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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Was Good Friends With Comedy Legend Groucho Marx
Description: Today in 1948, the birthday of Vincent Furnier, who rock music fans know better as Alice Cooper. Onstage he was wild, provocative, shocking; offstage he spent a lot of time helping a certain comedy legend get some sleep. Plus: science geeks on the internet figure out a solution to a seemingly impossible postal conundrum. How Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx got to be midnight buds (Las Vegas Review-Journal)What Could You Stuff in a Post Office Mailer to Exceed the Weight Limit? (Popular Mechanics)Befriend our show as a backer on Patreon