Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Paralympic athletes are in Tokyo to compete and maybe to win a gold medal, if they can. The benchmark for Paralympic gold, by the way: 55 medals by a single athlete, swimmer Trischa Zorn. Plus: today in 1936, a newspaper ran a short piece about inventor Isabella Gilbert and her dimple-making machine.  Swimmer Trischa Zorn’s Paralympic Legacy Goes Beyond Her Staggering 55-Medal Haul (Team USA) Who Wants Dimples? (Bremen Enquirer via Newspapers.com) Our Patreon backers deserve gold medals for being great --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message