The Lows of High Tech
99% Invisible
SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
4.8 • 28.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
| 0:05.6 | Britt Young is a geographer and tech writer based in the Bay Area and she loves a good theme party. |
| 0:11.8 | My whole life I've done some silly themed parties and when |
| 0:16.8 | she says silly she's not exaggerating. producer Vivian Lay. She told me about a |
| 0:22.4 | party she threw once based on an obscure sitcom about a rural Canadian |
| 0:25.8 | farming community. |
| 0:27.4 | She also used to host annual Ragers in honor of Billy Mays, you know, that guy from the |
| 0:31.7 | Oxy Clean infomercials. |
| 0:33.0 | Roman March here for 99 P.I. |
| 0:35.0 | But a few years ago, she threw her wildest party yet. |
| 0:39.0 | It was an arm party. |
| 0:41.0 | Brit has what's called a congenital upper limb deficiency. |
| 0:44.6 | In other words, she was born without the part of her arm just below her left elbow. |
| 0:49.2 | This latest celebration was a farewell to her boring old prosthesis and a welcome home to her brand new multi articulating |
| 0:57.6 | by Anic Hand. |
| 0:59.1 | We had a friend who played bartender and we had a bunch of arm themed cocktails. |
| 1:05.8 | There was Armageddon, pink armadillo, a bunch of things like that. |
| 1:10.6 | There were also arm themed games like arm twister, which was normal twister. |
| 1:13.7 | Which was normal twister, but any time that you needed assistance, you could grab a free |
| 1:19.3 | prosthetic arm to reach Yellow five easier or whatever. |
| 1:24.0 | She even christened the high-tech arm by cutting a cake with it. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm really trying to be Twitter and please tweet it. |
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