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Mindy and Guy Raz here and before we start the show this week, we have a very special episode of Wow in the World to share with you.
That's right, Mindy.
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Proceeded, 3, 2, 1, ignition.
We'll see you next time.
Okay, Flyer.
You and Flaps and Beaky and Captain Cuckoo Head can fly up and get it.
Pigeon Patrol will be right back after these messages.
Good morning, Reggie.
So good to be back home.
I really missed you, buddy.
Oh, yeah.
Guy and I were at a week-long climate crusader training and now we're equipped with everything we need to save our planet.
Look, I even got a cape.
It's going to be a beautiful day.
It's going to be a scorcher of a day today.
Wait, what?
That's right, Gale.
On today's top story, here on planet Earth, pot is about to get even hotter.
Temperatures are heating up to record-breaking numbers.
Yikes.
You hear that, Reg?
And that's not all.
Meteorologists everywhere are predicting massive storms and even flooding.
In other words, time to get out the canoes because wet is about to get even wetter.
Oof, hot and rainy?
Reggie, we need to turn up the air conditioning in this gingerbread mansion to keep it from melting.
I don't know, just turn it as cold as it'll go and then leave it running at full blast all day long.
And then plug in all of my electric blankets so that we can pile them on top of us to stay warm while we're inside this freezing gingerbread mansion.
But then leave the refrigerator door open to cool us off when the electric blankets make us too hot.
And then get out all of the space heaters and plug them, Then turn on all the ceiling fans to cool us off from the space heaters.
And then call everyone over for an emergency neighborhood meeting so I can tell everyone how they can be a climate crusader and save our planet.
Because we've got to save our planet, Reggie.
This is important.
Now I've got to open all the windows to let the heat from the outside warm up the inside of the gingerbread mansion.
It's freezing in here with that air conditioner running at full blast.
Oh, hi, Mindy.
Are you practicing karate on your windows again?
Yeah.
Hey, Dennis, what are you doing right now?
Just working on the lawn.
It's time for the daily greenwashing.
Daily greenwashing?
Yeah.
First I put a bunch of dangerous pesticides on my yard to keep away the bugs, and then I put fertilizers down to help my flowers grow, and then I spray paint the grass green with these cans of green spray paint.
Spray spray.
Wow.
I love nature.
Uh, okay.
Well, hurry up.
We need to have an emergency neighborhood meeting about how to protect our planet.
Fine.
I'll be right over after this.
Okay, grass.
It's time to get green.
There you go.
Easy does it.
Back it up just a little more.
And stop.
Oh, here's Fingerling's daily delivery.
I got a delivery of 75 boxes of Boo Boo Beanie Boppers for Thomas Fingalick.
That you?
Yep.
This is a lot of Boo Boo Beanie Boppers.
You a collector or something?
Sure am.
Every day I order 75 boxes.
Keep all the Beanie Boppers I don't have and throw away the doubles.
YouTube.
Throw away the doubles?
Of course I'd throw away the doubles.
Doubles are a waste of space.
I'm not a wasteful person, you see.
Okay, well, that makes no sense.
Says you.
Hey, Thomas Fingerling!
What now, Mandy?
We're having an emergency neighborhood meeting of the Climate Crusaders.
Climate Crusaders, eh?
Well, maybe you can do something about all this heat.
I can't even sort through my boo-boo beanie poppers without sweating all over the place.
What in the... That's enough shade out of you, tree.
Oh, boy.
I'm a G-Force.
What are you doing?
That's my oak tree.
I did not like the way it was looking at me.
Looking at you?
It's a tree.
It was throwing up. and shade at me.
You can't just go around the neighborhood chopping down trees.
We need their shade to cool things down and we need them to soak up some of the carbon pollution in the atmosphere.
Well, where's it coming from in the first place?
Bye-bye, boo-boo beanie bopper man.
Toodle-oo.
Well, it's coming from things like Thomas Fingerling's daily freight truck deliveries.
Do you know how far the things we order have to travel to get to our front doors?
Hey, Guy!
Grandma G-Force!
Quick!
Come over to my gingerbread mansion!
Pass.
We're having an emergency neighborhood climate crusaders meeting!
Well, okay.
Okay, but first I need to weed my vegetable garden.
What vegetables?
All I see are a bunch of rotten cucumbers and one shriveled up little tater.
Wait, what?
Come here, little tater.
I'll still eat you up.
