August 28, 2025 • 17 mins
Atlanta, get ready for an unforgettable two-part celebration! Panda Fest, one of the nation's fastest-growing outdoor Asian food and culture festivals, is making a highly-anticipated return to Atlanta. As the first city to ever host Panda Fest, Atlanta has earned the unique honor of hosting the event twice in one year. The panda-monium is set to take over Atlantic Station from September 5–7, 2025.
Early Bird tickets for this one-of-a-kind Atlanta festival go on sale Friday, July 11 at 10 a.m. EST.
What to Expect at Panda Fest Atlanta
This September, Panda Fest will bring back the vibrant celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures that Atlanta has fallen in love with. Guests can embark on a culinary journey across Asia with more than 80+ food vendorsserving over 300 delicious dishes. You'll find everything from authentic street food to creative fusion bites from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and beyond.
Beyond the food, explore a curated marketplace with over 25 vendors offering unique crafts, clothing, and artisan goods. The festival also features a dynamic lineup of live entertainment, including modern K-pop dance routines, traditional lion dances, theatrical performances, and more. And of course, the pandas take center stage, with Instagram-worthy installations like a 15-foot inflatable panda and a panda bounce ring, along with themed games and merchandise.
Tickets & Details
Dates:
* Friday, Sept. 5: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
* Saturday, Sept. 6: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
* Sunday, Sept. 7: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location:
* Atlantic Station, Pinnacle Lot
* 221 20th St., Atlanta, GA 30363
Ticket Info:
* Early Bird tickets go on sale Friday, July 11, at 10 a.m. EST at www.pandafests.com.
* General Admission and VIP tickets are also available. VIP perks include shaded seating, private bars, and exclusive experiences.
For more information, visit www.pandafests.com. Follow @pandafestatlanta on Instagram for festival updates and sneak peeks!
About Panda Fest: PANDA FEST is one of the biggest outdoor Asian food festivals in the US with experiential activities, tastings, and market fairs that showcases the vibrant food, art and cultural traditions from Asia.
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Early Bird tickets for this one-of-a-kind Atlanta festival go on sale Friday, July 11 at 10 a.m. EST.
What to Expect at Panda Fest Atlanta
This September, Panda Fest will bring back the vibrant celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures that Atlanta has fallen in love with. Guests can embark on a culinary journey across Asia with more than 80+ food vendorsserving over 300 delicious dishes. You'll find everything from authentic street food to creative fusion bites from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and beyond.
Beyond the food, explore a curated marketplace with over 25 vendors offering unique crafts, clothing, and artisan goods. The festival also features a dynamic lineup of live entertainment, including modern K-pop dance routines, traditional lion dances, theatrical performances, and more. And of course, the pandas take center stage, with Instagram-worthy installations like a 15-foot inflatable panda and a panda bounce ring, along with themed games and merchandise.
Tickets & Details
Dates:
* Friday, Sept. 5: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
* Saturday, Sept. 6: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
* Sunday, Sept. 7: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location:
* Atlantic Station, Pinnacle Lot
* 221 20th St., Atlanta, GA 30363
Ticket Info:
* Early Bird tickets go on sale Friday, July 11, at 10 a.m. EST at www.pandafests.com.
* General Admission and VIP tickets are also available. VIP perks include shaded seating, private bars, and exclusive experiences.
For more information, visit www.pandafests.com. Follow @pandafestatlanta on Instagram for festival updates and sneak peeks!
About Panda Fest: PANDA FEST is one of the biggest outdoor Asian food festivals in the US with experiential activities, tastings, and market fairs that showcases the vibrant food, art and cultural traditions from Asia.
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Authentic Optimism: Ash's positive energy is contagious, empowering her audience to embrace new challenges with a more capable and hopeful mindset.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What else, what are doing by the world? What is
your world? The one and only Ash Brown and this
is the Ash set It show over twenty one hundred
episode since twenty fourteen, half a million streams around the world.
