Whistle Stop Week

With the seasonal spirit firmly taking hold, a spirit for any season - whiskey, courtesy of local Colorado Springs 'Distillery 291' - makes an appearance, leading to an...interesting episode!

Joining regular host Mark Turner, and team captains Carrie Simison and Mark Barz, the acerbic Andrew Dwyer, and deer-in-the-headlights debutant Casey Frase. The gamut is run once more, from ball-testing to bell-ringing, Chinese babies to Canadian curlers, myth-busting to MUUUUURDEEEEER - and much more besides!

Thanks to our lovely local sponsors The British Pantry & Tea Shop, REN Creativ, Centennial State Knotworks, and Distillery 291, all of whom are located right here in Colorado Springs, and can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or by using the Google. Also check out our brand new recording home, R&D Studios in downtown Colorado Springs, particularly if you have a pod itch that needs scratching!

Whistle Stop Week is dropping episode 3 a day early by way of a Thanksgiving gift to you all, the thing we're most thankful for...our dear listeners!

Joining regular host Mark Turner, and team captains Carrie Simison and Mark Barz, the delightful Jill Gaebler, and the insightful Ryan Hannigan. This episode, stories that promise to bring both a tear to your eye and a lurch to your stomach, as we once more cover a fortnight of frightening, fantastical, and/or funny news headlines!

Thanks to our lovely local sponsors The British Pantry & Tea Shop, REN Creativ, and Centennial State Knotworks, all of whom are located right here in Colorado Springs, and can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or by using the Google. Also check out our brand new recording home, R&D Studios in downtown Colorado Springs, particularly if you have a pod itch that needs scratching!

Whistle Stop Week, part Deaux, now recording in our brand new home at R&D Studios in downtown Colorado Springs!

Joining regular host Mark Turner, and team captains Carrie Simison and Mark Barz, professorial Laura Eurich, and debutant Jonathan Berry. The teams once more wrestle with news from across the globe, as well as headlines both magical and intergalatic! From Harry Potter to horrifying dog porn, from the London Metropolitan Police Force to terrifying Marsian invaders, we run the gamut!

Thanks to our lovely local sponsors The British Pantry & Tea Shop, REN Creativ, and Centennial State Knotworks, all of whom are located right here in Colorado Springs, and can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or by using the Google.

Whistle Stop Week returns for its 3rd season, now recording in our brand new home at R&D Studios in downtown Colorado Springs!

Joining regular host Mark Turner, and team captains Carrie Simison and Mark Barz, grizzled veteran Andrew Dwyer and livewire Lauren McKenzie. Hold on as the team darts from Swaziland to Sweden, Cuba to Canada, stopping only momentarily to consider what one does with their time when YouTube is down...?

Thanks to our lovely local sponsors The British Pantry & Tea Shop, REN Creativ, and Centennial State Knotworks, all of whom are located right here in Colorado Springs, and can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or by using the Google.

Whistle Stop Week will return on October 24th, when Season 3 finally kicks-off in all it's beautiful, manic, deranged, hopefully entertaining glory! Join Mark, Carrie, Barz, old panelists and new for your favorite irreverent rattle through the news of the day...

Our final reheated episode of 2018, our Summer Special from July, when host Mark Turner and regular team captains Carrie Simison and Mark Barz, were joined by a professor and her pupil, Laura Eurich and Melody Klema. We laughed, we cried, we ugly laugh-cried. The usual.

The next Whistle Stop Week episode you'll hear later this month will be EPISODE 1 OF SEASON 3!!! Yes, we're a little bit excited...

Have you missed us? Your favorite podcast people. Whistle Stop Week! Whistle...Stop...oh, nevermind. Whether you missed us or not, we will back with Season 3 before you know it...

Wrapping our second season, another person who gets paid to make funny puts their career on the line to join us. A sports journalist whose career is beyond saving tags along, too.


Whistle Stop Week wraps it's second season in something resembling style. Joining host Mark Turner, regular captain Carrie Simison and stand-in skipper Andrew Dwyer, is the only sports journalist who can't count past eight (must be why he covers soccer) Nick Rothschild, and debutant and stand-up comedian who proves she can even be hilarious sitting down Melody Klema.

Yes, we've finally run out of ideas in Season 2, and so we give hosting duties to usually skipper Carrie Simison. And then we set up teams so that it's boys versus girls. Us...gimmicky? 

Whistle Stop Week basks in the glow of International Women's Day by unleashing our first ever female host! Joining host-for-the-day Carrie Simison, regular captain Mark Barz and sometime skipper Mark Turner, are shorts-eating April Compo and everyone's favourite 'can't' Coba Hoban!

This episode is more of a science/social experiment; what happens when you put two crazy people together on a team, give them beer, and then ask them to be both funny and coherent?

Whistle Stop Week goes full-bore crazy! Joining host Mark Turner and regular skipper Mark Barz, are the human personification of amphetamines meets Red Bull, Lauren McKenzie and Jim Burke, and quietly sat in the corner preparing her next well placed, impeccably timed zinger, Laura Eurich!