(peaceful music) (frantic music) (electricity crackling) ♪ Go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ There's a world for me and you ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ A lot of things to see and do ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Every day is something new ♪ ♪ It's Kid Stew ♪ ♪ It's Kid Stew ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ So laugh and learn, enjoy the view ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Jump right in and join the crew ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ It's Kid Stew ♪ ♪ It's Kid Stew ♪ (electricity crackling) [Narrator] Funding for Kid Stew is provided in part by the Cornelia T Bailey Foundation and Michele and Howard Kessler.

♪ Kid Stew ♪ ♪ I'm at a payphone ♪ Hey Madison, mind if I take a picture of you and your time machine phone booth for my blog?

Why not.

Just be sure to get my good side.

♪ I'm at a payphone ♪ Got it.

You know, you should really get the full experience for your bloggers.

You mean?

Let's go for a ride.

♪ I'm at a payphone trying to call home ♪ ♪ All of my change I spent on you ♪ ♪ I'm at a pay phone ♪ Here we go.

(electronic crackling) (thunder roars) Wow.

Wow.

Oh great, we ended up in a haunted house.

Who do you think that is?

It's not J.K. Rowling, that's for sure.

What?

Who's there?

Is that the butler?

Is my tea ready?

Sorry, didn't mean to scare you, ma'am.

I'm Madison and this is Samantha.

We're from the future.

And I thought this place couldn't get any weirder.

And you are?

Mary, Mary Shelly.

I'm a writer but nobody knows it yet.

Not easy for a woman to get published, you know?

Oh, what are you writing?

A juicy romance?

It's a novel about a mad scientist who creates a monster from leftover body parts.

Hold it, this is sounding familiar.

What's the doctor's name.

Victor.

Victor?

I'm calling it Victor and his monster.

Not too high on the scary scale, no offense.

Wait, what's the doctor's last name?

Frankenstein.

Frankenstein!

Now, that's cool.

In the future, we love one word titles.

Frankenstein!

Has a nice ring to it.

Glad we can help.

Now we gotta scoot.

(dramatic music) Oh, that must be the butler.

Would you be so kind just to let him in as you leave?

[Samantha] No problem.

Did somebody ring for tea?

(electricity crackling) I'm so glad you two have agreed to work on your relationship.

Peter, do you wanna start?

No, let her start.

It was all her idea anyway.

Tinkerbell, anything from you?

What can I say?

He's the famous Peter Pan.

And spends all his time in his home under the ground.

It's a man cave.

Whatever!

Well, maybe I need to get away from your twinkling.

It's really annoying.

Oh Peter, just grow up.

I don't wanna grow up.

Peter, do you feel that you're ready for a mature connection with Tinkerbell?

I don't know if I can compete with her magic fairy dust.

Well, then, maybe you shouldn't ended up with Wendy or Miss Tiger Lily.

Never, never, Tink.

You were always the one.

So, Peter, maybe you can spend just a little more time above ground, and Tinkerbell, maybe you can just try twinkling just a little less.

It's all about a compromise.

Okay, I guess I'll try.

Me too.

You see, fairytales do come true.

(electricity crackling) (upbeat music) Hi Really Big Brain.

You called?

[Brain] I was wondering if you guys were interested in baking?

Ooh, I love baking.

[Brain] Then there's something on my kitchen counter you might be interested in.

Be right back.

Please be cupcakes.

RBB, I think you need to check your temperature settings.

[Brain] That bread is an archeological treasure.

It's from the city of Pompeii in Italy.

It's over 2,000 years old.

It that's why it's all gray and gross.

[Brain] It was in the oven at the Modestus Bakery in Pompeii on October 24th, 79 A.D. when a huge volcano exploded.

Wait, was that Mount Vesuvius.

[Brain] That's the one.

The whole city was buried in ash and rock.

200 centuries later, archeologists dug it up and found this loaf of bread.

That's one sturdy oven.

[Brain] Hey, what do you get when you cross a volcano with a light bulb?

You tell us.

[Brain] A lava lamp.

Well, thanks for the baking lesson.

[Brain] I thought you'd get a rise out of that one.

RBB, your jokes are as old as that bread.

[Brain] Thanks, I'll take that a compliment.

(electricity crackling) (dramatic music) Godfather, thank you for seeing me.

[Don Provolone] You come to me on my daughter's birthday.

Don Provolone, I come to ask a favor.

Gimme the name.

No, no, it's about your olive oil company.

A legitimate business.

I pay my taxes.

It's about your olive oil bottles, Don Provolone.

Forgive me.

What about my olive oil bottles.

They're made of PET.

Pete?

Pete who?

I never heard of the man.

No, P-E-T. Polyethylene terephthalate.

You trick me with big words.

What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?

PET is a form of plastic that can leach dangerous chemicals into food.

