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- 656 - 580- Mr Yuk
Our pal Gillian Jacobs takes us through the history of poison control and the yucky face meant to warn children about the dangers lurking in their kitchen cabinets
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 56min - 655 - 579- Towers of SilenceTue, 23 Apr 2024 - 1h 11min
- 654 - The Power Broker: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Featuring the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and covering the second section of Part 4, chapters 16-20.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 2h 39min - 653 - 578- Anything's Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
Dan Pashman embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about the evolution of pasta more broadly.
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 44min - 652 - 577- The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant PersonsTue, 9 Apr 2024 - 35min
- 651 - 576- Chambre de Bonne
The history of the chambre de bonne, the tiny French apartment type that may be, finally, on the way out.
Tue, 2 Apr 2024 - 33min - 650 - Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It IsFri, 29 Mar 2024 - 36min
- 649 - 575- Autism PleasantvilleWed, 27 Mar 2024 - 32min
- 648 - 574- The Monster Under the SinkTue, 19 Mar 2024 - 27min
- 647 - The Power Broker #03: David Sims
Featuring Blank Check co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims covering the first section of Part 4, chapters 11-15
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 2h 07min - 646 - 573- Toyetic
The constant and sometimes fraught back and forth between cartoons and toys, as exemplified by Transformers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 39min - 645 - 572- WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive HarmTue, 5 Mar 2024 - 42min
- 644 - Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It IsSat, 2 Mar 2024 - 33min
- 643 - 438- The Real Book [rebroadcast]
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book and originally it was a totally unlicensed publication
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 - 41min - 642 - Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal
It’s been said that history is written by the person at the typewriter. But who did the person who made history depend on?
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 07min - 641 - 571- You Are What You Watch
How much film and television shapes us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give it credit for
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 31min - 640 - The Power Broker #02: Jamelle BouieFri, 16 Feb 2024 - 1h 45min
- 639 - 570- The White Castle System of Eating HousesTue, 13 Feb 2024 - 42min
- 638 - 569- Between the Blocks
The interblock parks of Sofia, Bulgaria that are caught between old failed communism and new hyper capitalism
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 - 33min - 637 - 568- Don't Forget to Remember
There are memorials to lost fishermen, lost astronauts, even lost members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. What should a COVID pandemic memorial look like?
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 - 39min - 636 - Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It IsFri, 26 Jan 2024 - 37min
- 635 - 567- The Double KickWed, 24 Jan 2024 - 51min
- 634 - The Power Broker #01: Robert CaroFri, 19 Jan 2024 - 1h 33min
- 633 - 566- Imitation NationTue, 16 Jan 2024 - 34min
- 632 - 565- Mini-Stories: Volume 18
Upside-down construction, the linguistics of filler, and a fire that has been burning...and will burn... for decades.
Tue, 9 Jan 2024 - 34min - 631 - 470- Another Visit from the Three Santas of SloveniaTue, 26 Dec 2023 - 38min
- 630 - 564- Mini-Stories: Volume 17
We have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred year old music streaming service, and the crazy way the French tried to make telling time less crazy
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 48min - 629 - 563- Empire of the SumWed, 13 Dec 2023 - 33min
- 628 - 562- Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan are starting The Power Broker book club that will run through all of 2024 as bonus episodes. This introductory episode features Conan O'Brien.
Tue, 5 Dec 2023 - 44min - 627 - 344- The Known Unknown [rebroadcast]
The tradition of the Tomb of the Unknown goes back only about a century, but it has become one of the most solemn and reverential monuments.
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 - 45min - 626 - 561- Long Strange Tape
A band that was never meant to be recorded and a personal recorder that was never designed to capture music came together and were somehow perfect for each other
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 34min - 625 - 560- Home on the Range
A town's fight to be free from the noise and trauma of the Cincinnati Police Department's open-air gun range
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 39min - 624 - 559- The Six-Week CureTue, 7 Nov 2023 - 34min
- 623 - 558- The Fever Tree HuntTue, 31 Oct 2023 - 40min
- 622 - 557- Model VillageTue, 24 Oct 2023 - 35min
- 621 - 328- Devolutionary Redesign
Devo’s first record and the fight over the arresting image of a flashy, handsome golf legend on the cover.
Tue, 17 Oct 2023 - 31min - 620 - 556- You Ain’t Nothin But a PostmarkTue, 10 Oct 2023 - 32min
- 619 - 555- The Big Dig
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors, outright fraud and even the death of one motorist. It became a kind of poster child for big government ‘boondoggles.’ But the full story is of course much more complicated – and really represents a turning point in how America builds infrastructure.
