WeWow on the Weekend

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

If you're looking for ways to celebrate our Earth today and every day, visit tinkercast.com/earth to find activities, episodes, and videos that bring the wows of the world right to you. And while you're at it, don't forget to show your gratitude to the Earth today. It does a pretty good job of taking care of all of us, so let's all remember to take care of it, too. That's it, now, let's get back to the show.

Because this is what we do, what the weekend, talking laughing, me and Reggie comes in, laughing, and then we go, wait, no, I said laughing twice.

Whatever, we, while on the weekend, we, while on the weekend, like what we, while on the weekend, because this is what we do, what the weekend, hello and welcome to we, while on the weekend, I'm your host, Dennis, and that's Reggie, my co-host. This is the show where we hang on in my mother's basement, chit chat, and answer questions from our fans, and listen to tinkercast podcasts. Hey Reggie, did you have any dreams last night? You did! Oh, tell me! What? You dreamed you were flying? Reggie, you can already fly! You don't have to dream it!

Ah, you were flying on Mindy instead of her flying on you.

And so funny. Oh, what did I dream about? I dreamed that I was in a store, or maybe it was a house, or maybe it was a parking garage, and someone was selling something, and then something else happened, I can't remember it!

“The more I think about it, the more I'm forgetting, my dream is gone, Reggie! It's gone!”

Ah, yeah, right, I could just have another dream tonight, and tomorrow I'm going to remember what it was! Reggie, now, I don't want to do a dream journal. I'm sure I'll remember what my dream is next time. Okay, let's move on to the kid and I segment! Ah, 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 gonna answer all my questions? You? Probably not, but I guess I can answer yours. Leave me a message! Hi, Dennis, my name is Thomas, and I have a question for you.

“Hi, Thomas, what you got? If there's a country called New Zealand, what happened to the old one?”

Wow, great question, Thomas. What happened to the old Zaylin? That's it, you're right, and the old York, and the old Jersey, and old Hampshire, and old Brunswick, and old Orleans. This is a mystery, Reggie, someone, or something out there, is stealing old cities and states and countries. We have to do something. We should investigate and search the globe for these stolen locations. Exactly! Dennis, and Reggie! Well done, I did! Let's go! Right after we finish the show, I'm taking that. Next question.

I'm my year old, my name is Lorenzo. I Lorenzo. I don't have a question, but I do have a... a joke. Oh, wait, I laughed too early. What's the joke?

“Why do jellyfishes not have brains, but they always know where to go? Why do jellyfishes not have brains, but they always know where to go?”

I don't know Lorenzo, why? Because they go with the flow. [laughing] I get it. Yeah, of course I get it. It's like when I go to the water park and float around in the lazy river. I just get in my tube, lay back, and pretend like I have a nerve net instead of a brain, just like a jellyfish. And then I fall asleep, and get sunburned, and fall out of my tube, and then chased my tube,

And no one will help me, so I just float with my life jacket for a while,

and then I try to swim against the current, but I can't because I'm not a strong enough swimmer, just like a jellyfish. [laughing] Good joke Lorenzo. Next question. [laughing] I interrupt the sun for everybody's sing along.

What is this? [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] What is happening? [singing in foreign language]

I interrupt the sun again for stop interrupting the sun. [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language]

[singing in foreign language] That was incredible!

“Reggie, someone sent in a brand new song, who called that in?”

[singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] Reggie, do you think more of our devoted listeners have written songs? Or do other cool creative things? [singing in foreign language]

Reggie, I just had an amazing idea!

What if we get everyone to leave us a voicemail of their special talent? [singing in foreign language] And then we put their talent on the show, like some kind of performance recital. [singing in foreign language]

Okay, you heard us listeners. We're gonna do a talent show. [singing in foreign language] So leave us a message of you singing a song or maybe reading a poem or maybe, uh, what else veggie.

[singing in foreign language] Oh yeah, I'm playing an instrument. That'd be cool. Or anything else, really. We'll take all talents.

