What a Weird Week Fri Jun 20 2025: Ten Odd things from the news you might have missed this week

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Scotty
June 20, 2025

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the odd, interesting, strange, fun, and weird news that happened this week. Ten stories in 15 minutes!
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Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a look at the odd, interesting, strange, fun and weird stories that made news this week. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode.  To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other see www.shownotes.page.
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These are the shownotes for Season 6, Ep 25 first published Fri June 20, 2025 
 
 
 

Amusement park bugs might invade your mouth 
 
 
  
Enormous game of red light/ green light sets record 

 
Weird signals from Antarctica still a mystery 

What's the deal with this chicken wandering around the wings restaurant? 
 
Want to eat less? Spice it up. *consult your physician before spicing anything up*  
 

Protesters weaponize crickets 

hot dog boat? HOT DOG BOAT!! 
 
Secret marriage where one half of the couple didn't even know they were married 
 

The void cheque scam you need to know about! 
 
^^^idk what's going on in this pic^^^
 
 
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00:00
It's Friday, June 20th, 2025. And here's what's coming up on What a Weird Week. Getting cutesy with the chair. And, am I gonna sit in the chair? Should I sit in the chair? Ooh, it's a valuable chair. Look at me sitting in the chair. Weight loss hack. Consult your physician before you embark on any weight loss journey or any journey. Or before you get out of bed in the morning. Consult your physician. Hi, everybody, it's Weird. This is like crazy beam healing. Whee!

00:24
Really weird. Big foot deep out of my trash. Well, got a great joke for you. It was so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends, I am Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show where we look at the weird, the odd, the fun, the interesting stories from this week's news. We do 10 stories in about 15 minutes and you can get everything we talk about in more detail or get in touch or get the podcast info. Go to show notes dot page, show notes dot page. We're in the garage today.

00:53
It's a bit of a heat wave where I'm at  and the garage seemed to be the best place to do this. Let's go.

01:05
Number 10, just a fun, a nice one, a world record where a fellow from Trinidad and Tobago played these steel drums for 31 consecutive hours and that is a world record.

01:25
longest marathon playing of steel pan or steel drums 31 hours. Joshua, the musician, initially wanted to play for 30 hours. And then somebody was like, oh, we accidentally set the timer to count down from 31 hours. And Joshua was like, well, let's do it. I've got the adrenaline pumping. I'm on a roll. That's me paraphrasing, but I believe capturing the energy. so congratulations, Joshua, the world record for longest marathon playing

01:55
of steel drums. Number nine. Okay. Number nine. It's getting pretty hot in the garage. have to say our garage broadcast, maybe not such a great idea. Number nine is a story that might make you angry.  I don't understand art. I'm not sophisticated, but I watched this surveillance video and I was like, Ooh, anger, anger rising. So it's the story of the museum in Italy where they have a chair on display. It's a, not a real chair. It's a work of art.

02:22
a crystal covered chair inspired by Vincent van Gogh and they released security footage this week of a couple who waited until staff left the room where the chair was, the museum. And then this couple started getting photos with the chair and getting cutesy with the chair and, am I going to sit in the chair? Should I sit in the chair? Oh, it's a valuable chair. Look at me sitting in the chair. And so they broke the chair of the fellow when he sat in the chair, it broke and they took off and their identity still unknown.

02:50
It happened in April, but the museum  made headlines this week because they released the footage and they were like, just a reminder, this is how not to behave at a museum.  So that was one of the things. But then they also took the opportunity to thank people who don't destroy art. They were like to the many of you who have come through the museum enjoying the art and not destroying it. Thank you. So if you want to see the surveillance footage,  we'll link to that. Again, it might make you angry because

03:20
It was flagrant  and then they didn't fess up to it. They destroyed the thing by being cutesy or whatever. And then they just took off. I don't know. That's not right. I'm angry again. Go to show notes that page if you want to watch that.  Number eight is the over tourism  and  ways to deal with it. Spanish locals shooting tourists with water pistols in Barcelona. That's one of the stories we link to. But you hear this. It's a buzzword now over tourism where a lot of famous places

03:50
tourists come in, the price of everything goes up,  it's crowded and it's frustrating as a local. So  one of the ways to get a modest amount of vengeance, shoot the tourists with water pistols. That's what they're doing in Barcelona.  I'm not 100 % sure that's legal. I'm not 100 % sure you would not get in trouble for shooting tourists with water pistols. I'm not weighing in on whether over tourism is good or bad.

04:20
where I live it is not a problem. have a zoo with a clam and I think a squirrel, but the squirrel is on the outside of the fence. Anyway, it's not a, can't really relate, but I'm just, we'll link to the story, the over tourism story. Go to shownotes.page. Number seven is the amusement park Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, United States of America. They made headlines because they issued a warning to their patrons.

04:47
Have fun, but keep your mouth closed while you're doing the rides because cicadas.  A lot of bugs.  And as you enjoy the rides, you want to smile and laugh. But  if your mouth is open, you might end up with a mouth full of cicadas. That's kind of the whole story. I highly recommend closing your mouth because we had walked by people when we got off the ride who said that they caught a couple. Yeah, why don't we stop there on that one? Click the show notes if you want more details. Show notes dot page. There's a lot of tick tocks.

