Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Richard "Dixie" Blandy called himself the greatest flagpole sitter of all time - they say he spent more time atop flagpoles than most flags. Plus: the Great Basin Astronomy Festival today gets underway, with unusually dark skies and, to our knowledge, no flagpole sitters to obstruct the view. Among Dayton’s colorful characters, he stood above rest (Dayton Daily News) A 1971 pole-sitting champ on the great loneliness of sitting on a pole for 8 months (Splinter News) Great Basin Astronomy Festival (Travel Nevada) Would we sit on a flagpole for your support on Patreon? Yeah, probably. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message