Pre Order Today (Tues Oct 15) Lasagna Fundraiser for Levi

Drive-thru Lasagna Benefit for 16 year-old Levi Sutherland happens Friday but today is the final day to pre-order!! (TUES OCT 15th)


Dinner includes Lasagna, Caesar salad, and garlic bread for $15.00.

Pre-order info: deadline is October 15th.
Pick-up time: October 18th, 4:30p to 6:30p.
To pre-order: Call 506-238-5964

Riverview Lions Club is at 701 Coverdale Rd. 
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What a Weird Week Fri Oct 11 2024: Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend Weirdness!

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www.
shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts.






Stream the episode...


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 www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 41 which is an encore performance from a year ago. Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the stories...
 
 
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...
 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/harry-dick-road-name-sign-change-bonnechere-1.6981502

 
Grade 4 kids shown "Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey" movie by mistake. School offers counseling.
*viewer discretion advised https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-shown-to-children-in-florida-school-18006345
 

*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...
 
Guy who worked at museum decides to act out some kind of heist movie plot, buy Rolls Royce... 
https://edition.cnn.com/style/german-munich-museum-stolen-paintings-sold/index.html

Chucky Doll placed in handcuffs, arrested for... robbery?- If you go by those terrifying movies, Chucky is evil and can't be trusted. 
@nessadiosdado The man definitely deserves to still be in jail, but why did the doll get arrested in the first place? 🤔 #chucky #doll #mexico #monclova #mexico #nessadiosdado #mexicantiktok #latinotiktok#greenscreen ♬ Blade Runner 2049 - Synthwave Goose

 
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.)
 





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What's Trending Friday Oct 11 2024: Gas Price, Thanksgiving Weather,

- Weekend weather: A mix of sun and cloud today. Windy. High 14.
Saturday... showers/ windy/ high 16.
Sunday... sunny/ high 13.
Weather Page: www.newcountry969.ca/storm.

artist rendering. your gas station dog may not be in a hat

- Gas Prices: GAS IS UP SEVEN CENTS! (Gas went from 154.3 to 161.3 last night) ... DIESEL IS UP TEN POINT SEVEN CENTS! (Diesel went from 164.7 to 175.4 ... FURNACE OIL UP ELEVEN POINT ONE CENTS (furnace oil went from 135.1 to 146.1)

- Via Times And Transcript/Craig Babstock...
"Shooting suspect from NB caught in Ontario"
  RCMP have arrested four people now, and charged two so far, after a shooting last month. A man in Salisbury was taken to hospital with what was believed to be non-life-threatening injuries at the time. 
This is the shooting that triggered the emergency broadcast alert/ Be On the Lookout message about the suspects.
  Police have updated the case saying another suspect was arrested in Waterloo, Ontario.
Police are still looking for 18-year-old Olivia Cotton.
For more see (https://tj.news/moncton-miramichi/nb-shooting-suspect-caught-in-ontario-rcmp-still-looking-for-woman)

- Via CBC NB "Should Moncton have a program to reduce used needles downtown?"
• Charlie from The Humanity Project  is quoted in the article suggesting a possible way to reduce discarded needles is an incentive for returning needles... every turned-in needle could be worth 5 cents... 
But that might not be practical, according to other people quoted.
This one's not solved yet... to be continued.
See https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7344010

- Sports Notes:

 Q league hockey... Moncton Wildcats play at Avenir Ctr on Saturday at 7p vs Sherbrooke on Country Night! See https://www.ticketmaster.ca/moncton-wildcats-tickets/artist/891817?home_away=home
Then they play Monday afternoon at 2pm vs Charlottetown.
See https://www.ticketmaster.ca/moncton-wildcats-vs-charlottetown-islanders-moncton-new-brunswick-10-14-2024/event/310060D3C91337A6

 University Hockey: UNB Reds vs Université de Moncton Aigles Bleus tonight, 7pm at the J.-Louis-Lévesque Arena.
(Get tickets at the CEPS reception desk through the day or at the arena starting at 6 pm tonight.

 AAA U18 Hockey - Moncton Flyers are back in action next weekend. (Superior Propane Ctr) Schedule here https://nbpeimu18hl.ca/teams/schedule/325/flyers/

 High School Football - a full slate of games on tap... Mathieu-Martin Matadors get the bye this weekend... Schedule here https://www.gridironnewbrunswick.org/highschoolsched.php


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Our Thanksgiving Food Drive Happens Thurs Oct 10th. Donate Now at all Real Atlantic Superstores

Next time you're at Real Atlantic Superstore have a look for our food donation box. If you can swing it, you can make a food donation to help families and folks in our area who don't have enough to eat. 

