I'm looking for pictures of the projects discussed in the episodes but I haven't found a good website or source. I'm looking more for either the ones mentioned or Moses "greats hits". I also searched this subreddit but couldn't find a similar question. Wikipedia is sparse on pictures.

Any recommendations?

(Any while I'm here thank you for the wonderful and entertaining Power Broker series. I never thought it would have so many funny points and delivered with such humor.)

I received my challenge coin for finishing The Power Broker, and I believe I understand all its symbols except for the area on the front surrounding the 99% Invisible (yellow) square. It looks like a poor drawing of a maze to me. What is it supposed to depict? Thanks!

After Toronto unveiled its "raccoon-resistant" compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved, but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city's ongoing "war on raccoons."

Journalist Amy Dempsey was researching the bins and raccoon behavior when her reporting took an unexpected turn down her own garbage-strewn alleyway. Had local raccoons finally figured out how to defeat the greatest human effort in our “war” against their kind?

This episode original aired in 2018.

Raccoon Resistance

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If Moses was disloyal to his brother and undone by Nelson Rockefeller's loyalty to his brother, I can't help think that Nelson's relationship to his brother triggered something in Moses that spurred the self-sabotage and self-immolation.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYjXwGhx/

…is available to stream on Tubi:

https://link.tubi.tv/0WIeMWpMHOb

I'd have never heard of the power broker without 99PI. I listened to the audiobook and finished it off at the end of the summer. To have Roman and Elliot to look forward to every month made it so satisfying to keep listening.

So do you think the book recap comes back next year and, if so, what book do you anticipate/want?

(Also selfishly using this to find more investigative nonfiction epics for personal consumption even if they're not on 99PI.)

Just noticed this…. yay! Now I can follow the podcast!

What makes The Power Broker endure 50 years on? Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with legendary author Robert Caro to explore the humanity, drama, and untold stories behind his iconic book. Recorded live from the New York Historical Society.

Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation

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In one episode they mentioned Theodor Erismann, he was a scientists who researched perception. He would invent devices that messed with sight in strange ways and then see how long it took people to get used to it

However I also seem to remember that he invented a device that took sounds from your left and sent them to the right ear, and vice-versa. He expected people to eventually get used to this, as they got used to everything else he tested, but amazingly they never did

Here is a source where they cover some of his experiments, but they only mention those related to sight

I can't find any mention of his experiments with hearing, but I'm pretty sure they were mentioned in this podcast

Can one of you please help me find the episode where this is mentioned?

• Jane Jacob's defeat of Moses and the LOMEX (Cairo's regret)
• Brooklyn Dodgers leaving NYC
• NY-NJ Port Authority
• and more

Whole book taken out due to size.

This is the eleventh official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. 

This week, Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with Brennan Lee Mulligan, a comedian and host with Dropout TV, where he’s the creator of Dimension 20 — a Dungeons & Dragons show that features incredibly complex and campaigns, with improv actors and special effects. And as the Dungeon Master, Brennan leads these stories. Season three of Dimension 20 takes place in a magical New York City, where the main villain is a fictionalized, undead Robert Moses, who shares the real Robert Moses’s passion for building roads and destroying lives through bureaucracy.

Elliott and Roman also cover the second section of Part 7 (Chapter 42 through Chapter 46), discussing the major story beats and themes.

The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Roman talks with The Memory Palace creator Nate DiMeo, whose new book brings his poetic history podcast to life on the page. They explore how moments of wonder and empathy shape Nate’s stories, turning forgotten history into something intensely personal. Plus, Roman shares two beautifully haunting tales from The Memory Palace that remind us just how close the past really is.

The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past comes out November 19th and will be available everywhere books are sold. We highly recommend you check it out!

The Memory Palace...Book!

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So that's neat.

Hi there!

A while ago I was listening to an episode of 99% which was talking about how sometimes design that was supposed to prevent disasters from happening actually ended up causing it, such as confusing buttons on a nuclear power site that meant that the wrong button got pushed. Does anyone know which episode this is from? Thanks!

This episode is terrible this far. I have not switched off a 99 pi episode in a while. Does it get better?

Where is Roman?

As the last warmth of summer fades, Riis Beach—a hidden queer oasis behind a decaying hospital—faces a new reality. With its shadowy protector demolished, can this haven survive in the open, or will its magic disappear with the ruins?

Meet Me at Riis

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As referenced in the episode Brilliantly Boring, Roman points out the special edition manhole covers in Japan.

When you can’t tear it down, make art.

https://pbs.org/video/bridging-the-divide-2nu5sn?source=social

Favorite Robert Caro moments/quotes? 👇

The overall tenor of What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law has felt like it's grown slowly but steadily darker since it came back, but I'm not sure I've heard Roman this desperately at a loss about what he's discussing since... maybe ever? In any show? Really not sure. Is it just me? Am I projecting my own dread about the looming election? Are we just doomed to hear Roman get sadder and sadder with each episode now?

Remember when grocery shelves went bare and cargo ships clogged the California coast? That chaos wasn’t just a pandemic hiccup—it was a symptom of a supply chain stretched to its limits. With insights from Peter Goodman’s new book, discover the unlikely invention that made the modern supply chain possible—and why it’s now at risk of collapsing.

How the World Ran Out of Everything

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This isnt episode worthy since it's crime weird fiction....buuuuuttttttt listening to 99pi makes me think about this book on a different level

I find the twin cities set up so wild and amazing. How would 2 cities coexist inter-meshed with each other!? Like the basic infrastructure alone is mind boggling. They vaguely touch on roads as both sides share some of the same roads so who takes care of the cross hatch and how and like... everything else that goes along with it. Roads here are so 180 between state line already I can't see 2 countries agreeing who pays for a pothole.

And cross hatch buildings!! Omg the electrical and plumbing being split for 2 countries!? Like when they building the structure do they have parallel plumbing of does everyone share the same pipes and lines? There's a mention of someone's house being on fire and Borlu watching it on international news as it happenes outside his window!

And what about the soft stuff!? Radio and television!? If the waves exist close enough anyone can tap in right? So how, why, who what, all of it!?

It's taken me 3x as long to get through this book as I get going back just to listen to how people don't interact and unsee things between Ul Qoma and Beszel.

This world is fascinating!!