[singing in foreign language]

My right, right, right, right.

“Okay, wowsers, the number is 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow, wow.”

That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow, wow. Call us and leave a recording of your talent. [singing in foreign language] Okay, that takes care of that. Next up is a little segment I like to call.

Inside, Tinkercast Studios. [singing in foreign language] Inside, Tinkercast Studios. [singing in foreign language] 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 22 called "Scary Sharks and the Science of Fear." [singing in foreign language] Yeah, every word in that title is "Scary." Except for science.

[singing in foreign language] And actually, I'm a little scared of science to if it gets too loud. [singing in foreign language] Or sticky. [singing in foreign language]

“I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm nervous.”

[singing in foreign language] [singing in foreign language] Okay, I'll be brave. For my listeners, here we go. [singing in foreign language]

[singing in foreign language] We will be right back. grownups, this message is for you. [singing in foreign language] Greetings, earthlings.

I am called Flip. And you can call me Mose. And we are extra terrestrials. What you may call space, aliens. Flip, you can't just blur it out like that.

The humans will get freaked out and think we're weird. Regardless, our star crews are broke down. And we've got to wait 3,000 years for the repair ship to show up. So while we're waiting, we decided to make a podcast all about exploring your planet.

We particularly enjoy interacting with many of the earthlings you call animals. Like giraffes. Pandas, hunt, penguins. [singing in foreign language] On our podcast feed, we transmit different kinds of episodes back to our home planet,

and to all of you. You can hear musical episodes, travel pod interviews, and our newest addition to the feed are many pods. We are calling postcards from earth. Experience life on earth in a whole new way.

Check out Flip and Mose wherever you get your podcasts. [singing in foreign language] Experience life on earth in a whole new way with your favorite travel blogging aliens. Subscribe to Flip and Mose wherever you get your podcasts

and listen to their postcards from earth. Every other Thursday in the Flip and Mose podcast feed. That's it! Now back to the show. [singing in foreign language] Welcome to One Takes Studios, home of a groovy solar show.

A daytime talk show where we explore the issues in important issues.

Where do birds go in the night time?

And of course, our Flemi Award winning episode, shoot a question. What is it? And why? To attend a taping of the Bruny solar show, visit the box office. Welcome to One Takes Studios, home of a groovy,

come on right through this door. Surprise, where are we? How long do I have to keep this blindfold on for? It's not a blindfold, many gets a silk eye mask. Can you just tell me where we're going?

Well, well, I'm sorry for all the secrecy, but we're almost here, almost where? Wait, stand right there. Okay. Ready? Three, two, one, removing your eye mask and Tata!

One takes studios, the Bruny solar show! Guys, Ross, did you get this tickets to the season premiere of the Bruny solar show? Happy unburdened day, Mindy! Oh, you were never!

How could I unforget? Okay, Ross, this is the best unburst day present I've ever gotten. It's also the only unburst day present I've ever gotten. Thanks, buddy. You're welcome, Mindy, and on top of it being your favorite TV show,

I also heard that this season premier is based on one of my favorite areas of psychology. Psychology, the science of our minds and why we do the weird things we do. There are behaviors. Right.

And so what is the first episode all about?

Our fears. Our fears. Yeah, that's right. Like having a fear of heights or a fear of the dark, both of which are sometimes referred to as phobias.

“Oh yeah, phobias are like those extreme fears, right?”

Like the kinds that are sometimes passed down from our ancestors. Exactly, like, you know, there's not much reason to be afraid of the dark today, but 10,000 years ago, our ancestors would have had a lot of reasons to be afraid of the dark. For starters, there might be predators in the dark. Yikes, and do you know that the word phobia comes from the Greek word phobos,

which translates into English as fear? Interesting. So someone with a fear of heights might have? Acrophobia. And someone with a nada diphobia might have?

Might have a fear of action.

I don't think I've heard of it one before.

Fear of being watched by a duck, gyros. A fear of being watched by a duck. Is that even a real phobia? You know it is. Maybe they'll have that one on the show today.

