"It's the most wonderful time of the year: 99% Invisible's end-of-the-year mini-stories! Over the years, they've evolved (or devolved) such that producers started preparing more and reporting them as full stories - the type you hear on our show every week. But this year, we're going back to basics. 99PI producers join Roman live-to-tape to tell their mini stories from the world of design. In one take. And the results are still...really, really fun. Happy holidays!"
"Gail.com with Vivian Le Gail.com is a hilariously minimal FAQ website that gets about 16,000 visitors per day... not because it's interesting, but because people keep accidentally typing "gail" instead of "gmail." The domain was registered back in 1996 as a birthday gift, a full eight years before Gmail even existed, and now receives over a million misaddressed emails every week."
"Neighborhood Miracle with Jayson De Leon Back in June, Pope Leo XIV declared a miracle in a city near 99PI producer Jayson De Leon. This announcement sent Jayson down a rabbit hole: how does the Catholic Church define a miracle? To find out, he traces the years-long, deeply bureaucratic process his neighborhood miracle went through to get to the pope's desk."
Producers return to a simpler, one-take live-to-tape format to present brief design-focused stories. The episode features three mini segments: a second American pyramid in Las Vegas that echoes the Memphis Bass Pro Shop, Gail.com — a minimal FAQ site receiving massive accidental traffic because people mistype "gmail" — and a neighborhood miracle that reached Pope Leo XIV. The Gail.com domain dates to 1996 and now receives over a million misaddressed emails weekly. The miracle segment traces the Catholic Church's years-long, bureaucratic process for recognizing miracles. Production and technical credits are listed at the end.
#one-take-mini-stories #pyramids--architecture #domain-typo-traffic-gailcom #catholic-miracle-recognition
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