The Whiparound

Episode Notes

Personal trainer and strength coach Rob Ventre joins the gang for a discussion of America’s attitudes, practices, and misconceptions about the fitness universe—and JUST in time for us to connect it all to those all-too-popular weight loss and muscle gain New Year’s Resolutions. From “sick gains” to “snake weights,” from “Liftr” to the value of discomfort, Ventre and the guys power through the bull and flex their mighty…intellects!

BUT FIRST!

We greet 2018 with all the hope and joy we can muster, sharing tales of wounded Whoodles, casual board gaming, and antisocial tendencies!

AND IN THE SPEED ROUND…

Shaun is tempted by the softer, sillier world of My Little Pony, Phil’s got his eyes on the prize in the skies, Dave pines for the days of his favorite-but-sadly-defunct Youtube channel, and Mr. Ventre breaks brains with some controversial comments about mainsplaining!

LINKS:

“Auld lang Syne: Success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and nonresolvers”

“Self-improvement resolutions are more popular with women”

“Auld lang Syne: Success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and nonresolvers”

“Your New Year’s resolution will likely fail. Here’s why you should make one anyway, researchers say”

“Top 8 Must-See Sky Events for 2018” ()

“Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2018 - Sea and Sky”

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Episode Notes

2017, at long last, comes crashing down, and The Whiparound is here to stab it and pose heroically! Jill, Shaun, and Phil all brought their particular segments to bear on sending off a year that was TOTALLY…roughly 365 days long. Science, pop culture, and politics all fall under the dazzling wit of your hosts—

BUT FIRST!

Jill runs down the many fixes, physical, emotional, and otherwise of 2017, Phil’s research plunges the gang into an impromptu PRISON DRAFT, and Shaun raises the idea of a super-fun Contest: put YOUR 2017 experience into a GIF and send it out way, he says!

AND IN THE SPEED ROUND…

It’s all about crazed fan bases, stupid responses to headaches, and sweaty robo boys as we do one last burst of rapid-fire news before the New Year!

AND BEST OF ALL: Dave calls into the show with a VERY special announcement you’ve just gotta hear! Should auld acquaintance be forgot, have no fear, just bring THE WHIPAROUND to mind!

LINKS:

“So You Survived 2017. What Will the 2018 Fight Look Like?”

“Top 7 political storylines of 2017”

“Danica Roem becomes Virginia’s first openly transgender delegate”

“CRISPR gene editing moved into new territory in 2017”

“This year’s neutron star collision unlocks cosmic mysteries”

“How science and society crossed paths in 2017.”

“Boy robot passes agility tests”

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TAGS: Whiparound, New Year’s, 2017, politics, science, pop culture, Women’s March, Last Jedi, prison

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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!

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With the holidays upon us and Santa bearing down on the world like a chubby, toy-toting meteor, The Whiparound in in full-on, all-hands-on-deck celebration mode! ALL your favorite hosts are here, and ALL^ brought a special, festive edition of their respective segments!

^Phil didn’t. Not really. Still interesting. But yeah. Rascal.

BUT FIRST!

Jill’s got no heat, Dave’s got himself a designer dog, Phil winds up his semester, and Shaun brings you an ANSWER of the Bizarre Kind from Citizen Chris, who’s got the skinny on M&Ms, “special” riders, and David Lee Roth’s sticky feet in our festive intro!

AND IN THE SPEED ROUND…

The air is filled with glitter and the sounds of caroling sex cults as demands are made for the fall of the Gift Bag and the rise of 30 Rock as a Christmas entertainment classic!

You better watch out, you’ve no REASON to cry! Wipe off that pout, we’ve got audio pie…The Whiparound is coming…to ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!

