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Now, back to the show. We wow on the weekend, we wow on the weekend, we wow on the weekend. 'Cause this is what we do on the weekend. Talking laughing, me and Reggie, who's singing laughing. And then we go, wait, no, I said laughing twice.

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'Cause this is what we do on the weekend. Today, so I guess I should wear a swimsuit, and there's no snow, so... (laughs) Okay, I'll admit it. Reggie is good at segments.

(laughs)

And speaking of segments,

next up is a little segment I like to call, inside Tinkercast Studios! (groans) 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 25. Called "Jay Force". Versus wasabi.

How the brain registers pain. (buzzing) Wasabi. That's that green Japanese horse radish that they put on stuff like sushi, right?

What do they call it horse radish, by the way? Do horses eat the radishes or do they grow 'em? (buzzing) Oh yeah, I guess we'll find out. Okay, here we go.

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(buzzing) Check it out, Reg. Let's see here. It says, we've got episode recommendations. Oh, these STEM activities to try out at home.

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

(buzzing) Pretty bonker balls, huh? Here, I'll help you sign up. So you and the grownups will just go to tinkercast.com/email

and put in your first and last names and email address. (buzzing) Wait, Reggy, I just realized I don't know your last name. (buzzing) Really?

Is that what the silent G or a silent cute? (buzzing) Who knew? Let's see here, oh, and you're not a robot, right? (buzzing)

Sorry, you just had a double check. Okay, you are all signed up. (buzzing) grownups, you can sign up for our Tinkercast newsletter too. It's full of ideas

and how to get some extra, wow, to your family's life. Visit tinkercast.com/email to sign up today. That's tinkercast.com/email. (buzzing) That's it, and now let's get on with the show.

(buzzing) That's it, now back to the show. (upbeat music) ♪ Roll the world ♪ (buzzing)

(buzzing) (buzzing) (buzzing) - Mini, mini, where are you? - Yes, hi mama.

- Bandy, we're gonna be late. (buzzing) Where is she? No, we have two tickets to the hot pickle and peppering championships.

(buzzing) Mandy, can you hear me? (buzzing) She must be in the shower. We're gonna be late.

(buzzing) Mandy, hurry up. (buzzing) (buzzing) Just give it my new pet baby shark, a bath.

Yes, I am. (buzzing) - Pet, baby shark, what the? - Good morning, guys. (buzzing)

“- Why do you always do that whenever I'm holding a killer animal?”

(buzzing)

(buzzing) - Calm down, guys, Rose. Baby, lock, jaw here is not gonna eat you. Pretty sure. - Baby, lock, job.

“Mandy, why are you cradling a baby shark in your arms?”

I'm e-mean, why am I cradling a baby rescue shark in my arms? - Ha! - Okay, Rose, I rescued him from baby sharkrescue.com. - A rescue shark? - Oh yeah, ever since that baby shark song came out,

all these celebrities have been buying baby sharks as pets, but after they realize how much responsibility they take, well then, well what? - Well, they just dump 'em on the stairs in front of the baby shark rescue.com off the downtown.

But, why did you decide to adopt one? - You mean rescue one? - Yeah, rescue one. I mean, don't you think lock jaw would be better off and say the ocean?

- Ha, the ocean, the ocean, the ocean, yeah.

- No, never even considered it.

- Ha! - Anywho, I was just about to put on my Anaheim chilly pepper slippers that we can take off for the hot pickle and pepper championships. You ready?

- Ready, I've been trying to tell you we're gonna be late for the last five minutes. - Well then let's go! What's taking you so long? - Rajee!

- Hey there, Mindy. Hey there, Guy.

“Hey there little car car down car car yes.”

- Car car down car car yes? - Yes, the Latin name for a great white shark. - Oh, huh. - So, what are you up to today? - Well, Dennis, we were just about to leave us.

See you later. - Ooh, leaving. That sounds like fun. I'll leave too. Hang on, let me get my wetsuit.

Hang on, but you don't even know what we're going. - That's why I'm grabbing the wetsuit. Gotta be prepared. - Mindy. - Well, I didn't stall a side car on the motor pickle,

so there's not room for Dennis. (buzzer) - Hey Dennis, you've read a motor pickle? - No, but once I had a bicycle with an Anaheim seat, does that count?

