Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 30 first published on Friday July 26, 2024. Here are this week's stories...  ❿ Brazilian sharpnose sharks near Rio de Janeiro tested positive for high levels of cocaine...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-cocaine-sharks-discovered-in-brazil/

❾ Nigerian man breaks world record for longest duration twerking... 3 hours and 30 minutes... he used this opportunity to shine a light on the importance of mental health.https://www.tiktok.com/@niva_news/video/7395555366462819615

❽ Fish cake flingers bring end to sports contest... matchhttps://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40614391/fishcake-fury-sees-norwegian-game-cancelled-var-protest

❼ Texas family saves orphaned baby bird by wrapping it in a tortilla...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/owl-saved-tortilla

❻ Giant Rolling Hot Dog Flips! Oscar Mayer Wienermobile involved in a crash on Chicago-area highway/ no injuries reported...
https://apnews.com/article/wienermobile-crash-suburban-chicago-oscar-mayer-b81452ebaa5ae0823871eabbf06135cd

❺ Naturally-occurring sugar compound may stimulate hair regrowthhttps://studyfinds.org/sweetest-cure-for-baldness-sugar-compound-hair-loss-treatment/?nab=1

❹ phone spinner spins like life depends on it... #worldrecord

❸ Underpants sorrow turns to elation #worldrecord #AGT

❷ How many steps does a lazy person like me need to take each day to be healthy?https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-the-optimal-number-of-daily-steps-to-offset-sitting-down

🍅 Potato-based ice pop is MMMmmm... different... https://www.fooddive.com/news/kraft-heinz-ore-ida-popsicle-french-fry/721626/

❶ Boneless Wings and the Supreme Court of Ohio...https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5052004/boneless-chicken-wings-ohio-supreme-court

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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. It's Friday, July 19th 2024 and these are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 29 which is a look back at one year ago. Please enjoy this enhanced re-broadcast from July of 2023! #SummerSpecial

❿ update to our pushup story... the world record has changed hands again! ❾ Birds are using those anti bird spikes to build their nests now. ❽ Scientists invent a sucker/ lollipop to help doctors diagnose stuff... ❼ When you find gold coins buried in your yard, that's a good day... ❻ Burger King Brazil launches limited time Barbie Burger... which contains a lot more pink than we are used to in a hamburger... ❺ If at first you don't succeed in getting approval to have a dog DNA database which will enable you to identify which dog pooped in front of city hall... try, try again! ❹ Headline from CTV: "Mystery object washes up on Australian beach, investigation underway" ❸ Rare fish sighting, every news org shared the photos... ❷ Dinosaur fossil is a game changer... headline from NPR was "This fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur captures a death battle's final moments"... ❶ David Rush, the World Record Breaking Phenom does it again!

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 28 first published on Friday July 12, 2024. Here are this week's stories... *full episode transcript below*
 ❿ Pooch Starts Fire. Tries to Blame it on Cat* (*may not have tried to blame cat, but pretty sure )https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/07/09/Colorado-Springs-dog-stove-fire/2411720537136/
❾ Record-Breaker Rush is just about there... the King of the World! (records) https://youtu.be/BRYGiVqdYJI?feature=shared ❽ Las Vegas man breaks Guinness World Records using eye socket strength https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYL2GhMIhYg ❼ Mia is the Fastest Mermaid in all the Sea https://www.ksl.com/article/51060424/provo-woman-becomes-fastest-mermaid-in-the-world-at-merlympics ❻ Driverless Taxi Pulled Over by Police in Phoenix... what happened next?https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/phoenix-police-waymo-driverless-car-b2574861.html ❺ The mysterious gnome nappers of BC have gotten away with another weird crime.https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mystery-group-prowls-community-conducting-mischievous-kindness-stealing-restoring-and-returning-garden-gnomes/ ❹ Lady Swept Out to Sea after Floatie Odysseyhttps://news.yahoo.com/news/swimmer-swept-sea-rescued-japanese-092115699.html ❸ Hobby Horsing is intense you guys... https://news.yahoo.com/news/why-finns-deadly-serious-hobby-012636960.html ❷ Hippos Can Stay Airborne for "substantial amount of time" ... that time? Up to 0.3 Seconds. https://news.sky.com/story/hippopotamuses-can-become-airborne-for-substantial-periods-of-time-researchers-discover-13173957 🍅 Nasal Spray Breakthrough shows promise in prevent Alzheimer's. #GoodNews
https://studyfinds.org/nasal-spray-alzheimers-brain-health/ ❶ Lovelorn Lions Risk Crocs for Romance Across River, Set New Record
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-lion-longest-predator-infested.html

