What a Weird Week

Thanks for checking out What a Weird Week, the Top Ten Weird Things from this  week's news. This is episode 3.33

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Here's the Top Ten...

❿ Man continues to shine a light on education with chainsaws on his face..

❾ Passenger with zero knowledge about flying a plane landed it safely with a quick tutorial from an air traffic controller...

❽ California couple returns home to find that hundreds of birds are now living in their home...

❼ KFC in Singapore has come out with a fried chicken taco containing Mac and Cheese.

❻ Rabbit gets into Walmart and has a feast in the garden section...

❺ Science has finally cracked it you guys... how to use science to flirt with someone!!

❹ Andy Warhol painting breaks a record... #marilynmonroe

❸ Update on the methane-from-cows situation: you can see it from space now...

❷ Science knows why teenagers don't listen to their mom?!

Honorable Mentions:

Taco Bell and Dolly Parton are teaming up for a musical about Mexican Pizza...

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Eating Sea Squirts seems to be good for your brain according to a new study...

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Sunday night/ Monday morning is the Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Spectacular...

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They did not find a paved road to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean...

❶ Big Bottle of Booze in the News!

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Thanks for checking out What a Weird Week, the Top Ten Weird Things from this  week's news. This is episode 3.32

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Here's the Top Ten...

❿ The first flying car airport in the world is in the UK...

-  it's kind of a Pop-Up airport because they wanted to show how fast a  flying car airport could get up and running (built in 15 months)

-  it's a 3 hour drive away from the city (I thought we'd be landing our  flying cars in our own front yards so this is disappointing)

❾ Space Murder now against the law for Canadian Astronauts...

In  a disappointing turn of events for anyone who hoped to be able to get  away with space murders, would-be space assassins now cannot murder  people in outer space without repercussions.

Until now There  was a loophole in Canadian law which, in theory, meant that Canadians  who committed a crime while in space or on the moon, might not be not  subject to earth laws.

❽ Weird Mars lights...

Notes:

- scientists have known about Weird lights on Mars for years

-  this new discovery is just way bigger than they've seen before and they  say it looks a little like an enormous snake twisting up from the  planet into the sky

- it's thousands of miles long

❼ another new Coke flavor that tries to assign a certain taste to  something intangible... The new release is flavour aimed at gamers and  they call it called Coca-Cola Byte.  It has a fruity flavor.

❻ Reminder: We live in a world where someone can lose 13 billion dollars  in an afternoon and still be one of the richest people in the  universe...

That's what happened to Jeff Bezos. Amazon stock  lost value, so he lost 13 billion in an afternoon the other day... he  lost more than that overall as the stock kept moving, but the 13 Billion  in an Afternoon had a ring to it and a lot of news outlets went with  that headline.

❺ Our shortest story ever - the most popular emoji is...

The Laughing-and-Crying emoji. 😂

The Guinness Book of World Records folks shared that this week...

❹ The dog who ate a lady's passport just before she was supposed to travel to someone's wedding...

- sure, blame the dog

- dog's name is Prince

- it looks like the lady (Sophia) will miss her friend's wedding in Cyprus and lose over £800... so now I believe her

❸ Who falls for Fake News? Not you, right?

A Study this week that took a look at Fake News had a couple surprises...

Notes:

- older people are no more likely to fall for fake news than any other age category

❷ College grads are guessing wrong about starting salaries...

Notes:

- People graduating from college in the US THINK that they'll be making an average salary of ~ $103,880 for their first job.

I say aim big, college grads!

❶ NHLer Louis Domingue is the backup goalie for the Penguins. Their playoff game went into overtime the other night... Louis wasn't playing... so he ate some spicy pork... then, moments later the starting goalie got hurt and Louis had to go in the game... Penguins won the game thanks largely to Louis and the spicy pork he ate

Thanks for checking out the What a Weird Week Podcast, a countdown of the Top Ten Weird Things in the News from the Week that was. For Full Show Notes and Podcast Links see www.Shownotes.page 

Here's the Top Ten...

❿ What is that mystery noise under the house? (Dramatic movie music plays) Spoiler alert, it was bear snores. Five bears were hiding under this California house for months like master criminal trespassers.

❾ This is a weird stat that no one saw coming... the researchers were baffled at first...

Road signs that flash messages about safe driving cause accidents?

❽ Money can save your marriage! - research. 

I don't know what minimum wage is where you're at but if they were to raise it, there would be less divorces.

❼ Burger Deliciousness revolution!

❻ it looks like that guy who took selfies and jumped out of a plane that crashed... he was wearing a parachute btw... he also had a Selfie stick... the FAA says he crashed that plane on purpose... 

❺ *PG13 warning* a restaurant in British Columbia has been in the news for their dirty waffles...

It's a pop-up waffle shop (which makes it sound a little dirtier) and the waffles they sell look like ding dongs. Why? Is that the optimal shape for waffles on a stick? 

❹ KFC and Pro Flowers in the USA are teaming up to offer an incredible gift for special moms this Mothers Day... Flowers and fried chicken. They're calling it Kentucky Fried Buckquet... Give him something that shows you care...

❸ rockets are so expensive that a company is trying something bonkers... 

A rocket company that sends up satellites thinks they can grab a rocket - as it plummets back down to earth - using a helicopter with a grappling hook!

❷ the giant robot that is set to destroy us all...