- We're taking the motor pickle that thing is dangerous. - Dangerous? - Yes, and it's also perfect. - My car was per going to the hot, hickle, and pepper championships come on.

- Yeah, guys, come on. (buzzer)

“- Okay, I'll be ready to go in just a sec,”

but first I gotta go put baby lock job back in the bathtub.

Be right back, and in, in, in, in, in. - So, guy, what's new? (buzzer) - Red, red, red, red. Okay, all ready to go now.

- Two of them motor pickles. - Yeah, two of them motor pickles. - Two of them motor pickles. - How 'bout that guy, Ross? - And hopping the side card, Dennis.

- Guys, look, I'm literally and figuratively a third wheel. Isn't this fun? (buzzer) - Well, I guess this means here we go.

(buzzer) (buzzer) (buzzer) (buzzer) - That was awesome.

- How's that for a parking job? - Parking job, me, the you've screeched into a vegetable garden. - Well, where else would you park a giant hickle that doubles as a motorcycle? - That is an excellent point.

(buzzer) - Attention, please, have your event tickets ready. This is a sold-out show. tickets purchased in advance only. - Oh, man, I only have two tickets.

Sorry, Dennis. I didn't know you were coming until you invited yourself today. - Well, that's okay, Mindy.

You know, it's like my mother always says,

don't invite Dennis if you don't want to have Dennis. What are you doing here? You scared me. Mother, so wise. Anyway, I'll just stay back and clean the motor pickle.

I mean, look at this thing, it's filthy. Good idea, you're catch. Oh, wow, apple cider vinegar. This'll be perfect. And you know what?

Maybe I should check the air filter and then clean the spark plugs. Thanks, Dennis. - You're fine. - You're best, Dennis.

- Looks like a 76. - My dad had a 76. - But I was gonna hurry up. Grab a G-force is competing in the first round. She's the defending champion.

- Take it, please. Here you go. - Thank you. - You two are seated in section 105, row T-sections.

- Yeah, thank you, Ron, let's go. - And we're ready, Mindy, Mindy. - Jesus, Jesus, thank you. You're squeezing, Ron, thank you. And realize how long it would take to get to our seats.

- Just some time with the competition, it is about to begin. - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 15th annual hot pickle and pepper gently in shins. Two rain and kept season champions

will face off in the ultimate battle of the chase boats.

- Oh yeah, Capsies and is that natural chemical that gives hot peppers their burn? - All right.

“And the way they score a how a hot pepper is”

is by using the Scoville heat unit scale. - Exactly those guys, in fact, that lowly little jalapeno pepper that you can just get at the grocery store, that measures in at around 4,000 on the Scoville heat scale.

But the peppers that these competitors will eat today,

these babies are measuring in at closer to two million

on the heat scale. - Two million, man, someone's gonna get hurt. - They're so mad at say, tap the hurt. It's cram machine for sure, the cram machine for sure. - In the left corner, the green and game season,

the princess of pain, the first lady of fire, Grandma Giver. - Well, we love you Grandma Giver. (laughing) - And in the right corner, the upstarch, the nobody,

the small pup-tino who clad his way to the top of Havana, around now, too. Please welcome Nelson, the naked mole rat. - Nelson, the naked mole rat?

“- I don't even know, mole rats are eligible for this contest.”

- Oh yeah, many, several years ago,

a scientist named Gary Lewin discovered

that mole rats are not sensitive to cat season. - Wait a minute, are you telling me that? - Yup, you can literally roll Nelson around in a pool of Carolina Reapers and he won't feel a thing.

- What, but how? - Well, naked mole rats just don't have the neurons in their brains that tell them a hot pepper is, well, painfully uncoscribable. - Ah, so it's all about the neurons,

those teeny tiny cells in the brain, the past information to other cells and to parts of our bodies. - Exactly. - So you know what this means, Guy Ros?

- What?

- That grandma G-force is doomed.

There's no way she'll be able to defeat Nelson, the naked mole rat.

“These two fire reading competitors had mastered”

the hottest peppers known to humankind, the Carolina Reaper, the dragon's breath, the Trinidad Marugas Scorpion, the Camolo Dragon Chili, and all and all and all and all and so forth.

