Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1882, the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He wound up being America’s longest serving president, but at one point FDR had a very different destiny in mind for himself: he wanted to write screenplays for movies. Plus: we mark the birthday in 1951 of musician Phil Collins with a story of a statue that unintentionally looked just like him.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Patriot, Statesman, and Would-Be Hollywood Screen Writer... (Old Magazine Articles) The President’s Mystery (Futility Closet) Church builds huge baby Jesus statue — that looks like Phil Collins (New York Post) Our Patreon backers are to our show what the Hollywood moguls were to old movies --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support