Uh well, it used to be a beautiful vegetable garden, but then I got too busy to take care of it, and now it's just a bunch of rotting vegetables.
And they smell like toots.
Well, that's because of all the methane gas they're releasing into the atmosphere.
Ah, what a waste.
So, you coming or not?
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
Grandma G-Force, you coming too?
Only if you push me in this wheelie barrel.
It's too hot to walk.
Hop on in.
Giddy up, garage.
Ah!
Oh, welcome everyone to Mindy's first ever emergency meeting of the Neighborhood Climate Crusaders.
What's a crusader?
Now, as you may have noticed, our world is changing.
That is good.
That's good by me.
Wild weather events like storms, floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires.
It's like the planet is going bonker balls.
That's right.
I agree.
But.
As the president of our neighborhood Climate Crusaders Club, I have gathered you all here to say that together we can make the changes we need for a brighter future.
Yes!
And it all starts by chopping down all those shady trees with my bare hands.
What?
No!
Well, hum.
You may not know this, but planet Earth is our home.
No, the diaper house on 5th is my home.
No, the diaper house is your house.
Planet Earth, where your diaper house sits, is your home.
And it's home to all of us.
And we all have to work together to take care of it.
Or else we'll have to move to another planet?
Ooh, I like the sound of that.
Uh, Mandy, how many boo-boo beanie boppers can I fit on Mars?
I'm not sure you all realize how special our home here on Earth really is.
Yeah, you tell them, Guy Raz.
Well, of all the planets in the solar system, Earth is the only planet with the perfect temperature for us to live.
It's not too hot like Venus, and it's not too cold like Uranus.
Yeah, and that's because our home planet Earth has this invisible blanket of heat-trapping gases that trap just the right amount of heat for us humans to live here.
Neat.
Mindy's right.
We couldn't live on Mercury because its blanket is too thin, so it gets too hot in the sun but too cold in the shade.
And Venus's blanket is way too thick, so it gets way too hot.
Which brings us back to Earth, where that invisible blanket is just right.
Made to keep us not too hot and not too cold.
But... Here comes Mindy's big butt.
As you may have noticed, our world is getting hotter.
Oh, I noticed.
Who's messing with that invisible blanket?
I wanna know.
Yeah, who's the troublemaker?
Well, we are.
What?
How?
Well, in all sorts of ways, we humans are adding more pollution in the form of heat trapping gases into the atmosphere.
And we're making that invisible blanket thicker.
I do not even know how to do that.
Yeah, me neither.
Well, we're all doing it in ways that we probably don't even know.
And once we know better, we can work together to do better, for our world and for each other.
Okay, so where's all this pollution coming from?
How am I, Dennis, possibly harming the environment?
Great question, Dennis.
This extra pollution is coming from all sorts of things, like how we make and use electricity.
Ah.
Oh, you mean like running my air conditioner at full blast all day, every day, while keeping the windows open and turning on all the fans, but also the space heaters and leaving the refrigerator door open?
Uh, yeah, that's actually a great example, Mindy.
Reggie, I told you that was a waste of electricity.
This pollution also comes from transportation or how we get around.
Oh, like my gas-guzzling ice cream truck.
Well, maybe you should convert it to electric power.
Oh, good idea, Thomas Fingerling.
And pollution also comes from how we manufacture or make things.
Oh, like how a factory makes my mountain of boo-boo beanie boppers?
Oh, yeah, probably.
No!
Leave the boppers out of this!
And pollution also comes from how we use our land, how we change it and take care of it.
Like how I spray paint my dead grass to look green?
Well, uh... Boy, he's talking about me chopping down all the neighborhood trees.
That is becoming a problem in our neighborhood.
Well, I'll say.
The point is, all of these acts and all of this pollution are building up in the atmosphere and making the planet hotter.
And a hotter planet changes our climate, meaning more storms and floods and droughts and wildfires things that change how we live.
And it's impacting all of us, and some more than others.
I would like to make an announcement.
Uh, yes, Grandma G-Force?
I would like to say I am sorry to all of the trees I chopped down for giving me shade.
Oh uh, And I would like to apologize for buying more boo-boo beanie boppers than any one person could ever need.
And also sorry for throwing the doubles into landfills.
Yeah, yeah, and I'm sorry for letting my vegetable garden go to waste.
And I'm sorry for building an unsustainable gingerbread mansion that wastes a ton of electricity to heat and cool.
Oh, for shame.
