Two Whats?! And A Wow! - Berry Nice
Wow in the World
Tinkercast
4.6 • 31.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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We've got the questions AND answers in this berry nice round of Two Whats?! And a Wow! We're challenging you to find the facts from the fiction about BERRIES! Visit https://bit.ly/3owDW5a for more. Originally aired 1/12/24.
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| 0:00.0 | Grownups, this message is for you. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm Tom and Calcan, a writer here at Tinkercast, and today I wanted to tell you a little bit of a story. |
| 0:10.0 | In 2017, I was working at an animation studio in Vancouver and quietly feeling the pull towards something new. |
| 0:16.0 | At the time, I was getting most of my news, storytelling and entertainment from podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | The medium felt intimate and immediate. |
| 0:24.5 | It felt like the future. |
| 0:26.7 | One day, I was listening to the TED Radio Hour, and at the end of the episode, Guy Raz mentioned |
| 0:30.6 | something almost in passing. |
| 0:32.3 | He was starting a new kids' science podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | What luck! |
| 0:36.6 | Years earlier, back in Australia, I had worked on a children's |
| 0:39.3 | science show, and here was a brand new kid's science podcast being created by one of my |
| 0:44.3 | podcasting icons. Out of an abundant sense of curiosity, I cold emailed the team, and somehow my message |
| 0:50.4 | made its way through to Meredith Halpern-Ranzer. That email literally changed my life. |
| 0:55.8 | Meredith, who has since become one of the most motivational people I know, gave me a shot. |
| 1:00.5 | She asked me to write a spec script. I wrote a time-travelling story about the invention of |
| 1:04.3 | chocolate and I sensed it. Three days later, they asked me if I could write more. |
| 1:08.6 | Since then, I've had the privilege of writing six books, |
| 1:11.4 | two live shows, and more than 250 episodes of Wow in the World with the One and Only Mindy Thomas, |
| 1:17.2 | without question, the most creative, wide-eyed person I know. The closest comparison I can make to |
| 1:22.7 | Mindy is if Kimmy Schmidt and Willy Wonka got smashed together into one human being. In 2020, when the world felt uncertain and isolated, audio storytelling became a lifeline for |
| 1:32.0 | millions of listeners. We were in the right place at the right time. We were able to ride |
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