Really? no, Really? with Jason Alexander & Peter Tilden

Director Barry Sonnefeld | Really? no, Really?

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn a lot about how horrible the American education system from the response people leave in the movie screening cards. Director Barry Sonne...

Stay-At-Home Sons | Really? no, Really?

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There are both economic and cultural issues why young people would opt into living with their parents. But with today's housing affordability crisis, ...

Would You Trust ChatGPT With Your Money? | Really? no, Really? Podcast

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Smith is a Johns Hopkins trained artificial intelligence expert who was was hailed as a veteran veteran programmer by The New York Times for hi...

Sadhguru Offers Clarity, Not Confidence | Really? no, Really?

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sadhguru is a spiritual leader who has billions of views, has at least 14 or 15 million followers on YouTube. Do people come to him for a fix to chang...

Kevin Nealon Reveals Why He Was Taken Off Weekend Update | Really? no, Really?

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You ever notice in podcast interviews, everyone's all comfortable? There's soft chairs, bottled water. The lighting that says you are important. Every...

A History of Late Night TV with a Guy Who Lived In an Ikea | Really? no, Really?

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Late Night talk shows are a unique art form that started with Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and then continues today in whatever form it's in....

Here's Why Prediction Markets & Sports Betting Are So Addictive | Really? no, Really?

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With prediction market apps and sites like Polymarket, Kalshi and WagerWeb, you can literally bet on anything: Labubus, criminal case verdicts, Stephe...

Here's Why Credit Card Churning Isn't Illegal | Really? no, Really?

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Credit Card Churners are people who repeatedly open and close credit card accounts to primarily earn sign-up bonuses like cash back, points, or travel...

Guess How Much Water It Takes To Ask ChatGPT A Question | Really? no, Really?

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Some AI data centers known as "hyperscalers" need to consume as much water as the whole city of Philadelphia. On this this episode, Jason Alexander an...

Seinfeldia: It's A Book About A Show About Nothing

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What makes Seinfeld feel more alive in 2026 than half the shows made today? In this episode, Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden sit down with Jenn...

The Truth About Hollywood’s Favorite Anxiety Drug | Really? no, Really?

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood’s latest “anxiety hack” isn’t a new miracle drug — it’s an old medication with a new spotlight. Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden...

Waymo’s Biggest Weakness Just Got Exposed

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Waymo’s self-driving cars look futuristic — but what’s really happening behind the scenes may surprise you. On Really? No, Really., Missy Cum...

The Myths vs Reality of Modern Art Heists

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How do art heists actually work — and why do so many stolen masterpieces disappear forever? On Really? No, Really?, Jason Alexander and Peter Ti...

Mike Campbell: The Man Behind Tom Petty

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty died in 2017, but his music continues to live on thanks to hits like "Refugee", "Here Comes My Girl", and "Runnin'...

Paul Reiser’s Return to Stand-Up

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who isn’t a Paul Reiser mega fan? The dramas like Stranger Things! The comedies like “Mad About You”! How about the action/adventures with The B...

From Stand-Up to Seinfeld: Carol Leifer on Comedy, Writing, & Embarrassing Speeches

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

She’s written several classic Seinfeld episodes including “Lip Reader” and “Rye Bread.” She’s also written more Oscar telecasts than any o...

Peter Greenberg’s Ultimate Travel Tips & Expat Roadmap

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever pondered leaving the country… permanently? Dreamed about a perpetual change of scenery? International job opportunities caught your ey...

After Disasters: Making Homes Safe Again

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year we collectively watched in horror as Los Angeles burned. In all, at least 29 people were killed, 200,000 were forced to evacuate, an...

Lights, Camera, Sex: Intimacy Coordinator Secrets Revealed!

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While Sex in Hollywood movies goes in and out of style, we seem to be in an upswing moment with Academy Award wins for nudity-containing films like An...

This Billionaire is Buying TikTok! Really?

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Friend of the show, Howie Mandell is filling in for Jason Alexander. He’s the only man balder than Jason so… it works! Lately, TikTok has been in...

A Really no Really Message To YOU!

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fatal and devastating fires recently upturned the lives of many Los Angelenos. Even now, with the fires thankfully extinguished, things aren't back to...

Guitars & Guided Missiles: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter’s Extraordinary Career

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is a missile defense expert and a counter-terrorist authority who has consulted for Congressional Committees, the Pentagon, and th...

Banning Social Media …is that the right move?

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As TikTok America’s legal limbo continues, Australia became the first country in the world to ban minors under age 16 from social media. Australia’...

Reality TV is Dead! …or is it?

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Survivor: Borneo – the very first season of Survivor, debuted on Network Television in the year 2000. And with it, reality TV began to transform Ame...

