Howdy, weird news fans! The snow is awful, the cold is ROUGH, but your best pals in the oddball headlines universe are here to lighten the mood and warm your spirits with some effed up stuff!

In Shaun’s Cabinet of the Macabre, hear about just one of the many perils of navigating the Japanese apartment rental scene: turns out it’s even HARDER when you’re the supremely creepy and hopelessly forgetful sort. Oh BOY, but that complicated things for one middle-aged lady in Tokyo!

Over in SCIENCE!, Phil (FINALLY) has some answers when it comes to one of nature’s true and overlooked wonders…the cubical poopies of the wombat! How, we’ve all wondered, do those things manage to make crap-dice in their gutty-works? Well wonder no longer, Citizens! The good doctor is here to help!

And we’ve ALSO got fresh Trainwreck Headlines, fast-paced strangeness in Three for the Road, and…oh bother…there’s a new Covidiot of the Week.

Let’s SPIKE that cocoa, man! This is the WHIPAROUND!