But today, we've got a different kind of heat. Ladies and gentlemen, I can't you. Wasabi! - Wasabi? - Wow, they're gonna make a meat wasabi. - Is he talking about the Japanese burst radders

that they serve at sushi places? - Well, that's what it sounds like, but you know, Mindi wasabi doesn't have the same chemical compounds of chilies. It actually has a different chemical called

Aleau Isothiocenate or AITC. - Wait a minute, isn't that the chemical and some plants that burns your sinuses or those areas right under your face above your eyebrows and in your cheeks?

- Yeah, and unlike peppers, wasabi doesn't usually burn your tongue, but man, oh man, it can really make your head feel like it's gonna explode. - Huh?

- Come, head-iners, are you ready? - Ninja Mama, take you to a raid and remind you that tarps says, "I'm ready, now bring on my head." - Nilsif, are you ready?

- On the count of three, both of you will eat a spoonful of wasabi. One, two, three. - Oh, my son is vivo. - They're all my mother's house.

- I am on me, water! - God knows! - Give me some water! - What? - Hey, for that fire extinguisher, I'm on fire!

- What's going on, Nilsif? What's happening with grandma, G-force? - I think grandma, G-force, and Nilsif in the naked mole rat, aren't reacting well to the A-I-T-C chemical in the wasabi.

- The wasabi has defeated our competitors. I guess the winner of round one is the wasabi! - It's okay grandma, G-force, you can get that wasabi next time. - Ah! - Is there anyone in the crowd who thinks they can conquer

the mighty power of wasabi? - What's this, a volunteer? Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the arena! Parallel! - What?

Is that...

- Oh yeah, let me just get him out of my toe kick here.

Kitchen sink. Get that out of there. - Um, how is your cat? - You? - Kiki, your new dog?

- No, who of Alice and Kiki inside your toe kick? - My computer starter. - No, that's my computer starter. - I'm Irish. - And Bill.

- Oh, no. - Um, oh, there are my magnifying goggles. Here you go, Guy Roth. - May take a closer look. - What is it, what do you see?

- Yep, just as I thought, Mindy,

“I think herald is a high-veiled mole rat.”

- You mean the mole rat species

that's found in South Africa? - Exactly. - Well, Guy would herald the high-veiled mole rat think that he could do what grandma G-force and his cousin Nelson the naked mole rat couldn't do.

- Well, I think it might have something to do with the way herald's neurons handle pain. - Harold, are you ready for some wasabi? On the count of three, Harold, the high-veiled mole rat will put this spoon for the green Japanese horse

for addition to his mouth, one, two, and three. - Well, Harold, anything? (bell rings) - Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like Harold the high-veiled mole rat has deep-throwed grandma G-force

and Nelson the naked mole rat as this year's hot pickle and pepper champion. - Hey, you man, I want your fame, Harold Cazamac, come and pour a naked air. - Amazing, and the herald's the new champion

and can't believe it.

- Carol's Brim and G-force has never been out

spiced by a competitor before and a high-veiled mole rat and not see that one coming.

“- And I think the reason why is because Harold's brain”

is designed to block the sensation or feeling that most of the rest of us get when we eat wasabi? - Wait a minute, I think I heard about this. Are you talking about a recent study done by that same scientist, Dr. Gary Lewin?

- That's the one, Mindy. Gary Lewin works at the Max Delbrook Center in Berlin, Germany and he knew that naked mole rats didn't feel pain when they ate things with capsacin, like peppers, but he also knew that naked mole rats

couldn't eat things with AITC, like wasabi. So we wanted to find out if there were creatures who didn't feel anything when they ate plants with AITC, like wasabi. - And I have a sneaking suspicion

that he discovered that high-veiled mole rats like Harold here don't feel that wasabi burned. - Mindy, not only that, but the scientists in Germany actually gave these high-veiled mole rats a shot of pure AITC.

- The same chemical found in wasabi. - Exactly, and it was such a high amount of AITC that the scientists actually had to wear gas masks in the lab. Oh, I guess what?

- I'm guessing that the high-veiled mole rats didn't feel a thing? - Not one bit. - But why? I mean, how is that even possible?

