What a Weird Week 10 May 2024: Spiders and Hula Hoops!

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week.  https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (BEGIN  EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) Cuddling cows and backwards tornadoes. What a weird week. Hi friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on all the weird things that happened in the news the past week. You can get show notes and a transcript and all that jazz... go to show notes dot page. Here we go. Season five episode can't remember for Friday, May the 10th. Mother's Day weekend, you guys.  *see www.shownotes.page! This is actually Season 5, Episode 19 first published on Friday May 10th, 2024 ... ❿ Look, we've all been through some sort of pandemic situation, right? And then you hear about this bird flu in the news. It's not fun. It's not funny, but it is weird. As a matter of fact, it's stressful and all you want to do is cuddle a cow when you hear about the bird flu outbreak. And in a sad irony.Our lead story this week from Sky News is how bird flu, as it infects cows, is cutting into the lucrative cow cuddling market. People pay money and cuddle cows. I didn't know that, but they call it, Sky News calls it a US craze. Our friends in the United States of America, is it a craze? A cow cuddling craze? And now, you know, instead of getting therapeutic comfort from cows, officials are urging farmers to limit outside visitors.So you're stressed about the headline and then you can't even cuddle the cow and you get more stressed and it is a vicious circle. I'm sorry you guys, this one is not a light story. I try to keep it light but let's keep it down to one bird flu story per week. How about that? https://news.sky.com/story/bird-flu-outbreak-could-threaten-us-cow-cuddling-craze-13128725 ❾ Headline from Smithsonian Mag. Rare tornado spinning the wrong direction forms over Oklahoma. Another serious story. But weird. First of all, I didn't know see where I live.We get one tornado every 10 years, maybe. I don't know, estimating. So I don't know from tornadoes. Maybe The Wizard of Oz. There, that's... That is the only primer I've had on tornadoes. The Wizard of Oz. And apparently, that movie isn't factual. I never even thought about tornadoes spinning one direction all the time. Of course they spin one direction all the time. Well, no. They recorded in Oklahoma this anti-cyclonic tornado spinning the wrong way.unusual tornado action in Oklahoma. The National Weather Service describes it in the article, for a while was nearly stationary. That also would be freaky. I feel like even if you lived in tornado alley and you saw a tornado spinning the wrong way, standing still, that's pretty freaky. Side note, should we change the name of this show to, what a freaky week? Or just freaky week, it has a ring to it. Let me just double check, freakyweek.org. Oh wait, no, don't, don't click that.God bless you folks in Oklahoma. They say this particular tornado episode did property damage, but no injuries were reported. I'll put a link in the show notes, ways you can help folks impacted by tornadoes. Hang on, next, not as serious a story. Well, it involves a serious amount of money, I guess. $14,000, that's a serious amount. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-tornado-spinning-the-wrong-direction-forms-over-oklahoma-180984298/To offer support in the aftermath of tornadoes see https://www.redcross.org/about-us/our-work/disaster-relief/tornado-relief/midwest-tornadoes.html ❽ So this one is not quite as serious as the first two stories we had this week, but it involves a serious amount of money. And I'm curious to know if you like this one or maybe this story disturbs you. The headline from ABC7, Man snags $14,000 Cartier earrings for $14 after website price glitch.(Character Limit!) For full shownotes see ⁠https://www. ⁠⁠shownotes.page⁠