Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Last week the organizers of the 2020 Olympic Games revealed that 100 percent of the gold, silver and bronze used to create the Olympic medals is recycled - the metal comes from used cell phones. But the ancient Olympians got olive branches as prizes. Why is it that we have Olympic medals in the first place? Plus: today,  Louisville, Kentucky hosts the World Championship Dainty Contest!   The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt (W.W. Norton & Co)  Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals made from 80,000 tons of recycled mobile phones, electronics (USA Today)  Olympic Medals (Olympic.org) 49th annual Dainty Contest set for Monday, July 29, in Schnitzelburg (Insider Louisville)  Go for the gold as one of Cool Weird Awesome's backers on Patreon! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message