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

The whole premise, the whole conceit of this show is that if you look at the world in the right way,

you'll see stories everywhere.

Some of these stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a world famous skyscraper or the founding of a city,

but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale.

We call those mini stories.

Many stories are an end of the year tradition where 99 FBI producers and friends of

the show, join me on Mike to tell me about something cool.

That's all I want.

I want to hear something cool, something fun,

something that you could tell your friends or family

during a holiday get-together.

Speaking of family, I have someone here with me, please,

tell these nice people who you are.

I'm Lee Mars, I'm your big sister.

What do you do besides that?

When I'm not big sistering you, I write books or I've written a book about

silence.

The book is called Golden, The Power of Silence in a World of Noise.

And so it is about silence, about why it's important, about what it is, and how to find it in any situation.

So what's an example of finding silence in any situation? So this is not a book for people

running off to retreats and silent retreats for example, for months on end. This is really about finding

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