- Deep ba ba ba beep do bop bop bop ba deep bop bada ba ba.

Hmm, do you hear that?

(truck driving) It's a, it's a, whoa!

It's a, it's a truck!

(laughs) I love trucks.

♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too We are on the road today as we take a ride in one of our favorite vehicles.

(horn honking) Trucks!

(laughs) And we have plenty of people to share their love of trucks.

First, we get to meet Damion, a guy who drives a nice truck for a living.

Oh, ho, what a lucky guy.

Ms. Lisa is here to share her favorite book about food trucks.

Hmm, that's making me hungry just thinking about it.

And finally Nia joins us on the road from the New York City Woman's Lab to help us illustrate our story about trucks!

(laughs) We are going full speed ahead on this episode of Wimee's Words!

(clapping) ♪ The wheels on the truck go round and round ♪ ♪ Round and round, round and round ♪ ♪ The wheels on the truck go round and round ♪ ♪ All through the town ♪ The food truck on the truck has ♪ ♪ Lots of food, lots of food, lots of food ♪ ♪ The food truck on the road has lots of food ♪ ♪ All through the town Ho, ho!

I love food trucks.

Now share with us any type of food at all that you'd like, Let's see.

Favorite food.

Let's see, favorite food.

I like spaghetti.

I like pasta.

I like salads.

I like cookies.

I like muffins.

Oh muffin, hot dogs.

Let's do it.

♪ The trucks on the road have lots of hot dogs ♪ ♪ Lots of hot dogs, lots of hot dogs ♪ ♪ The trucks on the road have lots of dogs ♪ ♪ Traveling around the town Ho, ho!

Have you been to a hot dog truck?

Pizza!

Hi Maria.

♪ The trucks on the road have lots of pizza ♪ ♪ Lots of Pizza, lots of pizza ♪ The trucks on the road have lots of pizza ♪ ♪ All traveling around the town ♪ Ho, I never met a food truck I didn't like.

Ho, ho, ho, friends keep on singing this song.

I'm getting really hungry.

Friends, let's go see what Moby has got to tell us today.

- Do you know there are lots of different types of trucks.

I was just thinking about that.

Yeah, we've got garbage trucks, tow trucks, mail trucks, food trucks, monster trucks.

Whoa, so many more.

Yeah, you know, you can see trucks all across America.

Yeah.

What are some other types of trucks?

I wonder how many different kinds of trucks there are?

- Man oh man.

Lots of trucks.

And right now friends it's time for today's three sentence story.

Beginning, middle, end.

And so let's tell a story.

Maybe it's got a truck.

Maybe we're on the road.

Who knows?

All right.

So in the first sentence we set the scene, in the second sentence, there is a problem but don't worry friends because in the third sentence, there is a solution.

Yep, indeed there is.

So the first word today is tiger.

Ah, I love it.

First word is tiger.

Right, so I was walking through the park when a tiger said to me, "This way to the festival."

Oh man, a tiger and I are going to go to a festival, but oh no, there's a problem.

Why must there be a problem?

And the problem is fudge.

All right, indeed.

Okay, I was walking down the street when a tiger said, "This way, let's go to the festival."

We were halfway there, when I realized "Oh no!

I wanted to bring fudge to share with grandma."

Yeah, grandma was going to meet us at the festival But oh no, I forgot.

I was going to surprise her.

How do I fix this problem?

Oh no.

Oh, look at that grandpa.

I like it.

Grandpa said, "Sunshine."

Aw, the solution is in sunshine.

Okay, I love it.

Thanks Maria.

So grandpa, ask grandma but if she likes, I'll get her fudge later.

I'll bring fudge later, okay?

Okay.

Back to the start of the story.

I was walking down the street when I saw a tiger and the tiger said, "Let's go to the festival."

We were halfway there.

And I realized, I forgot to bring the fudge I was going to bring to grandma.

We got there and I told grandma, and she said, "No, worries.

It's a beautiful day with lots of sunshine.

I don't need fudge."

So you know what?

Sometimes these stories, we solve them very specifically.

And sometimes the solution is it's going to work out okay on its own.

