A note. This episode includes mentions of violence and sexual themes that may not be appropriate

for all listeners. This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian with support from PRX.

I'm Lizzy Peabody. Okay, Justin, we are.

Okay, Justin, we are starting this episode with a game.

Are you ready to play?

I like games.

A few weeks ago, before the days of social distancing, I got Sidedoor senior producer Justin O'Neill

out of the studio for a quick game of how are these things related.

Okay, I'm going to show you two things and you have to guess how they're related.

It's a pretty self-explanatory game.

Okay, you ready to see the first thing?

Lay it on me.

All right, let's go.

We started at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History,

in front of one of the most iconic displays.

Here, we've got Julia Child's kitchen.

It's like a time machine to the 1950s.

I see like a yellow tablecloth, some of the era teal cabinetry, beyond that like it's a standard well-to-do

person's kitchen. Yeah except it belonged to Julia Child. That was thing number one. For thing two, we went next door to the

Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

We're going this way.

Museum Specialist Christina Gebhart led us through an unmarked door and down a hallway and into an elevator and down another hall to the division of birds.

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