WeWow on the Weekend

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'Cause this is what we do on the weekend. Talking, laughing, me and Reggie comes in, laughing, and then we oh wait, no, I said laughing twice. Hey, whatever, we wow on the weekend, we wow on the weekend, 'cause this is what we do on the weekend.

A love and welcome to we wow on the weekend, I'm your host, Dennis, and that's by co-host, Reggie, the giant pigeon.

Hey Reggie, look what I got at one of those gumball machine things at the grocery store. Yeah, it's a bouncy ball, but not just any bouncy ball. It's a super bouncy ball, and it goes in the dark, yeah, check it out, turn off the lights for you a quick. I know, isn't it cool? Look, it's just a glowing little ball, and it's moving on its own.

No, not really, I'm moving it around with my hand. Okay, let's bounce it for real, ready? One, two, three, bounce! Yeah, that's a bouncy ball, that's a bouncy ball, that's a bouncy ball, that's a bouncy ball, that's a bouncy ball. Well, I can't see where I'm going with the lights off, I don't want to trip over.

“Got it, hit me in the nose, but I got it, could you please turn the lights back on Reggie?”

Thank you, and that's my new bouncy ball. Okay, let's get into the queue and I segment. The queue and A segment, all right, let's just get the old answering machine pulled up here. Okay, here we go. Hi, you've reached Dennis from WeWow on the weekend.

That's me. Do you have a question? Well, I do too, lots of them, and who's going to answer all my questions? You, probably not, but I guess I can answer yours. Leave me a message.

I and Amber, we got some feels, brings Ohio. Hi, Amberley. How do you say happy birthday and kiss it? Is it someone's birthday? And is that special someone a pigeon named Reggie?

Oh, it's not your birthday.

“Well, whatever then, how do you say happy birthday and pigeon Reggie?”

And here's how to say happy birthday in Dennis. Happy birthday, birthday, you were born now, you're here.

I'm not happy, I think you're cool, so happy birthday.

Happy birthday to everyone who's birthday, Dennis. Next question. Hi, my name is Dennis. Hi, Finn. How do fish is drink water?

How do fish is drink water? Good question, Finn.

“I mean, they probably just open their mouths and drink it in, right?”

Oh, that's how they breathe, huh? Okay, I forgot, fish is breathed the water. Well, how do they drink then? Do they get a glass and drink out of a glass? Do fishes have dishes?

A straw, maybe? Would that work? Yeah, probably not.

Oh, that's Goldie Bob, my Goldfish.

Hey, Goldie Bob, how do fish is drink water? Ah, well, that makes sense, then you have a Finn. Next question. Hi, I'm Atticus from Florida. Hi, Atticus.

Is there a baby ready, like baby Dennis? That is a very good question. Do you have a baby, Reggie? You do? Well, let's do it.

Reggie, is that an egg? Who is it, your egg? Oh, no, it's just an egg you took from the fridge and you do a little big on it. Well, I thought it was going to be some cute little peasant puppet. Not some silly egg you took from the refrigerator.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt baby Reggie's feelings. I apologize to the egg, fine, sorry, egg, sorry baby Reggie, egg, okay Atticus, answer your question, yes, there is a baby Reggie and it's an egg. Thanks for all your calls, everyone. If you've got a question for me, call and leave me a message.

The number is 18887, wow, wow, that's 18887, wow, wow, wow, I just might answer your question on we, wow, on the weekend, okay, that takes care of that. Next up is a little segment I'd like to call, inside Tinkercast Studios. Inside Tinkercast Studios. This is the part where we revisit an episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast shows.

And today, we're listening to "Wow" in the world, season three, episode 20, called an unfragged, getable day at the museum.

“Right, I think this is the one where a bunch of frogs go to a museum or something.”

Well, I don't know why frogs would go to the museum Reggie, maybe frogs like art, everything about that. Oh, yeah, they like to look at paintings by Frog Monet, or Vincent Van Croke, or Edward Hopper. Okay, that was the last frog artist joke, let's play the episode.

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Hey, Bazaar fans, Mindy here, and before we start the show, sorry about that, I forgot to put it on silent.

