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Pip wants to tell you what happened in the world today. So does Vera, but she's mostly going to roll her eyes about it. Brad's just here for the vibes. And Grump? Grump is mostly asleep but somehow always says the wisest thing. Welcome to Say What?! — the only daily news show for kids 5 to 10 where the news is real and everything else is also somehow real. Every morning, the four hosts dig into three of the strangest, funniest, most "did that actually happen?" stories from around the world. A goat eating a town's welcome mats. A truck full of bees loose on the highway. A robot delaying a flight to San Diego. On Fridays, things get wilder. We get a caller from somewhere different in the world — China one week, Brazil the next, Jamaica the one after — and we try our best to help them with a problem that only really happens in their country. Stories are real. Reactions are loud. Everyone's fine in the end (even the goat). Made for car rides, breakfast tables, and bedtime giggles. About 5 to 7 minutes per episode. A new one every morning.
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Say What?! is the news comedy show for kids aged 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a park full of geysers has swallowed 280 hats this year, along with 36 pairs of sunglasses, 17 pacifiers and six teeth straighteners, and a team of rock scientists went fishing with long grabby poles to get it all back out. Then a family in America where five people in a row, boy girl boy girl boy, were all born on the fourteenth of September, and a great grandma who asked for a baby boy on that exact day and got one. And scientists in a flooded Brazilian rainforest found a brand new frog that looks identical to its neighbours, so they worked out it was new by listening to its slow, lazy song. Plus a caller from Vietnam whose breakfast noodle soup smells so good that forty neighbours turn up at her table every single morning, and one of them now brings his own chair. New episodes Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Support the show
Say What?! is the news comedy show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: thousands of people at a big game pass a giant blow-up hot dog and a giant blow-up bun over their heads and have thirty five seconds to put them together, and when they do it everybody in the stadium wins a free snack. Then a man called John walks into a library holding a magazine that was borrowed one hundred and thirty two years ago, forty eight thousand days late, with a twelve thousand dollar fine that the library kindly waves away. And for the real science bit, a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa was written off as dead sixty years ago and nobody went back to check, until scientists sent a little underwater robot down with a camera and found the whole reef alive, bright and full of fish. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. Support the show
Say What?! is the news comedy show for kids aged 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today a little bat with no ticket rides a commuter train through Scotland, flapping over everyone's heads and parking itself on the luggage shelf like a tiny furry suitcase, until a big flag and a waved hat gently show it the door. Then we go to the Dutch town of Zundert, where twenty streets spend a whole year growing flowers, then build statues as tall as a house, cover them in four hundred thousand blooms, and push them down the road to see whose is best. And for our cool true fact, Saturn. The planet with the rings already has a giant six-sided shape made of wind at the top, and scientists have just spotted a brand new ten-sided one at the bottom. Nobody knows why the wind draws straight lines. Hosted by Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera. Support the show
Say What?! is the news comedy show for kids aged 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a man in Italy rebuilt a car to be just half a metre wide, skinnier than a door, and drives it to fairs to make people laugh. Four thousand volunteers in Hirosaki, Japan moved a 400-ton castle tower by pulling on ropes, eighty at a time, shifting it about one metre a day, and school children got a turn too. Plus the big one: world maps have been drawing Africa far too small for hundreds of years, and the new Equal Earth map finally shows every place at its real size. Africa is fourteen times bigger than Greenland. And it is Friday, so we have a caller: Zofia from Poland went mushroom picking for one hour and came home with nine hundred mushrooms. There are mushrooms in the bath, mushrooms in both shoes, and one sitting on the cat. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera have a fix. Support the show
Say What?! is the news show for kids aged 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a floating island of trees on a huge Canadian lake that keeps vanishing and reappearing miles away, a truck that dropped 120 tubs of cheesy snacks onto a Los Angeles freeway and caused a traffic jam of snack hunters, and the tiny Caribbean island of Curacao, whose 10 to 12 year olds won the Little League World Series without losing a single game. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a Washington state homeowner calls 911 about a burglar and police find a wild bobcat perched on the stairs instead, a pug named Jinny Lu is crowned the World's Ugliest Dog at the Sonoma County Fair, and eleven-year-old Anderson shows off the fossil museum he built and runs himself. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a bison escapes in Virginia and gives himself a self-guided farm tour past mailboxes and front yards, a Wisconsin cat named Erebus breaks the world record for the most toes ever on a cat with 29, and NASA's Perseverance rover captures a first-ever photo of planet Earth disappearing behind Mars tiny moon Phobos. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a runaway bull calf named Moodini leads a chase through a Texas supermarket parking lot and into a drainage tunnel Support the show
