(monkey howls) Oh, we've been hiking for hours, are we ever gonna stop for lunch?

My friend, lunch is all around you.

These lycians make for a delightful soup and there's nothing like tasty grubs for protein.

(chomps) I think I'm about to lose my lunch.

I wish we had some Kid Stew.

Kid Stew, is that in the fungus family?

Kid Stew is a show by kids, about kids and for kids.

It's about books and art and creativity and fun.

Well, I wrote the book, the book on edible flora and I have no Kid Stew.

Well let's get wild.

[Both] 'cause we do!

(upbeat 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) [Announcer] Funding for Kid Stew is provided in part by, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, and Michele and Howard Kessler.

♪ Kid Stew ♪ (exotic music) ♪ King Tut ♪ Your highness, a word please.

You dare disturb your Pharaoh, Ramses the great.

Your highness, your royal engineers are here.

Excellent, show them in.

Good news, exalted Ruler, Speak.

Your pyramid has been completed.

So soon.

We put our best men on it your majesty.

We think you'll be impressed.

Show me.

(playful music) What's this?

Your pyramid Sire.

Do you mock me, I shall feed you to the crocodiles.

My pyramid was to be 48 stories tall, and 750 feet at the base with an elaborate tunnel system and a deluxe burial chamber.

It should be huge.

Your lordship, that would have taken a 100,000 slaves and 20 years.

So what?

We consulted the oracle on this one, turns out in the future, mini will be big.

It turns out in 4000 years everything will be pocket sized hand held, totally portable.

Looks like you'd be way ahead of the curve on this one boss.

Yes, yes, I love it.

How about my name across the top in gold letters.

We can make that happen sir.

I'm thinking of getting a new title.

Ramses the small.

Excellent choice sir, definitely a name for the ages.

Very well then, carry on.

Can't believe he bought that.

We just saved ourselves a ton of work.

More like five million tons, am I right?

How about we hit the beach?

Last one in the Nile is a rotten egg.

♪ King Tut ♪ (electricity crackling) I sure hope the fish are biting.

Me too, I didn't skip band practice for nothing.

Hey, look.

The trusty time machine.

Think we have a little time for a detour?

I guess the fish can wait.

♪ All of my change I spent on you ♪ I think I remember how this works.

♪ I'm at a payphone trying to call home ♪ ♪ All of my change I spent on you ♪ (beeps) ♪ I'm at a payphone ♪ (whooshes) (bluegrass music) Whoa, where did we end up?

Is that the Mississippi River?

(horn blows) Mark Twain.

Sorry boys, no passengers today.

You have to find your own fishing spot.

What's with the rope?

I'm making sure the river's deep enough for the boat, Mark Twain needs 12 feet.

Sam Clemens is the name.

I'm Luke and this is Blake.

Wait, do you realize who this is?

Yup, I just don't think he knows.

Oh.

So Mr. Clemens, been doing any writing lately?

Why would I be writing, I work on a river boat.

You sure you wouldn't want to try your hand at a best selling book?

About two boys named Tom and Huck and their adventures on the Mississippi River?

Why would I do that?

[Blue Hat] Oh, maybe to become a great American novelist.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Who said that?

You did, or you will I guess.

It's complicated.

Of course you'll need a memorable pen name.

Mark Twain.

There you go.

You know boys, I've been thinking of a career change, you two have inspired me, do you really think I'll make it as a writer?

We can absolutely guarantee it.

So long Mr. Clemens.

Or should we say, Mark Twain.

(horn blows) (electricity crackling) Hi, and welcome to Kid Stew classics.

Hear that?

Every rock guitarist who ever lived was inspired by that sound.

That's Django Reinhardt, he was born into Romany community.

People used to call them gypsy's.

But one day a fire in Django's camp burned his hands and fingers so badly every one said his guitar playing days were over.

But he pushed through the frustration and pain and taught himself to play solos using just a thumb and two fingers, most people can't play that sweet using all their digits.

Thanks Django for always rocking out and never giving up.

(soft music) (country music) Welcome to the Kid Stew interview.

I am here with Lee Gramling, talking about cowboy books.

(neighs) Howdy I'm David.

Hi, I'm Lee Gramling.

Nice to meet you.

What you reading there?

I was looking through one of my books.

What's it called?

This one is called Rider's of The Swanee.

What's it about?

It's about outlaws and gunfighters and cowboys in early Florida.

What makes cowboy westerns so unique?

They're all action stories and they take place on the frontier.

What do you like so much about this particular subject and cowboys and?

Well, not just cowboys but everybody on the frontier it was independent.

You know, they were self sufficient, they could take care of themselves and as a matter of fact they had to most of the time.

What was it like for you growing up around here?

I think it was more innocent but sometimes you know, we look back on times with kind of rose colored glasses.

