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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 44 first published on Friday Nov 1st 2024. Here are this week's stories...
Idaho man reclaims world record for sorting Peanut M&M's by color in under a minute
Firefighters rescue a parrot and a human from a tall tree in California
Saskatchewan town of Kyle and the mayoral election with no candidates
Bat escapes German zoo by hiding in visitor's jacket
Bristol Zoo seeks help identifying "mysterious winged and horned creature" caught on camera
New Zealand airport sets a 3-minute limit for farewell hugs in the drop-off zone to ensure smooth traffic flow
Dog walking world record
Werther's Original Launches Limited-Edition 'Werther's Original Pocket Denim' Jeans with 30 Tiny Pockets for Caramels
British "King Conker" Cleared of Cheating Allegations at World Championships
Bangladeshi woman sets Guinness record for eating 37 grains of rice in one minute using chopsticks
Standing Desks: Not the Health Booster We Thought? Study Reveals Risks of Prolonged Standing...
Melbourne Train Stations Flooded Due to Amorous Couple Dislodging Sprinkler
Victorian Transport Minister struggles to hold it together at press conference. Danny Pearson was descibing the moment "an amorous couple" caused travel chaos at Flagstaff and Melbourne Central stations. #trains #flood #pressconference #pressconferences #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/Y5r2VPMDmk
— 7NEWS Australia (@7NewsAustralia) October 16, 2024
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00:00
A bat escapes. A parrot is rescued. What a weird week. Hi, everybody. It's Weird. This is like crazy, really, really weird, weird tale. Well, I got a great show for you today with some wonderful weird stuff. Hi, friends. I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week. It's a show where we go back and look at the news of the week and we pick out the weird stuff for you.
00:25
If you want our show notes or a transcript, our social media links, anything like that, just remember show notes dot page, show notes dot page. All right, here we go. It is season five episode. Can't remember releasing on Friday, November 1st, twenty twenty four. Ten Idaho Man reclaims world record for sorting peanut M&M's by color. David Record Breaker Rush.
00:52
a favorite on our program because he continues to break world records and he has the most he has the world record for having the most world records in case you missed it the most concurrent world records and as he went on this journey and we followed along I for some reason thought he would stop once he had the most concurrent world records once he got that world record that would be hang him up you know it's been a good run I'm gonna enjoy retirement but David Rush hasn't done that.
01:21
And I'm starting to worry that perhaps he doesn't know how to stop breaking world records. Maybe it is his superpower. Maybe he wakes up in the morning and has no plans to break a world record and then just does it. Can't control it anymore, you guys. This is a record where you have 500 grams of M&Ms, a set amount of M&Ms, peanut M&Ms, and you have to race through and sort them by color as fast as possible. In the video, David Record Breaker Rush is using one hand and just sorting.
01:51
like a world record breaking sorting whirlwind. The final time was 57.78 seconds. That's the time to beat. The last time I wanted to break the world record for the fastest time to sort 500 grams of pink M&Ms, I had a time of 1 minute 19 seconds and did it with a 1 minute 14 second run. Come on. Nine. Firefighters rescue a parrot and a human being from a tall tree in California. So what happened here is the bird named Tweedy.
02:20
got startled and flew into a tall tree. And because life is complicated, even when you have the power of flight, sometimes, you know, you're startled and you can't get down from the tree. And as human beings holler, just fly down. You know, that's, I'm paraphrasing, but just imagine this scenario. Tweety, just, just fly with your wings. But Tweety was not getting down from the tree.
02:50
was like, and again I'm paraphrasing, I'll climb up there and get tweety, and starts to climb that tall tree, until climbed too high, and wasn't safe to climb back down, which, you know, if you haven't climbed a tall tree before, maybe it doesn't occur to you until you get way up there. Hey, I'm also trapped now, like the bird. I am trapped, and perhaps this thought also, I'm not capable of flight either. Now we're both stuck.
03:18
That's kind of the scenario and shout out to truck 17, the first responders who rescued Tweety the bird and also the human being from the tall tree in California. Firefighters stage an unusual rescue operation to save a man and a parrot. This all unfolded just before nine o'clock tonight on Beach Boulevard near City Hall. A young woman out for a walk with her family had her cockatiel on her shoulder and at some point the bird.
