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What a Weird Week Fri Mar 22, 2024: Weird News Catchups are Fun!

from What a Weird Week · host Scotty Horsman

(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 12 first published on Friday March 22 2024 ❿ There's a company based in Toronto, Canada that analyzes Dog DNA And they made news this week after an investigative News team at WBZ Boston sent in DNA from their reporter, Christina. ❾ One of the all-time great Combinations Of Our Generation Is pizza and beer. You've got Fred and Barney. You've got Laverne and Shirley. You've got Procter and Gamble. And then pizza and beer. This week that combination was in the news because The New Belgium Brewing Company Teamed up with Tombstone frozen pizzas To create A pizza beer ❽ A mysterious creature was in the news this week, found in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, East Coast, Canada. ❼ Follow up to a story we talked about In an earlier episode What a Weird Week. It's official, the underwear on the head world record Has been set. ❻ The headline from The mirror in the United Kingdom is "I named my baby after my internet provider so I could get 18 years free Wi-Fi." ❺ This one's scary and involves a haunted lake. ❹ The headline from Jen Mills at metro dot co dot uk: "Man finds jacked up grasshopper in fridge after shopping in Aldi." ❸ New study indicates that listening to Ariana Grande and Drake, also Eminem in your car can make you a better/safer driver!? Billy Eilish is mentioned in the study too... & Beyonce. ❷ from the Seattle Times an article about a burglary ring. They call it a burglary tourist ring... where people fly in from other countries to rob you and then they fly home again. 🍅 Honorable mention: From Science Daily. The headline is "New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter." Which is a bit of a game-changer. ❶ Study from Concordia University in Montreal indicates that cranberries might make you bionic... or at least help you athletes. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see ⁠www.shownotes.page⁠

(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 12 first published on Friday March 22 2024 ❿ There's a company based in Toronto, Canada that analyzes Dog DNA And they made news this week after an investigative News team at WBZ Boston sent in DNA from their reporter, Christina. ❾ One of the all-time great Combinations Of Our Generation Is pizza and beer. You've got Fred and Barney. You've got Laverne and Shirley. You've got Procter and Gamble. And then pizza and beer. This week that combination was in the news because The New Belgium Brewing Company Teamed up with Tombstone frozen pizzas To create A pizza beer ❽ A mysterious creature was in the news this week, found in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, East Coast, Canada. ❼ Follow up to a story we talked about In an earlier episode What a Weird Week. It's official, the underwear on the head world record Has been set. ❻ The headline from The mirror in the United Kingdom is "I named my baby after my internet provider so I could get 18 years free Wi-Fi." ❺ This one's scary and involves a haunted lake. ❹ The headline from Jen Mills at metro dot co dot uk: "Man finds jacked up grasshopper in fridge after shopping in Aldi." ❸ New study indicates that listening to Ariana Grande and Drake, also Eminem in your car can make you a better/safer driver!? Billy Eilish is mentioned in the study too... & Beyonce. ❷ from the Seattle Times an article about a burglary ring. They call it a burglary tourist ring... where people fly in from other countries to rob you and then they fly home again. 🍅 Honorable mention: From Science Daily. The headline is "New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter." Which is a bit of a game-changer. ❶ Study from Concordia University in Montreal indicates that cranberries might make you bionic... or at least help you athletes. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see ⁠www.shownotes.page⁠

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