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Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. It's Friday, August 22nd 2025 and I am on a special assignment at a huge concert festival in the town where I live. So this week is a rebroadcast of our show from a year ago. How many of these do you remember? The incredible tattoo story? The bison mystery that finally got solved? What about this first one involving museum nudity?
Here comes the shownotes from Season 5, Ep 35 first published on Friday Aug 30, 2024.
Here comes the shownotes from Season 5, Ep 35 first published on Friday Aug 30, 2024.
❿ French museum invites visitors to view its naturism exhibit in the nude
❾ Red pepper spill on California highway leads to bee rescue
❽ Museum invites back 4-year-old who broke 3,500-year-old jar
❼ World's oldest cognac from 1696 confirmed in Netherlands
❻ Rescued "Injured" Bald Eagle in Missouri Was "Too Fat to Fly" After Enormous Feast
❺ Riders stranded 243 feet up on Six Flags attraction during storm
❹ Man builds 54-level house of cards in 8 hours
❸ Connecticut woman sets world records for most tattoos and body modifications. 99.98% coverage.
❷ Three escaped bison return to Connecticut farm, bringing a newborn baby
🍅 North Carolina eateries engage in a light-hearted "sign war" that involves dozens of businesses
❶ Moving Box Table: A Unique Solution for Moving Day Pizza
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00:00
Remember these stories from last year? The museum nudity, the fat eagle, the pizza box revolution. What a weird week. Hi, everybody. This is like crazy. Really weird. Big foot out of my trash. I got a great joke for you. Name is so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends. I'm Scott. This is what a weird week where we go back into the news of the week and we picked out the odd, the interesting, the fun stories. We count down 10 stories.
00:27
in about 15 minutes and you can get more details on the stories we talk about or more details on our podcast. If you click show notes dot page, show notes dot page. Today's Friday, August 22nd, 2025. And I am on special assignment at a huge concert festival in the town where I live. So this week, a rebroadcast of our show from a year ago. And how many of these do you remember? The incredible tattoo story, the bison mystery that finally got solved. What about this first one?
00:57
Involving museum nudity. Let's get into it. Number 10 a French museum the Marseille Museum of European and Mediterranean civilizations now has a naturist Paradises exhibit where you're invited to come by perhaps if you're a naturist yourself Enjoy the paintings the sculptures, you know the photo collages, but also disrobe It looks like it's 11 bucks or 11 euros to get in
01:25
They also have a special deal for families. You have to pay even if you're one of the nude people, which I would assume then you're sort of part of the exhibit, but even then you still have to pay to get in. So I don't know how that works. There are other places where they would pay you. I don't understand art and all that, so let's just move on. Bees, and I know what you're thinking. Not the bees. Oh, no, not the bees! Not the bees! Oh, yes.
01:55
This happened on a California highway where a tractor trailer went off the road and lost its load. It was carrying delicious red peppers and so you got squishy red peppers all over the highway there for a bit and shout out to the crews who respond to the accident and get traffic rolling again and keeping people safe. The tractor trailer could have hit any number of things. It hit one sign and that roadside sign had an enormous beehive. So you've got
02:24
delicious red fragrant, know, red peppers all over the highway and then you have to call in the bee expert because it was a lot of bees. No injuries reported on this one. Stay tuned to the end of the program for our red pepper and bee carnage song. Up next, a story about a young fellow who breaks a jar. The jar is 3,500 years old. It was a museum piece.
02:52
And you won't believe what happened next. I'm just kidding. You probably will believe what happened next. You're listening to the What a Weird Week show. We're about weird news. The four-year-old boy breaks old thing in museum story. This happened in Israel. The jar that the four-year-old boy broke was 3,500 years old. It was deemed an accident. Four-year-old did not plot to destroy this artifact. It was an accident.
03:22
Just for reference, 3500, I'm not a real history guy there, but this jar was from before the time of King Solomon or King David. This jar was out. It wasn't in a display case or whatever. So it was asking to be destroyed, wasn't it? This one has a happy ending though. The museum said, oh, we can fix that jar. mean, hello, Gorilla Glue. Not sponsored, but that stuff is pretty awesome. Then the museum.