03:47
got startled and flew off into a tree. A family member climbed the tree to try to rescue the parrot but became stuck about 25 feet up. I think maybe the moral of the story is that tall trees are not necessarily our friends, but mid-sized trees, you're okay in my books. The next one is the town in Western Canada where no one wants to be mayor. What's going on, Kyle?
04:26
This is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird news of the week. In Western Canada, there is a province called Saskatchewan. And in that province, there is a town called Kyle. And nobody wants to be mayor. They've tried twice application rounds a couple of times and nobody wants to be mayor of Kyle. They have an election coming up. What's going to happen? Is it going to all fall? It'll all land on the deputy mayor's shoulders.
04:54
if nobody steps up to run for mayor of Kyle. Now, population of Kyle is 400 and something. Heavy is the head that wears the mayoral crown, right? We all can relate to not wanting to step up to do more work, but it seems like this would be a great opportunity if you were interested in politics and nobody's running against you, you could wet your beak in politics in Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada, North America.
05:21
What if everybody, all the grownups of Kyle took a turn and had one day as mayor? Everybody had to do their turn. That's not practical, is it? The old mayor would welcome you in. Here's how you work the coffee machine. Here's the passcode to get into the building. You know, that's it. That's all you'd have time for. The day would be over. Nothing would get done. All right, that one's out. What about this one? If your name is Kyle, then you have to take a turn being the mayor of Kyle. I'm Mayor Kyle of Kyle.
05:51
No, it has to be open to everyone. It shouldn't be like a punishment. Or should it? Anyway, Kyle, I'm brainstorming here. If I come up with something good, I'll let you know. Good luck, residents of Kyle Saskatchewan. 7. Number 7 is the Daring Bat Escape. This occurred at a zoo in Germany and it made headlines when the bat was discovered to have escaped the zoo in the jacket of a visitor. This was not a smuggling out a bat situation. This was a bat.
06:20
using its extreme cunning to hide in the jacket of a visitor. So first things first, the bat's okay, the visitor's okay. Second thing, now when you go to visit the bats in the zoo in Germany, you have to strip down to a unitard so that the bat has nowhere to hide. No, that part I just made that up, but seems like a pretty good idea. Listen to what happened actually. This would freak my bean, you guys. The visitor of the zoo got home.
06:47
took off her jacket and the bat fell to the floor. That's it, I'm out at that point. Call the realtor, we're selling this place. I'm not coming back here. But this person cared for that bat, gave the bat honey, water, and banana until the next day when the bat could be safely returned to the zoo. The bat's doing fine. It was a leaf-nosed bat, and it's doing fine. If they don't rename that bat Houdini, like, right?
07:14
Next we have another zoo story, but it's a lot freakier than the bat falling on the floor out of the person's coat. In my personal opinion, a mysterious creature in the zoo in Bristol. That one is next.
07:35
This is What a Weird Week. We catch you up on the weird stuff from the news. Six. The mysterious creature, the zoo in Bristol, United Kingdom, released a photo, something that they got from a trail cam in a section, kind of a woodland, they describe it as a woodland area of the zoo. If you don't have a chance to click the thing, shownotes.page, let me describe it for you. Save you a click. It's a mysterious black and white photo. There's some eye shine going on.
08:04
It looks like maybe part calf, bovine perhaps. And then it looks honest to goodness like there's some weird wings going on, some sort of Pegasus calf. Imagine a calf that looks menacing and also has wings. But if you wanna click the thing, shownotes.page, the Bristol Zoo, put the photo out, and now they're like, what is this? Hey everyone, take a look, help out a zoo, would ya?
08:33
identify this mysterious thing. In the article we linked to, they do mention the Loch Ness Monster as well. Not like they captured an image of the Loch Ness Monster, but they're like, move over, Loch Ness Monster. Our zoo has something weird going on. It's gotta be just a trick of the camera angle or something, but anyway, to be continued. Last week we were preparing our Halloween episode, so we didn't have this one on. We're trying to catch up on some of the stories that occurred while we were...