On Thurs Oct 10th it's our Thanksgiving Food Drive. We'll be broadcasting all day at the Riverview Real Atlantic Superstore collecting donations for the Albert Co Food Bank.

*The food bank's list of most-needed donations: Juice Boxes/ Apple Sauce Cups/ School Snacks/ Peanut Butter/ Cereal

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What a Weird Week Fri Oct 4th: Spiders, Love, Happiness!

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. 
shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get  podcasts.

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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 www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 40 first published on Friday Oct 4th 2024. Here are this week's stories...
 
Egg-Drop Smashes World Record, Egg is not smashed though

Man Drinks Pouch of Juice, World Reacts! #MikeJackRecord #CapriSun
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/10/02/canada-Guinness-World-Records-Capri-Sun/4611727885489/

Italian lady breaks World Record for tongue circumference (cir-tongue-ference)

 
David "Record-Breaker" Rush may not know how to stop breaking world records. #LawnmowerChin
breaks world record by walking over 1,100 feet with a running lawn mower on his chin
 

Changing how we use defibrillators makes them more lifesaving - study
https://studyfinds.org/new-way-of-using-defibrillators/

Swallowing is key to eating disorders... but wait, there's more! #HappinessResearch
https://studyfinds.org/swallowing-makes-people-happy/

 
Get started on one of these hilarious Halloween costumes! #Shrimp-on-the-Barbie
https://studyfinds.org/best-funny-halloween-costumes/

Mindfulness meditation is more effective than placebo in reducing pain, study finds
https://studyfinds.org/meditation-placebo-effect-pain/

NASA is developing a new time zone specifically for the Moon #CoordinatedLunarTime
 
Wait, can AI REALLY pass a law exam? #nope
https://studyfinds.org/can-ai-pass-a-college-law-exam/

 
I Don't Like Mondays Sundays - Survey
https://studyfinds.org/spend-sundays-terrified/

 
Man discovers $6.6 million Picasso painting hidden in his home for decades
https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/lifestyle/painting-hated-by-owners-wife-turns-out-to-be-6m-picasso/




Transcript!
00:00
Wait, this is where the intro goes? What a weird week. Hi everybody, it's Weird. This is like crazy new here. Really? Weird. Ted. Well, I got a great show for you today. It was so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week. If you're new to this show, what we do is we look back at the past week and the weird stuff that happened and we do a top 10 of weird news. You can get the transcript or the show notes

00:30
All the stories in more detail, all our podcast stuff, all of it is at shownotes.page, shownotes.page. Here we go, season five episode, can't remember, first published Friday, October 4th, 2024. 10. Number 10 is about the kids, the Pennsylvania high school kids who just broke a world record for dropping an egg 80 some feet. It plummeted to the ground and did not break.

00:57
and it is official now they have a Guinness World Record. They actually set the record in August, but you got to go through all of the scrutinizing there, the Guinness World Records folks, and now the high school kids and a teacher have a Guinness World Record. The old record was only 50 some feet, so they shattered. Ironically, by not shattering the egg, they shattered the world record. It is one of those deals where they climb up, you know, a staircase very high or up on a roof.

01:24
and they have all designed different ways to protect the egg and let's drop these eggs and see what happens. Sometimes it's total egg catastrophe, but in this case world record. Well done! Just a couple of notes on this. It is a great world record to set, a great thing they do at the school in promotion of STEM education and science, furthering science and having some fun with eggs. But it's called the T- it's named after the school, the T-E Egg Drop. Why not call it the Over Easy Award? Or...

01:54
something, you know, and then you bring in the egg marketing board and all of a sudden you're not paying for eggs anymore. You're getting free eggs and perhaps a stipend for the school. Maybe a breakfast restaurant wants to come on board and for anyone whose project fails, anyone does not get a passing grade in this and the egg smashes. Free scrambled eggs. Just a couple of ideas. Nine. Let's keep going with the world records. Number nine is the new record Mike-

02:23
Jack has said, he made headlines, Mike Jack is a Canadian speed eater who has a number of world records, set a new record for drinking a Capri Sun, you know those delicious juice thing, those pouches full of delicious nectar, the Capri Sun juice. So there's a world record right now for drinking that really quickly with the standard plastic straw. It's around eight seconds to drain a Capri Sun pouch. Is that what you call them, pouches? Beverage pouch? I don't, did we just?

02:53
steal that or is that a real do people say that anyway Mike Jack perhaps in a nod to environmentalism perhaps in a nod to creating new challenges and overcoming them Mike Jack drank a Capri Sun with a paper straw instead of the standard plastic straw it took a lot longer but the record is 21 seconds and something 21.71 we'll link to the video if you click the show notes

03:22
Also, you could just imagine somebody wearing a red headband looking intently down at a pouch of juice and then drinking it. Three, two, one, go.