03:49
invited the four-year-old boy and his family back for a tour. So I'm not saying the takeaway is destroy things in a museum, but they got a free tour. Seven. A very old bottle of booze at number seven, the world's oldest cognac. It's 328 years old. It belongs to a collector in the Netherlands. Now it is a Guinness World Record holder. It's from the year 1696. The accompanying photo will link to this. It's a
04:18
Fancy fancy, but I mean it's too fancy for me Exceedingly fancy before this record the last old bottle of cognac that sold at auction hundred around a hundred and fifty thousand dollars So it's worth a lot of money Wouldn't it if you're a collector of booze though, wouldn't it call out to you some late night in a moment of weakness? You're like, I wonder I wonder if this stuff is any good. Let's get out some red solo cups
04:45
Six. This is a story about a majestic bald eagle. I don't know if they have them where you are, but where I am, we see them all the time. They are a wonderful, magnificent bird and they represent pride and they are a symbol, right? So I want to tread lightly here, but we're going to talk about the bald eagle that made news for being too fat. Oh, also I should say I'm constantly on a diet and losing that battle.
05:15
So I feel like I can weigh in on on this one as far as being too fat. No ill will intended here. A bald eagle in Missouri made headlines because people rescued it, thought it was injured in some way and it was nursed back to health. Kind of. It wasn't really injured. It was just too fat to fly. Have you ever heard of a bald eagle being too fat to fly? Me neither.
05:42
So the article says the bald eagle underwent rehabilitation, but is that what we're calling it now when you go on a diet? Because I am currently undergoing rehabilitation myself. If you would like to see photos, you can click show notes dot page. I feel like they should have at this national park in Missouri, they should have a name the eagle contest. I think some of the entries might be hilarious. The majestic bald eagle.
06:10
We call him Chunk. It's a funny story. Number five is about that ride that shut down in Mexico, the Six Flags Mexico Amusement Park, the Supergirl Super Fun Ride. That's not really the name of it. I can't remember. Let's just call it the Supergirl Super Fun Ride. It shut down.
06:29
and the people on the ride are 243 feet in the air hanging there. It's kind of scary. New video of riders stuck nearly 250 feet above the ground during a storm at Six Flags Mexico. This happened last Sunday. People were dangling there for about 10 minutes. People were eventually evacuated after the storm got worse. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Here's a thought. You get down off that ride, you're up on a ride that's 243 feet in the air.
06:57
You want the thrills and chills, right? You paid money to go through that. You get down on the ground, I'm charging you extra. Because you got more thrills and chills than you paid for. Sorry, that's gonna be an extra five bucks. Number four is the trained architect named Brian who made headlines by getting in the Guinness Book of World Records for making a house of cards.
07:21
54 levels high. That's a lot of you've got to be focused. You've got to have a steady hand. You've got to have a lot of cards. The record is tallest house of cards in eight hours. So if you wanted to break this record this weekend, let's go, let's get it. Let's get some cards. Let's set aside eight hours. Phone off the hook. What's that? Oh, you don't have a phone with a hook. Oh, those aren't a thing anymore. Well, great. One less distraction. Let's go. Let's make a tall, tall house of cards.
07:50
Eight hours. Okay, close the window. There's a bit of a breeze. Three. This one is the lady who set the Guinness World Record for most body mods and most tattoos. Meet Esperance Lumenesca-Fuerzina, a woman from Connecticut. Esperance is 36 years old and is 99.98 % tattooed. 99.98 % covered in tattoos and.
08:14
She also has 89 body modifications. To be the most tattooed woman in the world feels incredibly exciting. I never thought I'd have this honor and I'm very grateful and excited for the future. If you want to see the video, we'll link to that in the show notes. This one seemed very mysterious to me at first because I'm a bit slow on the uptake. The headline is this is from Ben Hoops Hooper over at UPI. He's the weird news guru and his headline was three bison escape from Connecticut farm.
