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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard
Description: Today in 2020, the Nobel Foundation tried to call a Stanford professor to tell him he'd won the Economics Prize... except that he was asleep with his phone in Sleep Mode! Fortunately they found a good workaround. Plus: this weekend in Goffstown, New Hampshire, it’s the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off And Regatta.
Doorbell camera captures moment Nobel Prize winner is told he won (NBC News)
Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off & Regatta
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