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

Hello friends, we have just 10 days before season 3 starts.

September 19th is the big day. The plan is a new episode every nine days and Sam is here keeping us on task and you're

really enjoy the new shows we're working on. In the meantime I literally have 10,000

tiny pocket-sized notebooks at my house that have to package and ship along with a

thousand t-shirts.

This is all result of a fantastic Kickstarter campaign.

I'm not complaining at all.

It's great, but we're working day and night here at 99 P. I. H.C. So rather than reorder the feed

with a repeat or make you wait another week and a half, I have a story from a radio show that I've only

recently started listening to, but it's just great.

It's called Backstory with the American history guys.

And it's just a highly enjoyable show and you don't even need to love history to enjoy it. You just need to be curious about the world

around you and like stories about how it got that way, which I guess is the definition of history, but the point is I think you're going to like it.

Since 99% invisible is obsessed with the things we build and what these things say about us,

usually in indirect or abstruse ways.

I'm drawn to monuments because these are things we build that from the moment of their inception,

they're desperately trying to tell you a story, and to give a

give a place where a moment in time,

significance and meaning.

But that meaning that's infused in the concrete and stone

can be slanted,ful bigoted maybe misguided or even

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