WeWow on the Weekend

[roaring] Hey, Redge, what's that? [roaring] A new pigeon dropping?

Isn't that the postcard you send out to members of the World Organization of Walsers every quarter?

[roaring] Can I see it? [roaring]

“What? You need to see if I'm a member of the WOW first?”

[roaring] Alright, come on, it's me, Mindy! [roaring] You're not seeing a Mindy on the list? Okay, uh, try, Mindy! I think Thomas Fingerling signed me up.

[roaring] Yes! Can I get my pigeon dropping now? What? I got a wait for it in the mail? [roaring] But it's right there!

[roaring] Okay, fine, guess I'll go wait out by the mailbox. [roaring] In the meantime, to get the next quarterly mailing from Reggie, grownups, you can sign your Walser up to the member of the World Organization of Walsers by Monday March 16th.

[roaring] It's so top secret I haven't even seen it yet. [roaring] Now, where did I put my mailbox? [roaring]

[roaring]

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grownups visit tinkercast.com/membership to sign up today. That's tinkercast.com/membership. That's it! And now, let's get back to the show. [roaring] [roaring]

We are on the weekend, we are on the weekend, we are on the weekend, because this is what we do on the weekend. Talking laughing, me and Reggie, who's singing laughing, and then we awake. No, I said laughing twice. Whatever, we are on the weekend, we are on the weekend, we are on the weekend. Because this is what we do on the weekend.

Wait, hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on. Okay, okay. Ah, right, let's see here, just gotta get this. Okay, which one is the mic go? This way?

Yeah, probably. Okay, there we go. Ah, am.

“Hello and welcome to, wait, how do I put the background music on?”

Is it this button? Can we be growly weed? Nah. Focus is burning. Nah, not that one.

Welcome to the super secret dance. Come on, run, run, run, run. There we go. I'm hello and welcome to, wait, where I want the weekend. I'm your host Dennis.

And I would introduce my co-host, except he's not here right now. And I guess I have to do the whole podcast thing by myself. And Reggie, there you are. Why are you so late? I had to do the technology stuff all in my own.

You've lost track of time. How could you? For shame, Reggie. But, nah, nah, nah.

I never lose track of time.

Because Reggie, I have clocks everywhere. Look, there's a clock on the wall, which says 1035. And look here. I have a watch, which confirms that it's 352. Wait, nah.

Hold on, one of these clocks is wrong. Well, then let's just check the clock on the microwave, which I have under the desk. It says 708. What?

Well, what about the BCR? It says it's 12 o'clock blinking over and over. Okay, whatever. It doesn't matter what any of the clocks say, because we know it's podcast time.

Right, Reggie? It's podcast time. And now that we're all here, let's move into the first segment. Rating reviews. I'm reading reviews for me and for useies.

We've got to some doozy, so let's read reviews. This is the part where people leave us a bunch of comments on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever. I print a bunch off and I read them aloud. This first review comes to us from username 2908888888888.

The subject says from Ryan. Oh, hi, Ryan. And the message says, I love your show. And I have a question. Who invented the toilet?

Also, I give you 10 billion stars.

And okay, who invented the toilet?

You know what? I'll tell you who invented the toilet. A genius. A stone called genius. A hero.

Who thought, hey, I'm done pooping in a hole in the ground. And no, I will not do my nasty business in a chamber pot. Or behind a tree in the woods. From now on, I will use a parcel in throne with water in it. That goes, oh, shh.

And it makes all the potty go away. A real hero, Reggie. That's who invented the toilet. A real hero. Next review, Z.

This next review comes from username apps iTunes. The title says, hi Reggie, you're the best. Vertamogy, Bertamogy.

“And the message says, just wondering, how old is Reggie?”

Bertamogy, feather emoji.

Okay Reggie, how old are you? What? You are not. Let me see your driver's license. Okay.

Huh, I guess you are that old. Well, good for you. Next review, Z. This last review comes from username. Wow, is wow in the world.

And the message says, great show. Do more guest segments. Five galaxies. More guest segments. That's a great idea.

Let's do one right now. Gass segment. The segment with the guest. The guest comes on the show. Just like the touch.

Reggie, what? Ah, right.

