Really? no, Really?
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Every Tuesday best friends Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden are joined by experts, newsmakers and celebrities in an attempt to find answers to the thingsthat make us go…"Really? no, Really?” We invite you to join us, subscribe and even suggest topics, as we search for the answers to life’s most baffling, intriguing,confusing and annoying questions
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Episodes
Living Underwater, Breath Holding Tricks + Space Llamas!
44m · PublishedDr. Joseph Dituri, better known as “Dr. Deep Sea” set a new world record for the longest time…100 days…spent living underwater, without depressurization. Really no really!
Jason and Peter decided to find out how he did it, and why?
Today’s scientists possess more information about outer space than they do about our oceans which cover over 70% of the planet so Dr. Dituri decided to create a challenging project. He’s a University of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and he’s also a retired U.S. Naval officer with numerous diving and deep-sea awards and accolades to his name. The underwater mission, dubbed Project Neptune 100, was designed to explore how the human body and mind respond to an extended exposure to pressure and confined isolation with the intent of benefitting future ocean researchers and astronauts on long-term missions.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- The positive effects of living underwater - lower cholesterol, less inflammation, less cortisol & stress, deeper sleep, and increased testosterone.
- The negative effects of living underwater - depression, anxiety, infections, and shrinkage!
- Hollywood’s secret to holding your breath for over 6 minutes!
- The merits of Aquaman’s superpowers debated.
- Reasons the Titan submersible might have met its tragic fate.
- Director James Cameron found a partial cure for Alzheimer’s at the bottom of the Marianas Sea Trench.
- Why Jason CAN’T visit Dr Dituri underwater.
- An amazing whale impersonation.
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Kevin Pollak: Creating vs. Waiting + Impersonation Tutorial
48m · PublishedThis absolutely gob smacked Peter; Jason casually mentioned he was originally cast as Lt. Sam Weinberg in Rob Reiner’s Oscar nominated film, A Few Good Men. George Costanza alongside Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise? Really, no really!
So how did actor, comedian, impressionist, author, director, and podcast host Kevin Pollak nab the memorable Lt. Weinberg role…which ended up boosting his already growing credits? We needed to find out.
So, we reached out to Kevin who has appeared in over 80 films; including the cult classic - The Usual Suspects as Todd Hockney and played Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese's Casino. Recently Pollak was a regular cast member on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He’s also a podcast pioneer hosting such classics as, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, Talkin Walkin where he spoke only as Christopher Walken and most recently My Mrs. Maisel Pod.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- “If you’re not creating, you’re waiting.”
- How A Few Good Men transformed his career.
- The secret to doing spot-on impersonations.
- The documentary “Misery Loves Comedy” explained.
- How Christopher Guest discovered he was funny.
- Did Jack Nicolson really hit on Kevin’s mom?
- How directing is like being a prize fighter.
- A step-by-step tutorial on impersonating Jason Statham + Christopher Walken.
- Kevin’s impersonation of Jason.
- Hollywood’s surprising original casting choices for iconic films.
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Forgiveness, Seinfeld Grudges + The Science of Blame
48m · PublishedIt seems that the denizens of New London, Connecticut have real issues with forgiveness and letting go. Every year they throw a bizarre festival castigating the infamous American Revolutionary War-era traitor Benedict Arnold for giving information to the British forces leading them to raid and burn New London in 1781. The annual event consists of parades with revelers wearing tricorn hats, carrying mock bayonets and torches and other commemorations all culminating in the burning of Arnold in effigy after 242 years. Really, no really!
Forgiving is not always easy, it’s like trying to fold a giant fitted sheet—a seemingly impossible task that requires patience, flexibility, and perhaps a touch of divine intervention. So that got us thinking about how anger, resentment, and hatred impact our wellbeing and what the benefits of forgiveness may offer us. And because it’s what he does, Peter tracked down the Godfather of forgiveness, the man who recognized its power and has since dedicated his life to the research and proliferation of forgiveness.
Lauded as a “game changer in modern psychology” by the American Psychological Foundation, Dr. Robert Enright holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. He’s also a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, winner of the 2022 American Psychological Foundation’s Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology, and author of the first scientific study on person-to-person forgiveness.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- Forgiveness defined and its scientifically proven benefits.
- When someone forgives but keeps punishing you.
- Does forgiveness negate justice?
- The cultures that have adopted unconditional forgiveness.
- Should schools teach forgiveness as part of a basic curriculum?
- Too much forgiveness?
- Toxic forgiveness?
- 100 men in maximum-security prison; how forgiveness affected them?
- The step-by-step process to achieve forgiveness.
- The scientific reason we blame people.
- Jason’s mother’s reason for blaming people.
- Historical feuds, Seinfeld grudges & producer Lorre’s vendettas.
- Peter’s skin’s quality and why Jason likes touching him.
