2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1893+ words) ROMAN MARS: This is 99% Invisible. I'm Roman Mars, and I'm here with 99 PI producer and reporter Christopher Johnson. Hey Christopher!" CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: Hey, Roman. So I am in New York City, as you know. And of course, you are in…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1894+ words) ROMAN MARS: It's 1984. Ronald Reagan is president, MTV is just three years old, and it's the era of the Death Wish movies." DEATH WISH TRAILER: This is the story of a man who decided to clean up the most violent…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1877+ words) CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: Hello, Roman Mars. So, this summer'for the first time ever'there'll be Olympic-level breakdancing. It's officially called "breaking," and it's the first ever so-called "dancesport" to happen in Summer Olympics history. ROMAN MARS: Wow, I did not know that....

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1942+ words) JACK HITT: Thaddeus Sobieski Caulaincourt Lowe. That was his full name. His parents gave him names they pulled out of obscure novels." ROMAN MARS: This is author and journalist Jack Hitt." JACK HITT: Thaddeus Lowe was one of these sort…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (229+ words) Everything else was fair game. "At times the conversation between the song and the video were not always in the same room, tune, or key," Raftery says. "But they were amazing to watch." Budgets were slashed. Directors were asked to…...

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (377+ words) NOTE: During the production of this episode, over 120 Canadian musicians were mentioned in conversation with guests and sources'way too many to fit into an episode. As a way to shine a spotlight on the vast landscape of Canadian music, we…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1969+ words) All of Washington is trying to get hyped. There's going to be fireworks, a huge celebration on the mall" And in the U. S. Capitol Building, in the marbled, beautiful Statuary Hall, there's a big iron safe." JILL LEPORE: Picture, like, a…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (472+ words) Jared Wilson is a seventh-generation farmer. He runs a family farm in Missouri, and like most farmers today, he's facing a lot of challenges, including inconsistent weather and a shaky global economy. But one problem that's been really vexing Jared…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1989+ words) KELLY PRIME: Well, I thought my car had been stolen. I was like, "Does that even happen?" I guess it does, but my car is really old. It's, like, a 2011 Mazda 6, so I really didn't know why anyone would want…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (831+ words) Driving into New York City from the north, an unavoidable cluster of thirty-five identical brick high-rises dominates the horizon just past the Bronx border. All of them over twenty stories tall, all with the same brick facades. They're easily mistaken…...