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99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

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4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it wasn’t officially legalized until the summer of 2014. Finally, after more than 80 years of illegitimacy, the City of Oakland has legalized…pinball … Cont...

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:02.4	I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.7	Item 4 is actions on special orders of the day that typically proceeds with your council member
0:08.0	announcements.
0:09.0	What you're hearing is an Oakland California City Council meeting that took place in July of 2014.
0:15.0	There's a whole bunch of different issues on the agenda, everything from allegations of funds being misused.
0:20.0	We know that there was a lot of manipulation of funds, okay? And there's been a big rip-off with those funds.
0:28.0	To announcements of neighborhood parties.
0:30.0	Basketball, pickup games, field games, face painting,
0:34.0	uh, Zuma dancing.
0:36.0	And producer Mickey Capra sat to the entire meeting like a good reporter does.
0:40.0	To hear them say this,
0:42.0	Move the item Madam President.
0:44.0	Move by Vice Mayor Reed.
0:45.0	Second.
0:47.0	Second by Ms. McElhaney and by consensus will adopt the items in the consent count.
0:51.0	So they never actually say it directly,
0:53.8	but by adopting the items in the consent calendar,
0:57.2	what happened there is that the city of Oakland
0:59.4	finally legalized for the first time since the 1930s.
1:05.0	Pinball machines.
1:07.0	I'm Michael Shees.
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