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What If World - Stories for Kids

369. Alison asks: What if cheetahs were the fastest in the air and the water?

What If World - Stories for Kids

Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC

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

4.56.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Fast Alice, the fastest cheetah in the universe, adopts a baby tree-dog. As the dog grows up and Alice grows old, she finds that she isn’t so fast anymore. Lessons include: Growing old is just a part of growing up; what we say to ourselves can become true; we only stop growing when we stop trying. 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. Wolf run.wav by sabotovat -- https://freesound.org/s/414350/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

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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. What If World?

0:22.6

What If World?

0:25.6

This is What If World.

0:28.6

Hey there, folks, and welcome back to What If World, the show where your questions and ideas inspire off the cuff stories.

0:39.8

I'm Mr. Eric, your host, and today we're starting off with a very special question because it was a male in question.

0:47.9

I know. Snailmail. It's still a thing.

0:51.1

We'll leave our PO box in the show notes in case you want to send your own snail mail.

0:55.7

But this question was from Eleanor, age five and a half from Lake Orion, Michigan.

1:01.7

And Eleanor asks, what if trees had arms and legs with a pet tree dog?

1:08.0

Eleanor, thank you for this question.

1:10.6

And for the drawing of the tree and the tree dog

1:13.1

that you sent along with it. Now, we have one more call in question from a listener named

1:18.0

Allison. Hi, my name is Allison. I'm seven years old. I love all animals equally. And I was wondering if I know cheetahs are a fascist on land.

1:33.2

But what if cheetahs are the fascists in the air and the water, in the trees, and in the ground?

1:41.8

Thanks.

1:42.7

Bye.

1:44.0

Kids, I don't know what it is, but we probably get more cheetah questions than we do any other

1:50.5

land mammal, well, except dogs and cats. Any other wild animal. And it's been a while since we

1:57.4

had a cheetah in a story. When you hear about a cheetah being the fastest

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