03:37
Bye.

03:46
And then a sigh of relief or also probably just a normal breath after all that drinking. You've got to breathe. Congratulations Mike Jack on the new record. Alright, hang on. Number eight is another. Should we keep going with the world records? A lot of world records made news this week. This next one, this tongue world record, it will make you consider your own tongue. You will contemplate your tongue after our number eight story. It's next.

04:23
This is What a Weird Week. We do weird news. All the weird news of the week in a top 10. 8. Our number 8 story as we continue with World Records is the Italian lady named Ambra, 37 year old woman who was recently recognized by the Guinness World Records as having the largest tongue circumference. 5.44 inches. So if you can form your tongue into a ball, ball your tongue right now and imagine a squash ball. I don't know how popular is squash these days. When I was a younger fellow...

04:52
I played squash and if you ball your tongue and it's the size of a squash ball, well that's a world record. Couple of things here. First of all, it is not an easy record to obtain. I don't know if you do tongue exercises or if it's just natural, you know, a natural gift, but Amber had to have her tongue measured by a doctor three times just to be sure. The Guinness book of world records, they don't mess around. The other thing is why have I been saying the circumference?

05:22
It should be Sertongue France. When measuring tongues, where do I send off this suggestion? The scientific community? Don't you feel like it should be called the Sertongue France? Seven. Let's do one more world record here. Number seven. This is, I don't know, guys. I feel like one of us has got to step in and talk to David Rush. Record breaker Rush is the fellow who now has the most concurrent world records. That was the goal.

05:51
I'm going to set enough world records that I set a world record for having a lot of world records. That's David Rush. Always likes to shine a light on education. You know, using the platform, uh, shines a light on STEM education, but I feel like one of us has got to make a phone call here or write a letter or is it possible? Let me just postulate this. David Rush doesn't know how to stop breaking records now. Maybe we need to show him.

06:19
It's okay to relax once in a while, David Rush, because he keeps going. He's got the world record for the most world records, and he just made news for, oh my gosh, and this one's so dangerous. He walked over a thousand feet, 1,100 and some feet, with a running lawnmower balanced on his chin. He shattered the old world record using an electric mower. I guess you know they're a bit lighter. Also, less chance of gasoline dripping out all over your...

06:49
chin, you'd have gas space, you guys. So bonkers, we do link to the video if you click the show notes or go to shownotes.page. I had a running lawnmower on my chin, but why you ask? I ask why not? Actually, there's a very good reason why not, which you're about to find out. But the record for the furthest distance walked balancing a running lawnmower on the chin was 71.5 meters set in 2017. Therefore I had to give it a try. Too dangerous, David, too dangerous. Be careful, man.

07:16
Hang on, number six is next. It involves spiders, full disclosure, spiders, in our number six story, and love. Spiders and love, love and spiders.

07:29
Bye!

07:46
Summarying the weird news of the week, this is what a weird week. 6. Let's be careful here with number 6. It might be triggering to you if you don't like spiders. It involves spiders and love. Love and spiders. Maybe you don't like love. Maybe you don't like the combo platter of spiders and love. This story may not be for you. The Tarantula Fest of La Junta, Colorado made headlines this week as they had their big Tarantula Fest. It is currently Tarantula mating season.

08:14
in La Junta, Colorado, and people do come from all over to spot spiders as the gentlemen spiders are out looking for love. There are a lot of spiders to be seen, a lot of tarantulas in La Junta, Colorado, and so people armed with flashlights do spider watching. Also, La Junta features a parade and a hairy legs contest. So if you or someone you know has ever been called spider legs in a taunting way, maybe you could win this contest.

08:43
That sounds nice. This is something I had no idea existed. You know, as an East Coast Canadian, we do not have tarantulas for sure. I had no idea that tarantulas during their mating season were such an attraction. And shout out to the organizers of Tarantula Fest La Junta, Colorado. Also, I guess best of luck to the spiders looking for that special someone. Side note, why don't they get a dating app to sponsor this festival? I feel like that's a match made in heaven.

09:13
As the spiders are looking for love, perhaps you are too. Five. Number five is that scientific study about the defibrillator devices. First, let me say, if you are in the unfortunate situation where you have to use a defibrillator, follow the instructions on the defibrillator. They've looked into them though, and they think there's a way to make them even more effective. Defibrillators are those things, you know, that you've seen them at the community center, the rec center, the arena.

