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99% Invisible — 431 episodes
The Score
100 Objects #7: The Otis Pamphlet
Transatlantic Fiber-Optic Expialidocious
100 Objects #6: "Sharpened Screwdriver"
The Most Exciting Change America Has Ever Seen
100 Objects #5: Blue Back Speller
The Horn That Divided the World Cup
100 Objects #4: Lowe's Gas Bag
Karaoke Videos
100 Objects #3: The Pension Files
The MAPL Test
100 Objects #2: 60-Degree Screw
Drug Story: Ivermectin
100 Objects #1: The Century Safe
A History of the United States in 100 Objects Trailer
Citizen of the World
Constitution Breakdown #9: Alondra Nelson
Co-op City
RoboUmp Hits the Big Leagues
Service Request #5: Dude, Where's My Car?
Service Request #4: How Does the Grid in Phoenix Work?
Service Request #3: Why Is There So Much Litter in San Francisco?
Constitution Breakdown #8: Jill Lepore
Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?
Service Request #1: What Happens When I Call 311?
A Man, a Plan, a Canal—Mars!
Where the F*** Are We?
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta
The Longest Fence in the World
Molar City
Artistic License Redux
The Em Dash
Constitution Breakdown #6: Adam Liptak
What’s in a Name
Audio Flux
Exit Interview With Michael Bierut
Mini-Stories: Volume 22
Beyond the 99% Invisible City
Constitution Breakdown #5: Dr. Tom Frieden
Mini-Stories: Volume 21
Sax Appeal
The Checkerboard
U Is for Urbanism
Constitution Breakdown #4: Janet Napolitano
Murderland
The Moving Walkway Is Ending
How to Write a Joke
Gear (Articles of Interest)
Constitution Breakdown #3: Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Your Call Is Important to Us
Hidden Levels #6: Segagaga
Hidden Levels #5: Press B to Touch Grass
Hidden Levels #4: Machinima
Hidden Levels #3: This Game Wants YOU
Hidden Levels #2: Stick It to 'Em
Hidden Levels #1: Mr. Boomshakalaka
Get Played with Roman Mars and Ben Brock Johnson
The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City
Constitution Breakdown #2: Rep. Sharice Davids
The New Jungle
Replaceable You
Revisiting The 99% Invisible City
The 99PI Anniversary Special: 15 for 15
Ambassador Bridge
All About That Bass
Sister Aimee and the Birth of the Megachurch
Weeding is Fundamental Revisited
Air-Borne
Constitution Breakdown #1: Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Quiet Storm
Neil Young’s iPod Killer
Roman Mars's Guide to San Francisco
Food Deserts
Open Borders
The Titanic's Best Lifeboat
The Red, the Black, and the Green
The Return of Con Law
Adapt or Design
Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Fishing In The Night
Emoji Law 😅⚖️
Changing Stripes Revisited
One-Nil to the Arsenal
I've Got 1099 Problems...
Everything Is Tuberculosis
A Walking Tour with Mr. Memphis
The Great American Pyramid
Secret Mall Apartment
Beautiful West Oakland, California
What We're Reading
A Beetle By Any Other Name
The Brutalists
The Nazi Block
The Power Broker Breakdown Wrap-Up
Your Own Personal Jesus
The Wide Open
Valley So Low
The Power Broker Breakdown Breakdown
Sanctuary
Ancient DMs
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Hyperfixed: Dylan's Supermarket Cold Case
New Year, New Neighborhood
The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro
Mini-Stories: Volume 19
The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars
The 15 Minute City
Raccoon Thanksgiving
Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation
The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan
The Memory Palace…Book!
Meet Me at Riis
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Spirit Halloween
The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery
Trompe L'oeil
Brilliantly Boring
Christiania
The Infernal Machine
Cue the Sun!
