What a Weird Week

Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's the top ten list for Season 4, Episode 62 first published on Friday Dec. 1st, 2023... ❿ Attention Influencers and Models: be nicer to work with than AI. ❾ Sports Illustrated in the news this week after a Futurism Article with this headline: "Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers... We asked them about it - and they deleted everything." ❽ via NBC 5 "On Your Side" ... dateline, St. Louis ... "trespassers call 911 for help after locking themselves in cell ... Police helped free the men from a cell and then arrested them." ❼ The Snake with a Rockstar Energy Drink can on it's head in the news... the Facebook post from Snake Catcher Tasmania got picked up by Hoops over at UPI and the headline is "Venomous snake rescued from energy drink can" ❻ A Heartwarming World Record was in the news this week... The official world record is "Youngest Member of Mensa (female)" and it belongs to little Isla McNabb of Kentucky, USA ❺ Last week AP had this headline:Robbery suspect’s colorful underwear helped police arrest him..." ❹ Another Impressive World Record makes our top ten list... ❸ Watch twelve Hallmark Holiday Movies and get paid Thousands! Honorable Mention: This Holiday, please consider adding a Pretzel House to your Festive Traditions! ❷ Last week while we were busy doing our Thanksgiving Extravaganza Holiday Special, the Guinness World Records Folks published a piece about Edgar Yudkevich who set a pretty impressive knife world record... ❶ Underwater Magic Tricks are a thing and we have a new world record in that field?!

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