120. Felicity asks: What if my lunch lady was an octopus?

What If World - Stories for Kids

Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Comedy Fiction, Fiction

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Zach and Zizi are on a mission to feed the sky a healthy meal. But can they save the world and still get back to school in time for Pizza Day? Lessons include: big changes don’t happen overnight, but using your voice can help get things started; junk food makes us feel like junk and healthy food makes us feel healthy, who’da thunk? This remastered episode originally aired on April 22nd, 2019. Please Subscribe and show your Support! Want more kids podcasts for the whole family? Grown-ups, subscribe to Starglow+ here. Learn more about Starglow Media here. Follow Starglow on Instagram and YouTube Share questions with a grownup's help via email: [email protected], voicemail: 205-605-WHAT (9428), Instagram: @whatifworldpodcast, or snail mail: What If World (or Mr. Eric) P.O. Box 4905 Panorama City, CA 91412 Eric and Karen O'Keeffe make What If World. Our producer is Miss Lynn. Character art by Ana Stretcu, episode art by Lynn Hickernell, podcast art by Jason O’Keefe, and theme song by Craig Martinson.

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0:00.0	What if kittens played the Glockingfield?
0:07.0	And what if unicorns were real?
0:12.0	What if you could fly or travel back in time?
0:17.0	We welcome you to What If World.
0:24.6	What If World?
0:28.6	This is What If World.
0:34.6	Hey there, folks, and welcome back to What If World. The show where your questions and ideas inspire off-the-cuff
0:38.5	stories. I'm Mr. Eric, your host, and today we've got a question from a patron named Felicity.
0:44.4	Hi, Mr. Eric. My name is Felicity, and I'm six years old, and I have a question for you. What if
0:53.3	my lunch lady was an octopus and the sky had a mouth and we had to feed it?
1:02.1	Wow, that is a very wacky question. And since we didn't answer any patron questions last week. Let's add on one more from Andreas.
1:13.0	Hi, it's me again. Andreas, Mr. Eric. What if earrings or wingings? Ear wings?
1:24.4	Ear wings.
1:25.3	Ear wings.
1:30.5	Earwings. I like it.
1:36.5	Now, some of you long-time listeners might think that these what-if questions sound familiar.
1:41.0	And yes, indeed, this is a what-if world story from years ago.
1:48.8	Back when Fred the dog was president and a big mysterious mouth opened in the sky. However,
1:56.2	I've learned a few tricks of editing since then, and I made this version sound a lot better, so I hope you enjoy it. Now let's find out what if earrings were ear wings, and what if my lunch lady was an octopus,
2:03.9	and the sky had a mouth, and we had to feed it?
2:10.5	Hey there, grown-ups, it's me, Mr. Eric, here to tell you about my friends at Wise End.
2:15.7	As parents, we all want to support our kids, but with work,
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