Attention, today's live taping of the Brooney Sono Show begins in five minutes. If you've already purchased your ticket, please make your way to security. Come on, Mindy, that's us. Alright, thanks, buddy. What?

What?

“Why is it to your plug-ins and place off a logging on the conveyor belt for screening?”

Alright, you're clear. Keep it moving. You're there. We're the Elbow Pages. Step forward, please.

Okay, move. With the true box? Whatever. Everything on the conveyor belt, please. Not a problem, Mr. Security, man.

Thank you. Hey, here we go. Maybe how heavy is your adventure tool kit? Yeah, I had no idea where you were taking me for the surprise today. To ahead of a pair of myself for every possible situation.

Hold on, the milk detectors are going off. Milk? Milk is prohibited on the premises. Brooney is lactose intolerant. Looks to be a lot of milk.

Nearly four gallons.

“Mindy, what were you doing with four gallons of milk in your bag?”

There was, I could be for anybody's milk who set off the scanner. Jerry, the scanner says the milk is in that case. And one that says Mindy's adventure tool kit and has the sticker on it that says warning contains milk. Uh.

That's the one. Open it up and get rid of the milk. Yeah. And the other was the cat's jumping out of your toolkit. We talked about this.

How you know what the milk is for? Come on, cats. Okay, okay, the scanner says you're clear now. You can go through. Thank you very much.

Come on, Mindy, let's go find our seats. What, what, what, what, what? We're live in two minutes. Two minutes to air. Hi, welcome to the Brooney Soto Show.

Oh, yeah, hi, yeah. We're just trying to find our seats. Oh, sure. Let me just take a look at your tickets. Ooh, front row.

You two are seated right down here.

Ponchos? Ponchos. Why do we need ponchos?

First three rows require ponchos.

That's probably answer my question. Yeah, but it does kind of rhyme. Sorry, sir, we're in a bit of a rush. Just if please take your seats. Okay, but I'm not going to pause.

Put your poncho on.

“We're going to miss the beginning of the show.”

Okay, it's like a flash. Ah, a flash. It's starting. Going live in three, two, one. [APPLAUSE]

Hello, friends. And welcome to the Brooney Soto Show. Today, we are exploring fields and the feelings that keep us awake at night.

You need an angular fish.

Who is afraid of a darker? A blue. Who is afraid of heights? And a shark who is absolutely terrified of orcas. A shark who's afraid of orcas?

I know, right? What if sharks have to be afraid of? They're not the lions of the sea? Wait, no, I mean, the eye. I think I've heard about this before.

Really? Yeah, there was a study done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Oh, I've been there. The one in northern California? Yeah, what do they find?

The scientists found that the great white sharks that swim off the coast of California would get out of town as fast as they could any time orcas showed up. Orcas aka killer whales? That's right.

And the part that really got the researchers curious was that these great white sharks would avoid these areas where the orcas swim for almost a year after they first saw the orcas. Shark scared of whales?

Yeah, it seems like there's a pretty good reason there on this episode all about fears. I'll say, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to bring out our first guest. Please welcome to the stage, our first fearful friend from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

Hilton, the English fish.

As always, we have our expert animal translator Terry with us today.

Say hello, Terry. Hi, broody. But I want to talk to you, English fish. Tell me, Hilton, a few of the dark must be pretty tough for a fish that lives 5,000 feet under the sea.

That's right. When you get that deep, you can't see anything. Light rarely reaches any deeper than 700 feet past the surface. So how exactly do you keep yourself from being overcome with fear down there?

Well, I have this neat little flashlight with me at all times. It's actually a ditch to my head. I sometimes use it to catch linner. I'm sorry. Did you say linner?

Oops, sorry broody. That translation. Dinner. I sometimes use it to catch dinner. Well, Hilton, that sounds like something our audience would love to see.

“Audience, would you like to see Hilton's little flashlight?”

