Earth Day Party

Happy Earth Day, to you, happy Earth Day, to you, happy Earth Day dear Wozgers, happy Earth Day, to you.

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Happy Earth Day, to you, happy Earth Day, to you, happy Earth Day, to you, happy Earth Day. Happy Earth Day. Drink up my little patonias, happy Earth Day, to you, I sure do love you, you're at it, you smell.

“You're coming back, huh? A dump truck, Mindy, no, what are she doing now? Is that sandal? What does she need that much sand for? And inside her house?”

Where is all that racket going on over our man's house?

I can't even hear myself.

Well, it looks like Mindy and Regiers setting up for their big Earth Day party today. ♪ Someone say Earth that party ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah! Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth! - Grrr! - No, it's so excited for this Earth-type party! Does everyone have their Earth-type presence ready in red? - No! Oh, wait, yes! Man, don't it, tway. - I got mine! - Me too! So, when's this party starting? - I'm not sure, I think Mindy and Regine must be decorating a... They're shoveling sand into the gingerbread mansion right now! - Still? Ugh! Yesterday, they brought in a lot of trees. The day before that, they piped in a bunch of saltwater, and the day before that, they were squeezing a small mountain through the front door.

Now said, when is this party going to be ready? - Ah, ham! (coughing) - Hi, my hand being.

- Oh, hi, grandma, gee far.

- When is this party gonna start?

“- Ratchee, are we all set up for the party?”

- Oh, great, we're ready, come on over everyone. (coughing) - Hi, hi, hi. - Hi, hi, hi. - Oh, hi, hi, hi. - Oh, hi. - It's a little hot. (coughing)

- Okay, man, we're all here. (coughing) - Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. - Welcome, everyone, to Mines Magical Inside Out, or rather outside in Earth Day party.

- Well, I wanna know who's older. There are three G-Fores. - Ah, well,

“we are celebrating an Earth that's 4.5 billion years old, so.”

- Yeah, G-Fores is older. - Huh, fun girl, I'm a teenager. Now, if you will all kindly follow me inside, (coughing) or is it outside? (coughing) - Outside, learn, huh, I don't get it. (coughing)

(coughing) (coughing) - Well, wrote me up and called me, now, G-Fore. - Are my eyeballs playing tricks on me? - Or is that a rain cany and rock clear

in the middle of your entry-way? - Well, technically, it's a baby grand canyon. The actual one was a few inches too wide to get through the door. - What?

- In the... - Look, everyone, it's the beach. (coughing) - Ah, indoor beach, ah, I see everything. - Yeah, you know, door gingerbread mansion beach.

What's the sand made out of? Crushed up grand crackers, let me taste and see. - Oh, damn it, I wouldn't-- (coughing)

- Maybe you brought in sand and ocean water

“from the beach to create a beach inside your gingerbread mansion?”

- Well, yeah, I mean, it's an earth-day party and you know I love a good theme. - Hello, there's waterfall. Look at that. Oh, what were the shipping costs on this baby?

Is this what you mean by an inside out party? - Well, I guess it's more of an outside in-party. I mean, you can't have a party for earth without inviting the earth. - Yes, you can.

- But what I want to, earth is the guest of honor and we are going to celebrate it until the sun comes up, which is over the kitchen counter over there. - What? - Oh, my God, she brought the sun.

- What I want, earth-day, this is turning out to be. - Actually, what is earth-day anyway? - Oh, that's a great question, Dennis. Earth-day is a day to celebrate this big, beautiful planet that we all call home.

- Well, I actually call my home diaper house. - But it's made out of diapers. - But Earth-day is also a day where we renew our commitment to take action to take care of it. - So, because when we take care of the earth,

the earth takes care of us. - And earth could really use a little extra-leavened care right now. As you've all probably noticed, there have been some pristine bunker balls

weather events lately. Wildfires, massive storms, hurricanes, droughts. - And a lot of this is caused by something called climate change. - Oh, I know her, she's a real pale. - No, climate change is what happens

when there's too much pollution and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It causes the earth's invisible blanket of heat-trapping gases to become thicker. - And when this happens, too much heat gets trapped

in earth gets hotter. - And what gets wetter and dry gets drier and our planet gets kind of stressed out. - And begins to act out. - So, Bigel's storm is just the earth's throne.

- Yes, you've heard. - Well, I guess that's one way to look at it. - Oh, I get it. Earth Day is the day we go. Yay, Earth, you're so big and beautiful. And if we promise to be good to you

when you promise to chill out and stop sneak attacking us with storms and fires. - Sure, I suppose that kind of sums it up. - So, I was thinking before we let earth's tornado out

of the closet to blow out all 4.5 billion candles

“on its earth day cake, maybe we should do presents?”

