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99% Invisible Roman Mars
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4.8 • 25K Ratings
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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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The 2024 Olympics Spectacular
Weird Sports, White Elephants, and When Doves Cry
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The Power Broker #07: Sec. Pete Buttigieg
Featuring Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and covering the second half of Part 5 and the first section of Part 6, chapters 27-32.
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A River Runs Through Los Angeles
Decades ago, the city of Los Angeles buried its natural river in concrete and turned it into infrastructure. And understanding why it actively disappeared is key to understanding Los Angeles, California, and our relationship to water. Reported by actor and director, Gillian Jacobs.
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As Slow As Possible
One intrepid reporter travels to Germany to witness a chord change for an organ concert designed to last 639 years, and to discover why such a concert is even happening in the first place.
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The Containment Plan (rebroadcast)
It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50 blocks, which is about a fifth of the entire downtown area of Los Angeles. It’s very clear when you’ve entered Skid Row.
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
Customer Reviews
So, So Great, But One Small Correction...
But the Power Broker series is beyond. One small gripe: our state capital is pronounced AWL-bany. Should it be? Who can say.
Personally I think you and your guests are becoming influenced to name it after Al Smith and that's why everyone on is calling it Al-bany.
Think of how Caro's perfect accent from a fading era of New York would say it and adopt the Awl-bany, Noo Yawk pronunciation as your own.
Love The Powerbroker!
Your episodes on The Powerbroker are the most entertaining, educational, and fun that I have heard on your podcast for a while! I love the deep dives into the book, hearing your banter, and the really spectacular guests you have onto discuss the book. it was not a book that was on my near term reading list, but you inspired me to pick it up and love the world of Robert Caro as much as you. I’m looking forward to all of The Powerbroker episodes to come and hopefully you take up another project like this.
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My kids can’t handle that I’m 700 pages into reading for your book club about political design of urban infrastructure , but if I say this is about “bob the builder “ then it’s cool .