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Naked Comedy, Shared Vulnerability + Peter’s Prurient Interests
35m · PublishedThree words we had no idea could go together: Naked + Comedy + Show…but apparently, they do. In the city that never sleeps, where dreams are born and laughter is the currency, there exists a comedy club that takes the phrase "bare it all" quite literally. Every month, in Brooklyn, female and male comedians, some you’ve even seen on the Tonight Show, America’s Got Talent, The Late Show and more, gather in the buff, to deliver standup comedy to an audience partially made up of nude and fully clothed attendees. Really, no really?
Jason and Peter began investigating so they went to the epicenter, to the guy who organizes, emcees, and performs in the Naked Comedy Show. Billy Procida is a New York City-based stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of: The Manwhore Podcast: Sex-Positive Conversations. He’s also the producer and host of "The Naked Comedy Show."
IN THIS EPISODE:
- Bombing in the nude in front of your ex-girlfriend and her unprepared friends.
- Naked comedy and the male vs female experiences.
- The reason to do comedy nude.
- Is standup improved when all your private bits are out there?
- Jason, a half-nude icon himself reveals what it’s like acting while naked.
- Who’s the audience for naked comedy?
- Peter’s Tale: Meeting a work colleague in a totally naked situation.
- True or false: Younger people, comfortable with nudity, have healthier body attitudes.
- Comedians who turn down the Naked Comedy Show.
- Jason’s surprising answer to: Does nudity on stage and in films elevate the productions.
- Manscaping 2023 - what should you look like downtown?
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Kitboga: Scam Baiting + Jason the Vigilante
53m · PublishedA new breed of vigilante has emerged - armed with expertise, wit, humor and a penchant for justice, these tech influencers have begun scamming the scammers…Really, no Really!
These digital crusaders adopt alter egos, ranging from confused grandmothers to bumbling millionaires, all in an effort to take online scammers down a rabbit hole of insanity and keep them from scamming other unsuspecting victims.
To find out more about this world, Jason and Peter contacted Kitboga, who after discovering that his grandmother was a victim to scammers targeting the elderly – began streaming his “scamming the scammer" calls. His viewership soon exploded not only making him an internet sensation but a new phenomenon in vigilante streamers.
ON THIS EPISODE:
- Kit’s alter ego, Richard Andrews, and his wife Maureen (played by Tony winning actor Jason Alexander) engage with a scammer.
- Is scamming-scammers vigilantism?
- The Amazon “Brushing Scam”
- Virtual computers turn the tables on scammers.
- Gaining access to scammers bank accounts, addresses and bitcoin wallets.
- Is the half-loaf truly more economical for senior citizens?
- The HBO Show Telemarketers and targeting phony political PACs.
- Why vengeance feels good.
- Why movie vigilantes are now AARP members.
- The surprising way Kit and his team help victims of online scams.
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Dangerous Jobs: Human Cannonball, Human Torch + Dangus!
40m · PublishedJason mentioned that when checking out a story on the world’s most dangerous jobs he discovered that topping the list - human cannonball. Peter then informed Jason that one of his very good friends just happened to be Ringling Brothers human cannonball…Really, no really!
Why put your life and limb on the line 12 times a week for your profession? What drives a Ringling clown to defy the clearly defined circus caste system and attempt to join the prestigious, aristocracy acts by being shot out of a cannon, traveling high above an audience and landing hundreds of feet away?
For 25 years Jon Weiss worked with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a Ringmaster, Clown and "Human Cannonball" – with over 5,000 notches in his cannonball belt. You also might know him as a contestant along with a fellow clown, on CBS’ The Amazing Race 4.
BONUS: Peter surprised Jason with an in-studio appearance of a potentially even more dangerous job – The Human Torch! Ray Wold has been performing in Cirque du Soleil’s “O” show in Las Vegas for more than 24 years, completely engulfing himself in flames as he casually sits on a chair reading a newspaper. Really, no Really!
In this episode:
- The things that motivate people to take dangerous jobs.
- What it takes to become the human cannonball.
- The secret circus caste system, clown college & circus sabotage!
- What it feels like to experience 12G’s and deadly mistakes.
- Jason’s failed attempt at fire eating.
- How the human torch learned to fully engulf himself in fire.
- How the King on Monaco made Ray’s career.
- Dangerous jobs Jason and Peter contemplate taking.
- Holding an allegator’s mouth closed…hard or easy?
- Why woodpeckers peck? The definitive answer.
- More clowns and fire: this is Jason’s favorite Seinfeld bit!
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Cloning Mammoths, Cultivating Organs + Giant Beavers
39m · PublishedJason and Peter heard that a biotech company claimed that the long-deceased woolly mammoth will be brought back from extinction by 2027…Really, no really!
Are we on the cusp of a real-life Jurassic Park? With new technology available to de-extinct long dead animals, potentially change the genetic code of human babies and the possibility of creating synthetic life, we needed to get some clarity.
