99% Invisible

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1. Audio Guide of the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece

   21 oktober 2026 · 30 min

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   From the outside, the building is a light gray spiral, and from the inside, the art is displayed on one long ramp that curves up towards a glass skylight in the ceiling. We’re going to take the greatness of this building as a given. What we’re going to focus on are the oddities, the accretions, the interventions that reveal a different kind of genius. Not just the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his bold, original vision, but the genius of all the people that made this building function, adapt, and grow over the decades.

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2. Tony Hawk's Real-Life Willy Wonka

   20 oktober 2026 · 52 min

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   A desert train built for Tony Hawk leads into the strange and thoughtful world of N.D. Austin, a designer of real-life experiences. Lees meer

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3. The Problem With Football Helmets

   13 oktober 2026 · 43 min

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   Football helmets can prevent devastating injuries, but they may also help make an inherently violent game feel safer than it really is. Lees meer

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4. (Not Just) Another Brick in the Wall

   6 oktober 2026 · 28 min

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   A closer look at the messy, beautiful bricks hiding across Chicago. Lees meer

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5. 100 Objects #20: AA Sobriety Chip

   2 oktober 2026 · 53 min

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   Comedian, writer, and podcaster Jamie Loftus has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips — that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety. Now as an adult, Jamie wanted to understand where that little chip came from. What she found is that imbued in that little chip is a hidden history — from Prohibition to women’s suffrage — of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality. Lees meer

   A History of the United States in 100 Objects is a production of 99% Invisible and BBC Studios.

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6. Tootle of a Devilish Song

   29 september 2026 · 32 min

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   How a Swiss mountain call crossed the Atlantic and helped define the sound of country music. Lees meer

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7. 100 Objects #19: Western Electric 500 Series

   25 september 2026 · 39 min

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   The Western Electric 500 Series Telephone used to be everywhere. For over 50 years, it was the default telephone for homes, offices and literally anywhere else you might need a phone… but how did that happen? Why was this one phone so much better than everything that came before… or, in some ways, since? Former MythBuster Adam Savage joins Roman Mars to explore the history of the 500 Series Telephone and what we lost when we eventually decided to leave it behind.

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8. The Rocky Statue

   22 september 2026 · 33 min

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   How a movie prop became one of Philadelphia’s most beloved monuments, and sparked a decades-long fight over where it belonged. Lees meer

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9. 100 Objects #18: Hair Relaxer

   18 september 2026 · 35 min

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   Somewhere between 85 to 95 percent of Black women in the United States have used a chemical hair relaxer at least once in their lifetime. It is a ubiquitous American product with a complicated legacy: it built Black wealth and opened economic doors, but also taught generations to see their hair as a problem to be solved. And now research is revealing a physical cost. Roman Mars and producer Priscilla Alabi explore how a single product became a mirror for all of America's contradictions. Lees meer

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10. Doves Type

    15 september 2026 · 37 min

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    A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge. Lees meer

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