This week's top ten of weird includes several weird things that happened before... the weirdening is real you guys... we're on weird repeat!
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are the show notes for Fri May 12th 2023 / Season 4 Episode 33 ...
❿How Excited are you about Printed Fish!?
Notes:
- a company in Israel has 3D printed fish...
- it's not meal-ready... it's a ready-to-cook fish fillet...
- they start with a lab-grown grouper fish base and that becomes some kind of edible filament for a 3D food printer... (oversimplification alert).
- this lab-grown, printable fish might save the environment/ real fish/ all of us (like lab beef and chicken)
- they hope it'll be available for purchase next year...
- it looks like white goo... but if it tastes good and they can get the cost down, maybe it'll save us from ourselves...
- article doesn't ask any fishers what they think about this whole thing...
See: (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dished-up-by-3d-printers-new-kind-fish-fry-2023-05-03/)
❾Street Pianos and Why they are a Terrible Idea...
- this story is from Japan, but similar stories have popped up all over... even happened in a little town nearby me on the East Coast...
- as an art installment, they put a piano somewhere where passersby can stop and play a tune... in this case it was at a train station...
- there was supposed to be a ten minute time limit, but that didn't take...
- another rule was 'don't play or sing too loudly' but that also didn't take...
- it seems like with these street piano installments, always goes off the rails at some point (railway pun alert)... you don't get that as much from a painting of lovely flowers...
- so they have ended the street piano exhibit at the train station in Japan...
❽Fruit Roll-up Smugglers! caught in Israel. Blame TikTok.
- Two couples from USA are mentioned in the article as being Rollup Smugglers
- One couple in the article was caught with suitcases full of Rollups at the airport in Israel...
- over 660 pounds of Fruit Rollups were confiscated...
- that's more than 21,000 Rollups...
- it's too many Rollups you guys... that's a commercial amount of of Rollups...
- they have also seized a bunch of Rolluips in the mail...
- Why? It has to do with what I would describe as greed...
- On Tik Tok there are these videos where people put ice cream inside a Fruit Rollup so you get some kind of ice cream wrap or Fruit Rollup burrito... that trend took off and it became hard to find Fruit Rollups in Israel... but Rollups were still fairly cheap in the States... so people thought they could bring a bunch of Rollups to Israel to sell them at a profit.
- TL;DR there was a run on Rollups because of a Tik Tok trend and people tried to start smuggling Rollups for profit.
❼This week in AI... Smart Drive-Thru Speakers being tested...
- I think the narrative that we need to be terrified of the robots will take a hit if they can figure this one out... AI taking your order at the drive-thru...
- God bless you hard-working drive-thru specialists, I don't want anyone to lose their job to a robot, but if it fills a job nobody likes to do... and it gets are order right, I think humanity will let our guard down and welcome the AI with open arms at the drive-thru.
*BTW, Google's big tech conference happened a couple days ago and they are making their AI more accessible to all of us... but their announcement didn't involve Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers...
See: (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wendys-testing-ai-chatbot-drive-thru-orders/) and Google I/O (https://mashable.com/article/google-io-2023-everything-you-need-to-know-ai)
❻ Woman Rescued after 5 days lost in Australia, and here's how she survived...
- Wine and lollipops. That's it, that's the story.
- want to know more? OK... this is a classic scary movie scenario... lady on vacation in Australia, trying to get to Dartmouth Dam which looks beautiful btw... kind of a landmark that people like to travel to...
- lady took a wrong turn... car got stuck... no cell phone reception... if you were watching the movie of this, it's like a classic trope...
- this was supposed to be a day trip, so after the lady didn't check in with family back home they launched a search... after 5 days missing she was spotted by a search plane and rescued... (shout out to the rescue team!)
- she survived on the suckers that she brought for the day trip, and a bottle of wine that was supposed to be a gift for her mom...
- all-in-all it's a wonderful story of survival and wine that has a happy ending.
❺*A Shownotes Exclusive* it's that funny story about an iceberg in Conception Bay that's a funny shape and is getting attention in Newfoundland, in the town of Dildo.
- That's all I want to say about it because, pg13.
❹Should they add bulls to professional rugby games?
- In France, a bull ran onto the rugby field during warmups.
- It was chaos... The players scrambled...
- The bull was there for a pre-game parade to advertise local meat... but he broke free from his handler and then... Excitement!
- Video in the shownotes... Looks like everyone hopped over the fence in time to escape injury...
- I don't know much about rugby... One of my kids played in high school, and I'm not saying introduce it at the high school level... But Would live bulls add to the game of professional rugby? Either two human teams playing against each other and some bulls added in... Or maybe one human team vs. one team of bulls? Does the sport need to evolve?
❸Another person avoids serious meteorite injury!
- we had a similar story in late 2021 when a lady from BC avoided grave injury when a meteorite crashed through her roof and landed on her pillow (https://www.scottyandtony.com/2021/10/what-weird-week-oct-16-2021-one-with.html?m=1) and zero pillow companies jumped on board by putting some kind of Space Pillow on the market. #Disappointed
- This time around it was a house in New Jersey... no one hurt but a hole in the roof... also I should be calling it a suspected meteorite because the space rock scientists haven't confirmed it yet... the alleged meteorite is innocent until proven guilty... the link has some other famous meteorite cases... also, they say it's rare for meteorites to hit houses, but I say sure it is... until it isn't #titaniumroof
-BTW, this story says the thing could've been a piece of Halley's Comet (https://www.google.com/amp/s/torontosun.com/news/meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home-may-be-a-fragment-of-halleys-comet/wcm/c9b6f880-1531-42ed-876d-f83a73763f3f/amp/)
❷Bear in West Virginia rings doorbell in attempt to draw out homeowners to eat them...
*some of that is conjecture on my part, but come on! so obvious what's going on...*
- we've had a very similar story in the news before... if you live in a community that has bears, sometimes those bears walk up to your door and ring the doorbell... and that's bonkers to me...
- are they trying to lure us outside so they can eat us and then steal our homes? I say yes, but might need more data.
❶*Gross Alert* Here's a Quote from the story... "Niko Blankenship told 9NEWS Tuesday that he was in the right lane, near the truck's rear tire, when "some kind of dung" came spewing from the top. He said he's washed his car several times, and wiped the area around the tires and the bottom of the car with baby wipes, but the smell still lingers."...
- this happened on a highway in Colorado...
- Niko is also quoted as being thankful he had his windows up and the sunroof closed...
- so what happened? obviously somebody's ex-spouse was teying to get even and it went terribly wrong... I mean, I've seen that 80s comedy... that has to be it... but the official story is a simple sewage truck spill.
See link, they even have some dash cam footage of this... not available in Smellarama btw... (https://www.9news.com/article/traffic/sewer-truck-spill-i-76/73-8c1906d8-9f27-470b-b4a1-6b0c9b002700)
🏆🏆The oldest dog in the world just had a birthday on May 11...
- we talked about Bobi back in February... Bobi was in the news for being an old dog with a friend who's a cat...
🐶from our February Shownotes (https://www.scottyandtony.com/2023/02/what-weird-week-podcast-for-friday-17.html) "Headline: 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/)
- so the Guinness World Records people had Bobi back in the news on his birthday... honorable mention and happy 31st birthday, Bobi! (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/05/11/portugal-Guinness-World-Records-Bobi-worlds-oldest-dog-turns-31/1291683817500/)
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