WeWow Summer Week - Day 3: Mural, Mural on the Wall (7/9/25)

Summary

Wow in the World
Episode: WeWow Summer Week - Day 3: Mural, Mural on the Wall
Release Date: July 9, 2025
Hosts: Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz

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Introduction to Summer Fun Forever

The episode kicks off with Dennis and Reggie celebrating the joys of summer in their signature playful banter. Dennis exclaims, "[...] it's summertime. No homework, no school. Yeah, it's the hottest season" (03:14), setting a vibrant tone for the day’s adventures.

Creating Art with Grandma GeForce

Dennis and Reggie embark on a neighborhood adventure to gather inspiration for their summer fun. Their first encounter is with Grandma GeForce, who is diligently working on a unique mural.

• Dennis: "Oh, wow, it looks great." (04:57)
• Grandma GeForce: "Yeah, it's me and my electric guitar riding a saber tooth tiger." (05:07)

Despite initial resistance to Dennis’s playful requests to add personal touches to the mural, Grandma GeForce assigns him the task of washing her brushes. This interaction leads to an accidental yet colorful transformation of Dennis’s outfit into a tie-dye masterpiece.

• Dennis: "It's like tie dye. Look, Granny G, I'm a cool, groovy dude." (06:15)
• Grandma GeForce: "Whatever. Woodstock Summer fun forever and ever." (06:22)

Engaging the Audience: Share Your Summer Wows

The hosts encourage listeners to share their own summer memories, inviting them to call in with their "summertime wows" for a chance to be featured on the show.

• Dennis: "So if you have a wow. Summer memory you'd like to share with us, call us at 1-888-7-WOW-WOW." (06:37)
• Grandma GeForce: "We do?" (06:44)

Transition to AI Art Generators

As Dennis and Grandma GeForce continue their artistic endeavors, the conversation seamlessly transitions to the world of artificial intelligence and its role in art creation.

• Dennis: "Let's listen to an episode of wow in the World right now." (07:06)
• Mindy: "It's wow in the World Season 8, Episode 29 called AI AI. Oh wow." (07:25)

Understanding AI Art Generation

Mindy delves into a detailed, story-driven explanation of how AI art generators function, differentiating them from traditional image search engines. She illustrates the process with engaging storytelling, featuring characters like Thomas Fingerling.

• Mindy: "Instead of going out and looking for images on the Internet, it creates a brand new image, something that's almost certainly never been seen before." (15:10)
• Mindy: "When you go to Zoodle Image Search [...] AI generators work a little bit differently." (15:29)

The hosts break down the stages of AI training:

1. Object Recognition: Teaching the AI to identify and understand various objects from trillions of images.

   • Dennis: "Pay attention, class. This is a picture of a ball." (18:09)

2. Sorting and Classification: Organizing images into numerous categories based on attributes like color, shape, and size.

   • Mindy: "It sorts these pictures into hundreds of different categories, like their shape, their size, their shininess, their brightness." (19:34)

3. Pixel Arrangement: The AI compiles and rearranges pixels to create cohesive and aesthetically pleasing images based on the learned characteristics.

   • Mindy: "It puts a bunch of pixels together that have those characteristics." (20:32)

Demonstration and Interaction

Guy Raz participates by using the AI tool to generate images, prompting a fun and interactive demonstration of the technology in action.

• Guy: "I'll type in Dennis in a pair of yellow overalls, riding a giant turtle through space." (14:24)
• Dennis: "It's so ridiculous. I wear yellow pants, not yellow overalls." (14:39)

The resulting images are humorously imperfect, leading to discussions about the current limitations and potential of AI-generated art.

Ethical Implications of AI in Art

The conversation deepens as the hosts explore the ethical considerations surrounding AI art generators, particularly focusing on the use of existing artists' works without permission.

• Guy Raz: "But Kendi, aren't you worried about these machines replacing artists in the real world?" (22:44)
• Mindy: "Some people are worried about these AI generators copying real life artists and not giving them credit for their work." (23:35)

They debate the dual nature of AI as both a tool for creativity and a potential threat to traditional artistry, emphasizing the importance of human choice in leveraging these technologies.

