142- And The Winner Is

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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There’s a little trophy shop called Aardvark Laser Engraving down the street from our office in Oakland. Its small but bustling, and its windows are stuffed to the brim with awards made of all kinds of materials and in any … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:05.4	Trophies are hard for people to throw away. There's actually a service in medicine
0:09.4	Wisconsin that will recycle your old trophies and turn them into new ones. They replace the name
0:14.6	plates they polish them up and then donate them to nonprofits like the Boys and Girls Club or
0:18.9	the Special Olympics. Some of the trophies they get come from people who have passed away.
0:23.6	They're surviving relatives in them. And sometimes they're from people who are just tired of their
0:28.4	trophies taking up space in their homes. In both cases people will actually pay the shipping to
0:34.4	medicine to avoid putting their trophies in the trash. Donna Gray who runs the service with
0:39.2	her daughter Janet says that sometimes people request to be told where their old trophies end up.
0:46.2	Almost like they're donating an organ. Most of the time the materials that make them are cheap
0:52.4	but that's not how you measure the value of a trophy. There's a little trophy shop down the street
0:59.1	from our office in Oakland. It's small but bustling and it's windows are stuffed to the brim with
1:04.4	awards made of all kinds of materials and in any shape you can imagine. Chalices, orbs, golfers,
1:12.3	gaffles, apples and plaques. Plenty of plaques. So of course producer Avery Truffleman read them.
1:19.6	We the membership of Mount Zion Log number four present this token of appreciation to brother Willie
1:25.6	Adamus. We honor and welcome you. Amazing. They're allowed to reveal who that is. Honorable
1:33.2	award of excellence presented to Gavin Newsom Mayor of San Francisco. An appreciation for your
1:38.2	contributions to the Nigerian community Club DJ of the year 1990. This one just says rifle expert.
1:44.4	In there are plenty of touchingly heartfelt engravings that you feel that maybe you shouldn't be
1:50.1	reading. To my dear husband Gil on the occasion of our 35th wedding anniversary. Thank you sweet
1:56.3	heart for 35 loving supportive challenging and exciting years together. God has knitted our
2:01.3	hearts together into a beautiful tapestry of love. Julia Radelle runs this shop along with her
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