And plastic is a major cause of pollution.

So, what would you have me do about this PET?

May I suggest glass bottles?

They're clean, sanitary, reusable, and the finest quality.

Your competitors, Don Provolone, they would fear you.

The sales would take a hit.

In a manner of speaking.

Then I will make you an offer you can't refuse.

Cake?

(dramatic music) (electricity crackling) Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Hi, and welcome to Kid Stew, Who Knew.

Thanks to that famous poem, everybody's heard of Paul Revere and his ride to warn the American colonists that the British Army was coming.

Paul Revere didn't ride alone.

There were four other riders that sounded the alarm in April, 1775.

One of those riders was Sybil Ludington, a 16 year old girl.

Paul Revere gets all the credit but Sybil rode twice as far and she did it side saddle.

Sybil Ludington, expert rider and teenage rebel.

Who knew?

(electricity crackling) (footsteps clacking) Oh gosh.

So ladies, how did the protest march go?

Terrible.

Humiliating.

The men threw tomatoes at us.

We'll never get any rights in this country.

Nonsense!

We just have to keep fighting.

Easy for you to say, you're the famous Susan B Anthony.

Yes, who got arrested for trying to vote in her own hometown.

Ladies, I know this isn't easy.

We'll break that glass ceiling.

Listen to me.

♪ Everybody's been there ♪ ♪ Everybody's been stared down by the enemy ♪ ♪ Fallen for the fear ♪ ♪ And about to disappear ♪ ♪ And bow down to the mighty ♪ ♪ Don't run, stop holdin' your tongue ♪ ♪ Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live ♪ ♪ Maybe one of these days you can let the light in ♪ ♪ Show me how big your brave is ♪ ♪ Say what you wanna say ♪ ♪ And let the words fall out ♪ ♪ Honestly, I wanna see you be free ♪ ♪ What you wanna say ♪ ♪ And let the words fall out ♪ ♪ Honestly, I wanna see you be free ♪ ♪ What you wanna say ♪ ♪ And let the words fall out ♪ ♪ Honestly, I wanna see you be free ♪ ♪ I just wanna see you ♪ ♪ I just wanna see you ♪ ♪ I just wanna see you ♪ It's raining books, hallelujah.

It's raining books.

Coming down from the library.

Nothing better than a good book or two to read.

Oh, hey, you're Josiah.

Wait, wait, you're Chris Grabenstein.

Grabenstein like Frankenstein.

So, Mr. Grabenstein, what do you think makes libraries so special?

When I wrote "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library", my whole starting idea was could you escape from the library only using things you found inside the library and of course you could 'cause you can find anything inside a library.

Your books are really funny.

[Chris] Thank you.

Were you a funny kid?

I was a funny kid.

I was kind of the class clown who would sit there and make fun but do you want some tips if you wanna be a class clown.

Make sure the teacher's laughing too.

How do stories come in mind if you have zero information?

Oh, if you have no information.

Keep your eyes open and you look for something a little bit out of the ordinary like the book, "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library", I got that whole idea when I was visiting a school in Brooklyn, New York called P.S.

10 and Brooklyn, New York looked like every school in Brooklyn and I asked the librarian how'd you guys get this brand new library in your old fashioned building and she said, "Oh, a very generous millionaire donated it to us."

So that day on the subway ride home, I got my writer's notebook.

My pen, I wrote down the two magic words that started every single book I've ever written, what if.

I learned a new word called improvisation.

What does that mean?

It kinda means that you're making things up on the spot but do you wanna know what the secret rule is?

What?

You say yes and move foreword.

So for instance, if you and I were doing a scene and I said oh, it's hot in here and you went, no it's cold!

Then the scene's gone nowhere, right?

But if I said, wow it's hot in here.

You go, yeah, it sure is.

At least you've said yes.

But if we were doin' a scene together and I and you give me a yes and.

If I said wow it's hot in here and you said, yeah, I told you we shouldn't have climbed inside this dog's mouth, all of a sudden we've got a whole scene goin' on and that's all the power of saying yes and moving the story forward.

Who do you collaborate with?

Well, I collaborate, so far I wrote a movie for television with a buddy of mine from college called The Christmas Gift starring John Denver and I also just finished collaborating on a book with my wife.

It's called "Shine!"

And it's all about who you are being more important than what you accomplish.

Well, thank you for joining us on the Kid Stew Interview.

Thank you, you're a poet, those words rhymed!

Oh, it does.

Back to you guys.

Yeah, I had a good weekend.

I climbed Everest.

A lotta junk up there.

Hello, I'm Nicholas and welcome back to Kid Stew Ewws, the news show where the truth is always gross.

Our first story is from the department of really gross gardens.

Botanists report that the carnivorous Nepenthes plants of southeast Asia live on the flesh of rodents, lizards, and birds.

[Kids] Ew.