We had to find and talk to the man leading the science…and that man is Dr. George Church, known as the "father of synthetic biology. He is the Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard and MIT. In 2021 Dr. Church and entrepreneur Ben Lamm founded Colossal Biosciences, a synthetic biology company tasked in part with sequencing the remains of woolly mammoths which would allow them, in theory to “de-extinct” the ancient creatures.
In this episode:
- How do you de-extinct a woolly mammoth?
- The dangers lurking beneath melting permafrost.
- Redefining death.
- Creating human organs inside pigs.
- Bringing back those cryogenically frozen.
- Cold resistant Asian Elephants.
- Cultured meat and mammoth meatballs
- The dodo & Tasmanian tiger are coming back too?
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Alex Winter: The YouTube Effect, Magic Camp + Baby Shark!
45m · PublishedActor, producer, and director Alex Winter, best known for his role in the "Bill & Ted” films joins Jason and Peter to explain how YouTube’s algorithm is a beast that really can't be tamed once it's been unleashed, and it's already been unleashed. Really, no really?
Actually, the algorithm comment was made by Anthony Padilla the founder of Smosh in Alex Winter’s new documentary, "The YouTube Effect”. It premiered atthe Tribeca Film Festivalin 2022 and was just released worldwideon digital streaming services. Alex discusses YouTubes’ growth, his childhood acting years, his friendship with Keanu Reeves and all of the “stuff” just below what you’re reading right now↓
In this episode:
- All Tech is porn adjacent.
- It’s scary to be Keanu Reeves.
- YouTube’s dangerous business model.
- The child and YouTube creator who makes over 100 million dollars $$$.
- Internet anonymity.
- Alex’s decision to pull away from acting.
- What European and US regulators get wrong & the right way to regulate Tech!
- The surprising way that Bill & Ted 3 got made.
- Jason’s recommendations list.
- Magic camp?
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UFOs, Conspiracies + NASA
56m · PublishedA House Oversight Committee investigating UFOs featured shocking testimony by seemingly credible sources claiming that alien spacecraft have visited the Earth!
Former US Air Force Major, David Grusch…under oath…stated that the United State government is in possession of extraterrestrial bodies. Really, no really? And even more startling is the reaction from the general public, practically nothing. Really, no really?
To help us sort through and understand the testimony, the evidence, and the poppycock we invited Dr. Joshua Semeter, the director of the Center for Space Physics at Boston University to join the podcast. Dr Semeter is one of 16 aerial-space experts appointed by NASA, charged with studying UFOs (now known as UAPs - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.) Over a 9-month period, the team analyzed reports gathered from existing data: declassified footage, commercial data, and other sources to answer the question: Have intelligent aliens visited the Earth?
In the episode:
- The top 3 states aliens like to visit.
- Would you get on the alien ship?
- What’s with all the crashing?
- What NASA’s panel - investigating UAPs - found.
- The parallax effect and our brain’s ability to understand.
- Investigating UFOs using the scientific method.
- Does the infamous Tic-Tac video show something unexplainable?
- If not aliens, how do you explain the stories, testimony, and encounters?
- Don’t buy stock in the Spacetime paradigm.
- Dr. Semeter’s opinion on Climate Change will get your attention!
- Area 51…anything there?
- Outlandish claims and Kate McKinnon’s UFO SNL sketch
- Bigfoot, ghosts, psychic powers, and more of the unexplained.
- Aliens travel via a propulsion of consciousness?
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The Last of Us, Vampires + the Writer’s Strike
51m · PublishedJason and Peter are huge fans of the HBO series The Last of Us, featuring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in the adaptation of the award-winning Sony video game. In the show, the world is suffering from a fictional brain infection that hijacks humanity, turning most of the world into ravenous zombies. Scientists have noted that the show’s pathogen is inspired by a very real set of fungi that assumes control of an ant’s motor system making it a “zombie”. Today, with global warming, there is speculation that this fictional infection could be closer to reality than we may realize! Really, no really?
To tackle this infectious situation, we asked The Last of Us co-creator, co-writer, director, and executive producer Craig Mazin to help us understand the science behind the fiction. Craig is best known for HBO’s Chernobyl and a long list of hit comedies including The Hangover Part II and III, Scary Movie 3 and 4 and many more.
In this episode:
- Could fungi-zombification happen in real life?
- Your lingering zombie questions finally answered.
- The difficulties of adapting a beloved video game franchise.
- Filming a postapocalyptic pandemic show during a pandemic.
- Was season 1 really more expensive than the first 5 seasons of Game of Thrones?
- How Game of Thrones should have ended (according to Craig Mazin.)
- The Hollywood strike’s effect on Season 2 and the changing realities in Hollywood.
- Our fascination with horror movies and the zombie apocalypse.
- Vampire genealogy.
- THE BIG QUESTION: Why Nick Offerman and not Jason Alexander?
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Really? no, Really? has 74 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 50:08:54. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 16th, 2024 17:11.
