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

So here's the thing. This year marks the 15th anniversary of 99% Invisible, which is honestly kind of hard to believe. If 99% Invisible were a person, it would be old enough to have a provisional driver's license in some states or celebrate a

kintaniera. That's kind of all you can do at age 15 in this country. But still, the first

episode of 99% Invisible was released on September 3rd, 2010. And since then, we've had 15 years

of stories about design, architecture, and the choices we make that shape our world.

15 years of taking the time to stop and read the plaque.

15 years of you, our listeners, sending us the most incredible observations about the built

environment that we never would have noticed on our own.

To mark this milestone, we thought we'd do something a little different.

Instead of our usual deep dive into one particular design story, I'm going to answer 15

questions submitted by our listeners and the staff about the show, about the field of

design, and about me.

And to help me navigate this whole thing, I'm joined by 99PI

producer, Vivian Lay, who will be moderating the questions. Hi, Roman. Happy birthday. Thank you so

much. I'm a little nervous, but I think we'll get through this together. Yeah, yeah. I mean,

granting me the power to choose these questions was a very bold move on your part.

So we'll see how this goes.

We got a lot of fun questions.

Some of them were submitted through email.

Some came through social media, our Discord server.

Oh, nice.

And a bunch of them I just made up because I thought it'd be really funny for you to answer on bike.

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