Steve? Huh? The light. Oh no, not the dark. Unbelievable. Well, Hilton, the aim of fish, I can see your light.

And you are shining bright. You know what? You're right. If it wasn't for the darkness, you wouldn't be able to see this little light of mine at all. I also wouldn't be able to catch linner.

And I mean, dinner. Thanks, broody. Thanks for helping me face my fears. Thank you, Hilton. Thank you for your bringing me. Thank you, Hilton. Thank you, Hilton.

After the break of week, that just can't stand heights. And later, a shark who's crippling fear of Orcas, pushed him out of his hunting grounds for almost a year. And we're clear. Oh, I'm in love with this show.

Drama, the rolling blackout. It really is fascinating live TV, Mindy. I can't wait to hear what that shark has to say about his fear of Orcas.

“Oh yeah, weren't you just saying that there was a scientific study about that?”

That's right, the study was conducted in the Feralona's National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of San Francisco in California. So how do you even measure how scared a great white shark is? Well, you get them to fill out a questionnaire. No way. Of course not, Mindy. I was just joking.

You were joking? What the researchers did was to observe or watch very closely how the great white sharks and the Orcas interacted when both of them were hunting for food in this National Marine Sanctuary.

So the first way was when great white sharks would actually bump into an Orca out of the wild.

Like when I bump into Dennis in the grocery store. Exactly. And what was the other way? Well, the other way was using a bit of math. I love math. So the researchers looked at the data or the information from a 165 great white sharks that were tagged.

Tagged likes, stuck in the mud? Well, not exactly. The researchers put these little devices called acoustic tags on the sharks to learn more about them and their behavior. Oh, so like what they eat and their migration patterns are where they swim.

“Exactly. So what did they learn from these 165 tagged sharks?”

Well, they compare the migratory patterns of these sharks. Migratory patterns as in where they had been. That's right. And they compare where the sharks had been with Orcas sightings. Huh. And then what? When the researchers compared how the sharks migrated

to where they saw the Orcas, they found that every time the Orcas showed up, their sharks would just high tail it out and go further up the coast to do their hunting somewhere else. With their tail between their legs, I bet. Or fins. Fins between their legs.

Anyhow, they look they were scared. Well, that's basically it, Mindy. Going live in three, two, one. Today, we're diving into the deep blue sea of fear and insecurity. Our next guest is a flea with the local circus whose entire act depends on her soaring to great heights and yet this little parasite

can't stand being more than 30 centimeters off the ground. Please welcome to the stage Patricia's The flea. I can't see anything. You know what? Me neither. Can we push in a little?

Closer. That's it. Closer. There she is. So Patricia, you have a fear of heights. That must be difficult for species of insect that can jump the way you can. I'm sorry, Terry, the translator is Patricia speaking.

“I think so, brooney. It's a strange dialect, but I believe I can translate.”

Okay, I think I've got it. Patricia says, "That's right. If I try my hardest, I can leap nearly 30 centimeters into the air. If I were the same height as a human, that would be the equivalent of jumping over the Empire State Building." It would be if not for my fear of heights. See, whenever I jump over 10, 12 centimeters, I freak out.

It's cus me everything. Just last month, I lost my job at the circus.

That is awful, and all because of a phobia you never asked for.

I do anything to get rid of it. Excuse me? I'm sorry, I do anything to get rid of it. Ah, well, Patricia, do we have a surprise for you? We contacted your old circus and explained your phobia full-puff, and they have agreed to take you back on.

“Not as a high-flying trapezius, but as a contortionist.”

Azaz, oh happy day! Ha ha ha, better get stretched in that thorax. Coming up after the break, our final guest, a shark with the crippling fear of ordinance. Don't go anywhere, we'll get right back. And we are clear.

Man, I always thought the sharks were the biggest badass predators in the ocean.

But I guess there was a bigger, better predator out there all along. Well, many both great white sharks and orcas are what's known as apex predators. Meaning that they are at the top of their food chains. That's right, meaning that they aren't usually eaten by any other animal in that environment. Ah, so the orcas are not going into the great white shark's territory to hunt them.

