The Rise And Fall of Static Man (encore)

Wow in the World

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Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.6 • 29.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A 2,500 year old mystery solved! Scientists have finally answered the age-old question of how friction leads to static electricity. But it's not all hip hips and hoorays ... this new information leads to the rise of an all new super-villain; Static-man! Will Mindy and Guy Raz be able to thwart this footsie clad static shocker before he annoyingly zaps everyone in the neighborhood? Originally aired 12/30/2019. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Wow in the World, Early and Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:36.7	Oh look at that rain! It's weather that I slip and slide and see out all of that!
0:50.5	It's so spooky and mysterious! Well now who can I pick? I'm a common, I'm a common!
0:59.6	Oh there, can I help you? Say now what's with the mask and the funky looking pajamas?
1:08.4	There's nothing to say, eh? Well that's awfully mysterious, have you?
1:15.8	Listen Mr. Halloween's over, I ain't got any candy!
1:20.8	Here, why are you wiping your feet on my welcome mask? I mean, I suppose that's what it's for,
1:25.6	but that man is 100% walled by the look of him pajamas you're wearing.
1:31.9	Oh easy there, you're building up quite the static charge!
1:36.6	Hey, no, don't you dare touch me, I hate static charge, it kind of hurts and super annoying!
1:43.2	Wait no! No!
1:47.0	I know, no, what you been doing, I'm a gobernator. In that little piggy with wee wee wee wee,
1:55.0	all the way home. In other news, a masked villain known only as Static Man has been charming
2:02.4	a local neighborhood, according to officials victims number into the tens of people.
2:08.9	Yes, my big beans and banana raviolis are ready, I'm coming you little pockets of joy!
2:14.0	The individual in question has been using the power of static electricity to intimidate
2:18.6	shock and generally annoy residents of the small community. Reporters Samantha Squirrel is on the scene,
2:24.9	Samantha? I'm here with Thomas Fingering, a local resident and business owner who claims he was a victim
2:32.6	of one of the Static Man's shocking visits. What? That's right, I'm a resident and business owner and
2:40.6	surfing champion and country music star and I saw the Static Man! Good morning and good!
2:49.3	Who's ready for the Kyle Ball?
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