EPISODE · Jul 14, 2023 · 17 MIN
What a Weird Week Show Friday, July 14, 2023: Ice Swords and Barbenheimer
from What a Weird Week · host Scotty Horsman
Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week, a show where we count down the Weird News of the Week from 10 to 1. Like and subscribe to the podcast! See the shownotes blog and check us out on YouTube. Find everything at www.Shownotes.page This is Season 4, Episode 42 first published on Friday July 14, 2023: ❿ Let's just eat all of the invasive species! Headline from CBC "Invasive crabs are thriving in BC waters... ❾ What is Barbenheimer/ Barbieheimer? In case you missed it, Barbenheimer has its own Wikipedia entry. It is this social media trend that is taking off... ❽ Quick Question: Is the Ice Sword the perfect weapon? ... This amazing ice cream from Japan that looks like a sword. It got some attention this week as the longest ice cream in Japan... ❼ Never Send a Thumbs Up Emoji to Anyone Ever! That's the takeaway lesson. Ever. Never. Just don't use emojis anymore, you guys. Here's the CBC headline: "Texting thumbs up emoji in response to a question costs Saskatchewan farmer $82,000 in contract case." ❻ McDonald's Wedding Package is getting some attention... official wedding package offered by McDonald's in Indonesia... a McDonald's wedding package with 100 chicken burgers, and 100 four piece nuggs... that deal will cost you around $230 US. ❺ The Twenty Slices of Cheese Burger from Burger King Thailand... It has twenty slices of cheese!? like a Whole Package of cheese slices? Mama! ❹ Headline from BBC... police search for screaming woman, find pet parrot. We've had stories like this before on this podcast, a parrot sounds so convincingly like someone in trouble that the police show up. Well the person who owned the parent is a retired police officer himself, he has 22 parrots, ❸ Giant Space Tubes in the News! From the TLDR newsletter which is pretty great, an article about $10 space travel which seems pretty weird... ❷ Survey out of England says Small Talk is really important, so don't screw it up?? - From the Study Finds website: research from University of Warwick seems to indicate that those first impressions we make during small talk has a big impact later on... ❶ Would you take $10,000 to be a toilet paper spokesmodel/ influencer? It's been awhile since we featured one of these publicity stunts... I always say it aint easy being on the toilet paper marketing team trying to come up with a way to get some toilet paper publicity to stand out from the rest... but I don't think I'll be taking part in this contest... did you scroll this far? you're my favorite. see all these stories or get to our youtubes via www.Shownotes.page
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Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week, a show where we count down the Weird News of the Week from 10 to 1. Like and subscribe to the podcast! See the shownotes blog and check us out on YouTube. Find everything at www.Shownotes.page This is Season 4, Episode 42 first published on Friday July 14, 2023: ❿ Let's just eat all of the invasive species! Headline from CBC "Invasive crabs are thriving in BC waters... ❾ What is Barbenheimer/ Barbieheimer? In case you missed it, Barbenheimer has its own Wikipedia entry. It is this social media trend that is taking off... ❽ Quick Question: Is the Ice Sword the perfect weapon? ... This amazing ice cream from Japan that looks like a sword. It got some attention this week as the longest ice cream in Japan... ❼ Never Send a Thumbs Up Emoji to Anyone Ever! That's the takeaway lesson. Ever. Never. Just don't use emojis anymore, you guys. Here's the CBC headline: "Texting thumbs up emoji in response to a question costs Saskatchewan farmer $82,000 in contract case." ❻ McDonald's Wedding Package is getting some attention... official wedding package offered by McDonald's in Indonesia... a McDonald's wedding package with 100 chicken burgers, and 100 four piece nuggs... that deal will cost you around $230 US. ❺ The Twenty Slices of Cheese Burger from Burger King Thailand... It has twenty slices of cheese!? like a Whole Package of cheese slices? Mama! ❹ Headline from BBC... police search for screaming woman, find pet parrot. We've had stories like this before on this podcast, a parrot sounds so convincingly like someone in trouble that the police show up. Well the person who owned the parent is a retired police officer himself, he has 22 parrots, ❸ Giant Space Tubes in the News! From the TLDR newsletter which is pretty great, an article about $10 space travel which seems pretty weird... ❷ Survey out of England says Small Talk is really important, so don't screw it up?? - From the Study Finds website: research from University of Warwick seems to indicate that those first impressions we make during small talk has a big impact later on... ❶ Would you take $10,000 to be a toilet paper spokesmodel/ influencer? It's been awhile since we featured one of these publicity stunts... I always say it aint easy being on the toilet paper marketing team trying to come up with a way to get some toilet paper publicity to stand out from the rest... but I don't think I'll be taking part in this contest... did you scroll this far? you're my favorite. see all these stories or get to our youtubes via www.Shownotes.page
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