NBA Champ John Salley Talks Basketball, Acting & Life After Sports

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ratings for professional sports are booming! Football is up, the WNBA continues to break records, people are even watching Major League Baseball! But ...

Shrinkflation Exposed: What Big Brands Don’t Want You to Know

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You’d be hard pressed to find a Seinfeld fan who doesn’t know what “shrinkage” is. But in real-life shrinkage is a phenomenon that’s happeni...

The Best Moments - Celebrating Our 100th Episode!

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

IN THIS EPISODE: William Shatner explains what would have happened, if he had suffered a heart attack during his recent mission to space. Dick van ...

Festivus 2024

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's an encore presentation of our Festivus episode... with a TWIST. Jason will forever be associated with the 166th episode of Seinfeld, which featur...

The Magic Words that Change Minds, Win Arguments, and Gain Influence!

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, our guest, Dr. Jonah Berger, a Wharton School professor, best-selling author, and world-renowned expert on word of mouth, and co...

From Antarctica to Mars: Surviving the Isolation

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Humans may be sent on a scientific round trip to Mars, potentially as early as 2035. Beyond the technical challenges, the big question is whether huma...

Growing Up Urkel – Jaleel White Reveals Family Matters

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, actor, producer, author, and screenwriter, Jaleel White, discusses his instant fame playing Steve Urkel and how he dealt with the hos...

Rethinking Cannabis: What Science Tells Us About Legalized Marijuana

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As of November 2024, recreational cannabis is legal in 24 states and it’s available medically or decriminalized in an additional 20. Clearly, the fl...

Meet The TV Veterinarian and Comic Who Protected Elvis, The Stones & The Wu-Tang Clan!

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do a bouncer for The Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Wu-Tang Clan and Willie Nelson…an Emergency Veterinarian who had a show on Animal Planet…a Pe...

The Secret to Judd Apatow’s Success is... Self Help?

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is self-help real or nonsense? Jason and Peter have always been skeptical of the ability for self-help books and seminars to impact and improve a pers...

Shark Tank’s KINDest Shark

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To be successful in business you need to be tough, unrelenting, ruthless…a shark, right? That’s why one of the most successful shows about busines...

What Really Happens When We Die - What One Man Saw on the Other Side

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A violent undiagnosed aneurysm should have killed Sebastian Junger, a war reporter, a best-selling author, and an Academy Award winning documentarian....

The Next Big Thing – Medieval Sports!

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is a growing phenomenon in the world of extreme fighting you might not be aware of. Of course there’s boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts...

The Power of Meat: Keto & Carnivore Diets and the Doctor Who Believes in Them!

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020 "keto" was the most Googled food-related topic in the world. More than 23 million Americans have been on the ketogenic diet, yet many of the f...

Crowdsourcing Creativity for Toy & Game Design

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many industries, including toy and game makers, are increasingly depending on crowdsourcing for fresh ideas and to help decide what products to make. ...

Microplastics Exposed: What Consumer Reports Found in Our Food & Water Supply

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We now know that microplastics are literally everywhere! In our water, in our food, even in the organs of wild animals - found in the most remote plac...

Shipwreck Hunters: The Trillion Dollar Undersea Quest

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in the golden age of finding and recovering trillion-dollar shipwrecks. These high-stakes, highly dangerous expeditions have been supercharged...

The 50-year Dungeons & Dragons Phenomenon Explained!

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dungeons & Dragons, the legendary tabletop role-playing game featuring elves, dwarves, wizards, fighters, and legions of nerds is currently observing…...

How Hypnosis Is Changing Lives!

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all seen videos of stage-hypnosis shows where seemingly random audience members are put to sleep, hypnotized and then… in no time, they’re...

The Ig Nobel Awards Make You Laugh…Then Think

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard of The Nobel Peace prize and the Nobel Literature prize, Science, and Medicine prizes. Well, this episode has absolutely nothing to ...

Does Your Dog Really Love You? Science Has the Answer!

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does your dog truly love you or are they faking it? A recent Newsweek cover story posed that very question and revealed that scientific research provi...

If Chemtrails Aren’t Real, Why Are They Being Banned?

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all seen them…white streaks emanating from behind commercial airliners. Is it water vapor or is there something more nefarious being release...

How Fungi Could Save the World!

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is an entire world - just below our feet - that defies our conventional understanding of intelligence. It’s a superhighway of fungal interconn...

The Holderness Family - ADHD can be a Superpower?

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD is a medical condition with symptoms that include difficulty focusing and staying on task, impulsivit...

Post-COVID Etiquette: The Dos and Don’ts

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Post-COVID, we are all living under evolved or flat-out different protocols. And many of us may be unsure which societal rules have changed and what n...

