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Hey there folks, and welcome back to What If World, the show where your questions and ideas inspire off-the-cuff stories.
I'm Mr. Eric, your host, and today I am beyond excited.
This is a day I've been waiting for pretty much since I started this show.
Before this person even existed, it was something I knew I wanted to do someday.
So I am so excited to introduce my very special guest, my very own Callie.
Hello.
Hey, Callie.
Welcome to the show.
So, Callie, I would love to hear your what if question for today.
My what if?
Question is what if Kasankul got in a time machine and he go to the future and then he saw a T-Rex that can eat any dinosaur and he's never eaten a squid before.
So he thought the squid tastes good.
And then they both became friends.
And my dad can choose.
Oh, wow.
Maybe I can choose.
Yeah, well, we'll figure that stuff out together.
So, wow.
Okay.
There's so much awesome stuff in this question.
And we're going to have Cthunkle.
And we're going to have some time travel.
And we're going to have dinosaurs in the future.
Long time What If World listeners might know that in the future of What If World...
There are dinosaurs again, somehow.
Because our world doesn't have to follow the same rules as what is world.
Now, Callie, do you want to tell the kids anything about yourself?
Anything you like or like doing?
I like making comics.
You might know that I'm a comic maker.
Yeah.
But, yeah, I don't really like doing shadow, but I do them in some of my comics.
Yeah.
And I'm six years old and old.
My favorite character is Cthulhu.
That's why I made the what if question.
All right.
Okay, so let's find out.
And again, I'm paraphrasing here, Callie.
I won't get the whole what if?
Question, but let's find out.
What if?
Cthulhu went to the future, met a T-Rex that could eat anything and the T-Rex didn't like squid, and they became friends.
No, it ate anything, like any dinosaur.
Any dinosaur, any dinosaur.
Okay, very good.
Oh dear, said Cthunkle.
He had just put all of What If World back together again.
If you recall, last week it kind of split in half.
It's getting destroyed all the time, but as this sort of you know president in absentia, I figured I would do my part to fix the world this time.
But oh, am I ever tired.
I need a vacation.
Callie, have you seen any time machines about?
Because all my time travel power I think is just tapped out from putting the world back together.
Okay, I'll go to the time machine shop.
Okay, I got one.
Whoa!
Oh my goodness, how much do I owe you for that time machine?
I mean, time machines are usually very expensive.
It's not expensive, it's free.
Free time machines?
Wow!
Yeah, and I made one that could, like, make itself bigger and smaller because that's what you do.
You can make yourself bigger or you can make yourself smaller.
Oh, my goodness!
Oh, and it's so... It is smaller than I usually am.
You know I'm usually colossal, so I'll just shrink myself down to the size of like a normal squid and just kind of jump right in there and
Oh, I forgot to set the time travel settings.
Uh, I'm in the future, I think.
Or the past.
It depends on whether or not these dinosaurs can talk.
I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs of the future can talk.
Oh, here comes a T-Rex.
And I'm small.
Oh, hi.
You're a talking T-Rex, so I must be in the future.
Hello.
Let me see if I can just grow back to my normal size so you can't eat me.
Oh no, you're big.
My powers are, they're all diminished.
That's kind of a hungry look you're giving me.
But I'm not hungry for squids.
I've eaten squids before, but not green squids.
I've had a green squid before, but I don't like how it tastes.
And you're a green squid.
Technically, I'm a squidipuss.
Uh-oh.
You're not going to eat me because I'm a squidipuss, are you?
I only like some of the color-blinding ones.
Oh.
The ones that can change their colors.
Oh, cuttlefish can change their colors.
Yeah, cuttlefish.
I can also change my colors.
Octopuses often can as well.
Like the blue-winged octopus?
Mm-hmm, yes.
Wow, you really know your cephalopods.
You are a well-read dinosaur.
Yeah, I am.
And so, Cthunkle and this dinosaur started exploring the what-if world of the future together.
I might be stuck here for a while, and I was hoping to take sort of a vacation.
This old abandoned castle.
There's not any secret traps or monsters in there, are there?
I don't know.
I've never went in there.
But I'm the T-Rex.
I'm the king of the dinosaurs.
So I could defend all of the traps if there's some left.
So I can rip it off of you.
But I won't rip you.
You're like the friendliest dinosaur I've ever met.
Especially for the apex predator of this world.
Yeah.
But the one that Can maybe kill me as a Spinosaurus.
Oh, indeed.
But I don't know when the Spinosaurus lived.
I mean, we're in the future where dinosaurs have somehow come back.
So, like, sort of a Jurassic Park situation, if you will.
Oh, Jurassic Park?
I've watched that movie before.
I guess it must be a historical film for you.
I have a house and my house is made out of leaves.
You have a house made out of leaves?
Yeah, and it's also made out of leaves and i usually eat my meat.
I can't control when i eat it, so i'm kind of eating my house, oh my gosh.
Well, i mean, you are a carnivore after all.
That makes sense, i suppose, just in case your house is currently uh, in your belly.
Well, let's just go check out this haunted looking castle.
I'm sure it doesn't have any sort of like ghost spinosaurus that's going to chase after us or anything.
You know, ghosts are invisible.
And you also know that we can pass through ghosts.
Oh dear.
So it's really hard.
Oh my gosh, this vacation.
We will have to call the Ghostbusters.
What if we came up with our own future Ghostbusters that have a slightly different name, so that Mr Eric doesn't get sued by the real Ghostbusters?
How about Ghost Buttsters?
That's perfect.
Ah, the Ghost Butsters.
Yes, indeed.
Well, we know just who to call.