And now turning to the world of air travel.

A Singapore Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing when the gas expelled by the sheep in the cargo hold set off the aircraft's smoke detectors.

[Kids] Ew!

Probably too many of those in flight snacks.

(people laughing) And now, a message about a totally gross situation that needs your help.

You never think it will happen to you.

That's what these victims thought too.

They're suffering from ICD.

♪ Impacted cellular devices ♪ These victims can't feed or groom themselves.

♪ Feed or groom themselves ♪ Care for loved ones.

♪ Care for loved ones ♪ Or even hold a book.

♪ Even hold a book ♪ Hands Free is a world wide organization that fights ICD.

♪ Impacted cellular devices ♪ Our surgical teams work every day to battle this disfiguring condition.

♪ Disfiguring ♪ (phone trills) But we can't do it alone.

A simple donation to Hands Free can save a child from ICD.

♪ Save the children ♪ Won't you help?

We'll send you a picture of a child in need.

♪ You gotta save the children ♪ Please, call now.

Their hands are in your hands.

♪ They're in your hands ♪ And we're back with a disturbing story from China's Nanning Zoo where a rare two headed cobra repeatedly tried to eat itself.

[Kids] Ew!

So much for two heads are better than one.

(people laughing) And that's it for this episode.

See you next time on Kid Stew Ewws.

'Til then, keep it real and keep it gross.

(clocks ticking) Clocks are really complicated.

Lots of moving parts and it used to be somebody's job to keep them working.

And that's where our story starts.

"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick.

Hugo is a boy who's taken in by his uncle who's in charge of all the clocks at a Paris train station.

But then, his uncle disappears.

Hugo has to keep things up on his own.

Not easy!

In his spare time, he works on an automaton which is kind of a mechanical man with really complicated insides.

The book is loaded with cool illustrations.

Almost like a movie and the automaton has a secret which is that, nope, you'll have to find out yourself.

"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick.

If you ask me, it's one of the greatest books of all time.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

(electricity crackling) I've always loved books about the seas, especially treasure hunting.

I'm here in the Keys at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.

Let's go check out the cool treasures inside.

(dramatic music) These are real cannonballs.

Fire!

This is real gold.

Where's all the gold coins?

They're down in the museum.

This is the archeology lab here and we're looking at another kind of treasure.

We're looking at all the different artifacts that come from the shipwrecks and trying to figure out what they mean and how people used them and how they lived their lives hundreds of years ago.

What's the story behind this museum?

Well, the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum was founded by a man named Mel Fisher and Mel Fisher was considered to be the world's greatest treasure hunter.

And he is most famous for having found a shipwreck called the Atocha that sank near Key West here back in the year 1622.

The Atocha was loaded with lots of silver and gold and emeralds and things from the new world and they were taking those back to Spain but every shipwreck, every site, has its own story to tell.

A shipwreck, a good way of thinking of it is a shipwreck is like a big mystery and you've gotta take all the pieces of evidence together.

Like a detective.

Like a detective and say okay what are these pieces of evidence tell us and how does that add up into one big story?

So what we have in here, Nicholas, are artifacts from the Santa Clara that we haven't conserved yet.

We haven't cleaned them.

These are iron and steel pieces in here.

They're all covered with this concretion and this concretion is made up of calcium carbonate.

That's the same stuff that shells and reefs are made out of and it makes it kinda interesting.

Kinda tricks you sometimes as to what something is.

So what's this look like, a pistol right?

Kind of.

[Corey] Kinda, but you know what it is for real?

[Nicholas] What?

[Corey] A great big nail.

All right, can you see that?

[Nicholas] Oh wow, yeah I can see that.

So there's the head of the nail and it's kinda bent 'cause it got in a shipwreck and all twisted up and then this is the point.

This piece right in here, I don't know if you can see it, but that's a crossbow.

Yeah, I see that.

Yeah, and that.

[Nicholas] That looks really cool.

That curves so that was something that they were using as a weapon and in some ways, the excavation, the diving and the recovery is the easy part.

The hard part is turnin' all of those things back into the sort of stuff that you see in the museum.

Thank you so much for showing me all of this ancient artifacts.

Next time I go snorkeling, for sure I'm gonna find something.

Keep your eyes open.

You never know what.

But if you do find something, don't bring it up, tell an archeologist about it first.

(electricity crackling) Hello and welcome to Kids Do Classics.

The song is "Stardust".

The trumpet player is Louis Armstrong, one of the most famous musicians ever.

Louis grew up in New Orleans in a neighborhood so tough it was called the Battlefield.

When he was 11, he got sent to reform school.

Lucky for him, the school had a band and that's where Louis learned he had talent.

Through his playing and singing and personality, Louis became one of the most popular entertainers of all time.

He even won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

So remember, no matter where you start in life, you can still end on a high note.

