What a Weird Week Feb 6, 2026: Lady Trapped in Car Wash and the Return of LadderChin!

Scotty
Scotty
February 06, 2026

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 7, Ep 6 first published Feb 6, 2026.  

 

 


9 The Glass Cage Album Saga
 


8 Ol' Ladderchin is at-it-again 
 


7 eleven-year-old juggler can Pindaloo like ringing a bell! 
 


6 The lady trapped in the car wash. If it happened to you and they gave you some coupons, would you dare to go back to the car wash of terror?? https://6abc.com/post/woman-gets-locked-inside-pennsylvania-car-wash/18540469/
 
 
 
5 PG13 PG13 PG13!!! A hospital in France called in the bomb experts. It turned out OK but it sounds like things got awkward. 
 

 
4 IKEA's giant hot dog makes headlines. How big is it?! 
 
3 Horses smell your fear, then they get scared also.
 

 
2 Little gaffer knocks down giant beer coaster tower, but it's not what it seems like. 
 
 

1 Restaurant chain, Dave & Buster's is ramping up the romance this Valentine Season. Go win an engagement ring in their life-size human claw game! 
 
 

 

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00:00
Wait, has anything weird happened this week? Do we have a show? Oh, we do. We do have a show. Hi, everybody. It's Weird. This is like Crazy Boom here. Weird. Really weird. Bigfoot eats out of my trash. Well, I got a great joke for you. Name is so wonderful. Weird stuff. Hi, friends. I'm Scott. And this is the show we call What a Weird Week, where we go back through the news of the week. We pick out the fun stories and the odd ones, the weird stories, not the serious stories. Nope.

00:27
And you can get everything we talk about in more detail on the show notes page, which is at show notes dot page. That's where all the show notes are and everything about our podcast and all that show notes dot page. Here's our episode first published Friday, February 6th, 2026. Number 10 is the figure skater from Spain who is going to the Olympics, right? And finds out days before the Olympics that his routine, his figure skating routine is in violation of copyright.

00:57
and he cannot do the routine. Now days before the Olympics, I'm sure there's still plenty of time to learn a new routine. Oh, what? No, it takes a long time to learn a routine.  Oh, what a terrible thing to learn days before the Olympics that you can't do your routine because the whole minions theme of the routine while the minions  and Gru himself said, no, no, you can't, you cannot do the routine.

01:26
It's almost like I've never seen a Minions movie. When you hear my Gru routine. My Gru-teen, if you will. Hey, what?  Here's a quote from the story we linked to. This is from Tomas the skater. Finding this out last Friday, so close to the biggest competition of my life, was incredibly disappointing. The issue is the music. The music accompanying Tomas was not cleared. And that was the issue that got in the headlines. But we have an update from CNN.

01:56
this is a bit of their coverage. Sabatay, who has performed his Minions programs throughout the current figure skating season,  wearing a yellow t-shirt and their famous blue dungarees, found out this week that the music hadn't been cleared by Universal Studios.  Two hours later.  In a great turn of events, Sabatay said that Universal had granted him permission to use the music at the Winter Olympics. That clip from CNN and we'll link to that in the show notes or you can click show notes dot page.

02:24
Looks like it ends on a good note for Tomas. Best of luck to Tomas and all the athletes at the Olympics doing the things.  While some of us are home eating doughnuts watching you do the things. Congratulations on all your achievements. nine is an odd one  and it is an uplifting one, which that's a nice combination for our program. Ten years ago, there's this music promoter here in Canada. His name's Marcus. He's in a thrift store and he comes across this vinyl record.

02:53
And there's not a lot of information on the record. He's curious, so he buys it for four bucks. Now, 10 years ago here in Canada, four bucks or two tunis could get you a big bag of chips  and a two liter bottle of pop. Sometimes a chocolate bar too. Maybe a Canadian classic, a coffee crisp, or perhaps a box of Smarties. Canadian references. Anyway, he takes it home, listens to the record. It's a live record.

03:18
It's obvious that it wasn't like a major release or whatever, seems to be an independent situation. So  he takes years trying to track down who this band is and finally does. A couple of years into it, he finds out who the band is. It's a Canadian band called the Glass Cage. This record, it wasn't a bootleg, but it was like bootleg quality,  live recording that somebody had pressed into vinyl. You know what? We'll play a clip here coming up. I don't think we'll get a copyright strike.