They're just looking for the same food as them. Exactly. Elephants seals are actually on the menu, and both species want to take a bite. But, when they come, face to face. The great white shark's turn and run!

Because they would rather hunt in a different area where the orcas don't go.

Even a big, scary, great white shark.

And we're live in the three, two, one. This is just joining us on the Rudy Soto Show. We're talking today about fears and phobias. Our last class today is known as the lion of the sea. Tell them, measuring in, and more than 15 feet, with more than 15 rows of razor-sharp teeth.

“What could this terrifying apex predator possibly be afraid of?”

One word. Please welcome our next guest, Bruce, the great white shark! Look at the size of him, and look at the size of that take. Oh, mama! Oh, well, why do they bring out two tanks?

Well, there's only one way to find out, Guy Ros. What's that? Button up your poncho, sit back and enjoy the show. Oh, or rice. Now, Bruce, tell me a little bit about where you're from.

My family has found all over the world. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic to the Pacific. On my immediate family, we tend to live in hunt just off of the coast of northern California. Go warriors. Yes, birds.

From northern California.

“But that is not the case anymore, isn't it?”

Do you want to tell me what happened? Well, every September through December, came my family migrate to the Ferran Islands off the coast of northern California to hunt elephant seals for a couple of months. It's an old family tradition.

We've been doing it for seers. Um, seers? Oh, I'm sorry. Seers. We've been doing it for years.

But last year was different? That's right. There we were. Minding our own business. When suddenly out of nowhere, this pot of orcas show up.

Well, yeah, if you've ever seen it or come before, they're terrifying. Me and my family, we hide tailed it out of there to go eat somewhere else. And how long ago was this? One seers ago. That's no way to live roots.

It sounds like somebody has to face their fears. What do we say studio audience? Is it time for Bruce to face his fears? Bruce, it's time for you to face your fears. Right in front of all these good people.

Studio audience, are you wearing your poncho? Oh, yeah, yes, we live in New Yorker. I want you to just see that.

“Minding, did they just drop that work out into that big empty tank?”

Just we finally found out what that tank was for.

We also found out what these poncho's were for. I'm soaked. Bruce, I need you to look that Orca in the eye and realize that it is a green apex predator, just like you, with a family just like you. And that there is enough food to go around.

Do you see? Looks like we have a breakthrough. And that's all the time we have folks tomorrow. I'm a broody soda show, a hippo and a deer. Trade dye is for you.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time. And work clear. That's a wrap. What a show. And what a finish.

The way she was able to make those two predators make up. What if I did happen with that research?

Well, it proved that food chains aren't always as straightforward as we thought.

And that sometimes a single environment can have more than one apex predator. And knowing that can help us to monitor and to research marine ecosystems in the future. Correct, to Mundo. Hey guys, we're going to have to ask him to move out of here. We got the National Pi eating competition starting at about 20 minutes.

So unless you want to hang around and watch that. Can't we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can we can it is your unbirthday. Yeah, all right. Have fun guys hold on to those conchos. You're gonna need them. What wait wait. What. Wow. That was so cool. That wasn't scary at all. Yeah, you know what I realized. No, not that I need a shower Reggie. Although. Yeah, maybe I do.

Uh-huh. Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning into WeWaWa on the weekend. If you have a question for me or want to share your talent for the talent show. Call and leave me a message at 1 8 8 8 7 Wow. Wow. That's 1 8 8 7 Wow. Wow. I just might answer your question on WeWa on the weekend. Okay, should we do the goodbye song? Right here we go.

“Ahem. That's the end of the show. I need to go before Reggie makes me into a Dennis pop pie and then eats me while he sits on the couch watching the Bruno soda show and then he”

Uh-huh. Right. That was my drain Reggie. Yeah, pretty sure. Oh, it's so glad I remembered. Um, but I'll do another show tomorrow.

But for now it's the end of the show. Bye.