“We don't have a guest to do a guest segment with.”

Well, what if we interview the fish? What do you mean, what fish? The gold fish. Oh, yeah, you're right.

The fish needs a name first.

Then we can interview it. Well, at least we got to do the guest segments song. I think it's one of our best. Thanks for all your reviews. He's everyone.

Keep them coming. If you leave a comment on Apple podcast or Spotify, I just migrated on WeWaWama Weekend. Make sure you give us five stars or more. Big Cos Reggie.

Five stars is great and everything. But WeWa was more than great. It's the most great. Right. Greatest.

WeWaW is the most greatest. Ah, when let us know if you have any ideas for what to name the fish. Okay.

“Next up is a little segment I'd like to call.”

Inside, Tinkercast Studios. Ah, I'm inside, Tinkercast Studios. This is the part where we listen to an episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast podcasts. And today we're listening to WeWaW in the world season two episode one called, "Hey onion, you're making me cry."

And no, I hate when onions make me cry. What? Cutting onions? No, I'm talking about when I eat a fried onion ring and it's too hot and steamy.

And then I'm all like, "My tongue is burning." And then I'm all like, "Why onion rings? Why?" And then I'm all like, "What's going on?" Anyway, let's listen. Okay.

There we go. And what? WeWaW will be right back. Grownups. This message is for you.

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We're in the world. Hello. IXL. Are you crying? IXL.

Are you okay? Speak to me. Speak to me.

IXL. IXL. IXL. It's so, so painful. IXL.

IXL. IXL. IXL.

You want to talk about it?

It's just so painful. What ever it is? It's so, so painful. Whatever it is, I'm sure it'll pass. You know what?

That's what you've got. Friend like me for it. Help you through the tough time. No. It'll pass, Mindy.

I just need to plow through.

“Maybe there's something I can do to help.”

No. We can't both be crying. Why? I mean, you got to stay strong, Mindy. I don't know what's going on over there. I'm coming over.

I'm like, you need a hug. Darus. Where are you? I'm here. And I got this full of hugs.

Where do I start? Why are you so sad anyway? Oh. I'm not sad. I'm just finishing up chopping this pile of onions here. Wait a minute.

And now finally the last one is done to you. You're telling me that this whole time you were crying because you were chopping onions? Oh yeah, right, right. Well, well, you see, I'm making tofu hot dogs for lunch.

And I thought I'd chop up some onions for toppings, but when I started chopping the onions well, I... You started to cry. Why?

Well, I always cry when I chop onions.

And I always do it when I cut the cheese. What? What? Look. Next time, just borrow veggies like goggles.

That'll keep the onion fumes away from your eyes. Hey, I couldn't think of that. That's a great idea, Mindy. Because I do know that if you wear goggles like swim goggles or even a scuba mask while you chop onions,

it can actually help keep the tears to a minimum. Probably because by wearing goggles over your eyes when you chop onions, it blocks some of the natural chemicals from the onion that irritates your eyes. I believe you're referring to the natural chemical known as the lacrimotory factor or for short LF.

Yeah, yeah, LF. That's exactly what I was thinking. LF is the chemical that makes your eyes water when you chop onions.

And that was the chemical irritating my eyes

that caused all those tears.

“And that's why you thought I was crying.”

Yeah, but when I cut up a potato or carrots or an apple, then those things make me cry. So, why do onions? Well, from what I understand, Mindy, it's the way an onion protected self from its enemies.

Animes come on. What kind of predator would want to hurt an any bitty, teeny, wavy little baby onion? No, hell for starters, us. What are you talking about, Guy Roz, why would we want to hurt an onion?

What I mean is that the onion plant does everything it can to keep away any of all pests to prevent them from feeding it up? So, the onion plant has its own defense system? Yes, yes, here. Let's go to the vegetable garden to check it out.

Okay, but only if I can stick a straw on one of those tomatoes you've got growing back there. I like to suck out the juice. No problem, Mindy, come on, let's go. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk.

The fresh air. Don't you just love nature, Mindy? I mean, look at all of this beautiful produce growing right here. We've got some kale and some Swiss chardonnay, some mustard greens and some.