• Mindy: "It's up to us humans to make that choice of how we use it." (24:17)
• Guy Raz: "So is this a good thing or a bad thing?" (24:17)

Conclusion: Embracing the Future of Art

The episode wraps up with a light-hearted note as Dennis humorously showcases a flawed AI-generated image, reinforcing the idea that while AI has impressive capabilities, the human touch remains irreplaceable.

• Dennis: "This one in the middle doesn't look anything like me. It's got a tail and feathers. And a beak. Reggie." (24:37)

Behind the Scenes and Credits

The hosts provide a brief overview of the episode's production team and offer listeners avenues to engage further with the show through surveys, social media, and merchandise.

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Notable Quotes:

• Dennis (03:14): "It's summertime. No homework, no school. Yeah, it's the hottest season."
• Grandma GeForce (05:07): "Yeah, it's me and my electric guitar riding a saber tooth tiger."
• Mindy (15:10): "Instead of going out and looking for images on the Internet, it creates a brand new image, something that's almost certainly never been seen before."
• Mindy (23:35): "Some people are worried about these AI generators copying real life artists and not giving them credit for their work."
• Dennis (24:37): "This one in the middle doesn't look anything like me. It's got a tail and feathers. And a beak. Reggie."

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Transcript

[Guy Raz]

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[Mindy Thomas]

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[Unknown]

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[Dennis]

Hey, yeah, it's summertime. No homework, no school. Yeah, it's the hottest season. Me and Reggie are keeping it cool. But Dennis is cooler than Reggie. School's out, sun's out. Time for fun. Hanging with my friends and everyone. No, I got it. I'm good. I'm good, I'm good. Two, three, four. We will summer Summer forever We will summer. I don't know what kind of stuff it will figure it out. Hello and welcome to Wee Wow. Summer week. Summer fun forever and ever. That's right, Reggie. This is the week where we have all kinds of summer fun. But we couldn't think of anything to do. So we're going around the neighborhood and bothering. I mean, getting inspiration from everyone else. Are you ready to go find someone to talk to, Reggie? Okay, let's go. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Snooping, snooping, snooping. Oh, hey, look, it's Grandma G. Force.

[Grandma GeForce]

Hey, Granny G. Where'd you come from, boy? What do you want?

[Dennis]

Well, I'm just out having summer fun forever and ever and wanted to check in on my favorite Minty's grandma.

[Grandma GeForce]

Well, I'm just busy painting this diaper house still.

[Dennis]

Oh, wow, it looks great.

[Grandma GeForce]

And it's gon stay that way. Now get away. Now get back.

[Dennis]

What are you painting? Some kind of mural?

[Grandma GeForce]

Yeah, it's me and my electric guitar riding a saber tooth tiger.

[Dennis]

Oh, come on. Can I paint a picture of me on there, too?

[Grandma GeForce]

No.

[Dennis]

Can I paint sunglasses on the tiger?

[Grandma GeForce]

No.

[Dennis]

Can I paint calligraphy flourishes and whirls around the edges?

[Grandma GeForce]

No.

[Dennis]

Well, then what can I do?

[Grandma GeForce]

Well, you can wash my brushes Hair. Take them.

[Dennis]

Hooray. I'm useful.

[Mindy Thomas]

Hollering.

[Grandma GeForce]

And get to cleaning.

[Dennis]

Okay, I'm just gonna swish the brushes around in this bucket of water here. Swish, swish, swish.

[Grandma GeForce]

Oh, that's real nice.

[Dennis]

And now, Reggie, you take the brushes and shake them out. Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Reggie, you got multicolored paint water all over my white linen clothes.

[Grandma GeForce]

Well, I think. Actually, no, it's not.

[Dennis]

My ensemble is ruined. It's. Wait. Actually, you're right. It is an improvement.

[Grandma GeForce]

That's what I just said.

[Dennis]

It's like tie dye.

[Mindy Thomas]

Hooray.

[Dennis]

Look, Granny G, I'm a cool, groovy dude.

[Grandma GeForce]

Whatever. Woodstock Summer fun forever and ever. Hush boy.

