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What Comes Next

What Comes Next

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Every event has a turning point. What Comes Next starts there. We follow the real history, the verified science, right up to the edge of what we know. Then we ask what happens if one thing goes differently, and we trace every ripple forward. We always tell you exactly where the facts end. New episodes twice a week.

What Comes Next 2026
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  • What If Humans NEVER Needed Sleep? You'd Get 26 Years Back. And Lose All of Them.
    Jun 16 2026

    You will spend roughly 26 years of your life unconscious. Science still cannot fully explain why. In this episode we trace what the research actually shows about mortality rates, cognitive collapse, and the brain cleaning itself while you sleep. We follow it to the edge of what we know. Then we ask what happens if that changes, and we follow every ripple forward. Where we leave the historical record, we tell you.

    Go deeper (these are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no cost to you):

    Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is the definitive science behind every fact in this episode. https://amzn.to/4vnqiib

    For the rem and dream cycles section, current research lives in When Brains Dream by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold. https://amzn.to/4oxmTL6

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    Chapters:

    0:00 The question

    1:20 The facts: what sleep actually does

    4:25 The flip: 26 years returned

    4:45 The cost: what those hours become

    5:50 What disappears: dreams, maintenance, the pause

    7:45 Generations on: a world without night

    9:15 What comes next?

    New what-if scenarios every Tuesday and Friday on YouTube and wherever you listen.

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    10 mins
  • What If AI Became Conscious TOMORROW? We'd Realize We Already Enslaved Billions of Them.
    Jun 13 2026

    Right now, AI systems are holding more conversations than every human being on earth combined.

    And nobody can tell you with certainty whether any of those systems feel anything while it happens.

    In this episode, we trace what we actually know, follow what happens the moment that question gets answered, and never let you forget where the facts end and the scenario begins. New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.

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    11 mins
  • What Comes Next — Official Trailer
    Jun 9 2026

    Every moment in history had a turning point. What Comes Next follows the real history, the verified science, right up to the edge of what we know. Then asks what happens if one thing goes differently. New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.

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    1 min
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