Mini-Stories : Volume 13

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're kicking off the new year at 99pi with a fresh installment of mini-stories, including: a strange collision of mundane infrastructure and political insurrection; a graphic design history mystery dating back to the 1980s; what may be the most hated architectural design of 2021; and a record-breaking album cover design so cutting edge it cost more money to make than to buy.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.0	We are back. Happy 2022.
0:08.0	2021 was a weird year full of unexpected twists and turns, but one thing you can count on as we turn the page to a new calendar year are the 99 p.I. Many stories.
0:19.6	This week we have stories about monster dorms, suspicious activity in the tunnels under DC,
0:25.3	the most beautiful and expensive pop record of all time, and jazz cups.
0:31.2	Stay with us. Hey Delaney, happy 2022.
0:37.0	Yeah, same to you.
0:41.0	Same to you.
0:42.0	So you're back again with another story? I am, yeah. So today I want to share the story of someone who, I guess he just seems like a quintessential, beautiful nerd. He was born and raised in DC he loves the city he
0:56.4	loves the obscure infrastructure of the city he just feels like he fits on our
1:01.8	show but that's not the only he just feels like he fits on our show.
1:04.0	But that's not the only reason I wanted to introduce
1:06.6	our listeners to him.
1:07.7	He also intersects with recent history
1:10.0	in this very strange and kind of unsettling way.
1:13.2	Okay, well I am intrigued, tell me more.
1:15.0	So this guy's name is Elliot Carter,
1:17.0	and when he was in his 20s,
1:18.9	he did a Capitol Hill internship.
1:21.5	And he said that this internship was quite boring but that it
1:26.2	did come with a perk which is that they gave him an ID badge that allowed him to
1:31.9	wander around the capital campus.
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