[Dennis]

Okay, devoted listeners, Grandma GeForce and I are going to go strut around in our tie dye.

[Grandma GeForce]

No I'm not.

[Dennis]

But in the meantime, we want to hear your summertime wows.

[Grandma GeForce]

We do?

[Dennis]

Yeah. Like maybe a vacation you went on in the past or a summer experience you're having right now.

[Grandma GeForce]

I don't know who you're talking to.

[Dennis]

So if you have a wow. Summer memory you'd like to share with us, call us at 1-888-7-WOW-WOW. That's 1-888-7- wow Wow. You just might hear your Summer of Wow moment featured on wow in the World this summer.

[Grandma GeForce]

Oh that sounds fancy.

[Dennis]

Oh good ide. Lets listen to an episode of wow in the World right now. Well I was thinking in the spirit of artwork that we listened to this one. It's wow in the World Season 8, Episode 29 called AI AI. Oh wow.

[Grandma GeForce]

Is that the one about the artificial generated art?

[Dennis]

Uh huh.

[Grandma GeForce]

Well okay.

[Dennis]

All right, here we go. And play.

[Mindy Thomas]

Wee. WOW will be right back. Grown Ups, this message is for you.

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[Mindy Thomas]

That's it. Now back to the show.

[Dennis]

Mindy. Hello.

[Guy Raz]

Mindy.

[Dennis]

Oh, that's so good. Now try adding a top hat, huh?

[Mindy Thomas]

Great idea, Dennis.

[Dennis]

I know.

[Guy Raz]

What in the.

[Mindy Thomas]

Oh, hey, Guy Razzie.

[Dennis]

What's up, buddy?

[Guy Raz]

Nothing much, Mindy. I just wanted to show you my new electric toothbrush.

[Dennis]

Oh, wow.

[Guy Raz]

But then I heard all the commotion coming from the other side of the door. What's so funny?

[Dennis]

Oh, nothing, Mindy. What do you mean, nothing? You don't think these photos are funny anymore?

[Mindy Thomas]

Dennis, Shh.

[Guy Raz]

Oh, what are you talking about?

[Thomas Fingerling]

Nothing.

[Mindy Thomas]

Don't worry about it. Everything's fine.

[Guy Raz]

What are you doing at that computer, Mindy?

[Dennis]

Nothing.

[Mindy Thomas]

It's fine.

[Guy Raz]

Mindy.

[Dennis]

Let me be careful, Guy Raz. You'll ruin our precious artwork.

[Guy Raz]

Artwork? What in the.

[Mindy Thomas]

Fine. You got me.

[Guy Raz]

Mindy, what is all of this?

[Mindy Thomas]

It's you, Guy Raz.

[Dennis]

Can't you tell? It's art, Guy Raz. Art.

[Guy Raz]

I can see that. Here's an image of me as a firefighter. And I guess here's one of me as an astronaut.

[Dennis]

And look, here you are riding a giant taco.

[Mindy Thomas]

Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

[Dennis]

Mindy.

[Guy Raz]

What's going on here.

[Mindy Thomas]

What's going on here? Is that Dennis? Dennis and I have been churning out digital Guy Raz art all morning long.

[Guy Raz]

Well, it's very impressive, Mindy, but you really should be asking permission from someone before making art with their face all over it.

[Mindy Thomas]

I did ask. Didn't you get my permission slip in a bottle?

[Guy Raz]

What? No.

[Mindy Thomas]

Huh. I wonder if Thomas Fingerling and Grandma GeForce got their permission slips.

[Guy Raz]

Wait a minute. You've been making Grandma GeForce and Thomas Fingerling art as well?

[Mindy Thomas]

Oh, yeah. Here, check it out. Dennis, bring up that one of Thomas Fingerling and Grandma G Force playing pickle.

[Dennis]

That one's my favorite.

[Mindy Thomas]

Whoa.

[Guy Raz]

Is that Grandma G Force and Thomas Fingerling playing pickleball on a giant pepperoni pizza?

[Mindy Thomas]

Sure is.

