Dun dun dun. Cue the soundtrack. Desperate woman. Desperate times. Desperate action.

Hello, side door bowls. We are just one week away from the new season of Side Door,

and we're being dramatic about it. We kick off Season 9 with a story brought to us by a listener

who discovered a mysterious note inside an old violin case. I was like, okay, keep going. What else?

Because if there's this or there's smoke, there's fire. There's a story. There's a story. And

boy did I find it. And we'll blast off for a new kind of space race. The Boston Marathon.

He goes, come on, you can finish it. So I took my shoes off and I ran the second half barefoot. What?

And finished with him. So I guess what I thought about running it on the space station,

I figured I've done worse. I can do this. Oh my gosh.

And we turn out the lights in hopes of rediscovering true darkness.

You feel like the stars are right nearby. You can reach out and touch them there. They're so bright

and so close feeling. You feel like you're lifting up off the ground into space.

Plus, a heart to heart with a science guy. Well, actually the science guy who recently hung up his

iconic white lab coat at the Smithsonian. We're sneaking you back in the side door starting March 1st. See you there.