What a Weird Week

What a Weird Week is usually a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. Full Shownotes and more stuff at ⁠https://www.shownotes.page/podcast⁠

But... it's Christmas Time, baby! So today we're re-posting this holiday special recorded in my kitchen last year. My wife is doing some baking. My kids are helping me crank out some podcast gold.

We count down the Top Earning Christmas Movies of All Time, and the Top Earning Toys of All Time!

Movies list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Christmas_films

Toys list https://www.nowblitz.com/blog/15-best-selling-toys-in-history/

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What a Weird Week is a show about the weird stuff that happened in the news this week. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... Subscribe to the Audio Podcast at https://kite.link/weird ... and see the Video Podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@weirdweekpod ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫
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(Here's the Top Ten for this episode. See link for full Shownotes)

❿ The Hopper and the Copper: Kangaroo arrested in Ontario, Canada...  ❾  The most-read article on Wikipedia for 2023 was... ❽ The Golden Mole is back you guys! Or, maybe don't call it a comeback?

❼ This one via Hoops at UPI... I know it's weird news and you got to report that stuff Hoops, but IDK...

❻ The Garden Ornament turned out to be a Bomb. Not 'THE Bomb' like "Hey

❺ A lady who threw a burrito at an employee in a Chipotle has been sentenced to working in fast food...

❹ World's First AI-written Law gets voted in...

❸The top advertisement of 2023 (according to AdWeek) is...  Honorable Mention!CoCo the Flying Cat 

❷ Another publicity stunt that knocked it out of the park... ❶ via NeuroScienceNews.com: "Optimism Linked to Poor Decision-Making and Lower Cognitive Skills" 

Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's the top ten list for Season 4, Episode 62 first published on Friday Dec. 1st, 2023... ❿ Attention Influencers and Models: be nicer to work with than AI. ❾ Sports Illustrated in the news this week after a Futurism Article with this headline: "Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers... We asked them about it - and they deleted everything." ❽ via NBC 5 "On Your Side" ... dateline, St. Louis ... "trespassers call 911 for help after locking themselves in cell ... Police helped free the men from a cell and then arrested them." ❼ The Snake with a Rockstar Energy Drink can on it's head in the news... the Facebook post from Snake Catcher Tasmania got picked up by Hoops over at UPI and the headline is "Venomous snake rescued from energy drink can" ❻ A Heartwarming World Record was in the news this week... The official world record is "Youngest Member of Mensa (female)" and it belongs to little Isla McNabb of Kentucky, USA ❺ Last week AP had this headline:Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him..." ❹ Another Impressive World Record makes our top ten list... ❸ Watch twelve Hallmark Holiday Movies and get paid Thousands! Honorable Mention: This Holiday, please consider adding a Pretzel House to your Festive Traditions! ❷ Last week while we were busy doing our Thanksgiving Extravaganza Holiday Special, the Guinness World Records Folks published a piece about Edgar Yudkevich who set a pretty impressive knife world record... ❶ Underwater Magic Tricks are a thing and we have a new world record in that field?!

Full stories and more at ⁠https://www.shownotes.page/podcast

What a Weird Week is a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. Full Shownotes and more stuff at https://www.shownotes.page/podcast

Today, instead of the usual Weird News Top Ten Countdown, we're re-posting our 2022 holiday special recorded in the kitchen where my kids help me count down the Top Money-Making Christmas Movies of All Time, and the Best-Selling Toys of All Time! Happy Holidays to you friends who are celebrating!

Top-Grossing Christmas Movies of All Time list is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Christmas_films

The Top-Selling Toys of All Time list is at https://www.nowblitz.com/blog/15-best-selling-toys-in-history/

Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page/podcast Here's the Top Ten List for Season 4, Episode 60 first published on Friday Nov. 17th, 2023...

❿ Teenager sets new Jenga world record and inspires a Hallmark Movie? ❾ Circus Lion Recaptured but that was scary! ❽ Horse gets loose on a plane... they decide to turn around and had back to home base... ❼ Please have your hippos spayed or neutered... ❻ Now it's deer who are trying to draw us out of our homes... ❺ Crochet World Record in the News... I hope this drives more episode downloads amongst you passionate crochet fans... ❹ headline via Fox News: $100k tool bag lost in space is now orbiting Earth... ❸ John Oliver, friend to the Pūteketeke Bird, helps to get it crowned Bird of the Century! ❷ Champagne Heist/ Chase Honorable Mention: The Toy Hall of Fame Voting Results... ❶ Yesterday the Guinness World Record Folks posted about a Kendama record that is bonkers...

(this is part of the episode transcript) "Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and complete shownotes see www.shownotes.page!

Here's the top ten for Season 4, Episode 59 first published on Friday Nov. 10th, 2023...

❿ Nike Lawsuit! ❾ The Chainsaw-wielding thieves in the news and what they're stealing... ❽ Two amazing cooking records in the news! ❼ the UFO was a NOFO ❻ Men charged in Golden Toilet Heist that might be an insult to America... ❺ Whales sink another boat... ❹ Headline from Global News: "Human skull found amid Halloween decor in Florida thrift store!"This one is scary! Creepy! Human skull! ❸ The Best Cheese in the World is... ❷ headline from Fox 13 is NYC Green Slime puzzlers New Yorkers... ❶ is an archeological find that surprised the researchers...

