ICYMI, the The TMD Podcast (Trending Moments Digest) got a name change last week, now this podcast is called What a Weird Week. New Format: Top Ten! Same weird news stories, but now carefully curated and ranked for your countdown enjoyment.  *The RSS feed should all remain the same. *Follow us on Twitter

10 -  Blue Butterflies are back from extinction in UK. Will they taste like delicious blueberries? No experts will answer my calls.

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The TMD Podcast (Trending Moments Digest) is a roundup of the stories that have been trending all week. BUT, we've decided to change things up a little.

we're switching from TMD to What a Weird Week. Unlike "TMD Podcast", the "What a Weird Week" name isn't already taken by a bunch of other podcasts.

Top Ten! You'll still get the cool, weird, funny, slipped-through-the-cracks stories of the week, but now counted down in a top ten format.

- FAQ:

Q) Will the quality of the show improve? A) Let me put it this way, what quality?

Q) Will I have to change how I listen? A) The feed should all remain the same.

Q) When is this gonna happen? A) Time is an illusion.

Now here come the links:

10 - Colorado Parks and Wildlife tweeted a note they got from somebody who got a rock from a State Park and then started having all this bad luck. Here's the note: "Someone brought this home to me three years ago.  Bad things been happening ever since."

9 - Some Guinness Records got trending this week: Giant Jenga Stack (485 Jenga pieces on top of one vertical piece!)

and the guy who sliced a bunch of watermelons in half. The watermelons were placed on his friend's head. For safety, his friend wore a raincoat...

and then there's this 14 year old kid from Colorado who made news for solving the Rubiks Cube while on a pogo stick. FYI, the record is like 16 seconds. So if you're good at the Rubiks Cube, but terrible at the pogo stick, you still have a shot at this record- you only have to pogo for 16 seconds.

8 - Scientists made a discovery that is changing what we think of as alive or not alive... these microbes on the sea floor use so little energy that they shouldn't be alive. "To put it in perspective, the energy budget of an average human could power a ceiling fan. These organisms exist on an energy budget about 50 quintillion (a billion billion) times smaller than that, according to the study. "

Joke submission:

Congratulations, microbes, you are the new standard in lazy. I'd get some tee shirts made but, seems like an awful lot of work.

7 - Macaroni and Cheese made the news a couple times this week. That's weird, right?? Kraft Breakfast Mac and Cheese was announced...

Scotty note:

I am on vacation this week so we uploaded a Podcast Special to the feed.

Please enjoy!

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Here are some stories that were trending online this week:

- Last Week's Tweet Machine hack was not the work of a foreign entity, instead it started with a guy Kirk. I know what you're think, but it's not Kirk Cameron.

- Drones being utilized to keep Minnesota public beaches boob-free

- Country Time Lemonade Bailout Package (if your lemonade stand got COVIDed Out) and HERE's the Kraft Heinz podcast link

- Unleash the Kraken merch will sell like coocoobananas© and you know what? Maybe The Washington Football Team merch will too. Serious.

- UFOs this week on Vox

- Scientific American: "Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear"

- Twinkies video https://youtu.be/VC601rjqdjY

- How Toilet Paper Industry handled 845% spike in demand

- Amazon's new boxes are designed to be more fun #CatApartment #RocketShip

- Robot Dolphins are real? Robot Dolphins are real!!

- rise in ice cream sales, decline in shampoo usage during pandemic. #storychecksout

- They accidentally made a new kind of fish out of sturgeon and paddlefish. Meet the Sturddlefish.

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Here are some stories that were trending online this week:

- My brother got dental surgery (citation needed).

- Boy Genius* (or man with long hair) makes hair cutting robotic device. If it's not marketed as Hairy Shearer then I consider the whole thing a fail. Straight to video.

- Waaaay long article about Google projects including Smart Tattoos.

- icymi, the Tweet Machine was hacked.

- Swearing eases your pain. It's Damn Science.

- National Tattoo Day! Here's the Covid/Tattoo Regret story.

- Billy Joel plays junk piano 

- Iceland duped us all into screaming and falling in love with the place.

- Amazon Carts will know you're buying Prep H. Which is a fine product. *ad.

- Large fish swallows fairly large fish, excites researchers.

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Late upload, but here are some stories that were trending in the news last week: 

- Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder fails to make solid contact with pitch while playing surfball. 

"Next time, keep your hands back, then explode through the ball," said every Little League coach ever.

- Do you think the government would lie to us about UFOs? Yes, yes you do.

- more Canceled Netflix shows. (Business Insider)

- How to compliment colleagues in a world where you are called out for all your arsenal of offensive words and actions.

- Some mild Covid19 cases end up with serious brain disorders

- MmHmm App for Zoom Meeting prowess

- Horseshoe Crab Blood is waaaay important for medical testing

- survey: nobody excited to see coworkers back at the office. 

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Thanks very much for being here for our first annual "Scotty and Tony's Canada Day Cross-Country Roadtrip Extravaganza!"

Here's the recap:

10) Digital Orca/ Vancouver, British Columbia

9) World’s Largest Oil Lamp Replica/ Donalda, Alberta

8) World’s Largest Coffee Pot/ Davidson, Saskatchewan

7) World’s Largest Freestanding Banana/ Melita, Manitoba

6) World’s Largest Photo Mosaic/ Port Carling, Ontario

5) Giant Slingshot/ Montreal, Quebec

4) World’s Largest Axe/ Nackawic, New Brunswick

3) Giant Potato/ O’Leary, PE

2) Big Fiddle/ Sydney, Nova Scotia

1) Giant Squid/ Glovers Harbour, Newfoundland

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