09:39
Public places if someone's had a heart attack you can hook them up to the defibrillator and those machines have saved lives And if you ever have the opportunity to donate to the heart and stroke foundation or to a charity that is about getting Defibrillators in more places. I mean those things save lives. Anyway, sorry back on track. They've looked into how we

09:59
could use them better. And one of the things that they've discovered is that it's more than twice as likely to have a good outcome of what they call the return of spontaneous circulation, R-O-S-C. If you put one of the pads from the defibrillator on the front of the chest and one of the pads on the back of the chest. But again, they haven't changed current guidelines with the defibrillator. So heaven forbid you're in a situation where you need to use one.

10:23
Follow the instructions on the defibrillator until guidelines, you know, they have to look into this. This is a study from Oregon Health and Science University. And if you want to do a deep dive on the results and stuff, click the show notes or go to show notes that page. I love that we have this device is a kind of miracle device that has saved people's lives. And yet they're thinking, hey, could it be better? How can we let's look into this? And it seems as though they're on the track to making it even more life saving.

10:50
I feel like the lawyers would want me to say one more time, I'm not a scientist and I'm sure they have to look into this more. But it seems like good news research. We've got another scientific study next. It's something simple that can make us happy that they're discovering. We can all do this. Happiness. Next.

11:11
Bye!

11:20
10 weird news items from the past week. This is what a weird week. Four. Number four is that study where the researchers are looking into overeating. And they know when we eat something delicious, that serotonin gets released into our brains. And so maybe you have one piece of pizza and your brain is like, I want more serotonin. And you go for another piece of pizza and perhaps you eat an entire pizza. Show of hands. I'm putting up my hand right now, you guys. I...

11:49
I've done that. So anyway, the researchers are looking into this and they're like, what is happening? And they think now they're onto a new angle with the overeating and the serotonin release. They believe it is in the swallowing process that some message gets sent to the brain and sweet serotonin. So the swallowing makes us happy and also can lead to overeating. So there's a couple of things where, you know, it's the early stages right now, but this could be a new

12:18
realm for helping people who, you know, struggle with overeating. But also, swallowing makes us happy. There has got to be something there. They've got to branch off now and say, all right, well, most, most all of us can swallow. So how can we turn this into some sort of making the world happier situation? Right now, it's early stages. This was all, I think this was all fruit fly research. So hopefully this will become something to help humans. You know, let's get the fruit flies

12:48
but also humans. Three. Number three, another AI story. Every week we have an AI story because every minute of every hour there is a headline somewhere about AI. It's taking over. The robots will be our overlords or it's the greatest thing ever or it's caused the stock market to go through the roof. AI, you guys. We had this story once before about how AI...

13:10
Pass the bar exam. Everybody heard that AI is so smart. It passed the bar exam. We're going to have robot lawyers. You guys robot lawyers, robot lawyers. We even did a thing about how, what a great show that would be. I would watch that show combination of robo cop and law and order robot lawyers. It's still a standby that that would be a hit television program. But anyway, there's another study out a newer study involving AI and university level assessments.

13:39
This particular case was an undergraduate criminal law final exam. AI did pretty good on the essay questions, but when you got into complex questions where you had to really analyze, like do a legal analysis of a scenario, AI was not as good as a person. This study seems to indicate that AI should be a tool. It would seem that you do not want to hire AI as your lawyer to represent you in court. Maybe go with a human being.

14:09
Up next, interesting story. It's not that uplifting. I gotta tell you, our number two story involves why Sunday is awful for so many of us. And it gets into the exact time that the awfulness kicks in on Sundays. That's next.

14:33
Bringing you updates from the world of weird news, this is what a weird week. Number two is that study about the Sunday Scaries. Now this is from the United States of America, so depending where you're hearing this, it might be different for you, but a recent survey about how you feel on Sundays, the results are that the average American gets the Sunday Scaries 36 times a year.

14:59
So you get anxious, you get dread, you think about work or school starting and it's not a nice thing for you. And usually they even crunched when this kicks in. Usually it's around 3.54 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. So if you make it till after supper before this feeling of dread or like, I gotta go to work, I gotta go to school tomorrow. If you make it till after supper before that kicks in, you're actually doing better than a lot of people.

15:28
So then the article gets into, you know, why it is we get the, you know, we're all stressed out. We're all burned out. We haven't gotten enough rest. All of the things you would know, like sometimes you need a weekend to recover from your weekend. There's so much to cram into your weekend, right? This study was conducted by like a research, a real research organization did this study, but it was for Pacific foods, because one of the things

15:56
they say that can make the Sunday scaries a little better or your stressful week a little better is delicious food. I'm not really sure what they were going for, but I guess it was something like, hey, your life is hectic, Sundays should be about delicious food from Pacific foods. That's not their slogan or whatever, but I could be completely wrong about that.