I swear, I don't at turn. No, I painted that chair here around here somewhere. It was just a few months ago. I should have grown right now. Mindy, Mindy, don't at tree.

“You know that Cheerios don't actually grow into donut trees, don't you?”

Well, yeah, I mean, objectively, I know that, but I also know that it rains diamonds on Neptune. Honestly, Guy Ross, if it rains diamonds on Neptune, then there has to at least be a small sliver of a chance that a tiny Cheerios seed can grow up to be a big donut.

Anyway, this is actually what I wanted to show you here. Here look. These long thick blades of grass, not just grass, Mindy. These are onion plants. Well, where's the onion?

Well, the onion is right at the bottom here. See, it's the bulb of this plant. It's the part of the onion that we eat. Oh, yeah, now I see it. It doesn't look too scary to me.

Well, it's not supposed to look scary, but it is supposed to make it hard for us to eat. Yeah, but I'm not crying. Well, let's take this thing into the kitchen and slice it up and see what happens.

Okay, but this time, I'm not going to feel sorry for you

Okay, okay, Mindy, so we have this onion

“and if they take a big bite out of it like an apple.”

Wait, timeout, Guy Ross. Before you do that, a quick public service announcement. The experiment you are about to hear was conducted by trained professionals. Do not try to set home except under the direct supervision of a grown-up. Eating large quantities of onion may result in tears,

extreme onion breath, onion effingers, more tears, runny nose, temporary loss of friends. Teeth brushing is highly recommended as is the use of rubber gloves. Now, back to the program. Okay.

So, uh, can I take a bite? Knock yourself out, big guy. Ross. Whew, that's spicy, and, oh no. Oh no, he here comes the tears.

And, oh, oh, man, those onion fields are sticking my eyeballs out. Throw that thing into that sink of water. Okay. Whew, much better. Whew.

Man, you just bit into that onion and it basically bit back.

Those fewam was really stung. Yeah, in fact, Mindy scientists, Josie Silverolli and Martian Gulchak at Case Western University in Ohio have been trying to understand exactly why onions release these invisible gases that, you know, make our eyes sting when we cut or bite into them.

And what did they find out? Well, they found out that when the sulfeneic acid precursor floating in the cytoplasm and the onion cell mixes with the elinease, it creates the chemical we fondly known as the crimitory factor in simple language, LF. Yeah, I have no idea what you just said.

Actually, neither do I really. Maybe it would help if we went inside, you know, with our own eyes. Wait, so like, actually go inside an onion? Not just an onion, Mindy, an onion cell.

“You mean those teeny, tiny little pockets that kind of look like windows?”

Exactly. If you look at a piece of onion under a microscope, you'll see onion cells. And that's where you've got to go to see why onions make us cry. Okay, but where are you going to be? Well, I'm going to be looking through my microscope at you inside the cell.

And I'll do the play by play, you know, try to see if I can explain what's happening. Okay, but are you sure you don't want to join me? I mean, I can shrink you with my shrink wand. I think I'll take a past this time, Mindy. I'm still recovering from that time, you shrunk me when you wanted to go visit that flea market run by real fleas.

Yeah, you're right. Runs for sale. Runs for sale, break place to stop a flea family. Go need to run. Mindy.

Thank you. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, that place was awesome. I got such a good deal from that one flea bag who sold me a BCR and his entire collection of Disney video tapes.

And I got to admit the band was pretty good.

“Oh, MGD, you remember that one flea on the base man?”

Everyone was buzzing about that one. Well, anyway, I left that flea market with a terrible case of fleas. And it took me like four flea baths to stop the itching. So, I think I'm going to pass on things shrunk down. I got to see yourself, but I'm going in.

Okay, now if I could just find my shrink wand work. Is it new? That's, oh, I got it. I got it. All right, now let me turn this baby on and...

Mindy? Over here, little buddy! Mindy! Where are you, kid? Oh, hey, you're so tiny.

I never get to see what you look like all shrunk and down.

Oh, you're so cute! All right, I'm going with the baby top. I need to climb into that onion frife and get inside one of those things. All right, but don't forget your scuba gear. I already done it!

