Weird Wednesday - 2024 Word of the Year, Fake Gibson Guitars Seized, Underwater Living Record Attempt, and the Defective Candy Bar; plus TDIH - Henry Ford's Peach Ship

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It’s Weird Wednesday and Reggie has the Oxford Word of the Year, fake Gibson guitars, a 'living underwater' record attempt, and a defective candy bar. Plus, on 'This Day in History', Henry Ford’s Peace Ship expedition fails miserably during WWI … or perhaps it did not? We've got the details of this peculiar story featuring the famous industrialist. 'Brain rot' is the Oxford University Press word of the year | AP News Why ‘Brain Rot’ Is 2024’s Word of the Year | Scientific American More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars seized at Los Angeles port | AP News Watch: German man attempts to break record for living underwater - UPI.com Day 60: Halfway to History! - Ocean Builders German tries to break world record living underwater | Video | 2news.com Man compensated $2.53 after unwrapping smooth Mars bar - UPI.com Smooth Mars bar wins Aylesbury man £2 compensation – and internet fame | UK news | The Guardian TDIH: The Peculiar Case of Henry Ford Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.9	Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home, where we bring you some of the more interesting, intriguing,
0:36.8	and downright cool stories
0:38.1	from around the globe.
0:39.5	I'm Marcus Paff joined by Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode, it's Weird Wednesday.
0:44.1	Reggie has the Oxford Word of the Year, fake Gibson guitars, a living underwater record
0:50.3	attempt, and a defective candy bar.
0:52.8	Plus, on this day in history, Henry Ford's peace ship
0:56.4	expedition fails miserably during World War I, or does it? That's coming up on cool stuff.
1:03.4	Yesterday, Marcus had a story about actual brains and how they rot. But now the word brain rot is the
1:10.1	word of the year. So we're going to start off
1:12.2	this weird Wednesday talking about the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. So in a year that
1:18.7	saw rising concerns about the mental effects of digital life, brain rot has been crowned that
1:24.1	word of the year for 2024. Defined as the supposed deterioration of a person's
1:29.2	mental or intellectual state stemming from the overconsumption of trivial content, particularly
1:34.5	online, the term encapsulates growing anxieties about our relationship with technology.
1:40.8	The frequency of the phrase surged 230 percent between 2023 and 2024, fueled largely by its adoption
1:48.5	on platforms like TikTok. Its usage reflects a mix of irony and self-awareness, especially among
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