What a Weird Week

10 This Murder Hornet Extraction Team at work

(https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927235267/first-murder-hornet-nest-in-u-s-is-found-in-washington-state) and (https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1320140155387142144?s=20)

9 KFC Fried Chicken Firelogs (https://www.delish.com/food-news/a34482140/kfc-11-herbs-spices-firelog-walmart/)

8 Play Doh for grownups (https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/play-doh-for-grown-ups_l_5f96f245c5b63fd49ceeb57e)

7 Robot Roboat (https://www.engadget.com/mit-autonomous-roboat-ii-carries-passengers-140145138.html)

6 Bionic Eye (https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/progress-toward-a-brain-implant-for-the-blind)

5 Man wins a settlement against Ginger Ale (https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1321619509472624640)

4 Ghostbuster Shoes (https://comicbook.com/gear/news/ghostbusters-and-reebok-sneaker-collection-halloween/)

3 Extremely Valuable Valuable Asteroid to be visited ASAP (https://observer.com/2020/10/nasa-discover-asteroid-pysche-metal-10-quadrillion/)

2 Giant Reef Discovered (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54716546)

Honorable Mention: Moon Water! (https://pledgetimes.com/11-p-m-science-and-discovery-on-the-moon-water-is-more-abundant-than-we-thought/)

1 This Clocks Fall Back Primer (https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/get-ready-to-fall-back-what-you-need-to-know-about-daylight-time-ending-1.5169544)

Podcast Home (https://podcast.scottyandtony.com/)

https://twitter.com/whataweirdweek

What a Weird Week: a podcast featuring the top ten weirdest stories of the week.

10 Baby Shark vs Despacito!

9 Kool Aid bandit!

8 Mystery Moon Announcement:

7 a Flippin' Army of Flippin' Flippy Robots!

6 Tim's and Burger King are testing out Tupperware packaging*

5 They just discovered a secret organ in our head?!

4 How to be irresistible to your special someone!

3 Kool Aid Man is trying to save Halloween...

2 Kit Kat Takes Break from Have a Break and it could be your Big Break!

1 This Soft Serve Software Hero!

Podcast Home

10 Relaxation through Cow Hugging:

9 War Dog Goggles:

8 Bad Luck Pompeiirock:

7 This Guy who made a Lightsaber:

6 The guy who did the World Record Slip-n-Slide...

5 Good Nobel Prize Neighbors:

4 Another Lousy Stinkin Jetpack story!?

3 The Robots are one step closer to Total Domination: Google announced this deal where you can hum or whistle a tune and the robots will try to figure out what song you mean.

2 Wooden Bank Cards are a thing now:

1 These Halloweeners Knocking it out of the park this week! The other day we put this Halloween House on our blog that had such good special effects that someone called the Fire Department... A couple days later we had something built by a retired Fisher Price engineer in New York. At time of posting, no one has called authorities or exterminators.

Twitter: @WhataWeirdWeek... Podcast Home... or Subscribe wherever

What a Weird Week: a podcast featuring the top ten weirdest stories of the week. 

Recap of last show HERE.

10 "Toyota’s Robot Butler prototype hangs from the ceiling like a bat"

If you invent a robot butler, you're making the top ten list for sure. If it's described as hanging from the ceiling like a bat, you will be deducted several points for creepiness.

9 Subway now offering cake!

There is a slim to none chance that you didn't hear about this one because everybody reported it before the President got Covid. Courts in Ireland have ruled that Subway bread has too much sugar to legally be called bread, so now it's grouped in with delicious cake!

8 Them Crows is Smart!

If this one slipped under the radar, it might've been because the crows didn't want you to know so they hacked your algorithm.

7 Halloween Candy is Selling like Crazy! People don't even know if they'll have Trick-or-Treaters!

I heard a Business Wars podcast about how some candy companies didn't produce as much Halloween candy this year because they were unsure of the market. Then we had that story about Marshmallow Peeps taking Halloween off completely!

Now the latest stats show we're buying MORE Halloween candy than we did last year!?

*up 26 % compared to the same time last year.

6 Jet Packs in the news again!! JET PACKS!!!!

It's true that I have a Jet Pack obsession. It all started when I was in grade 2 and Jimmy Mckenzie said his book bag had a jet pack in it and jumped off the monkey bars.

5 Fat Bear Contest! 

Every year at this National Park in Alaska, they do a a Fat Bear competition. The goal is to spot a fat bear, or I guess if you're the bear, the goal is to BE a fat bear...

4 Super Enzyme that Eats Plastic!

This week the news came out about a plastic-eating enzyme that may save our planet. It's the Plastic Eating Super Enzyme that we don't deserve. A different approach to recycling and getting rid of plastic in the environment!!

