So we're doing something a little different this week.

Avery, I'm in the studio with Avery Trofman, say hi.

Hi.

One of the things about this story in particular is that it's about... about the process of ideas and how they move through the world, correct?

Yeah, exactly.

It follows the seed of an idea from one unexpected place to a kind of other unexpected place.

And without giving away the whole story, it's an episode that I did in 2017 that has become very near and dear to me because of what it's about

because it's about where ideas come from and that's something I think about a lot

but it's also because the story isn't over it just continues to unfold like the sequence of inspiration is continuing to unfurl.

And now in the telling of the story, we have become a part of it, which is a cryptic way of saying that there are updates.

So we want to play the story that you did.

Is it called the pool in the stream?

So long ago.

Yeah, yes, I think it's called the Pool in the Stream.

We're going to play the Pool in the Stream, and then we're going to tell you a whole nother story

about how this story went out in the world and changed the world a little bit more.

Yeah. Check it out.

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

When people ask us where we get our stories from, the answer is usually hard to pen down.

It could be something one of us noticed walking around, or something a friend mentioned,

or some forded link on Twitter.

It's nearly impossible to say we're inspiration. or some forted link on Twitter.

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