03:47
Marcus, the music promoter and Norm from the Canadian Garage Band from the 60s, the Glass Cage, Marcus and Norm make contact and fast forward to now, 10 years later, 10 years since Marcus bought the record, the record is getting an official release.  It's been 58 years since the band played that music. The Glass Cage is getting an album release. This is from CTV News, Vancouver.

04:17
And it instantly hit me like a  break. was a visceral rush, Marcus says, that compelled him to consult with music historians  and scour the internet to find out who he was hearing.  Anybody know this? And it was just no, no, no, no, no, no. And after two years' of no's  on an obscure garage band blog,  Marcus finally found a yes.  This guy goes,  hey, that's my record.  That was Norm Roth, now a warehouse manager.

04:46
who hadn't heard his songs in more than 50 years. I'm flat-bogasted.  Yeah, really am. When I was 18 years old.  I'm 77 now.  Marcus, who's a veteran music promoter,  spent the next eight years teaming up with professionals to digitally refurbish the recording  and package it along with a book documenting the band's role in the local music scene  before preparing to release it globally.  Adam Sawotsky.

05:15
CTV News.  We'll link to that video report from CTV News Vancouver. They don't play that much of the glass cage in the piece, but cool vibe the glass cage and congratulations on having their album released.  eight. Number eight is this fellow.  Wait, wait, wait, wait. They've got a song in the background and Aerosmith song is playing. We'd get a copyright strike. Here's my impersonation. Hi, I'm Dave.  Thank you very much.

05:44
David record breaker rush. Now they refer to him a lot of times as serial Guinness world record breaker, David Rush, because he can't stop himself. I'm pretty sure he just continues to break world records. This time it was balancing the ladder on his chin for 19 minutes and change. Sometimes he does silly world records or, you know, fun ones that seem attainable. And I say, let's try that one this weekend. But I don't think balancing the ladder on your chin for 19 minutes. I don't think he can dive into this one without some training and

06:12
some considerations about safety. We'll link to the video and maybe you'll be inspired to break your own world record. can click the show notes.  seven is another inspiring world record set by an 11 year old juggler, 11 years old juggler from Wisconsin, United States of America.  11 year old Caleb has the world record for  using a Pindaloo. And if you haven't seen one of those, I just got my dad one for Christmas this past Christmas. It's shaped like a U. It's a tube.

06:42
in the shape of a U and there's a juggling ball in there. You sort of swing this pin to Lou and the ball comes flying out and then you catch the ball and it travels through the U shaped tube and out the other side sort of makes a circle. Caleb did 51 ball rotations in 30 seconds, 30 seconds on the clock and you grab that pin to Lou. You have to master the pin to Lou. First of all, a lot of practice and then concentration and you can't miss fire or world record attempt over and

07:13
Caleb got 51 ball rotations  in 30 seconds. World record.  six is the lady in Pennsylvania who was trapped inside a car wash. Maybe you saw this. I saw this headline all over the place. The late night shows and stuff. So Pennsylvania, United States of America, lady is inside the car wash. You know, a lot of times now it's all automated at the car wash and you type in the code, you go in, the door closes, whatever. So something malfunctioned  and the lady was trapped inside the car wash for nearly an hour.

07:42
I don't want to make light of it because I would find this either hilarious or terrifying. I'm not sure how I would react. Maybe hilarious, but it's possible I would be terrified. Some of the greatest B-movie horror scenes take place inside a car wash. Double check me on that. So the lady after about an hour, she's able to call the police. She had her phone and the police were able to free her.  After about an hour of car wash captivity, later on the car wash owner gave her some gift cards and

08:12
Would you go back to the car wash? Would you use those gift cards or would you re-gift them? I'm not sure how I'd react to that either. I'd be scared to get trapped in the car wash again. I mean, what are the odds? But still, getting trapped in a car wash twice? The odds are probably steep. Still be scared.  Number five is PG-13. So  please, if the children are listening, you might not want them to hear this one. Kids, please put on your earmuffs. I'm going to try to get through it without getting too saucy.

08:41
Just the facts. Here we go. This is about that hospital in France who had the security alert. They had to call in the bomb disposal experts. A fellow arrived seeking medical treatment. He had a World War I artillery shell  stuck somewhere.  And the medical professionals were able to remove that from the fellow and it was declared safe by the bomb disposal experts.  End of story.

