The Whatnauts

Episode 5. Last year, Kyle successfully explained Formula 1 racing to Melissa, converting her into a fan who watched a whole season of any sport for the first time. History was made that day. Now, as a new F1 season begins, we explain it all again! If you don't know anything about F1, we're here for you with a very detailed PowerPoint. This is the rules, the teams, the drivers, the curses and miracle stories, where you can actually watch the sport and what parts you don't really have to pay attention to! We discuss the new regulations shaking up the...

Episode 4. When was the last time you jumped? How old is Old Faithful? Who would you cast as Cotton Eye Joe in The Cotton Eye Joe Movie? Why has no soda company sold a soda that's all sodas put together? Is it simply too powerful?? Kyle describes an RPG that's inspiring him to make more music. Melissa tries to get ready for an "Eyes Wide Shut" scenario, which is how she describes getting invited to a party and you have to find formal dress clothes at the last minute. That's the main conflict of that movie, right, finding a...

Episode 03. Kyle really plays with some hamburgers. Melissa got stuck in a car wash. We catch up on the TV we've been watching recently, from the nostalgic charm of Home Movies to the horndog hockey of Heated Rivalry, and are surprised by new seasons arriving for Apple TV+ hidden curios The Drops of God and Sugar. We also talk about trying to wear glasses to look cool, the hassle of untangling your streaming platform bundles to re-bundle them again in a different configuration, the least sexy musical, and how kids today have "Golden" but when we were kids all...

Episode 02. For the first review of the year, we discuss Wim Wenders’ 2023 film, Perfect Days, but not before we debate if 2 inches of snow constitutes being "snowed in," and compare our matching LEGO race cars. Perfect Days is a delightfully simple movie, about a man's solitary but happy existence cleaning the public toilets of Tokyo, listening to soft rock, and taking pictures of leaves. We also talk about the best bathrooms we've ever encountered, a park where you can bring your own tree, what is and isn't a "slice of life" story, setting paintings on fire, and how F1: Th...

Episode 01. Welcome to a new era! The Whatnauts is a pop culture gabfest with a decade of history behind it. Your hosts Kyle and Melissa kick off the new podcast with context on our past shows, traditions, trends, and running jokes, and how this new show is the same conversations in one more streamlined package. New mask, same task! We discuss our favorite media from 2025, talk about our story trope bingo sheets for 2026, catch up on movie trailers and casting news, review a new M&Ms flavor, and begin a multi-year project to predict obscure Marvel characters who will...

We're celebrating 10 years of The Whatnauts with an end of the year "grand prix" because you can call anything a grand prix, there's no rules stopping you! Two people talking about pizza can be a grand prix!! Kyle sees a chicken. Melissa sees a big glove. Between the two of us, we've seen Tenet 3.5 times and Interstellar 1 time and we're going to try to understand both. We also give out the yearly Review Show superlatives, recap the F1 season finale and the Game of the Year awards, imagine a Scrabble game that takes up your whole house, and talk...

Starting in 2026 we are smashing all our podcasts into one. A single show. A single RSS feed. We are still going to be doing the same kinds of things we have done on other podcasts in the past, but now all on one show. This is just a "zero" episode to get our RSS feed up and running as well as provide a little more context as to what we are doing and why. So go subscribe, and we will see you on the first episode coming soon.

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