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What If I'm Right?
by Ian Heller
We live in an age of echo chambers and "death matches" of opinion. But what happens when we step outside the noise? Hosted by Ian Heller, "What If I’m Right?" is a bold exploration of life in the 21st century. From the mechanics of politics and medicine to the nuances of art and religion, we strip away received wisdom and comfortable narratives to get to the heart of how our world actually works. We aren’t looking for the "mushy middle," we’re looking for the truth.
Episodes
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Political Propaganda: Here’s Your Personal Deception Detector & Guest John Parikhal
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question marketers and politicians already know the answer to: why do we believe what we see, even when it never happened? Drug commercials bury the warnings under happy people dancing in the street, and political ads use the same ploy. With the midterms...
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Election Law, The Census, Defending Democracy & Guest Jeffrey Wice
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question the midterm coverage keeps skipping: everyone is talking about voter intimidation, fraud claims, and mid-decade redistricting, but how much of democracy is decided by election law and the census long before anyone casts a ballot? Then Ian is joined...
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Does the Best Music Come From the Worst Times? & Guest Dr. Tom Rizzuto
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question that music history keeps answering the same way: does great art actually need a crisis to be born from? Ian's answer might surprise you. Then Ian is joined by Tom Rizzuto, a professor of music history, guitar, and media at Molloy University and…
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Can Ketamine Therapy Help the Dying Find Peace? & Guest Dr. Marc Swogger
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question most people are afraid to research honestly: what if some of our most effective tools for anxiety, depression, and addiction have been sitting right in front of us, buried for decades by the war on drugs? Ian's answer might surprise you.Then Ian is...
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Can Black Sabbath & Screaming Help Us Navigate Despair? & Guest Jack Holloway
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question most of us avoid: where does all the rage go? Not the big explosions - the quiet, simmering kind that leaks out sideways at the dinner table, or builds until it finds the worst possible moment to erupt. Ian's answer might surprise you. Then Ian is...
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AI, TV & the Trojan Horse of Democracy & Guest John Parikhal
This week, host Ian Heller opens with a rallying cry: shows like What If I'm Right? exist to push back against the noise, the propaganda, and the slow erosion of honest discourse — and he needs you in the fight. Then Ian is joined by John Parikhal, president of John Parikhal & Associates,...
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The Amorality of Law, The History of Immigration & Guest Lenni Benson
What if our legal system was never actually designed to be moral? This week, host Ian Heller tackles the massive "legal fiction" that governs immigration in America alongside an absolute powerhouse in the field. Professor Lenni Benson is the Distinguished Chair Professor of Immigration and Human...
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Perception vs. Reality | Crime and the Impact of the Arts and Culture & Guest Marc Unger
This week, host Ian Heller talks to his friend Marc. Marc Unger is a nationally headlining comedian, actor, screenwriter, and former radio talk show host with a brilliant 35-year career. Using Marc's journey from a comic rising in the ranks to a creator navigating the cutthroat entertainment...
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Why Stats Don't Define Safety, Art vs. Artist & Guest Marc Unger
This week, host Ian Heller talks to his friend Marc. Marc Unger is a nationally headlining comedian, actor, screenwriter, and former radio talk show host with a brilliant 35-year career. Using Marc's journey from a comic rising in the ranks to a creator navigating the cutthroat entertainment...
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How Global Events Hit Your Grocery Bill & Guest Colin Erdle
This week, host Ian Heller makes his mission clear: forget the talking heads — What If I'm Right? is about understanding the world from the ground up, from the people actually getting rained on when the storm rolls in. And no one illustrates that better than today's guest. Colin Erdle is a...
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Your Digital Infrastructure Is a Ticking Clock & Guest Eric Wenger
This week, host Ian Heller asks a question that sounds like it belongs in a boardroom but lands in everyone's living room: why do we keep using technology that's quietly falling apart? Ian is joined by his cousin Eric Wenger — Cornell and George Washington Law grad, former DOJ trial attorney in…
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All Life Is Vibration: Music, Social Movements & Guest Buddy Booker
This week, host Ian Heller starts where everything starts — at the frequency. Before the guest arrives, Ian makes the case that music isn't just a soundtrack to social change, it is the change: from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" cracking open the civil rights movement, to the science of string...
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Did the Terror of Isolation Give Rise to 21st-Century Authoritarianism? & Guest Dr. Mena Mirhom
This week, host Ian Heller asks a question that cuts deeper than politics — what if our hunger for strongmen isn't about ideology at all, but about loneliness? Ian is joined by Dr. Mena Mirhom, board-certified psychiatrist, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Medical...
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When Loyalty Meets Conscience: A Jewish American Reckons with Israel & Guest Dr. Erela Portugaly
This week, host Ian Heller does something he's long been afraid to do — publicly challenge Israel's conduct in Gaza, even at the risk of losing family and friends. Ian is joined by Dr. Erela Portugaly, Professor of Sociology at City College of New York and an Israeli citizen, whose ground-level...
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Systemic Failures: From K-12 Classrooms to Misdemeanor Justice & Guest Dr. Edwin Grimsley
This week, host Ian Heller examines how institutions—from the education system to the courtroom—are failing our communities. Ian is joined by Dr. Edwin Grimsley, Professor of Sociology at Baruch College and an expert in criminology. Drawing on his work with the Innocence Project and the…
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Beyond the Echo Chamber: Finding Our Shared Venn Diagram & Guest Lora Heller
In this inaugural episode, host Ian Heller challenges the modern "death match" of public discourse. By moving past echo chambers and the "mushy middle," Ian explores a "Venn diagram" approach to finding commonality between opposing views. Plus, Ian is joined by his wife, Lora, founder of Baby...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We live in an age of echo chambers and "death matches" of opinion. But what happens when we step outside the noise? Hosted by Ian Heller, "What If I’m Right?" is a bold exploration of life in the 21st century. From the mechanics of politics and medicine to the nuances of art and religion, we strip away received wisdom and comfortable narratives to get to the heart of how our world actually works. We aren’t looking for the "mushy middle," we’re looking for the truth.
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We live in an age of echo chambers and "death matches" of opinion. But what happens when we step outside the noise? Hosted by Ian Heller, "What If I’m Right?" is a bold exploration of life in the 21st century. From the mechanics of politics and medicine to the nuances of art and religion, we strip...
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