08:43
Four bison returned. What? The bison made a run for it. They actually made headlines when they knocked over a fence on a Sunday, took off. That made headlines. You know, that's kind of exciting. Bison roaming free in Connecticut. But then on Tuesday night, those bison returned with a baby bison. They had escaped. Mama bison had a baby. And then four bison returned home.
09:10
And it looks like they're gearing up to have some sort of name the baby bison contest at this farm. Honorable mention. This week an honorable mention to the businesses involved in the sign war, the famed sign war of North Carolina. There was a bar and grill in Morehead City who had a sign that said happy birthday, Jeff. The birthday was on the sign for about a month, give or take. So then a place to eat called Dank Borito.
09:39
put on their sign something referencing, hey, changed the sign already, kind of, that's me paraphrasing. Then, the first place responded by saying, hey, dank burrito, we're not lazy, we're just busier than you. So they're in this war and then Prime Bistro puts on their sign, boys, do we need to have a meeting? Except meat was spelled like, you know, delicious meat. Then EJW Outdoors on their sign put, guys, do we need to?
10:08
Taco bout it? Taco, get it? They say about 70 businesses have chimed in on the sign war. We'll put a link in the show notes. That is honorable mention worthy, well done businesses of North Carolina. Our number one story is next.
10:32
you
10:40
you
10:51
We count down 10 of the weird news stories of the week. This is what a weird week. Number one is not sponsored, but it does involve a major pizza restaurant. It's Pizza Hunt and their publicity stunt or promotional idea. However you refer to these things, I always say props and respect to the hardworking promotional team trying to cut through the noise, especially in the pizza world where there are a number of competitors.
11:19
vying for your pizza dollars. Pizza Hut has made available a pizza box in certain markets where people are moving a lot. I had read a statistic before that August is the month that more people move than any other month of the year. And so Pizza Hut has this pizza box in certain markets where people are moving a lot according to their data and the pizza box folds into a table so you don't need furniture. You're moving whatever. You've got an empty room.
11:48
Well, you can order from Pizza Hut and the box folds into a table. It is called the moving box table from Pizza Hut. I hope this catches on and the pizza box industry does a lot more with pizza boxes. You want a table, you want a chair, pizza box recliner. When it's all over and you're filled with pizza and now you're sleepy, you can just kick back on your pizza box futon maybe. I don't know. These are good ideas though.
12:16
Hey, that's that back again next Friday with 10 more weird stories from the news. Thank you for listening to what a weird week you can get everything we talk about. You go to show notes dot page.
12:36
Rolling on down that old highway My rig is named Red Pepper Express I lost control and lost my load It was a squishy peppermint I was sliding towards that highway sign The sign was full of bees But the swarm stayed calm Thank the Lord, cause I
13:04
Red pepper carnage with a side of bees. Red pepper carnage. No more bees, please. No more bees. No more bees. No more bees, please.
13:46
This is the extended mix with new lines for your ears. It makes up for the fact that this is a repeat from last year. We're back next week with all new stuff that's weird and cool and fun. Take good care, please like and share. See you in the next one.
14:20
Red pepper carnage with a side of beef
14:28
Pepper Carnot
14:32
more bees, No more bees, no more bees No more bees, please
14:46
you
15:09
No more bees, please No more bees, no more bees No more bees,
15:25
you
Remember these stories from last year? The museum nudity, the fat eagle, the pizza box revolution. What a weird week. Hi, everybody. This is like crazy. Really weird. Big foot out of my trash. I got a great joke for you. Name is so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi friends. I'm Scott. This is what a weird week where we go back into the news of the week and we picked out the odd, the interesting, the fun stories. We count down 10 stories.
00:27
in about 15 minutes and you can get more details on the stories we talk about or more details on our podcast. If you click show notes dot page, show notes dot page. Today's Friday, August 22nd, 2025. And I am on special assignment at a huge concert festival in the town where I live. So this week, a rebroadcast of our show from a year ago. And how many of these do you remember? The incredible tattoo story, the bison mystery that finally got solved. What about this first one?