Well, if you see anything sneaking up behind me that looks like a Spinosaurus, just let me know.
I know you don't like cephalopods, but maybe Spinosaurus does, because they ate a lot of seafood, didn't they?
Yes, indeed.
Spinosaurus.
Yeah, I am a Spinosaurus.
Aren't you the bully from my school?
The bully?
Oh no, what did I do?
I don't remember.
Yeah, because you're like 70 years old and when you were in my school you were like 7 years old.
Oh, so it was a really long time ago and I was being mean to you.
You know, I'm a ghost now.
So I've learned a lot ever since not being an alive Spinosaurus.
I know I wish I was a ghost.
Well, that can be arranged, because i'm hungry for t-rex and seafood.
Hey, how do you have ghost teeth?
Oh no, your ghost teeth seem to have weakened this spinosaurus ghost, but we might need to call the ghost butsters, because it's growing somehow and getting even bigger and in spikier and spinier.
Yeah, i don't know how to transform my ghost self into like a spooky, even bigger spinosaurus with like spiky tentacles everywhere.
Hey, good song, good.
Yes, something i've never told you before is that i'm actually like a transformer, like the other one, but i can transform into dinosaurs, so i can transform into that huge spinosaurus and fight them off.
Oh wow.
And I'll just sort of hang back since my powers are still diminished.
And I'll call the Ghostbusters, just in case.
Oh good thing my cell phone service still works in the far distant future.
I was going to wrestle you with my tentacles, though.
And they're extra spiky.
Oh, no.
You didn't tell me you had tentacles, did you?
Yeah, I know.
I used my ghost powers to get myself tentacles spiky once.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, no.
Oh, my friend is getting hurt.
Oh, this is such a cool action scene.
I got a little bit of scratches, but I'm not actually killed.
Oh, good.
The one that has more damage is this gorgeous dinosaur.
And here come the ghost butsters.
Oh, that's okay.
I'm not... We're the ghost butsters.
That was a burp, not... Oh, I expected it to come out the other end.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah, we'll take care of this ghost problem for you right away.
That'll just be, uh, one, uh, time machine.
One time machine?
Time Machine from the past was free, but to them has value.
Yeah, you know, we can't make Time Machines anymore in the future ever since the Time Accords.
You know, that way we don't rip apart the fabric of reality with our Time Dribble.
Anyway, don't you worry about that.
Jerry, we'll take care of this Spinosaurus.
You just give us a Time Machine.
You're getting me!
T-Rex!
Wait, do you have a name?
Did we not introduce ourselves?
I'm Cthunkle, by the way.
I know you, Cthunkle.
Oh, you were like a mind-reading, shape-changing T-Rex?
Yeah.
Oh, alright.
Let me see if I can read your mind and figure out that your name is Sparkle Tree.
No, my name is Thomas.
Oh, I was so close.
Thomas, this is our one chance.
They've got the Spinosaurus wrapped up.
I need to get back to the present.
Would you like to come with me?
I could come with you, but I don't even know how to fit in the time machine, so... That's true.
Oh, I will miss you, my dear friend.
If only you could somehow change your shape so that we could both shrink and... Huh?
That the time machine can transform big and small.
There is another ghost in this castle, a benevolent one, and it just reminded me that the time machine can transform big and small, so we'll use it to get back to the present.
Hey, what about our time machine?
You were gonna leave it with us, the ghost butsters, otherwise we're gonna just this ghost Spinosaurus right back at you.
We must get going quickly then.
Jump in, Thomas!
Just as the time machine started growing in size, Cthunkle and Thomas ran inside and Sorry, I'm just making noises with my mouth.
Could you actually press the button that takes us back and... I know how to do time machines.
I don't know what the button is, so... Oh...
I see a little word that says time machine.
I think I should press that button.
That'll probably work.
Wait, you're not disoriented by this time travel?
No.
I figured you'd like scream with me like we were both like riding a time wave or something.
Time wave?
I'm not scared of anything.
I mean, everyone's scared of something.
I would be afraid to lose you as a friend, for example.
I hope this time machine takes us somewhere good.
And when they stepped out of the time machine, they found themselves in a place so surprising, so maybe confusing, because I don't know what it is or where it is, or when it is.
Callie, do you know where they ended up?
Me?
Maybe in your office.
Oh, man.
On my roof again.
I just fixed that.
And they didn't quite notice.
That that Spinosaurus had shrunken itself down and followed them through the time machine.
Callie, since we're back at home, that means you're here too.
Can you draw a comic that traps the Spinosaurus or sends it back to the future so it can get captured by the ghost buttsters, or something like that?
I'll make the second one you said.
Got it.
This isn't exactly what I expected to happen.
That's the last time I go up against a comic book artist.
The end.
All right.
Callie, we just told our first real life Whatever World story together.
Have we told stories together before, you and I?
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah.
We've told stories together.
We've made comics together.
Well, thank you so much for joining... Already an expert at so many monster noises.
Or is that a witch in my office?
Oh, boy.
I... Oh, okay.
Well...
Callie, thank you so much for inviting this witch into my office.
Maybe she can cast a magic spell to fix it.
You know, witches cannot cast a spell for them to get out of somewhere.
They can, but they can only cast it to get out of the stuff when it's dark out.
Oh, I see.
And maybe it's not dark out.
We're doing this inside.
Well, we're about to get going, but Is there anyone you want to give a shout out to?
My brother, Rory, is four years old.
Yeah.
And you like him?
Yeah, infinity.
You like him infinity?
And we love you the same.
So thanks for coming on the show.
And until we meet again.
