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Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.

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Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.

    The Power Broker #03: David Sims

    The Power Broker #03: David Sims

    Featuring Blank Check co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims covering the first section of Part 4, chapters 11-15

    • 2 hr 7 min
    573- Toyetic

    573- Toyetic

    The constant and sometimes fraught back and forth between cartoons and toys, as exemplified by Transformers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    • 39 min
    572- WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm

    572- WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm

    Understanding the clunky Prop 65 warnings on products

    • 42 min
    Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is

    Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is

    A 99pi guide to some of our favorite design features of Santa Fe.

    • 33 min
    438- The Real Book [rebroadcast]

    438- The Real Book [rebroadcast]

    Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book and originally it was a totally unlicensed publication

    • 41 min
    Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal

    Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal

    It’s been said that history is written by the person at the typewriter. But who did the person who made history depend on?

    • 7 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
24.7K Ratings

24.7K Ratings

LinguoDead? ,

Don’t put sirens in your podcast, otherwise great

Love the show, been listening for years. But please Christ don’t put loud sirens in your podcast when you know a huge % of people listen in their cars.

listening with ears ,

It’s not what it used to be

OK, so stomaching Roman Mars’s smarminess was always part of the package. Which was fine – the storytelling really did make up for it. However, shortly after the end of the “fiercely independent” era (he sold it to SiriusXM), it rapidly went downhill. More re-airings of past eps or airings of other podcasts – basically a lot of filler content. And as others have noted, the ad lengths have really gotten out of hand. There are still some fine eps – about 1 in every 3 or 4 are keepers – but it does feel like it’s being a bit phoned in at this point. It’s a shame. But, hey, Roman still retains his upper-middle class smarm – so there’s that.

NM Now ,

Incomplete Santa Fe

Fan of the show but super disappointed that talk of adobe architecture in Santa Fe didn’t include one word about the Pueblo architecture that “Santa Fe style” copied. Would have been so simple to acknowledge the contribution and inspiration from indigenous peoples’ unique architecture, people who lived here for thousands of years before colonization and the ‘founding’ of Santa Fe.

Perhaps an Indigenous person or at least Santa Fe Native would have been a helpful tour companion.

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