Trader Whiplash
What do the old La Vie En Rose, the Relay For Life of Second Life, the AviChoice Awards and LEGENDS have in common? The voice of Trader Whiplash.
Trader Whiplash became an internet broadcaster in 2005 and founded T1Radio the same year. Along with his best friend Nuala Maracas, he has transitioned T1 into one the best stations on the internet
Trader grew up listening to music. “There was always a radio playing in the house,” he says, “my Dad loved the Big Bands of the 40s and the popular singers of the 50s. Frank, Tony, Ella, Dean and Sammy. That was the music of my early years. I still know all the words to the great standards.”
Trader was an eyewitness to the British Invasion and the explosion of rock n roll music in the 1960s. In 1963 he received a transistor radio as a Christmas gift which was tuned to WMCA or WABC in New York. He listened to all the great DJs; ‘Cousin’ Bruce Morrow, Dan Ingram and Scott ‘Scottso’ Muni. He watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and at Shea Stadium, and all the great bands that followed. He gravitated to the landmark WNEW-FM in the 70s and fashioned T1Radio after the format of the great album oriented stations of that time.
A 2 time cancer survivor he founded the Relay Rockers with Nuala Maracas and Alliez Mysterio in 2005, to participate in the Relay For Life of Second Life. Since 2006 Trader and T1 have provided the audio for Relay and American Cancer Society events in world. He produces RelayRadio, and is the host of Relay Rap, the bi-weekly talk show about Relay and the Society in Second Life. Trader and Nuala were the emcee’s for the AviChoice Awards and in 2016 he was voted the ‘Avi’ for “Favorite Radio DJ”. He has served Relay in several leadership positions including mission chair and in 2009 he addressed Relayers from around the world at the National Relay Summit in Dallas. He is the winner of the Spirit of Relay award and his team has won both the Gordy Klatt Award and a lifetime Spirit of Relay Award. He, Nuala and T1Radio we inducted into the Relay Hall of Honor in 2014, and continue as Official Broadcast Partner of the American Cancer Society in Second Life.
As his name might imply, Trader is a former commodities broker who grew up on Staten Island and now makes his home on the Jersey Shore where he broadcasts from ‘Studio 7B in Asbury Park’. He is the proud dad of Dan, Jeff and Shannon and loves to brag about his grandchildren Abbey, Caleb, Ella and Jacob. He enjoys playing the guitar and photography and is an avid golfer and bicyclist. A certified cycling coach, he has participated in the 100 mile Americas Most Beautiful Bicycle Ride around Lake Tahoe five times as well as many other long distance rides.
He makes his home in Second Life, along with his partner Arizona Ballinger, in Arinultra Cay.
Join Trader every Wednesday for a Rockin’ Happy Hour or take a trip back to the 60s in his Time Machine every Sunday.