{"id":243,"date":"2021-01-09T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:43:30","slug":"episode124-weird-news-roundup-2020-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/09\/episode124-weird-news-roundup-2020-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 124- Weird News Roundup 2020 part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7333\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-243-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=243-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ep124WeirdNewsRoundup2020part1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collection of weird news stories from the weirdest year ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244\" width=\"755\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20201229_104312_764.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Happy Almost New Year!<\/strong>&nbsp;We are inching up on the end of 2020, arguably the&nbsp;<em>weirdest<\/em>&nbsp;year on record, and<em>&nbsp;PHEW!<\/em>&nbsp;thank the deity of your choice for that! Show hosts<strong>&nbsp;Barry &amp; Adam<\/strong>&nbsp;have collected some news stories from around the world. And these aren&#8217;t just regular news stories, they are weird news stories!&nbsp;<em>No coronavirus. No Monoliths<\/em>&nbsp;(you can listen to our Monolith special episode for that).&nbsp;<em>Japanese robo wolves! UFO\/UAPs! Loch Ness monster! Winged beasts! Celebrities!<\/em>&nbsp;It&#8217;s a jam packed year end spectacular to say &#8220;so long 2020, don&#8217;t let the door hit you as you leave&#8221; here on the&nbsp;<strong>WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? 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ever. Happy Almost New Year!&nbsp;We are inching up on the end of 2020, arguably the&nbsp;weirdest&nbsp;year on record, and&nbsp;PHEW!&nbsp;thank the deity of your choice for that! Show hosts&nbsp;Barry &amp; Adam&nbsp;have collected some news stories from around the world. And these aren&#8217;t just regular news stories, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/09\/episode124-weird-news-roundup-2020-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 124- Weird News Roundup 2020 part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,7,30,12,59,10,40,11,47,41,5,31,23,9,1,8,2,3],"tags":[90,83,82,92,101,80,111,112,77,19,84,93,94,73,95,70,18,72],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-aliens","category-barry-johnston","category-bigfoot","category-cryptid","category-disclosure","category-ghosts","category-high-strangeness","category-loch-ness","category-monster","category-mystery","category-podcast","category-sasquatch","category-special","category-ufo","category-uncategorized","category-weird-news","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-aliens","tag-bigfoot","tag-cryptid","tag-disclosure","tag-ghost","tag-high-strangeness","tag-loch-ness","tag-monster","tag-mystery","tag-podcast","tag-sasquatch","tag-special","tag-uap","tag-ufo","tag-ufos","tag-weird-news","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}