LINKS:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/42976-when-was-jesus-born.html

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/fyi-how-long-would-it-take-santa-deliver-presents-every-kid-earth

https://www.uselessdaily.com/news/10-amazing-facts-about-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-list/amp/

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10549639

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/norad-santa-tracker-live-2017-11644596?service=responsive

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/893730/Christmas-festive-season-December-Top-10-facts/amp

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-016-0593-4

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/12/16/ask-ethan-how-can-i-see-the-quantum-universe-at-home/#15d7bf744b79

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g2972/surprising-christmas-facts/

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-link-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics/?utmsource=fark&utmmedium=website&utmcontent=link&ICID=reffark

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientist-calls-glitter-banned-awful-environment/

http://abcnews.go.com/US/nxivm-member-invited-secret-sorority-branded/story?id=51617201

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TAGS: Whiparound, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, cloud chambers, shopping, Santa, therapy @gmail.com>@gmail.com>

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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!

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Episode Notes

A dustup between celebrities sparks a severe case of GAME SHOW on The Whiparound! Thrill as your favorite quirky news & pop culture podcast spirals into a naked grab for cash and prizes as we explore rivalries from the worlds of business, music, bathroom hygiene and more!

BUT FIRST!

Dave’s got a serious case of movie rage and births a brilliant innovation as What Made Dave Angry This Week returns!

AND IN THE SPEED ROUND…

Jill is openly anti-sushi and dares you to complain about it, Dave comes down with a mutated uvula as the Eagles falter, Shaun angrily peers out of enormous gaps in bathroom stalls and more!

Tell them what they’ve won, Johnny!

WHY, IT’S A BRAND NEW EPISODE OF…The Whiparound!

LINKS:

www.thewhiparoundpodcast.com

“Mother and 2-year-old kicked off Spirit Airlines flight”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzoQrDvcqo

“COKE VS. PEPSI: The Amazing Story Behind The Cola Wars”

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Burger-King-Corporation

“The Top 10 Business Rivalries In History”

“8 Things You Might Not Know About Wookiees”

“Star Trek vs Star Wars: the space battle that will never end”

https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Ganon

“124-year-old patent solves the 'over versus under' toilet paper roll debate"

TAGS: Family Feud, rivalries, Coke, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Burger King, Star Wars, Star Trek, toilet paper, divas, uvulitis

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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!

Find out more on the The Whiparound website.

Episode Notes

Jill is back in the fray as the trio dives into the mysterious and sometimes ridiculous world of NAMES! Baby Center’s latest list of the top baby names is out and your Whiparound pals go hunting down the strangest corners of the bizarre practices of nomenclature…from babies to pervy molecules to Ancient Rome and so many odd places in between!

BUT FIRST!

A lingering mystery about armed service toilet paper policy is resolved in Questions of the Bizarre Kind!

AND IN THE SPEED ROUND…

Shaun plays with predictive text to determine how everybody is gonna die, Jill’s got the blindspot blues, Phil takes us back TO SPACE! and more! *

Slap on your name tags, everyone, here we go:

Hello, Our Name Is…The Whiparound!*

LINKS:

www.thewhiparoundpodcast.com

https://www.babycenter.com/top-baby-names-2017.htm

“Effects of Name-Based Relational Devaluation and Interpersonal Neglect”

“Your Child's Name Betrays Your Political Stance”

“10 surprising truths about baby naming”

“In a first, Galileo’s gravity experiment is re-created in space"

TAGS: BabyCenter, plumbing, names, gravity, predictive text, @gmail.com>@gmail.com>

Find out more at our official website: www.thewhiparoundpodcast.com

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.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

Find out more on the The Whiparound website.

Episode Notes

And so we conclude our deluxe Whiparound two-parter this week, with Geekade.com’s Kris Randazzo helping Dave, Phil, and Shaun spelunk ever further into the strange world of cultural influence—VIDEO GAME EDITION! The guys cover the lessons and messages imparted to players of all ages, examining everything from jiggle physics to exploding crotches, from tank-based prostitution refunds to the dark truth behind Samus’ Big Reveal in the original Metroid.