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❿ Happiness is Birdseed and Acorns?! A Canadian Study made news this week that seems to suggest that people in cities are happier when there is a variety of birds and trees around. More birds and trees = better mental health outcomes *paraphrase. In other words, (go with me here) we should be going to the park dressed in my new invention, the Bird Seed Vest! Enjoy the trees around you while the birds flock towards you bringing joy and better mental health outcomes! Just what the doctor ordered! (*no doctors have ordered this.) Remember the name, the What a Weird Week brand Birdseed Vest of Mental Well-being! Free to patreon members in our platinum tier. Sign up today for one million dollars!! Study link https://carleton.ca/biology/2024/birds-tree-diversity-has-significant-impact-on-peoples-mental-health-says-rachel-buxtons-research/

❾ Canadian Chicken Pecks way to World Record!
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/this-pet-chicken-from-b-c-is-now-a-guinness-world-record-holder-1.6950737

❽ Beach Balls and Determination: the David "Record Breaker" Rush Saga Continues!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/07/01/Guinness-World-Records-David-Rush-beach-ball-passes/3601719855156/ and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbyumFT-ec

❼ Politics on a Weird News Show? OK Let's get into it!!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/first-candidate-zero-votes-election-loss-1.7247339

❻ Another monolith, making headlines.
https://www.cpr.org/2024/07/03/mysterious-monolith-in-northern-colorado-removed/

❺ This one's about a poop truck, so you've been warned.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/us-news/truck-tips-over-and-splatters-connecticut-homes-with-something-too-gross-to-believe/

❹ We've got another truck loses its load story this week... not as gross as our last one... https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/06/26/California-Highway-Patrol-avocados-San-Mateo/7791719433472/A truck with 8 tons of avocados overturned on the California highway. No major injuries reported but whattamess©!

❸ Headline from Study Finds is "Scientists flip switch on fat cells, discover way to naturally burn more calories"https://studyfinds.org/flip-switch-on-fat-cells/

❷ Cool pineapple publicity stunt in the news...
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/snack-hackathon *USA Contest Only

🍅We just had Canada Day on July 1st... if you're unfamiliar it is a day where we all go to a park and get our faces painted red and white, then watch a Canadian band play, then there's fireworks...  we had a Canadian restaurant chain make headlines with their Canada Day S'mores burger...
The WORKS Craft Burgers & Beer is the place...  here's what they did in case you want to try a home version...  it's a beef patty stuffed with melting milk chocolate, topped with toasted marshmallow and graham crumbs.
MMMmmm or MMMnnnope
If it's something you'd try let us know in the poll this week... that is available on the spotify feed.
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/smores-burger

❶ The most famous bikini in all of space is getting auctioned off.
https://gizmodo.com/allaccess-leia-star-wars-bikini-auction-carrie-fisher-1851573508

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. This is season five, episode 25, first published Friday, June 21st, 2024. Here are this week's stories...

❿ McDonald's AI Gets Fired https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo

❾ Another Mysterious Monolith Found in Nevada Desert https://people.com/new-mysterious-monolith-found-nevada-desert-8665454?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

❽ Manchester engineers design record-breaking jumping robot https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-engineers-unlock-design-for-record-breaking-robot-that-could-jump-twice-the-height-of-big-ben/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

❼ Kevin the Tall Dog https://news.sky.com/story/great-dane-named-worlds-tallest-dog-but-is-terrified-of-familys-vacuum-13152314

❻ Should we throw the liars in jail? Followup: who would run our governments? https://studyfinds.org/wales-first-country-to-criminalize-politicians-who-lie/

❺ Amazing Record-Breaking Luck Clover https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/06/20/japan-Guinness-World-Records-63-leaf-clover/6371718899172/

❹ David Record Breaker Rush may have a prob you guys, he's re-breaking his records now?? https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/06/19/Guinness-World-Records-David-Rush-fist-bumping/8151718809394/ and https://youtu.be/zkiM3-ITV6c?feature=shared

❸ Four dollar vase turns out to be priceless #thriftingWin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/maryland-thrift-store-mayan-vase-b2565567.html

❷ Pope to priests: "Don't put people to sleep with long sermons!" (paraphrase) https://news.yahoo.com/news/pope-urges-priests-not-bore-153434476.html

🍅 Honorable Mention: Engulfed in the Netflix Zone https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/netflix-house

❶ Stonehenge, more like Orangehenge, amiright?! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgg0683e7po

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skateboarding cats and speeding wheelbarrows. What a weird week!

