The Whiparound

Episode 125: THE CRAPPENING with Guest Macabre Segment by Chuck Seiders!

           Hooray, more weirdness! Let’s forget our troubles and pretend we’re listening to a fantastic (and fantastically strange) podcast in PARADISE! We can chill to the soothing sounds of Phil’s latest haul of strange stories and ONE FAKE in Trainwreck Headlines! Or maybe you’d prefer to get your inner jock all swole with a SPECIAL GUEST! Chuck Seiders of Philly sports podcast Podadelphia jumps into the Macabrenet to regale us all with the story of the most bloody, brutal, career-ending hockey game of all time: The Good Friday Massacre! Oooh, it’s like we’re on a magical beach full of stout Canadians, eh?

            OR, perhaps you’re the intellectual sort. Well we’ve got you covered there, too! The good doctor has a SCIENCE! story featuring the very latest and greatest technological leap forward in invasive bathroom procedures. Oh, you and your doctor are gonna get VERY close! Pass the pina coladas: you’re gonna wanna loosen up for this one!    

            Yes, we’ve got all that, PLUS a new game and WAY more bizarre stuff all collected, polished, hosed off, disinfected, and socially isolated for your distance-based enjoyment. It’s gonna be a freakin’ hoot, yo, and we’ll even help you put the sunscreen on your back…from six feet away. We’ve got great aim, folks, we are, after all…THE WHIPAROUND!

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Our Webmistress’s Amazing Facebook Page: The Magician’s Assistant!

31 Things You Should Definitely Know About Pee

Everybody poops. But here are 9 surprising facts about feces you may not know.

His Colleagues Surprised Him With A Flight On A Fighter Jet. He Accidentally Ejected Himself Mid-Flight.

Czech nudists told to wear face masks by police

Fearing end of the world, man returns ancient stolen relic

Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

Florida man accused of beating cellmate who asked for a ‘courtesy flush’ to help with smell

Facebook will start nudging users who have "liked" coronavirus hoaxes

Vietnam introduces 'fake news' fines for coronavirus misinformation

A Proof-of-Concept 'Smart Toilet' System Monitors Your Health and Identifies You by 'Analprint'

Driver caught doing 130mph claimed he was trying to avoid catching coronavirus

VIDEO: Italian mayor uses drones to scream profanities at residents ignoring lockdown

'Ghosts' Scare Indonesians Indoors and Away From Coronavirus

Woman with two wombs gives birth twice, nearly a month apart

93-year-old woman's viral plea for beer answered by Coors

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, games, trivia, sports, hockey, massacre, Canada,

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***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**

Episode 124: It’s Pickle Time: The ALL-GAMES EPISODE!

           Welcome to the first EVER Whiparound GAME Special! That’s right, Citizens, Phil and Shaun are here to play all your favorite Whiparound payoffs with none of that pesky context! We’ve got Trainwreck Headlines, a fresh edition of Real or BS, a brand new Build-a-BLANK Workshop, Card Sharts, and MORE! So play along or just marvel at the idiocy all around us, folks. ENJOY! And it’s all courtesy of…

THE WHIPAROUND!

 LINKS:

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

The Spinner

Strange pink unicorn lurking near middle school - KYMA

The FA was forced to confirm they are not using Wembley Stadium to cook the world’s biggest lasagna

New York City man arrested for running speakeasy where people were drinking and gambling during coronavirus lockdown

Man dies live on air while complaining about Iraq’s health service

These 18 Accidental And Unintended Scientific Discoveries Changed The World

The Worst Outbreaks in U.S. History

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, games, trivia, outbreaks, breakthroughs

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***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**

Episode 123: I’ll Have the Canadian Massacre, Please

           Welcome to another week of weird news amidst a week of hideous news! Come, let us wrap you in our audio-only arms and nuzzle you to mental health with some of the strangest NON-VIRAL-BASED noteworthy happenings. What sorta noteworthy oddities await inside, you ask? How about…

            Some TRAINWRECK HEADLINES! Spot Phil’s fake lead and win the day! Play along as Shaun attempts to separate the HUH!? from the NUH!

            Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre, and THIS week it’s about one of the rarest cuts of prime bizarre around: a CANADIAN massacre! Meth, motorcycles, and the morbidly obese combine to make this one for the record books, folks!

            The good doctor, as ever, brings us more SCIENCE! You’ve gotta hear to believe what Phil’s got to say about the wild world of…water balloons? Welp!

            And, of course, we’ve got a blazing-fast round of THREE FOR THE ROAD to bring you up to speed on more of the very odd-balliest current events from around this nigh-inscrutable world we’re all hiding from!

            Toilet paper, schmoilet paper, we ALWAYS feel clean and fresh around here, and it’s all thanks to…THE WHIPAROUND!

 LINKS:

Our Webmistress’s Amazing Facebook Page: The Magician’s Assistant!

Water-balloon physics is high-impact science

Maine sheriff investigating claim that armed men cut down tree to force neighbor's quarantine

www.ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com

 Controversial "Class of Life" Has Primary School Children Eating Fish They Helped Raise

World leaders' posts deleted over false virus info

Coronavirus leads some Brazil gangs to impose curfews, report says

The Bandidos massacre: An 'execution assembly line' wiped out the Toronto biker gang 10 years ago

Blowing a hair dryer up your nose won’t kill coranavirus, despite what a Florida commissioner said

Shots fired at Pa. Sheetz after man coughs, doesn’t cover mouth amid coronavirus epidemic: report

Busch is giving 3 months' worth of beer to people who adopt or foster a dog during coronavirus crisis

Downtown Charleston restaurant new to delivery accused of charging $18 for $2 frozen pizza

Stop sending memes, Russian telecoms firm pleads

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, games, trivia, massacre, crime, Canada, balloons, physics, membranes

 **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**

Episode 122: The Whiparound: The OTHER Weird Meat

ANNOUNCEMENT: After much consideration, Phil and Shaun have made a critical decision affecting the show you all know and love. We’ve altered the format of our podcast to better suit our listeners; as we’ve said, we’ve been listening and reading feedback carefully. Now it’s time to give the audience what it wants. As of this episode, the Whiparound will focus exclusively on the latest trends in beaver farming. Same hosts, but now we’re following our true passion: bringing the latest in cutting edge dam-building rodent news straight to our loyal followers. And remember: NO CHIPMUNKS ALLOWED.

What’s got prominent front teeth, a leathery, flat tail, and a knack for building natural wonders? THE WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

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

TV medical dramas gives their masks to hospitals to help fight the coronavirus

Portland strip club starts curbside food delivery service called 'Boober Eats'

Dalek warns Caerphilly residents to stay indoors to stop coronavirus

Person under coronavirus lockdown in Spain tries to leave house dressed as T. rex

Police: NH man told to turn down music grabs sword, chases man

PPB: Burglary suspect late to meet up with undercover officers because he was burglarizing home

Americans not welcome due to virus, say Mexicans

"Pee Napkin" Prompts Fight, Domestic Bust

The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk

10 Great Science Hoaxes

Paper tigers: when scientists hoax publishers

5 April Fools' Pranks Gone Bad

Woman Stabs Boyfriend When April Fools' Joke Backfires: Police

Man jailed for stealing police car's blue lights for 'bragging rights'

Creepy Alien-Like Scene Is Not At All What It Looks Like

Fake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected

A reporter's reaction when a bison herd approaches has the internet in stitches. Yellowstone says he did the right thing

Olympic bomb hoax barrister fails in disbarment appeal

Man Fakes Own Beheading Video

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, games, trivia, hoaxes, April Fools, pranks, beavers

**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**

Episode 121: Welcome to the World’s Worst Kumite!

             It’s a new week, which means more weird shi…uh. STUFF! Join us, and let that temporary lockdown turn into a temporary ROCK-down! Ugh. Sorry, folks. We’re stir-crazy, too. Anyway…WEIRD NEWS!

            We’ve got more TRAINWRECK HEADLINES! Spot the fake and WIN THE DAY!

            This week, inside Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre, peep a Russian Tsar toppled by a gang of drunk nobles who negotiate about as well as, well, a gang of drunk nobles!