09:02
knee deep in Halloween stuff. This is the one that made headlines all over the world. The New Zealand airport that has a three minute time limit for goodbyes. Now there is a three minute, like they have a clock and once you start hugging someone goodbye in the drop off zone, the clock starts counting down from three minutes. No, that part I just made up you guys, that part's not true, but they did make all around the world, the press picked up how now there's a three minute time limit to say goodbye in the airport in New Zealand.
09:31
It's just to avoid congestion. You know, there are a lot of people saying goodbye. Lengthy hugs cause congestion. And so in the drop off zone now, you've got a three minute goodbye time limit. I hope nobody pushes this one. You know, if they if people don't adhere to the three minutes, they'll be forced to escalate and you'll be taken to airport jail. You go three and a half minutes with your hug. You're going to jail. They're seizing your passport. That's now I'm speculating, but I imagine that is phase two.
10:01
Next we have that dog walking world record. This one seems mind-boggling. That story next.
10:18
This is What a Weird Week. It's a show about the weird news that happened this week. Four. Mitchell Rudy, who is a Canadian, you know, our show originates in Canada, so listen, I'm gonna level with you. Proud of Mitchell, who set a Guinness World Record and made headlines by walking 38 dogs on a leash for over half a mile. 38 dogs at one time. New world record. The old record was 36. Mitchell used the opportunity to promote
10:48
Dog adoption. Dog adoption. And that's about the whole story. How do you, what's your technique in walking 38 dogs at once? Stay focused. And you have to have a scoop team. I would imagine, right, if you're gonna do this 38 dogs at once, there is a team of scoopers behind you. If you'd like to see photos and stuff, we have a link, click shownotes.page. Three. You know the folks at Werther's Originals, maybe not personally, like perhaps you do, Elden. He's a good fellow and,
11:18
Also, Charisse, she does great work. I'm just kidding. What I meant to say was, are you familiar with Werther's Original toffees, caramels, however you think of them in your brain, delicious candy, Werther's Original candies? Those things are delicious. And now the folks behind those candies have issued a limited edition pair of pants with 30 tiny pockets to hold your candies. Tiny pocket pants, 30 tiny pockets, candy pants.
11:47
They've issued candy pants. This was all a publicity or, you know, a means to get attention for the brand. An opportunity to play a contest and win some Werther's candy pants. That's not their official name, by the way. Werther's Original Pocket Denim. This one is one of the stories that came out while we were prepping the Halloween episodes. So we're a little bit late on this one. But if you want to do a deep dive into what exactly are candy pants.
12:15
And where do they put all the pockets for your candies? Are they all in one straight line down the front? Well, I don't want to spoil it. You could click the thing we have a link in the show notes or go shownotes.page. Up next, we have a follow up to a story that we've been tracking, the Iron Chestnuts Debacle.
12:43
This is What A Weird Week. We catch you up on all the weird news that's been happening. Honorable mention, mention or follow up, follow up, follow up. This is a follow up to a story we've been tracking. The King of the Conkers has been cleared of cheating. The Conkers Contest, the World Conkers Championship. This is the thing where they smash chestnuts, chestnuts on a string.
13:08
and they just get to smashin' until somebody is crowned the king and queen of the Conqueror's Game. It's for charity, you know, they raise money for charity. Gets in the press every year because... I don't know. People love chestnuts? Not sure. Get back to you on that one, but... Anyway, the scandal was the fellow who won this year. I mean, you're supposed to use your average chestnut. No monkey business. And then somebody was like, oh, that...
13:36
That fella, 82 years old, the fella who won Dave, he's got metal chestnuts! And he did have some sort of decoration, decorative chestnut curiosity piece, you know, like a something you'd see on a knick-knack shelf. He was not using them for competition, and he has been cleared of all wrongdoing. Congratulations, Dave, King Dave, King of the Conquers! List two. Number two, the lady from Bangladesh.
14:03
who set a Guinness World Record for eating 37 grains of rice in a minute. First you gotta eat them one at a time. And you gotta use chopsticks. This is another one of the stories we meant to cover sooner, but we took a break from regular coverage to do our Halloween episode. So this one slipped through, like a grain of rice slipping through the tines of a fork. Or some other simile. Anyway, you just have to be patient, steady-handed, I guess have a bit of an appetite.
