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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Pizza Week: How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur
Description: This week we're replaying some of our favorite pizza-themed episodes. In this episode from May 2021, the inside story of Charles Entertainment Cheese (yes, that's his real name), the only mouse anyone ever wanted to see in a pizza place. Plus: the past meets the future in 1905, when a film crew documents the funeral of the last known veteran of the War of 1812. An Oral History Of Those Creepy-Ass Chuck E. Cheese Robots (Mel Magazine)The surprising and horrifying backstory behind Charles Entertainment Cheese (Insider)Funeral of Hiram Cronk (Library of Congress)