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. If you want a transcript or stuff to subscribe to our podcast, all the links that we talk about, you can get everything at shownotes.page. Shownotes.page. This is season five, episode 24, first published Friday, June 14th, 2024.

❿ I'm calling this one Fast Times in Barrowville. When they make the movie.

Dylan Phillips, a British mechanic, broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest wheelbarrow. Record speed was over 52 miles per hour. He built the wheelbarrow just for fun at first and then found out there was actually a world record. If he could make his wheelbarrow go really fast, he set the record in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Apparently, one of the worst forms of transportation is a fast wheelbarrow because according to Dylan, no suspension. It's a rough ride. and also a little bit terrifying. But imagine how fast you could get all your yard work done if your wheelbarrow went 50 miles per hour. So far not available commercially.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9961lg6l1o

❾ elephant names are in the news. Researchers think that elephants in the wild have names and call each other by their names. Not a lot of animals do that. How do they know elephants are actually doing it? Short answer is they're experts.

That would be me paraphrasing the short answer on that one. Longer answer is they studied hundreds of sounds made by mom elephants and their elephant children over the decades. And it seems as though mom was using a certain sound to talk to each elephant kid. That's me paraphrasing a scientific article. It also seems like those elephant children recognize their unique sound or name because they could record some of these sounds and the kid would be like, what?

Who said my name when they played the sound back? Again, that's me paraphrasing. That wasn't an actual... In case you thought I was playing the actual audio from the field. No, that was it was me saying who's calling my name. It was me portraying the elephant, you guys. All right, we're off to a hot start.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/06/12/call-me-by-my-name-elephants-low-rumbles-could-be-unique-to-one-another-research-reveals

Up next is a dinosaur discovery. A big old hailstone, maybe a record breaking hailstone. It's a biggie.

This is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from the news.

❽ A driver... No, he wasn't driving. He was diving. Sorry. We'll keep that in. Let's just- We're on a deadline here, you guys. A diver discovered a rare mastodon tusk off the coast of Florida. The diver's name is Alex. First, he thought it was wood, just a big old chunk of wood. But upon closer inspection, a much rarer find than a chunk of wood.

A mastodon tusk measuring four feet long, 70 pounds. Now Alex is a fossil hunter. He goes diving and looking for fossils. He's found some before, but this is rare and big and becomes now this tusk becomes the property of the state of Florida. I believe we'll go to the Florida Museum of Natural History is where this tusk will end up. Well done, Alex, rare find and so much better than a chunk of wood.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mastodon-tusk-fossil-hunting-diver-florida-b2561733.html

❼ A giant hailstone is in the news. This is in Texas. A couple of storm chasers, Val and Amy, were chasing a storm and they found a hailstone nearly 18 cm in diameter. That's about 7 inches. That's well, they describe it as the size of a pineapple. Hailstone the size of a pineapple. Imagine if you're caught in a storm and it is hailing pineapples down on you. A couple of things. The article doesn't mention if it tasted like pineapple, which... (CHARACTER LIMIT) for full shownotes to this episode see https://www.scottyandtony.com/2024/06/what-weird-week-ten-weird-things-that.html

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Electric spoons and mysterious goldfish. What a weird week Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is what a weird week It's a weekly catch up on all the weird stuff that happened in the news. I think that's it that summed it up. Let's go This is season five episode, can't remember, first released on June 7th, 2024.

