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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a stupid internet challenge, an adorable gator with a missing jaw, a flamingo rescue, and more snake news!
-Stupid Spicy Chip Challenge: https://apnews.com/article/paqui-spicy-chip-challenge-social-media-risks-369f295714ac7f856c815ffe5ad4e961
-Gator News: https://apnews.com/article/alligator-florida-reptile-park-orlando-0c54bd337b027eaea65a2a1a5916aa62
-Peaches the Flamingo : https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/peaches-the-flamingo-rescued-after-idalia-is-back-in-the-wild/
-Snake News: https://apnews.com/article/rattlesnakes-found-arizona-home-garage-removed-32d13a21c064aeb254d98078045d8b85
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a White Claw loving bear, searching for the Loch Ness Monster with new tech, a hamster ball Florida Man, and some snake news!
-White Claw Bandit Bear: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-3-legged-bear-invades-screened-in-patio-of-home-raids-refrigerator-drinks-white-claw-hard-seltzers/ar-AA1gig62 --
-Searching For Nessie: https://apnews.com/article/loch-ness-monster-hunt-d07af6dff2138e2198f5d33c76442577
-Florida Man Nonsense: https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/florida-man-riding-human-sized-hamster-wheel-atlantic-103000751
-Snake News: https://apnews.com/article/snake-toilet-home-arizona-69468bc279d5ac12b63656784a2d1cd4
-Oar Fish: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oarfish&atb=v315-1&iax=images&ia=images
-Sun Fish: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunfish&atb=v315-1&iax=images&ia=images
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss the Barb-en-Heimer craze sweeping the nation, a body in a suitcase, some fake bears in China, and our hero: Hank the Tank.
-Barb-en-Heimer: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189062921/barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-movie-double-feature
-Suitcase Murder: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/25/Florida-homicide-suitcases-human-remains/5521690260715/
-Fake Bears: https://apnews.com/article/china-zoo-bears-782105cb015e341a51b1a43ff512b65e
-Hank the Tank: https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/hank-the-tank-bear-relocated/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss Mer-people and their hit docuseries on Netflix, a Mermaid lawsuit, A Florida Bro who can’t stop stealing, an Olympic diver posting on Only-Fans, and an NRA Karen who hates Florida’s rightful bird.
-Mer-People: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/merpeople-release-date-trailer-news
-Mermaid Crime: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/wreck-bar-mermaid-show-underwater-burlesque-feud-federal-privacy-lawsuit-14284977
-Olympic Only-Fans: https://apnews.com/article/mexican-diver-onlyfans-diego-balleza-f632bb4f4b9f5e8656ff4ee482bb7aa9
-Fl Man Can’t Stop Robbin’: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/06/28/longtime-florida-burglar-accused-of-burgling-seminole-gated-community-yet-again/
-Scrub Jay Karen: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/06/23/how-one-womans-hate-clipped-the-florida-scrub-jays-wings-and-kept-it-from-becoming-state-bird/#bio
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss the origin of cat food, a really cheesy British tradition, and the rescue of some really adorable birdies!
-CAT FOOD:
https://www.thefarmersdog.com/digest/the-history-of-commercial-pet-food-a-great-american-marketing-story/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_food
https://medium.com/illumination-curated/did-pope-gregory-ixs-hatred-of-cats-lead-to-the-black-death-327d163adfb2
-Rollin’ Cheese:
https://apnews.com/article/uk-gloucester-cheese-rolling-extreme-sport-435d6cc4863a48fc9fba417210aac606
-Precious Baby Birds:
https://apnews.com/article/parrot-trafficking-florida-central-america-ec0419765166da98dbc94593d9c1654f
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a famous saying you’ve probably been saying wrong, a really stupid Supreme Court case, the truth behind the Fountain of Youth, and a terrifying new mosquito.
*Note: Yes, we know Meag is wrong about parakeets discussed in the beginning of this episode.