We tend to think of things being better back then then they were.

But it was a simpler time.

If kids like me were writing a cowboy genre, how could I get started?

Well the first answer is what I tell everybody who's an aspiring writer, is the first thing you have to do is sit down behind a keyboard.

[Kid] Hmm.

Which is the hardest thing for a lot of people to do.

Um, and I just start writing, some people make themselves an outline first.

And then start writing from the outline, I just start the story with a good idea of who my characters are.

And try to get him into trouble and try to get him out of trouble.

Why are cowboy stories so interesting for you?

Well I think I like the historical aspects of it.

I like the action and adventure and I don't want to write about anything that I consider boring.

And I find it really exciting to write about cowboys and outlaws and cattle and things like that.

Thank you for joining us on the Kids Stew interview.

My pleasure.

See you on the ranch.

(whooshes) (country music) To be a professional rodeo cowboy it takes a lot of determination and heart and just to try, when people see you try they want to help you get into it.

I'm Dee Lewis from Fellsmere, Florida.

I've been riding bulls for 15 years.

I'm a professional bull rider.

No, the bulls don't get hurt, they're very well taken care of.

They get treated better than the cowboys.

Being a rodeo clown is by far very entertaining, fun, I enjoy it, I mean obviously 2500 people here tonight.

I got to try to make all of them laugh and when you get out there and you hear crickets, you just got to keep going through it I mean it's no different than a stand up comedian.

A rodeo, there's different events in rodeos there's bucking horses and bulls.

There's girls competing in all events too.

Well I mean it definitely takes a lot of courage and stuff to get on a bull, I've never rode a bull.

I mean obviously I run around and get chased by 'em all night but I've never rode a bull like I said tonight.

The way to become a bull rider is to put a handful of marbles in your mouth every time you get on a bull you spit a marble out when you've lost all your marbles then you're a bull rider.

That's the truth, but them guys are gladiators in the rodeo, I mean they're getting on 1800 pound bull with one hand and riding it as it's bucking and flaying all over the place, I mean that's something that is definitely something that I respect a lot and respect them all for doing it.

I cherish every bull ride the same, so I take the good with the bad.

If it's a 54 ride I'm gonna scream and holler and I'm gonna pump the crowd up because they come here, they pay to see it, and it just, there's no other feeling like that in the world.

(country music) (cheers and applauds) (electricity crackling) I am born, not long from the time or far from the place where my great, great grandparents worked the deep, rich, land, unfree, dawn til dusk, unpaid, drank cool water from scooped out gourds, looked up and followed the sky's, mirrored constellation to freedom.

That's from the opening of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson.

It's the story of the authors life growing up with brown skin in a mostly white world.

And about her dreams of succeeding no matter what.

It's written in verse, which is cool to read and although her story isn't always pretty, it's actually won a lot of big awards.

But that's not why I love it.

I love it because I like to dream too.

(upbeat music) Fusion media?

I don't want to work with that company.

Have you met that guy?

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 world of long lasting food.

A landscaper in County Meath, Ireland, recently discovered a 2000 year old lump of butter, still edible.

[Kids] Ew!

Unfortunately there was no 2000 year old toast.

(drum riffs) In a related story, a twinkie has been preserved in a school in Blue Hills, Maine since 1976.

[Kids] Ew!

There have been no observable changes.

(audience laughs) And now let's go outside to our crack meteorologist, Blake, for an up to the second forecast.

Nicholas, right now I'm anticipating some fairly serious meteor showers.

Blake, are you in outer space?

That's right Nicholas, I'm up in the thermosphere, about 75 miles above the Earth's surface.

I didn't realize we had that kind of travel budget.

(audience laughs) Anyway, what are you seeing up there Blake?

Nicholas, I'm seeing some fairly intense cosmic debris flying at about 160,000 miles an hour.

Fortunately most of these particles are too small to do any damage at me.

Wait a sec, that's a big fella, and he's coming right towards us.

Nicholas this could be headed your way.

Thanks for the tip Blake.

Incoming.

(booms) See you next time on Kid Stew Ewws.

Til, then keep it real and keep it gross.

(dramatic music) (soft music) I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

(phone rings) [Secretary] Baxter your next appointment is here.

Send her in.

Hello, I'm Dr. Adonis, and you are?

I'm an ugly stepsister.

So tell me, what don't you like about your appearance?

Where do I start, my wrinkles, my huge beak nose, my hairy moles, I want to look like her.

Cinderella?

Now that's a tall order.

I'll need a second opinion.

Dr. Pheo can you join us please?

Who's this captivating creature?

[Adonis] Uh, ugly stepsister.

Ugly, who calls you ugly?

Duh, everybody, forever.

It's on my driver's license.

Well the world is blind, if you ask me the only change you need is love.