None of this is possible without you, guys, So thank
you so so much for the shares, the cares. It
(00:23):
makes a huge, huge difference. Today my guest is the
highly acclaimed founder of pandofest the wonderful Bubu.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, thank you, thank you, ask for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Thank you so much for joining us again. Buebuo. I mean,
I can't believe you know, April is coming gone, and
I just spoke to you before the first Panda Fest
and then now I'm talking to you before the second
pando Fest in the same year. So yes, yes, yet
things have been going really awesome for you and your teams.
(01:00):
So congratulations these huge things.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, Edge. And I feel like,
you know, it's just like April noise.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, I know it. Oh my goodness. So as I
was in before, you know, Atlanta was the very first
city to host pando Fest, and now it's the first
city that you're returning to twice in one year. So
what was it about Atlanta's initial reception that made you
so confident that you guys wanted to come back.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, I think for several reasons. I think I told
you in the April, why don't you Atlanta as a
first city? I expand to I feel like the reason
I tell you is like upcoming city and big, big
Asian popularity, and also it has to have a real
(01:58):
panda and the weather. Everything is so perfect for us
to have the first pan of fat in the Atlanta
and it tends to be everything is so true and
our first really success and we sold out very quick
and there's so many in the wait lists for us,
(02:20):
and then very unlucky our last section for the last day,
it was shut down because because of a lightning. Even
though we are in a real shine events, but we
always want to put the people safety in our first priority.
(02:40):
It's out door events, so we need to think about
a lot and so to be honest, at that moment,
I feel, you know, I need to take my courage
to say, oh, let's shut down our events, and I
don't want to put the clients in the risk situation.
So to be honest, our events is not that perfect
(03:03):
to end because we have, we refound around eight seven
people's tickets and so that's why I feel like we
maybe we should come back this year because we want
the people who purchase the tickets they didn't they cannot
come to our events. And also we still believe a
(03:26):
lot of people want us to come back again. So
I think, Okay, let's do it. And I think it's
been timing for us to come back for within a year.
And I know it's a crazy decision, but to be honest,
our kind of fast team, we really love Atlanta. And
(03:47):
also this time we redesigned all the things. We redesigned
our inflatible panda, We redesigned our inflatable happened and the
pain and the bad? Ever think we redesigned Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So awesome. Well, Atlantisair loves pandefest. So I can I can,
without the shattle of a doubt, say that that everyone
is ecstatic and super excited that you guys are coming
back and for us to get that treat, you know,
two times in one year. Who knows what the new
year will bring. Well, we'll see what happens. But you've
(04:24):
gone from a one day pop up to a multi city,
multi day festival in a short amount of time. What
would you say has been the biggest lesson that you
learned during this rapid expansion. I think a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A registage five city events when in Atlanta and then Pildelphia,
then Boast, then we are going to the wet Seattle
and Avo is Yeah, and I would say I think
we are kind of like we just use like four
(05:04):
months to be like really really national wild events because
we are in West Coast, East Coast and Middle West.
And so I'm very proud of my team, but to
be honest, for it's you know, it's not easy for
us to do these things in the short short term.
(05:24):
And also we learn a lot because I feel like
different city people's behavior or demoglastic or be people's hobby
a lot. It's I would not say totally different, it's
slightly different, but it slightly different will make a lot
of things really different. So I I'm telling my team
(05:48):
now we have studying you as geography now, so so yeah,
we want to have a bad understanding. And when we
started a new city, and also I think my team
become stronger and stronger, bigger and bigger because we know
(06:12):
what we are doing. What we are looking for. And
I definitely think we got a lot of experience in
the past five events, and I think we will deliver
badger events in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yes, and as you were saying, you know, you guys
have taken on so many different cities and so many
different parts of the US, and who knows, you know
where you'll be at next. But what would you say
from the feedback that you've gotten from the clients, the customers,
the guests. What would you say was the most impactful
(06:46):
piece of feedback that you got from customers?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh? Yes, of course I think I got. Of course,
each event will have positive review and ninety res view,
and I will ever say I'm very defense or I
hate the nextive review. I will think about this negative
review will give us a lot of you know, good
(07:11):
suggestions I will take. I will make a conclusion and
tell my team how to improve that. And I think
a lot of nextive review is kind of like the
lone line and also the uh, you know, no shape
and you know this these type of things is easy
to solve. Case. We can have more line checking people
(07:35):
to make the line factor and we can add more time,
but to manage the fatter you know called control and
also of the shade. Of course we can all more
tent and for some and also for some negative review,
it's kind of the price for the food is really expensive.