16:18
If you want to read the whole thing, we put a link in the show notes or click show notes dot page on honorable mention mention. We're on the way to the number one weird story of the week. Before that, some honorable mentions and we'll link to all of these in the show notes. Our friends at study finds which, you know, they dig deep into the scientific studies and the important stuff that matters. They have a list of the top five hilarious Halloween costumes to make you the life of the party. I mean, it's Halloween month.

16:47
Is one they mentioned one of my kids went as Bob Ross one year her friend went as the painting it is pretty good It is quite hilarious. So I think this list checks out You can view the whole thing if you click show notes dot page also mindfulness meditation There's a new study that says if you practice Meditation it's proven now to be effective in relieving or reducing pain. It beats the placebo effect Look into that study if you want if you're a meditative type

17:17
Kablami. Now you're justified. Also, we link to a story about NASA's lunar time. We talked about this before. They want moon time. The moon needs its own time. Isn't it true that when they figured out time zones and stuff before, it was because trains were running and they had to know what time the train would be? I think it was because trains were arriving. So this to me would indicate that the space trains will be pulling into the lunar station any day.

17:46
Don't quote me on that. All right, hang on. Number one is next. And it is one of these great stories about you find something that everyone thought was junk. And it makes you a millionaire. That's next.

18:11
catching you up on 10 of the weirdest news things that happened this week. This is what a weird week. One number one is about a fellow named Luigi in the 1960s. Luigi in Italy found a painting that he liked. He worked as a junk dealer and so he was cleaning out a cellar in Italy and there was a painting in there and he was like, not, not bad. I'm gonna, you know what? I'm going to keep this. I think I like this.

18:37
His wife did not like it. Luigi, Mrs. Luigi did not like it, but it went up in the living room for a, you know, a number of years, a cheap frame. And here is this painting up on the wall, Luigi and Mrs. Luigi's wall. If you would like to see what the painting looks like, you can click show notes that page. It certainly is not everyone's cup of tea. It looks like a lady who maybe the painting got sliced into and then put back together. I don't know. Is that maybe.

19:06
I don't know art. Anyway, Luigi's son, decades later, sees the signature on this painting and he's like, I think this is a Picasso. I'm getting this thing checked out. And it was, it was a Picasso worth more than six million dollars. You guys, after I love stories like this, after I hear a story like this, I go to my Salvation Army or, you know, a junk store or a yard sale, whatever. For the next little while, I'm going to buy every ugly painting.

19:36
they have at these yard sales and junk stores because I'm daring to dream you guys. How great would that be to find something that was everyone thought was junk? And then now you're a millionaire because you're a genius. Hey, that's the dream. OK, well, stop there. I appreciate your listening. You can get all the show notes and the links to the stories we talked about in the pictures and that. If you click show notes dot page show notes dot page.

20:05
Also, if you go to our podcast page, you can get links to our social media and there's a button there for Funhaus Radio. We are part of the weekend broadcasting on Funhaus Radio. Thank you to the crew over there. You can Google them if you want or ask your smart speaker to play Funhaus Radio. We'll catch you next weekend with 10 more weird things on What a Weird Week.


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The Riverview Veteran and Armed Forces Association Open House is Saturday 19 October

Who: Riverview Veteran and Armed Forces Association
What: Open House! (Meet members/ Explore the museum/ Discover the History/ Learn about their community involvement)
Where: 50 Runneymeade Rd, Riverview (Coverdale Ctr - use the rear entrance)
When: Sat Oct 19 from 2p to 4p

Join the Association and be a part what they do! If you're a retired veteran, reservist, police officer, or firefighter get in touch with president Paul Brenton at 506-386-7865 to learn more.

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REUSE EXPO is a chance to donate used stuff that's in good shape - Sat Oct 5th from noon to 5p

The ReUse Expo helps you get rid of stuff you don't need and makes it available for someone who could use it.

Notes: 

- it's a drive-thru

Moncton Coliseum, Exhibition Hall B
October 5th - 6th, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Bring these things... (anything that can be reused, basically)... Mattresses/Couches/Chairs/Washers and Dryers/  School Supplies/Clothes/Toys/Small Décor Items/ etc.

You can also bring... Perishable & Non-Perishable Food/Clean Glass for Recycling/Redeemable Beverage Containers.

See their Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SE.Eco360/posts/1078570527609855

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What a Weird Week Fri Sept 27 2024: Toad Salad and Cocaine Bananas

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. 
shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get  podcasts.

Stream the episode...


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 www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 39 first published on Friday Sept 27, 2024. Here are this week's stories...
 

