Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It’s Spinach Festival weekend in Lenexa, Kansas, a time for games, crafts, music, the world’s largest spinach salad and a visit from noted cartoon spinach addict Popeye the sailor. That’s fitting, since a report in 435 Magazine says it was Popeye’s popularity that helped make Lenexa’s spinach famous in the first place. Plus: can you guess what kind of festival the people of Pie Town, NM are throwing later this month?  How Lenexa became the spinach capital of the world (435 Magazine) Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff By Pam Grout  Pietown, NM Pie Festival Have all the Cool Weird Awesome you want as a backer on Patreon, we'll make more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message