Tue, 3 Oct 2023 - 55min - 618 - 554- Devil in the DetailsTue, 26 Sep 2023 - 34min
- 617 - 553- Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera HouseTue, 19 Sep 2023 - 40min
- 616 - 552- Blood in the MachineTue, 12 Sep 2023 - 29min
- 615 - 389- Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out AGAIN
The story of how "Who Let The Dogs Out" ended up stuck in all of our brains. A story that goes back over 50 years and spans continents.
Tue, 5 Sep 2023 - 38min - 614 - 551- Office Space
Solving the housing crisis and the office vacancy crisis with one obvious and elegant idea: office to housing conversion. If it were only that simple.
Tue, 29 Aug 2023 - 32min - 613 - 550- Melanie Speaks
The story of a voice training VHS tape that helped trans women at a time when other resources were hard to access
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 - 50min - 612 - 549- Trail Mix: Track TwoTue, 15 Aug 2023 - 34min
- 611 - 548- Trail MixTue, 8 Aug 2023 - 35min
- 610 - 547- Cooking with GasTue, 1 Aug 2023 - 29min
- 609 - 546- The Country of the Blind
Andrew Leland takes us through the fascinating history of alternative reading technologies designed for blind people and discusses his fantastic new book The Country of the Blind, which is out today!
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 - 47min - 608 - 545- Shade ReduxTue, 18 Jul 2023 - 29min
- 607 - 544- Chick TractsTue, 11 Jul 2023 - 34min
- 606 - 543- In Proximity: Ryan Coogler and Roman MarsWed, 5 Jul 2023 - 30min
- 605 - 542- Player Piano
Composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT world
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 - 53min - 604 - 541- The Frankfurt Kitchen
Many consider Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen to be nothing less than the first modern kitchen.
Tue, 20 Jun 2023 - 34min - 603 - 540- The Siren of Scrap MetalTue, 13 Jun 2023 - 34min
- 602 - 539- Courtroom SketchTue, 6 Jun 2023 - 36min
- 601 - 415- Goodnight Nobody [rebroadcast]
The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library's children's reading room and Goodnight Moon
Wed, 31 May 2023 - 43min - 600 - 538- Train Set: Track ThreeTue, 23 May 2023 - 31min
- 599 - 537- Paved ParadiseWed, 17 May 2023 - 26min
- 598 - 536- Nuts and BoltsTue, 9 May 2023 - 37min
- 597 - 535- CraptionsTue, 2 May 2023 - 32min
- 596 - 534- For Amusement Only (Free Replay)Tue, 25 Apr 2023 - 29min
- 595 - 533- Dear John and RomanWed, 19 Apr 2023 - 1h 05min
- 594 - 532- For a Dollar and a Dream
From scratchers to the Powerball, the lottery is the most popular form of gambling in the United States, even though the odds of winning a big jackpot is infinitesimally small.
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 - 39min - 593 - 531- De Fiets Is Niets
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise, but that was far from inevitable
Tue, 4 Apr 2023 - 43min - 592 - 530- The Panopticon Effect
The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. It’s become the metaphor for the surveillance state, but very few actual prisons were built around this idea. Breda Dome is one of them.
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - 37min - 591 - 529- The Wilderness Tool
The rise, fall, and unexpected second life of the crosscut saw is also the story of how America created the very concept of wilderness.
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 - 44min - 590 - Twenty Thousand Hertz- GoldenFri, 17 Mar 2023 - 32min
- 589 - 528- A Whale-Oiled MachineTue, 14 Mar 2023 - 34min
- 588 - 420- The Lost Cities of Geo ReduxTue, 7 Mar 2023 - 43min
- 587 - 527- RoboUmpTue, 28 Feb 2023 - 27min
- 586 - 526- Orange AlternativeWed, 22 Feb 2023 - 32min
- 585 - 525- The Chinatown Punk Wars
When LA punks were looking for a place to play in the late 1970s, Chinatown welcomed the unruly scene. But it was an uneasy alliance that led to fierce rivalries, hurt feelings, blatant racism, and broken toilets. At the center of it all was Esther Wong.
Tue, 14 Feb 2023 - 43min - 584 - 524- The Day the Music Stopped
On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share.
