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Build-A-Dragon (Replay)

2/12/202627 min

On February 17, in places like China, Malaysia, Korea and Chinatowns across the globe, dragons will rise in the form of massive puppets. Today we bring you a special Terrestrials episode on dragons to understand what they have to do with the New Year, what the dragon myth means, and explore the tiny chance that dragons could have ever been real. 

First, we meet Mr. Lu Dajie, one of China's most renowned dragon dancers, who tells us about the significance of dragons in China. Then producer bud Ana and song bud Alan ask whether there’s any chance tha...

Clips

Darwin’s Beetle Mouth Disaster
Fire Hawk, Bearer Of Flames
What Dragons Mean In China
Did Dragons Ever Exist?
Chased By Alligators
Meet Quetzalcoatlus’ Monster Wings
Komodo’s Iron Teeth
A Pizzazz-Filled Alternative Fire

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lulu Miller· Host0:00

    [music] Hello, friends. Uh, the tree outside my window has just started to sprout its yellow flowers, uh, which can only mean one thing, that Mother's Day and Father's Day are coming up. And I just thought of a pretty funny, punny card. Okay, here it goes. It goes like this. There's a drawing of an owl, and it goes, "Hoo, hoo, is the best parent?" And then you open the card and it goes, "You. Thank you for owl that you do." [laughs] Uh, so that, I'm g- I'm offering that to you. If anyone wants to draw that, make that, that's great. But I was also wondering what ideas for punny animal cards do you have that show love for the adults in your life? Maybe there's something in a sloth, like, "I love you more slowly than a sloth." That isn't really good. Maybe you have a better idea. Anyway, draw yours and email us at- T-E-R-R-E-S- T-R-I-A-L-S S-W-N-Y-C .org. And we will read some of our favorites on a future episode and post some to our Instagram to share your ideas so that other people can use them, too. Anyway, happy spring. Hope you're well. Send us your cards.

  2. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:05

    Oh, wait. You're listening [laughs] Okay. All right.

  3. Lulu Miller· Host1:13

    Okay.

  4. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:13

    All right.

  5. Lulu Miller· Host1:15

    [clears throat] You are listening- Listening ... to Radiolab.

  6. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:18

    For kids. Radiolab.

  7. Lulu Miller· Host1:20

    From...

  8. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:21

    WNYC. See.

  9. Lulu Miller· Host1:23

    See?

  10. Alan Goffinski· Co-host1:23

    Yeah.

  11. Lulu Miller· Host1:27

    [laughs] Three,

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