I think that's the moral of this story.

The moral of this story is we didn't solve the problem but we were okay with how things turned out, looking at the bright side, literally the sunshine.

I love it.

Well friends, we've got a rough draft.

We've got a story.

It's time to go to Nia in the HBCU Women's Lab to see what she's got coming together for today's Wimage.

Hi, Nia.

- Hi, Wimee.

Actually I'm not at the HBCU's Women's Lab.

- Are you in the NYC lab?

- I am.

- Ah, I love it.

I recognize it.

Now that you mentioned it.

I can see.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

So I'm back in New York, classes are done, it's time to enjoy the summer.

So like you said, we're going to the festival, right?

- Yeah.

- So let me show you guys what I have and then we're going to add, okay.

- Okay.

- Alrighty.

We were talking about trucks earlier, so I put a food truck and maybe the truck is selling some fudge some chocolate.

We have our tiger.

We have Wimee.

We have a family, we have some amusement park rides.

And then we have- - [Wimee] Decorations, it's festive.

- Decorations, there we go.

So what should we add - Friends at home?

If you have ideas, let us know.

I'm thinking we could add more decorations, more food trucks.

- More food trucks.

- More, maybe some benches.

- Ooh, benches.

Just in case we get tired.

- Carousel.

The Andrus family has suggested carousel.

- I think so.

- Yeah, that's a tricky word.

That's fun to say too.

Carousel.

- Okay, let me show you guys.

Let's see.

It's changed the color up a little bit.

There we go.

So we have our bench.

We have a carousel.

I'm thinking maybe let's add some balloons, add some more people, maybe some more rides.

Hmm, which rides would you go on if you were at a festival or the fair?

What would you go on?

- Sometimes the merry-go-round get me a little too dizzy.

Hm.

I dunno, friends.

Do you have any favorite rides or we can, you know what?

We can think big.

It's our festival.

Maybe it's a roller coaster to the moon.

- Ooh, I like that, roller coaster.

I love roller coasters.

- Yeah.

- I love them.

- Let's have a moon roller coaster that goes nice and smooth.

And then it goes dun, dun, dun.

Awesome.

- We can do that.

- Well, Nia, if you want to keep working on it and can you stick around and show us.

- Of course.

We're going to party at the end, right?

- Yeah, let's do it.

All right, Nia.

We'll see you soon.

Friends, thanks for adding ideas.

I can't wait to see what Nia adds to it.

All right, friends without further ado.

I'm so excited because today for our special guest we've got Damien from the Kona Ice of West Grand Rapids.

It's time for my friends.

- Hi Damien.

- What's going on?

Thanks for having me.

- Of course I love your truck.

Tell our friends at home about you and your awesome food truck.

- Thank you so much.

We are a shaved ice, mobile food truck, again, Kona Ice Wesco Grand Rapids.

And we do all kinds of events and we do a lot of fundraising.

We're local to the area.

- I love it.

And there's so many flavors.

What's your favorite flavor?

- I think I'm a cherry kind of guy.

So I like cherry, but the Tiger's Blood, the coconut strawberry is really good too.

- There's a tiger in our story.

- Yeah, there was.

I heard that.

- I bet the tiger would enjoy that one probably.

Actually, I don't know, maybe the tiger.

- Yeah, let's leave that alone.

- Okay, he'll go with cheery, I think.

He'll take your recommendation.

All right.

So what is it like driving a truck around and in bringing your food and your deliciousness to the people?

- It's really fun.

You meet all kinds of different people.

People always see us in the window serving food whether it's shaved ice, hamburgers, pizza, whatever but that's the fun part.

They don't see the part behind the scenes which is manual labor, washing dishes, stocking this stuff, payroll, but all in all, it's fantastic.

And yet it's great people watching, people meeting and making people happy with their delicious foods.

- I love it.

I love it.

Do you have any memories of particular stories of any of those experiences you're talking about?

- Like I say we do all kinds of events.

We've done a celebration of life with our shaved ice.

So when I get to do those opportunities, it's sort of like a funeral, but a celebration.

So those just always stick to my heart.

