Roman Mars
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Creator/Host of @99piorg & @learnconlaw . @TEDTalks has over 7M views. Your flag redesign is probably good. NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City:
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@JustinMcElroy
...”what you gotta do is take the weekend and go through the whole internet and then you can get it out of your system”
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After 10 years of 99pi being an independent production, with our 10th year probably being our biggest ever-- putting out three special project spin offs and a best selling book-- I’ve decided to sell the company to SiriusXM, specifically Stitcher (their podcast company)
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This is well documented, but my vexillological first love is the Chicago flag. Reply with your favorite. No hate, just love. Pick one and post it. Let's make a pretty flag thread.
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This is 99% Invisible. I’m Roman Mars.
I wonder who invented stairs?
I bet it was a long time ago, right?
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BTW, before we sold, I broke off Articles of Interest and gave it to
@trufelman
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To my front porch package thief: I hope you learn something about WEB Du Bois’s sociological infographics of Black America, ya fucker
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My staff assures me that this not an insult
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Dear
@BarackObama
, I'm doing a year-long podcast book club breaking down The Power Broker on my show 99% Invisible. You've said "it helped to shape how I think about politics." Would you come on the show & talk about that? It'll be very fun & we'll get a lot of people reading it
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We just published our 500th episode. That amount of history can be daunting if you're coming across a podcast for the first time, so if you'd like to help us celebrate that milestone, gently guide your friends or followers to an episode you like. That would be amazing. Thank you!
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I'm tempted to add "I'm working on a book about the satanic panic" to my bio just for fun.
@Remember_Sarah
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It’d be pretty easy to retcon Grosse Pointe Blank into the John Wick Universe
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I replaced the low beams on my car by myself. This accomplishment is really propping me up today.
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You’ll never notice the sound of anything different, except I get to be involved more in the stories. So much of my job had become running a business and not making a podcast. I desperately needed that to change.
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that gravel better be cronchin or i don't believe you were actually there
why does every public radio story start with five seconds of a reporter stepping on leaves or struggling to get on the zoom call
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It is literally written at the top of every script and recorded fresh each time
Just outta curiosity. Does
@romanmars
say “This is 99% invisible,I’m Roman Mars” everytime for every new episode or was it recorded once and been in use since?
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"...we just believe we were chosen by god to rule over you. that's all."
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Have we tried different ironing board shapes? Because I'm not convinced this is the best possible one.
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I once thought Twitter was this great evolution in how we experienced breaking news, now I can’t tell if the Queen is dead or almost dead
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First episode covering the first 90 or so pages drops on Friday Jan 19. WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROBERT CARO!!!!
Just got my copy of The Power Broker. Maybe I should have thought twice about hardcover. This thing is a beast.
@romanmars
when does the first episode drop? I'm looking forward to reading along.
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Big announcement from 99pi tomorrow. Very excited about a new series and new partnership launching next week.
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The best way to not exploit celebrities and their personal lives is to not give a fuck about them. I highly recommend it.
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@JustinMcElroy
I was just starting grad school when the lab went online. I remember telling one of my professors that I found it distracting looking at band pages and searching for guitar tabs on the internet and he said...
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At some point I inadvertently began talking in real life with pauses and retakes as if I would later be cutting my audio for broadcast
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Who here has a connection to
@SecretaryPete
? I feel like he needs to be on 99% Invisible. He can just hang out. Talk about whatever he wants.
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I still believe in the ongoing mission of Radiotopia and the amazing work of PRX on the forefront of public radio and I hope you continue to support them. I certainly do. I’m personally donating $1,000,000 to PRX/Radiotopia so they keep going strong.
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Will your terrorist mob be there?
To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
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That’s what you get for naming an arena after a transient, flash in the pan technology like the staple
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Not if everyone votes to impeach and convict him! It's really an opportunity for unity.
McCarthy: "Impeaching the president with just 12 days left in his term will only divide our country more."