Oh yeah.

(electricity crackling) Welcome to the Kid Stew Kitchen.

I'm Luke.

And I'm Josiah.

And here at Kid Stew, we love pizza.

A healthy personal size pizza can be a delicious meal if you use the correct portion sizes.

I love a big pizza pie.

First we need to sprinkle some flour so it doesn't stick and then we're gonna roll the dough out.

Whole wheat, if you can get it.

A big pizza pie.

Just a big glob of dough.

Now it's time for my famous freshly made Roma tomato sauce.

This is funny.

Now we're gonna add a little bit of oregano.

Let's sauce it up.

A dash of garlic.

Now for my favorite part, a sprinkle of mozzarella cheese.

And now for the cheese.

Now for some pepperoni.

Okay, now it's time to put your pizza in the oven.

And there you go.

Let's give it a little taste test shall we?

This looks great.

This is delicious.

So good.

Not bad if I do say so myself.

You might wanna at least cut that in half.

Try and think of ways you can make your favorite meals properly portioned.

What?

This is bite sized.

Sure.

(music) (electricity crackling) (upbeat music) ♪ I think you and my friends ♪ ♪ Should hang out on the weekend ♪ (upbeat music) BMX is basically bicycle riding on the ramps and doing tricks on the ramps and it stands for bicycle motocross extreme.

I started riding bike at one years old and I'm eight years old now.

♪ I think you and my friends ♪ ♪ Should hang out in the weekend ♪ I mean, initially it was just the jumping is what he shined in in the shows but you can tell that he's gonna learn a lotta flat land as well.

I mean, he's already ridin' bike backwards, doin' the surfer which is a pretty advanced trick for, especially somebody his age.

And that's only gonna help him or anybody on a bike develop their skills.

BMX is cool because you could do tricks like 360, bar spin.

A bar spin is when you spin the bars around.

The more you can do on a bike, whether it's in the air on the ground, the better off you're gonna be overall as an overall rider.

♪ Should hang out on ♪ You know, he five years old when we first saw him and he was just a hit with all the crowds.

Everybody really liked him and, well, over the last four years, he's definitely improved quite a bit and I'm curious to see what he does in the next years to come.

Kids just need to believe in themselves and they can do anything.

(upbeat music) I'm Nari and I ride BMX.

♪ The weekends ♪ (electricity crackling) (upbeat music) Madison, what's up?

You look like you just lost your last best friend?

I got a 95 on my math test.

And that's a problem, why?

Because it's not 100.

I made a few stupid mistakes.

Madison, if I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn anything.

He's right.

Perfection is overrated.

You guys are just trying to make me feel better.

What's wrong with trying to get everything right?

Hey, some of the biggest discoveries in history came from mistakes.

And speaking of mistakes, I feel a song coming on.

♪ If you're lookin' for mess ups ♪ ♪ You're in the right place ♪ ♪ You wanna see blinders ♪ ♪ Look right in my face ♪ ♪ Those errors and flaws ♪ ♪ They're my claim to fame ♪ ♪ 'Cause makin' mistakes should make you feel no shame ♪ ♪ Oh, because you're learnin' baby ♪ ♪ Every time you get it wrong ♪ ♪ Oh, you know you'll just keep on churnin' ♪ ♪ Until the answer comes along ♪ ♪ Well, I make lots of boo boos ♪ ♪ I screwed up bad ♪ ♪ And some of my slip ups, well they made me quite mad ♪ ♪ But then I stuck it out and I buckled down ♪ ♪ 'Cause failing's just a way ♪ ♪ For you to turn things around ♪ ♪ 'Cause you're learnin', baby ♪ ♪ Yeah, every time you get it wrong ♪ ♪ Just keep on churnin' ♪ ♪ Until the answer comes along ♪ ♪ Ooh yeah, ladies and gentlemen ♪ ♪ Every one of the following inventions ♪ ♪ Were the result of somebody makin' a mistake ♪ ♪ Post-it Notes, cornflakes ♪ ♪ Penicillin, potato chips ♪ ♪ And the slinky ♪ ♪ Yeah, because you're learnin', baby ♪ ♪ Every time you get it wrong ♪ ♪ Yeah, keep on learnin' ♪ ♪ Just like I had to learn this song ♪ ♪ Thank you, thank you very much ♪ (electricity crackling) And that's it for this episode.

Come back next time for more drama on Kid Stew.

(electricity crackling) (metal clatters) We'll break, whoa!

[Director] Oh, no, no, Ozzie.

And the slinky!

Who creates a monster from (mumbles) sorry!

[Don Provolone] Cake?

So, Peter.

(kid giggles) Kid Stew!

(electricity crackling) (upbeat music) [Narrator] Funding for Kid Stew is provided in party by the Cornelia T Bailey Foundation and Michele and Howard Kessler.

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