Maria asks: What if Abacus turned into an abacus? (Storyport Part 1)
What If World - Stories for Kids
Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC
4.5 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Fred the Dog chooses the wrong wand to chew on, and, long story short, Abacus, Fair Elise, and Fred end up on an adventure into their own pasts!
Lessons include: everyone makes mistakes, but lying about them can lead to more mistakes pretty quickly!
This full-length, original story, has three short clips from episodes 124, 178, and 208, in case you want to enjoy a few blasts from the past.
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| 0:00.0 | What if we're all disappointed by our sponsors and by listeners like you on patreon? |
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| 1:15.7 | What if this is what if world? |
| 1:27.7 | Hey there folks and welcome back to What if World the show where you are questions and ideas inspire off the cuff stories |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Mr. Eric your host and today we're starting off with a writing question from a listener named Maria |
| 1:39.7 | Maria is now 10 years old and she asks |
| 1:42.9 | What if Abicus turned into an Abicus while trying to teach maths? |
| 1:47.8 | I love that question and where Miss Karen went to school they called it maths with an S |
| 1:54.1 | Which is different from where I grew up and they just called it math without an S |
| 1:58.8 | Now we've also got a writing from a patron named Josh who asks what if Abicus accidentally sends himself |
| 2:07.3 | Farrellies and Fred the dog back in time to some of the past what if world episodes? |
| 2:13.5 | I'm so excited to revisit some of my favorite stories and also have a new story come into being and we've got a third question from a patron named |
| 2:23.5 | Hubert |
| 2:24.5 | Hello my name is Hubert and my what is questioning? |
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