- Well, the scientists in Germany found that the neurons in their brains have an escape hatch. - What? An escape hatch in their brains? Like, the one we have in the wild machine?

- Well, yeah, and that escape hatch allows all of those AITC chemicals to escape or to leak out before they're able to send a signal to the rat's body that it should feel pain.

“- Did the scientists come up with a theory for why?”

- Well, it turns out the high-veiled mole rats live underground, and they happen to share their homes with an ant species called Natal droptales. - Natal droptales? Oh, you mean those ants that have that nasty sting?

- Those are the ones. And these scientists believe that over millions of years, the high-veiled mole rats naturally developed away to defend themselves against the pain of those things. Because the sting in those ants contains a chemical

that is very similar to the chemical in Wasabi, AITC. - So what you're telling me is that the high-veiled mole rats' bodies evolved or changed over time to make them resistant to those painful ant stains? - Exactly.

And today, high-veiled mole rats don't feel any pain when they're exposed to those chemicals. - Oh, man. So what could I live this even mean? - Well, it's really cool is that the scientists believe

that rats, like Harold, could help us humans

- You mean maybe we could figure out

how to trick the neurons in our brains to not notice certain types of pain? - That's right, especially for people who are in the hospital or have to have surgery. - Man, it's bonker balls, Guy Ros.

And you know, even though Harold might be the new reigning champ, I gotta say, grandma,

“gee for us did put up a pretty impressive fight, didn't she?”

- It's somebody's name. - Oh, so sweet. - Tell you what, I can throw down some sushi right now. - Grandma, gee for us. You did so great out there.

And you know what, no matter what happened in that ring today, you're still the spiciest little pepper I know. - Fashie, pepper, nothing, get too fast down by a mole. - Right, you know, let's go to that sushi place.

I'm going to throw down a California roll

and get my wasabi, y'all. - Okay, start training for next year. - That's a great idea. - Yeah. - Oh, wait a, we left Dennis with a motor pickle.

We better tell him we're going for sushi. - Oh boy, sushi. Dennis. - Ha ha, how'd you get into the stadium? - Well, I went to the ticket booth to ask if they had

“any standing, remotely tickets available.”

And once you know it, they said, sir, stop trying to put your face through the tickets slot. We can hear you just find where you are. But they weren't going to get ready to be that easily. - I thought that made the quickest bunny in the forest.

- Ah, Dennis. - All right, sorry.

But what were we talking about sushi?

Are we going to dinner? - Yeah, it's probably like a training thing than a dinner, we're just trying to, you know, get grandma jeep for us ready to take on more wasabi. - Wasabi?

- Oh, no, not for me, thank you. - One time, I missed a boulevard wasabi for mint ice cream. I ate a big spoonful and then I screamed and sneezed at the same time.

And wasabi, we were out of my nose. - Oh.

“- The librarian said, wait, did I mention this”

was in the library? And he went to the library and said, "Rose!" And I said, "Quiet, we're in the library." - Whoa, that was so cool. - Yeah, I forgot I was in that one.

- Yeah, because while Mindy and Guy Ros were watching Granny G and those mole rats, I was off doing my own thing. - Yeah, I have a tape around here with the extended dentist cut with my version of the episode. Oh, here it is.

Listen, here's me washing the motor pickle. And here's me trying to get a ticket to the sold-out competition. - Sorry, sir, there are no more tickets. (laughing) They'll never catch me.

(laughing) - What? What? (laughing) - Oh.

- Ah, memories. Hey Reggie. Wanna go get sushi so we can have some wasabi? (moaning) Let's wrap up the show.

Thanks all you listeners out there for tuning in to 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. (moaning) Okay, let's go. Hey Reggie, what kind of sushi do you like? Alright, whichever one has the most sesame seeds on it.

You know what I like to do with my sushi? I like to take my salmon roll and skewer it on my chopstick like a sushi kebab. Yeah, then everyone gets really mad at me when I do it. It's like, hello, people.

Ever hear a fusion cuisine? Thanks for joining us for this edition of WeWow. Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jad Anderson. The role of Baby Dennis is played by Jad Anderson. Oh, the whole place, the role of Pit Dennis.

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