Hey, got a second, it's an email from us!

Check it out, Redg. Let's see here. It says, "We've got episode recommendations, go to these STEM activities to try out at home."

“The latest news about what's happening at Tinkercast?”

Pretty bonker balls, huh? Here, I'll help you sign up. So you and the grown-ups will just go to Tinkercast.com/email and put in your first and last

Hey, Reggie, I just realized I don't know your last name.

Really?

“Is that what the silent G or a silent cute?”

Huh, I don't know. Let's see here. Oh, and you're not a robot, right? Oh, sorry, just had a double check. Okay, you are all signed up.

grown-ups, you can sign up for our Tinkercast newsletter too. It's full of ideas on how to get some extra, wow, to your family's life. Visit tinkercast.com/email to sign up today. That's tinkercast.com/email. That's it, and now let's get on with the show.

That's it, now back to the show. Good morning, friends.

I'm so glad you could all join us for Senior Citizen Day at the Museum of Wow!

Hey, Mindy. Oh, right. We invite you here today because humans over 100 years old get in free. And this is the first day of the museum's exciting new amphibian exhibit. amphibian is the scientific name for a group of animals that begin their lives with

gills and tails in the water, but later grow legs and lungs for a new life on land. In fact, the word amphibian means "couble life." Like the double life of turning from a tadpole into a frog. Yes, a process known as metamorphosis. Are you sleeping?

What, no, I wasn't sleeping, I have allergies. Amy, who this is sure to be an unfragged, get a bull day. The museum promises some of the most wow-worthy and riveting new scientific discoveries on all sorts of cold-blooded vertebrates, like toads and nuths and salamanders. But today, we are going to focus on my personal favorite frogs.

I never said that frogs are my favorite, new to my favorite.

Now, before we begin our day, I just want to take a quick roll call to make sure we're all here. So please wake up and just say present when I call your name. Okay. Randy?

Heal? Reggie? Thomas Fingerling. Presence? Grandma Geforce?

There's somebody called my name. Jayforce, catch you. Here nothing. Okay, okay. Before we go in, I should probably lay down some ground rules.

No, boy, ground rules. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Best museum ever. High five. Okay.

What is that? Um, rule number one, we are operating on a buddy system today. Everybody must stick with their partner at all times. Oh, I call that guy. Mindy, that is a concrete statue of a bald eagle.

I'll be your buddy, okay? Thomas Fingerling, Grandma Geforce, I'm going to pair the two of you up as well.

“Oh, I see, lumbar the good, looking athletes together, hey, so what do we plan?”

Badminton? Yeah, oh, but they're Oz, what about Reggie? Oh, Reggie's is going to be our shabber on for today. He's the most mature member of our group and the only one with a child care degree. So if anyone gets lost or heard or needs to take a bathroom break, you be sure to let Reggie

know, okay? Oh, I got to go to the bathroom. I got to go to the bathroom. Don't do! We haven't even gotten into the museum yet.

Sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm going to pee mine even more. I'm wearing a diaper anyway, so. No one is going to pee their pants.

Just go to the restroom. Meat the ticket booth in five minutes, okay? Okay. I got one. Oh, boy.

Welcome to senior citizen day at the museum of wow. Anyone over the age of a hundred gets free admissions. So, looks like today is your lucky day, sir. Oh, me? He can't hear.

Yes, you, my friend. Old Grok's get in free today.

“Will you be needing any special assistance as you move throughout the museum floor?”

Oh, well, I think you must be mistaken. I am not an old Grok. Practically a polywalk. Oh, I'm sorry, my bad. I guess it's just the suit and the elbow patches just kind of threw me off.

My granddad wears the same outfit.

This tie is a clip on. Oh, don't tell anyone. We're back. I love that.

I don't like wearing the bathroom.

One for you. One for you. This is a senior season. And we have another one as well. He's right.

Andy, where is Thomas Fingerling? Ah, look over there. Thomas Fingerling. Bobbering like a top, Bobbering like a top. Thomas Fingerling.

Got a run. Okay, so that'll be two of Grok's and two polywalks. Oh, and a pigeon. He doesn't like to talk about his age. Wait, man.