-The Jig/Gig is up: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/04/jig.html
-Its GIF with a GUH sound: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2021/06/is-it-pronounced-jif-or-gif/
-Rhianna saying her name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP6q7XzLrQ
-Jack Daniels loves dogs: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jack-daniels-dog-toy-7878a57c7ae6735274858e3b0eeeba54
-The truth about the fountain of youth: https://www.history.com/news/the-myth-of-ponce-de-leon-and-the-fountain-of-youth
-Terror insects: https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2023/03/22/theres-new-invasive-mosquito-species-florida-will-this-one-spread-disease/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss Morris the cat of 9 Lives fame, how French Bulldogs have risen in popularity, Lassie’s legacy, and a Key West conch blowing contest.
*Note: Jacki goes on a long-winded rant about tasty conch. She mistakes Manhattan Clam chowder for New England clam chowder. She meant to say Manhattan clam chowder is like conch chowder. Okay? So chill Conch-Lovers…
-Morris The Everyman Cat: https://popicon.life/9-things-you-never-knew-about-morris-the-cat/
-Winnie The Pooh Runs for President: https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/do-you-remember-when-winnie-the-pooh-ran-for-president/
-Lassie is really Pal: https://hometownstohollywood.com/2021/05/13/pal/ https://americacomesalive.com/the-dog-who-played-lassie/
-Key West Conch Blowers: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/canadian-wins-key-west-conch-shell-blowing-contest/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss all those wonderful Oscar winning donkeys, Pablo Escobar’s hippo relocation, a famous Hollywood pup, and some wacky food you can eat at the Miami-Dade Youth Fair.
-Oscar Winning Asses: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/awards-insider-eo-movie-donkeys
-Hippo relocation: https://apnews.com/article/colombia-hippopotamus-relocation-mexico-india-4bb9441be82839b4f10dd89c748d1bd3
-Famous Hollywood Pup: https://screenrant.com/silence-lambs-precious-dog-career-batman-returns-pee-wee/
-Miami Dade Youth Fair food: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/miami-dade-youth-fair-2023-extreme-foods-pickle-lemonade-deep-fried-milkshake-cuban-funnel-cake-16499722
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a the wonderful acts of one Elizabeth Taylor, a president with an eye for elves, and an update on our Brooklyn gator!
-All Things Great And Elizabeth Taylor:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elizabeth-taylor-25-things-you-170437/
https://www.10-facts-about.com/elizabeth-taylor/id/728
https://www.vulture.com/2016/08/elizabeth-taylor-michael-jacksons-odd-friendship.html https://variety.com/2023/film/columns/elizabeth-taylor-commitment-to-life-aids-1235496386/ https://www.logotv.com/news/zi93zn/elizabeth-taylor-aids-activist
-President posts Aluxe:
https://apnews.com/article/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-caribbean-mexico-city-b1dcd73e9d069a99400d05f5aff061c3
-Update On Our Gator Gal:
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-bronx-climate-and-environment-animals-bec099fa22810fae1a4b582c3757680e
-Living in Florida and need the gator patrol?: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/wildlife/alligator/snap/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a Clinton kitty with a criminal inquiry, a poo poo perpetrator that should get life in prison, a very interesting presidential assignation we rarely hear about, and a natural Floridian who gets rescued from NYC.
-Remember when house Republicans went after socks the cat?: https://mashable.com/article/socks-the-cat-gop-investigation
-Poop Attack: https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-hannover-dance-02ec610e9fba3612cf08f4628ef7b0aa
-A very interesting assignation: https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-guiteau
-Lovely Gator Boi gets rescued from Brooklyn: https://apnews.com/article/climate-and-environment-brooklyn-new-york-city-animals-f5914137cc03e5bfc1b88ca1a836c142
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss Kevyn Aucoin’s impact of the world of makeup, the controversy over boneless chicken wings, and why you should not approach Florida’s river otters.
