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❿ The real estate agent who made themselves at home a little too much and had to pay for it... ❾ Playing harp while very high results in world record... ❽ Swifties cause earthquake... headline from CBC: "When Taylor Swift

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This is Season 4, Episode 42 first published on Friday July 14, 2023:

❿ Let's just eat all of the invasive species!

Headline from CBC "Invasive crabs are thriving in BC waters... ❾ What is Barbenheimer/ Barbieheimer? In case you missed it, Barbenheimer has its own Wikipedia entry. It is this social media trend that is taking off... ❽ Quick Question: Is the Ice Sword the perfect weapon? ... This amazing ice cream from Japan that looks like a sword. It got some attention this week as the longest ice cream in Japan... ❼ Never Send a Thumbs Up Emoji to Anyone Ever!

That's the takeaway lesson. Ever. Never. Just don't use emojis anymore, you guys. Here's the CBC headline: "Texting thumbs up emoji in response to a question costs Saskatchewan farmer $82,000 in contract case." ❻ McDonald's Wedding Package is getting some attention... official wedding package offered by McDonald's in Indonesia... a McDonald's wedding package with 100 chicken burgers, and 100 four piece nuggs... that deal will cost you around $230 US. ❺ The Twenty Slices of Cheese Burger from Burger King Thailand...

It has twenty slices of cheese!? like a Whole Package of cheese slices? Mama!

❹ Headline from BBC... police search for screaming woman, find pet parrot. We've had stories like this before on this podcast, a parrot sounds so convincingly like someone in trouble that the police show up. Well the person who owned the parent is a retired police officer himself, he has 22 parrots, ❸ Giant Space Tubes in the News! From the TLDR newsletter which is pretty great, an article about $10 space travel which seems pretty weird... ❷ Survey out of England says Small Talk is really important, so don't screw it up??

- From the Study Finds website: research from University of Warwick seems to indicate that those first impressions we make during small talk has a big impact later on... ❶ Would you take $10,000 to be a toilet paper spokesmodel/ influencer? It's been awhile since we featured one of these publicity stunts... I always say it aint easy being on the toilet paper marketing team trying to come up with a way to get some toilet paper publicity to stand out from the rest... but I don't think I'll be taking part in this contest... did you scroll this far? you're my favorite. see all these stories or get to our youtubes via ⁠⁠www.Shownotes.page⁠⁠

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This is the Top Ten for Season 4, Episode 41 for Friday July 7, 2023:

❿ Bicentennial Celebration with Giant Pie! ❾ Stolen Velociraptor!

❽ On July 4th, Joey Chestnut won the hot dog eating deal for a 16th time. ❼ The Florida man who set the world record for living a long time underwater has revealed that he shrunk. ❻ The Teacher who skipped school for 20 years has been fired??!!! ❺ The Red Stuff Leaking from the Truck was hot Sauce... ❹ Pickle war is gaining momentum... ❸ a knockoff Louis Vuitton bag is in the news because...  ❷ Runner makes wrong turn, loses thousands in prize money... 🏆 via Science Alert: "NASA Seals Volunteers Into Isolated Habitat For Year-Long Experiment"

❶ Finally the flying cars we were promised in literature!

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Hello friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week. Every Friday we do a Weird-News-of-the-Week Top 10 Countdown ⁠podcast⁠, a ⁠blog⁠ with all the stories and shownotes, and a ⁠YouTube video⁠. Find everything at ⁠www.Shownotes.page

This is Season 4, Episode 40 for Friday June 30, 2023:

❿ From Fox 2, KTBU. Billionaires offering dog nanny job with $127,000 a year salary had to pull their ad after too many applications. ❾ from HuffPost, The results are in,  Maury Povich is the father... of a great business venture! ❽ from NDTV... 'Skilled US cow performs 10 tricks in 1 minute to set world record' ...  ❼ Seven is going to be a tie. There's going to be two stories in number seven. They're not weird news items so much as they're just weird articles that started getting traction this past week. First one, the headline was why you should never jump into water to avoid a bee attack... and the other story is... which again, it's not a news item so much as an article that started gaining traction this past week... but to me, it's kind of weird. Have you ever heard the phrase sleep divorce before?? From USA Today. the article is 'Sleep Divorce is on the Rise'. ❻ Free Smartwatches: A Warning. Headline from PC Magazine is "Did you receive a free smartwatch in the mail? Do not turn it on." ❺ Pepsi Ketchup made headlines this week. Pepsi-infused ketchup! It's Pepsi and ketchup together at last! ❹ the janitor who unplugged the freezer and ruined the experiment and now is part of a lawsuit... ❸ the War on Taco Tuesday continues... Taco John's Answers Back... ❷ Rent the Barbie Dreamhouse... 🏆 A couple Honorable Mentions this week... - When in Rome, don't carve your gf's name into ancient architecture... for sure don't get VIDEO of it! the second Honorable Mention... - are we gonna have to start paying 70 dollars for a bottle of Sriracha sauce?!! ❶ Croatian City Bans Noisy Wheeled Suitcases... A European city has imposed a ban on wheeled suitcases due to the excessive noise they produce when dragged across cobblestones.

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❿ You've heard it said, Dance like no one is watching. I say, dance like the world is watching! Students at a school in Connecticut just broke the world record for the longest conga line. ❾ Headline from ABC7... I'm gonna read it word for word because it's a

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Hi friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week. Every Friday we do a Weird-News-of-the-Week Top 10 Countdown podcast, a blog with all the stories and shownotes, and a YouTube video. Find everything at Shownotes.page. This is Season 4, Episode 38 for Friday June 16th, 2023:

❿ Guy on TikTok gets arrested after *allegedly* jumping in with the alligators at Bush Gardens... ❾ I put the headline through the ai machine and it churned out "Octopus Intelligence: Rethinking Our Menu Choices..." ❽ The Secret to Living Longer?!* ❼ Beloved Mascot goes to hospital after fooling around and finding out... ❻ Another reason to thank the mice, scientists may have solved obesity, diabetes, and heart disease... ❺ Man bails on blind date and gets sued over it. I would like to give you some of the details, and then you be the judge on this... ❹ United States Supreme Court has sided with whiskey and not with the dog toy company. ❸ People keep stealing the same cat... ❷ How big is the world's biggest catfish? Very big. Scary Big. ❶ "Belgian dad fakes own death because felt Unappreciated." Full notes at ⁠Shownotes.page⁠.

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This is the Top Ten for Episode 36 of Season 4 on Friday June 2nd 2023: ❿ Headline courtesy the North Vancouver RCMP: "We think he was trying to make a clean getaway but was unsuccessful." ❾ Pretty soon we'll all be going on airplane diets... ❽ Bear takes break from ringing doorbells to rob bake shop... ❼ The mosquitos are attracted to our what now? ❻ a Kitty Cat is terrorizing a Florida Neighborhood you guys... ❺ Official in India loses phone in reservoir, orders the whole thing drained... ❹ Secret Spy Whales?! ❸ Are the Whales Fighting Back?! (Yes, Back-to-Back Whale Stories!) ❷Headline via DW.com "Drug-laden fridge defenestrated during police raid" ❶How Fast is the Fastest Garbage Can?