I just remembered. Reggie's family is one of the museum's major donors. They have an entire wing named after them. Why? Why?

There was a wing sticking out of the side of the building like that. Are you going to fly this plane with only one way? Oh, cool. Make your donors. Make your donors get in fresh.

And so do all of you. Thank you, Mrs. Mister. Reggie's parents. Have fun, you guys. Next.

Okay, so where should we start first?

“Well, looking at the map here, I think we should make our first up at the Hall of Mini Frogs.”

Mini Frogs? I knew that. Me and new one are from. The base he was born.

I never seen a baby with such strong back legs.

Yeah, I was just reading about these mini frogs. I mean, mini frogs. In fact, three new species were just discovered on the island of Madagascar. A team of evolutionary biologists were the ones to find them. Isn't an evolutionary biologist scientist just studies how all different types of life

on Earth evolved from one common ancestor? Exactly right. And isn't a species basically just a group of living things that have so much in common that they can get together and reproduce or make more of themselves? Yes, for example, we humans belong to the homo sapiens species. Right.

And so who were these evolutionary biologists who found these new frogs species? Well, there was a whole team of them led by a scientist named Mark Schurs. And he's from Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich, Germany.

“So, wouldn't Mark Schurs and his team of biologists want with finding a bunch of mini frogs?”

I mean, sound like it would be a lot easier to find big frogs, toads even. Well, and just how many are we talking here? Because I haven't even seen them yet, and already I can feel my cute, agression kicking in. Well, looks like we're at the hull of mini frogs now. Let's see for ourselves. They're going to be so cute, tiny, I'm going to fall.

There, you can fall from my pocketbook. Thank you very much. Um, guys, I think we've been duped. What? There's a big little aquarium with some plants inside, but I'm not seeing any frogs.

Hey, froggy, froggy, froggy, froggy. Huh, it usually works. Wendy, if we can't find these mini frogs in a museum aquarium, just imagine how difficult a must have been for this team of biologists to find them in the wild forests of Madagascar. Well, if they were too tiny to find easily, then how did these scientists even know that they were there?

Well, that's a good question. You see, the scientists could hear the different sounds of the mini frogs. So, they would try to follow in the direction of their calls. But I bet as soon as the frogs detected the scientists coming up on them, they'd just leap up and hop away. Well, yeah, it was like an interspecies game of Marco Polo.

And that was just the first obstacle.

You see, once they were finally able to capture some of these frogs, the biologists found that they were too tiny to even teleport. Yeah, so exactly how tiny are we talking here? Oh, Wendy, you might want to take out your magnifying goggles for this one, because the biggest one of the species who the scientists named mini-atcher,

he's small enough to fit on a human thumbnail. The largest mini-frog can sit on a human thumbnail. Oh, now I wish I still had human thumbnails.

“And if you think that's small, you need to meet mini-skule and mini-mum.”

Hope, Fungaeras, are you telling me that these scientists named these new species mini-atcher mini-skule and mini-mum?

So, if mini-atcher is small enough to fit on a thumbnail, then how small are mini-skule and mini-mum? Well, mini-skule is actually a little smaller than mini-atcher. So, smaller than a thumbnail. Yep, yep, and mini-mum, the smallest of the new species is as small as a staple or a grain of rice. Rice? Mini-frog? Smaller than a staple?

Uh-oh! I'm gonna put these magnifying goggles. I gotta see these tiny twoies for myself. If there's even half as cute as a little baby grain of rice, I'm gonna burst through this wall. I made a little mini-mum in your sister's little froggy. What in the-

Oh, no, he's she-

Hey, first get on a frog-ticket, weirdo.

“She's in the frog-ticket, mini-mum, what is he doing in the frog-ticket?”

Oh, mini-mum, my, wow. (audience cheering) - We're going to leave the turning car. (audience cheering) - We're going to leave the car.

- We're going to leave the car. - We're going to leave the car. (laughing) - There's smaller than twice, guys, wrong? - And really, you've been as deep in this upper jaw.

- Oh! - And you even imagine how tiny it's what a race is, but have to be. - I can't believe it. - It's the first scene.

