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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: A Burma-Shave Ad Offered A Trip To “Mars,” And A Guy Tried To Take That Trip
Description: A decade before Mariner 4 got to Mars (on this day in 1965), a company famous for its advertising jokingly offered its customers a chance to go to the Red Planet - and a very serious customer tried to get them to follow through. Plus: a design studio in France builds a walk-through installation out of nearly 800 old baguettes. Did Burma-Shave Offer to Send a Contest Winner to Mars? (Snopes)780 leftover baguettes turn into public pavilion by MERO studios in montpellier (designboom)Help this show keep keeping on / as a backer on Patreon