[Dennis]

I wanted it to be a sausage green pepper pizza, but the toppings threw off the color balance.

[Guy Raz]

And you made all of these this morning?

[Dennis]

Yeah.

[Mindy Thomas]

Pretty bonker balls, huh?

[Guy Raz]

It's incredible, Mindy. I didn't realize you and Dennis were such talented digital artists.

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, we had a little help.

[Guy Raz]

Oh, yeah? Help from who?

[Mindy Thomas]

Uh, from a little thing called AI.

[Guy Raz]

AI? You mean artificial intelligence.

[Dennis]

What? That's what AI stands for. Mindy, you told me it stood for apples included.

[Mindy Thomas]

What? No, I didn't.

[Dennis]

Then where did all these apples come from?

[Guy Raz]

So wait a minute, Mindy, you're telling me you made all of these images with an AI program on your computer?

[Mindy Thomas]

Yeah. Wanna try it out?

[Guy Raz]

Sure. What should I do, Mindy?

[Mindy Thomas]

Okay, so first you're just gonna wanna open up this prompt box here.

[Guy Raz]

Okay.

[Mindy Thomas]

And now just type in the first thing that pops into your head.

[Guy Raz]

Okay, let's see. Dennis, can I use you in the image?

[Dennis]

Yes, you may.

[Guy Raz]

All right, let's see here.

[Mindy Thomas]

Hooray.

[Dennis]

I'm involved.

[Guy Raz]

Okay, I'll type in Dennis in a pair of yellow overalls, riding a giant turtle through space.

[Mindy Thomas]

Ooh, nice prompt, Guy Raz.

[Dennis]

Yeah, it's so ridiculous. I wear yellow pants, not yellow overalls.

[Mindy Thomas]

Okay, and now hit enter.

[Dennis]

Okay.

[Mindy Thomas]

And now we wait. It's done.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Whoa.

[Guy Raz]

Look at that, Mindy. It's Dennis riding a turtle through outer.

[Dennis]

Space and wearing yellow overalls.

[Guy Raz]

Wow. This is pretty incredible.

[Mindy Thomas]

You're telling me.

[Guy Raz]

But, Mindy, isn't this basically like a more advanced version of Zoodle Image Search?

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, not quite, Guy Raz.

[Guy Raz]

How is it different?

[Mindy Thomas]

Oh, I'm so glad you asked. Um, story time. So when you go to Zoodle Image Search.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Hello and welcome to Zoodle Image Search.

[Mindy Thomas]

And give it a request. One photo of an ice cream, please.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Certainly. One moment.

[Unknown]

Please.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Searching. Searching.

[Mindy Thomas]

The search engine goes off and looks for that image on the Internet, bringing you back the results.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Searching. I have found 1.2 trillion results.

[Mindy Thomas]

But with these AI generators, it works a little bit differently. Instead of going out and looking for images on the Internet, it creates a brand new image, something that's almost certainly never been seen before. One picture of an ice cream, please.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Certainly. Setting up easel. Applying paint. Complete. One painting of ice cream.

[Mindy Thomas]

I love it.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Yay.

[Mindy Thomas]

And that's basically how it works. Wow.

[Guy Raz]

Well, hang on a minute, Mindy. I understand how these AIs are different from a basic Internet search, but I still don't get how it works.

[Mindy Thomas]

What do you mean?

[Guy Raz]

Well, if you were an artist in the real world, you might go to school to learn how to draw and sketch and paint.

[Dennis]

Uh huh.

[Guy Raz]

So how do these AIs learn how to make these images? How do they know what an ice cream looks like and how to draw it?

[Mindy Thomas]

Oh, looks like we're heading back to story time.

[Dennis]

Two stories in one day. We're so lucky.

[Mindy Thomas]

So just like how human artists might go to school or university to train to become an artist, these AIs also have to train at the University of the World Wide Web.

[Dennis]

There's a University of the World Wide Web?

[Guy Raz]

Of course there's not a University of the World Wide Web, Dennis Mindy is just using it as a storytelling device.

[Dennis]

Ah, right. I knew that.