- Frog's so tiny, we need it,

but you can fit one of their little frog brains on top of a tiny, big head. - No! - Get out of the aquarium. What do you think you're doing?

- I ran the frog. - Why does it look like I'm doing? - I mean, maybe how to keep it. Get in there, this is a disaster. (laughing)

- No, that's my grandma jeep forest. You can't take her away. She climbed into the aquarium, little the frog's was by accident.

“- Well, now we need to squeegee the frog water off of her”

at the security office.

So be staying there, so she can't damage any more exhibits.

You can pick her up on your way out. - Oh, let the frog out! - And stop singing that song. It's a trotace. - Don't worry grandma, jeep forest,

you'll be just fine. We'll pick you up at security on a way out. - Excuse me, everyone. We're going to need you to move on to the next exhibit. This one is closed.

(cheering) - So where do we go next, Mindy? - Well, I'll just check the map here. - Ooh, a map. How many paces to the buried treasure?

- The what? - Sherry me, Timbers. I'll be Captain Jack Russell Terrier, and Mindy can be Orlando Bloom.

“- Where exactly do you think we are right now?”

- Ooh, this next exhibit is going to be so, wow. The whole thing takes place in the pitch black darkness for added effect. - What kind of effect? Unhappy effect?

- Ooh, did not come here to map. - The reason it takes place in the pitch black darkness is because it's supposed to help us to see some unusual feature of the frogs featured in it. - Okay, I'm intrigued.

Let's go check it out. Mindy, do you have a flashlight in your adventure toolkit by any chance? - Oh no, Guy Ross, a flashlight would ruin the whole experience.

What we'll need is my ultra violet UV light. Check this baby out. - Whoa, it's like a black light that makes things glow if they're white or fluorescent. - Follow me, everyone.

To the Atlantic Forest of Eastern Brazil. - Eastern Brazil, Mindy, we just got to the museum, and we promised your grandma chief force that we'd be back to get her out of security soon. - She'll be fine.

Chief force went to Brazil last week. - No, no, you guys were not leaving the museum. We're just going to the next exhibit. It's modeled after the Atlantic Forest of Eastern Brazil. - Eastern in Brazil, my favorite time of year.

- Whoo, Christmas. - Mindy, now that my eyes are adjusting to the dark,

- Well, I'll describe it for you.

It's smaller than a nickel, right orange, like a pumpkin, and looks like a frog. - Because it's frog. - I didn't follow any of that.

“You need to work on your instructional clarity, Mr.”

- Whoa. - Okay, I'm looking smaller than a nickel. - Right orange, like a pumpkin, and looks like a frog. - That's right, and according to the map, it can be found hiding anywhere in this exhibit.

- And yeah, I have a strange feeling

we're not in the museum anymore. This is looking and feeling pretty lifelike. - That's all part of the experience, Ki-Raz. Now let's lock arms and wander through in search of this elusive frog.

- We go arms, what are we playing red rover? Oh, oh, let me put on my red rover in shoes. - What the, put those away. - All right, give me your arms. Here we go.

- Nickels and pumpkins and frogs, oh my.

- Nickels and pumpkins and frogs, oh my. Nickels and pumpkins and frogs, oh my. - Hello there. (laughing) - Where did you come from?

- Welcome to Senior Day at the Museum of Wow. How many old crooks do you have here today? - Well, I'm a polywag. - Ooh. - We're trying to find the Nickels eyes pumpkin frogs.

- Ah, yes. You're looking for the pumpkin toadlet. Well, look no further. I happen to have one right here. (screaming)

- Oh, oh, oh. - Oh, oh. - Can I eat it? - Ah, no, rats, but I can tell you all about it. - We're all ears. - Well, the pumpkin toadlet is not all ears. In fact, because of its underdeveloped ears, it is completely deaf, which means it can't even hear the mating calls of its own.

“- Well, if it can't hear the mating calls of its own species, then how is the pumpkin toadlet supposed to find a mate and reproduce to make more pumpkin toadlets?”

