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Scotty Horsman
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the odd/ interesting/ strange/ fun and weird news that happened this week. Ten stories in 15 minutes!
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See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other see www.shownotes.page.
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These are the shownotes for Season 6, Ep 13 first published Fri March 28 2025.
Mysterious Golden Orb Discovered in the Deep Ocean
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-golden-orb-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean
Marathon Proposals: A Controversial Trend
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/marathon-proposals-1.7491884
Bill Gates-backed company launches butter alternative made from carbon dioxide and hydrogen
https://www.fooddive.com/news/savor-startup-bill-gates-butter-palm-oil/743071/
Were the 380-Million-Year-Old Fossils sent to the landfill because of mailroom mixup?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/380-million-year-old-fossils-dumped-landfill-new-jersey-college-didnt-rcna196769
Recordbreaker Rush Sets New Passing Record, Causes Damage
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/03/24/Guinness-World-Records-David-Rush-behind-the-back-basketball/9061742846234/
Pilot Forgets Passport, Commercial Flight Diverted
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/united-airlines-flight-china-diverted-san-francisco-pilot-forgets-pass-rcna197942
Mysterious Skeleton-like Figure Found on UK Beach
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/lifestyle/beachgoers-baffled-after-finding-skeleton-like-figure-with-fins/
Big Ol' Ice Chuk Did Not Come From a Plane!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/03/20/Palm-Coast-Florida-ice-chunk-not-from-plane-FAA/4071742492591/
Free Energy Breakthrough Disproves that it was Impossible to Start With
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-disprove-their-own-work-by-producing-power-from-earths-rotation
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Check-in: Don't Panic Yet
https://www.sciencealert.com/asteroid-may-not-hit-earth-in-2032-but-it-will-come-back
What is Boomerasking: a Deep Dive
https://studyfinds.org/small-talk-selfish-boomerasking/
121-Hour Basketball Game for Charity sets World Record
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/03/21/Guinness-World-Records-longest-basketball-game/2041742584957/
What the Hey is Going on Beneath the Giza Pyramids!?
https://m.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-847207
What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the odd/ interesting/ strange/ fun and weird news that happened this week. Ten stories in 15 minutes!
See https://www.shownotes.page or "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts/ incl YouTube.
Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a look at the odd, interesting, strange, fun and weird stories that made news this week. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe, get in touch, and more see www.shownotes.page.
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These are the shownotes for Season 6, Ep 10 a March Break rebroadcast of a show from March of 2024.
Thoughts on the Nuclear Reactor on the Moon idea... as a proof of concept, first they should build a doughnut shop on the moon. Prove that you can safely-build a doughnut shop on the moon, and then I'll trust you with the nuclear reactor thing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/03/05/russia-china-planning-for-joint-nuclear-power-plant-on-the-moon-by-2035/?sh=5ecdec160e1c and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes
Rare Lego piece makes news... It was found at a thrift store and sold for a lot of money. It ended up getting auctioned off for 18,000 bucks. I love stories like that.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/goodwill-lego-auction-2446077
They've discovered a new sea creature off the coast of England... it's quite Blobby.
https://news.sky.com/story/new-species-of-sea-creature-discovered-by-scientists-in-uk-waters-13084273
Scientists stunned by man who has gotten the Covid vaccine more than 200 times. No side effects is what they're finding. The fellow is healthy.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/05/lifestyle/scientists-study-man-who-received-over-200-covid-19-vaccines/
Something incredibly rare happened the other day... a Grey Whale was spotted in the Atlantic Ocean... They thought Grey Whales were extinct and did not live in the Atlantic Ocean anymore.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/gray-whale-spotted-nantucket-200-years-after-extinct/story?id=107844301
Campbell Soup is in the news for their limited time offer of grilled cheese and tomato soup.
https://www.foodandwine.com/campbells-grilled-cheese-tomato-soup-flavor-8605028?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
The return of Don Gorske! Is he your hero? Does the name not ring a bell? He still might be your hero. We talked about Don Gorske before on this program. He is a fellow who holds the world record for Big Mac consumption. He first got the world record in 1999. He just goes to McDonald's every day and eats Big Macs. He's back in the news because the tally is now over 34,000 Big Macs in his lifetime. Quote in the story from Don is "Many people thought I'd be dead by now." He had his first Big Mac in 1972 you guys. Congratulations, Don.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10329460/big-macs-eating-guinness-world-records-donald-gorske/
This is one from Ben "Hoops" Hooper, weird news guru at United Press International... The rabbit tattoo world record in the news this week. Congratulations Craig Evans of Wales who just got his 69th rabbit tattoo... that's a world record.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/03/01/wales-Guinness-World-Records-bunny-tattoos/9691709328578/
Dave Rush back in the news with another world record attempt. This latest record attempt seems like a world record you could do this weekend... You could get a couple of balloons and keep those balloons in the air over 14 minutes using only your head... the official record is "longest duration to keep 2 balloons in the air with the head." You've been training for this one since childhood. 14 minutes and change the current record... good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbkVhFSQFaQ and https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/428220-longest-duration-to-keep-two-balloons-in-the-air-with-the-head
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