00:57
Involving museum nudity. Let's get into it. Number 10 a French museum the Marseille Museum of European and Mediterranean civilizations now has a naturist Paradises exhibit where you're invited to come by perhaps if you're a naturist yourself Enjoy the paintings the sculptures, you know the photo collages, but also disrobe It looks like it's 11 bucks or 11 euros to get in
01:25
They also have a special deal for families. You have to pay even if you're one of the nude people, which I would assume then you're sort of part of the exhibit, but even then you still have to pay to get in. So I don't know how that works. There are other places where they would pay you. I don't understand art and all that, so let's just move on. Bees, and I know what you're thinking. Not the bees. Oh, no, not the bees! Not the bees! Oh, yes.
01:55
This happened on a California highway where a tractor trailer went off the road and lost its load. It was carrying delicious red peppers and so you got squishy red peppers all over the highway there for a bit and shout out to the crews who respond to the accident and get traffic rolling again and keeping people safe. The tractor trailer could have hit any number of things. It hit one sign and that roadside sign had an enormous beehive. So you've got
02:24
delicious red fragrant, know, red peppers all over the highway and then you have to call in the bee expert because it was a lot of bees. No injuries reported on this one. Stay tuned to the end of the program for our red pepper and bee carnage song. Up next, a story about a young fellow who breaks a jar. The jar is 3,500 years old. It was a museum piece.
02:52
And you won't believe what happened next. I'm just kidding. You probably will believe what happened next. You're listening to the What a Weird Week show. We're about weird news. The four-year-old boy breaks old thing in museum story. This happened in Israel. The jar that the four-year-old boy broke was 3,500 years old. It was deemed an accident. Four-year-old did not plot to destroy this artifact. It was an accident.
03:22
Just for reference, 3500, I'm not a real history guy there, but this jar was from before the time of King Solomon or King David. This jar was out. It wasn't in a display case or whatever. So it was asking to be destroyed, wasn't it? This one has a happy ending though. The museum said, oh, we can fix that jar. mean, hello, Gorilla Glue. Not sponsored, but that stuff is pretty awesome. Then the museum.
03:49
invited the four-year-old boy and his family back for a tour. So I'm not saying the takeaway is destroy things in a museum, but they got a free tour. Seven. A very old bottle of booze at number seven, the world's oldest cognac. It's 328 years old. It belongs to a collector in the Netherlands. Now it is a Guinness World Record holder. It's from the year 1696. The accompanying photo will link to this. It's a
04:18
Fancy fancy, but I mean it's too fancy for me Exceedingly fancy before this record the last old bottle of cognac that sold at auction hundred around a hundred and fifty thousand dollars So it's worth a lot of money Wouldn't it if you're a collector of booze though, wouldn't it call out to you some late night in a moment of weakness? You're like, I wonder I wonder if this stuff is any good. Let's get out some red solo cups
04:45
Six. This is a story about a majestic bald eagle. I don't know if they have them where you are, but where I am, we see them all the time. They are a wonderful, magnificent bird and they represent pride and they are a symbol, right? So I want to tread lightly here, but we're going to talk about the bald eagle that made news for being too fat. Oh, also I should say I'm constantly on a diet and losing that battle.
05:15
So I feel like I can weigh in on on this one as far as being too fat. No ill will intended here. A bald eagle in Missouri made headlines because people rescued it, thought it was injured in some way and it was nursed back to health. Kind of. It wasn't really injured. It was just too fat to fly. Have you ever heard of a bald eagle being too fat to fly? Me neither.
05:42
So the article says the bald eagle underwent rehabilitation, but is that what we're calling it now when you go on a diet? Because I am currently undergoing rehabilitation myself. If you would like to see photos, you can click show notes dot page. I feel like they should have at this national park in Missouri, they should have a name the eagle contest. I think some of the entries might be hilarious. The majestic bald eagle.
