The Legend of the Red Panda: NBA Halftime’s Can’t Miss Act

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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An NBA halftime lasts just 15 minutes. It’s a time for players to leave the court, fans to run to the bathroom or grab another beer, or, a break, for all intents and purposes. But for Rong Niu - it’s her time to shine. Rong, better known to audiences as the Red Panda, has been astounding NBA fans around the country for thirty years, with her 7-and-a-half-foot-tall unicycle, a stack of white bowls, and not much else. Rong Niu, the Red Panda herself, joins the show today to tell us her story - and how she became an NBA legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Could you explain for me what the Red Panda Act is?
0:04.7	The Red Panda Acrobat is an act described called unicycle bowl flipping.
0:14.3	It will balance on a unicycle for one foot and then put the rice bowls on the other.
0:23.5	I want to introduce you to Roland Mu.
0:26.4	And you probably aren't familiar with your birth name.
0:29.6	And if you're a fan of the NBA, you already know what it is that she does.
0:35.2	Rice bowls stock high up to my knee and flip it into the air and catch off my hat.
0:41.4	It's very matter of fact how you describe it, wrong.
0:45.9	But it is truly absurd.
0:56.3	For the past 30 years, wrong is Tour de Rina's all over the country and all around the world,
1:02.0	performing her act countless times.
1:04.3	But in the world of the NBA, she has legitimately become a legend.
1:09.6	Thanks to an act that employs a seven and a half foot tall unicycle, a stack of white
1:14.3	bowls, and not much else.
1:18.2	And also, what kind of shoes are you wearing?
1:20.2	It's important to point this out.
1:21.8	Oh, I worry about you.
1:25.2	It's an absolute.
1:26.2	That's so funny.
1:27.2	It's so interesting.
1:28.2	You mentioned that.
1:29.2	I've never had a bunch of people mention that.
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