What a Weird Week

Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's the top ten list for Season 4, Episode 62 first published on Friday Dec. 1st, 2023... ❿ Attention Influencers and Models: be nicer to work with than AI. ❾ Sports Illustrated in the news this week after a Futurism Article with this headline: "Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers... We asked them about it - and they deleted everything." ❽ via NBC 5 "On Your Side" ... dateline, St. Louis ... "trespassers call 911 for help after locking themselves in cell ... Police helped free the men from a cell and then arrested them." ❼ The Snake with a Rockstar Energy Drink can on it's head in the news... the Facebook post from Snake Catcher Tasmania got picked up by Hoops over at UPI and the headline is "Venomous snake rescued from energy drink can" ❻ A Heartwarming World Record was in the news this week... The official world record is "Youngest Member of Mensa (female)" and it belongs to little Isla McNabb of Kentucky, USA ❺ Last week AP had this headline:Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him..." ❹ Another Impressive World Record makes our top ten list... ❸ Watch twelve Hallmark Holiday Movies and get paid Thousands! Honorable Mention: This Holiday, please consider adding a Pretzel House to your Festive Traditions! ❷ Last week while we were busy doing our Thanksgiving Extravaganza Holiday Special, the Guinness World Records Folks published a piece about Edgar Yudkevich who set a pretty impressive knife world record... ❶ Underwater Magic Tricks are a thing and we have a new world record in that field?!

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What a Weird Week is a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. Full Shownotes and more stuff at https://www.shownotes.page/podcast

Today, instead of the usual Weird News Top Ten Countdown, we're re-posting our 2022 holiday special recorded in the kitchen where my kids help me count down the Top Money-Making Christmas Movies of All Time, and the Best-Selling Toys of All Time! Happy Holidays to you friends who are celebrating!

Top-Grossing Christmas Movies of All Time list is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Christmas_films

The Top-Selling Toys of All Time list is at https://www.nowblitz.com/blog/15-best-selling-toys-in-history/

Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page/podcast Here's the Top Ten List for Season 4, Episode 60 first published on Friday Nov. 17th, 2023...

❿ Teenager sets new Jenga world record and inspires a Hallmark Movie? ❾ Circus Lion Recaptured but that was scary! ❽ Horse gets loose on a plane... they decide to turn around and had back to home base... ❼ Please have your hippos spayed or neutered... ❻ Now it's deer who are trying to draw us out of our homes... ❺ Crochet World Record in the News... I hope this drives more episode downloads amongst you passionate crochet fans... ❹ headline via Fox News: $100k tool bag lost in space is now orbiting Earth... ❸ John Oliver, friend to the Pūteketeke Bird, helps to get it crowned Bird of the Century! ❷ Champagne Heist/ Chase Honorable Mention: The Toy Hall of Fame Voting Results... ❶ Yesterday the Guinness World Record Folks posted about a Kendama record that is bonkers...

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Here's the top ten for Season 4, Episode 59 first published on Friday Nov. 10th, 2023...

❿ Nike Lawsuit! ❾ The Chainsaw-wielding thieves in the news and what they're stealing... ❽ Two amazing cooking records in the news! ❼ the UFO was a NOFO ❻ Men charged in Golden Toilet Heist that might be an insult to America... ❺ Whales sink another boat... ❹ Headline from Global News: "Human skull found amid Halloween decor in Florida thrift store!"This one is scary! Creepy! Human skull! ❸ The Best Cheese in the World is... ❷ headline from Fox 13 is NYC Green Slime puzzlers New Yorkers... ❶ is an archeological find that surprised the researchers...

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Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. See Shownotes at https://www.shownotes.page

Here's the Top Ten for Season 4, Episode 58 first published on Friday Nov. 3rd, 2023... ❿ This week, I'm playing catch-up on a few stories because last week was our Halloween special... kicking things off at number ten is the heroic world record where a bunch of people did a shot of booze off a ski... ❾ Another Catch-up... the loudest house cat purr world record belongs to Bella the cat from the UK who can purr somewhat loudly... ❽ Next we're catching up on the Glass Dancing World Record as reported by Hoops Hooper at UPI... a man in Cyprus did a dance while balancing 319 wine glasses on his head... that's a new world record! ❼ Here's another one that got bumped for the Halloween episode last week... headline from Business Insider: "A man posed as a mannequin in a shop window to steal jewelry after hours, Polish police say" ❻ Bears try to steal minivan, escape arrest... ❺ Possible Spiderman World Record! ❹ OK... earmuffs for the kids on this one... and it's gross... a Charity Shop/ Thrift Store in the UK had to post this on their social media... Please stop (see shownotes for full headline) ❸ @GWR headline: "Colossal cup of ‘smelly’ instant noodles sets record in China"... ❷ A pig named Kevin Bacon who escaped from his Pennsylvania home has returned after 17 days on the loose... Honorable Mention this week goes to the staff at Buzzfeed who are promoting a delicious Croissant Candle that costs around 65 bucks... ❶ The day after Halloween Mariah Carey announced that it was time once again to enjoy her song "All I want for Christmas is You".

- It is the song that famously took 15 minutes to write and makes Mariah Carey around 3 million dollars per year.

- She is also being sued again over that song.

What a Weird Week is a show featuring the week’s weird news stories. Every Friday we do a Weird-News-of-the-Week Top 10 audio podcast, a full shownotes blog, and a video episode. See https://www.shownotes.page for full shownotes or search “What a Weird Week”.

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