Dark Secrets of the $2 Billion Fortune Telling Industry

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Psychics. We see their tiny storefront shops in some of the most exclusive zip codes; Beverly Hills, Uptown Manhattan, the fanciest streets in your to...

Real Life Ghostbusters – Meet the Ghost Files Guys

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past several years people’s belief in ghosts, hauntings, and the supernatural have steadily crept up and recent studies reveal that 67% of ...

Which Country Has the Happiest Kids? Why?

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jason and Peter heard about a study suggesting that children in The Netherlands were the happiest kids in the world, their reaction was naturally...

The Return to Office Lie: Why It’s Failing Companies

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pandemic thrust millions of us into remote work, and the consensus for most of us is – we love it! Reduced commutes, getting deliveries, our own...

Mike Rowe’s Dirtiest Jobs, Joan Rivers Help & His Mother’s Challenge!

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Like most people, you’ve probably heard of Mike Rowe because of his willingness to do over 300 strange, disgusting and unique jobs like – sewer in...

The Billion Dollar Nap: The Rise of Sleep Tourism

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sleep deprivation can lead to hypertension, compromised immunity, stroke, obesity, premature death, and a whole host of other serious maladies. Betwee...

Inside the Secret World of Lost Luggage

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the United States, the airline industry loses an estimated 2 million bags annually. Now you might be wondering, where do all those lost bags end up...

Confessions of a Rented Bridesmaid

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can now rent a professional bridesmaid for your wedding! Really, no really! Before you ask the inevitable and logical question…why anyone would...

The Shocking Power of the Placebo Effect!

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A man attempted suicide by overdosing on a drug he was given in a clinical trial. He was rushed to a hospital in bad shape…shaking, breathing rapidl...

The Secret Life of Alligators!

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you heard about Wally the 5-foot-long, 60-pound emotional support alligator? Wally’s owner sleeps with him, walks him on a leash, and even host...

Your Bad Customer Service was No Accident!

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is all about our frustration with customer service… which by anyone’s standards is getting worse and worse! You experience it ev...

Free Will Might be an Illusion!

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Robert Sapolsky a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner and professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University has rankled the sci...

Blunt Truths on Marijuana

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The cannabis available today is much, much stronger than the weed grandma was smoking back in her day and the effects on our brains are much more sign...

What’s Driving Public Bad Behavior?

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s becoming impossible to ignore the epidemic of public incivility. Tirades in supermarkets, performers pelted with projectiles, drunken movie goe...

Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course -What You’re Really Learning!

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harvard is teaching a course on…Taylor Swift? Yes! Harvard University, the one in Cambridge, Massachusetts has a new course about T-Swizzle whose Er...

CNN’s Richard Quest: Is Airline Safety Declining?

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode attempts to answer the question… “Are airlines putting dangerous planes into the sky?” Recently, a Boeing 737 Max 9 had a door plu...

Comedian Leanne Morgan: From Housewife to Fame at 57!

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fame! That mystical quality that often leads young stars to crushing downfalls, addiction, financial ruin, even personal tragedy. So, is it better to ...

The Dark Side of Celebrity Endorsements

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As celebrities bask in their own fame, they are frequently offered exceptionally lucrative endorsement deals, often worth obscene amounts of money. Bu...

Wayne Knight on Seinfeld, Jurassic Park, Basic Instinct and more!

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode could be titled, “Hello Newman” because the internationally loved actor, Wayne Knight visits Really, no Really to talk about his...

Understanding TikTok – Should it Stay, or Should it Go?

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is all about trying to figure out if TikTok - the video hosting platform owned by the Chinese company Byte Dance should be banned or not....

Secrets From Tom Cruise’s Death-Defying Stunts Revealed!

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode should be titled “Mission Insanity” because it’s all about exploring how Tom Cruise performs his own death-defying stunts…and why...

Everyone’s Using Subtitles – The Fascinating Reasons Why!

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In case you haven’t noticed, there appears to be a subtitle revolution, with current research showing that as many as 61% of us are using subtitles ...

MrBeast Dominates YouTube…but who is he?

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

MrBeast aka 25-year-old Jimmy Donaldson is the biggest solo performer on YouTube. He’s followed by over 400 million people who watch his insane stun...

Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Modern Family Issues

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 11 years on ABC’s Modern Family, Jesse Tyler Ferguson never won a Primetime Emmy even though he was nominated 5 times. Jason, who reminds us ofte...

What an AI-Generated George Carlin Means for Us All

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a brand-new, George Carlin comedy special, which is mystifying and disturbing since he died in 2008! Legendary comedian George Carlin was u...

America’s Funniest Science Author on Orgasms, Cadavers & Space Travel

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Author Mary Roach is a hands-on writer specializing in science related topics that tap into some of the more curious and unexpected nooks of our lives...

