Say What?! - A Daily Kids News Show
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 be...
A Whole City Built Under One House / A Table Three Miles Long / The Pond Blob Faster Than A Blink
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 called Joe drives a big truck all day, then spends twenty two years in the room under his house building the whole of New York out of little bits of soft wood. Eight hundred thousand tiny buildings. He got the idea on a school trip when he was six, and now a big museum has put the lot on show. Then a city in Romania lays one table three miles long straight down its biggest...
Geysers Swallow 280 Hats / Five Generations Share One Birthday / A Frog Found by Its Song / Caller from Vietnam: Forty Guests for Breakfast
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...
Crowd Builds a Giant Hot Dog at a Big Game / Library Magazine Returns 132 Years Late / A Reef Thought Dead Is Alive
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...
Bat Rides the Train in Scotland / A Dutch Town Builds Statues Out of Flowers / Saturn Grows a Ten Sided Shape
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...
The World's Skinniest Car / Four Thousand People Pull a Castle / A New Map Fixes Africa's Size / Caller from Poland: Nine Hundred Mushrooms
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...
Runaway Island Sneaks Across a Canadian Lake / Cheese Ball Avalanche Stops Freeway Traffic / Tiny Island Team Wins the Kids Baseball World Series
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.
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Wild Bobcat Mistaken for Burglar in Washington Home / Pug Named Jinny Lu Crowned World's Ugliest Dog / Eleven-Year-Old Runs His Own Fossil Museum
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.
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Escaped Bison Takes Self-Guided Farm Tour / Wisconsin Cat Sets Record With 29 Toes / Mars Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Tiny Moon
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.
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Bull Calf Sneaks Into Supermarket / German Finger Wrestling Champion Crowned / New Dragon-Named Lizard Found in Thailand
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
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Raccoon Named Mayonesia Freed From a Jar / Almost Nine Feet of Hair Breaks a World Record / Wind Machine Wobbles Instead of Spinning
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.
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Capybaras Stroll Into a Government Building / A Town Races Bathtubs on Wheels / The Moon Hides the Sun Next Week / Caller from Japan: Cannot Stop Cleaning
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...
Marmot Hitches a Seventy Five Mile Car Ride / Kitten Gets Wheels Made From Toy Cars / Ancient Flying Reptile May Have Shimmered Pink
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...
Dogs Ride Waves in a Surfing Contest / An Eighteen Year Old Becomes a Professor / East Asia's Tallest Tree Found in Taiwan
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...
A Whole Town Splashes Its Sleepiest Person / Three Windows Cleaned in Nine Seconds / Ancient Flying Reptile Shimmered Green and Pink
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...
Town Rid of Its Twenty-Six-Year Fish Smell / Family Spots Themselves in a Holiday House Photo / Scientists Build a Cell From Scratch
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...
A Thousand Ryans Ride a Coaster / Eighty-Foot Basketball Shot / Lost Pouch Animals Found in Australia / Caller from Turkey: Jumping and Spilling Tea
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...
Clever Parrot Rules the Roost With a Broken Beak / Mystery Space Balls Wash Up on a Beach / The Birds That Forgot Their Own Song
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...
Worker Trapped Six Hours in Giant Illinois Sign / Neil the Seal Scratches His Back on Traffic Cones / One-of-a-Kind Black Tigers Found in India
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.
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53-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Found / Dog Reunited After 5 Years, 642 Miles Away / The Bug That Turns Into a Submarine
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.
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World's Tallest Nutcracker / The Human Refrigerator / A Giant Ocean Sanctuary for Sharks
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.
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Real-Life Superhero Saves the Day / Churro the Burro's Ferry Adventure / The Planet That Hid for Ten Years
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!
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Monkey Found on London Bus / Ecuador Lets Pets Witness Weddings / Scientists Find Hidden Hide-and-Seek Stars
A tiny monkey pops out of a laundry bag on a London bus, Ecuador says your pet can be an official wedding witness, and astronomers find four sneaky hidden stars using secret invisible light. Plus, our Friday caller Antoine rings in from France with a very strange shopping problem!
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Fast Planes Blow Away the Beach / The Cat Who Charms Free Snacks / Water Bears Go to Space
Three wild stories for curious kids! A team of super fast airplanes zooms over a Florida beach and sends umbrellas, hats, and a whole tent flying. A very clever cat on a sunny island charms visitors into buying it snacks. And meet the water bear, the tiniest, toughest animal on Earth, now heading to the space station to help keep astronauts safe. Silly, kind, and totally kid-safe.
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Two Deer Crash Into Two Shops At Once / World's Longest Foosball Table Sets A Record / Hidden Ancient City Found Under The Jungle
Two deer crash into two shops at the exact same time in Georgia. Grown-ups build the world's longest foosball table. And scientists use laser light from a plane to find a hidden ancient city hiding under the jungle in Ecuador for hundreds of years.
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Dog Vanishes Into Secret Backyard Tunnel / Town Throws a Splashy Bed Race / Flightless Parrot's Record Baby Boom
A dachshund named Veeta discovers a secret underground maze in her own backyard, a South Carolina town races beds down Main Street (and gets everyone soaked), and we meet the world's heaviest parrot, the kakapo, fresh off its best baby-hatching year ever recorded!