The Kraft-Heinz plant in Lowville, New York, successfully reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the world's largest cheesecake at the annual Cream Cheese Festival, with a massive dessert weighing in at 15,008 pounds
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/09/24/Guinness-World-Records-largest-cheesecake/2271727195952/


David Rush reclaims chopstick throwing world record with 28 hits in one minute
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/09/23/Guinness-World-Records-David-Rush-chopsticks/3931727105593/


Chinese zoo sparks controversy with dogs disguised as pandas
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/09/20/Shanwei-Zoo-pandas-dogs/7791726861083/



National Toy Hall of Fame Announces 2024 Finalists
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/09/19/National-Toy-Hall-of-Fame-finalists/8891726764795/

German supermarket finds €7 million worth of cocaine in banana crates
https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810


Ancient Cheese Discovery Rewrites History of Kefir Origins
https://studyfinds.org/oldest-cheese-smeared-mummies/



AI's Impact on Jobs: Study Reveals Vulnerable Occupations and Highlights Potential for Labor Shortage Solutions
https://studyfinds.org/which-jobs-will-ai-replace/


Moderate Coffee Consumption Linked to Lower Risk of Multiple Cardiometabolic Diseases
https://studyfinds.org/3-cups-of-coffee-diseases/


Close Encounter with the World's Most Dangerous Bird: A Cassowary's Visit to an Australian Beach
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/police/woman-encounters-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-457604-20240923


Man claims to have encountered the Loch Ness monster while swimming in the Scottish lake
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/17/loch-ness-monster-brushes-man-swims-21622610/

Trending this Halloween: Sexy Ozempic Halloween Costume
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Episode Transcript:
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Toads in the salad. What a weird week. Hi everybody, it's Weird. This is like crazy, really weird, weird. Well, I got a great show for you today. It was so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week. It's a show where we go back, we look at the news, we dig out some of the weird stuff. Maybe you missed it. Maybe you just wanna relive it through this show.

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You can get everything we talk about links to the stories and that if you go to show notes dot page also subscribe to our podcast through show notes dot page or wherever you get podcasts. What a weird week. Hey, here we go. This is season five episode can't remember for Friday, September 27. Starting things off at number 10 is the toad found in a bagged salad purchased from a grocery store. The toad was discovered inside a salad purchased in England from a weight rose.

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supermarket a reptile rescue group the Berkshire reptile rescue took custody of the toad and The toad apparently is isolating doing. Okay, one of the things I learned earlier we had a similar story on this show and If you discover wildlife inside a salad or whatever You're not supposed to just let it go Let it roam free because it could be some sort of invasive species also could be perhaps enemy technology disguised as a

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toad in a salad. You just never know you guys. So in this case, they contacted somebody who could take care of the toad, make sure the toad is all right. And the toad is currently comfortable with the Berkshire Reptile Rescue Group. I've got to say the story leans more towards how is the toad doing through all of this, which you know, that's important. Sure. We're all God's creatures, but what about if you bought a salad and you opened that thing up and there was a toad in there, a living creature that is staring back at you?

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That would be traumatic. The company did apologize, the grocery store company apologized to the customer who found the toad. And there's not a lot about the toad finder in this story. We assume they're okay and they will eat salad again, but these are just, you know, conclusions based on not a lot of evidence right now. Boy, oh boy, the photo, we'll link to the photo in the show notes. It is one freaky looking toad, you guys.

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Number nine is a delicious one you guys. New York's cream cheese festival and a world record cheesecake. A 15,000 pound cheesecake made news. The Kraft Heinz plant in Lowville, New York reclaimed the Guinness world record for the world. So they had it before right and then you lose that record and you're like it's just gnawing away at you. Somebody else has our record. We got to get that record back and you know cheesecake employees, cheesecake plant employees are a passionate bunch.

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and they were like, let's do this thing. They got the world record for the largest cheesecake at 15,008 pounds. After, you know, you love to hear this, after they did the world record, the photo ops and everything, that was donated to help feed hungry people. Went to food banks, made the world a better place. By the way, if you were curious, 15,000 pounds, your average elephant, African elephant, is over 12,000 pounds. So we're getting into elephant territory there with the biggest cheesecake in the world.

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They say a Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been about as heavy as the world's largest cheesecake. Hang on, up next, a world record you might want to try to break this weekend. Do you have some chopsticks around? You don't? Well, first order some delicious food and ask, you know, for chopsticks. And then let's go. Let's get it. That world record coming up next.

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This is what a weird week we do the weird news of the week. In case you missed anything, we got the weirdness. Number eight is David record breaker rush. The man may have some sort of thing going on where he can't stop himself from setting world records. Now you guys, because he has the world record for the most world records, the most concurrent

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That is David record breaker rush. He's the fellow who always likes to shine a light on STEM education when he sets the world records, his social media on fire with world records, sometimes literally on fire, but most of the time, you know, it's more figurative. The new world record, David record breaker rush is the most metal chopsticks thrown into an archery target in one minute.

