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99% Invisible SiriusXM Podcasts
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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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Top Billing
When you’re watching the opening credits to a movie, it’s not just a list of names. What you’re actually seeing is intense negotiations by Hollywood stars and their agents playing out in text form.
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The Art of the Olympics
The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics.
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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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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.
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