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The Netherlands is now a cycling paradise, but that was far from inevitable. After being nearly pushed off the road in favor of cars in the 1970s, bikes fought their way back in one of the great comebacks in history.
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This is the best
Finally watching Shang-Chi, here as a bus operator to rate the SFT transit factors of The Bus Scene:
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I know we’ve already covered this on the show, but modern weather forecasting is a true marvel and we take for granted how much better it has gotten in such a short amount of time.
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I play a very chill manatee on this show. I’m excited for you to see it!
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after getting the 8th letter on the fourth attempt, I don't know why you didn't stick with it
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It’s shockingly hard to find the max psi number on a car tire. It’s there, but tiny and mixed in with a bunch of other numbers and words, when it should really be the only thing on a tire. As a driver, it’s the only info needed.
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For the 500(!) episode of
@99piorg
we are writing love letters to vernacular architecture. Such as, the DINGBATS of SoCal or southern US porches. Do you have any favorites we should include?
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I was getting flowers today and as a way of getting to know me, the owner/arranger asked “what are you a genius at?” and I thought this was a pretty delightful way to get to know someone
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Every year I think we should do a story about Spirit stores that starts when they open around Labor Day and goes until they close after Halloween. Every year I only remember around now, so it never happens. I find them so fascinating.
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What if this size and shape of allen wrench is never manufactured again?
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First order of business
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Sometimes I get so mad thinking about Robert Moses it ruins my day
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I find myself often wondering if aquatic and semi-aquatic birds and mammals feel the sensation of wetness
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The same 99pi crew are going to make the show, we’re our own editorial unit, and show will be still be available anywhere to everyone.
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I’m on the Quick and the Dead episode of
@blankcheckpod
asserting my indisputable opinion that it is a masterpiece. Thanks to
@GriffLightning
@davidlsims
@benhosley
for having me on!
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Me literally holding my heart talking to Robert Caro for the first episode of The 99pi Power Broker Breakdown. We cover the intro, part 1, and part 2, plus a long convo with the great man himself on Jan 19. Check for it in the 99% Invisible feed.
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The flag of Ukraine is great and beautiful with lovely symbolism. But are there any designers/painters/color theory people who can explain why brain thinks it’s upside down when I see it at first glance, even thought I know it’s not? 🇺🇦?
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Nothing abnormal about it
VEXILLOMANIA is an abnormal passion for flags.
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The launch of the John Carpenter series on
@blankcheckpod
is truly the thing I’m most excited for in all of pop culture.
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@hankgreen
Yeah, this is why Roberts wrote a separate opinion. Uphold the ban but not overturn Roe. He’s not exactly an ally but he thought the rapid change & overturning of precedent was bad. Those 3 Trump appointees gave the old radicals the votes to make the most extreme stance possible
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The first official episode covering the intro, part 1 and part 2- Plus an interview with Robert Caro!- drops tonight at midnight (or so)!
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Standing in the vaccine booster line between two families, each dad wearing a
@tmbg
t-shirt.
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20 years ago a man claiming to be a “sexpert” from the future handed me this book (after he had sex with me) and told me to use it to become a successful podcaster. It worked! Now the timeline has caught up and I know the truth.
The
@McElroyFamily
how-to podcast book "Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)" comes out Jan. 26th! It's will teach you everything you need to know to make a podcast you are proud of! PreOrder today!
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This is basically our whole deal
@99piorg
@OBONSOCIETY
@KurtKohlstedt
Was going to skip this episode thinking “idc about flags 🤷♀️ but damnit if that damn Japanese Good Luck flag story didn’t have me in tears on my morning jog today. Well done y’all. Great story 👏👏
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The most thoughtful and arresting aspects of The Last Of Us were front and center week to week in Station Eleven. If you missed it, definitely give it your time.
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So here’s a thing that happened:
@BillClinton
interviewed ME
"There's always these little moments to improve and do something to make the world better."
