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Oct 2023
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6. Ryan asks: What if it rained candy? (...

Eric O'Keeffe / Starglow Media
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In this newly remastered Halloween Special, Candy the Kid - a cowboy made of candy, naturally - joins us to talk about his love of eating candy... and why that isn't creepy in What If World!

Lessons include: We deserve tasty sometimes foods, like candy, and delicious nourishing always foods, like stew; clean drinking water is a right for everyone.

This remastered episode first aired on October 31st, 2016.

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