Okay, okay. Well, go ahead and climb inside this slice right here, Mindy. And I'll carefully place you and onion slice on this glass slide. So, I can see you under my microscope. [laughing]

Now, Mindy, tell me what it feels like where you are. Wow! We're round and ready! And we're ready! Okay, great!

That liquid around you is called cytoplasm. Oh, I'm over there. It's a phobomic phobomic found. Oh, I know, I see something under it. There's a phobomic found.

Okay, great. Yeah, so some of the things you see floating around are called the sulfenic acid precursors. And then some of those bubbles you see are filled with something else called alienates. What?

Perfect. So, now those bubbles they aren't touching, right?

I'm just rooting around in the phobomic.

Okay, great.

“Now, Mindy, I'm going to cut into the cell that you are floating in.”

But please brace yourself because all of that cytoplasm is going to go shout, okay, you ready? Okay, here goes. And... (screeching)

(snoring) (screeching) (screeching) (screeching) (screeching)

(screeching) (screeching) (screeching) This is Mindy, this is where the magic happens. Look to your left, do you see it?

(screeching) (screeching) (screeching) (screeching) (screeching)

Yes, you got it. The soffinic acid precursor and the alienase protein bubbles are mixing together and forming that oniony gas. The gas that makes our eyes tear up and water. (screeching)

Mindy, we just witnessed the formation of the liqueurimatory factor or LF. (screeching) (screeching) (screeching)

Mindy, this is magical, magical, I say. (screeching) (screeching) (screeching) (screeching)

Okay, hold on partner, let me untrink. You just just give me a quick sec to grab the shrink wand. (screeching) (screeching) It's somewhere here.

(screeching) (screeching) Okay, I got it, got it. Are you ready, Mindy? (screeching)

(screeching) (screeching) Okay. (screeching) (screeching)

(screeching)

Mindy, wasn't that amazing?

I mean, we witnessed a true chemical reaction in nature. I know. And to think of all the trouble, we humans go through just to eat onions.

“I mean, can you imagine the first humans who tried them at all?”

I mean, that was a pretty brave thing to do. Yeah. Or the first human to try a balloon onion? I don't even think they had spicy dipping sauce back then. Hey, do you know that in Japan?

Scientists actually engineered a new type of onion that doesn't make you cry when you chop it up. A tearless onion? Yeah. Well, that's even better than no tear shampoo.

And a but a taste better, too. You would think so, right? Not that I would know. I mean, a tearless onion that takes all of the pain out of the process. Except for one problem.

Problem? Well, the Japanese scientists didn't just take out the tears. They also took out the flavor because it's possible that the same chemical that causes tears is the same chemical that gives onions, it's special oniony deliciousness. So, I guess that means?

Yep. Our days of crying into our blooming onion batter are far from over. Speaking of which, let's slice the rest of these onions up. Oh, I can't take it anymore. I'm through with you, onion.

[laughing] Maybe? [laughing] Okay. Wow, that was stuck.

Oh, wow. I like the part where Mindy shrank down and went inside of an onion cell.

“Yeah, what food would you go inside if you were all anybody small, Reggie?”

Oh, corn on the cob. Me? Oh, I would go inside butter. That way, someone could put the butter on top of the corn on the cob and we could hang out together.

Oh, right then we'd probably get eaten right after that. Never mind. But I bet those other small fun stuff we could do. We should go see if Mindy will shrink us down.

Oh, yeah, let's wrap up the show first.

[laughing] Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning into WeWaw on the weekend. [laughing] If you have a question for me, call and leave me a message. At 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow.

That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 7, wow. I just might answer your question on WeWaw on the weekend. [laughing] Okay, let's go. I wonder if Mindy can shrink us down and then put us inside toy cars

so we could like ride around in them. [laughing] Reggie, I don't have to know how to drive. The toy cars go on that plastic track, remember? [laughing]

Yeah, and we could do loop delips and cool jumps and go through the little toy car wash. [laughing] Thanks for joining us for this edition of WeWaw. Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jad Anderson.

The role of Baby Dennis is played by Jad Anderson. For the whole place, the role of Big Dennis. No, you mind, TV. Original sound design and production is done by Henry Moskel with contributions from Jad Anderson and Tyler Tholl.

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