Today on Say What — A raccoon in Texas got a mayonnaise jar stuck on her head and earned a legendary name. A woman in India grew her hair to almost nine feet long. And inventors in Spain built a wind machine with no spinning blades that wobbles to make electricity. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: two capybaras, the biggest guinea pigs on the planet, wander calmly into a grand government building in Brazil, explore the front desk, get joined by a third, and are finally defeated by a spinny gate. A whole town in America straps wheels to real bathtubs and races them down a road, complete with brakes, steering and a rule that the tub must still hold water, all because of a joke a newspaper made up long ago. And in five days the Moon slides right in front of the Sun, turning day to dusk for about two minutes over Iceland, Spain and a corner of Portugal, for the first time in that part of the world since 1999. Plus a Friday caller from Japan, where children clean their own classrooms, who has polished the floor, the stairs, the desk, the shoes and finally the teacher. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a marmot in Canada stows away under a car and rides seventy five miles before turning up in a family's garage, then tours the neighbourhood for days. A tiny kitten called Gelato gets a homemade wheelchair built from rulers, tape and four little toy car wheels, goes viral, and is given a brand new printed set of wheels. And scientists in China study a fuzzy flying reptile squished in a rock for one hundred and twenty million years, and work out it may have shimmered green and pink, because of how the tiny colour blobs inside its fluff are stacked. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera argue about all of it. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: fourteen dogs hit the waves at a dog surfing championship on a California beach, judged on balance, tricks and confidence, and a shiny yellow Labrador named Rosie wins twice. Then a boy who started college at ten ends up teaching at eighteen, standing in front of students exactly his own age, something nobody had managed for three hundred years. And after a nine year search using laser beams fired from a plane, scientists in Taiwan find the tallest tree in all of East Asia: eighty four metres of giant fir that local people call a tree that hits the moon. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a seaside town in Finland secretly picks the Sleepiest Person of the Year, then carries them down to the sea for a very gentle splash and a full day of parades. Then off to London, where window cleaners from around the world race to clean three big windows in about nine seconds, while judges hunt for streaks and a champion nicknamed Turbo defends his title against his own daughter. And the cool one: scientists studying a 120-million-year-old fossil in China found that a fuzzy flying reptile shimmered in bright green and pink, ages before birds existed. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a tiny seaside town in Canada finally hauls away 110 giant tanks of fish sauce that have been sitting in an abandoned factory for twenty-six years, stinking up the school and the laundry lines. Then two sisters on holiday for their grandpa's eightieth birthday look at a big beach photo hanging in their rented house and realise the tiny people splashing in it are their own family, snapped from the sky ten years ago. And in real science, researchers in America built a cell from scratch out of plain ingredients, and it eats, grows, and splits itself in two. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: more than a thousand people all named Ryan gather at a giant shopping mall and ride the same roller coaster, one after another, for a brand new world record. A basketball player in Egypt steps back eighty feet and sinks the shot, then does it again, breaking two world records in a single day. And real science: scientists in Australia find tiny teeth in old rocks belonging to a whole branch of pouch animals nobody knew existed, mouse-sized bug-eaters from eighteen million years ago. Plus a Friday caller from Turkey who cannot stop jumping and has spilled two years of tea. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a clever New Zealand parrot named Bruce lost part of his beak as a chick and invented his own way to eat, becoming the undisputed boss of the flock. Then, six mysterious shiny metal spheres washed up on an Australian beach and had firefighters in hazmat suits standing by, until scientists revealed they were just harmless space junk. And finally, scientists in Australia are teaching endangered baby songbirds the right tune, because with so few adult birds left, some chicks never got to learn their own species' song. Support the show
Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a worker gets stuck for six hours inside a 130-foot gas station sign, a giant seal named Neil scratches his itchy back with traffic cones and stops traffic in Tasmania, and we learn the real science behind India's rare black tigers, special stripes caused by a single genetic mutation, found in only one forest on Earth. Support the show
A muddy New Jersey swamp gives up a message in a bottle from 53 years ago. A dog named Chong turns up at a truck stop 642 miles from home after 5 years missing. And real science: tiny bug babies in an African lake that dive deeper than a skyscraper is tall, using their own built-in submarine tanks. Support the show
Pip, Grump, Brad, and Vera crack open a record-breaking 65-foot nutcracker, climb into a giant human refrigerator to beat the heat, and celebrate a brand new ocean sanctuary the size of a whole country, protecting sharks, whales, dolphins, and sea turtles. Support the show
A man in a full superhero costume jumps out of his car to help a stranger in a wheelchair cross a busy street. A tiny pink stuffed donkey named Churro goes missing on a giant ferry boat and becomes an honorary crew member before sailing home to her five year old owner. And scientists find a giant planet that was hiding behind a cloud of space dust for ten whole years! Support the show
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