-Kevyn Aucoin:
https://29secrets.com/beauty/the-story-of-celebrity-makeup-artist-kevyn-aucoin/
https://www.advocate.com/television/2017/9/14/remembering-flawed-beauty-makeup-god-kevyn-aucoin
-Kevyn Aucoin Docs Meag Watched:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6972670/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6059570/
-Are Boneless Wings really chicken wings (NO.):
https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-boneless-wings-culinary-lie-7bae0f861af227f53318e5ddfcce771f
-Otters, Otters, Otters:
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-otters-florida-backyards-20230213-phwtb7b45bganhwgrkj7oqfc3q-story.html
-That Video of an Alligator getting beat up by a pony we mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ8PRqy8vQI
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss Buster Keaton’s wild comedy career, all the different rodents living in Punxsutawney Phil’s shadow, and a dope nude beach in the Florida Keys.
-Buster Keaton Facts: https://www.ranker.com/list/buster-keaton-facts/erin-mccann
-The Buster Keaton Doc Meag Watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8758548/
-Buster Keaton House falling stunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0I7R_NCe4
-When the 7 Mile Bridge didn’t actually blow up: https://fla-keys.com/news/article/8057/
-Other Predictable Rodents: https://apnews.com/article/groundhog-day-history-punxsutawney-phil-0fc9e31dccbddeab5a6cb5608f23d47a
-Phil’s actual Accuracy: https://www.foxweather.com/learn/how-accurate-is-punxsutawney-phil-really
-General Beauregard Lee The real MVP: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-groundhog-day-2023-general-beauregard-lee-shadow
-The Weather predicting Opossum Meag’s Mom was talking about: https://www.wandtv.com/news/sand-mountain-sam-predicts-early-spring-on-groundhog-day/article_0e9d4aac-a334-11ed-bf9d-2319a6f0b224.html
-Jurassic Park 3 Rejected nightmare fuel: https://screenrant.com/jurassic-park-dino-human-hybrids-other-rejected-storylines/
-Naked Florida Beach: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-history-of-this-abandoned-florida-beach-is-bizarre-but-true/ar-AA172KL2
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss Salvador Dali and his erotic Hitler Painting, a stolen Hot Dog work of art, and a classic Florida man strip club debacle.
-Chupa Chups Logo By Dali: https://www.logodesignlove.com/chupa-chups-logo
-Salvador Dali Museum: https://tampahistorical.org/items/show/75 https://thedali.org/
-Dali Dream Sequence from Spellbound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPe1Jahyfo
- Hitler Masturbating Dali Painting: https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/hitler-masturbating -Dali Facts: https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/8-bizarre-facts-about-salvador-dali
-Stolen Hot Dog Statue: https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-fires-theft-e276b8cbe0964daed79db65bac33f276
-Florida Man Denied entry to strip club because of his pussy cat: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-cat-denied-entry-by-fla-strip-club-arrested/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss some unbelievable facts about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, a tiny leopard threat, and some real dumbass burglars.
-Facts about MLK: https://www.insider.com/martin-luther-king-jr-facts-2019-1
-MLK’s questionable dessert choices: https://fox8.com/morning-show/recipe-box/mlk-jr-s-favorite-dessert-quilly/
-Happy Birthday (By Stevie Wonder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwscb3QIVSg
-A tiny leopard is found: https://apnews.com/article/dallas-animals-cats-48cf31173c4b1ea6cb0570d6ef669253
-MLK was a Trekkie: https://time.com/4478354/martin-luther-king-star-trek/
-Crazy Stupid Floridian Crooks: https://nypost.com/2023/01/03/florida-burglars-call-911-to-get-help-moving-stuff-sheriff/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss some wild facts about the King of Rock and Roll, everything that’s headed to the public domain in 2023, and a satellite due to fall from the sky that we definitely shouldn’t be concerned about!
