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Season 13 of Sidedoor is almost here! Follow us behind the scenes at the National Zoo to meet the new baby elephant, Linh Mai. We open the vaults to see some of the weirdest beetles in the collection. And we track the wild journey of the Declaration of Independence after it was signed (which was actually not on July 4, 1776). New episodes begin next week!
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Sidedoor — It's Season 13!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Almost 3,000 people were killed in the 9-11 terrorist attacks. How did some of their remains end up in the world's largest landfill? They treated my son like garbage. So while the people who killed my son, I have certainly an animosity for them. I have a huge animosity for the people who were running New York. On the latest episode of Revisionist History, the story of a battle over what some see as a pile of dust, and other see as the remains of the dead. Listen to Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts. This show is supported by Odo. When you buy business software from lots of vendors, the costs add up and it gets complicated and confusing. Odo solves this. It's a single company that sells a suite of enterprise apps that handles everything from accounting to inventory to sales. Odo is all connected on a single platform in a simple and affordable way.
You can save money without missing out on the features you need. Check out Odo at od.com. That's od.co.com. Hey there side doorbells, we're back. Season 13 is just a week away. Cue the trumpets. That's her way of saying she wants her food. This season we get to meet the Smithsonian's newest celebrity, all 900 pounds of her. Oh my gosh, she's a little chubby. She's a world hunger. We'll learn what happened after the National Zoo's new baby elephant, Lynn May, was rejected by her mother, and how a pile of poo helped save the day. So we decided to what I could kind of put out the poop signal, like a bat signal and say, who can help us? And while the zoo's searched for poop, we went looking for the things that eat it. We are going over there and checking out a poop trap. I don't know what I pictured, but it wasn't this. We hunt down dung beetles in the wild, and then open the vault of the Smithsonian to see thousands more beetles,
an insect that makes up a quarter of all animal life on Earth. And we'll continue the celebration of the nation's 250th as we track down the real story of the declaration of independence. Well, not only was the declaration not signed on the 4th of July, the parchment that we now revere in the National Archives didn't exist on the 4th of July. We're in hot pursuit of the truth as we trace the founding documents twisty-turny journey through history. We've got music and dancing, mysteries of history, maybe even the world's fastest plane. And did I mention poop? I did. Good. Join us next week for Side Door Season 13, wherever you get your podcasts. From PRX.
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