(07:55):
But I kind of like say, we have a new
solution for this. It's kind of like we can't ask
the vendor to offer the lower price with a blessed
portion because I really understand a lot of people that
come here they want to try more food instead of
they just purchase one and get food. So I think
(08:17):
I will ask vendor to give more more choice because
you know, someone they come here with a group, maybe
they want to purchase a twenty dollars things and they
share with group, right, But some people will get like
seven dollars things and it's by them, by themselves. So
we encourage all vendors to give the different options, like
(08:41):
the cheap option and the normal option.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Kind of like that gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, that's always a
big thing. And you know there's so many groups and
people that come with their families and stuff to fandom
Fest and I mean Panafsts. It celebrates just a wide
range of Asian cultures, from Chinese and Japanese to Tie
and Vietnamese. What's your process like as you're curating those
(09:08):
seventy plus food vendors and twenty five plus marketplace vendors
to ensure that you're representing the diversity and authenticity of
the AAPI cultures.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yes. Yeah, I think we we are like only Fox
on Asian food and Asian culture, and I think it's
very interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's kind of like.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Unique copic because when I want to start do this
very unique copic and people will say, hey, why you
don't want to do a like international food Fastball and
and why you don't want to like to like maybe
pizza pass, I would say, I want to do something
really related to my culture. And because I'm originally from China,
(10:04):
so I kind of like understand a part of Asian culture.
I cannot say as understand all.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And I feel like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
When the people do something they're really familiar with, they
really like confident with, I feel like they definitely can
you know, make sure these things is authentic.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And also another.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Things for us is that we put a lot of
vendor out of the city and it's some man are
from New York, some manner from theo some manner from
the Los Angeles, the reason is that, to be honest,
I really want to present very authentic Asian street fruits.
(10:49):
But sometimes there's those type of vendors that are not
easy to find in local So I I am not
like saying, oh, I think Atlanta is okay, but it's
still middle Like I mean, it's not that hard to
find the authentic Asian street vendor, but you know, some
(11:12):
city in the really middle West, it's really hard to
find like one hundred vendors during the Asian street food
you know what, any right, So for situation, I need
a solid vendor team to travel with me to all
the cities. And so that's our secret to keep kind
(11:32):
of like authentic for the food we delivers.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yes, yes, yes, And of course the Pandemonium theme is
central and a very memorable part of the festival's brand.
So for people that maybe miss the other episode with you,
how did you come up with the idea to use
pandas as your unifying element?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, because panda is my favorite animal, and I try
a lot of people their favorites animals.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Panda love panders.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I have all the panda he changed my bag and
people will say, oh my god, you have a lot
of band that he changes and yeah, and they will say, oh,
I mean random people. They will say, oh, my favorite
that anyone's panda, and you know who doesn't like panda,
so that Pana is my favorite animal. And I feel
(12:27):
like everyone do something creative. And I have this idea
to be honest, since twenty twenty three, and a lot
of people say they feel it's really hard to make
this topic to the life because it's like, how can
you find the panet related food. It's really hard for
(12:48):
people to imagine and and but I think I can
maybe start with decoration and start with but you know,
like our Atlanta the September events would be totally different
with our APO events because all our vendors has a
(13:08):
strong equation with the pandavs. They also become the Pana fans.
