The 99% Invisible City by Kurt Colstead

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A few years back, an employee of Idaho Fish and Game turned out this long lost archival video filmed in the late 1940s entitled Fur for the Future. The people who put it in there are all long gone. No one dares touch it in case it breaks something just a remnant of the mid 2000s. It documents Idaho's practice of relocating specific mammal species including muskrats and martens and beavers.

The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories everywhere. Some of the stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a famous skyscraper or the founding of a city; but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale. We call those mini-stories and they're part of an ongoing, end-of-the-year tradition in which 99pi producers and friends of the show talk to host Roman Mars about something cool and fun that you can tell your friends or family about during a holiday get together.

You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty! Plus a visit from the queen!

Mini-Stories 15: Volume 15