06:10
We call him Chunk. It's a funny story. Number five is about that ride that shut down in Mexico, the Six Flags Mexico Amusement Park, the Supergirl Super Fun Ride. That's not really the name of it. I can't remember. Let's just call it the Supergirl Super Fun Ride. It shut down.
06:29
and the people on the ride are 243 feet in the air hanging there. It's kind of scary. New video of riders stuck nearly 250 feet above the ground during a storm at Six Flags Mexico. This happened last Sunday. People were dangling there for about 10 minutes. People were eventually evacuated after the storm got worse. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Here's a thought. You get down off that ride, you're up on a ride that's 243 feet in the air.
06:57
You want the thrills and chills, right? You paid money to go through that. You get down on the ground, I'm charging you extra. Because you got more thrills and chills than you paid for. Sorry, that's gonna be an extra five bucks. Number four is the trained architect named Brian who made headlines by getting in the Guinness Book of World Records for making a house of cards.
07:21
54 levels high. That's a lot of you've got to be focused. You've got to have a steady hand. You've got to have a lot of cards. The record is tallest house of cards in eight hours. So if you wanted to break this record this weekend, let's go, let's get it. Let's get some cards. Let's set aside eight hours. Phone off the hook. What's that? Oh, you don't have a phone with a hook. Oh, those aren't a thing anymore. Well, great. One less distraction. Let's go. Let's make a tall, tall house of cards.
07:50
Eight hours. Okay, close the window. There's a bit of a breeze. Three. This one is the lady who set the Guinness World Record for most body mods and most tattoos. Meet Esperance Lumenesca-Fuerzina, a woman from Connecticut. Esperance is 36 years old and is 99.98 % tattooed. 99.98 % covered in tattoos and.
08:14
She also has 89 body modifications. To be the most tattooed woman in the world feels incredibly exciting. I never thought I'd have this honor and I'm very grateful and excited for the future. If you want to see the video, we'll link to that in the show notes. This one seemed very mysterious to me at first because I'm a bit slow on the uptake. The headline is this is from Ben Hoops Hooper over at UPI. He's the weird news guru and his headline was three bison escape from Connecticut farm.
08:43
Four bison returned. What? The bison made a run for it. They actually made headlines when they knocked over a fence on a Sunday, took off. That made headlines. You know, that's kind of exciting. Bison roaming free in Connecticut. But then on Tuesday night, those bison returned with a baby bison. They had escaped. Mama bison had a baby. And then four bison returned home.
09:10
And it looks like they're gearing up to have some sort of name the baby bison contest at this farm. Honorable mention. This week an honorable mention to the businesses involved in the sign war, the famed sign war of North Carolina. There was a bar and grill in Morehead City who had a sign that said happy birthday, Jeff. The birthday was on the sign for about a month, give or take. So then a place to eat called Dank Borito.
09:39
put on their sign something referencing, hey, changed the sign already, kind of, that's me paraphrasing. Then, the first place responded by saying, hey, dank burrito, we're not lazy, we're just busier than you. So they're in this war and then Prime Bistro puts on their sign, boys, do we need to have a meeting? Except meat was spelled like, you know, delicious meat. Then EJW Outdoors on their sign put, guys, do we need to?
10:08
Taco bout it? Taco, get it? They say about 70 businesses have chimed in on the sign war. We'll put a link in the show notes. That is honorable mention worthy, well done businesses of North Carolina. Our number one story is next.
10:32
you
10:40
you
10:51
We count down 10 of the weird news stories of the week. This is what a weird week. Number one is not sponsored, but it does involve a major pizza restaurant. It's Pizza Hunt and their publicity stunt or promotional idea. However you refer to these things, I always say props and respect to the hardworking promotional team trying to cut through the noise, especially in the pizza world where there are a number of competitors.
11:19
vying for your pizza dollars. Pizza Hut has made available a pizza box in certain markets where people are moving a lot. I had read a statistic before that August is the month that more people move than any other month of the year. And so Pizza Hut has this pizza box in certain markets where people are moving a lot according to their data and the pizza box folds into a table so you don't need furniture. You're moving whatever. You've got an empty room.