Listen to a NEW episode of President
@BillClinton
’s “Why Am I Telling You This?” with 99% Invisible's
@romanmars
— on how great design can lead to a great society:
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My unalloyed greatness continues to be unappreciated on the company slack
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I know! I know!
What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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It's not quite a duck. It's not quite a decorated shed. It's...something....else....
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This is excellent news
@99piorg
@romanmars
Semi-related to your small aisle episode: Cool Ranch Doritos are called Cool American in Iceland.
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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Some good news!
"Human foot" in field turns out to be potato after "large-scale" police search in Gateshead
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I chose Stitcher as my new partner because I already knew, trusted and respected everyone there. Peter Clowney will oversee 99pi with me. I have a long history with Peter. He’s the best.
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Coming in 2024...
@ElliottKalan
and I will spend the year reading and breaking down THE POWER BROKER with special guests...
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Let’s do it
@bborrman
@netflix
Actually,
@netflix
should just ink a deal with
@romanmars
and produce the 99pi back catalogue
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time to finish the job
165 years ago today the United States eliminated the half cent coin
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I would tell you, but there's all these companies and an organized PR strategy and stuff, but I'm up late feeling excited.
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Please do me one last favor and subscribe to 99% Invisible. It’s good, thoughtful media of which I’m proud to be a part. RT, share, subscribe. It’s about how the world works, why it is the way it is and that it’s not all bad, except when it is.
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Whenever I see final vote tallies I’m struck by just how few people it takes to inflict these cruel retrograde morons on us
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The British stole a lot of stuff and a new ABC podcast tells the not-so-polite history of a handful of objects that offer fascinating and complex stories of colonialism and thievery. We feature one ep & talk to the show creator
@MarcFennell
. It's so good!
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If you’re subscribed now, you will stay subscribed. It’s the same show.
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Yikes!
Barriers on both sides of the bike lane ... death trap in the middle‽ 🤦
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I never intentionally type fir. I always mean to type for. This is the only instance when I want spell check to be more aggressive. Instead, it’s so certain I really mean fir, it gives me the option of displaying a little 🌲 tree
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The most recent three regular episodes of
@99piorg
are so great: bleep button, the infrastructure that allows toddlers to do errands in Japan, and North Korean statues in Africa. You should catch up if you’re behind or get on board if you’re new to us. You’ll be happy!
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We reference masturbation in an upcoming episode and I say “Jack off” in a joking way. Should the episode have a disclaimer up top? I’ve been saying it’s not necessary but my younger colleagues keep telling me it is! They didn’t grow up with PG rated 80s sex comedies
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Renting a streaming movie for $19.99 versus buying for $24.99 really fucks with my head
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Radiotopia is a groundbreaking network and non-profit collective... it has never been a company on purpose, and as such, even though I was the co-founder, I never owned any part of it. I think that was so weird to people that no one really understood it.
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I could explain the the hell out of some manhole covers over this track
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Why would I ever want the playback engine to be the fucking microphone?
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@hankgreen
It’s destructive and awful. It has nothing to do with reasoned argument, it barely pretends to be. It’s so disingenuous. It’s all about power.
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I want the next James Bond to go on a mission and finish that mission. And then there’ll be another movie with another mission and complete that mission without referencing the previous mission.
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It became more successful than I ever imagined when we dreamed it up in a cabin in rural Massachusetts several years ago. I raised money and worked side by side with amazing podcasters, each of them retaining ownership and control of their own work.
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Young, super-talented video artist tweeted a sample TikTok video he made using audio from the show asking to be an intern. We were like, let’s just hire you to make videos! Follow his journey here & our stories on TikTok. It’ll be a cool mix of adaptations & new stuff
Alright everyone, it’s here! The first official
@99piorg
TikTok! Go watch this teaser video, follow, and then pop back over for some needlessly in-depth commentary!
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@Skogur2
they all got bonuses, equity, and higher pay and they get some security the show will keep going even if some platform flips a switch and changes the podcast business model overnight
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