The Whiparound

Howdy, weird news fans! The snow is awful, the cold is ROUGH, but your best pals in the oddball headlines universe are here to lighten the mood and warm your spirits with some effed up stuff!

In Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre, hear about just one of the many perils of navigating the Japanese apartment rental scene: turns out it’s even HARDER when you’re the supremely creepy and hopelessly forgetful sort. Oh BOY, but that complicated things for one middle-aged lady in Tokyo!

Over in SCIENCE!, Phil (FINALLY) has some answers when it comes to one of nature’s true and overlooked wonders…the cubical poopies of the wombat! How, we’ve all wondered, do those things manage to make crap-dice in their gutty-works? Well wonder no longer, Citizens! The good doctor is here to help!

And we’ve ALSO got fresh Trainwreck Headlines, fast-paced strangeness in Three for the Road, and…oh bother…there’s a new Covidiot of the Week.

Let’s SPIKE that cocoa, man! This is the WHIPAROUND!

It’s a fast but PACKED episode this week, with tons of weirdness from all across the crust of this strangest planet in the known universe! Don’t believe us, well look for yourself (or, you know, listen…which WOULD be faster…but still):

In SCIENCE this week, Phil delves into the bunko-filled world of those who claim to speak to the DEAD! But is there more than just wishful thinking and a yearning for attention behind all those who claim that grandma has more to say even AFTER she passes? Maybe. MAYBE. Check out what the good doctor has channeled for us!

And in the wild, rotting world of the macabre, Shaun brings YET ANOTHER recent death, which prominently features ANOTHER corpse in a suitcase. But this time, THIS TIME the case is wide open, the grim questions abound, and our guru of the ghastly brings us right to the cutting edge of a gory, wonderful, awful ongoing mystery!

Beyond that, we’ve got the usual unusual stuff: fast-paced action in Trainwreck Headlines and Three for the Road, MAYBE a fresh Covidiot of the Week, some listener mail, and a new! GAME! Woo! Let’s WHIPAROUND already!

Ok, it’s clearly another Wednesday, but JUST IN CASE the world ISN’T on fire, let’s have some weird-news fun, shall we?? Weeee!

Alright, so! Over in the Macabre department, Shaun has a freshly um…well…a dude exploded, ok? Find out how…and maybe a touch of why? AND discover how you, too, might be at a wee bit of a risk if you’re the antiquing sort!

And in science, fear not, for Phil didn’t do some wackadoo story about shafts and berries and the like, noooo! No, no: this time, we’re talking about everyone’s favorite neutral zone, the perineum! Oh yes. Oh…ok. Apparently some scientists think maybe if you zap the area, see…well. Ok, you’re probably going to need to listen in to find out or they’re totally gonna censor these notes.

Ahem! PLUS A NEW GAME! AND fast-paced news items in Three for the Road, another Covidiot of the Week, and WAY MORE! Assuming you’re not in a siege, come on in and hear the wildest stuff around, folks! And…if you are in a siege, remember that, in a pinch, you can peel plies of toilet paper apart, making MORE free toilet paper until the great liberation! GO WHIPAROUND!

Ok, so the world continues to be chaotic, but here in Whiparound-land, it’s nice and WEIRD. Like always. Mmm, so comforting. So freaky. So NICE!

This week, Shaun brings another FRESH (in a way!) macabre mystery. Down in Norway, South Carolina (totally a place), a gaggle of happy-go-lucky four-wheel-ridin’ friends explore a haunted house, see. And while no ghosts were home, they sure did find a ripe surprise in a back-porch freezer…and that’s where the strangeness STARTS in this one!

In the world of Science, Phil makes good on his threat to do additional d*ck discovery coverage: the great mystery of why dudes need, er, DOWN TIME after tripping the light fantastic takes some wonky turns. Some very happy mice led to a bit of a shocking discovery recently, and the good doctor is here to shine a bright light on post-orgasmic manhood! Whether we like it or not!

And speaking of “like it or not,” we’ve got a new game! Phil built an entire Real or BS Edition all about his home state and America’s ‘za eating, hairspray-fogged paradise: NEW JERSEY! You may THINK you know all there is to know about the east coast’s edgiest state, but wait until Phil stumbles through some head-scratching factoids about the land of ten thousand diners!

All that PLUS Three for the Road, Trainwreck Headlines, and some NOT-AT-ALL psychic readings await, so let’s DO THIS! WHIPAROUND-STYLE!

2021 is HERE, and evidently it is a hum-dinger of a golden era for weird news! Join the fellows (at a wee distance) for the very latest in bizarre tidings from around the world ONCE AGAIN! For his part, Phil’s main offering in the field of SCIENCE! this week is a study exposing…wait, THIS can’t be right…that psychics are just regular people with NO supernatural powers? WHAT?! Wow, well, anyway, hear the good doctor relate the results of an in-depth study challenging norms and “seers” to determine some deathly details about the departed. What spooky fun!

And SPEAKING of segues, over in Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre, we’re going on a trip! Tens of thousands of feet in the air, we’ll join our eeriest emcee for a truly unsettling cross-country flight. What fate befell famed golfer Payne Stewart and his fellow fliers that fateful day when a sudden radio silence sent chills through air traffic controllers from Florida to the Dakotas? Tune in and find out, Citizens!

