{"podcast":{"title":"What The If?","slug":"what-the-if-2494024","podcast_index_feed_id":2494024,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatTheIf","website_url":"https://whattheif.com","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-6bpoeT7LIDOyW3jp-f2Domg-original.jpg","author":"Philip Shane (info@whattheif.com)","episode_count":450,"summary":"Welcome to the show where we learn science by exploring the universe by pushing it... to the limit. A dangerous mix of Science & Fiction, hosted by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T12:18:21.742498+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-if-2494024"},"episode":{"title":"WHO The If - GABY!","slug":"who-the-if-gaby","published_at":"2026-06-09T03:16:27+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-if-2494024/who-the-if-gaby","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-if-2494024","url":"https://soundcloud.com/whattheif/gaby","audio_url":"http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2335902674-whattheif-gaby.mp3","summary":"Behind every voice you've come to love on this show is a life full of stories you've never heard. With our eighth anniversary just around the corner, we're doing something we've never done: each of us takes a turn in the guest's chair to answer all the questions the rest of us have always wondered about. First up is Gaby, a microbiologist at Harvard. What's it really like to spend your days in her world? Step into a lab alive with invisible wonders, head out to a beach where secret animal rituals are hiding in plain sight, and meet the kid who once chased frogs across a backyard and grew into a scientist chasing the deepest mysteries of life. —— When she's not studying zombie fungus at Harvard or helping us break the universe every week, our very own Gaby Paniccia writes science fiction. Her short story \"The Automatic Grocery Store\" is now featured on the popular podcast Escape Pod! Listen here: https://escapepod.org/2026/02/19/escape-pod-1033-the-automatic-grocery-store/ —— Check out our membership rewards! Visit us at Patreon.com/Whattheif —— Got an IF of your own? Want to have us consider your idea for a show topic? Send YOUR IF to us! Visit https://whattheif.com/contact and let us know what's in your imagination. No idea is too small, or too big! Keep On IFFin', Philip, Matt & Gaby","meta_description":"Behind every voice you've come to love on this show is a life full of stories you've never heard. With our eighth anniversary just around the corner, we'r…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2595,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-the-if-2494024/episodes/who-the-if-gaby/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-if-2494024/who-the-if-gaby.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}