05:15
featuring those cicadas. six is a nice story about a number of students and first responders and all centered around physical fitness and education about, you know, being healthy, a healthy lifestyle. So in California, 1400 and some people got together and they played red light, green light and set a new world record for the biggest game, the biggest gathering of people playing red light, green light. That's the whole story. It's not that unusual, not that weird.

05:45
It's not  swallowing cicadas on a roller coaster, but  a nice uplifting story. Congratulations to everyone involved in that world record.  Okay, we have a good mystery, bona fide good mystery on our hands. And number five, this is about mysterious radio signals under the ice in Antarctica. And this is not from a tabloid. This is from a real science,  like I'll link to all of this real science website. There are balloons over Antarctica collecting data.

06:13
They have antenna on the antenna, however you say it. And they start picking up these strange radio signals from under the ice.  And  the researchers say what is happening defies the laws of physics. They're trying to crunch the numbers. The data was collected a while ago and they're trying to figure out what exactly it all means because the radio signals would have to travel through like 6,000 miles of solid rock, something like that. Shouldn't be possible.

06:41
but some strange radio signals are coming from under the ice Antarctica. And that's where we're at right now. It's still a mystery. If you want to do a deep dive on this one, read all the stuff. We'll link to it if you click shownotes.page. Number four. Number four. We want to send a shout out to the Animal Rescue League of Iowa. Thank you for what you do. They shared on their social media how they were called out to a Buffalo Wild Wings location to wrangle a live chicken. One of the  quotes is,

07:11
What the cluck? Like, no, it's not like the Buffalo Wild Wings location took a shipment of live chickens. It just happened to be a chicken at the wings place. And that's kind of the mystery of it. And it's sort of elegant, you know, the headline kind of says the whole thing and the mystery lingers and what the cluck.  three is a weight loss hack. So I got to say, consult your physician, your dietician, your trusted, uh,

07:39
spiritual leaders before you embark on any weight loss journey or any journey or before you get out of bed in the morning, consult your physician  every morning. This is a hack they say and  it's based on a study and we link to all of this in the show notes. Adding hot peppers to meals can reduce food intake by up to 18 percent. So  I could stand to lose a few pounds. Personally, this one interested me.  Perhaps you want to read the whole thing.

08:08
I'm going to stop there on it, but I will put all the details in the show notes. If you wanted to reduce food intake, this might be something to look into.  Show notes dot page for more. Number two is a funny protest, an unusual protest for sure. I've never heard of this one, but I don't know. I don't want to weigh in on the politics of  why they were protesting the Mecklenburg County Commission meeting in North Carolina, United States of America. Like I'm here in the East Coast of Canada trying to mind mow beeswax.

08:37
So I don't really, I'm not sure the nuances of the protest, but this is what they did. The protesters allegedly  released a whole bunch of crickets into the county commission meeting. So they had to stop the meeting and somebody had to get a vacuum cleaner and vacuum up all these crickets. That  was the protest. I've never heard of that one before. headline,  Ohio man builds hot dog boat and set sail on Lake Erie. That is.

09:03
A bonus headline this week. We've made it to Lake Erie on the wiener boat. I'm going to head out to Kelly's Island, see how far I can get. A fun video to watch. A fellow, calls it a wiener boat. It's a speedboat that looks like a hot dog in a bun. Hot dog only has mustard. I know maybe you're passionate about what goes on the hot dog and what's officially good on a hot dog. Well, this is a wiener with mustard and the fellow is sitting in the bun about mid bun. He is on Lake Erie just racing around in his wiener boat.

09:59
So now he's going to, you know, he has to get everything reversed and all that go through all of that rigmarole. This happened in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America, where the police chief says, I've never  seen anything like this before in my career, where somebody could get married to another person, even though the other person wasn't present for the ceremony. The lady charges happened late. mentioned  one of them is felony stalking charges. So this is to be continued. If you want to read the whole story, we'll link to it.

10:28
click show notes dot page.  Number one is the scam you need to know about.  Maybe you wouldn't fall for this. Maybe somebody you know needs to know about the scam. They made headlines because a family lost $100,000. This is a family run soda company in Connecticut that made headlines because someone in that family lost $100,000. Here's how it goes. They were told they want a bunch of money from publishers clearing house, like $5 million and

10:57
send us a void check, just write void on a check, send us that, don't forget to write void, because we don't want your check, we just want a void check, write void on it, send it to us, we'll arrange to get you your money. But then that void written on the check got changed into a name, Viola Smith. So they took the word void, carefully crafted it into Viola Smith, and Viola Smith cashed that check, that family lost $100,000. That's the scam.

11:26
Don't fall for it. Spread the word.  We'll stop there  and I thank you for listening to our garage broadcast of What a Weird Week. If you want to get in touch  or find out anything about the podcast or get all the show notes, go to shownotes.page.  We'll catch you next week with more weird stuff  and fun stories from the news on What a Weird Week.


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