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315- Everything is Alive

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show with host Ian Chillag in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story -- and everything it says is true.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 99% Indusible. I'm Roman Mars.

0:03.6

Ian Chilogue is a radio producer.

0:06.0

You might recognize his name from the

0:07.8

end credits of the NPR quiz show,

0:09.4

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me,

0:10.6

or as the co-host of the Now Defunct Podcast,

0:14.0

How to Do Everything,

0:15.2

which I just loved. It's such a good show.

0:17.4

He has a new podcast out right now,

0:19.0

launching this week,

0:20.2

and it's delightfully weird.

0:22.6

Well, the show is called Everything is Alive,

0:25.4

and it's an interview show,

0:27.8

in which all the subjects are inanimate objects.

0:31.4

So, I talked to things.

0:33.8

So what made you want to do a show like this?

0:38.0

Well, a couple things.

0:39.6

Like, one, I think it's just like,

0:41.6

I would just sort of think this way,

0:44.6

like I'd get up from a chair and think about

0:48.6

what a terrible job the chair had,

0:51.4

and like how the chair must feel

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