Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1940, the birthday of the world’s number one flag expert: Whitney Smith, who not only studied flags his entire life, he invented the word for studying flags. Plus: a company in Japan is making fabric out of apples!  When the World Runs Something New Up the Flagpole, Scholar Whitney Smith Is First to Salute (People) Whitney Smith, Whose Passion for Flags Became a Career, Dies at 76 (New York Times) adam sheet is a translucent and washable fabric made of recycled apple waste (designboom) Help fly the flag for our show by backing us on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support