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99% Invisible
Roman Mars
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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If Mosquito Hawks Can Fly
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The Score
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The Most Exciting Change America Has Ever Seen
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100 Objects #5: Blue Back Speller
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The Horn That Divided the World Cup
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Karaoke Videos
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100 Objects #3: The Pension Files
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The MAPL Test
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Drug Story: Ivermectin
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Ask Your Doctor About
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A History of the United States in 100 Objects Trailer
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Enshittification
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Citizen of the World
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Constitution Breakdown #9: Alondra Nelson
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Co-op City
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Constitution Breakdown #8: Jill Lepore
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Service Request #2: Why Is This Red Light So Damn Long?
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Service Request #1: What Happens When I Call 311?
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A Man, a Plan, a Canal—Mars!
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Where the F*** Are We?
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Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta
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The Longest Fence in the World
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Molar City
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Artistic License Redux
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The Em Dash
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Constitution Breakdown #6: Adam Liptak
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What’s in a Name
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Audio Flux
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Exit Interview With Michael Bierut
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Mini-Stories: Volume 22
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Beyond the 99% Invisible City
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Constitution Breakdown #5: Dr. Tom Frieden
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Mini-Stories: Volume 21
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Sax Appeal
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The Checkerboard
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U Is for Urbanism
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Constitution Breakdown #4: Janet Napolitano
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Murderland
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The Moving Walkway Is Ending
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How to Write a Joke
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Gear (Articles of Interest)
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Constitution Breakdown #3: Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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Hidden Levels #5: Press B to Touch Grass
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Hidden Levels #4: Machinima
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Hidden Levels #3: This Game Wants YOU
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Hidden Levels #2: Stick It to 'Em
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Hidden Levels #1: Mr. Boomshakalaka
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Get Played with Roman Mars and Ben Brock Johnson
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The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City
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Constitution Breakdown #2: Rep. Sharice Davids
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The New Jungle
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Replaceable You
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Revisiting The 99% Invisible City
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Ambassador Bridge
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All About That Bass
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Sister Aimee and the Birth of the Megachurch
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Air-Borne
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Constitution Breakdown #1: Nikole Hannah-Jones
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The Quiet Storm
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Neil Young’s iPod Killer
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Roman Mars's Guide to San Francisco
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Food Deserts
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Open Borders
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The Red, the Black, and the Green
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The Return of Con Law
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Fishing In The Night
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Emoji Law 😅⚖️
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Changing Stripes Revisited
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One-Nil to the Arsenal
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
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A Walking Tour with Mr. Memphis
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The Great American Pyramid
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Secret Mall Apartment
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Beautiful West Oakland, California
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What We're Reading
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A Beetle By Any Other Name
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The Brutalists
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The Nazi Block
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The Power Broker Breakdown Wrap-Up
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Your Own Personal Jesus
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The Wide Open
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Valley So Low
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The Power Broker Breakdown Breakdown
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Sanctuary
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Ancient DMs
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Mini-Stories: Volume 20
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Hyperfixed: Dylan's Supermarket Cold Case
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New Year, New Neighborhood
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The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro
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Mini-Stories: Volume 19
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The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars
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The 15 Minute City
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Raccoon Thanksgiving
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Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation
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The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan
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The Memory Palace…Book!
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Meet Me at Riis
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Spirit Halloween
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The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery
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Trompe L'oeil
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Brilliantly Boring
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Christiania
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The Infernal Machine
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Cue the Sun!
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The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter
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Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages
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Medellin, Revisited
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Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature
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Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could
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Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace
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Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong
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Not Built For This #2: The Ripple Effect
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Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl
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The Power Broker #8: Shiloh Frederick
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Side Projects
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Top Billing
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The Art of the Olympics
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The 2024 Olympics Spectacular
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The Power Broker #7: Sec. Pete Buttigieg
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A River Runs Through Los Angeles
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As Slow As Possible
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The Containment Plan (rebroadcast)
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
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The Power Broker #6: Mike Schur
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Category 6
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The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars
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Fact Checking the Supreme Court
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Uptown Squirrel [update]
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The Lost Subways of North America
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The Power Broker #5: Brandy Zadrozny
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Rocket Man
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It's Howdy Doody Time!
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Towers of Silence: Vulture Conservation
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Mr. Yuk
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Towers of Silence
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The Power Broker #4: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Anything's Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
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The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
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Chambre de Bonne
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Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is
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Autism Pleasantville
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The Monster Under the Sink
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The Power Broker #3: David Sims
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Toyetic
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WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm
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Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is
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The Real Book [rebroadcast]
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Significant Others: A Sneak Peek at the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal
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You Are What You Watch
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The Power Broker #2: Jamelle Bouie
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The White Castle System of Eating Houses
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Between the Blocks
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Don't Forget to Remember
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Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is
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The Double Kick
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The Power Broker #1: Robert Caro
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Imitation Nation
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Mini-Stories: Volume 18
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Another Visit from the Three Santas of Slovenia
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Mini-Stories: Volume 17
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Empire of the Sum
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Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
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The Known Unknown [rebroadcast]
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Long Strange Tape
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Home on the Range
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The Six-Week Cure
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The Fever Tree Hunt
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Model Village
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Devolutionary Redesign
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You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark
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The Big Dig
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Devil in the Details
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Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House
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Blood in the Machine
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Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out AGAIN
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Office Space
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Melanie Speaks
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Trail Mix: Track Two
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Trail Mix
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Cooking with Gas
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The Country of the Blind
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Shade Redux
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Chick Tracts
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In Proximity: Ryan Coogler and Roman Mars
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Player Piano
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The Frankfurt Kitchen
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The Siren of Scrap Metal
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Courtroom Sketch
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Goodnight Nobody [rebroadcast]
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Train Set: Track Three
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Paved Paradise
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Nuts and Bolts
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Craptions
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For Amusement Only (Free Replay)
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Dear John and Roman
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For a Dollar and a Dream
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De Fiets Is Niets
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The Panopticon Effect
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The Wilderness Tool
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Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
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A Whale-Oiled Machine
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The Lost Cities of Geo Redux
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RoboUmp
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Orange Alternative
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The Chinatown Punk Wars
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The Day the Music Stopped
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Six-on-Six Basketball
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The Comrades
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A Sea of Yellow
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Mini-Stories: Volume 16
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Balikbayan Boxes
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Mini-Stories: Volume 15
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The Divided Dial
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Cougar Town
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Super Citizens
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Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens
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Train Set: Track Two
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Articles of Interest: American Ivy
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The Safety Bicycle
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Walk of Fame
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Vuvuzela
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Wickedest Sound
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Tale of the Jackalope
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President Clinton Interviews Roman Mars
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Search and Ye Might Find
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Monumental Diplomacy
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First Errand
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Bleep!
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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law- The Longest Week
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Re:peat
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99% Vernacular: Volume 3
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99% Vernacular: Volume 2
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99% Vernacular: Volume 1
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Say Aloe to My Little Frond
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The Octagon House
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Hometown Village
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The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature
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Meet Us by the Fountain
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Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
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Divining Provenance
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Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
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The Missing Middle
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Train Set
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Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David
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Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
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Atlas Obscura
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Rumble Strip
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