Episode Details
Back to EpisodesThe World's Skinniest Car / Four Thousand People Pull a Castle / A New Map Fixes Africa's Size / Caller from Poland: Nine Hundred Mushrooms
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
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.