3 This week a Wildlife Park in the UK had to remove some parrots from public view because the parrots swore at visitors. Imagine you go to your favourite zoo and the parrots start swearing at you. Pretty soon things escalate and you start swearing back.

*limited space here, get full top ten and show notes at https://www.scottyandtony.com/2020/10/what-weird-week-podcast-for-sat-oct-3.html 

What a Weird Week: a podcast featuring the top ten weirdest stories of the week.

*May leave you feeling weird and/or weak. Twitter: @WhataWeirdWeek.

Podcast Home or Subscribe wherever 

Protip: Hit Play and Scroll through the shownotes...

10 Murder Hornets: the invasion continues! Should you be worried? Well, do you live anywhere other than maybe Antarctica? Then, maybe.

9 Pumpkin Spice Kraft Dinner!

8 This Week in How to Be Happier: Another study shows that going for a 15 minute walk is good for your mental health. Yes, as unappealing as this is to many of us, the research keeps showing that we need to leave the house.

7 The headline says it all: "Local boy smashes world record for pogo stick jumps" !! We've seen a lot of this during the pandemic, bored people breaking world records.

6 The thing you do all the time that is doing wonders for your Stress Levels. You watch cute animal videos all the time, don't you?

5 Great news that you can't share with anyone... "Chunky thighs and wide hips linked to long life expectancy"!!

4 Some General Mills cereals are going back to their 1980s roots.

3 The in-your-house camera drone that Ring announced this week!

It's a drone that flies around your house, from room to room

2 Secret Man Cave discovered under Grand Central Station!

1 The Edmonton teenager who jumps like a horse!

Recap of last show HERE.

10 Life on Venus! Yes, everybody had the story this week about Life on Venus. Yes, most of us heard it and thought of something bigger than a microbe...

9 Giant Wiener Proposals! A few weeks ago, a guy named Zach N Cheese made the news for using his company car as part of asking his girlfriend to get married... we have an update this week

8 The candy that won't be around this Halloween... or even at Christmas! ICYMI, (doubtful, everybody had the story this week) there's a freakin' Peeps shortage!! 😓

7 Vinyl Records win. There was a time - you young kids coming up might not believe it - but there WAS a time when we all thought vinyl records were gone for good... kind of like the measles.

6 This bear that rang the doorbell at 10:00 at night... what if you answered the door without even looking? What if the bear had lock-picking skills?!

5 This guy had his cell phone stolen. He lives near the jungle. He found his cell phone under a palm tree. It had been stolen by a monkey. The monkey took several pictures...

4 Guy in Alberta charged with sleeping and speeding in a Tesla.

3 That guy who jumped a drawbridge in Detroit just like The Fall Guy starring television's Lee Majors.

2 Editor's note: this story makes number two on the list for sheer audacity!

1 There's a canned pop shortage in Canada.

Twitter: @WhataWeirdWeek.

Recap of last show HERE.

10 Win a candy factory from the inventor of Jelly Belly. 

What a Weird Week: a podcast featuring the top ten weirdest stories of the week. *May leave you feeling weird and weak. Follow us on Twitter: @WhataWeirdWeek.

10 Saving Lives with Paint. WITH PAINT!!

9 This four year old on a unicorn floatie was rescued by a ferry boat.

8 Penguin watches Pingu, seems to understand it better than humans do.

7 This little kid goes kite surfing by accident.

6 Japan has flying cars. Or maybe flying car.

5 Type of wild dog they call 'Singing Dog' aint extinct after all.

4 Molecule Tweezers are a thing.

3 They announced Carole Baskin will be on Dancing with the Stars.

2 This guy at the city council meeting and his passionate anti-boneless-chicken-wings speech.

1 Jetpack sighting at 3000 feet!

Podcast Home or Subscribe wherever 

What a Weird Week (formerly The TMD Podcast) is a top ten countdown of the weirdest news stories of the week. *May leave you feeling weird and weak. Follow us on Twitter: @WhataWeirdWeek Recap of last week's Top Stories HERE

10 - Fisherman hauls in a some kind of bizarro creature (spoiler: it's a "long-nosed chimaera")

9 - (from Digg) Illusionist does a quick change trick that blows people away

8 - The World's Best Typer must be a cyborg or something

7 - Lucky Charms releases an official 'only marshmallows' cereal

6 - This little kid who's Tik Tok famous because of NOT dancing #irony

video link HERE

5 - Ninja Museum gets robbed by... something better than ninjas? Double Top Secret Ninjas??

4 - Chaos at the Pressure Cooker giveaway (it's like a microcosm for the whole world #pressurecooker)

3 - Do we have another credible UFO story? Yes. Yes we do. #SpaceStation

2 - This peanut butter solution to nervous paws is either genius or Double Top Secret Genius

1 - I'm spoiling this one right away... this is a Feel Good Story! #GoodPeople

Podcast Home