09:12
The article we linked to says it's not that uncommon to find, wait, to find World War I artillery shells in France. The other things, other parts of the story may be not as common, but to find artillery, old artillery in France,  that is something that still happens. Also, the hospital was in Toulouse,  France. If it's okay with you, I don't want to do any jokes or anything.

09:36
I'm just glad everyone's okay and let's move on to number  four. Number four is the giant IKEA hot dog you can buy in certain parts of the world now at IKEA. You can get a half meter long hot dog. So imagine a meter stick cut it in half. That's how long the wiener is. Or if you don't do metric, about 18 inches ish  giant hot dog available at certain Ikea's. I think right now it's in the United Arab Emirates.

10:04
I'm just wondering now, so I don't have an Ikea near me. I would have to drive hours to another province to go to Ikea. I think I would make the drive. Would you make the drive for a delicious giant hot dog? We'll make that. We'll put that one on the pole.  three. Number three is scary research about horses and their sense of smell. I don't know. Maybe it's not scary. Maybe we can harness this. Horses don't know harness this. Why did I, what? Did I just what?  Harness this?

10:35
I didn't even mean to do that.  New research shows that horses can smell human fear through our sweat. Now  they, when you're scared of them  and they smell that, they also get scared. They catch your fearfulness and they want to avoid you. That is basically, that's my non-scientific summation of that research on the horses. It's kind of interesting how they did the study.

11:03
They collected sweat from people watching scary movies, and then they collected sweat from people watching comedies and gave the horses a whiff. And the horses did not like the scary movie sweat. two is the little girl who made headlines after knocking over a tower of beer coasters, a tower of 63 some thousand beer coasters. A fellow made this tower, spent hours and hours, 120 some hours building a tower.

11:32
He wants to get in the Guinness Book of World Records. The viral video that was going around is security footage  of a little gaffer pulling out one of the beer coasters and the whole thing comes crashing down. But it's not exactly what it seems. First of all, if you can't click the video, the fellow was taking beer coasters and making little triangles, you know, like you would make a house of cards. That's what he was doing with the beer coasters  and

12:00
Part of it collapsed under its own weight. So then he just invited people to take one out. Who's going to knock this over? Take one beer coaster out, sort of like Jenga. And so the little gaffer did that and the whole thing came crashing down. The video without the context, people are like, Oh, that youngster, kids these days, you know, whatever. But we'll link to the video if you click show notes dot page. Number one, the number one story this week, a little bit Valentine'sy. I don't know if that's triggering, but trigger warning.

12:30
Valentine's, Romance, and Human Cranes.  This  is the Dave and Buster's restaurant chain engagement ring Human Crane promotion. Now where I live we don't have a Dave and Buster's but I think I understand it. Arcade games and fun games for grown-ups and delicious food. Is that kind of, that's Dave and Buster's? In the Human Crane I had to look it up. I didn't know. It's like a claw machine  sort of except you're the claw. You get strapped in so let me get this straight.

12:59
You go to Dave and Buster's, I assume it's licensed. You go to Dave and Buster's. You have a couple of wobbly pops. Maybe a delightful plate of pasta. Fettuccine. And then you get strapped into the human crane device?  Is that really how it goes? And you are the claw, you get dipped into the prize thing. And you grab whatever you can, you get a mitt full of prizes. Is that how the human crane thing works at Dave and Buster's?

13:29
And nobody vomits?  Is that how it works at Dave and Buster's? I'm very intrigued by this.  For Valentine's season, the season of romance,  select Dave and Buster's locations. We'll be putting a $15,000 diamond engagement ring as one of the prizes if you play the human crane. If you are the claw in this human crane claw machine thing, you might grab yourself a mitt full of engagement ring.

13:55
The press release does note that many people get engaged on Valentine's Day or in this Valentine season. And what a wonderful memory you will have made by eating a giant plate of fettuccine, vomiting a little in the human crane machine, but then scooping up that engagement ring and saying, baby, let's lock it down.

14:20
And by it I mean  the rest of my fettuccine. But also our love. Let's lock down our love and also let's get me cleaned up because I got a lot of fettuccine on me.

14:35
I'll see you next time.


 

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