The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages
Medellin, Revisited
Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature
Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could
Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace
Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong
Not Built For This #2: The Ripple Effect
Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl
The Power Broker #8: Shiloh Frederick
Side Projects
Top Billing
The Art of the Olympics
The 2024 Olympics Spectacular
The Power Broker #7: Sec. Pete Buttigieg
A River Runs Through Los Angeles
As Slow As Possible
The Containment Plan (rebroadcast)
Backfired: The Vaping Wars
The Power Broker #6: Mike Schur
Category 6
The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars
Fact Checking the Supreme Court
Uptown Squirrel [update]
The Lost Subways of North America
The Power Broker #5: Brandy Zadrozny
Rocket Man
It's Howdy Doody Time!
Towers of Silence: Vulture Conservation
Mr. Yuk
Towers of Silence
The Power Broker #4: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Anything's Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
Chambre de Bonne
Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is
Autism Pleasantville
The Monster Under the Sink
The Power Broker #3: David Sims
Toyetic
WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm
Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is
The Real Book [rebroadcast]
Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal
You Are What You Watch
The Power Broker #2: Jamelle Bouie
The White Castle System of Eating Houses
Between the Blocks
Don't Forget to Remember
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is
The Double Kick
The Power Broker #1: Robert Caro
Imitation Nation
Mini-Stories: Volume 18
Another Visit from the Three Santas of Slovenia
Mini-Stories: Volume 17
Empire of the Sum
Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
The Known Unknown [rebroadcast]
Long Strange Tape
Home on the Range
The Six-Week Cure
The Fever Tree Hunt
Model Village
Devolutionary Redesign
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark
The Big Dig
Devil in the Details
Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House
Blood in the Machine
Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out AGAIN
Office Space
Melanie Speaks
Trail Mix: Track Two
Trail Mix
Cooking with Gas
The Country of the Blind
Shade Redux
Chick Tracts
In Proximity: Ryan Coogler and Roman Mars
Player Piano
The Frankfurt Kitchen
The Siren of Scrap Metal
Courtroom Sketch
Goodnight Nobody [rebroadcast]
Train Set: Track Three
Paved Paradise
Nuts and Bolts
Craptions
For Amusement Only (Free Replay)
Dear John and Roman
For a Dollar and a Dream
De Fiets Is Niets
The Panopticon Effect
The Wilderness Tool
Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
A Whale-Oiled Machine
The Lost Cities of Geo Redux
RoboUmp
Orange Alternative
The Chinatown Punk Wars
The Day the Music Stopped
Six-on-Six Basketball
The Comrades
A Sea of Yellow
Mini-Stories: Volume 16
Balikbayan Boxes
Mini-Stories: Volume 15
The Divided Dial
Cougar Town
Super Citizens
Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens
Train Set: Track Two
Articles of Interest: American Ivy
The Safety Bicycle
Walk of Fame
Vuvuzela
Wickedest Sound
Tale of the Jackalope
President Clinton Interviews Roman Mars
Search and Ye Might Find
Monumental Diplomacy
First Errand
Bleep!
What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law- The Longest Week
Re:peat
99% Vernacular: Volume 3
99% Vernacular: Volume 2
99% Vernacular: Volume 1
Say Aloe to My Little Frond
The Octagon House
Hometown Village
The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature
Meet Us by the Fountain
Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
Divining Provenance
Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
The Missing Middle
Train Set
Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David
Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
It’s a Small Aisle After All
Atlas Obscura
Rumble Strip
Murder Most Fowl
Dear Hank and John and Roman
Grid Locked
Natalie de Blois: To Tell the Truth
The Future of the Final Mile
Broken Heart Park
According to Need wins duPont-Columbia Award
Art Imitates Art
Call of Duty: Free
Reaction Offices and the Future of Work
Rock Paper Scissors Bus
The Punisher Skull
Mini-Stories : Volume 14
Mini-Stories : Volume 13
Mini-Stories : Volume 12
The Three Santas of Slovenia
The Epic of Collier Heights
Alphabetical Order
Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
The Weight
Shirley Cards
Finding Julia Morgan
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
I Can't Believe It's Pink Margarine
Changing Stripes
The House that Came in the Mail Again
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
Yankee Pyramids
Real Fake Bridges
Model Organism
Full Spectrum
A Field Guide to Water
War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design
The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
The Lows of High Tech
Hanko
Stuff the British Stole
Mine!
