What a Weird Week Fri Oct 11 2024: Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend Weirdness!
OCT 11, 202416 MIN
What a Weird Week Fri Oct 11 2024: Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend Weirdness!
OCT 11, 202416 MIN
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<p>Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about
the weird stuff in the news. See below for a transcript of the podcast
episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links,
you can get everything at <a href="https://www.shownotes.page" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.shownotes.page</a>.
These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 41 which is an encore
performance from a year ago. Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the stories... If that chair could talk! someone started a Facebook group based around chair appreciation... <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1434160430714378/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1434160430714378/</a> and see <a href="https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/09/Chair-Watch-Dennis-Township-New-Jersey/2661696871859/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/09/Chair-Watch-Dennis-Township-New-Jersey/2661696871859/</a></p>
<p>Teenager makes news, success is built on a house of cards... <a href="https://youtu.be/zg4OkrefKDs?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/zg4OkrefKDs?feature=shared</a> and <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/teen-stacks-143-000-playing-cards-to-create-worlds-largest-card-structure-759373" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/teen-stacks-143-000-playing-cards-to-create-worlds-largest-card-structure-759373</a></p>
<p>Mushy Chestnuts linked to scandal in world championship Conkers... <a href="https://vigourtimes.com/controversy-erupts-at-world-conkers-championships-due-to-waterlogged-chestnuts/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://vigourtimes.com/controversy-erupts-at-world-conkers-championships-due-to-waterlogged-chestnuts/</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67046823" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67046823</a> and also <a href="https://www.worldconkerchampionships.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.worldconkerchampionships.com/</a></p>
<p>I'm
just gonna muscle through this one like it's a news story and nothing
else... Harry Dick Road is not a road you want to go down... it made
news because the town in charge of Harry Dick Road (Bonnechere Valley
near Eganville, Ontario) is tired of replacing the street sign... it's
gotten annoying and expensive... <br /><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/harry-dick-road-name-sign-change-bonnechere-1.6981502" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/harry-dick-road-name-sign-change-bonnechere-1.6981502</a></p>
<p>a great day for salted meats and cheese! #WorldRecord ... <br /><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boarderie-shatters-guinness-world-records-title-for-the-largest-charcuterie-board-weighing-769-lbs-301948299.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boarderie-shatters-guinness-world-records-title-for-the-largest-charcuterie-board-weighing-769-lbs-301948299.html</a></p>
<p>Grade 4 kids shown "Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey" movie by mistake. School offers counseling. <br />*viewer discretion advised <a href="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-shown-to-children-in-florida-school-18006345" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-shown-to-children-in-florida-school-18006345</a></p>
<p>*Warning: PG 13. Earmuffs for the kids! OK, here's the story ... Crocodiles doin' it has made headlines... -
This is such a wild story... they think that helicopters flying low to
try to get photos of crocodiles may have accidentally set-off a
crocodile lovefest...<a href="https://www.iflscience.com/crocodile-sex-bonanza-triggered-by-low-flying-chinook-in-australia-70971" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.iflscience.com/crocodile-sex-bonanza-triggered-by-low-flying-chinook-in-australia-70971</a></p>
<p>Guy who worked at museum decides to act out some kind of heist movie plot, buy Rolls Royce... <br /><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/style/german-munich-museum-stolen-paintings-sold/index.html" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/style/german-munich-museum-stolen-paintings-sold/index.html</a> <br /> Chucky
Doll placed in handcuffs, arrested for... robbery?- If you go by those
terrifying movies, Chucky is evil and can't be trusted. <a href="https://bnn.network/breaking-news/crime/chucky-doll-handcuffed-and-arrested-in-mexico-after-series-of-robberies-a-bizarre-tale-of-crime/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bnn.network/breaking-news/crime/chucky-doll-handcuffed-and-arrested-in-mexico-after-series-of-robberies-a-bizarre-tale-of-crime/</a> </p>
<p>HONORABLE MENTION... Congratulations
to Steve from Missouri who broke the Guinness World Record for longest
journey by pumpkin boat! It took almost 11 hours to paddle his 1200
pound pumpkin 38 miles on the shark-infested* Missouri River. (*citation
needed. River may not be shark-infested. Sounded good though.) <br /><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/09/man-with-pumpkin-vessel-breaks-guinness-world-record/71125133007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/09/man-with-pumpkin-vessel-breaks-guinness-world-record/71125133007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter</a></p>
<p>Big Pumpkin Makes News Ahead of Halloween... how big is the biggest pumpkin in the world?<br />- 2749 pounds! see <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/anoka-mans-world-record-pumpkin/89-b829f565-3933-4942-b7ae-04016a456822" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/anoka-mans-world-record-pumpkin/89-b829f565-3933-4942-b7ae-04016a456822 </a>and also <a href="https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/10/Guinness-World-Records-largest-pumpkin-Half-Moon-Bay/8671696948687/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/10/Guinness-World-Records-largest-pumpkin-Half-Moon-Bay/8671696948687/</a><br /></p>
