Simple Questions Podcast

Simple Questions Podcast

Simple Questions Podcast

Simple Questions Podcast is a monthly podcast by Dylan Carnahan featuring experts answering simple questions.

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Topics we’ve explored

Behavioral Economics

Voice Acting

Law Enforcement & FBI

Exonerees & Reentry

Memory Techniques

Linux & Open Source

Stop-Motion

Baking

Speedcubing

UFC / MMA

Major League Eating

Entrepreneurship

Recent Podcast Guests

📊Dan Ariely

Behavioral Economist & New York Times Bestselling Author

🎙️Billy West

Voice Actor (Bugs Bunny, Futurama, and Ren & Stimpy)

🥊Angela "Overkill" Hill

Ultimate Fighting Championship Contender

🍔George "The Smorgasbord" Chiger

Major League Eating Competitor

⚖️Dr. Marvin Cotton Jr.

Entrepreneur and Exoneree

🧠Nelson Dellis

5-time USA Memory Champion

🕵️Tom Nunemaker

Retired FBI Section Chief

🥐Erin Jeanne McDowell

New York Times Bestselling Author

📚Susan Piver

New York Times Bestselling Author

🎬Alexis Deprey & Scott DaRos

Emmy Award–Winning Stop-Motion Animators

Transcripts

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What Is Peppermint OS?

Shane Remington • 2025-09-02

What Is Behavioral Economics?

Dan Ariely • 2025-08-06

How Do You Voice Act?

Billy West • 2025-07-01

How Are Homicides Investigated?

Dave Walker • 2025-06-03

What Is Speedcubing?

Tommy Cherry • 2025-05-06

How Does Bluetooth Work?

Nick Hunn • 2025-04-01

What Are Extreme Overvalued Beliefs?

Dr. Tahir Rahman • 2025-03-04

How Do You Become a UFC Fighter?

Angela 'Overkill' Hill • 2025-03-03

What’s Life Like As A Competitive Eater?

George 'The Smorgasbord' Chiger • 2025-01-07

How Are People Exonerated?

Marvin Cotton Jr. • 2024-12-03

What Is Taekwondo?

Jinsue Park • 2024-11-05

What Are Intellectual Property Rights?

Karin Coger • 2024-10-01

What Is Rett Syndrome?

Samantha Brant • 2024-09-04

What Is Orienteering?

Tori Borish • 2024-07-02

How Are Books Published?

Jennie Nash • 2024-06-04

How Do Memory Champions Train Their Minds?

Nelson Dellis • 2024-05-07

How Was The Unabomber Investigated?

Tom Nunemaker • 2024-04-02

What's The Story Behind The Original Cowboy Boot?

Zach Lawless • 2024-03-05

What Is A Death Doula?

Kacie Gikonyo • 2024-02-06

What's It Like To Be An FBI Agent?

Donald Albracht • 2024-01-02

How Do You Start Baking?

Erin Jeanne McDowell • 2023-12-05

What Is Visual Snow Syndrome?

Paul Domb • 2023-11-07

What Is The Enneagram?

Susan Piver • 2023-11-05

What Is It Like To Be A Fighter Pilot?

Kurt Dittmer • 2023-09-05

What Is Stop Motion Animation?

Alexis Deprey & Scott DaRos • 2023-08-01

What Challenges Do Entrepreneurs Face?

Komal Choong • 2023-07-05

How Do You Care For Houseplants?

Jane Perrone • 2023-05-02

What Is Aphantasia?

Tom Ebeyer • 2023-04-04

How Do You Negotiate?

Sandy Hein • 2023-03-07

How Do Ants Live?

Mila Pamplona • 2023-02-07

What Are The Benefits Of Cultivated Meat?

Dr. Faraz Harsini • 2023-01-03

What Is Lucid Dreaming?

Jared Chiang-Zeizel • 2022-12-06

How Do You Tell A Good Story?

Matthew Dicks • 2022-11-01

How Is A Cause Of Death Determined?

Dr. Diane Peterson • 2022-10-04

How Are Weather Forecasts Made?

Gary Lezak • 2022-09-06

How Do You Play Video Games Professionally?

Noah De Aces • 2022-08-02

How Do You Use Cryptocurrency?

Tony Czajka • 2022-07-05

How Do You Plan A Diet?

Amy Dirks • 2022-06-07

How Does Inflation Work?

Dr. Malcolm Gold • 2022-05-03

How Do You Handle Anxiety?

Crystle Lampitt • 2022-03-01

How Is The News Reported?

Haley Harrison • 2022-02-01

How Will We Live In The Future?

Blake Miller • 2022-01-04

What Was The Pine Tar Game?

George Frazier • 2021-12-07

How Do You Start A Podcast?

Ryan Westa • 2021-11-02

What Does It Take To Be An Olympian?

Mason Finley • 2021-10-05

What Are Human Rights?

Thomas Becker • 2021-09-11

How Do You Make Someone Laugh?

David Naster • 2021-07-19

What Is 'Being In The Zone'?

Buddy Biancalana • 2021-06-15

What Is Financial Literacy?

Vercie Lark • 2021-03-24

What Tattoo Should I Get?

Wes Grimm • 2021-01-31

Should You Own A Gun?

Tyson Kilbey • 2020-11-10

What Makes A Good Beer?

Chris Roberts • 2020-09-22