Katie Mingle's Right to Roam
Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
The Clinch
Pipe Dreams
Matters of Time
Tanz Tanz Revolution
Abandoned Ships
Curb Cuts (Repeat)
La Brega in Levittown
Welcome to Jurassic Art Redux
The Real Book
Science Vs Snakes
Oops, Our Bad
The Megaplex!
Artistic License
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer
The Batman and the Bridge Builder
12 Heads from the Garden of Perfect Brightness
Judas and the Black Messiah, Episode 1: The Chairman
The Doom Boom
Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer from 99% Invisible and Proximity Media
Stuccoed in Time
Beneath the Skyway
Mini-Stories: Volume 11
Mini-Stories: Volume 10
Mini-Stories: Volume 9
Roman Mars on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Chapter 5: Housing Finally
Chapter 4: The List
Chapter 3: Housing First
Chapter 2: The Hotline
Chapter 1: Tulicia
According to Need: Prologue
According to Need coming December 1
The Great Indoors
Sean Exploder
In The Unlikely Event
You've Got Enron Mail!
The Lost Cities of Geo
Take a Walk
99pi Presents The Next Billion Users
Sign Stealing
For the Love of Peat
Exploring The 99% Invisible City
Goodnight Nobody
The Address Book
Highways 101
Where Do We Go From Here?
Podcast Episode
The Revolutionary Post (Repeat)
Policing the Open Road
California Love Scared Straight
Valley of the Fallen
The Dolphin that Roared
A Side of Franchise
Freedom House Ambulance Service
Return of Oñate's Foot
Return of the Yokai
Instant Gramification
Wedding Dresses: Articles of Interest #12
Diamonds: Articles of Interest #11
Suits: Articles of Interest #10
Perfume: Articles of Interest #9
Knockoffs: Articles of Interest #8
A Fantasy of Fashion: Articles of Interest #7
The Natural Experiment
The Smell of Concrete After Rain
Masking for a Friend
Unsheltered in Place
Wipe Out
This Day in Esoteric Political History
This is Chance! Redux
Roman Mars Describes Things As They Are
Map Quests: Political, Physical and Digital
The Weather Machine
Over the Road
Fraktur
Whomst Among Us Has Let The Dogs Out
Missing the Bus
The Worst Video Game Ever
Their Dark Materials
Shade
Mini-Stories: Volume 8
Mini-Stories: Volume 7
Smart Stuff with Justin and Roman- Founder Effect
The ELIZA Effect
The Infantorium
Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl
Cautionary Tales
Ubiquitous Icons: Peace, Power, and Happiness
How To Pick A Pepper
Great Bitter Lake Association
Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
Unsure Footing
The Kirkbride Plan
The Help-Yourself City
99% Invisible presents What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
Dead Cars
The Pool and the Stream Redux
Wait Wait...Tell Me!
All Rings Considered
Peace Lines
Model City
On Beeing
He's Still Neutral
Invisible Women
Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Twine
Built on Sand
The Universal Page
Life and Death in Singapore
The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Barney Design redux
The Automat
Depave Paradise
Sound and Health: Hospitals
La Sagrada Familia (Repeat)
Sound and Health: Cities
Weeding is Fundamental
From Bombay with Love
Uptown Squirrel
Play Mountain
The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
Froebel's Gifts
Three Things That Made the Modern Economy
The Yin and Yang of Basketball (Repeat)
Holdout (Repeat)
99% Invisible: The Trailer