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99% Invisible

Mini-Stories: Volume 7

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Our annual mini-stories extravaganza, volume 7

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

It's the end of the year and it's time for our annual mini stories episodes.

0:09.0

Maybe if I knew five years ago that these episodes would become an audience favorite and we do them every

0:14.3

single year.

0:15.3

I might have come up with a better name than mini stories, but here we are.

0:19.2

You got to dance with the girl that brung you.

0:21.0

Many stories are fun, quick hit stories that maybe came up in our research for another

0:25.2

episode or it was just some cool things someone told us about and we found really interesting,

0:29.7

but they didn't quite warrant a full episode in two months of hard reporting. But they are great 99 p. I story is nonetheless. My favorite part is we do them as

0:38.5

unscripted interviews where I'm in the studio interviewing the people who work on this show who I like an awful lot

0:44.7

sometimes I know a little bit about what they're going to talk about and sometimes I know nothing it is

0:49.7

very fun especially for me this week we have stories about mistaken identity,

0:54.2

unreachable iconic tour destinations, haunted architecture, and of course,

0:58.9

raccoons. Stay with us.

1:01.2

So I'm in the studio with Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm told Stay with us.

1:02.7

So I'm in the studio with Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm told you have a story about a park.

1:07.0

Yes, a park in Ottawa, Canada called Jack Purcell Park and you know it's a pretty ordinary looking park in many ways it's a little pocket park with some grass some trees community center

1:17.6

But there's one kind of distinctive feature I would say to the park which is the light fixtures.

1:23.0

So take a look at this picture.

1:25.0

So they're, they look like they're about 8 feet tall,

1:28.0

there's a post and an oval on top of it.

1:30.0

It kind of looks like lollipops, like a tennis racket or something like that.

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