We were promised jetpacks. Instead, we got push notifications, sponsored content, and a fridge that won't stop asking for a firmware update. In this episode, we take a look at the shiny, streamlined future we were sold — and ask why it never quite showed up. From flying cars to food pills, we explore the retro predictions that fizzled, the quiet tech breakthroughs that did arrive, and whether the real future just took a very weird detour.

Is this progress… or just a better version of being stuck?

In this special episode, we ask one deceptively simple question: What if JFK had lived?

Just days after the host was born in June 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Raised by a loving adoptive family, he often wonders how the world—and maybe even his own life—might have turned out differently if John F. Kennedy had survived that fateful day in Dallas.

So today, we’re going back. In our thought experiment, Lee Harvey Oswald is stopped. The motorcade rolls on. JFK serves two full terms, and history takes a very different path.

Would Vietnam have happened the same way? Would Bobby have lived to become president? Does Nixon ever get elected? And what happens to civil rights, the moon landing, and the whole shape of the American century?

Join us as we imagine an alternate 1963—one where a single moment of silence changes everything.

Could 100 unarmed men defeat a single silverback gorilla? It's a question so ridiculous it should’ve faded from memory — and yet here we are, years later, still arguing.

In this episode of We Were Just Wondering, we trace the origins of the internet's favorite hypothetical war, from Reddit debates to MrBeast tweets and viral TikToks. Then we dive deep: into primate biology, human overconfidence, crowd psychology, and expert opinions from actual zoologists and primatologists. What does it say about us that this fight captivates millions?

This episode blends meme culture, real science, and a surprising amount of existential reflection. Spoiler: someone’s getting dog-walked. But it might not be who you think.