Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1980, the big U.S. TV networks began regularly using closed caption technology to serve Deaf viewers as well as hearing ones. That alone was a game-changer, but closed captioning has proven useful in some other big ways as well. Plus: in Russia, fans of a certain TV show set in a galaxy far, far away have built a replica of a certain ship that's home to a certain adorable baby puppet.  How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV (Time) Closed captioning (Quartz) Star Wars fans ‘land’ Mandalorian’s Razor Crest spaceship in Russia (South China Morning Post) Let's join forces on Patreon like Mando and Carl Weathers do --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message