It's Pi Day, or if you hate math, Just Eat Pie on 3.14 *Podcast Mini *What a Weird Week

Pi Day is supposed to celebrate the number you get when you divide 22 by 7 (3.1429).

We celebrate it on the third month and the fourteenth day every year. But it's Monday. Mondays are hard. Math is also hard. Can't we just eat pie instead. That's a problem I can solve on a Monday.

Here are a few pie stats...

Largest Cherry Pie in the World was baked in BC!

The BC Cherry Pie World Record was 17 tonnes!

"Members of the Oliver Rotary Club, British Columbia, Canada, baked a cherry pie weighing 17.11 tonnes (37,721 lb) in Oliver, British Columbia, on 14 July 1990."

"A lemon meringue pie weighing 1.3 tonnes (2,866 lb) was made by 20 students from Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK, on 4 June 1998."

"El Paso Diablos Baseball Club, Texas, USA made a pecan pie weighing 18.863 tonnes (41,586 lb) at Cohen Stadium, El Paso, Texas on 22 May 1999."

"The most expensive pie cost customers to the Fence Gate Inn, Lancashire, UK £8,195 (then $14,260) or £1,024 (then $1,781) per slice when ordered by eight guests"

"The most expensive pie sold at auction was bought for $3,100.00 (£1,994.54) by Jerry Mumma (USA), in Rich Hill, Missouri, USA, on 6 July 2012."

More Pie Records here: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/search?term=pie&page=1&type=all&max=20&partial=_Results&

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What's in your Junk Drawer? A follow-up to one of the greatest junk drawer finds of all time!!!!!

Scotty note:
Your Junk Drawer is a treasure trove of weird stories and sentimental oddities.

Or it's just full of junk.

Tony found an old report card in his junk drawer... from his daughter's Grade 3 year (she's graduating from university this year.)

I found a friendship bracelet from 1987. The bracelet lasted longer than the friendship (you know what you did, Sally Anne Crenshaw.)

But what if you're a Junk Drawer Millionaire?!! 

Here's a cool story we talked about before... 

The old piece-a-junk chess piece that was in their junk drawer forever… then they found out that what it's really worth!!!!! ... the owners didn't realize the chess piece was a long-lost treasure chess piece... made of walrus tusk... (via BBC)

Since we blogged that story, they auctioned off the Junk Drawer item...

Over a million dollars Canadian!!!!!

 

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weird wednesday: here's the meat thief story

Here's the Meat Thief story from What a Weird Week... see www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" wherever you go for podcasts. 

1) He went for a job interview.
2) He got the job.
3) Before his first day on the job, he allegedly stole $15000 worth of meat.

"Roswell Police confirmed the suspect is Warren Kearny of Sandy Springs, who was hired and scheduled to start working at Uncle Jack’s on Friday. He’s now wanted on warrants for two counts of second-degree burglary."

Just so we're all on the same page here, stealing is wrong. But, if he didn't get the job, then got mad and took a sirloin on his way out, that seems more understandable to me... but this fella (allegedly) stole all that expensive meat AFTER they said 'You're hired!'.
Note:

- I feel bad for the next person on the hire list... like the one who ALMOST got the job. The steakhouse decided you weren't a good fit for them, then they offered the job to an alleged meat thief. That's gotta suck. How nervous were you at the interview? How shifty did you appear to the hiring manager that they decided to give the job to someone who now is wanted in connection with a Meat Heist??

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