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This week's top ten of weird includes the newest streaming hit out there - Cocaine Island! Also the baffling sun tornado...
If you are new to the podcast, here's how it works... Every Friday we do a Weird-News-of-the-Week Top 10 and put all
the links/ videos/ photos in a show notes blog (just like this one https://www.scottyandtony.com/search/label/podcast).Thanks for listening to the Episode Audio and Subscribing to the podcast ! Also see the enhanced episodes with video on YouTube (@weirdweekpod)
Here are the show notes for Fri Feb 17th, 2023, Season 4 Episode 21 ...
❿Headline: Very Old Motorbike breaks record...
Notes:
- It's a hundred and fifteen years old.
- a Harley Davidson.
- it looks like a bicycle. When it went up for auction, a guy just carried it in.
- Top Speed: idk but it's gonna need some help jumping the Springfield Gorge.
- sold for a record amount... close to a million dollars! ($935,000).
Link/media:(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/13/1908-Harley-Davidson-auctioned-record-price/4361676323367/) and Video Embed...
Notes:
- It's a hundred and fifteen years old.
- a Harley Davidson.
- it looks like a bicycle. When it went up for auction, a guy just carried it in.
- Top Speed: idk but it's gonna need some help jumping the Springfield Gorge.
- sold for a record amount... close to a million dollars! ($935,000).
Link/media:(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/13/1908-Harley-Davidson-auctioned-record-price/4361676323367/) and Video Embed...
❾Headline: if the giant wiener isn't safe, none of us are, right?
Notes:
- it's unsettling when you think about it... the most famous wiener-themed vehicle in the world was targeted by catalytic converter thieves.
- If you've never had the pleasure, the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is a 27-foot long motorized wiener.
- It's famous and a cherished piece of Americana.
- It was in Las Vegas the other day for some public appearances. When the wiener pilot tried to get it started in the morning it wouldn't happen.
- Eventually they had to get it towed to a place for repairs. Imagine being the tow truck driver in charge of delivering the most famous motorized wiener in the world! High pressure!
- They were able to get it patched up and the giant rolling hot dog was able to get back on the road.
- One time the Wienermobile rolled into the radio station where I was working and we all got our picture taken with it. It occurred to me then how difficult a job it is to be a Wienermobile pilot. So many terrible jokes. Wienermobile drivers are saints.
Notes:
- it's unsettling when you think about it... the most famous wiener-themed vehicle in the world was targeted by catalytic converter thieves.
- If you've never had the pleasure, the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is a 27-foot long motorized wiener.
- It's famous and a cherished piece of Americana.
- It was in Las Vegas the other day for some public appearances. When the wiener pilot tried to get it started in the morning it wouldn't happen.
- Eventually they had to get it towed to a place for repairs. Imagine being the tow truck driver in charge of delivering the most famous motorized wiener in the world! High pressure!
- They were able to get it patched up and the giant rolling hot dog was able to get back on the road.
- One time the Wienermobile rolled into the radio station where I was working and we all got our picture taken with it. It occurred to me then how difficult a job it is to be a Wienermobile pilot. So many terrible jokes. Wienermobile drivers are saints.
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| "hot dog car" via AI. *may contain dairy. |
❽ Headline: Cocaine Island (new Netflix show?)
Notes:
- According to the Vice article "Enough Cocaine To Supply Australia for a Whole Year" was found floating in the Pacific. Is that a lot? Like, how do they know how much annual cocaine supply Australia goes through?
- Well, it was three and a half tons of cocaine. And it had Batman logos on it. So maybe it was Batman's cocaine?
- New Zealand police found it tied up to buoys. They got to it before smugglers who were probably planning on picking it up to sell in Australia.
- They say it's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Three and a half tons is equivalent to a year's-worth of cocaine for Australia... or three decades-worth for New Zealand (according to police.)
Link/media: (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgynyj/new-zealand-cocaine-bust-pacific)
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| mountain of cocaine (artist rendering) |
❼Headline: How old is the World's Oldest Dog?
Notes:
- wrong question... it should be how awesome is the world's oldest dog!?
- Bobi the dog is 30 years old.
- That's a world record.
- Bobi is Portuguese.
- Bobi looks fantastic. I'm not good at judging ages but Bobi definitely looks younger than 30.
- Bobi has a friend who's a cat! What a wonderful message of peace!! Cats and dogs getting along, you guys!!!
Link/media: (https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2023/02/12/worlds-oldest-dog-bobi-guinness-record-holder-30/11243658002/)
Breaking: world's oldest dog has a friend who's a cat.https://t.co/CqA5kcJfNb via @YahooNews
— What a Weird Week Podcast (@whataweirdweek) February 17, 2023
Notes:
- This was in the news a few days ago... the dog that walked ten miles to an animal shelter... and rather than just wait for assistance, the dog rang the doorbell... and because it's one of those video doorbells, we have video you guys!