[Mindy Thomas]

Anywho, the AI shows up for its first year at the University of the World Wide Web.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Wow. Uwww. I finally made it. I'm gonna be the best AI Art generator.

[Mindy Thomas]

So in order to become a fully fledged AI art generator, this AI has to first take some intro classes.

[Guy Raz]

Intro classes?

[Dennis]

Yeah.

[Mindy Thomas]

Class number one is Object recognition.

[Guy Raz]

Object recognition?

[Mindy Thomas]

Yeah. Which is exactly what it sounds like. It's teaching the AI to recognize objects.

[Dennis]

Pay attention, class. This is a picture of a ball.

[Unknown]

This is a picture of a person throwing a ball.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Person ball throwing. Got it.

[Mindy Thomas]

Now imagine doing this for trillions of images or pictures across the Internet.

[Unknown]

Now this is a person juggling the ball.

[Dennis]

This is a person kicking. The ball sticks on a person fast.

[Mindy Thomas]

And once it's had a look at all of these trillions of images, it needs to learn how to sort them. Which brings us to our second class.

[Unknown]

Welcome to sorting 101.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Yay.

[Mindy Thomas]

Now the AI has to look through all the images it's learned about and sort them into hundreds of different groupings.

[Guy Raz]

Huh? Like what?

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, take a banana.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Okay. This is yellow. Therefore bananas go in the Yellow category.

[Mindy Thomas]

But it sorts these pictures into hundreds of different categories, like their shape, their size, their shininess, their brightness.

[Thomas Fingerling]

The banana also goes in the long category and also also goes in the medium sized category and the non shiny category and. And the fruit category.

[Mindy Thomas]

So at the end of this class, the AI knows both what these images are. That is a ball, but also the characteristics are things that make up that image.

[Thomas Fingerling]

The ball is white, it has stitches, it is round. It is used in the game of baseball.

[Dennis]

Wonderful. You're now ready for semester two creation.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Yay. I finally get to make my own art.

[Mindy Thomas]

So now, when you type a prompt into the machine, one picture of an ice cream, please.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Hmm. Okay. Ice cream. Round, colorful, moist, shiny.

[Mindy Thomas]

It then arranges a bunch of pixels into a shape that has those characteristics like shape quality and shininess.

[Guy Raz]

And pixels are the tiny dots on a screen that make up an image.

[Mindy Thomas]

Exactly. Hundreds of thousands of these little colored dots that all come together to make a picture.

[Guy Raz]

And the AI shuffles these around based on what it knows about the object you asked it to generate for you.

[Mindy Thomas]

Exact oritos.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Duh. What do you think, Mrs. Teacher, Ma'? Am?

[Unknown]

It's horrible.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Oh no.

[Mindy Thomas]

The first attempts are never good, but then the AI goes away and improves it, moving the pixels around just a little bit. And it does this over and over and over again, thousands of times a second.

[Thomas Fingerling]

How's this?

[Dennis]

No.

[Thomas Fingerling]

This?

[Dennis]

No.

[Thomas Fingerling]

This?

[Dennis]

No.

[Mindy Thomas]

This happens over and over and over again, improving little by little, until this.

[Dennis]

Oh.

[Unknown]

Now that's what I call an A. Ice cream.

[Thomas Fingerling]

Excellent. Here you are, ma'. Am. One picture of ice cream.

[Mindy Thomas]

I love it. And that guy Raz, is how you train an AI generator to become an artist.

[Dennis]

Ah. Wow.

[Guy Raz]

That was quite a lot to take in, Mindy. So let me get this straight. This AI program is taught what images look like, and then it's taught the characteristics of those images, like its size and color and shape.

[Dennis]

Uh huh.

[Guy Raz]

And then it puts a bunch of pixels together that have those characteristics.

[Mindy Thomas]

You know it.

[Guy Raz]

And then the AI keeps rearranging those pixels over and over again, making slightly better images every time until it has a brand new picture of whatever you asked for.

[Mindy Thomas]

Yep, that's it in a nutshell.

[Guy Raz]

Wow. That's kind of incredible.

