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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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