- the dog had been adopted from that shelter... she knew the place... so it sounds to me like the dog ran away from her new home and went back to the old stompin' grounds...
- shout out to the shelter crew who got the alert at 1-something in the morning and drove to the shelter to help the pooch.
Link/media: (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/13/Animal-Rescue-League-El-Paso-lost-dog-doorbell/8131676305266/) and video...
Link/media: (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/13/Animal-Rescue-League-El-Paso-lost-dog-doorbell/8131676305266/) and video...
❺Headline: Monkeynapping followup: zero remorses given...
Notes:
- The fellow arrested for stealing monkeys from the zoo in Texas (Grand Theft Monkey?) says he'd do it again according to reports...
- that's one of the things that has been revealed in news reports since our last check-in on this...
- we've also learned that he took the monkeys on a train to make his getaway...
- this is based on court docs.
- it seems like the motive was love of animals.
❹ Headline: How Long is the New Long-Kiss world record?
Notes:
- This was in the news for Valentines Day... a South African lady and a dude from Canada went to the Maldives and broke the Guinness World Record for longest kiss underwater.
- 4 minutes and 6 seconds is the record.
- the longest underwater kiss ever.
- the record-setting smooch took place in the pool at a resort.
- For reference, the kiss lasted longer than the Eagle Eye Cherry smash hit "Save Tonight".
Link/media: (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/14/maldives-Guinness-World-Records-longest-underwater-kiss/4841676390088/) and video
and also the video for Eagle Eye Cherry's smash hit "Save Tonight"...
❸Headline: Where are we on shooting down UFOs at this point?
Notes:
- Quote from this Wired article sums it up: "This isn't new; we just hadn't been detecting them in the past,” says Brynn Tannehill, a RAND Corporation senior technical analyst and a former naval aviator. “I suspect that filters on US systems had previously been ignoring things that were too slow, high, or small to be considered threats. Now that the parameters on the filters have been adjusted, we're seeing more of what was already there for the past few years."
- The latest is that the other mystery objects were probably ballons from private entities, not alien craft, also not more spy balloons.
Link/media: (https://www.wired.com/story/spy-balloons-ufo-shot-down-us/)
Notes:
- Quote from this Wired article sums it up: "This isn't new; we just hadn't been detecting them in the past,” says Brynn Tannehill, a RAND Corporation senior technical analyst and a former naval aviator. “I suspect that filters on US systems had previously been ignoring things that were too slow, high, or small to be considered threats. Now that the parameters on the filters have been adjusted, we're seeing more of what was already there for the past few years."
- The latest is that the other mystery objects were probably ballons from private entities, not alien craft, also not more spy balloons.
Link/media: (https://www.wired.com/story/spy-balloons-ufo-shot-down-us/)
❷Headline: Cautionary Tale...
Notes:
- this is a story that serves as a warning... and this happens every year... a fella who wanted to book a vacation to Sydney, Australia ended up booking a flight to Sidney, Montana.
- We've seen this happen with Sydney, Nova Scotia also...
- The fella is from New York, so he spent a night in the wrong place then flew back to New York to go to the other Sydney...
So if you're planning an exotic trip, here are some of the biggest destination screw-ups to avoid...
Memphis, Egypt vs. Memphis, Tennessee... Melbourne, Florida vs. Melbourne, Australia... Lebanon, New Hampshire vs Lebanon the country... Glasgow, Scotland vs. Glasgow, Montana...
Paris, France vs. Paris, Texas... Beverly Hills, California vs. Beverly Hills, Texas... Moscow, Russia vs. Moscow, Kansas... Naples, Italy vs. Naples, Florida...
Link/media: news story (https://www.fox5ny.com/news/new-york-man-planning-vacation-to-sydney-australia-accidently-books-flight-to-sidney-montana) and places with the same name (https://www.insider.com/places-with-same-name-around-the-world-2018-5#naples-italy-vs-naples-florida-10)
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❶Headline: I'm gonna read this one word for word b/c Global News nails it... "Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists"
Notes:
- according to the story scientists are baffled but also excited.
- so a piece of the sun breaks off and it is strange. but what does it mean?
- here's the quote from Dr. Tamitha Skov: "Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!"
- as near as I can tell, the piece of the sun formed what I would call a sun-nado.
- another expert is quoted in the story saying that weird sun stuff tends to happen every solar cycle... so every 11 years...
- but... what do we do? Panic?? We should panic, right?
- My philosophy tends to lean into living a panic-driven life, but as long as the scientists can still be reached for comment we must be OK. If they ever ask scientists for a comment on a story, and all the scientists have gone to live inside Stone Mountain or something, then that would be a bad sign I think.
Link/media: (https://globalnews.ca/news/9474534/solar-polar-vortex-sun-flare/)and Dr. T's tweet...
Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated! pic.twitter.com/1SKhunaXvP
— Dr. Tamitha Skov (@TamithaSkov) February 2, 2023
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