- Or take a whack at this big old Beehive shape, Pinata. - Wait, grandma, she forced that Pinata use a beehive? - Maybe, why did you? - Oh, no, there's only room for one swing band, this birdie. - Oh, I want you to sing and make bass. - The grandma G4's please step away from the Beehive.

- Thank you. - Now, do you have your Earth Day present to give to Earth? - Sure do. - Kim, hear, bestie, bestie, bestie. Come on girl. (screaming) - World wide web, a cow. - Oh, my cow. - Grandma G4's, why would you bring a cow to an Earth Day party?

- Because you told me to bring a present for Earth. - Now, what's the earth's gonna do with a cow? - No, fence cow. - Well, earth loves cows, just ask all earth's plans that grew out of this cow's poop.

- Yeah, manure, the cow's manure. - Well, I guess cow pooper, manure is a natural fertilizer for the Earth. - But I will say that the methane gas that's produced by cows is adding quite a bit of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere and causing our earth to get even hotter.

“- What is he talking about? - I believe he's talking about cow farms.”

- Well, not just farms, but cow burps as well. - Oh, nice one, busy. - As cows digest their food, they produce a lot of farts and burps and those burps alone release a lot of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

(screaming) - Oh, come on, I don't seem like so much gas to me. - Well, maybe not from one cow,

but there are over 1.5 billion cows on earth.

- Wow. - And with those kinds of numbers, cows are now a significant contributor to global warming are those rising temperatures of the earth. - Well, first of all, I already know that. And second of all, that's why this cow present

and a fart filter.

- Oh, here cow put this on.

(laughing) - This tastes like wiggling.

“- Well, I'll be a burp, I can gas mask burp out.”

- Well, what will they think of next? - Well, turn around, cow. We'll fix this to your back side. Here we go. - Oh, two treponundies, we should put a pair on Tommy.

- No way, dude. - Now, stay put, cow. You gotta get this or filter fix into your world. - This is ridiculous. - Yeah, but you know, guys, researchers

have actually been exploring and even testing the concepts of wearable devices for cows, they capture the methane they produce

before it's released into the atmosphere.

- And my farmer, Franol McDonald, and dodged some cow fart filters in his barn. - What? - Oh, yeah, I've heard of these. These systems use big fans and giant air filters

to trap the methane gases that cows burp and fart out. And then that gas can be converted into useful energy like bio gas to power the farm. - And you know, and now that you mentioned it, I recently read that researchers at the University

of California Davis found that adding seaweed to a cow's diet helps to reduce the amount of methane emissions by almost 40%. - Wow, so there you go, earth, enjoy your fart and cow. - Okay, who's up next?

“Thomas Fingerling, did you bring an earth day present for earth?”

- Well, yes, Mandy, I did. Behold, a smog sucker. - Tommy, that's just an old vacuum cleaner that you've turned upside down. - Yeah, what's your brand?

Now behold, as the smog sucker sucks up all the cow fart's in this room. - Whoo! - Okay, I think that's enough. - But who says I've been miscaraging?

- I said I think that's enough. You can trim up the vacuum cleaner down. - Oh, I can hear you. This here's smog sucker's too loud. - That's it.

- Well, the deforested you aren't plugged the power cable? - No, I cut it. - Oh, with my tape. - Wait a minute, a vacuum cleaner that sucks up all the pollution in the air.

This is actually a great new idea. - Oh, I think, you Mandy. I thought of it all by myself. - Actually, wow, this is not a super well-known idea. It's hardly a new one.

- It's not, well, a vacuum for air pollution. He is a technology that's been around for over 20 years, but it's taking a while to really take off. - Somebody's already invented the smog sucker. - Well, yeah, kind of, it's something known

as direct air capture.

“- Oh, well, I think smog sucker sounds better.”

- And garage is direct air capture and upside down vacuum that sucks up air pollution? - Well, yeah, a sort of direct air capture is kind of like a giant vacuum cleaner for the sky. It uses special machines to suck up carbon dioxide,

trap it, and then it either stores it safely underground, or it turns it into something useful, like fuel for airplanes. - Oh, I want a flyin' airplane powered by recycled air pollution. - Me too.

- Well, that would better fix the smog sucker and make some airplane fuel. (slurping) - Let's see, not now, cow. - Okay, who's next? Dennis, did you bring an Earth Day present for Earth?

Dennis, where Dennis go? - He was just here, Dennis, where are you, Europe? - Uh, come in. - Huh? - Could anyone look out?

- No. - He's our fragile, and heavy. - What? - And, uh, I used to come from years. - Uh-oh!

- Yeah! - Yeah! - Dennis, stop, you're reflecting the light from the sun directly into our eyes. - I'm melting.

