What a Weird Week, a Weird News roundup ! Fri May 22 2026: New Bugs and Bag Frogs

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird news and interesting stuff that happened this week. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other/ see www.shownotes.page. Thanks for rating and reviewing along with subscribing!These are the shownotes for Season 7, Ep 21 first published May 22, 2026.10 new discoveries from the world of bugshttps://www.popsci.com/environment/new-beetles-china/ 9 also meet the newly-discovered smiley face spider https://www.popsci.com/environment/himalayan-happy-face-spider/ 8 solving the problem of eating utensils that don't light up, it's  glow in the dark chopsticks https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lunaris 7 McDonald's pickle juice https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mcdonalds-nz 6 eating grapes might do what now? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517211427.htm 5 simple ancient exercise seems to be like medicine https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510234724.htm 4 bag frog https://apnews.com/article/australia-frog-lettuce-salad-esperance-4134acf75e814dedd7789c1423c26ab1 3 kid finds ancient sword while on class trip, world reacts https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/clyp37py7mqo 2 teen allegedly steals bus for third time, possibly is very good driverhttps://www.oddee.com/14-year-old-goes-on-a-joyride-in-a-stolen-bus-for-the-third-time-in-six-months-78704/Bonus yoyo dieting research seems to show it aint all bad https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515233331.htmBonus: the pain of putting ice on an injury https://studyfinds.com/icing-injury-pain/ 1 famous tv car gets impossible speeding tickethttps://apnews.com/article/knight-rider-car-speeding-ticket-new-york-24d37fa3e975363d8bcef5bbbb7bf089