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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Big Bird in space. Saving a multi-million-dollar painting. Smokey the *real* Bear. These are some of the stories we've been itching toshare, but didn’t have room for… until now. To close out Season 2, we’re serving up a few of our favorite Smithsonian “shorties,”plus we’ll check in with our most talked about characters from this past year. We’ll be back forSeason 3in August 2018!

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0:00.0	This is Side Door, a podcast from a Smithsonian with support from PRX. I'm Tony Cone.
0:14.4	So here's something that I can barely wrap my head around.
0:20.4	It's been a full year since we first started in on Side Doors season two and it has been a ride sometimes
0:26.8	literally we've been to Point of Rocks Maryland.
0:29.8	Hey Julia can you hand me that rabbit? Fort Pierce, Florida.
0:32.8	This is a marina, right?
0:33.8	There's where these are people's houses.
0:36.1	Perfect, same thing.
0:37.1	And we even traveled to Armenia.
0:39.4	Now we're kind of in the thick of the cave.
0:42.4	I'm having to duck.
0:43.9	It's a good thing I'm not claustrophobic.
0:45.5	This was all to share our access
0:47.1	to the stories that live behind the walls, fences,
0:49.9	and locked doors around the Smithsonian Institution.
0:53.1	But here's the thing.
0:54.2	For every story that gets turned into an episode, there are dozens that don't.
0:58.8	You know that feeling when you get a teeny bit of water in your ear and no matter how much
1:02.1	you do the What is Love dance or hop on one foot you just can't get it out.
1:07.0	Some of the stories that we've heard along the way are kind of like that. We just can't shake them.
1:11.6	And rather than live with that teeny bit of water in our ear
1:14.4	forever, we're going to share some of those stories with you right now. So this time
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