What a Weird Week, A Show About Weird News! Fri March 27, 2026: The Shark Appeared to be High on Cocaine

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Scott discusses various weird news stories from the week, including cocaine sharks and a raccoon rescue.

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about weird news and interesting stuff that happened this week. We've got ten stories in 15 minutes. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other/ see www.shownotes.page . Thanks for rating and reviewing along with subscribing ! These are the shownotes for Season 7, Ep 13 first published March 27th, 2026. 10) Cocaine Sharks Research Continues: (https://www.vice.com/en/article/sharks-in-the-bahamas-are-full-of-cocaine-caffeine-and-painkillers/) 9) ***PG13*** The government of Bern, Switzerland, has rejected a proposal to alter its coat of arms, ruling that the iconic bear will continue to be depicted with a prominent ding dong. (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/the-bernese-bear-will-continue-to-display-its-red-limb-on-the-coat-of-arms/91049271) 8) Firefighters in Vermont came to the rescue of a raccoon that got its head stuck in a peanut butter jar and then climbed 25 feet up a tree. (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/20/Shelburne-Fire-Department-raccoon-peanut-butter-jar/7831774027521/). 7) The ongoing plight of Texas town of Bug Tussle…

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

• weird news
• cocaine sharks
• Bern coat of arms
• raccoon rescue
• Texas town news

Keywords

• weird news
• cocaine sharks
• Bern
• raccoon
• Bug Tussle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vice, Swissinfo, UPI

Places: Bern, Vermont, Texas

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