14:32
37 grains of rice and you have a minute to consume those. The lady beat the old record of 27 with her new 37 grains of rice world record. Maybe this is a record you want to try to beat this weekend. You can click the show notes or go show notes dot page. I will give you this pro tip. If you're going for the world record of eating a single grain of rice like rice one at a time for a minute using chopsticks, here's the pro tip.
15:01
Don't get good rice. Delicious fried rice from your favorite restaurant. You start eating that one grain at a time and pretty soon you're gonna crack and you're just gonna start shoveling that rice in because it's so delicious. So semi-gross rice. That's my suggestion. Honorable mention, mention. This one's terrible news, everyone. Standing desks from our friends at Study Finds. Standing desks.
15:31
are not as healthy as everybody led you to believe. According to the research, 83,000 participants took part in a study. We all thought this, right? Everybody thought sitting down, that's terrible. That's the new smoking or whatever. So let's all stand up at our desks. And now the research is coming back that there are problems with that as well. Why don't I just stop there? I mean, you can do a deep dive into it all. Click the show notes. Might I suggest
16:00
The kneeling desk would be the next craze. Let's all invest in kneeling desks, you guys. We'll be rich. We went from sitting to standing. Somebody's gonna come up with the idea of, well, maybe somewhere in the middle. How about a kneeling desk? You know what we should have here is anytime we do bad news, we should have a happy, lighthearted, bad news song. I mean, if you just invested in a standing desk and now you're hearing this, you're like, what the?
16:29
So our number one, it's a bit saucy. Our number one story is coming up. Now please enjoy this lighthearted, terrible news song.
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Terrible news from me and you Terrible, terrible news We got terrible news Hey, hey, we got terrible news Yeah, yeah We got terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible news
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listening to the What a Weird Week Show. Weird news, baby. One. Number one is a bit saucy, so earmuffs kids. Kids put on the earmuffs. All right, number one from Melbourne? Melbourne? How would you say it, you guys? Australia, Mell-town, Australia, where the train stations were shut down and this made headlines. There was a flood. There was the concert, the Olivia Rodrigo concert, and the fans after the concert.
17:44
going to catch the train and a couple of the fans were feeling passionate about one another. You know, love happening. And so anyway, this couple were in a stairwell at the train station and through their various amorous activities, they dislodged a sprinkler and caused a minor flood. The trains were delayed and it all was because of love. The Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, made headlines when
18:14
They announced that the police were investigating the matter and also advised people to find more appropriate locations for amorous activities. There was surveillance camera footage, you guys. First, they didn't know what happened. They thought maybe vandalism, but it was love. And that's a wrap on this episode of What a Weird Week. Thank you for listening. You can get all our social media or find out more about the podcast and that if you click shownotes.page.
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A bat escapes. A parrot is rescued. What a weird week. Hi, everybody. It's Weird. This is like crazy, really, really weird, weird tale. Well, I got a great show for you today with some wonderful weird stuff. Hi, friends. I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week. It's a show where we go back and look at the news of the week and we pick out the weird stuff for you.
00:25
If you want our show notes or a transcript, our social media links, anything like that, just remember show notes dot page, show notes dot page. All right, here we go. It is season five episode. Can't remember releasing on Friday, November 1st, twenty twenty four. Ten Idaho Man reclaims world record for sorting peanut M&M's by color. David Record Breaker Rush.
00:52
a favorite on our program because he continues to break world records and he has the most he has the world record for having the most world records in case you missed it the most concurrent world records and as he went on this journey and we followed along I for some reason thought he would stop once he had the most concurrent world records once he got that world record that would be hang him up you know it's been a good run I'm gonna enjoy retirement but David Rush hasn't done that.
01:21
And I'm starting to worry that perhaps he doesn't know how to stop breaking world records. Maybe it is his superpower. Maybe he wakes up in the morning and has no plans to break a world record and then just does it. Can't control it anymore, you guys. This is a record where you have 500 grams of M&Ms, a set amount of M&Ms, peanut M&Ms, and you have to race through and sort them by color as fast as possible. In the video, David Record Breaker Rush is using one hand and just sorting.
