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

Nearly a decade ago, I had this thought that at the end of the year, it would be nice to tell a few little stories. We call them many stories.

Many stories maybe don't rise a level of being a fully reported story, and often there's something silly or interesting that was on the producer's mind.

Maybe it's an outtake from a reported episode.

Maybe it's something completely new.

Many stories were a way to have some fun at the end of the year and for the staff to take a proper vacation.

That was how it all started.

But over the years, many stories have become a monster.

Everyone started preparing really heavily for them.

They started reporting them as full stories, and suddenly, many stories were not so many.

So this year, I decided unilaterally to stop mini inflation and go back to the fundamentals.

All the producers are going to join me in a Zoom room together and tell me stories that I have not heard before.

I am not prepared. I don't know anything about what's going to be told to me. So let's just jump in.

And first up is producer Chris Perrupe. Chris, how you doing?

Roman, it is the most wonderful time of the year. Many stories. Let's do this. I like the attitude. What do you have for us?

So, Roman, I want to call back to a story we did a little bit earlier this year. It's a story that I reported about the great American pyramid.

A new pyramid is being built, not to glorify death, but is a monument that will celebrate life

and man's indomitable spirit to create.

Feel the power of the great American pyramid.

So did you just want an excuse to play that clip again?

Yeah, pretty much.

That's the whole story.

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