Farewell Giant Pandas

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

All three Giant Pandas are leaving the Smithsonian's National Zoo for China by the end of the year. What's up with that?! We sat down with the director of the Zoo, Brandie Smith, to find out why the pandas are leaving, and whether China plans to send more. This might truly be the end of a beara ... we mean era!

Guests:

Brandie Smith, John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Stephen Powers, panda fan

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0:00.0	Hey there's side door listeners, we have some big news at the National Zoo.
0:04.3	As you may have heard, all three giant pandas are leaving for China in just a few weeks.
0:10.1	So this episode, we're breaking our usual format to bring you into the Pandavirus for a very special farewell episode.
0:18.0	Come on along. This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian with support from PRX.
0:33.2	I'm Lizzy Peabody. The Hello Stephen. It's Lizzie P. Baddie from Side Door. How are you?
1:02.8	Yeah, I'm doing really well.
1:04.1	Good to hear from you, Lizzy.
1:05.1	How are you?
1:06.2	I'm great.
1:07.4	I wanted to check back in with you because we put out an episode a while back
1:11.4	called The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas, which was in celebration of the
1:15.8	50th anniversary of the Giant Pandas coming to the National Zoo.
1:19.9	And in that episode, you were our self-described lifelong Pandafan. In that
1:25.0	the episode, you were our self-described lifelong Panda fan. So I wanted to follow up and see how you're taking the news that all three giant
1:29.6	Pandas are heading to China in just a few weeks.
1:32.8	This is truly a sad time.
1:34.6	I haven't been this disappointed with the pandas
1:38.7	situation since the late 90s
1:41.0	when we lost the first two.
1:43.5	Have you been to see them since you heard that they were leaving?
1:46.7	Oh yes, took the whole family, we went down, and we actually had a great visit with them.
1:54.0	So I want to back up to the first time you saw the giant pandas at the National Zoo.
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