99% Invisible Stitcher Studios

Been listening for years, my favorite podcast EVER. Love Roman Mars and the entire 99 team through the years. Don’t stop!

I love Roman Mars he is my only reason I listen to 99% invisible-well I also love the interesting things it covers-besides that my point is Roman knows how to tell an intriguing and well thought out story. I also love how comedic he is. So if you see this Roman Mars know that your doing a fine job.

Roman has a great show concept and I do find many of his topics quite interesting. Roman’s downfall is due to the fact that he lives in Oakland, California, and so he’s surrounded by far-left political leanings, most of which he seems to have adopted. That’s fine actually, I have no issues with that, but he has let it bleed over into his podcast and I feel like he’s just become a mouthpiece for those left-wing positions. Because Roman lives in an echo-chamber in Oakland, he probably thinks most of the U.S. feels the same way he does, and that’s simply not the case. In fact, he’s probably alienating at least half of his audience when those moments arise, and I quite frankly am just tired of listening to it. If he had stuck to his show and not made it political, then he’d have a winning formula, but those moments of, dare I say “activism” under the guise of a podcast about design is what has me saying, goodbye. I enjoyed the good times, but will not miss the emphasis of left-wing talking points.