- Yeah, how are the male toadlet supposed to show off for the ladies like other frogs do? If the ladies can't even hear their sweet crooks? - Yeah, explain that one, smarty pants. Well, according to a recent study led by scientist Sandra Gut from NYU Abu Dhabi, the answer to that question is just under the frog's skin. - Under the skin? - What do you mean?

- Uh, well, oh, can I borrow that ultraviolet flashlight you have there? - Oh, yeah, sure, here. - Thank you. Okay, now watch what happens when I shine this ultraviolet light on the pumpkin toadlets skin. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - Cool. - I can see its bones, they're glowing. - Yeah, they seem to be glowing or fluorescent, a bright blue color. - Those bones are fluorescent right through its bright orange skin. Hey, shine that UV light on me.

- I want to see if I can get my bones to glow. - Yeah, yeah, it almost looks like a blue light is coming from the tiny, bony plate in its head and the bones in the back of its legs. - It's like a fluorescent skeleton. - So if the pumpkin toadlet can't hear its own call, much less the calls of other pumpkin toadlets, then do scientists think that maybe it uses its glowing bones to find mates instead, you know, like as a way of keeping its love light on. - Well, that's one theory as to why these frogs might have glowing bones, but we still don't know for sure if the pumpkin toadlets can see the glow.

- Well then what's the point of having glowing bones if you can't even show them off to your froggy friend? - Oh, okay, come here mister, I'm getting froggy. - I'm sorry, hold that thought. - Sir, sir, do you have a frog? - Oh, I can't believe you're supposed to taste like pumpkin, little fella. - Mr. Fingerling, what are you doing? - I mean, I know that some birds have the ability to see fluorescence with their own eyes and they definitely don't have UV lights.

- Sir, the frogs are not for eating.

“- Are you going to try everything once, that's why I would say.”

- And I also know that birds are natural predators to frogs, so maybe... - You're not home? - Oh, maybe. - Maybe he ate, why he ate the pumpkin toadlet, it's in his mouth, I can see it glowing through his cheeks. - Oh, I'm more pay for it here, I'm gonna get my wall.

is to signal to would be predators that they are in fact toxic toxic.

- Fingerling, that pumpkin toadlet is poisonous, spit it out. - This is a disaster, spit it out, spit it out.

“- What? What's this trying to sell me poison, pumpkin, spice, hot frogs?”

I want my money back. - Well, you know what, we were actually just getting ready to hit out. - But before we go, I just want to make sure I got this straight. Okay, so the pumpkin toadlet is a tiny toxic frog that cannot hear has newly discovered glowing bones and those scientists have a few theories.

They're still on a quest to figure out why.

- Uh, yes, great, well, thank you very much for your tour through this amazing exhibit.

- Yeah, we're really sorry our friend you're trying to eat it. - Allegedly. - Now, do you think you could point us to the security slimmer? I need to pick up my grandma G force.

“She's infersetting all the mini frogs free.”

- That was you people? - Did somebody call my name? - Grandma G force. - I should call security. - Oh, boy.

- Day four, you busted out. - You bet you're sweet but too bad then. - Yeah, security. - They're here in the pumpkin spice. I mean, the pumpkin toadlet exhibit.

- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - Uh, yes, how can I help you there, Mr. Pigeon? - Oh, you're the chap around for these people. Well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to-- - Oh, you're original.

- You know, your family's contributions to the museum have single, handedly funded, this new amphibian exhibit.

“- You know what, why don't we just continue on our way?”

It would be an honor to tour around such a major donor. - Reggie's a major donor? - Wow, that was so cool. - Oh, wow. - Oh, those teensy, teensy little froggy's so cute.

- Reggie, will you take me to see the 80-Body Froggy Reemies? - Yeah, let's go right now.

- Uh, right, let's wrap up the show first.

- Uh-huh. - Thanks, Saul, you listeners out there for tuning into WeWow on the weekend. - If you have a question for me, call and leave me a message. At 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow, wow.

That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow, wow. - I just might answer your question on WeWow on the weekend. - Okay, should we do the goodbye song? - Here we go. - Uh-huh.

- That's the end of the show. I need to go and look at tiny little frogs in a frog museum. But I'll do another show tomorrow. But for now, it's the end of the show. Bye.