Wed, 8 Feb 2023 - 50min - 583 - 523- Six-on-Six Basketball
In the 20th century, Iowa high school girls basketball was HUGE but it was not the game we know today
Tue, 31 Jan 2023 - 41min - 582 - 522- The Comrades
How an ultra-marathon called The Comrades became a national obsession in South Africa and a model for inclusion during some of the most divided moments in the country's history
Tue, 24 Jan 2023 - 42min - 581 - 521- A Sea of YellowTue, 17 Jan 2023 - 34min
- 580 - 520- Mini-Stories: Volume 16
We’re kicking off the new year at 99pi with a fresh installment of mini-stories, including: what lies at the intersection of a street and a road; the most unlikely of theme parks; and the evolution of ancient alleyways in Beijing, China.
Tue, 10 Jan 2023 - 33min - 579 - 519- Balikbayan Boxes
A Balikbayan box is a huge cardboard box (often weighing over 100 pounds) that Filipinos living all over the world send to family members who are still living in the Philippines
Wed, 21 Dec 2022 - 36min - 578 - 518- Mini-Stories: Volume 15
It's Mini-Story Season! You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty! And a visit from the queen!
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 - 37min - 577 - 517- The Divided Dial
If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good old-fashioned AM and FM radio — you may have noticed something. Right wing radio talk is everywhere.
Tue, 6 Dec 2022 - 46min - 576 - 516- Cougar TownTue, 29 Nov 2022 - 29min
- 575 - 515- Super Citizens
There is a subset of real life superheroes who are more focused on things like picking up trash and taking on civic issues than catching criminals in alleys
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 - 26min - 574 - 405- Freedom House Ambulance Service: American SirensWed, 16 Nov 2022 - 45min
- 573 - 514- Train Set: Track TwoWed, 9 Nov 2022 - 32min
- 572 - Articles of Interest: American IvyWed, 2 Nov 2022 - 37min
- 571 - 513- The Safety Bicycle
Jody Rosen joins us to talk about the evolution of the bicycle, how it became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1800s, then a symbol of protest, and a lightning rod for political controversy. And we’ll find out what’s next for the bike, in a world built for cars.
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 - 33min - 570 - 512- Walk of Fame
Reporter/producer Gillian Jacobs (Community, Winning Time) takes us on a stroll on the Walk of Fame, a 1.3 mile monument which chronicles Hollywood history and the vicissitudes of fame itself
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 - 47min - 569 - 511- VuvuzelaTue, 11 Oct 2022 - 32min
- 567 - 510- Wickedest Sound
Jamaica is famous around the world for its music, including genres like ska, dub, and reggae. It’s tempting to think that the powerful amplifiers and giant speakers at the dance parties were designed to perfectly capture Jamaica’s indigenous sounds. But it’s actually the other way around. Those speakers and amps came first.
Tue, 4 Oct 2022 - 42min - 566 - 509- Tale of the Jackalope
The jackalope is a mythical mascot of the American West – inspiring an absolute river of trinkets and songs and whiskies and postcards and tall tales.
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 - 34min - 565 - 508- President Clinton Interviews Roman Mars
On this special feature episode, President Bill Clinton interviews 99% Invisible host and creator Roman Mars.
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 - 49min - 564 - 507- Search and Ye Might FindWed, 14 Sep 2022 - 36min
- 563 - 506- Monumental Diplomacy
North Korea's state-run design studio has long been a prolific maker of statues around the world, particularly in Africa
Tue, 6 Sep 2022 - 36min - 562 - 505- First Errand
The infrastructure, zoning, and cultural factors that make the hit Japanese TV program Old Enough, where toddlers go on errands by themselves, possible
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 - 28min - 561 - 504- Bleep!
There's a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV. But there are other options, too, like silence -- so why did this particular *bleep* sound become ubiquitous?
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 - 31min - 560 - What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law- The Longest Week
We're sharing the latest episode of Roman's other show What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law, your guide to the US Constitution and the Supreme Court.
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 - 29min - 559 - 503- Re:peatWed, 10 Aug 2022 - 40min
- 558 - 502- 99% Vernacular: Volume 3
In the final episode of our vernacular spectacular anniversary series, 99pi producers and friends of the show will be sharing more stories of regional architecture–some close to home, some on remote islands– that capture our imagination and inspire us to look deeper.
Wed, 3 Aug 2022 - 34min - 557 - 501- 99% Vernacular: Volume 2Tue, 26 Jul 2022 - 30min
- 556 - 500- 99% Vernacular: Volume 1
We often tell stories about how people shape the built world, but on this milestone 500th episode, we're telling stories about how the built world has shaped us (with good history and facts thrown in, because we're us).
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 - 33min
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