- Dennis, what are you doing? - Why are you covered in mirrors? - I'm not Dennis, I'm so far spaced, no, man! And I'm the greatest gift I've ever seen with the power of my super sun repelling mirror suit.

I can reflect the sun's powerful rays away from the earth.

I'd make the world cooler.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

“- We're going to let Bob try to apply my lipstick”

and you can't move it. - Oh, sorry. - You know, super spaced mirror man is kinda onto something. - Oh, yeah? - Yeah.

- He is. What he's modeling with this suit of mirrors is something called solar radiation management. - You know, sir. - Scientists have been exploring the idea

of placing giant mirrors or reflective surfaces in space to reflect sunlight away from earth. With the idea that this could help cool our warming planet. - Ah, so it's kinda like giving the earth a little sunshade to keep it from overheating.

- Well, yeah, sort of. And scientists have been coming up with all sorts of ideas to reflect some of the sun's heat back into space. - Like what?

- Well, like spraying teeny, tiny, shiny particles into the sky to reflect the sun away from the earth.

“Or by spraying salt water particles into clouds”

to make them brighter and more reflective. - Oh, we can all dress in super sun repelling mirror suits like me, super spaced mirror man. - Well, like Dennis' mirror suits, these ideas are all far from perfect

and some of them could actually cause other problems. - Ah. - But they're a start and innovation requires lots of ideas. Both good and bad before we can get to the really wild ones. - Well, I'm still giving myself to the earth.

- Terrace. - Okay. - And what about you, guys? Do you have an earth day present for earth? - Well, I do, but it's actually next door in my driveway.

- You bought the earth a car? - This planet gets a car and I'll get to Radden as a shop and buggy push down a hillby finger lane. - Yeah, we were cars. - No, no, no, I did not buy the earth a car.

- Oh, I built the earth a solar power driveway. - Ooh, but why? - Because by using solar power to power my electric car, I don't need to use other forms of electricity that come from burning coal or oil or natural gas.

And by using the free clean power directly from the sun, my car isn't putting any harmful pollution into the atmosphere. - And this reminds me, guys, places like China and Sweden and even the U.S. have all been experimenting with not just solar power driveways, but solar power roads.

- Oh, really? - It's true. Roads that use solar energy from the sun to power electric vehicles while they're driving. - Good on a hair.

- And here in the U.S., scientists have been testing solar road panels with built-in heaters to melt snow and ice caused by winter storms. - Ooh, can you drive way to that, Mr. Razi? - Well, not yet, but I certainly am inspired

by this innovation. - And now what about you, Mindy? - Well, what about me? - Did you bring a present for planet Earth? - Oh, yeah, well, I've been working on a few

handmade gifts and ventions, if you will, but they're all gonna need a little work. - What do you mean? - Well, let's see here.

First, I tried building this giant fan fan

that brushes all the litter and pollution and sends it off into space, but... - Yes! - But I forgot to account for gravity and it all came raining back down.

And then I came up with this can of instant glacier spray, you know, spray on glaciers. - Did we build all of the melting iceburgs? - Yes! - But I'm gonna need a lot more cans.

Turns out iceburgs are pretty huge. (growling) - And finally, I invented these, giant. (growling) - And it's sized!

(growling) - sunglasses. - But when I went to put them on earth,

“I remember that earth has no ears or nose”

to hold them up and they just kept slipping off. (growling) - Well, you know what they say, Mindy, it's the thought that counts. And looking around at this party

and the way you welcomed earth inside your home. - Literally. - I'd say you give a lot of love and thought to this planet. - Yeah, and I just got back from the toilet

and there's a giant volcano in there. - Wait, I didn't put a volcano in the toilet. - I did. - Well, I think we better wrap up this party and get the earth back to where it belongs

before that volcano erupts. - Oh, good idea. But before we do, we've got to help the earth

blow out all 4.5 billion candles on its earth day cake.

(growling)

- Bring out the earth day cake. (growling) (growling) (growling) - Okay, now everyone's sing with me.

(growling) ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ You're so big and blue ♪ ♪ We'll also fall ♪ ♪ We'll be getting happy to you ♪

(growling) (growling) (growling) - Uh, Mindy? - Yeah, guys, Razi?

“- Uh, how is the earth going to blow out”

4.5 billion candles on its birthday cake?

- Yeah, you bring any wind to this insight out earth day party. - Oh, you know I did, Reggie? - Huh? - Bring out the tornado!

- What? - What? (growling) (growling) (growling)

- What was that? - Did it get all the candles? - Uh, no, looks like there's still one lit. Someone blow it out. - Seriously, get over here, cow.

(growling) - Go get 'em, girl. (growling) (growling) - Oh boy, this is magical girl.

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