            And the good doctor unveils some Science! all about the extraordinarily high-tech way a Mars rover was able to free itself from the Red Planet’s crunchy, greedy mantle! HINT: Larry, Moe, and Curly were apparently brilliant scientists!

            Plus, Phil went and cooked up a BRAND NEW GAME! It’s all about things…that, uh. Ahem. It’s about things getting stuck in people’s bodies, so the less said here, the better, but it’s hilarious and educational, so don’t MISS IT!

            And, as ever, we blitz you with bizarre current events in the fastest news segment on planet Earth, THREE FOR THE ROAD!

            You can’t lock down the TRUTH! At least not when it’s the kind of oozy stuff you tend to find here…on THE WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

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

New study finds receptivity to bullshit predicts the use of essential oils

Hundreds of nuns trained in Kung Fu are biking the Himalayas to oppose human trafficking

Woman killed housemate with tape dispenser, shower rod, prosecutor says

Wildlife Photographer Shocked To Find Seagulls Fighting Over A Dildo

Faith Healers Had to Postpone an Event Due to the Coronavirus

TikTok Confirms That You Aren’t Rich Or Good-Looking Enough To Go Viral

Bank of Oklahoma Sues ‘Dank of Oklahoma’ Dispensary

Coronavirus Latest | Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Use For COVID-19 Patients

What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Last Year?

At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars

Missions | Mars Exploration Section – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

Locals react to wild stolen ambulance chase after shirtless Philly driver

Miami customs agent discovered $30,000 worth of cocaine inside set of golf clubs

Porn queen offers sex for COVID-19 cure, and more stories from the edge

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, games, trivia, assassination, tsar, Russia, space, NASA, Mars, rover

**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**

Episode 120: Phil’s Drugged Up; Let’s DO THIS!

Feeling cooped up? Hemmed in? Gripped by the stuffy claws of cabin fever? Your pals at the WHIPAROUND are here to help! We’ve got a ton of the weirdest news from out in the Forbidden Zone to deliver right into the holes on the sides of your head…are you ready? Let’s ROCK!

Phil’s foot surgery and resultant pain meds mean this week features one of the most fascinating TRAINWRECK HEADLINE editions we’ve ever done! And his cheery loopiness kind of makes this whole episode feel…special. Read into that as much as you like!

Shaun helps a flagging Phil out a bit by delivering both SCIENCE! AND The Cabinet of the Macabre this week, so brace yourselves for a lot, a lot, a LOT of dark side loveliness. And hey, what would the show be without a lighting-quick blast of six insane-but-true bizarre news stories from around the world? Let’s NEVER find out, thanks to THREE FOR THE ROAD!

They can sanitize our hands, they can sanitize our faces, but they can never sanitize…THE WHIPAROUND! (Cue the Scottish music, baby!)

LINKS:

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

Eight-year-old wins $200 worth of cannabis products at youth hockey tournament

Student suspended from school for selling ‘squirts’ of hand sanitizer to classmates

Japanese store puts a curse on its toilet rolls to prevent thefts

Coronavirus Conference Gets Canceled Because of Coronavirus

New chlamydia species discovered deep under the Arctic Ocean

Bear downs 36 beers, passes out at campground 

Scientists find bacteria species related to chlamydia below Arctic Ocean 

William Shatner gets ‘all horse semen’ in divorce settlement with fourth wife

Elmendorf-Richardson airman is demoted for peeing in the office coffee maker

16 Mysterious Unsolved Deaths Throughout History

Arcade owner uses toilet roll and hand sanitiser as prizes in grabber machines amid shortage fears over coronavirus

Pig sparks farm fire in England after eating, defecating battery-powered pedometer

Australian Newspaper Prints Extra Blank Pages to Mock Toilet Paper Crisis

Producing human tissue in space

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, stem cells, organs, mystery, murders, Pennsylvania

**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**

Episode 119: Oh, You Cute Little Robo-Slappy Bois

We’ve got two hosts, three working feet, and STACKS of weird, wild, all-too-true news for you this week, Citizens! Yes, as poor Phil goes under the knife for a disaster of an Achilles tendon issue, YOU will be enjoying the sweet sounds of the following Whiparound gems…

- Trainwreck Headlines! Spot the fake news story and win the day!

- Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre! Wanna hear about a deadly historic disaster??

- SCIENCE!...It Still Matters! Humans slap robots to teach them about emotions. With NO obvious downsides in the future! WHAT cataclysmic revenge??

- A BRAND NEW GAME! It’s a whole new Real or BS edition. Play along, if ya dare!

Phil’s off convalescing, and you know what they say: when the Scientist is away, LISTEN TO THE GOL-DERNED WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

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

Linking sense of touch to facial movement inches robots toward ‘feeling’ pain

Is that Harriet Tubman on a bank debit card, throwing a Wakanda salute?

German climber's 'No 2' causes forest fire in Alpine forest

Weird science: 7 published medical studies that are beyond strange

Pope to Catholics: For Lent, give up trolling | The Telegram

Adult Film Shot At Santa Monica Public Library During Business Hours Sparks Outrage

$2K fine for Vancouver driver who used flashlights instead of headlights | News

BYU pole vaulter snags scrotum during jump, needs 18 stitches

Pillowcases full of snakes keep getting dumped outside a UK fire station

Instagram Influencer Fakes Bali Trip With Pics Clicked At Ikea

Falling ice in Vermont kills woman just after she discusses mortality

Mine explosion kills 1,060 in France

Courrières mining disaster | explosion and fire, Pas-de-Calais, France [1906]

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, mining, disasters, robots, empathy, AI, games, trivia

**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**

Episode 118: Broken Hearts, Broken Corpses

             You know that old saying, Citizen? The one about cold hands indicating a warm heart! Well, Here, on the most fantastical weird news podcast in the Sol system, we do things a little differently. ‘Round these parts, we say a BROKEN heart (story) leads directly to BROKEN corpses! How does Phil’s science segment purport to help mend a shattered ticker? And just WHY is this winter so darned unpleasant for the dead? Find out why within these audio-only walls, folks! But don’t say we didn’t warn ya!

            Oh, hey! And Shaun’s got a new game this week. A BRAND NEW edition of REAL or BS that plumbs the very depths of Phil’s cadaver knowledge. Think you can beat the good doctor? Play along, why dontcha!?

            Oh, and of COURSE we’ve got a fresh batch of Trainwreck Headlines AND a steamin’ pot of rapid-fire weird-news stories over here in Three for the Road, so come on, sit a spell, and let us learn you somethin’ BIZARRE!

            Remember: choosy moms choose…THE WHIPAROUND!

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

Stolen hearse carrying casket recovered after freeway chase

Male baboon escapes Australia medical facility with ‘two wives’ before vasectomy, health official says

Young Woman Goes Blind in One Eye After Getting Her Eyeballs Dyed Black

‘Welcome to Smellville’: R.L. Stine and the Garbage Pail Kids Join Forces for New Series of Books!

Feral cats break into body farm to eat decomposing human corpses

Can science cure a broken heart?

Fans heckling Astros at opener get signs taken

Woman accused of posing as photographer to drug moms, steal babies

Florida snake orgy forces officials to close area of park

Insufficient evidence backing herbal medicines for weight loss

Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies in homemade rocket launch

Two pizza shops fined for not reporting shooting deaths of delivery drivers

Police: Man, 68, led officers on 20 mph chase while high on pot

Three die in dry-ice incident at Moscow pool party

Broken heart syndrome - Symptoms and causes

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, heartbreak, love, bodysnatching, corpses, cats, games, trivia

**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**

Episode 117: Welcome to the Misery Pit! With Guest Jill Yapsuga!

     Ills Assemble! Jill is BACK on the show for a special guest appearance, and she brought her Mixed Medicine Bag with her: that’s right, Jill’s got some fascinating medical tales of yore sure to pique your interest and pluck your appetite right outta that body! And she’s darn funny the whole show long, too! 

     We’ve also got a grisly-fun Macabre on the menu, stop on by and see where a key anniv…er, sorry…MACABREVERSARY in the harrowing tale of the Donner Party sent our most funerary of cohosts! It’s dark, and that’s a guarantee!

