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Spring Holiday Special

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Welcome to our Spring Holiday special! Spring is the season for flowers, baby animals, and major holidays! In this very special episode, we travel the globe to celebrate Easter, Passover, Holi, and Ramadan. We learn about Easter traditions from the washing of the feet to an Easter Day procession in the northern Philippines. We hear the Passover story from musical phenom Alica Jo Rabins, and Simone in Northern California invites us to her family’s Seder dinner. Evan throws colors at a Holi celebration. And we learn about how Ramadan is celebrated from Jakarta to Turkmenistan. Timestamps for this episode are available below. Parents: visit our website to help your kids contribute jokes, favorite sounds, or send us a message:  www.wildinterest.com/submissions Timestamps: [00:00] Intro [1:24] Holi: Festival Of Colors [4:12] Ramadan: Turkmenistan To Brooklyn [6:40] Ramadan: Rustam In Jakarta [8:53] Easter: Washing Of The Feet With Fr. Jeffery Ott [12:54] Easter: Lola Lita In Manila [16:16] Passover: Alicia Jo Rabins [22:17] Passover: Simone Invites Us To Her Seder wildinterest.com

The Senses

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How do we perceive the world around us? With our senses, of course! Evan gets a closer look at the world of sight with eyeglass merchant Adrien Bouet in Paris, France, and Nichole tantalizes your taste buds while discussing the fantastic world of ice cream flavors with Pete Van Leeuwen of Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. Then we go beyond the five senses and explore two new mystery senses you may have never considered! Speaking of mysteries, Evan’s Cryptid Corner takes on the Thunderbird; a legendary creature with a wingspan so broad it’s said to whip up storms! We’re introducing a new segment this episode: Bobby the Bigfoot hosts “Name Stuff,” a game show where kid contestants try to guess what grown-ups do for their jobs. All that, plus Nichole makes a spirited argument against Daylight Savings Time, and you’ll enjoy our usual run of jokes, hijinks, Grandparent Stories, Favorite Sound, and a superstar of a sensory riddle. Let’s get wild! Timestamps for this episode are available below. Parents: visit our website to help your kids contribute jokes or favorite sounds, or to send us a message:  www.wildinterest.com/submissions 0:00 - Episode 13 Intro 2:26 - Ice Cream Magician Pete Van Leeuwen 15:44 - Favorite Sound 16:51 - Call for Submissions 17:19 - Name Stuff 25:04 - Riddle Question 25:27 - Grandparent Stories 30:16 - Joke Time 31:25 - Two New Senses 34:14 - Riddle Answer 35:07 - Cryptid Corner: The Thunderbird 39:18 - Call for Reviews + Word of Mouth 39:41 - A Daylight Savings Time Diatribe 42:04 - Eyeglass Merchant Adrien Bouet 49:52 - Preview of Episode 14 50:10 - Show Credits 50:37 - Bloopers wildinterest.com

Music Makers (Side A)

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Awesome Kid Musicians Retro Rebelles and Young Mountain Magic, Music as the Universal Language, Root Beer Taste Test, Grammartime, Looking for the Yeti, Animal Calls, Two Grandparent Stories, Jokes, Favorite Sound, and an Ancient Riddle Music is the universal language! Prepare to be dazzled by two amazing groups of kid musicians: New York’s Retro Rebelles rock out in the subway, and the plucky Carolina bluegrass quartet Young Mountain Magic picks us a tune or two. Brave the Himalayan peaks in search of the legendary Yeti in Cryptid Corner, and toss back some root brewskis as Nichole and Evan get to the bottom of the barrel in an exciting root beer taste test. For some good old, regular “language” language, join us for the first installment of our new segment “Grammartime” where we explore how to talk right and stuff. Learn some animal language in our special segment on animal calls, and enjoy all the Wild Interest standbys you’ve come to love like Favorite Sound, an ancient riddle, jokes, and not one but two Grandparent Stories. It’s wild! Timestamps for this episode are available below. Parents: visit our website to help your kids contribute jokes or favorite sounds, or to send us a message:  www.wildinterest.com/submissions 00:00 - Episode 12 Intro 02:39 - Retro Rebelles 07:58 - Joke Time 08:51 - Animal Call Clue 09:26 - Grandparent Story "Lily" 17:17 - Grandparent Story "Maliya" 20:22 - Animal Call Reprise 20:43 - Young Mountain Magic 29:43 - Call for Submissions 30:06 - Riddle Question 30:53 - Cryptid Corner: The Yeti and the Banjhākri 36:20 - Animal Call Answer 36:56 - Grammartime 39:14 - Favorite Sound 40:07 - Root Beer Taste Test 48:21 - Riddle Answer 49:01 - Preview of Episode 13 49:13 - Show Credits 49:37 - Bloopers 50:16 - Young Mountain Magic Encore wildinterest.com

Animal Talk: Part One

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Whale Song and Elephant Communication with Katy Payne, Whale Language with Gašper Beguš and Project CETI, The Dance of the Honeybee, Feeding Ben Stuff, Cryptid Corner, Grandparent Stories, Jokes, Riddles and More Do animals talk? The answer might surprise you! Join us as we dive deep with zoologist and pioneering animal researcher Katy Payne and discover the complex ways whales and elephants communicate. She even does her best whale song impression for us! Project CETI works to understand what whales are saying. CETI linguistics lead and professor Gašper Beguš talks with Wild Interest about his work with sperm whales, and the whale language his research is discovering. It even has an alphabet! Dance with us as we buzz about the sweet ways honeybees talk to each other, and bundle up for frigid tales of the Ningen, an aquatic cryptid said to inhabit the Arctic Ocean north of Japan. We’re back with a second hilarious installment of Feeding Ben Stuff, and all the usual fun you’ve come to expect like Favorite Sound, Grandparent Stories, a real stumper of a riddle, jokes and more. Let’s get wild! Timestamps for this episode are available below. Parents: visit our website to help your kids contribute jokes or favorite sounds, or to send us a message:  www.wildinterest.com/submissions 00:00 Episode 11 Intro 01:48 Animal Talk 03:45 Whale Language with Gašper Beguš and Project CETI 10:52 Joke Time 11:46 The Dance of the Honeybee 14:56 Riddle Question 15:20 Cryptid Corner: The Ningen 18:08 Favorite Sound 19:01 Call for Submissions 19:28 Grandparent Story 23:32 Feeding Ben Stuff 29:25 Whale Song and Elephant Communication with Katy Payne 38:31 Riddle Answer 38:53 Preview of Episode 12 39:25 Show Credits 39:57 Bloopers wildinterest.com