❿ Our number 10 story this week was on a lot of newscasts about the fisher, the magnet fisher, the person who you go to a bridge, right? Magnet fishing, you have this powerful magnet on a rope or some sort of leash, maybe, and you throw that magnet in the water. And what comes up a lot of times is junk. In this case, it was a safe with waterlogged $100 bills, totaling an estimated $100,000. So this fellow, this James fellow, reports it to the authorities. There is some sort of finders keepers situation. So James gets to keep the approximately $100,000. The plan now is take it to Washington, see how much is salvageable and leave Washington with a whole bunch of money that you found with a magnet. This all happened in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York. Do you think there'd be more money in that body of water, that particular body of water? Is it teeming with mysterious money? Is it gonna be a tourist destination now for magnet fishers? These are questions that remain to be answered.

❾ Nine. Electric spoon enhances saltiness on sale in Japan. So it's a battery operated spoon that somehow makes food taste saltier. The theory behind it, like why we should all have one is we will consume less salt. It is only simulated saltiness. So we'll eat less salt, but we'll still have that salty flavor that many of us crave. And for some of us, it's too much salt and it's not good for us. So electric salt spoons is the way to go. It's gonna save us all, you guys. I'll put a link if you wanna learn how it works, how it interacts with sodium ions on our tongue. So you can kind of do a deep dive on that if you want to.

Or maybe, like me, you're just like, don't care about the science, take my money, please. Up next, we have a story of an alleged Pringles thief who may end up with a lifetime supply of Pringles and a mysterious goldfish discovered. Those stories are next.

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8. Pringles in the news this past week. A fellow stole a lot of containers of Pringles. This is Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom. Stole some Pringles, admitted guilt, got sentenced, and then Sky News, we got the headline, the thief told police, once you pop you can't stop. That wasn't an official defense, I don't think. Perhaps it was presented in court, your honor. Once you pop, you can't stop. But that did not convince the authorities. And so this fellow, Adam, now sentenced. I don't want to make light of any of this. I hope Adam gets on the straight and narrow, pays his debt to society. But then also I hope after upon release, I hope Pringles comes a-knockin' with some, you know, an idea for an ad campaign. If you go to our podcast page and you get the podcast through Spotify, there's the survey. If you were going to go to jail for a snack food, what would your snack food be? You can find all our podcast stuff if you go show notes that page show notes dot page.

❼ Seven mysterious goldfish. This one is a bit of a doozy, you guys. A doctor has gone viral on social media after discovering a goldfish on their lawn. I would say lawn. This is Newcastle, United Kingdom. So I think you would say garden, perhaps in the United Kingdom. Let me know if I got that wrong. So Dr. Ben Beska has no idea where this goldfish came from, found on the grass, (CHARACTER LIMIT) For Full Episode Shownotes see https://www.scottyandtony.com/2024/06/what-weird-week-catching-you-up-on-this.html

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We've got a follow up to a story we had earlier on this show where the town in Japan installed a giant black screen to stop people from taking pictures of Mount Fuji. It just got to be too much. And these pictures, some of them got famous on social media. So everybody wanted to get this certain angle of a picture of Mount Fuji where it looks like Mount Fuji is on top of a gas station or something like that. So they installed this giant black screen, eight feet tall, 66 feet long. The next day holes were in the black screen, holes the size of camera lenses. People were, you know, poking holes and still getting the special shot. But the town is still pleased. It's cut down and over tourism quite a bit. The giant black screen with the holes in it. That's your update.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/holes-found-in-screen-used-to-stop-people-taking-mt-fuji-photos/103906396 ❾

This one got picked up by a lot of national news orgs. I mean, you got a built in soundbite, you got video role that you can play. The Michigan man who went to Zoom court. So he had a Zoom call court and he was driving while appearing in Zoom court. And it was about his suspended license case. The fellow named Corey, the judge, Judge Simpson, was astonished. According to headlines. Let's put in a soundbite right here. "Mr. Harris, are you driving? Just give me one second. I'm parking right now. OK. So maybe I don't understand something. This is a driver license suspended. That is correct, your honor. And he was just driving. I don't even know why he would do that. So defendant's bond is revoked in this matter."