Notes:

- West Japan Railway built an enormous robot that looks like it's from the Transformers Movie

❶ Good News Story!! Solar Panels you can see through are coming... they can be used as windows and capture solar energy while you look through them at the wasteland outside!! :) :) :)

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Thanks for checking out the What a Weird Week Podcast, a countdown  of the Top Ten Weird Things in the News from the Week that was. This is  episode 3.30

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BBC podcast about the war in Ukraine - if you want to understand what's  happening there, it is a good way to get informed. It's called  Ukrainecast (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bqztzm) ...

Here's the Top Ten...

❿ What your favourite candy reveals about you...

I like the idea of some sort of therapy where psychological test where they give you candy and then diagnose you...

❾ *Listener Warning - poop talk here... There's a sea creature that was  discovered in the early 2000s... and it has finally been seen pooping.  This is the first time anyone has gotten footage of the deed...

❽ The other day the Guinness Book of Records tweeted about this guy who  can turn his tongue into a ball and it has the biggest circumference in  the world... it should be called tonguecumference©

❼ This bears-wrestling-on-a-tampoline story...

❻ This story of tenacity... if no one listens to you, you can either  stop talking, or refuse to be silenced!! Somebody unhappy with the noise  at Dublin Airport refused to give up... and they filed over 12000 noise  complaints last year alone!

❺ the new Taylor Swift bug ...

❹ the world's largest hockey stick is in Jeopardy because: woodpecker.

❸ M&Ms world record seems impossible to me...

❷ the puppy who finds gold...is not a Golden Retriever. #MissedOpportunity

Honorable mention... Netflix lost subscribers, might crackdown on password-sharing, will be offering a plan with ads... everybody made a huge deal outta this one!  

❶ After much debate, we decided to go with Grape Pop Tarts for Number One!!

Thanks for checking out the What a Weird Week Podcast, a countdown of the Top Ten Weird Things in the News from the Week that was. This is episode 3.29

I took Sunday off for Easter, but I'm liking this Monday release schedule a lot because it gives me an extra couple days of Weirdness before finalizing the Top Ten... 

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10 world's oldest dog gets in the Guinness Book...

9 Wordle has revealed what the best word is to start your game... *Spoiler*

8 Harvard astrophysicist continues to be true believer...

7 Burn your physics textbooks and let's just start from scratch you guys...

6 The father-and-son who hung up ten items of clothing and broke the World Record!

5 the guy in Florida who saw Spiderman: No Way Home at the theatre 292 times... That's a World Record.

4 Pabst Blue Ribbon hid kegs on the weekend... Easter Kegs and anyone legal drinking age could find and keep them...

3 Irish Spring has this invention for gamers to bathe while still playing their game... it might be *understatement?* a publicity stunt

2 The person who bought the rights to the first ever Tweet... overpaid...

1 The lady who won 10 million because someone bumped into her...

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10 Invisibility Shield is here...

9 Vanilla for the Win...

8 Cannabis health benefits research shows promise...

7 Whopper size court case in Fla?

6 Fish Math!

5 What is Pixel Coke?

4 Beer Flavour Drops...

3 Advertising in Dust? #Dustvertising

2 Air Meat!

1 The Truth about Dryers!

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Stayeth Weirdeth!!

Thanks for checking out What a Weird Week, a podcast with the Top Ten Weird Things from the news. This is episode 3.26 and it's a repeat episode because I thought I had Covid you guys.

In this glorious re-run we go back to a year ago this week.

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The minister who didn't know there was a Zoom filter on

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Without looking it up, I wouldn't know the biggest movie of all time.

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Bill Ackman is an investor who got-in-early buying stocks for a company that everyone online calls 'the Amazon of South Korea'.

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More Heinz sauces!?

6

A lady in the Netherlands got a robot tattoo this week. Not a tatto OF a robot, a tattoo done BY a robot.

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A guy made news this week for breaking the world record involving drinking a Capri Sun fast.

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Scientists grow human tear glands in a lab, and actually make them cry

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Scientists surprised by plants a mile under the ice in Greenland... but wait, there's more!

2 That assistant district attorney in Pennsylvania who just got demoted because while he was being an assistant district attorney, he was also making DoorDash deliveries

Engineers at Stanford University have finally figured out exactly why hummingbirds hum.

It's because they don't know the words.

HIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Thanks for checking out What a Weird Week, a podcast with Ten Weird Things from this week's news. This is episode 3.25.

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10 Dolly and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

9 Russian News Protester...

8 No more changing the clocks in the Fall and in the Spring?!

7 Starbucks Cup Plans...

6 Dancing study says that it is good for manliness...

5 Somebody put a giant KMART sign on a guy's front lawn in North Dakota...

4 Don't use emojis in work emails according to a study...

3 Gross sounding ice cream flavors are still a thing...

2 Mary Jones Soda...

1 that giant potato we talked in a previous episode did not break the world record as expected...

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Pi Day is supposed to celebrate the number you get when you divide 22 by 7 (3.1429).

We celebrate it on the third month and the fourteenth day every year. But it's Monday. Mondays are hard. Math is also hard. Can't we just eat pie instead. That's a problem I can solve on a Monday.

Here are a few pie stats...

Largest Cherry Pie in the World was baked in BC!

"A lemon meringue pie weighing 1.3 tonnes (2,866 lb) was made by 20 students from Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK, on 4 June 1998."

"The most expensive pie sold at auction was bought for $3,100.00 (£1,994.54) by Jerry Mumma (USA), in Rich Hill, Missouri, USA, on 6 July 2012."

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