            Oh, and speaking of dark, Phil’s got a new game!

            We took all that fun and sandwiched it right between two soft, flavorful buns of fast paced news, folks. So don’t forget our fast-past lead-in (and newest regular segment), Trainwreck Headlines: spot the story that’s actually from Phil’s torrid personal life and win!

            And, as always, we close with a ferocious dash across the strangest news darkening the back pages of traditional media. Brace yourselves for another Three for the Road!

            OH! AND WE’VE GOT BIG NEWS! IT RHYMES WITH BEEHIGH SALLY SCHMODCAST VESTIFUL! Unscramble that and meet us over at…THE WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

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

 Jill’s Vimeo Page & Home “The Bag” multimedia poem!

Man finds missing ashes of woman on Las Vegas bus stop bench

Man tried to seduce undercover officer with chicken alfredo

Study: Men who own Mercedes and BMWs are more likely to be assholes

Top 10 science anniversaries in 2020

Officer told to 'tone down' gayness settles suit for $10.25M

Ancient Egyptian mummy tattoos come to light

The Eighty Five Percent Rule tells us it's 'good' to fail 15 percent of the time.

This New York deli offers customers free food if they can solve simple math problems

Goodbye Spitzer Space Telescope, Thanks for All the Photos

Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness

Armed gang steals toilet rolls in panic-buying Hong Kong

Successful Entrepreneur Will Pay You $25,000 if You Find Him a Girlfriend

10 Things You Should Know About the Donner Party

Terms and Conditions - Date Jeff G.

 Florida police investigate after 'several' tongues preserved in jars found in crawl space: reports

10 of the world's grizzliest cannibal cases from Jeffrey Dahmer to Luka Magnotta

Carroll Edward Cole | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, medicine, brains, Donner Party, cannibalism, murder, games, trivia

**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**

Episode 116: I Say Penis, You Say Sepsis, Let’s Call the Whole Thing WEIRD!

Here we go again, Citizens; Phil and Shaun return to bring you the oddest oddities lo these past seven days! Oh, you’re wondering what flavors are in store for you this week? Let’s see…

Have you heard the one about the sound waves solving a certain…ENTHUSIASM problem plaguing some men out there?? If not, you get a two-fer this time: Phil enlightens you with science even as the Whiparound itself proves to be, quite possibly, the cure for what droops you. Ails you, we mean. AILS!

Oh, and stop us if you’ve heard this one: what’s grim, fun, and macabre all over? The Macabrenet, of course! And Shaun brings you a brand new feature this episode…the Macabre Word of the Week! This very first word is a bane of the unclean, the bitter end of the unenlightened, and the lid that slams down over many a light at the end of misery’s metaphorical tunnel. Listen, learn, and lament for joy, Citizens!

Plus, of course, we’ve got a fast-paced lead-in with Trainwreck Headlines, more bonus little weirdsies with Three for the Road, and blistering juvenile humor thrown in FOR FREE!

It sounds too good to be true, right? Kinda WEIRD how wonderful it all sounds, RIGHT?

Well that’s our bag, baby; we take the improbable, add laughs, and serve it up for YOU, no fuss, no muss, no mercy here…at THE WHIPAROUND!

LINKS:

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

India residents surprised to find beer, brandy, rum mixture coming out of kitchen faucets

Rare Condition Causes Hair to Grow Out of Woman’s Gums

Non-Drinker's Body Produced Its Own Alcohol: Study

Sepsis - Symptoms and causes

Assassination of Gustav III, King of Sweden (1792)

This App Automatically Cancels and Sues Robocallers

First cookies baked in space oven by astronauts

Free porn offered to quarantined coronavirus cruise passengers

Utah lawmaker proposes warning label for pornography

Some Guy Registered His Beer As an Emotional Support Animal

Japanese KitKats Are Replacing Plastic Packaging with Origami Paper You Can Turn into Cranes

Zapping the penis with sound waves could tackle erectile dysfunction

TAGS: Whiparound, weird, news, macabre, science, history, therapy, medicine, EDS, sepsis, death, assassinations, trivia

**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**