So, of course, you're not supposed to be on Zoom while driving. That's dangerous. But I could understand in a way, in a sense, I mean, if you want to prove to the judge that you shouldn't have a suspended license and you can Zoom call while driving, the defense rests, your honor. Anyway, the judge didn't think of it that way and ordered the fellow quarry to return to jail, revoked his bond and he was ordered to return to jail. ❽

Just about every headline took advantage of the fact this truck was in the news, the truck carrying strawberries overturned and caused a traffic jam. Strawberry jam. A strawberry traffic jam. Most every headline had some kind of variation on that. This is about the big rig carrying 40,000 pounds of strawberries which overturned on a freeway in San Jose. And traffic was backed up for some hours as the strawberry spill was cleaned up. A couple of other notes about this, no major injuries reported and strawberry jam is delicious.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/truck-carrying-40k-pounds-strawberries-overturns-creating-sticky-traffic-jam ❼

A fellow in India has made headlines for breaking his own Guinness World Record by typing the alphabet very quickly with his nose. He's owned this record before and he keeps besting his own record. The current record, if you would like to beat this, 25 seconds and change To type out the alphabet, you have to do a letter, a space, and the next letter and move on down the line in 25.66 seconds. It would appear as though we posted a link, some photos and stuff. I don't think, I think you just need tenacity, practice. I don't think you need any sort of special nose training or a particular type of nose structure. I think you mostly just need practice and tenacity and this record could be yours. But 25.66 seconds is going to be hard to beat. Standard QWERTY keyboard, by the way. Next, we have some wild chickens causing chaos. They made headlines and also the dog airline.

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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 20 first published on Friday May 17th, 2024.(BEGIN  EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) ❿ Older Family Film continues to terrify grownups... https://studyfinds.org/adults-scared-of-et/
Study: "1 in 8 adults still find the movie 'E.T. ' scary."
Another interesting stat from the study... "Men are twice as likely to find E.T. scary compared to women."
Also, "37% of people believe aliens are living among us, 41% say nope. ❾ AI is lying to us https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240510111440.htm
An article in Science Daily gets into the details... even some AI systems that were trained to be helpful and honest are telling lies in order to get a certain outcome... like a simple AI that plays poker and was programmed to to be honest... it bluffed in order to win at poker... the article gets into more examples... I'm not a fan of these panicky AI articles but if we can't trust AI because sometimes it lies to us... who's gonna want to use AI for anything important? Like, "Hey, AI, do I look fat in these pants? What's that? I look like a catalog model? Well thanks." #PackOfLies! ❽ Kids Eating Sugar: New Research is Great News for some Kids https://studyfinds.org/where-kids-get-their-sugar/
A study about kids eating sugar and obesity seems to indicate that it's not so important how much sugar you eat, it's more important where the sugar comes from/ what food...
Kids who eat sugar from sweetened snack foods are more likely to become obese... but sugar from fruit seems to cause less of a weight gain problem...
Also less likely to lead to obesity: dairy products (unsweetened).
Parents are advised to give their children fruit and milk instead of sweetened milk and other products with added sugar.
It's been a long time since my kids were little, but didn't we always kinda know -  try to get your kids to have fruit instead of cookies? Now we have some recent research to justify it. ❼ Giant Hummingbirds make headlines https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240513150528.htm
The giant hummingbird world has been rocked by this discovery... The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is actually two species... they look identical and science thought they were one kind of giant hummingbird but, nope. Really... this scientific discovery makes our weird news recap show because... did you know we had giant hummingbirds?
I did not. I was picturing hummingbirds the size of penguins! In fact, the giant hummingbird is just, bird-sized... weighing in at a whopping 24 grams... and measuring about 9 inches long... big for a hummingbird, but about the same length as a robin... ❻ Boozing it up gets revolutionized! https://studyfinds.org/alcohol-blocking-gel-intoxication/
Researchers have made this gel that you swallow and it coats your stomach, then it prevents you from absorbing booze... it has the capabilities to make you un-drunk.
They're still testing it so hang in there, but it helped mice avoid liver damage and other alcohol- related bad things.
Imagine the potential for this drug if it can sober you up!? To be continued. ❺ Thumbtacks World Record: I don't get the point. Hahahahahaha HiiiiYoooooooo!!!!!
David Record-Breaker Rush sets a world record by sticking 243 thumbtacks into a bulletin board in one minute
icymi, Dave wants to break every world record in the history of the universe and currently has 168.
He uses these record attempts to shine a light on STEM education.  See https://youtu.be/kskebMYX5Ss?feature=shared ❹ Boat Owner fights City Hall with passive aggression, art. (Character Limit!)

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