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28 chopsticks. I guess that's the secret. It has to be metal chopsticks, you guys. I thought you could just order some food, get some chopsticks, and go to town on breaking a world record, but they gotta be kind of more fortified than your average chopstick. So 28 chopsticks into an archery target in one minute, that is the world record. Oh, you gotta be 13 feet away from the target. That's not easy, but I believe in you. And if you don't set the record, you still have that delicious.

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Take away food that you ordered. So it's a win. Seven. Number seven is the Chinese zoo that made headlines this week. We had a story like this before. This is a zoo where a clip went viral after folks went to see pandas at the zoo and the pandas started to bark. They weren't pandas. They were pooches. Panda impersonators, pooches, impersonating pandas. The Chinese zoo made headlines and a lot of people.

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Watch the clip, you know, it got shared around quite a bit the controversy I think stems from one of the things the zoo said well, you see if this makes sense the zoo said hey kind of I'm paraphrasing here, but Hey, we don't have pandas and people want to see pandas. What are we supposed to do? that's kind of one of the things they said anyway, not the first time we've heard one of these stories and

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I'm glad the zoo is getting some attention. It seems like the dogs were happy. They were very photogenic. They just weren't pandas. In case you missed it, the National Toy Hall of Fame announced the finalists for the toys that get to go live in the museum and be cherished forever. Some of them are weird. We'll get into that next.

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This is What a Weird Week. It's a show about the weird news that happened this week. Six. Number six, the National Toy Hall of Fame has announced their 10 finalists. So they whittle it down from a whole bunch of toys to some finalists. After the voting, some of those toys go to the museum. Some of them go to the Hall of Shame and do not win accolades. A couple of things here. The Toy Hall of Fame only has 84 toys in it right now. Only 84 toys have made it to the Hall of Fame.

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This year it could be Apples to Apples, the game. Doesn't seem that old to me. I remember playing that with my kids. You always think of the toy hall of fame as like classic toys or whatever, but Apples to Apples in there. Balloons have been around forever. Balloons might finally get their day. The Choose Your Own Adventure books, toy trucks, My Little Pony. I can't believe My Little Pony isn't already in the Hall of Fame. Pokemon cards, remote control vehicles. So, so fun. The game sequence.

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Trampolines might make it to the toy Hall of Fame. Transformers, another one that should already be in there, you would imagine. And the stick horse, you know, that stick with the horse head that, are they hobby horses? Weren't they called hobby horses? I might have that wrong. But anyway, stick horse could get into the Hall of Fame. The voting is supposed to be wrapped up now and we're waiting on the results of what toys will make it into the Hall of Fame. Freaky, freaky horse head on a stick.

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Maybe. Number five is that German supermarket. They opened up their crates of bananas. They're a supermarket. They've got bananas to unpack, right? And hidden amongst the bananas, seven million euros worth of cocaine. So what they think is the shipment came from South America, was not meant to go to the supermarket. That was a mistake. You could see how that could happen, right? Like it's a crate of bananas.

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When in doubt, deliver the bananas to the produce place. Can you imagine if that cocaine spilled, got into the bananas somehow, and those bananas were put on the shelf and sold at the supermarket, the German supermarket, and people got all hopped up on bananas and cocaine. People would be lined up around the block to buy these bananas. The grocery store doesn't know what's going on.

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Maybe even the people enjoying the banana, they might just think these are the best bananas. I feel great. These are the best bananas I've ever had. I can't stop talking. Anyway, that didn't happen. And let me just wrap up by saying, and I'm sorry, but that story is bananas. Hang on. Number four next. Ancient cheese, the oldest cheese in the world, you guys. What are they doing at the grocery store? Why do they keep coming back for more?

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They afraid to slip on a peel Cocaine bananas

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This is what a weird week it's a show about the weird news that happened this week. Four. Number four is ancient cheese. They just found the oldest cheese in the world. They say it rewrites cheese history you guys. Cheese history. Feel like it should be hyphenated or maybe one whole word. Cheese history. Scientists have discovered cheese dating back 3,600 years. Something they discovered in a cemetery in China. At first they didn't even know it was cheese.

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It was a mysterious white substance on mummy's heads. And then they ran it through CODIS. No, I don't know. One of those things, DNA analysis. And they were like, wow, this is cheese. This is cheese, y'all. That's me paraphrasing the scientists. I'll stop there, but we'll put a link in the show notes if you wanna do a deep dive. Why were the mummies buried with cheese? How delicious is that cheese? Will we ever be able to eat that cheese?