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Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. See Shownotes at https://www.shownotes.page

Here's the Top Ten for Season 4, Episode 58 first published on Friday Nov. 3rd, 2023... ❿ This week, I'm playing catch-up on a few stories because last week was our Halloween special... kicking things off at number ten is the heroic world record where a bunch of people did a shot of booze off a ski... ❾ Another Catch-up... the loudest house cat purr world record belongs to Bella the cat from the UK who can purr somewhat loudly... ❽ Next we're catching up on the Glass Dancing World Record as reported by Hoops Hooper at UPI... a man in Cyprus did a dance while balancing 319 wine glasses on his head... that's a new world record! ❼ Here's another one that got bumped for the Halloween episode last week... headline from Business Insider: "A man posed as a mannequin in a shop window to steal jewelry after hours, Polish police say" ❻ Bears try to steal minivan, escape arrest... ❺ Possible Spiderman World Record! ❹ OK... earmuffs for the kids on this one... and it's gross... a Charity Shop/ Thrift Store in the UK had to post this on their social media... Please stop (see shownotes for full headline) ❸ @GWR headline: "Colossal cup of ‘smelly’ instant noodles sets record in China"... ❷ A pig named Kevin Bacon who escaped from his Pennsylvania home has returned after 17 days on the loose... Honorable Mention this week goes to the staff at Buzzfeed who are promoting a delicious Croissant Candle that costs around 65 bucks... ❶ The day after Halloween Mariah Carey announced that it was time once again to enjoy her song "All I want for Christmas is You".

- It is the song that famously took 15 minutes to write and makes Mariah Carey around 3 million dollars per year.

- She is also being sued again over that song.

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Hi Friends, I'm Scott. Welcome to our What a Weird Week Halloween Special! Usually we have a Top Ten Countdown of weird news, but this episode is weird Halloween stuff. Link: https://www.shownotes.page

Now, Our Halloweird for Season 4, Episode 57 first published on Friday Oct. 27, 2023...

❿ Halloween costumes that will be popular this year... For 2023, Google Frightgeist says the Top Three costumes are

1) Barbie, 2) Princess, 3) Spider-Man

❾ 83% of people surveyed said they had some kind of paranormal activity in their home

❽ a quick and careful look at Ouija Boards... Steer clear of those things you guys!

❼ Some tips on Candy Hangovers...

❻ Most Popular Pet Halloween Costumes...

❺ Followup... In June we talked about the Ohio lady who made news for refusing to remove a nine foot tall werewolf statue...

❹ Followup... We had a pretty fantastic Halloweenish story the other day when that Chucky Doll was placed in handcuffs, arrested, and booked for crimes in Mexico...

❸ Redux... Steve from Missouri broke the Guinness World Record for longest journey by pumpkin boat!

❷ Followup... A few episodes ago we talked about that Big Ol' Pumpkin that broke the world record... over a ton!

❶ Headline from @GWR "Farm celebrates Halloween with giant Jack Skellington pumpkin mosaic"

Bonus... Most people dressed in certain costume... largest group of zombies was 15458 zombies... scarecrows was 2495... then there were the 2018 skeletons... Fastest pumpkin carving record belongs to Stephen Clarke who carved one regulation size pumpkin in 9.4 seconds... most pumpkins smashed in a minute is 52!

the National Retail Federation says spending for Halloween 2023 will surpass pre-pandemic numbers... we'll spend $12.2 billion on Halloween this year.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! BE SAFE!!

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Hi friends, it's Scott, thanks for checking out What a Weird Week, a Show about the weird stuff from the news this week. For Shownotes see www.Shownotes.page

Here's the Top Ten for Season 4, Episode 56 first published on Friday Oct. 20, 2023...

❿ Space Probe that may destroy the Global Economy has Successful Launch! ❾ University Student Wins $40,000 Prize for Letting AI DO All the Work! jk ... ❽ Mosquitos in Our Flying Tubes! ... ❼ Huffpost Headline was "GEORGIA MAN STUNNED BY $1.4 MILLION SPEEDING TICKET" ... ❻

Here's the Top Ten from last week. Episode is still online at https://www.shownotes.page/podcast ...
10 If that chair could talk! (It's probably seen a lot of rear ends.)
9 Teenager makes news, success is built on a house of cards... but how big is the biggest house of cards in the world? 8 Mushy Chestnuts linked to scandal in world championship Conkers... 7 I'm just gonna muscle through this one like it's a news story and nothing else... Harry Dick Road is not a road you want to go down...
6 a great day for salted meats and cheese! #WorldRecord 5 Grade 4 kids shown "Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey" movie by mistake. School offers counseling. 4 Crocodiles doin' it has made headlines...
3 Guy who worked at museum decides to act out some kind of heist movie plot, buy Rolls Royce... 2

Honorable Mention! The headline from the New York Post is "Woman ate 48 oysters on a date - what happened next was shocking..."

❶ Lady accused of stealing car from Dealership to get to her Exotic Dancing Job Interview according to police...

For full shownotes see ⁠www.Shownotes.page⁠