AND THEN!

Phil’s segment finds a new name and we announce the winning entrant into the Name Phil’s Science Segment contest! Immediately after which, Phil proceeds to enlighten Dave and Shaun about real-world acceleration problems in some of your favorite movies—your heroes are useless puddles of ignorant goo in...well, you’ll hear what it’s called soon enough!

IN THE SPEED ROUND…

Phil is unimpressed with Aquaman’s abs, Shaun goes bleh about “meh,” Dave is sick of a particular group’s fucking gratuitous fucking cursing and more!

PLUS! Dave opens up a question for the listeners: the world needs a new and better SAVE symbol!

The cake is a lie, it’s dangerous to go alone, so do a barrel roll while you can…WITH The Whiparound!

LINKS:

www.thewhiparoundpodcast.com

www.geekade.com

www.stoneagegamer.com

“Beyond 50/50: Breaking Down The Percentage of Female Gamers by Genre”

“7 Things We Learned About Primary Gaming Motivations From Over 250,000 Gamers”

“Issues on human acceleration tolerance after long-duration space flights”

TAGS: geekade, stoneagegamer, video games, guns, acceleration, Metroid, misogyny @gmail.com>@gmail.com>

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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!

Find out more on the The Whiparound website.

Episode Notes

Joining us this week is Geekade.com founder and host of “Stone Age Gamer Podcast” along with a number of other pods: Kris Randazzo. The focus? Video games and their impact on our development from children to adults—yes, gaming gets deep! We cover favorite games, different motivations for playing at all, which genres appeal to which kinds of people, the reality of addictive Chocobo farming and lots more. SO MUCH MORE, in fact, that we needed to split this discussion into TWO separate episodes!

BUT FIRST!

A TEASE about Phil’s new segment name & our first contest winner, we get to the bottom of Phil’s mysterious brown night-off beverage, rumblings about Shaun’s distaste for propagating the Santa myth leads to some discussion of our own (SPOILER ALERT!) realizations that there is no such thing as a fat elf running an off-the-books factory in the wastes of the north pole, AND some reader feedback takes center stage!

We’ve blown into the cartridge and all is ready: it’s time to Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A START….The Whiparound!

LINKS:

www.thewhiparoundpodcast.com

www.geekade.com

www.stoneagegamer.com

"Beyond 50/50: Breaking Down The Percentage of Female Gamers by Genre"

“7 Things We Learned About Primary Gaming Motivations From Over 250,000 Gamers”

TAGS:whiparound, science, santa, geekade, stoneage gamer, videogames, soundtracks

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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!

Find out more on the The Whiparound website.

Episode Notes

It’s wall-to-wall patriotism as The Whiparound takes a long look at voting in 21st ccntury America. Brand new cohost Jill Yapsuga joins Dave and Shaun to help peel back the slogans, sweep away the confetti, and hack through the placards to discover how Americans have been handling their most sacred of civic duties.

BUT FIRST: Jill hits the ground…eating? A tale of a Mac & Cheese “Me Date” evolves into a strange and fascinating look at overconfidence and missed connections Ms. Yapsuga’s debut edition of “Here’s the Thing!”

AND LATER, IN THE SPEED ROUND…Shaun’s struggling with bad writing in commercials, Dave has international soccer woes, and Jill talks guns, gender, all things wistful and so much more…on the Whiparound!

LINKS:

“These Weird Voting Facts From History Really Put The 2016 Election Into Perspective”

“15 Facts from Elections Around the World”

“Wacky Election Facts from Around the World”

“Why Tuesday, why November, why elephants? Election riddles solved”

http://www.whytuesday.org

Why did N.J. have record low voter turnout when Virginia just had the highest in 20 years?

Smallville Actress Allison Mack is Accused of Recruiting for an Evil Sex Cult (Not Hollywood, Another One”)

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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!

