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That’s a Really Fascinating Grinding Wheel You Have There, Ben
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That’s a Really Fascinating Grinding Wheel You Have There, Ben
Season 2 Episode 12 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Rover and Ray play Tug of Words, Choose!, Ray’s Rocket Race, What IS It?, and Quick Quest with viewers. You help Story write The World’s Best Story Today. We visit and learn about chimpanzees at John Ball Zoo. Plus the shocking development of Empty Cups, Press for Help, You’re Joking, and Mr. Grumphrey’s Believe It or Don’t! (This program originally aired live.)
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>> That's all for the world's best story today.
Thanks for sharing your ideas, friends back to you in the studio.
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>> Chimpanzee.
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think you can say they want from West OK?
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Yes, if I said that guy's got an axe to grind when you think that means you probably picture somebody upset about something.
They're angry.
They have a problem and they're going to let you because of let you know what the problem is.
They are going to go around go out of their way to make trouble because they've got an axe to grind.
That's what I've always thought.
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Here's a legendary story.
Franklin, as a youngster was out in his front of his family home and his family had a grinding wheel.
Which is a large still in where you can use it to sharpen tools, not everyone had a grinding wheel because they were expensive it was special that young Ben Franklin and his family had one so young Ben Franklin was out in front of his house with his wheel and a man came up to and he's been very complimentary, really, really nice to him saying, that's a really fascinating granny.
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They may appear to be really nice to you and know that they might just have an axe to I was too smart to fall for it anyway.
That's how we got to sing axe to grind a yes, believe it or don't.
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So he's got actually kind pretty angry, right?
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do believe it.
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71% believe >> check a few sources, though, right?
>> It is good to check multiple sources.
I'm good.
I think I am gonna check that one again.
But I believe it that I really do believe I think that, you know, and I don't know for sure about that, Mister Grumpy this, but I'm pretty sure he usually checks more than our step.
So, yeah, me too.
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hope so too?
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Here's how we play the game.
We put minutes on the clock and you have to.
Complete this quest.
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Could be baseball team.
Could be any kind of TV want.
What would you name your team?
>> What are your teams?
Colors?
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And thanks for playing with us today.
Friends.
We had great time help you detail coming said it over.
But it's say it's going.
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