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World's Slowest Snail Race / Secret Rooftop Code Cracked / Rare Baby Puggles
Three true-but-silly stories for kids. A whole English village cheers on the slowest race in the world, where real snails creep across a circle and the winner gets a shiny cup stuffed with lettuce. A secret blinking code on the roof of a tall office building is finally cracked after three years, and the hidden message turns out to be a picture of a flower. And two very rare baby echidnas, called puggles, are born at a zoo, showing that a couple of furry animals really do lay eggs. No caller today (not Friday).
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World's Biggest Piggy Bank / A Library Book 46 Years Late / A Space Crater Found on a Map
Three true (but very silly) stories for curious kids. A town in Colombia builds the biggest piggy bank on Earth, so big you can walk inside and climb up to a lookout on its nose, and the coins help shelter animals. A library book comes back 46 years late in the mail with a tiny note that says sorry. And a man planning a camping trip spots a giant round hole on a map that turns out to be a space rock crater from 390 million years ago. Made for ages 5 to 10.
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Peanut Butter Museum Floor / Summer Santa Congress / The Bayeux Tapestry
Three stories for curious kids. An artist covers a whole museum floor in peanut butter (on purpose!). Hundreds of Santas gather in a Denmark town in the summer heat. And a 1,000-year-old sewn cloth, a giant hand-stitched 'cartoon strip', travels secretly to England. Big energy, kid-safe, and a little bit of wonder.
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The Mail Squirrel / a Giant Basket Building / a Floating-Rock Volcano
Today on Say What?! Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera meet a squirrel who popped out of an office package and zoomed across the desks, tour a building shaped like a giant picnic basket that is up for sale, and learn how an underwater volcano is making rock that FLOATS - and might even grow a brand-new island. Silly, wholesome, kid-safe news comedy for ages 5 to 10.
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A Parade Just for Pets / a Bus-Sized Paper Airplane / the Iberian Lynx
Today on Say What?! Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera march through a town parade made entirely of pets - including Waffles the pony, Walter the tiny donkey and Peanut the very slow tortoise - watch a student team launch a paper airplane as big as a school bus, and learn about the Iberian lynx, a pointy-eared spotty wild cat from Spain. Silly, wholesome, kid-safe news comedy for ages 5 to 10.
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The Billionth Visitor / an Otter Mix-Up / a Planet That Could Have Life
Today on Say What?! Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera meet the lucky kid who became the one-billionth visitor to a giant theme park, solve the mystery of a baby otter that turned out to be a lost baby mink, and learn about a faraway super-Earth that might have just the right conditions for life. Silly, wholesome, kid-safe news comedy for ages 5 to 10.
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Purple Seal / Mystery Apples / a 400-Year-Old Coral
A seal turned grape-juice purple, mystery apples washed up on a beach causing wild horses to scramble, and ocean scientists found a 400-year-old coral tree that's actually white. True weird news told simply for curious kids.
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Merlín the Duck / Sunglasses Rescue / Brilliant Bees
A duck in a jersey crashes the World Cup! A man rescues his sunglasses from a very deep dark hole and needs firefighters to get out. And bumblebees in Finland solve puzzles scientists thought only chimps could do.
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Giant Soccer Ball Building / a Pink Doll House / a Road Made of Trash
Three true but very silly stories for kids! A whole museum becomes a giant 17-floor soccer ball, a mum paints her whole house pink like a giant doll's dream house, and real scientists turn old fishing nets and ocean plastic into actual roads. No caller today.
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Stuck Goat / Doorbell Alligator / a Walking Shark
Today on Say What?! Sir Nibbles the goat gets his head stuck in a trailer, a polite alligator named Gerald waits at a family's front door, and scientists find a brand new shark that walks on its fins. Silly, kind, kid-safe news for ages 5 to 10.
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Banana Car / Pink Glowing Grass / a Movie-Star Dog
The silliest news on Earth, for kids 5-10. Today: a giant banana-shaped car gets pulled over by the highway police
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The Bridge in a Costume / the Couch Snake / a 1,000-Year-Old Game
Today on Say What?! an artist wraps the oldest bridge in Paris into a giant fuzzy mountain you can walk inside, a cozy snake is found hiding behind a family's television in Australia, and scientists discover a board game carved into the steps of a thousand-year-old bath house in Morocco. Funny news for kids, ages 5 to 10.
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The Treasure in the Pipe / a Dog's Wild Surprise / a Secret New Bird
Today on Say What?! - Plumbers find a sparkly ring lost down a drain ten years ago and bring it home. A dog named Bingo carries a live armadillo into the house and everyone shouts OOPSIE. And scientists find Japan's first brand-new bird in over forty years, hiding in plain sight - told apart only by its song and its tiny secret recipe inside. Kid-safe silly news for ages 5 to 10.
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The Giant Brick Sausage / Worm Charming / Red Skies
Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take on three wild stories: a giant sausage built from 65,000 plastic building bricks (you cannot eat it!), a town that charms wiggly worms out of the grass, and the night Japan's sky glowed super-high and bright red. Real news, told silly, for kids age 5 to 10.
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Piano Hero / the Runaway Banana / the 194-Year-Old Tortoise
Three silly stories for curious kids. A young man leaps out of the audience to save a big movie-music concert in Australia. A banana taped to a museum wall vanishes, so the museum just sticks up a new one. And meet Jonathan, a giant tortoise who just turned 194, the oldest land animal in the world and older than the Eiffel Tower.
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