This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

It's the end of the year and it's time for our annual mini-stories episodes.

Maybe if I knew five years ago that these episodes would become an audience favorite and

we do them every single year, I might have come up with a better name than mini-stories,

but here we are.

You got to dance with the girl that Brunga.

Mini-stories are fun, quick hit stories that maybe came up in our research from their episode

or it was just some cool thing someone told us about and we found really interesting, but

they didn't quite warrant a full episode in two months of hard reporting.

But they are great 99pi stories nonetheless.

My favorite part is we do them as unscripted interviews where I'm in the studio interviewing

the people who work on this show who I like and off a lot.

Sometimes I know a little bit about what they're going to talk about and sometimes I know

nothing.

It is very fun, especially for me.

This week we have stories about mistaken identity, unreachable iconic tour destinations, haunted

architecture and of course raccoons.

Stay with us.

So I'm in the studio with Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm told you have a story about a park.

Yes, a park in Ottawa, Canada called Jack Purcell Park and you know, it's a pretty ordinary

looking park in many ways.

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