What a Weird Week Podcast for Friday Feb 10th 2023: When Cake Boss met Say Yes to the Dress

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This week's weirdities include dogs in a conga line, weird CIA investment strategies, and that delicious cake dress story...
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Here are the show notes for Fri Feb 10th, 2023, Season 4 Episode 19 ...

❿Headline: Record-Breaking Cereal Box Dominoes... Weird but Good!
Notes:
- Teachers and kids at Red Apple Elementary in Wisconsin set up 7000 and something cereal boxes and knocked 'em down. 
- that's a Guinness World Record for the most cereal boxes given the domino treatment. 
- and it worked, they all fell down so now they're waiting for official confirmation from GWR. 
- and the collected cereal is going to feed hungry people!  

Link/media: (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/02/06/Guinness-World--cereal-box-dominoes/2691675697470/) and video... 

❾Headline: The Gibbon was living alone at the zoo... so how did it get pregnant?

Notes:
- it was a mystery... but it's not any more.
- the gibbon at the Japanese zoo got pregnant the old fashioned way...
- they did DNA tests and have determined who the father is...
- the mommy gibbon and the daddy gibbon - who love each other very much - had a rendezvous through a fence... 
- love finds a way

They should do a gibbon wedding

❽Headline: the award for excellence in Dog Conga Line goes to ...  

Notes:
- 14 dogs who decided to break the world record.
- 14 dogs in a conga line is the new world record you guys.
- did they really plan this all on their own... no they did not. A dog trainer was involved.
- This part is juicy... the dog trainer fella beat the previous dog conga world record of 9 dogs which was set by his own daughter! Awkward at the next family BBQ.
- Here are the award-winning dogs: Emma, Filou, Fin, Simon, Susy, Maya, Ulf, Speck, Bibi, Katie, Jennifer, Elvis, Charly and Cathy.

 

❼Headline: When you hear "Lord of the Bins" do you think that would be a legit business licensed by the Lord of the Rings franchise?
Notes:
- a couple guys run a waste company called Lord of the Bins in Brighton (UK) and they've been in the news because the Lord of the Rings people have told them they need to change their name. 
- Not a lawyer but, These cases usually come down to: you can't profit off someone else's IP unless you have a deal with them... and you can't sully the name of The Lord of the Rings because that fan base will come for you.  
- a rebrand will be expensive, but cheaper than a LOTR licensing fee probably...

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❻Headline: That company who wants to bring back the Dodo bird is getting some of their funding from the CIA??

Notes:
- The company named Colossal is working on Project "Bring back the Woolly Mammoth" and now they also want to bring back the dodo bird.
- That part of the story has been showing up in my feed for a little while, but what was brand new info to me was that one of the backers of "Project DODO" is the CIA!?
- Yes, That CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency. 
- The Colossal company has a bunch of investors, but one of them, through a venture capital company, is the CIA.
- 1) Is this a good investment?
- 2) Why does the CIA want in on this? Please send me your working theory (weirdweekpod@gmail.com) ... are they gonna be weaponized? Used as spies? I don't get this one.

Dodo incognito

❺Headline: How cool is ice? Before you answer, a new discovery to mention. 

Notes:
- scientists have discovered what is being described as weird ice...
- a completely new kind of ice that is more close to being liquid than any ice ever?!
- The ice scientists are pretty jazzed up by this... this new ice is some kind of game changer.
- My favourite part... how they created this new kind of ice... "We shook the ice like crazy for a long time and destroyed the crystal structure"... and instead of ending up with smaller pieces of ice, they had a whole new kind of ice on their hands. 
- What this means to you and me... well, they need to do more experiments so I'll get back to you on that...
- I love it that somebody's idea of an experiment was to shake ice and see what happens.

Stay cool weirdos

❹Headline: How about that Balloon thing though!? 

Notes: 
- we hardly ever have a big big weird story that breaks after the podcast drops, but then the story is almost completely done by next week's episode.  
- thought we should circle back to it because for a brief moment we were all captivated by that weird balloon.  
- I don't know too much about world politics and that, but the dramatic tension leading up to it getting shot down was, idk, kinda fascinating.  
- it was like the plot from Armageddon... they put together a team to travel to the balloon and destroy it... saving us all.  
- seriously though, I'm sure any search and destroy mission is dangerous, but you gotta figure when you get assigned to shoot down a balloon, you're not as stressed probably???  


❸Headline: Drink all the coffee or never drink coffee again!!

Notes:
- never take this podcast as your solitary source of anything. Like anything. Having said that, I really do try to chase down different sources on these stories... and this new study gave me a bit of confusion...
- When you Google the headline (coffee and blood pressure) you will get just as many bad stories about the effects of coffee on your blood pressure... so... (this is me shrugging you guys)...
- Here's a quote from the article: "The results are very clear: peripheral blood pressure was significantly lower in individuals consuming one to three cups of coffee a day than in non-coffee drinkers," *Peripheral blood pressure= when you take your blood pressure reading from the upper arm.
- remember to consult your barista or a doctor or something before going on an all coffee diet.

It freaked my bean

❷Headline: Not all heroes wear capes... but also not all cape-wearers are heroes... You be the judge.

Notes:
- 2854 people put on a red cape at the same time to set a world record for the most caped people in one place.
- happened at a Toronto Raptors affiliate team basketball game (the NBA G league's Raptors 905 game).
- This was in Mississauga, Ontario.
- it raises money for charity. 
- btw, the old record was set by 2266 Batman fans. 


❶Headline: A cake so big you wear it like a dress! 

Notes:
- A Swiss baker set a Guinness World Record for making the biggest wearable dress/cake in the world.
- happened at a wedding fair.
- Do you think this will catch on... shows like Say Yes to the Dress and Cake Boss are so popular... putting the two things together seems unstoppable!
- Also, having your wedding dress BE your wedding cake seems like a real time-saver to me.
- btw, The dress weighed 289 pounds.


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