Dr. Pheo I assume you want to take on this case?

Absolutely, shall we?

I'm seeing myself in a whole new light.

(electricity crackling) [Mom] Madison, you better not still be watching those fake boy band videos.

Mom, I'm not.

[Mom] Go to sleep.

(magical music) ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Welcome to boy bandia ♪ ♪ We hold out our hands to you ♪ ♪ Just a dreamy fantasy ♪ ♪ Trust the way you feel ♪ ♪ We bleach our teeth so white for ya ♪ ♪ We wear, we wear our pants just right for ya ♪ ♪ Let your heart run wild and free ♪ ♪ You know we can't be real ♪ ♪ It's all pretend so let's be friends ♪ ♪ We'll never kiss, you know we don't exist ♪ ♪ Welcome to boy bandia ♪ ♪ We hold our hands to ya ♪ ♪ We're just a dreamy fantasy ♪ ♪ Trust the way you feel, you know we don't exist ♪ ♪ Welcome to boy bandia ♪ ♪ We hold out our hands to ya ♪ ♪ We're just a dreamy fantasy ♪ ♪ Trust the way you feel ♪ (sighs) ♪ Trust the way you feel ♪ (electricity crackling) Hi, and welcome to Kid Stew, who knew?

I love playing school sports and one woman made it possible.

Bernice Sandler, grew up in the 1930s and 40s when most sports teams were all boys.

She didn't think that was fair.

So she spent years working to get a new law passed.

And the law is called Title IX.

And Title IX says, if girls want to play, we play.

(boings) Bernice Sandler, activist and godmother of women's sports.

Who knew?

(electricity crackling) ♪ Everything is awesome ♪ Hey Armando, working on a project?

Hey Sammy, did you know that legos were actually invented in Denmark.

I did not know that.

They were actually made in 1930s by a Danish Carpenter, named Oleg Kirk Christiansen.

Pretty cool name.

You know I heard Denmark also has the world's oldest theme park.

Wow, those Danes sure do know how to have fun.

(gasps) You should go check it out.

Me?

Denmark, right now?

Absolute, that's Danish for Absolutely.

Huh, Copenhagen, here I come.

(bangs) Welcome to Copenhagen, one of Europe's coolest cities.

♪ It was fun when we were young and now we're older ♪ ♪ But I'd go back and ride that roller coaster ♪ ♪ We were up and down ♪ I'm here in Copenhagen, Denmark and behind me is the statue of the original little mermaid.

♪ It was fun when we were young and we were older ♪ Walt Disney visited Tivoli Gardens and they say Tivoli gardens was his inspiration to create Disney World, nice job Walt.

♪ With you ♪ Guys, I'm super excited, let's check out these rides.

To my left is the oldest roller coaster in northern Europe and Scandinavia, it's 106 years old.

That's crazy, let's check it out.

♪ Make your mind that roller coaster ♪ ♪ It was fun when we were young and now we're older ♪ That was really good for the oldest roller coaster in Denmark.

(upbeat music) Denmark has some really cool art.

Watch as Thomas Dambo creates giant structures with recycled materials.

Let's go to his studio.

Hello Kid Stew, my name is Thomas Dambo.

I am an artist from Copenhagen in Denmark and behind me I have my big warehouse were I collect different types of trash and recycled materials that I use to build really big recycled art installations all around the world and I know that a lot of you young people, you write everything on the smart phone and on the internet and because of this you don't get so tall as us Vikings.

Because before the typewriter, before we used to carve letters into a rock before pen and paper before cave paintings, before all of this back in the Viking ages of Europe, we used to write everything with these big wooden letters.

Come on, follow me into my workshop.

And this is my big recycle workshop in Copenhagen.

I make recycled projects and artwork out of trash that I find around the world in other peoples trash and then I turn them into beautiful things.

I like to play with legos as a kid.

So as a kid I would build big, big Lego castles later I started to be a skater and I started to build small skateboard ramps and I'd make my own bed and like so, I've always been building everything and when I say it's important, I mean that it is super, super important that we don't just buy things and throw them out.

Buy things and throw them out, because if you continue doing this we will slowly turn the whole world into one big garbage can and I think nobody wants to live in a garbage can.

So that's why I use recycled materials.

And one of the other projects I like to do is that I like to build these really really big trolls, they are like 15 to 20 feet tall.

I have made 54 trolls and they are all hidden in the forests all over the world.

(knocks) And this is the face of one of the new trolls that I'm working on and that's what I love about recycling and this, that if you are a little bit creative then you can pretty much build everything out of anything.

And I think it's really beautiful for me to think about that before this became a troll, it was a big shelf system for a one dollar shop in Copenhagen.

And now it's a troll for a lot of people all around the world to enjoy.

