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- 693 - How the World Ran Out of Everything
Remember when grocery shelves went bare and cargo ships clogged the California coast? That chaos wasn’t just a pandemic hiccup—it was a symptom of a supply chain stretched to its limits.
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 - 33min - 692 - Spirit Halloween
Spirit Halloween takes over empty stores every fall—explore the eerie allure behind these spooky pop-ups and what they say about the decline of retail.
Tue, 22 Oct 2024 - 32min - 691 - The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery
Featuring Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting, and covering the last section of Part 6 and the first section of Part 7, chapters 39-41.
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 2h 51min - 690 - Trompe L'oeilTue, 15 Oct 2024 - 32min
- 689 - Brilliantly Boring
In this bonus episode, Roman unearths the surprising story behind the 99% Invisible's name and delves into the unnoticed brilliance of everyday design—from the origins of reinforced concrete to the artistry of Japan’s manhole covers.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 27min - 688 - Christiania
In Copenhagen, Christiania—a commune born from rebellion—now faces mounting pressures that could force it to choose between its radical ideals and survival.
Tue, 8 Oct 2024 - 40min - 687 - The Infernal Machine
The unexpected story of how Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite—designed to build the world—was co-opted by anarchists to bring about its destruction.
Tue, 1 Oct 2024 - 28min - 686 - Cue the Sun!
The decades-long creation of possibly the most controversial form of entertainment: reality television. How does it shape our world and why–love it or hate it–you should probably understand it.
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 - 35min - 685 - The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter
Featuring Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from the South Bronx, and covering the third section of Part 6, chapters 35-38.
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 2h 32min - 684 - Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages
Zombie mortgages—decades-old debts—are suddenly coming back to life and threatening to take everything away.
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 - 33min - 683 - Medellin, Revisited
Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s Medellin had reinvented itself. But gentrification is allowing criminal gangs to reap large profits from a shadow economy powered by the tourist boom.
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 - 33min - 682 - Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature
In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation.
Fri, 6 Sep 2024 - 41min - 681 - Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That CouldTue, 3 Sep 2024 - 48min
- 680 - Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace
What’s it like for residents to fight like hell for help, but the help on offer means leaving the place they love?
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 - 48min - 679 - Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong
As storms get more extreme and unpredictable, insurance companies are running the numbers on Florida and realizing that the math just isn’t working anymore.
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 - 49min - 678 - Not Built For This #2: The Ripple EffectFri, 23 Aug 2024 - 57min
- 677 - Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl
Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood.
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 - 28min - 676 - The Power Broker #8: Shiloh Frederick
Featuring writer and influencer, Shiloh Frederick, and covering the second section of Part 6, chapters 33-34.
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 - 2h 12min - 675 - Side Projects
A preview of our new mini-series Not Built For This and couple stories from the relaunched What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 - 1h 05min - 674 - Top Billing
When you’re watching the opening credits to a movie, it’s not just a list of names. What you’re actually seeing is intense negotiations by Hollywood stars and their agents playing out in text form.
Tue, 6 Aug 2024 - 29min - 673 - The Art of the Olympics
The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics.
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 - 34min - 672 - The 2024 Olympics SpectacularTue, 23 Jul 2024 - 40min
- 671 - The Power Broker #7: Sec. Pete Buttigieg
Featuring Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and covering the second half of Part 5 and the first section of Part 6, chapters 27-32.
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 - 2h 42min - 670 - A River Runs Through Los Angeles
Decades ago, the city of Los Angeles buried its natural river in concrete and turned it into infrastructure. And understanding why it actively disappeared is key to understanding Los Angeles, California, and our relationship to water. Reported by actor and director, Gillian Jacobs.
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 - 43min - 669 - As Slow As Possible
One intrepid reporter travels to Germany to witness a chord change for an organ concert designed to last 639 years, and to discover why such a concert is even happening in the first place.
Tue, 9 Jul 2024 - 41min - 668 - The Containment Plan (rebroadcast)
It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50 blocks, which is about a fifth of the entire downtown area of Los Angeles. It’s very clear when you’ve entered Skid Row.
Tue, 2 Jul 2024 - 26min - 667 - Backfired: The Vaping Wars
Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 - 52min - 666 - The Power Broker #6: Mike Schur
Featuring television producer, writer, director, and actor Mike Schur, and covering the first half of Part 5, chapters 25-26.
