The Guy Who Collected The “Sound Of Kmart’s Glory Days” (Cool Weird Awesome 486)

People like to collect all kinds of things, but Mark Davis had a collection that even he thought was a little unusual: cassettes containing the music and announcements that K-Mart stores used to play over their speaker systems, complete with announcements from "KMRT - K-Mart Radio." Plus: on National Pig Day, a story about a pig in the 70s who had an unusual job.

By |2024-03-01T08:53:51-05:00March 1, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

It’s The Birthday Of The Shopping Cart (Cool Weird Awesome 313)

Many of us are getting ready for our weekly shopping trips over the weekend, figuring out what we want to put in our carts. Those carts, by the way, are all due to a guy in Oklahoma who, on this day in 1937, decided to take the shopping basket and give it wheels. Plus: on National Cheese Day we pay tribute to the hardest, chewiest cheese in the world: churrpi!

By |2021-03-08T10:42:43-05:00June 4, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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