Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It was the giveaway to end all giveaways - 70 years ago almost to the day, a store in Oregon advertised a drawing for a baby. How the heck did this actually happen? Plus: it's December and a good way to enjoy the season is a little thing called ice bumper cars.  Free baby? 70 years ago Fred Meyer had a strange giveaway for a store opening (KGW) Toilet seats, gall bladders and eight of the weirdest promotions in Minor League history (MLB.com) Ice Bumper Cars Cool Weird Awesome backers on Patreon will get a special bonus episode of the show at the end of the year! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message