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Episode Notes

Podcaster, mixologist, and cofounder of Topgallant Radio, Gabriel Mara, joins the boys in studio this week to lend his cinephile’s eye to parsing modern-day terrorism as experienced through the mind of the entertainment industry. Escapism, man nipples, small-town fear, and big-issue questions about the role of communities in pushing back against a rising tide of hate pierce the darkness swallowing so many recent headlines. And of course Patrick Swayze emerges as one of the greatest heroes of all.

BUT FIRST: We learn a bit about friend of the show Gabe as he walks us through several of his podcasts, including Slow Readers and Sex + Violence in a fast-paced interview before our first break…

PHIL gives us a heavy lesson on universal constants, puckered rubber sheets, and befuddlingly bendy Binary Neutron Star Merger fallout (!?) in his SOON-TO-BE-RENAMED science segment…

AND LATER, IN THE SPEED ROUND…Shaun outs himself as an LA Beast fanboy, Phil goes piggyback riding against climate change denial, Dave takes up arms against poor parking choices, and Gabe will take rude drink orders no longer and so much more…on the Whiparound!

LINKS:

The home of Topgallant radio, featuring podcasts Sex + Violence, Slow Readers, and Only Lovers Left

Link to fight scene in Eastern Promises

“Bounding the Speed of Gravity with Gravitational Wave Observations”

“Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger”

“Humans are driving climate change, federal scientists say”

“Learning from mistakes in climate research”

“AAA Warns Against Pull-Forward Parking”

“The new faces of MMA: Projecting the next GSP, Rousey and Silva”

“Los Angeles Times Columnist Apologizes for Jab at Sarah Huckabee Sanders”

“Bouquets on memorial mark 25th anniversary of massacre”

“Suspect in attack on Sen. Rand Paul might face more serious charges, police say”

“Gunman Kills at Least 26 in Attack on Rural Texas Church”

“Why The 'Star Wars' Rebel Alliance Is Nothing Like ISIS”

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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!

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Episode Notes

Grab your tinfoil hat, check the sky for chemtrails, and watch out for governmental lizard-people: this week, the Whiparound infiltrates CONSPIRACY THEORIES! The long-awaited release of the heavily redacted JFK assassination files sends Shaun, Dave, and Phil down the rabbit hole and into a world of faked deaths, god-babies, and more aliens than you can shake a syringe full of human-made immunodeficiency virus at! Trust in our institutions is at an all-time low…will the guys be able to dispel the growing cloud of conspiracies and separate the truth from the stark-raving weird?

BUT FIRST:

Dave slams the dark side of Curious George and children’s book shortcomings in a Child-Friendly* edition of WHAT MADE DAVE ANGRY THIS WEEK!

AND LATER, IN THE SPEED ROUND…Shaun comes out swinging at arts and crafts and parental pressure, Phil discourses on the very nature of matter, anti-matter, and why shapes matter, Dave slows things down with talk of assault, murder, and the Philadelphia Eagles and so much more awaits…on The Whiparound! (…or DOES it???)

*DEFINITELY NOT CHILD FRIENDLY

LINKS:

J.F.K. FILES: THE UNEXPECTED DETAILS REVEALED FROM THE F.B.I. INVESTIGATION

The 30 greatest conspiracy theories

JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release | National Archives

Echo Chambers on Facebook by Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala, Cass R. Sunstein :: SSRN

“Las Vegas Conspiracy Theory Claims Shooting Victims Are Government Actors”

A High-Tech Fork Creates A No-Slurping Zone : NPR

New test of electron’s roundness could help explain universe’s matter/antimatter imbalance | Science | AAAS

Elon Musk called out by creepy artificial intelligence robot – CNET

“It’s time to believe in the Philadelphia Eagles as Super Bowl front-runners.”

Company made decision ‘months ago’ but only let it be known after claims Spacey had made sexual advances towards a 14-year-old actor

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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!

Find out more on the The Whiparound website.