Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min · 2 segments
A very quick bonus episode and an unusual ask from me. **👉 Vote here:** https://tophost.org/2026/adam-w-barney…
Adam W. BarneyHost
Hey everybody, Adam W. Barney here, and this is just a very quick, very unusual bonus episode of Is Anything Real? I almost didn't do this because I don't really ask you all for much, but then I thought this is probably the group I should ask.

If you're hearing this, you've listened to the show, you know how much I approach these conversations.

I prepare probably too much, I ask a lot of questions, and I'm usually trying to get past the rehearsed answer to what's actually underneath it all.

Somehow, that's actually now landed me in third place in a top host competition with only about 12 hours left before the first cut.

And this is actually kind of ridiculous to me, considering someone told me I should start a podcast about 15 years ago, and I basically laughed at them.

There's an opportunity here to host an iHeartRadio-produced podcast, and I would genuinely love to see what I could do with that.

So if you've gotten something from Is Anything Real?, whether it's an idea, a laugh, a question you kept thinking about, whatever really, I'd appreciate your vote.

Now, 12 is technically my lucky number, but one sounds actually pretty incredible today.

Thanks for being part of this weird experiment with me and whether we move up or not, I really appreciate you all.

Hey everybody, Adam W. Barney here, and this is just a very quick, very unusual bonus episode of Is Anything Real? I almost didn't do this because I don't really ask you all for much, but then I thought this is probably the group I should ask.

If you're hearing this, you've listened to the show, you know how much I approach these conversations.

I prepare probably too much, I ask a lot of questions, and I'm usually trying to get past the rehearsed answer to what's actually underneath it all.

Somehow, that's actually now landed me in third place in a top host competition with only about 12 hours left before the first cut.

And this is actually kind of ridiculous to me, considering someone told me I should start a podcast about 15 years ago, and I basically laughed at them.

There's an opportunity here to host an iHeartRadio-produced podcast, and I would genuinely love to see what I could do with that.

So if you've gotten something from Is Anything Real?, whether it's an idea, a laugh, a question you kept thinking about, whatever really, I'd appreciate your vote.

Now, 12 is technically my lucky number, but one sounds actually pretty incredible today.

Thanks for being part of this weird experiment with me and whether we move up or not, I really appreciate you all.
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