(this is a transcript of the podcast) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where you can get caught up on the weird news of the week. For a transcript, or shownotes or to subscribe to the podcast see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 07 first published on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 ... ❿ From NBC 9 News... Two high school kids in Colorado have received scholarships to play Division One Cornhole for Winthrop University ❾ The Plague/ Cat story was picked up by a lot of news orgs... It's a little scary at first. And also weird... a person in Oregon who is infected with bubonic plague ❽ the story about the very old wombat. It's cool and weird... weird and cool. I mean wombats, right you guys? The Guinness World Records folks have acknowledged this 34 year old wombat at a zoo in Japan, who is the oldest wombat in the world!! ❼ This past week we had Shrove Tuesday/ Pancake Tuesday and folks in a place named Liberal, Kansas really lean into Pancake Day... ❻ This one was all over the place on the late-night shows and every news network picked up the story of the stingray that is somehow pregnant. The stingray is in a tank with only sharks. ❺ So there's a piece of music that, from beginning to end, will take 639 years to complete. The song or piece of music is set to be over in the year 2640. ❹ A wonderful tale of redemption this week... a followup to story that we talked about last week. re the fellow who made the Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks... ❸ Another follow-up... in an episode a lil while ago we mentioned about Sir Winston Churchill's false teeth... that they were going on auction... ❷ A new study is in the news about emojis and how men cannot understand emojis as well as women... the researchers have a theory on this... 🍅 Sort of a bittersweet Honorable Mention... this week we lost someone who brought joy to so many... ❶ Meat rice is in the news. It is exactly what it sounds like. ... that's this week's What a Weird Week program. For Shownotes and more go to ShowNotes Dot Page or search "What a Weird Week" wherever you get podcasts. Thanks to you folks who tune in to this show via Fun House Radio. Ask your smart speaker to play Fun House Radio or see the link on our Shownotes Page. See you next week for another countdown of weird news!!
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