Okay, hope you enjoyed my little tour around my recycled workshop and warehouse I hope you will be inspired to make something like this yourself, it is an important job to teach the people of the future.

So thank you and from me to you, goodbye, Kids Stew.

That's it from Copenhagen.

Let's see what's up next.

(electricity crackling) Okay look, I love animals and I love books, so a great animal book is like a win win.

Such as this one.

Before the Jungle Book was a movie, it was a great book by Rudyard Kipling.

It talked about how animals came to be.

Patty loves this one, right?

(trumpets) In the high end off far off times, the elephant, oh best beloved had no trunk, he only had a blackish bulging nose as big as a boot, hey, no skipping ahead.

And ever since that day, oh best beloved, all the elephants that you'll ever see besides all those that won't have trunks, precisely like the trunk of an insatiable elephant child.

The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.

Recommended to you by me and Patty.

Thanks Patty.

(trumpets) Anyone want to join the book club?

(electricity crackling) (rock music) I'm Alexa.

And I'm Avery.

And we're the A. Rae band.

Our parents were musicians, so we decided we want to pursue music as well.

When we first got our dog Sketch, we wanted to raise money for rescue dogs but we didn't know how, so first we started making toys out of socks and water bottles.

And then we decided we want to put our music to use, so we decided to write songs about dogs.

I think it's a good idea to try different things and see what you really are good at.

And what in your heart motivates you.

And that's what has happened with the girls is they found singing but what really motivated them was making the difference.

And using their songs for a good cause.

We got inspired because our aunt rescued seven dogs from an abandoned home and our dog Sketch, he's like really sweet and funny.

And we wanted people to know how like rescue dogs are so amazing and he inspired us to write songs about dogs.

One of the books that inspired us to write a song was P.D.

Eastman's Go Dog Go so we wrote a song about that.

(music) I think what makes Avery and I unique is that we're sisters and we sing together.

And we can be honest with each other.

I love that this is a way for the family to stay close together.

♪ I like my dog more than I like you ♪ And I love having our dad play bass with us.

And it's something for us to do and it's fun, really fun.

(music) It's really neat when we get to go onstage and sing about the dogs, and it makes you feel good that with like your hard work you could raise money for a good cause.

(music) (cheers and applauds) [Girls] We are the A. Rae band and we love to sing.

(electricity crackling) (exotic music) Welcome to the Kid Stew kitchen, I'm Luke.

And I'm Josiah.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and getting the right vitamins is important for your everyday health.

I love breakfast.

A proper breakfast burrito can have all your favorite foods, plus a healthy combo of ingredients.

I'm sticking with eggs, bacon and pancakes.

That might not be the healthiest choice.

I'm starting with one whole wheat tortilla, adding some egg whites.

Josiah, what are you doing over there?

Add some baby spinach and tomato, we got an escapee.

There we go.

Freshly made pancakes.

And some syrup.

Roll it up and enjoy.

(chomps) (splats) You know that's full of fat, right?

A traditional breakfast, I gotta have my bacon.

(chomps) You're definitely going to feel that later.

Anyways, remember to keep it light, keep it healthy.

See you next time here in the kitchen.

Bye.

(electricity crackling) (upbeat music) ♪ See the beat come walking down the street ♪ ♪ Run along just watching up the beat ♪ ♪ They don't know where they're going to come ♪ (bell dings) ♪ They got the beat, they got the beat ♪ ♪ they got the beat, yeah ♪ ♪ They got the beat ♪ ♪ All the kids clubs getting kind of new ♪ ♪ They can't wait to hang out at the pool ♪ ♪ Hang around but then after 12 I'm spending Monday night ♪ ♪ They got the beat, they got the beat ♪ ♪ Kids got the beat, yeah, kids got the beat ♪ ♪ We got the beat ♪ ♪ We got the beat, we got the beat ♪ ♪ We got the beat, we got the beat ♪ ♪ We got the beat ♪ (cheers and applauds) ♪ We got the beat ♪ (cheers and applauds) ♪ We got the beat, we got the beat, we got the beat ♪ ♪ We got the beat, we got the beat ♪ (cheers and applauds) (electricity crackling) Well that's it for this episode.

But come back next time.

You'll never know what you'll find.

[Kids] On Kids Stew.

(coughs) (electricity crackling) Looks like you'd be way ahead, I can't speak English come back to me.

I'll need a second opinion, opinion, opinion.

Ow.

Kids Stew is a show.

(laughs) it's about books, and art and creativity and fun.

Do you mock me?

I shall feed you to the crocodiles.

My pyramid was to be 48 feet, my bad.

48 stories tall.

The world is blind, if you ask me, the only, the only one.

(electricity crackling) (upbeat music) (whooshes) [Announcer] Funding for Kids Stew is provided in part by, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation and Michele and Howard Kessler.

(upbeat music) (bright music)