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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks
Description: For National Take A Hike Day, we look back at a time in the 1800s when huge crowds bought tickets to see people walk around in loops for days at a time. Plus: for National Homemade Bread Day, the story of the bakery that made an eight-foot-long loaf for "I Love Lucy."The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football (BBC)Â How Competitive Walking Captivated Georgian Britain (Atlas Obscura)I Love Lucy The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever, Authorized by the Lucille Ball Estate by Michael McClay (v...