Cause it's just you're just happy to be welcomed to those kinds of events.

- Yeah, I hear you.

That is beautiful.

And so when you're driving and got to get places, just like anybody on the road, right?

Construction, traffic, that's gotta be an adventure too, right?

- That's right.

It is.

There's different sizes of trucks.

You know our shaved ice is a pretty small one but you have other ones.

So it's just different sizes.

You got to go slow over bumps, speed bumps.

We don't like a whole lot of curves.

You know?

It's an adventure often.

- Yeah, so you have to like pack up and prepare the way things are organized to prepare for that right?

- Yes.

You do.

You have to make sure it's secured on your walls.

Make sure that it doesn't fall and you don't waste different types of foods.

So it's like I said, it's a lot of work.

It's not for everybody.

It's a true grind.

- Yeah.

And I love how you mentioned some of your friends with other trucks and different types of trucks.

And sometimes there's like big gatherings, right, with lots of food trucks.

- Yes, we just had one in Coopersville.

We do a lot downtown with Grand Rapids.

There's a lot of trucks together, we like to build a community.

We all just talk to each other and talk to one another.

Riverside Park, we have food truck Fridays down there too.

That's another great one as well.

- Yeah, I love it.

Well, Damion, thanks so much for spending some time with us.

We know you got an event to get out too.

So thanks for being with us today.

- Wimee, thank you so much.

We appreciate you guys.

Thanks for the support.

- We'll see you on the road.

Yeah, that's my friend Damion, and oh man, strawberry and tropical and cherry.

So many flavors.

Oh man.

So many delicious things, man.

That's so cool in a truck.

( Wimee mimics a car) Well friends let's check in right now for today's Laughing With Keller.

(audience cheering) - What has four wheels and flies?

A garbage truck.

(Keller laughs) (Wimee laughs) That's classic, garbage truck.

Hey, friends.

What are some of your favorite trucks?

We got standard pick ups.

We got dump trucks, garbage trucks, food trucks, snowplows.

Right trucks were put a plow on it.

And you're like.

(Wimee mimics the sound a plow truck makes) Man oh man.

So cool.

And oh, monster trucks.

What do you think of those?

They're gigantic.

Man oh man.

Well, friends.

We're going to go meet up with some of my friends for today's I Spy.

- I spy food trucks.

- I spy semi truck.

- I spy sign truck.

- This is a dump trunk.

- I spy an ice cream truck.

- I spy food truck.

(upbeat music) - Well, friends, We love books and I'm so excited because today we were talking to Damion a little while ago about food truck gatherings and big events with lots of trucks.

Wait til you find out this book today for Check Out This book.

(upbeat rock music) - Hi, I have a great book for you to check out Food Truck Fest by Alexander Penfold, illustrated by Mike Dutton and published for you by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Have you ever gone to a food truck?

It's like a kitchen on wheels.

Food trucks serve all kinds of wonderful food from icies to falafel.

In Food Truck Fest, a family is going to a whole festival of food trucks serving all kinds of things.

Check out Food Truck Fest.

Make sure you eat before you read it.

Because if you don't, you'll be really hungry afterwards.

(upbeat music) - I would definitely want to check out that book.

Man oh man.

I love food.

I love trucks.

Not a whole lot cooler than food trucks.

Hey Kevin, Danny says hi.

- [Kev] Hi!

- He's backstage, Danny.

Thanks for saying hi.

Let's see.

We've got our stories.

We've got our songs, our friend Damion, you know I'm looking forward to checking in with Nia in a little bit to see if she has an update.

We'll see if she, oh, look at that.

She's ready, hey Nia, let's check in and see what you've updated.

- Hey guys.

Okay.

This is pretty cool.

Let me show you guys.

We have a whole festival here and we have two food trucks, which is pretty cool.

I don't know if you guys can see there's like ice cream or maybe that could be like shaved ice or something.

We have a lot of that in New York too.

My dad would even tell you.

We have a lot of like shaved ice cream, ice trucks and stuff.

It's really cool.

And then we have the bench.

We have the family, we have some people lined up at the food truck.

We have some amusement rides.