01:51
like a world record breaking sorting whirlwind. The final time was 57.78 seconds. That's the time to beat. The last time I wanted to break the world record for the fastest time to sort 500 grams of pink M&Ms, I had a time of 1 minute 19 seconds and did it with a 1 minute 14 second run. Come on. Nine. Firefighters rescue a parrot and a human being from a tall tree in California. So what happened here is the bird named Tweedy.
02:20
got startled and flew into a tall tree. And because life is complicated, even when you have the power of flight, sometimes, you know, you're startled and you can't get down from the tree. And as human beings holler, just fly down. You know, that's, I'm paraphrasing, but just imagine this scenario. Tweety, just, just fly with your wings. But Tweety was not getting down from the tree.
02:50
was like, and again I'm paraphrasing, I'll climb up there and get tweety, and starts to climb that tall tree, until climbed too high, and wasn't safe to climb back down, which, you know, if you haven't climbed a tall tree before, maybe it doesn't occur to you until you get way up there. Hey, I'm also trapped now, like the bird. I am trapped, and perhaps this thought also, I'm not capable of flight either. Now we're both stuck.
03:18
That's kind of the scenario and shout out to truck 17, the first responders who rescued Tweety the bird and also the human being from the tall tree in California. Firefighters stage an unusual rescue operation to save a man and a parrot. This all unfolded just before nine o'clock tonight on Beach Boulevard near City Hall. A young woman out for a walk with her family had her cockatiel on her shoulder and at some point the bird.
03:47
got startled and flew off into a tree. A family member climbed the tree to try to rescue the parrot but became stuck about 25 feet up. I think maybe the moral of the story is that tall trees are not necessarily our friends, but mid-sized trees, you're okay in my books. The next one is the town in Western Canada where no one wants to be mayor. What's going on, Kyle?
04:26
This is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird news of the week. In Western Canada, there is a province called Saskatchewan. And in that province, there is a town called Kyle. And nobody wants to be mayor. They've tried twice application rounds a couple of times and nobody wants to be mayor of Kyle. They have an election coming up. What's going to happen? Is it going to all fall? It'll all land on the deputy mayor's shoulders.
04:54
if nobody steps up to run for mayor of Kyle. Now, population of Kyle is 400 and something. Heavy is the head that wears the mayoral crown, right? We all can relate to not wanting to step up to do more work, but it seems like this would be a great opportunity if you were interested in politics and nobody's running against you, you could wet your beak in politics in Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada, North America.
05:21
What if everybody, all the grownups of Kyle took a turn and had one day as mayor? Everybody had to do their turn. That's not practical, is it? The old mayor would welcome you in. Here's how you work the coffee machine. Here's the passcode to get into the building. You know, that's it. That's all you'd have time for. The day would be over. Nothing would get done. All right, that one's out. What about this one? If your name is Kyle, then you have to take a turn being the mayor of Kyle. I'm Mayor Kyle of Kyle.
05:51
No, it has to be open to everyone. It shouldn't be like a punishment. Or should it? Anyway, Kyle, I'm brainstorming here. If I come up with something good, I'll let you know. Good luck, residents of Kyle Saskatchewan. 7. Number 7 is the Daring Bat Escape. This occurred at a zoo in Germany and it made headlines when the bat was discovered to have escaped the zoo in the jacket of a visitor. This was not a smuggling out a bat situation. This was a bat.
06:20
using its extreme cunning to hide in the jacket of a visitor. So first things first, the bat's okay, the visitor's okay. Second thing, now when you go to visit the bats in the zoo in Germany, you have to strip down to a unitard so that the bat has nowhere to hide. No, that part I just made that up, but seems like a pretty good idea. Listen to what happened actually. This would freak my bean, you guys. The visitor of the zoo got home.
06:47
took off her jacket and the bat fell to the floor. That's it, I'm out at that point. Call the realtor, we're selling this place. I'm not coming back here. But this person cared for that bat, gave the bat honey, water, and banana until the next day when the bat could be safely returned to the zoo. The bat's doing fine. It was a leaf-nosed bat, and it's doing fine. If they don't rename that bat Houdini, like, right?