And then and also I feel like for me, h,
fastball is one things. But I always want to create
my merchandise line, and we have our merchandise line so far,
(13:30):
but we are creating more and more like merchandise items
like key chain, like pain like uh you know, t
shirt and also the sand We are creating a lot
of Pana related merchandise. So in the future we also
want to open our own panel shop online and pa
(13:52):
shop offline, and basically we want to make this Panda
universe and yeah, not only rely on the poodpectful. Yeah,
this is my ambitions and go.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love it. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know anyone who doesn't love Pandas. They're just so beautiful
and majestic and it's just so wonderful. I mean, I
don't know if I would trust anybody BEAUBI if they
didn't love Pandas. I'm like, I don't know if I
can trust you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah. And also I feel like I'm really rely on
Panda for like, I mean Twacho three months last year
after I first because you know, motherhood is always really
tough at the beginning. So I kind of like every
(14:46):
day I need to watch your Panda YouTube to you know,
make my life happier. Yes, yes, at the moment, my
dad need to do something for Panda. So that's why
I I'm so lucky I turned my intries to another,
(15:07):
you know, the business. That's that's very lucky. To know
if you can do something you really like, that's a
lucky thing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, you're very very fortunate, very blessed. Now Bibio. For
anyone that isn't able to make Pandofest next weekend, it's
going to be amazing time. But if they can't make
it in Atlanta next weekend, are there any other upcoming
festivals for pandofests that people can maybe catching another city? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, So after Atlanta we will go to the Charlotte
it's not far from yeah. And after those Charlotte in
the November. In October, we will come back to the Nashville.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I heard about that, yes, and we just.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Now we will come to Nashville yesterday.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah. Oh we have very exciting for that, yes, as
you should be. Now let everyone know the best way
to go ahead and secure their tickets because Pandafest does
sell out, so they need to get their tickets. Where
do they need to go?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, come to our website do pada fest dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, sounds like the plan, Biboo. It's a pleasure
speaking with you as usual. Thank you so much for
coming through. I can't wait to you know, be in
in the whole Panda Festivent Atlantic Station next week. I'm
definitely gonna be out there and I'll be looking for you, Bubeo.
I'm gonna see if I can find you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So much, Ash and let me know when you arrive.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, definitely, And I appreciate each and every one of
you guys, Thank you so much for your love and support.
Keeping in mind. Anyone to tell you that you can't
do what you want to do, you look them square
in the face, you tell them, don't believe me. Just
watch watch what I do, Watch me make it happen,
watch me make history. And so we're doing this for
the history books. Social media is nice, but real life
(17:15):
is so much better. Until next time, you guys,
What else, what are doing by the world? What is
your world? The one and only Ash Brown and this
is the Ash set It show over twenty one hundred
episode since twenty fourteen, half a million streams around the world.
None of this is possible without you, guys, So thank
you so so much for the shares, the cares. It
(00:23):
makes a huge, huge difference. Today my guest is the
highly acclaimed founder of pandofest the wonderful Bubu.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, thank you, thank you, ask for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Thank you so much for joining us again. Buebuo. I mean,
I can't believe you know, April is coming gone, and
I just spoke to you before the first Panda Fest
and then now I'm talking to you before the second
pando Fest in the same year. So yes, yes, yet
things have been going really awesome for you and your teams.
(01:00):
So congratulations these huge things.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, Edge. And I feel like,
you know, it's just like April noise.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, I know it. Oh my goodness. So as I
was in before, you know, Atlanta was the very first
city to host pando Fest, and now it's the first
city that you're returning to twice in one year. So
what was it about Atlanta's initial reception that made you
so confident that you guys wanted to come back.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, I think for several reasons. I think I told
you in the April, why don't you Atlanta as a
first city? I expand to I feel like the reason
I tell you is like upcoming city and big, big
Asian popularity, and also it has to have a real
(01:58):
panda and the weather. Everything is so perfect for us
to have the first pan of fat in the Atlanta
and it tends to be everything is so true and
our first really success and we sold out very quick
and there's so many in the wait lists for us,
(02:20):
and then very unlucky our last section for the last day,
it was shut down because because of a lightning. Even
though we are in a real shine events, but we
always want to put the people safety in our first priority.
(02:40):
It's out door events, so we need to think about
a lot and so to be honest, at that moment,
I feel, you know, I need to take my courage
to say, oh, let's shut down our events, and I
don't want to put the clients in the risk situation.
So to be honest, our events is not that perfect
(03:03):
to end because we have, we refound around eight seven
people's tickets and so that's why I feel like we
maybe we should come back this year because we want
the people who purchase the tickets they didn't they cannot
come to our events. And also we still believe a
(03:26):
lot of people want us to come back again. So
I think, Okay, let's do it. And I think it's
been timing for us to come back for within a year.
