This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

It's the end of the year and time for our annual mini stories episodes.

Many stories are quick hit stories that were maybe pitched to us from someone in the audience

or something interesting we saw on Twitter or just a cool tidbit that we found in our research

that just got stuck in our heads and

wouldn't come out but they didn't quite warrant the full episode treatment for

whatever reason there also this great opportunity for us to get to know the non-scripted

version of the fine people who work on

this show and as the person who gets to interview them that is my favorite part of

this we have some real charmers on staff. We have stories of mysterious ice boats

green ruins sack dresses,

steampunk violins, and a little update from a couple of the notable city flags

that have been redesigned around the country.

It's going to be fun.

First up is senior producer, Katie Mingle.

So, okay, we're going to start out by meeting Denise.

Hi, my name is Denise Boniface, and I own Aquinox D in Rocky Mountain House Alberta, Canada.

Yeah, so Denise is from Alberta, Canada where she owns a scuba diving company.

And Alberta, as you may know is not a coastal province. So if you're

scuba diving in Alberta you're doing it in lakes.

They're cold, they're dark, they're murky, they're kind of creepy.

...