11:48
Well, you can order from Pizza Hut and the box folds into a table. It is called the moving box table from Pizza Hut. I hope this catches on and the pizza box industry does a lot more with pizza boxes. You want a table, you want a chair, pizza box recliner. When it's all over and you're filled with pizza and now you're sleepy, you can just kick back on your pizza box futon maybe. I don't know. These are good ideas though.
12:16
Hey, that's that back again next Friday with 10 more weird stories from the news. Thank you for listening to what a weird week you can get everything we talk about. You go to show notes dot page.
12:36
Rolling on down that old highway My rig is named Red Pepper Express I lost control and lost my load It was a squishy peppermint I was sliding towards that highway sign The sign was full of bees But the swarm stayed calm Thank the Lord, cause I
13:04
Red pepper carnage with a side of bees. Red pepper carnage. No more bees, please. No more bees. No more bees. No more bees, please.
13:46
This is the extended mix with new lines for your ears. It makes up for the fact that this is a repeat from last year. We're back next week with all new stuff that's weird and cool and fun. Take good care, please like and share. See you in the next one.
14:20
Red pepper carnage with a side of beef
14:28
Pepper Carnot
14:32
more bees, No more bees, no more bees No more bees, please
14:46
you
15:09
No more bees, please No more bees, no more bees No more bees,
15:25
you
❿ French museum invites visitors to view its naturism exhibit in the nude
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/29/france-Mucem-naturism-nude-visitors/5591724952442/
and also https://billetterie.mucem.org/fr-FR/produits?famille=1703237789240300000
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/29/france-Mucem-naturism-nude-visitors/5591724952442/
and also https://billetterie.mucem.org/fr-FR/produits?famille=1703237789240300000
❾ Red pepper spill on California highway leads to bee rescue
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/29/Highway-101-Santa-Maria-California-red-peppers-bees/4511724947303/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/29/Highway-101-Santa-Maria-California-red-peppers-bees/4511724947303/
❽ Museum invites back 4-year-old who broke 3,500-year-old jar
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/28/boy-jar-smash-3500-years-old/4091724862304/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/28/boy-jar-smash-3500-years-old/4091724862304/
❼ World's oldest cognac from 1696 confirmed in Netherlands
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/27/netherlands-Guinness-World-Records-oldest-cognac/6311724773272/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/27/netherlands-Guinness-World-Records-oldest-cognac/6311724773272/
❻ Rescued "Injured" Bald Eagle in Missouri Was "Too Fat to Fly" After Enormous Feast
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/27/bald-eagle-too-fat-to-fly/9911724772067/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/27/bald-eagle-too-fat-to-fly/9911724772067/
❺ Riders stranded 243 feet up on Six Flags attraction during storm
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/26/mexico-Six-Flags-Mexico-ride-stranded-storm/7991724705451/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/26/mexico-Six-Flags-Mexico-ride-stranded-storm/7991724705451/
❹ Man builds 54-level house of cards in 8 hours
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/23/Guinness-World-Records-card-stacking/3371724426363/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/23/Guinness-World-Records-card-stacking/3371724426363/
❸ Connecticut woman sets world records for most tattoos and body modifications. 99.98% coverage.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/Guinness-World-Records-tattoos-body- modifications/7431724340679/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/Guinness-World-Records-tattoos-body- modifications/7431724340679/
❷ Three escaped bison return to Connecticut farm, bringing a newborn baby
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/bison-return-North-Branford-Guilford-Connecticut/2551724339497/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/bison-return-North-Branford-Guilford-Connecticut/2551724339497/
🍅 North Carolina eateries engage in a light-hearted "sign war" that involves dozens of businesses
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/sign-war-Morehead-City-North-Carolina/5881724345792/
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/08/22/sign-war-Morehead-City-North-Carolina/5881724345792/
❶ Moving Box Table: A Unique Solution for Moving Day Pizza
https://www.foodandwine.com/pizza-hut-moving-box-table-8701153
