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)

Shopping carts are all due to a guy in Oklahoma who, on this day in 1937, decided to take the shopping basket and give it wheels.

By |2024-06-04T07:53:42-04:00June 4, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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