypotheticalspod.bsky.social https://x.com/HypotheticalsP https://www.instagram.com/hypotheticalspod/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571303342793 https://www.threads.net/@hypotheticalspodRecommended content:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91vymvIH0chttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thethinkingatheist/id412308695 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob, Matt, & MikeBread is good.Andrew Jackson was almost assassinated on January 30, 1835, when Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot him with two pistols outside the United States CapitolContent!:https://www.youtube.com/@veritasiumhttps://www.youtube.com/@InternetTodayTVhttps://www.truetalesteam.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattMaybe a stove hurt a republican when they were young.You're here for the content:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-lie-with-brian-tyler-cohen/id1515399733the weekly show hearts of space I don't know I couldn't find a link? The best I found was hearts of space which was a streaming service the last I checked. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattThe British stay at home, for a change.The title was almost "but speaking of slavery, it gets even worse," because it wasn't related to the actual topic, but stay tuned til the end.Content:https://www.youtube.com/@verytallbarthttps://www.youtube.com/@the_kates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeWould it still be called the enlightenment without the dark ages?Did you get the reference in the title? If not it's ok but I hate you. It's from Stargate SG1 when Daniel Jackson talked about Trepanation which is the practice of drilling into the scull to let the demons out.Anyway, I made a lot of references as usual, but here's our content recommendations:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-history/id1537788786https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youre-dead-to-me/id1479973402https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/causality/id1046978749 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattI thought of this when thinking about how people would like to be remembered or what their legacy would be.Random funny stuff:https://dynamicsofwriting.com/2017/10/30/first-hand-job-head-jobs-and-penile-swords-the-many-risks-of-writing/https://www.pinterest.com/pin/179299628884840746/Recommended content:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgXQ0oSpA60xD_-NtkZsLk8PV3AMXZEN8https://www.youtube.com/@ttsgpod/videos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikePlease forgive us for the first few minutes, I had to use desktop audio for the first few minutes of Mike's audio then things return to only local recordingsThis is an important question since teleporting is totally possible and wouldn't take longer than the universe has existed to move a person. We talked about wormholes and quantum probability too. Also there were so many references to other media, sorry. I also recommended the same content as last week, remembered that, and recommended something else.Sleep driving murderer: https://abcnews.go.com/US/sleepwalking-killer-scott-falater-wracked-guilt-murdering-wife/story?id=75468448Recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/@goneelectrichttps://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773https://open.spotify.com/show/05lvdf9T77KE6y4gyMGEsD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Rob & MattGiven the rise of EVs and smart cruse control, and the stuff the US is trying to block from China, this might be the most reasonable question we've asked so far. Though I'm not to worried about chat GPT yet.The absolutely unhinged safety video: https://youtu.be/TJYOkZz6Dck?si=AxVIiNYeeMiKDevVUsing private company data because the govt cant get reasonable funding for things like this for safety:https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1dz3yw4/whataburger_outage_map/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_IndexRecommendations:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/after-america-e1-elephants-in-the-room-the/id1622716226?i=1000660681145https://jalopnik.com/lets-talk-about-the-yankee-candle-founders-car-collecti-1849486707 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts; Rob & MattThis one rambled a bit more than normal because we also wanted more background about this simulation and simulations in generalhttps://youtu.be/X9FGRkqUdf8?si=fMxsV3-Eqn5JjTogOther content:https://www.youtube.com/@hbomberguyhttps://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikeAnother one that gets a bit existential and weird. You can't answer this without figuring out why they feel pain and decide when they feel pain.Content recommendations:https://www.youtube.com/@Mahesh_Shenoyhttps://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattIf you haven't watched Demolition Man what are you even doing with your life? I'm sure other people have wondered about the lore around the fast food wars so we answer that question. It gets a bit weird.PC Jr commercial: https://youtu.be/VwEssCpTW5I?si=QNbYRaqkvaRjh1aUIBM PS/2 commercial: https://youtu.be/gGVF3ktjhLg?si=3O9TgTpFasURHWwgIBM commercial: https://youtu.be/MHtiWJGrA1M?si=5JQl7kGPi-1xDy3aShakes the clown: https://youtu.be/hwJwnHkDvho?si=KpQB-kgWt85dSCE6Crash Course Pods: The Universe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crash-course-pods-the-universe/id1740594155John Green outtakes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYT7t0pcxEIM_MpvvIi8c07lL7DG58eYe&si=wd61z3yLEYOea7DJhttps://alifewellwasted.com/And I have no idea why this exists, but the novelization of Demolition Man: https://www.amazon.com/Demolition-Man-Robert-Tine/dp/0451180798 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Rob & MikeToday we discuss the implications of social media, but not on modern society, on a society of people that had little power, fought to expand their empire, and had limited democracy. Wait are we sure this is about ancient times?Content we like:https://open.spotify.com/show/31rLJqdxO9fT1UHCa3TAeWhttps://open.spotify.com/show/70la96ygNWL1t1gcGGk3MF Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & JohnThe tower of Babel never happened, it's an allegory. And if you understand how languages evolve over time, that would be obvious. But it's fun to wonder what an actual god doing that would do. How would people deal with it (poorly, probably)?Other content:Mestizo Beat: https://mestizobeat.com/#newsUnclear and present danger: https://open.spotify.com/show/2vPZPCw5Ov86FCWJfbQahm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rob & MattThe goal when I thought of this question was to critique capitalism and rarity, but it turned into the transport murder machine thought, with some jokes thrown in.Other content:Some More News/Even More News which does news stuff from a leftist point of viewhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229Bobby Broccoli: deep dives about topics with great visualshttps://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli/videosThe 5-4 podcast which covers supreme court stuff:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-4/id1497785843This Might Be A Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-might-be-a-podcast/id1445431962 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattPeople don't really value their vote. And to be fair, a single vote rarely swings an election. But you could only vote once in your entire life you may think differently.Leeja Miller, a political commentator: https://www.youtube.com/@LeejaMillerSecret Base,, the reform party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqaW1LrMTY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host: Rob & MikeMaybe smartphones were a mistake. Sure you can call out BS quickly, but people can make BS even quicker. Plus it's totally destroying kids self esteem and isolating everyone.Anyway enough grim stuff, how would you erase smartphones from the world?Content we like:https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/https://open.spotify.com/show/2HDaqExFABugadHFKWbgms Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & JohnYes, we talk about one of people's favorite conspiracy theories! And we ask what happens depending on when we find out and get some interesting answers. This episode was going to be titled "houses don't have hands", you'll see why.If you want a slam dunk debunk of a moon landing hoax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3CsIf you want a slam dunk debunk of young earth creationism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGB0g2eSFMOther creators that are great:https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Solitude-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0375724885https://www.twitch.tv/shoujoEmail us your thoughts about hoaxes, our podcasts, or random questions: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MikePeople already believe everything on Facebook is real so why not see what happens if that's actually happening? We do a lot of tangents including the classic 90s commercials for Boku:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEbnWl8iz0Content better than us:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUT8RoNBTJvwW1iErP6-b-Ahttps://www.youtube.com/@ANINewsIndia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts: Rob & MattOn today's episode we ask the question: what if of all the humans who have ever and will ever live have exactly one soulmate? Time and space are pretty big! What would you do if that was real?Favorite content:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepodcrashedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimetownRandom televangelist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hinn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.