07:14
Next we have another zoo story, but it's a lot freakier than the bat falling on the floor out of the person's coat. In my personal opinion, a mysterious creature in the zoo in Bristol. That one is next.
07:35
This is What a Weird Week. We catch you up on the weird stuff from the news. Six. The mysterious creature, the zoo in Bristol, United Kingdom, released a photo, something that they got from a trail cam in a section, kind of a woodland, they describe it as a woodland area of the zoo. If you don't have a chance to click the thing, shownotes.page, let me describe it for you. Save you a click. It's a mysterious black and white photo. There's some eye shine going on.
08:04
It looks like maybe part calf, bovine perhaps. And then it looks honest to goodness like there's some weird wings going on, some sort of Pegasus calf. Imagine a calf that looks menacing and also has wings. But if you wanna click the thing, shownotes.page, the Bristol Zoo, put the photo out, and now they're like, what is this? Hey everyone, take a look, help out a zoo, would ya?
08:33
identify this mysterious thing. In the article we linked to, they do mention the Loch Ness Monster as well. Not like they captured an image of the Loch Ness Monster, but they're like, move over, Loch Ness Monster. Our zoo has something weird going on. It's gotta be just a trick of the camera angle or something, but anyway, to be continued. Last week we were preparing our Halloween episode, so we didn't have this one on. We're trying to catch up on some of the stories that occurred while we were...
09:02
knee deep in Halloween stuff. This is the one that made headlines all over the world. The New Zealand airport that has a three minute time limit for goodbyes. Now there is a three minute, like they have a clock and once you start hugging someone goodbye in the drop off zone, the clock starts counting down from three minutes. No, that part I just made up you guys, that part's not true, but they did make all around the world, the press picked up how now there's a three minute time limit to say goodbye in the airport in New Zealand.
09:31
It's just to avoid congestion. You know, there are a lot of people saying goodbye. Lengthy hugs cause congestion. And so in the drop off zone now, you've got a three minute goodbye time limit. I hope nobody pushes this one. You know, if they if people don't adhere to the three minutes, they'll be forced to escalate and you'll be taken to airport jail. You go three and a half minutes with your hug. You're going to jail. They're seizing your passport. That's now I'm speculating, but I imagine that is phase two.
10:01
Next we have that dog walking world record. This one seems mind-boggling. That story next.
10:18
This is What a Weird Week. It's a show about the weird news that happened this week. Four. Mitchell Rudy, who is a Canadian, you know, our show originates in Canada, so listen, I'm gonna level with you. Proud of Mitchell, who set a Guinness World Record and made headlines by walking 38 dogs on a leash for over half a mile. 38 dogs at one time. New world record. The old record was 36. Mitchell used the opportunity to promote
10:48
Dog adoption. Dog adoption. And that's about the whole story. How do you, what's your technique in walking 38 dogs at once? Stay focused. And you have to have a scoop team. I would imagine, right, if you're gonna do this 38 dogs at once, there is a team of scoopers behind you. If you'd like to see photos and stuff, we have a link, click shownotes.page. Three. You know the folks at Werther's Originals, maybe not personally, like perhaps you do, Elden. He's a good fellow and,
11:18
Also, Charisse, she does great work. I'm just kidding. What I meant to say was, are you familiar with Werther's Original toffees, caramels, however you think of them in your brain, delicious candy, Werther's Original candies? Those things are delicious. And now the folks behind those candies have issued a limited edition pair of pants with 30 tiny pockets to hold your candies. Tiny pocket pants, 30 tiny pockets, candy pants.
11:47
They've issued candy pants. This was all a publicity or, you know, a means to get attention for the brand. An opportunity to play a contest and win some Werther's candy pants. That's not their official name, by the way. Werther's Original Pocket Denim. This one is one of the stories that came out while we were prepping the Halloween episodes. So we're a little bit late on this one. But if you want to do a deep dive into what exactly are candy pants.
12:15
And where do they put all the pockets for your candies? Are they all in one straight line down the front? Well, I don't want to spoil it. You could click the thing we have a link in the show notes or go shownotes.page. Up next, we have a follow up to a story that we've been tracking, the Iron Chestnuts Debacle.