-Wacky Facts about the King: https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/bizarre-elvis-facts/
-Public Domain coming at ya: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/public-domain-2023-sherlock-films-books-songs-cec/index.html
-Winne the Pooh Horror Flick: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19623240/ -I Scream For Ice Cream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WKImlPObU
-Elvis and his crazy Pets: https://outsider.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-had-many-pets-during-his-lifetime-including-this-shocking-mammal/
-Elvis had a Chimp: https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/scatter-elvis-presleys-pet-chimpanzee.shtml ----Definitely Don’t worry about this falling satellite: https://apnews.com/article/science-oddities-aerospace-technology-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-2b960095b8726632d53ebb103077007a
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss another criminal deer, a bunch of bros braiding beards, the difference between kids and kids, and an alligator that parkours right over a fence.
-Deer Ransack Remix:
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/17/nursing-home-deer-Johnstown-New-York/7931668700531/
-Big Old Beard Chain:
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-wyoming-casper-0644b3c5337f0c8646e592d320a6e00e
-Goat Kids and Human Kids:
https://jakubmarian.com/origin-of-the-word-kid/
-Gator Parkour:
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/alligator-climbs-fence-at-naval-air-station-jacksonville/977182237/
-Raven Video: https://youtu.be/hh52CfnGCK4
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a deer that straight up makes a ruckus, a bro who lived in an airport, Spooky Roman Death Banquets, and a chicken with a gun up its butt.
-Deer Ransack:
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/14/deer-crashes-through-West-Allis-Wisconsin-home/6581668461938/
-Living in the airport:
https://apnews.com/article/mehran-karimi-nasseri-the-terminal-dies-in-paris-airport-d13124fc1f2f1c3d3c3609904373573b
-Spooky Roman Death Banquets:
https://daily.jstor.org/a-roman-feast-of-death/
-Raw Chicken Gun:
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-florida-fort-lauderdale-transportation-security-administration-55ccbc146a06a266b39debc255011916
-Weird Art at Fort Lauderdale Airport:
https://www.broward.org/Arts/PublicArt/Pages/Artwork.aspx?=1328
-Cool Art at Tampa Airport:
https://mymodernmet.com/flamingo-tampa-international-airport/
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a some pumpkin-gobbling gators, a big old snake on the loose, Palm Beach’s snowbird spirits, and Robert the haunted doll (who we love. Very very much).
-Gourd Gobbling Gators: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/10/27/Gatorland-Orlando-Florida-alligators-chomp-pumpkins/4501666894407/
-Snake News! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/10/30/king-cobra-houdini-returns-swedish-zoo-escape/10646930002/
-Palm Beach Spookies: https://ghostsofpalmbeach.com/blog/the-five-most-haunted-locations-on-the-island-of-palm-beach/
-Robert the Doll: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/story-behind-robert-the-doll
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a kitty on a crime spree, Massachusetts’s new dino star, Keanu Reeves being to pure for this world, and a Florida woman who gets her tootsie stuck in a massage chair.
-Another adorable kitty crime: https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/guy-catches-random-cat-in-the-middle-of-a-hilarious-crime-spree
-State Dino is a Masshole: https://apnews.com/article/science-oddities-charlie-baker-boston-massachusetts-14d6c6c394ec39b40634f0ff81781980
-Keanu Reeves is tricked like 20 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/11/news
-Massage Chair Mayhem! https://floridanewsheadlines.com/articles/720865/comments/firefighters-called-after-womans-foot-gets-stuck-in-massage-chair
-State Dino List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_dinosaurs
-Theodore Rex: https://triviahappy.com/articles/when-whoopi-goldberg-was-legally-forced-to-co-star-with-a-dinosaur-how-theodore-rex-happened
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This Week's Weirdest News Stories! This week Jacki and Meag discuss a biting capybara, a dog who was bitten by man, a hippo pair on the run, and some weird old Florida stories.
-Capybara terrorizes children:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221007/p2a/00m/0na/008000c
-Man bites dog: https://apnews.com/article/oddities-arrests-germany-dogs-577bd284b619dee7d5614403c898c7cf
-Hippo Bonnie and Clyde: https://mg.co.za/environment/2022-10-04-hippo-pair-caught-after-six-months-on-the-run-in-mpumalanga/
-Weird Florida Strikes Again! https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/the-seven-weirdest-stories-in-florida-history-8631101
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