Episode 115: “It chodes your rods!” with Guest Ward Van Haute

             Mind your manners, all; we’ve got company this week! Friend of the show, art expert, and all-around mensch Ward Van Haute returns to Whiparound studios to join Phil and Shaun as they deliver piping hot, freshly funky weird news right upside your head!

            And YES, Ward brought some strange news of the ART variety! His tale this week is a harrowing one, in which an artist caught in the path of Australia’s deadly brushfires found himself trapped in his doomed home…and all he had to save himself was a room full of art supplies. Find out how this drongo of a story ends in the latest edition of Weird Art News!

            Next, Phil faces a personal fear to bring us all word of the very latest in strange SCIENCE! Do NOT try this at home: Phil found some biohackers that took powerful meds used in treating cancer and injected this stuff right into their EYEBALLS! And…well, it had an effect. Find out how this all went down AND hear the good doctor squirm in the retelling!

            Oh, while we’re talking about biohacking, that’s the theme of this week’s GAME! See if you can separate shudderingly true attempts at improving humanity via (rather mad) science from a bunch of bunko that Phil thought up (and may try one day, if we’re not careful…)!

            And, as ever, we wrap things up at top speed AND top quality, blitzing through six recent bizarro headlines at record-breaking speed in everyone’s favorite cannonball of coverage, Three for the Road!

            We have style, we have grace, and biohackers, stay away from our face! It’s time for THE WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

 Our Webmistress’s Amazing Etsy Shop: The Magician’s Assistant!

 Man survives bushfire hiding in pottery kiln as Australian town is almost wiped out

How biohackers are trying to upgrade their brains, their bodies — and human nature

Extreme biohacking: the tech guru who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever

A Biohacker Regrets Publicly Injecting Himself With CRISPR

Florida troopers find narcotics in bag labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’

Male sex robots with unstoppable bionic penises are coming this year

Cottage Grove church to usher out gray-haired members in effort to attract more young parishioners

A YouTuber got the inflammatory right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins to fly to Prague to pick up a fake award whose initials spelled out the C-word

Vandal In Whitehall 'Topping' Cars, Road Signs With Sliced Cheese

Indian man dies after getting attacked by his rooster on their way to a cockfight

Woman Selling Tortillas Didn’t Realize She Was Using Dildo as Rolling Pin

Bio-Hackers Figured Out How to Inject Human Eyes With Night Vision, And It's Still Creepy as Hell

There's a Cancer Treatment That Gives People 'Night Vision', And We Finally Know Why

Ontario teen gets harmonica stuck in mouth, sent to hospital

Return to sender; it’s a mail mix up as Twinsburg couple gets 55,000 pieces of mail

Man Creates Virtual Traffic Jam on Google Maps by Dragging Small Cart with 99 Phones on Empty Street

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, art, wildfire, Australia, eyes, experiment, biohacking, biohackers

**Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com & www.soundsnap.com**

***Special thanks to DanO for the awesome music. Check out the songs from the episode and LOTS more great stuff at http://www.danosongs.com**