Pretty cool.

- I wanted to go there.

- Yeah, it looks really fun.

- How do I get there?

- It reminds me of like maybe Six Flags or what's the amusement park in Michigan?

Do you guys have one?

- Wimee's World.

(Wimee laughs) - Wimee's World, there we go.

- I'm just kidding.

Michigan's Adventure.

- Yes, I think I've been there before.

It's really fun.

Just like Six Flags.

So yeah.

(Nia laughs) - All right.

So how long is the line to get on the roller coaster to the moon?

Is it quick line or short, long line?

- That's a long line because everybody wants to get on that ride.

That's probably the most popular ride at this festival but maybe you can skip the line, Wimee.

Maybe because it's Wimee's World.

- Well, I'll take my turn.

- Yeah, Wimee, there you go.

- That'd be fun.

Well, Nia, thanks for the awesome update.

- Of course.

We'll see you in a little while at the dance party.

Friends, are you ready?

(relaxing music) - [Narrator] Wimee sat down, looked around the room and began to wonder.

He dreamed of driving a monster truck taxi from New York city to Happy Valley.

♪ Anything at all ♪ Sing it, Moby ♪ Anything is possible ♪ Anything at all, anything is possible ♪ ♪ You just can't do it all - This is such a good day for a road trip.

(relaxing music) Friends, are you ready to play?

Find It Fast.

Here's what we got to find today, friends in today's Find It Fast.

Find something that starts with T. Truck starts with T. Find something with wheels, trucks have wheels.

What else has wheels?

And the shaved ice is cold.

Find something cold.

And go.

Look around.

I'm on roller skates.

Those have wheels.

What else starts with T?

Truck, like I said.

Toronto that is a place in Canada.

Let's see.

Television.

What else starts with T?

Nia do you have any ideas that start with T?

What else starts with T?

- Well, I'm drinking tea.

- Drinking tea, oh my goodness, tea starts with T. That's fun.

I like that.

Tea starts with T. What's on wheels, friends?

Bikes, toy cars, wheelchairs, tomato?

That starts with T, tomato.

Traffic indeed.

Food trucks and cars all kinds of trucks have traffic.

Oh, train, train starts with T. Let's see.

What else starts with T or something cold.

Shaved ice, ice cream, anything frozen, some breads, leftovers, leftovers are frozen in the fridge.

That's cold.

Ooh, you got all three.

Theaters starts with T. Cars have wheels and Iceland is cold.

Find It Fast, friends.

The music's running low.

What could it be that you find?

Can you get all three?

You get the trilogy, three points.

Ooh, trilogy starts with T. Oh, there it is.

Tea, toy car, refrigerator.

Those are indeed cold.

Thanks friends for playing.

Find It Fast.

(Wimee laughs) Well, guess what?

Friends Michael is calling in.

Let me push the button here to bring him in.

Let's see where he is.

Hey Micheal are you on the call there?

Let's see.

Check, check, check my call coming through.

- [Micheal] You hear me?

- Oh, there you are.

You're in.

Hi, Michael.

- [Micheal] Hey, Wimee, how are you?

- Great, we're having a fun show.

You posted a couple of things that start with T and what were the other ones?

You had tea and Iceland and- - [Micheal] And cars.

Of course cars have wheels.

Yeah, and so what a great show.

I've been both watching and hearing.

And so I'm excited, about the great work you guys are doing.

I know Dan correct with the food truck.

- Damion.

- [Micheal] Excuse me, Damion.

Yes, I remember you and I, we did a couple events where the Kona truck was there.

- I remember so delicious I can taste it now.

- [Micheal] It is, it is.

And as Nia referenced, New York City growing up, we had many of those trucks and so it would be really, really fun.

And those are the things that we would actually save money for throughout the week to go out and get some shaved ice cream with some shaved ice.

- Man, sounds delightful.

- [Micheal] It is delightful, what a great week.

The weather is beautiful today Wimee.

We've had a great week and I'm excited for next week.

Of course we're going to continue to do great programming and just love all of the things that you and all of our viewers have been sending us.

