February 21 - 27, 2016

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1Reply AllZardulu (#56)Everything is not as it seems. This episode focuses on exposing a harmless prank, which ends up signifying a greater struggle with reality, art and artifice in a modern urban setting. With tens of hundreds of thousands of people occupying public space, is it ever safe to take anything at face value?
2Here Be MonstersDeep Stealth Mode (#45)Some issues are polarizing and confusing. Perhaps an intimate insiders audio diary can shed some light. Brought to my attention by the on-hiatus but always insightful Love+Radio, the casual, authentic narrative quality works wonders. Marlo Mack probably has a couple books worth of stories waiting to be told, but I'm not sure any degree of skillfully crafted autobiographical prose could capture a sentiment the way her daughter's hauntingly poignant version of 'Let It Go' does in this episode.
399 Percent InvisibleThe Green Book (#201)Life was not always thus, and is it even now? 99 Percent Invisible routinely delivers stories about untold history, and this is one of the finest examples of such a revelation. The lengths to which our country went to degrade even the basic mundane every day activities of certain citizens is absurd, and yet the ingenuity conjured by a mailman serves as proof that the human experience should soldier on.

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