Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week in 2005, Kyle MacDonald of Montreal had a red paperclip. This week in 2006, MacDonald had traded away the paperclip, and, after a few more trades, ended up with a house. Plus: over in the UK, some small towns have traded out the phones in some of their big red phone boxes for a new use.  Paperclip Cottage Cafe (Tourism Saskatchewan) From paper-clip to house in 14 trades (CBC) How Small English Towns Are Turning Their Iconic Red Telephone Boxes Into Public Heart Defibrillators (Laughing Squid) We wouldn't trade our Patreon backers for anything in the world --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message