And we've had some really cool pictures that have come in but also, yeah, you guys can continue to send us some more stuff, send us your Wimage.

We'd love to get kids on the show and we have a segment that's called, That's So Cool.

- So cool.

- [Micheal] It is.

Wimee where were you at this past week?

You did an event.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We, we both did.

We were at the Laugh and Play at the Meijer Gardens.

It was so good to be out in the sunshine.

And you were playing the drums and I was singing.

So hello our friends at Bright Beginnings in Kent ISD and to Meijer Gardens the special event they put together there - [Micheal] Yeah, what a beautiful park.

- Yeah.

- [Micheal] All of the monuments, the statues.

And it's just so awesome.

And we really love the Big Horse and Lucas read that that's the largest statue of a horse throughout the entire world.

- The whole world?

- [Micheal] That's what he, yes.

Go ahead.

- I know.

I think I remember reading about that.

You're right.

- [Micheal] Yeah, so it was cool.

So friends who are in Grand Rapids or what is that?

- I don't know, did you see something?

- [Micheal] I keep seeing, that!

- Where?

- [Micheal] I guess I'm seeing things.

- Why not?

Sure.

- [Micheal] Or hearing things?

(Micheal and Wimee laugh) - Oh man.

It's fun.

- [Micheal] Yeah, it is.

- You know what I was going to say about being out at the Meijer Gardens that was like the first time in like 14 months we've been out in the fresh air performing.

It was fun.

Everyone was up on the hill, kind of, you know that little grassy spot and we were just hanging out and it was fun.

- [Micheal] It was fun.

What did you enjoy most?

- Seeing the smiles on the kids.

- [Micheal] Aww.

- Just like with our show, we do with the show.

Right.

We interact and I love it.

And it was fun at the event too.

Just the same thing, you know and I remember we sang Ain't Great To Be Crazy.

And we did Itsy Bitsy Spider and wait, we could, you know, we're getting close to the end here for a dance party, but could, what, what should we sing?

Oh, you know, I just remembered our friend Emily and her kiddos.

They made a request for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

So I don't know if they're on right now but maybe they'll watch the playback.

So it's okay.

If we sing a Twinkle for- - [Micheal] It's okay if you sing it.

Yes.

- Why don't you do interpretive dance.

- [Micheal] Oh, okay.

I mean, I'm not sure if you'll be able to see it but.

- I know.

That's why it was silly.

Okay, ready?

Here we go.

♪ Twinkle twinkle little star ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ Up above the world, so high ♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪ Twinkle, twinkle little star ♪ How I wonder what you are ah ah ah ah ♪ (Wimee laughs) (Jim claps) Oh, thanks.

Your dancing was fantastic too.

Wait a minute.

You know what, Jim?

Friends at home can't see this because we got the cameras connected when we're producing the show.

Hey, Jim, I saw those dance moves.

Can I put you on?

I saw those moves.

Yeah.

♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star ♪ ♪ Jim is dancing ♪ He's a star, like a rockstar ♪ He is Jim ♪ He can dance in ♪ Film In what Micheal?

- [Micheal] And do film.

- Oh, nice.

Yeah.

He's multi, film, singing, dancing, producing the shows.

- [Micheal] Play basketball.

- Play basketball.

He shoots, he scores.

- [Micheal] Play baseball.

♪ Jim is awesome ♪ Yes he is ♪ Thank you Jim for Go ahead Micheal.

- [Micheal] And he has many guitars - Man oh man.

Woo.

- [Micheal] Awesome and he's a big White Sox fan.

Isn't he?

- I always forget.

What's that mean?

CWS?

- Chicago White Sox.

- Oh, that makes perfect sense.

I was going to pronounce it "curse."

- That works too.

- [Micheal] That works too.

Awesome, great show, Jim.

Thank you for your awesome directorial work and Wimee your singing.

and Nia for your beautiful Wimage.

And I think it's about time to dance.

- It's time, Jim I'm going to ask to stay on, Nia's there.

And oh no not the backstage cam.

Oh no, I thought, you can do it, put the backstage cam.

Thanks friends.

Oh man.

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(upbeat music) (jazzy music)