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Hey everyone, while you're still digesting the holiday turkey but haven't quite popped the New

year champagne we wanted to take a beat and share one of our favorite daily news shows

with you every weekday what next goes deep on the world's biggest

stories. Sometimes reporters share scoops, sometimes politicians make headlines,

and sometimes they go to the heart of the story and talk

to the moms dads doctors kids senators senators janitors and even the pickleball prodigies

who really make the news.

Today, they get to the fluffy bottom of America's cutliest diplomat,

the Panda.

How was the Panda's presence in American Zoo's

a coup for China-U.S. relations.

And what does it mean that this year they went back home in droves?

If you like what you hear, you can find what next, wherever you get your podcasts. Now here's the show. You are listening to tape from a few weeks back a Monday morning in August.

The sun's up. It's getting hot and our producer Madeline is about to go to a panda birthday party.

Hi. Can I catch out with you guys? I like your birthday hats.

Okay.

Madeline's at the National Zoo.

There are like 50 people here and a whole lot of cameras.

They're celebrating the fact that Shao Chiji, the zoo's youngest pandaanda is one year older.

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