Radiolab Presents: 99% Invisible

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2011

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Roman Mars loves to spotlight the seams and joints that make up the world around us. He's the host of an irresistible podcast called 99% Invisible--a series of tiny radio stories that provoke enormous questions. Roman joins Jad and Robert to play a few favorites, and to chat about the hidden language of design that shapes our lives--from sound effects to stuff that’s more ... concrete.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.0	Shorts!
0:11.5	From W-N-Y-C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And N-P-R.
0:18.7	Hello, hello, San Francisco.
0:20.5	Hey, I'm Chad, I boom-rod. And I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab, the podcast. And today on the podcast, you know, we consider it our professional duty to try and bring you things that are interesting and make you see the world in a different way. And sometimes that's an idea or a story Today, are we going to listen to these things and
0:38.1	comment on them? Are we going to let them assume? We're going to listen in real time.
0:41.6	Today, it's a guy. Hey, John. It's Robert here, too.
0:44.6	Hey, Robert. His name is Roman Mars. He is a radio story making guy and we think what he's doing
0:52.2	is inspiring. It has kind of a rhythm and musicality that you
0:55.3	don't normally find in radio or podcast storytelling. So we wanted you to know about him, if you
1:00.4	don't already. He makes a podcast called 99% Invisible. We asked him to come into the studio and
1:05.9	present some of his work. So what is 99% invisible? It's a tiny radio program about design and architecture and
1:13.3	all the thought that goes into the things that people don't think about. You know, it could be just
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