What a Weird Week, featuring the Weird News of the Week! Fri Apr 24, 2026: Your Shoes are Mushrooms #WeirdNews #Mushshoes

What a Weird Week, featuring the Weird News of the Week! Fri Apr 24, 2026: Your Shoes are Mushrooms #WeirdNews #Mushshoes

From What a Weird Week by Scotty Horsman

April 24, 2026 · 13 min · Season 7 · Episode 17

About this episode

This episode covers bizarre news stories including mushroom shoes, psychic beliefs, a Lego theft scheme, and a wedding mishap.

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird news and interesting stuff that happened this week. 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 17 first published April 24, 2026. 10 Researchers in Belgium along with a shoemaker, have created the world's first boot made of fungi. It's a prototype. This may save us all and solve the footwear industry waste problem. Our future shoes might be biodegradable. (and also delicious on pizza.) (jk.) (https://www.popsci.com/science/shoe-made-from-mushrooms/) 9 Do you think you're psychic? Because if you don't, someone you know does. (https://studyfinds.com/1-in-5-americans-convinced-theyre-psychic/) 8 A California man was arrested for allegedly stealing $34,000 worth of Lego sets from stores in the USA. They believe he bought Lego sets, took out valuable pieces, then returned the boxes filled with dried pasta and got his money back…

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

  • weird news
  • mushroom shoes
  • psychic beliefs
  • Lego theft
  • wedding mishaps

Keywords

  • weird news
  • mushroom shoes
  • psychic
  • Lego theft
  • wedding paint

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Belgium

Products: mushroom shoes

Places: California

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