Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about flags and those who fly them. In this episode from January 2022, the story of Bob Heft, who, as a high school student in Ohio, designed the first flag representing 50 states. Plus: there was once an effort to make a biopic about Edgar Allan Poe starring none other than Sylvester Stallone. A Boy Scout designed the 50-star American flag (Scouting Magazine) Robert G. Heft (Ohio History Central) Stallone Shows Why He Was Wrong for Edgar Allan Poe, But Vows to Finish Script (Movieweb) We salute our Patreon backers for making this show possible --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support