Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

For this Labor Day holiday we thought we should pay tribute to what may have been the strangest ways to make a living in its time: the so-called "department store scapegoat" who was kept on staff to be "fired" from time to time. Plus: today in 1903, Scott Perky applied for a patent for a bidirectional typeface. Fact-Checking Steve Jobs: Was “The Customer Is Always Right” Really Coined by a Customer? (Slate) Scott Perky’s Bi-Directional Text (Weird Universe) If you don’t back us on Patreon today, we’ll have to fire Tom, because it’s his fault --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support