Introducing Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Check out Lost at the Smithsonian, a new podcast from Stitcher! Comedian and pop culture fanatic Aasif Mandvi gets up close and personal with the most iconic artifacts at the National Museum of American History. Join Aasif and his guests as they explore how vintage clothing, ratty furniture, and mismatched shoes transformed into Fonzie's leather jacket, Archie Bunker's chair, and Dorothy's ruby slippers and became defining symbols of American culture along the way. Lost at the Smithsonian is out NOW - listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Lost at the Smithsonian in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-at-the-smithsonian-with-aasif-mandvi/id1478968631

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0:00.0	I hope you've been enjoying season two of Science Rules. While you're waiting for another
0:04.7	amazing episode of our show to drop every Thursday, by the way, I wanted to introduce you to another show,
0:11.6	Lost at the Smithsonian. It's a new pop culture history podcast from Stitcher that explores the
0:18.0	little-known stories behind iconic artifacts at the National Museum of American History.
0:23.6	Actoring comedian Asif Monvey from The Daily Show examines the impact of 10 fascinating cultural
0:30.1	treasures from across music, sports, television, and film. Think items like Fonzzi's Leather Jacket,
0:37.9	Dorothy's Ruby slippers, Muhammad Ali's robe, even Jim Hanson's early prototypes for the Muppets.
0:44.1	And we've got a short preview of the show for you. Here Asif comes across the robe Muhammad Ali
0:49.6	wore during his training for the famed Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman. But
0:54.8	not for me, you have to hear it for yourself. Back in Smithsonian storage, what looks like an
1:02.7	unassuming Terry cloth training robe with simple black lettering that says Muhammad Ali and above
1:08.8	is his signature. It's a little afraid of the edges here, a little yellow, represents an icon,
1:15.8	and a legend who was the greatest that sports has ever produced.
1:21.0	Here comes Ali, you can see in their very calm, it's age against you.
1:27.3	So you've got these two African-American boxes, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali. Ali is, he lost his
1:36.1	title. He lost his title. Yes. And now he was trying to attempt to regain his title. And Foreman was
1:41.4	the current heavyweight boxing champion. The odds were stacked against Ali right out of the gate
1:47.6	because he was older, Foreman was undefeated. He's a formidable opponent, yes for sure.
1:53.4	When I meet this man, if you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned, wait a
1:59.2	lot with Foreman's Bahar. And in terms of the actual fight in Zaire, how did that come about?
2:06.4	It was with Don King. I think they had connections with the people in Zaire and thought this
2:11.2	would be like this great new sort of mass spectacle that would elevate interest in not only the fight,
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