Fri, 21 Jun 2024 - 2h 58min - 665 - Category 6
In the 55 years since the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was created to warn us about hurricanes, hurricanes have become bigger, faster, and more devastating. There's now debate about whether it may be time for something new.
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 - 39min - 664 - The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars
The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world, but the reality of banning them is very complicated.
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 - 35min - 663 - Fact Checking the Supreme Court
Whose job is it to fact check the Supreme Court? As it turns out, no one. So why is it like that, and what even happens when you prove them wrong?
Tue, 4 Jun 2024 - 44min - 662 - Uptown Squirrel [update]
Squirrels were purposefully introduced into our cities in the 1800s, and when their population exploded, we lost track of how many there are.
Tue, 28 May 2024 - 30min - 661 - The Lost Subways of North AmericaWed, 22 May 2024 - 26min
- 660 - The Power Broker #5: Brandy Zadrozny
Featuring Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter for NBC News who covers misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the internet, and covering the last section of Part 4, chapters 21-24.
Sat, 18 May 2024 - 2h 11min - 659 - Rocket ManTue, 14 May 2024 - 40min
- 658 - It's Howdy Doody Time!Tue, 7 May 2024 - 37min
- 657 - BONUS- Towers of Silence: Vulture Conservation
In this bonus episode, Lasha talks about extra reporting she did for Towers of Silence on the current state of vulture conservation.
Fri, 3 May 2024 - 32min - 656 - 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 - Towers of SilenceTue, 23 Apr 2024 - 1h 11min
- 654 - The Power Broker #4: 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 - 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 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant PersonsTue, 9 Apr 2024 - 35min
- 651 - 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 - Autism PleasantvilleWed, 27 Mar 2024 - 32min
- 648 - The Monster Under the SinkTue, 19 Mar 2024 - 27min
- 647 - The Power Broker #3: 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 #2: Jamelle BouieFri, 16 Feb 2024 - 1h 45min
- 639 - The White Castle System of Eating HousesTue, 13 Feb 2024 - 42min
- 638 - 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 - 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 - The Double KickWed, 24 Jan 2024 - 51min
- 634 - The Power Broker #1: Robert Caro
Featuring author Robert Caro covering The Introduction, Part 1, and Part 2 (intro through chapter 5).
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 1h 33min - 633 - Imitation NationTue, 16 Jan 2024 - 34min
- 632 - 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 - Another Visit from the Three Santas of SloveniaTue, 26 Dec 2023 - 38min
- 630 - 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 - Empire of the SumWed, 13 Dec 2023 - 33min
- 628 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The Six-Week CureTue, 7 Nov 2023 - 34min
- 623 - The Fever Tree HuntTue, 31 Oct 2023 - 40min
- 622 - Model VillageTue, 24 Oct 2023 - 35min
- 621 - 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 - You Ain’t Nothin But a PostmarkTue, 10 Oct 2023 - 32min
- 619 - 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 - Devil in the DetailsTue, 26 Sep 2023 - 34min
- 617 - Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera HouseTue, 19 Sep 2023 - 40min
- 616 - Blood in the MachineTue, 12 Sep 2023 - 29min
- 615 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Trail Mix: Track TwoTue, 15 Aug 2023 - 34min
- 611 - Trail MixTue, 8 Aug 2023 - 35min
- 610 - Cooking with GasTue, 1 Aug 2023 - 29min
- 609 - 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 - Shade ReduxTue, 18 Jul 2023 - 29min
- 607 - Chick TractsTue, 11 Jul 2023 - 34min
- 606 - In Proximity: Ryan Coogler and Roman MarsWed, 5 Jul 2023 - 30min
- 605 - 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 - 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 - The Siren of Scrap MetalTue, 13 Jun 2023 - 34min
- 602 - Courtroom SketchTue, 6 Jun 2023 - 36min
- 601 - 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 - Train Set: Track ThreeTue, 23 May 2023 - 31min
- 599 - Paved ParadiseWed, 17 May 2023 - 26min
- 598 - Nuts and BoltsTue, 9 May 2023 - 37min
- 597 - CraptionsTue, 2 May 2023 - 32min
- 596 - For Amusement Only (Free Replay)Tue, 25 Apr 2023 - 29min
- 595 - Dear John and RomanWed, 19 Apr 2023 - 1h 05min
- 594 - 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
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