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Maybe you're a fan of old cheese. Maybe this is one you want to do a deep dive. You can click the link, shownotes.page. Three. Number three is a scary story at first about AI. I mean, we always talk about AI and everybody panics. AI, all the headlines, you know, or the robot uprising is coming. This one starts out scary though, because it has to do with jobs that they think will be replaced by AI.

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That's how it starts and the headline, so you know, that grabs you because they're getting into like nuclear medicine and cardiovascular technology. And we need all the heart doctors we can get. If you hear a headline that AI is replacing the cardiologists, who's going to go into debt, go to med school, graduate to a job that's already been taken by AI, right? So that's scary. And please, medical professionals, we need you.

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The article, when you get to the bottom talks about, it's probably gonna be more like AI is a tool and the cardiologist maybe can see more patients because AI is helping in that particular field. That's kind of my paraphrase of it, but you can do a deep dive and see all the jobs they think will be impacted by AI. Right now it's a wait and see situation. Just about every list that's come out like this, one of the things they say though, blue collar jobs are safe. If you can work a pile driver,

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Your job will not be replaced by AI. If you can load a cargo onto an airplane, your job will not be replaced by AI. Anyway, do a deep dive on the article. If you want to click the show notes or go shownotes.page. Next, our number two story, it's more good coffee news. ["The Daily Show"]

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Bye!

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Hi friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff that was in the news this week. List two. Number two is the good coffee news. If you drink coffee, it's good for you. Moderate coffee consumption is linked to a lower risk of multiple cardio metabolic diseases. Moderate consumption, how much is that? Three cups a day. It seems to be linked to less likelihood of type two diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. This is a big study.

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500,000 people with studies like this, you know, they have to go through all the data and make sure. So right now it just seems that way. It seems like there is an association between the good outcomes and moderate coffee consumption. But to be continued, we got to let the science, the scientists do the science. Honorable mention. Had to throw the honorable mention in because.

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Loch Ness monster, first of all, that's always going to get clicks, you guys. So we've got to. We have to. But also this fellow, this Duncan fellow, an Australian who was swimming in Loch Ness got in the news because he was swimming in Loch Ness. And then he felt like he something bumped into him. He felt like he had an encounter. And because it was Loch Ness, obviously, it must have been the Loch Ness monster.

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Duncan is quoted in the story as saying, the water was pitch black, deep. And it messes with your mind, you guys. Now I'm paraphrasing a bit. It messes, it plays tricks on your mind. And he felt a significant thud against his chest. And now he believes he may have, he may have encountered the Loch Ness Monster. This is from Metro UK, and they printed it, you guys. So I got to give Duncan credit.

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and he gets an honorable mention. Hey, listen, I'm a true believer. Don't get me wrong. But this fellow goes swimming and then says, Hey, guess what, newspaper? I encountered the Loch Ness Monster, pretty sure. And then somebody was like, well, let's write it up. All right, our number one story is next. It's about Halloween.

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Every weekend we do a top 10 of the weird news of the week. This is what a weird week. One. All right. Number one is a Halloween theme story. We're going to have a few of these probably leading up to the big day. The big day being Halloween. You know, the candy is in the stores. The costumes are out. The decorations are all out. The giant things at the hardware store. Now the eyes follow you. That one is freaky. You guys was into the hardware store the other day and this freaky Halloween thing.

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kept looking at me and the eyes followed me. How do they do that? Amazing technology. Anyway, sidebar, the number one story is from the New York Post. This is Ben Cost writing for the New York Post about the hottest Halloween costume this season. And it is sexy ozempic. We've talked about the sexy costumes before, I think. It is a trend whereby you wear a bikini and a hat.

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And depending on the hat, the color of the hat, or sometimes the style of the hat, you are a sexy train engineer or a sexy skipper, sexy chef, you know that kind of stuff. So the sexy ozempic costume is actually more than a bikini. It is a form fitting syringe costume, basically. Also, sexy hamburger is one of the top costumes this Halloween season.

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That one is bikini themed. You're basically a bikini and I guess you hold a hamburger. Your bikini maybe looks like lettuce. I don't know. I'm not, I'm uncomfortable having the browser open. Even though it's, it's for work. I don't want anyone to walk by and wonder what I'm doing. I'll put a link in the show notes. Perhaps this will inspire your Halloween costume this year. You can be modest Ozempic too. Let's not rule that one out. Does it, not everything has to be saucy.

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Right? All right, that's that. This has been what a weird week. 10 weird news stories from the past week. If you want the stories in more detail or you wanna subscribe to our podcast or get our social media and all that, you can go to shownotes.page, shownotes.page. Shout out to our friends at Fun House Radio. Thanks for running our show as part of your weekend programming. Look for Fun House Radio online or ask your smart speaker to play Fun House Radio.

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Catch you next weekend with 10 more weird things on What a Weird Week.

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