And I know it's a crazy decision, but to be honest,
our kind of fast team, we really love Atlanta. And
(03:47):
also this time we redesigned all the things. We redesigned
our inflatible panda, We redesigned our inflatable happened and the
pain and the bad? Ever think we redesigned Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So awesome. Well, Atlantisair loves pandefest. So I can I can,
without the shattle of a doubt, say that that everyone
is ecstatic and super excited that you guys are coming
back and for us to get that treat, you know,
two times in one year. Who knows what the new
year will bring. Well, we'll see what happens. But you've
(04:24):
gone from a one day pop up to a multi city,
multi day festival in a short amount of time. What
would you say has been the biggest lesson that you
learned during this rapid expansion. I think a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A registage five city events when in Atlanta and then Pildelphia,
then Boast, then we are going to the wet Seattle
and Avo is Yeah, and I would say I think
we are kind of like we just use like four
(05:04):
months to be like really really national wild events because
we are in West Coast, East Coast and Middle West.
And so I'm very proud of my team, but to
be honest, for it's you know, it's not easy for
us to do these things in the short short term.
(05:24):
And also we learn a lot because I feel like
different city people's behavior or demoglastic or be people's hobby
a lot. It's I would not say totally different, it's
slightly different, but it slightly different will make a lot
of things really different. So I I'm telling my team
(05:48):
now we have studying you as geography now, so so yeah,
we want to have a bad understanding. And when we
started a new city, and also I think my team
become stronger and stronger, bigger and bigger because we know
(06:12):
what we are doing. What we are looking for. And
I definitely think we got a lot of experience in
the past five events, and I think we will deliver
badger events in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yes, and as you were saying, you know, you guys
have taken on so many different cities and so many
different parts of the US, and who knows, you know
where you'll be at next. But what would you say
from the feedback that you've gotten from the clients, the customers,
the guests. What would you say was the most impactful
(06:46):
piece of feedback that you got from customers?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh? Yes, of course I think I got. Of course,
each event will have positive review and ninety res view,
and I will ever say I'm very defense or I
hate the nextive review. I will think about this negative
review will give us a lot of you know, good
(07:11):
suggestions I will take. I will make a conclusion and
tell my team how to improve that. And I think
a lot of nextive review is kind of like the
lone line and also the uh, you know, no shape
and you know this these type of things is easy
to solve. Case. We can have more line checking people
(07:35):
to make the line factor and we can add more time,
but to manage the fatter you know called control and
also of the shade. Of course we can all more
tent and for some and also for some negative review,
it's kind of the price for the food is really expensive.
(07:55):
But I kind of like say, we have a new
solution for this. It's kind of like we can't ask
the vendor to offer the lower price with a blessed
portion because I really understand a lot of people that
come here they want to try more food instead of
they just purchase one and get food. So I think
(08:17):
I will ask vendor to give more more choice because
you know, someone they come here with a group, maybe
they want to purchase a twenty dollars things and they
share with group, right, But some people will get like
seven dollars things and it's by them, by themselves. So
we encourage all vendors to give the different options, like
(08:41):
the cheap option and the normal option.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Kind of like that gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, that's always a
big thing. And you know there's so many groups and
people that come with their families and stuff to fandom
Fest and I mean Panafsts. It celebrates just a wide
range of Asian cultures, from Chinese and Japanese to Tie
and Vietnamese. What's your process like as you're curating those
(09:08):
seventy plus food vendors and twenty five plus marketplace vendors
to ensure that you're representing the diversity and authenticity of
the AAPI cultures.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yes. Yeah, I think we we are like only Fox
on Asian food and Asian culture, and I think it's
very interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's kind of like.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Unique copic because when I want to start do this
very unique copic and people will say, hey, why you
don't want to do a like international food Fastball and
and why you don't want to like to like maybe
pizza pass, I would say, I want to do something
really related to my culture. And because I'm originally from China,
(10:04):
so I kind of like understand a part of Asian culture.
I cannot say as understand all.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And I feel like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
When the people do something they're really familiar with, they
really like confident with, I feel like they definitely can
you know, make sure these things is authentic.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And also another.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Things for us is that we put a lot of
vendor out of the city and it's some man are
from New York, some manner from theo some manner from
the Los Angeles, the reason is that, to be honest,
I really want to present very authentic Asian street fruits.
