Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week in 1819 was probably the first European sighting of Antarctica. It’s different from all the other continents in so many ways - including how, from a certain point of view, a big chunk of Antarctica is “ruled” by a guy who’s never even been there. Plus: today in Tomah, Wisconsin, it’s the annual Freeze Fest. How a Pennsylvania man started an imaginary country in Antarctica and got 2,300 people to join him (The Times Leader)  Freeze Fest  Backing Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon is really cool