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Sidedoor

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

From brontosauruses with bronchitis to birds on a wire to flying space rocks and a botched heist at 20 thousand feet. In this episode, Lizzie and Sidedoor producer James run all around the Smithsonian to answer listeners' questions from the Sidedoor mailbag.

Guests:

Lynn Heidelbaugh, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

Sara Hallager, curator of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Jim Nollman, composer and pioneer of the “interspecies music” genre, conceptual artist, and environmental activist

Cari Corrigan, research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and curator of the Antarctic Meteorite Collection

Sharon Bryant, marketing specialist at the Smithsonian’s Office of Communications and External Affairs

Matthew Carrano, research geologist and curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian with support from PRX.
0:13.4	I'm Lizzy Peabody.
0:17.0	Okay, all right, so I'm shuffling them all up, but I want you to give them another
0:27.1	quick shuffle before you pull anything out of the bag.
0:30.0	Okay.
0:32.0	Today is a very special day.
0:34.0	Side Door producer James Morrison has prepped a different kind of episode.
0:39.0	So I have in this bag all of these different questions
0:42.0	and you get to draw it from them randomly and see if you can find
0:45.5	answers from somewhere here in the Smithsonian.
0:48.0	Oh, I like this game. It's the Mailbag episode.
0:52.0	Yeah, and so these are all questions that have come in from listeners
0:55.2	and I've been collecting them and putting them into this bag.
0:58.3	Okay, I am very curious to know what people want to know. So are there any rules to this game?
1:05.0	No rules.
1:06.0	No rules.
1:07.0	Get the questions answered. That's the only rule.
1:08.8	I love it.
1:11.4	The first question is actually mine.
1:13.0	Oh, I figured since this is a mailbag episode,
1:16.0	can you track down an actual mailbag right here in the Smithsonian?
1:22.0	We have to have at least one mailbag here somewhere.
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