12:43
This is What A Weird Week. We catch you up on all the weird news that's been happening. Honorable mention, mention or follow up, follow up, follow up. This is a follow up to a story we've been tracking. The King of the Conkers has been cleared of cheating. The Conkers Contest, the World Conkers Championship. This is the thing where they smash chestnuts, chestnuts on a string.
13:08
and they just get to smashin' until somebody is crowned the king and queen of the Conqueror's Game. It's for charity, you know, they raise money for charity. Gets in the press every year because... I don't know. People love chestnuts? Not sure. Get back to you on that one, but... Anyway, the scandal was the fellow who won this year. I mean, you're supposed to use your average chestnut. No monkey business. And then somebody was like, oh, that...
13:36
That fella, 82 years old, the fella who won Dave, he's got metal chestnuts! And he did have some sort of decoration, decorative chestnut curiosity piece, you know, like a something you'd see on a knick-knack shelf. He was not using them for competition, and he has been cleared of all wrongdoing. Congratulations, Dave, King Dave, King of the Conquers! List two. Number two, the lady from Bangladesh.
14:03
who set a Guinness World Record for eating 37 grains of rice in a minute. First you gotta eat them one at a time. And you gotta use chopsticks. This is another one of the stories we meant to cover sooner, but we took a break from regular coverage to do our Halloween episode. So this one slipped through, like a grain of rice slipping through the tines of a fork. Or some other simile. Anyway, you just have to be patient, steady-handed, I guess have a bit of an appetite.
14:32
37 grains of rice and you have a minute to consume those. The lady beat the old record of 27 with her new 37 grains of rice world record. Maybe this is a record you want to try to beat this weekend. You can click the show notes or go show notes dot page. I will give you this pro tip. If you're going for the world record of eating a single grain of rice like rice one at a time for a minute using chopsticks, here's the pro tip.
15:01
Don't get good rice. Delicious fried rice from your favorite restaurant. You start eating that one grain at a time and pretty soon you're gonna crack and you're just gonna start shoveling that rice in because it's so delicious. So semi-gross rice. That's my suggestion. Honorable mention, mention. This one's terrible news, everyone. Standing desks from our friends at Study Finds. Standing desks.
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are not as healthy as everybody led you to believe. According to the research, 83,000 participants took part in a study. We all thought this, right? Everybody thought sitting down, that's terrible. That's the new smoking or whatever. So let's all stand up at our desks. And now the research is coming back that there are problems with that as well. Why don't I just stop there? I mean, you can do a deep dive into it all. Click the show notes. Might I suggest
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The kneeling desk would be the next craze. Let's all invest in kneeling desks, you guys. We'll be rich. We went from sitting to standing. Somebody's gonna come up with the idea of, well, maybe somewhere in the middle. How about a kneeling desk? You know what we should have here is anytime we do bad news, we should have a happy, lighthearted, bad news song. I mean, if you just invested in a standing desk and now you're hearing this, you're like, what the?
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So our number one, it's a bit saucy. Our number one story is coming up. Now please enjoy this lighthearted, terrible news song.
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Terrible news from me and you Terrible, terrible news We got terrible news Hey, hey, we got terrible news Yeah, yeah We got terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible news
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listening to the What a Weird Week Show. Weird news, baby. One. Number one is a bit saucy, so earmuffs kids. Kids put on the earmuffs. All right, number one from Melbourne? Melbourne? How would you say it, you guys? Australia, Mell-town, Australia, where the train stations were shut down and this made headlines. There was a flood. There was the concert, the Olivia Rodrigo concert, and the fans after the concert.
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going to catch the train and a couple of the fans were feeling passionate about one another. You know, love happening. And so anyway, this couple were in a stairwell at the train station and through their various amorous activities, they dislodged a sprinkler and caused a minor flood. The trains were delayed and it all was because of love. The Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, made headlines when
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They announced that the police were investigating the matter and also advised people to find more appropriate locations for amorous activities. There was surveillance camera footage, you guys. First, they didn't know what happened. They thought maybe vandalism, but it was love. And that's a wrap on this episode of What a Weird Week. Thank you for listening. You can get all our social media or find out more about the podcast and that if you click shownotes.page.
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