Florida Has a Python Problem…Our Guest is the Solution

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Snakes…why'd it have to be snakes? There’s a Burmese Python problem in Florida’s Everglades which is dramatically altering the ecological balanc...

Extreme Tourism: A Simpsons Writer Goes Where You Wouldn’t

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s an understatement calling it adventure tourism, at minimum its extreme travel, more accurately it’s insanely dangerous. Diving to crushing de...

The Shocking Truth of Holiday Returns - Where Your “Stuff” Really Ends Up!

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Eco-Consequences, Why We Overconsume and Deceptive Costs! If you’ve returned holiday gifts or things you bought but didn’t need or the pants ...

The Secrets of Scent Marketing – How Smells are Manipulating Your Behavior

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Disneyland has “smellitizers” that stealthily blow aromas to intensify visitor’s sensory experiences and create lasting memories! And Disney isn...

Bryan Cranston on Retirement + That Time he was Wanted for Murder

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jason and Peter read that actor, producer, director, author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Bryan Cranston was retiring to spend more time with...

Feeding Frenzy: Buffets, Consumerism + the Allure of Overabundance!

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

COVID killed the all-you-can-eat buffet, right? With fogged sneeze guards, giant shared tongs and serving spoons, communal cheese boards, bread basket...

The REAL Festivus with Seinfeld Writer Dan O’Keefe + Why Families Create Bizarre Holiday Customs

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason will forever be associated with the 166th episode of Seinfeld, which featured Festivus…the holiday where families express their disappointment...

Gifting with Rolling Stones Bassist Darryl Jones + Acting Lessons

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s show is all about the joy AND angst of gift giving, the importance of context and considering the message you want to send with your gif...

Our Digital Miscommunication Crisis + Ways to Avert it!

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recipients of a 2-word email or text as basic as… “Nice job” or “Great work” are misinterpreting these messages a whopping 60% of the time! ...

Joe Bonamassa: Pickleball & Guitars

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times claims that “Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts,” and that the noise is so maddening that many prospective home buyers a...

Bryan Johnson: Is This Tech Entrepreneur Aging Backwards?

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vice Magazine dubbed tech millionaire Bryan Johnson “the most measured man in human history’” and the 45-year-old dares the world and the medica...

Wine Fraud and Wine Scams

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peter recognized an expert he knew in the documentary “Sour Grapes” about high-end wine fraud and wondered how a so-called authority could be so e...

The Secret Lives of Rats…Bet You Didn’t Know This!

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Forget about the Statue of Liberty and Broadway shows; residents and visitors are signing up for Rat Tourism in New York City…Really, no Really! As...

Living Underwater, Breath Holding Tricks + Space Llamas!

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Joseph Dituri, better known as “Dr. Deep Sea” set a new world record for the longest time…100 days…spent living underwater, without depres...

Kevin Pollak: Creating vs. Waiting + Impersonation Tutorial

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This absolutely gob smacked Peter; Jason casually mentioned he was originally cast as Lt. Sam Weinberg in Rob Reiner’s Oscar nominated film, A Few G...

Forgiveness, Seinfeld Grudges + The Science of Blame

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It seems that the denizens of New London, Connecticut have real issues with forgiveness and letting go. Every year they throw a bizarre festival casti...

Naked Comedy, Shared Vulnerability + Peter’s Prurient Interests

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Three 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 an...

Kitboga: Scam Baiting + Jason the Vigilante

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new breed of vigilante has emerged - armed with expertise, wit, humor and a penchant for justice, these tech influencers have begun scamming the sca...

Dangerous Jobs: Human Cannonball, Human Torch + Dangus!

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason mentioned that when checking out a story on the world’s most dangerous jobs he discovered that topping the list - human cannonball. Peter then...

Cloning Mammoths, Cultivating Organs + Giant Beavers

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason and Peter heard that a biotech company claimed that the long-deceased woolly mammoth will be brought back from extinction by 2027…Really, no r...

Alex Winter: The YouTube Effect, Magic Camp + Baby Shark!

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Actor, producer, and director Alex Winter, best known for his role in the "Bill & Ted” films joins Jason and Peter to explain how YouTube’s algori...

UFOs, Conspiracies + NASA

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A House Oversight Committee investigating UFOs featured shocking testimony by seemingly credible sources claiming that alien spacecraft have visited t...

The Last of Us, Vampires + the Writer’s Strike

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason 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 vi...

Drones, Prison Drops + Marshmallow Fluff

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Walmart, UPS, and even Dominos are all planning on using ariel drone delivery and according to a Bloomberg investigation, Amazon alone has made a $2 b...

Carrot Top: 4,000 Shows, The Haters + Jason’s “Final Moment”

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Broadway show The Phantom of the Opera, recently closed its doors after an unprecedented 35 year run and 13,981 performances. This begged the ques...