Bleep!

Speaker 10:00

From your friends at PBS Kids.

Speaker 20:02

Support for this podcast and the following message for parents comes from IKEA. As a parent, you child-proof everything. Well, almost everything. You may not have thought about one thing, and that's securing your dressers and chests to the wall. It helps avoid dangerous tip-over accidents. Secure it from IKEA. Working to create safer homes together.

Arthur Read· Host0:25

[upbeat music] Hey, everyone, Arthur Read here with a question for you podcast listeners. You know how sometimes you hear stuff you don't want to hear, like what people say when the bases are loaded and you strike out? [upbeat music] Strike three. You're out.

Speaker 10:48

Arthur, you missed the ball. You lost the game. Boo.

Arthur Read· Host0:52

Or something your sister might say.

D.W. Read· Host0:56

Mom, Arthur's eating ice cream after you told him not to.

Arthur Read· Host1:00

Ugh, or something your mom might say.

Jane Read· Guest1:03

Put that ice cream back in the freezer, young man.

Arthur Read· Host1:06

In order not to hear those things, wouldn't it be great if there was a machine that could bleep them out? I mean, there is a bleeper for TV shows and podcasts, [beep] though that bleeper is for words you're not supposed to say, like the word DW heard in a gift shop a few days ago.

D.W. Read· Host1:24

[gentle music] Look, Arthur. Isn't that