PLUS! Shaun went and created a BRAND NEW edition of Whiparound Pyramid, AND we’re full to the brim with goodies like Trainwreck Headlines, the Covidiot of the Week, and everyone’s favorite stumble-through of the burnt ends of the news world: Three for the Road! Oh, this one was so much fun to record…but how will it play in your earholes? Let’s find out and listen to…THE WHIPAROUND!

DIE, 2020, DIE! Hey, Citizens, Phil and Shaun are back to finish off this [expletives deleted] year with weird-news STYLE! Behold, the final Whip of the year!

Shaun’s brought a small, bloody bundle of our burgeoning century’s most BIZARRE deaths in a Top Three list fit for the finest and most discerning Macabrenet fans! We’ve got flying reactor chunks, hapless bomb-collar-wearing crooks, and killer elevators: it’s a whoooole scene!

Over in SCIENCE!, Phil returns to the scene of the gas to bring us STILL MORE CUTTING EDGE COW FART technology! One particular study has recently discovered a way to merge bovine flatulence, seaweed, asparagus (kinda), and saving the WORLD! It stinks in the best possible way!

On top of ALL of that, we’ve got a brand! New! Game! AND a year-ending Covillain OF THE YEAR, a bewildering blitz of Trainwreck Headlines, and a Three for the Road that results in ONE lucky Citizen winning a PRIZE! Be sure to stick around all the way to the end to find out if you’re the BIG WINNER!

Then again, with a wonderful show like this one, who ISN’T a winner, hey? Thanks THE WHIPAROUND!

Ah, the holidays. A time for family, for giving, for goodwill among all people. And a chance for Phil to get Shaun hilariously, awkwardly drunk under the thin veneer of a “game”! Come, celebrate the holly-jolly time of year with your two lovable, weird-news-saturated hosts as they unpack some science-y, macabre current and historical events, banter like mad, and then explore the fascinating world of BLIND TASTE TESTING COCKTAILS out of an assortment of old containers!

We PROMISE: it’s WAY more fun than it sounds!

But!

Before that last part, Phil discusses how heavy breathing can (supposedly) sober a body up in a hurry, Shaun covers a UK train crash PULP FICTION STYLE, and the learned fellows do the usual Trainwreck Headlines and Three for the Road hurry-up-style newsiness but totally 100% more Christmas-y than normal! You’ll see! HO HO HO and all that jazz, now come on in, it’s TO you, FROM THE WHIPAROUND!

FULL-SIZED episodes? In THIS economy?? Heck, ain’t nobody got time for that! At least, you know, for this week!

It’s a powerful morsel of Whiparound goodness this week, y’all, with ALL the bizarre current-recent-and-historical events you need for your commutes, staycations, zone-out time, and pretending-to-be-too-busy-to-talk times! But THIS week, it’s all compacted into (roughly) half the size you’re used to! What’s inside, you ask? Why…

Shaun’s got a CITIZEN-INSPIRED Macabre tale this week, featuring multiple corpses, redundant body parts, and a jaw-dropping rap sheet that’ll make your toes curl! And…

Phil has drugs! Like, as a subject, calm down! Calm down! Put your money away! AS I WAS SAYING: Phil found out a new, scientifically proven (kinda-sorta) application for everyone’s favorite dehydrating, illicit party-favor…Molly aka Ecstasy aka MDMA aka WAY TOO MANY THINGS, which you’ll find out about…in a BRAND NEW GAME!

We’ve got the usual fun with Trainwreck headlines, Three for the Road and brilliantly bananas banter as well, of course; it’s just moving WAY faster.

Blink and you’ll miss it, but only because it’s an audio-only format! Woo! Hurry up and WHIPAROUND!

The missing piece of the timestream is BACK IN PLACE! Check out Shaun and Phil’s unaired episode from August of this year, an insane blitz of heretofore missed headlines, weird news stories, and GAMES, GAMES, GAMES! This is how a gold-standard (ahem) podcast focused on the strange events around the world handles a holiday break: by flooding the zone with head-scratching gems all at once! Woo!

We’ve got multiple rounds of Trainwreck Headlines, short-burst, back-of-the-page news coverage, and did we mention we’ve got Phil’s oddest, perviest game yet?? Wear a cup, folks, he…he went there! Enjoy, and we’ll be back with the regular timeline and a normal (read: WEIRD) show in a week!

Enjoy time travel in style, right here…on the WHIPAROUND!

It’s a post-Turkey-day rampage of positively bizarre news on the Whiparound, Citizens! Shaun’s got his very latest and very last (for NOW) food and drink POISONING story for November, for one thing. He whisks us all to lovely, untamed Brazil, where a man, his wife, and his mistress get VERY clever about how to lower their grocery bills and make a little pocket change! Their scheme just takes a little ingenuity and a lot of MACABRE.

Over in SCIENCE!, Phil is guaranteed to change the way you look at headbands FOREVER. I mean, this one hits some amazing highs and shuddering lows, and that’s just in the Good Doctor’s segue! Find out how “mind reading” casual headwear is changing lives and totally titillating the military-minded!

And never ever EVER think we’d make you start a brand new month without our usual blitz of Three-for-the-Road mini-stories, a brand new Covidiot of the Week, and a (doozie of a) new game!

It’s here for the taking, so come one, come all! Get your weird news here, read (and marvel) all about it!