But listen up, everyone.
The important thing is not to focus on what we've individually done to contribute to pollution or climate change in the past, or even the present.
Yeah, the important thing is to focus on what changes we can make together for a brighter future.
Because if we work together to take better care of our home planet, our home planet can take better care of us.
And the first step is learning all we can about climate change and its causes, so we can share what we learn with others.
Because when we know better, we do better.
And while what we do individually matters, what we do together, in our families, in our schools and communities, matters even more.
Ah!
Oh, I know.
I'm a top contributor on the Neighborhood Snoop Scoop online website.
Neat.
I'll go on there and gossip about all the ways we can stop wasting electricity and stop buying too much stuff and stop spray painting our yards.
I'm not sure that's what gossip is, but sure.
Talk about it all you want, wherever you want.
The important thing is to spread the word, Dennis.
Yay!
And while you're at it, maybe you can gossip about ways we can get more energy from renewable resources like the sun and wind.
Aye, aye, Captain.
Okay, logging in.
And ready to gossip about the environment.
And I'm going to go stand outside the trees and protect them from anyone who tries to chop them down with their bare hands.
I'm pretty sure you're the only one who's been doing that around here, but sure.
Yay!
And maybe talk nicely about the trees to other people.
Talk about how good they are at soaking up carbon pollution and compliment them loudly on providing shade so that we don't have to use as much electricity to cool things down.
Oh, this is all good gossip for Snoop Scoop Online.
Hey, everyone.
Did you hear about the elm tree on First Street?
She got a great new hair trim.
Let's all be cool and plant her some new tree friends to hang out with.
Post.
And I'm going to get my old filmmaking gear and make a documentary about the life cycle of a boo-boo beanie bopper.
Ooh, it'll start with how the materials are made and end with what it takes to get a finished boo-boo beanie popper to my front door amazing.
And i'm going to contact the leaders of our neighborhood schools to talk about how food waste and cafeterias is impacting our planet and maybe offer to invite students and teachers to my vegetable garden to help maintain harvest and eat the vegetables grown in it.
Oh, snap.
Now that's a good idea.
And I'm going to continue to host more Community Climate Crusaders meetings just like this one, encouraging all of us to get out there in the world to use our voices to spread the word on how we can work together to create a brighter future for For our planet and ourselves.
Because when we know better, we do better.
And it's all going to be better and brighter when we do it together.
Climate Crusaders, this meeting is adjourned.
Now, let's get out there and stop spray painting our grass!
Uh... What?
Well, I was going to suggest we spread the word on working together to protect our planet.
But sure we can stop spray painting our grass too.
Now, who's with me, climate crusaders?
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Hello, my name is Harper.
I'm 10.
I live in Chicago, Illinois.
And my wow in this planet is the Arkansas National Park.
Hot Springs National Park.
I loved it when I went with my family because it has a fun trail you can walk on.
And my little brother's butt almost fell into a hot spring.
Bye, Dennis, Mindy, Guy Raz, Baby Dennis, and Thomas Swingerling, and Grandma G-Force.
Hi, my name is Corinne, and I'm from Ohio.
I'm 11 years old.
This summer, I walked the Camino with my family.
It was so cool.
By the way, your show's awesome.
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They made noises all night, and they were very loud.
Hi, my name is Tammy, and I am from Ohio.
The place that wowed me is the Natural History Museum in New York.
Bye!
Love you, too!
Hi, my name is Nico and we went to Sequoia National Park and we saw the biggest trees in the world.
They were so wide, and we went to my cousin's house, and we watched the Olympics.
It was awesome.
I love your show.
Bye.
My name is Steven and a place in the world that wows me is Mexico, San Poncho, and I like that place because When I went there, we got to see a turtle release.
They protect many turtles, and they protect them from anything that may harm them on the beach.
They explained that every mama turtle lays their eggs, and then they collect them and protect them.
Bye.
Say hi to Reggie, Bucky the horse.
Say hi to the sleigh cat.
Bye, Mindy and Guy Ross.
Hello, my name is Rivka.
My name's Ari.
And we're from Minneapolis.
We went to the oldest salt mine in the world in Austria.
And there was ginormous slides there.
They were there forever.
They were there forever.
Bye!
Hi, my name is Grant, and a place that wows me is me and my friend's backyard.
We live in the canyon, so we have a forest behind our houses.
One time, me and my friend found a crystal there, and it was a big one, if you know what I mean.
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