Mooallempalooza

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As you probably know, 99% Invisible is a show about the built world, about things manufactured by humans. We don’t tend to do stories about animals or nature. But our friend Jon Mooallem writes brilliant stories about the weird interactions between ani...

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:02.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.0	During this holiday season, we have a special episode with two stories from one of my favorite writers,
0:10.0	John Muallum.
0:11.0	He is a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and also a writer at large for Pop Up magazine and we're lucky to have had him on the show a few times.
0:18.7	The first story is about the origin of the teddy bear and its would-be successor. And we also have this encore presentation of Wild-Ches. the
0:23.2	teddy bear and its would-be successor. And we also have this encore presentation of Wild Ones Live,
0:25.6	the song and story extravaganza that's probably my favorite thing that we broadcast
0:30.7	and it deserves to be listened to numerous times.
0:33.0	Here we go.
0:34.0	It's totally unfair.
0:39.0	Hydrox cookies came out in 1908.
0:43.0	Oreos didn't show up until four years later,
0:47.0	but it didn't matter.
0:48.0	Hydrox could never shake the image of being a knockoff and also ran.
0:54.0	Hydrox lovers would champion its tang year cream filling.
0:57.6	Vegetarians would praise them for being cruelty-free while America's favorite cookie,
1:02.1	the Oreo, contained animal art until the mid 90s.
1:06.7	As a consumer product, it's just not up to you.
1:09.9	Sometimes you're deemed the mighty transformer, and sometimes you're the loathsome go-bot.
1:17.0	One shall stand, and one shall fall.
1:21.0	It's capricious who wins. Swiss Cake Roll versus Ho Ho, Twizzler versus Red Vine.
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