(10:49):
But sometimes there's those type of vendors that are not
easy to find in local So I I am not
like saying, oh, I think Atlanta is okay, but it's
still middle Like I mean, it's not that hard to
find the authentic Asian street vendor, but you know, some
(11:12):
city in the really middle West, it's really hard to
find like one hundred vendors during the Asian street food
you know what, any right, So for situation, I need
a solid vendor team to travel with me to all
the cities. And so that's our secret to keep kind
(11:32):
of like authentic for the food we delivers.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yes, yes, yes, And of course the Pandemonium theme is
central and a very memorable part of the festival's brand.
So for people that maybe miss the other episode with you,
how did you come up with the idea to use
pandas as your unifying element?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, because panda is my favorite animal, and I try
a lot of people their favorites animals.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Panda love panders.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I have all the panda he changed my bag and
people will say, oh my god, you have a lot
of band that he changes and yeah, and they will say, oh,
I mean random people. They will say, oh, my favorite
that anyone's panda, and you know who doesn't like panda,
so that Pana is my favorite animal. And I feel
(12:27):
like everyone do something creative. And I have this idea
to be honest, since twenty twenty three, and a lot
of people say they feel it's really hard to make
this topic to the life because it's like, how can
you find the panet related food. It's really hard for
(12:48):
people to imagine and and but I think I can
maybe start with decoration and start with but you know,
like our Atlanta the September events would be totally different
with our APO events because all our vendors has a
(13:08):
strong equation with the pandavs. They also become the Pana fans.
And then and also I feel like for me, h,
fastball is one things. But I always want to create
my merchandise line, and we have our merchandise line so far,
(13:30):
but we are creating more and more like merchandise items
like key chain, like pain like uh you know, t
shirt and also the sand We are creating a lot
of Pana related merchandise. So in the future we also
want to open our own panel shop online and pa
(13:52):
shop offline, and basically we want to make this Panda
universe and yeah, not only rely on the poodpectful. Yeah,
this is my ambitions and go.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love it. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know anyone who doesn't love Pandas. They're just so beautiful
and majestic and it's just so wonderful. I mean, I
don't know if I would trust anybody BEAUBI if they
didn't love Pandas. I'm like, I don't know if I
can trust you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah. And also I feel like I'm really rely on
Panda for like, I mean Twacho three months last year
after I first because you know, motherhood is always really
tough at the beginning. So I kind of like every
(14:46):
day I need to watch your Panda YouTube to you know,
make my life happier. Yes, yes, at the moment, my
dad need to do something for Panda. So that's why
I I'm so lucky I turned my intries to another,
(15:07):
you know, the business. That's that's very lucky. To know
if you can do something you really like, that's a
lucky thing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, you're very very fortunate, very blessed. Now Bibio. For
anyone that isn't able to make Pandofest next weekend, it's
going to be amazing time. But if they can't make
it in Atlanta next weekend, are there any other upcoming
festivals for pandofests that people can maybe catching another city? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, So after Atlanta we will go to the Charlotte
it's not far from yeah. And after those Charlotte in
the November. In October, we will come back to the Nashville.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I heard about that, yes, and we just.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Now we will come to Nashville yesterday.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah. Oh we have very exciting for that, yes, as
you should be. Now let everyone know the best way
to go ahead and secure their tickets because Pandafest does
sell out, so they need to get their tickets. Where
do they need to go?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, come to our website do pada fest dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, sounds like the plan, Biboo. It's a pleasure
speaking with you as usual. Thank you so much for
coming through. I can't wait to you know, be in
in the whole Panda Festivent Atlantic Station next week. I'm
definitely gonna be out there and I'll be looking for you, Bubeo.
I'm gonna see if I can find you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So much, Ash and let me know when you arrive.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, definitely, And I appreciate each and every one of
you guys, Thank you so much for your love and support.
Keeping in mind. Anyone to tell you that you can't
do what you want to do, you look them square
in the face, you tell them, don't believe me. Just
watch watch what I do, Watch me make it happen,
watch me make history. And so we're doing this for
the history books. Social media is nice, but real life
(17:15):
is so much better. Until next time, you guys,
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