[Dennis]

Yeah, almost as incredible as Reggie riding a skateboard over the Grand Canyon. Check it out.

[Guy Raz]

Wow.

[Dennis]

Okay, what should I put in next?

[Guy Raz]

How about.

[Dennis]

I've got it. How about three best Friends?

[Mindy Thomas]

Uh, sure.

[Dennis]

Yay. Three best friends. Three best friends.

[Guy Raz]

But Kendi, aren't you worried about these machines? Replacing artists in the real world. I mean, it might take a real human artist months or even years to create a piece of art like this, but these machines can do it in the blink of an eye.

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, that's a good point, Guy Raz. And some people are worried about these machines. I mean, on one hand, you can see them as just another tool for artists to express themselves.

[Guy Raz]

Right?

[Mindy Thomas]

Because these machines aren't creative. To them, these images are just a bunch of pixels and numbers. It's us humans who input the prompts to make them generate art.

[Guy Raz]

Huh.

[Mindy Thomas]

But on the other hand, some people are worried about these AI generators copying real life artists and not giving them credit for their work.

[Guy Raz]

What do you mean?

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, remember how that AI generator had to go to art school to learn how to generate?

[Guy Raz]

Yeah, the University of the World Wide West, Right?

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, when it's learning how to recognize and sort objects, it's doing that based on millions and millions of images from the web.

[Guy Raz]

Uh huh.

[Mindy Thomas]

And a lot of those images are created by artists who never gave their permission for their art to be used to teach robots.

[Guy Raz]

Right. And I'm guessing that when these AI art generators are asked to produce a work of art, it can sometimes end up looking very similar to those artists it was trained on.

[Mindy Thomas]

Exact oritos.

[Guy Raz]

So is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[Mindy Thomas]

Well, it's a new thing, Guy Raz. It's up to us humans to make that choice of how we use it.

[Dennis]

It's done. It's done. The three best friends look all right. Oh look, there's Mindy. And that's Guy with his glasses. But wait a minute, Mindy. I think this machine is broken.

[Grandma GeForce]

Oh boy.

[Dennis]

This one in the middle doesn't look anything like me. It's got a tail and feathers. And a beak. Reggie.

[Mindy Thomas]

Grown ups if you like. Wow. In the world. You can listen early and ad free right now on Wondery.

[Guy Raz]

Join Wondery in the Wondery app or on Wondery Kids plus on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music.

[Mindy Thomas]

And before you go, tell us about yourself by filling out a short [e-mail] survey.

[Guy Raz]

Wow. In the world is written by Mindy Thomas and Tom Van Kalken, with help from me, Guy Raz.

[Mindy Thomas]

Original sound design and music editing is done by Tyler Thole, with help from our supervising producer, Jed Anderson. You can also hear Jed Anderson in the voices of Dennis Thomas, Fingerling, Reggie, and many of the other silly characters you hear on our show.

[Guy Raz]

Jessica Bode keeps our facts straight as our fact Checker and Meredith Halpern. Ranzer Powers the wow at Tinkercast.

[Mindy Thomas]

Our theme song was composed and performed by three time Grammy nominees the Pop Ups. Find them at thepopups.com Special thanks to.

[Guy Raz]

Steph Sosa, Henry Moskal, Ruth Morrison, Rebecca Caban, Kit Ballinger, Sana Ali Muhammad, Anna Sikorski and all of the other tinkerers at Tinkercast HQ.

[Mindy Thomas]

To keep the wows rolling, visit [e-mail] There you can learn more about becoming an official member of the World Organization of wowzers, learn about upcoming events, shop our wow Shop, find our best selling books and learn about all of our other amazing podcasts from Tinkercast Grown Ups.

[Guy Raz]

You can follow wow in the World on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter owintheworld and our email address is hellonkercast.com and if.

[Mindy Thomas]

You'Re a kid with a big wow to share with us, call us at 1-888-7-WOW-WOW for a chance to be featured at the end of our show or an upcoming episode of 2 what's and a wow.

[Guy Raz]

Thanks again for listening and until next time, keep on wowing.

[Dennis]

Wow in the World was made by.

[Mindy Thomas]

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