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Summary

Hosts Dennis and Reggie attempt amusingly disastrous exercise and cooking segments, then pivot to an "encore" episode of "Smart Bots!" The main segment delves into Artificial Intelligence, examining how researchers teach robots humor and comparing AI's capabilities to humans. It covers historical AI achievements, such as Deep Blue beating a chess grandmaster and AlphaGo mastering Go through self-play, and even a time-travel mishap to future Japan, showcasing self-driving cars.

Episode description

Dennis and Reggie exercise and make milkshakes, plus an encore episode of “Smart Bots!” If you have a question for Dennis, leave him a voicemail at 1-888-7WOW-WOW. Your question might just end up on WeWow on the Weekend! Originally aired 6/16/24.

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Transcript

Intro / Opening

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Hey grown up. It's Skyros and Mindy here. And before we jump into today's adventure, we want to share something important with you. Something we've never asked in our entire nine years of making this show. That's right. For nine years, WoW in the world has been free. Every teacher, every curious kid, and every grown up who listens. And we've been able to keep it going through partnerships, sponsors, distributors,

readers, and honestly, a whole lot of scrappy ingenuity. But the truth is The media industry has changed a lot since we launched this show in 2017. And it's becoming a lot harder to financially sustain a show like WoW in the World without additional help. And that's because every episode you hear, every silly character voice, every story twist, every science Writers, producers. Imposer's research. And one lady who keeps extra

Exploding beakers in the studio. Mindy! What? Science is messy, Gyroz! Every single episode. It starts with us searching far and wide for real scientific discoveries, sometimes buried in complex scientific journals. And then we try to Translate that science into an adventure story that kids and grown-ups can enjoy together. After that, we send it to science experts for free. So you know what you're hearing. Accurate, trustworthy, and full of integrity. And then we record all the voices from

To Uh, Dennis. Welcome everyone! Dennis! Sorry. And finally, our team adds original music, sound design, editing, mixing, and mastering until the world of the story comes to life inside your ears. No AI, no shortcuts. Just real humans making something to spark your curiosity? And we do it because we believe can inspire kids and grown-ups to do great things. Especially now, when the world is full of confusing information, we can

based science is more important than ever. And here's the hard part we want to share with you. You expect and should get. We need your help. That's right. For the first time ever, we are asking our listeners, you. To help support this show. If your family values what we create, if you've laughed or learned something new, if the show has inspired curiosity in your home, or just saved your sanity on a long road trip. We're asking you to consider making.

Making a contribution. And any amount truly helps. Extra large, astronomically huge. I'm being inclusive. Anyway, your directly to paying our team. Research, write, produce, fact check, and And build this world every week. It keeps the show sustainable so we can keep making it. Wow and the world free for everything. So grown ups, if you have the means to help support our show. Dot com slash. Where you can pick from a handful of fun things we've curated as thank you gift.

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Chaotic Exercise and Ketchup Milkshakes

Hello and welcome to Wee Wow On the Weekend! I'm your host, Dennis. And that's my co-host, Reggie the Giant Reggie! Watch where you're flapping your wings! I know you were just You hit me in my gorgeous, gorgeous face! Your feathers do smell nice though. What kind of bird shampoo do you use? Ooh, dove! Fancy! Wait! This gives me an idea for an amazing new No, not a hair and feather washing segment, an exercise segment. Rajay, I'm amazing at exercise. Let's go! Working out.

Okay, Reggie, on your feet! Reggie, stand up! Because you're the one who wanted to stretch. Now, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. There we go, let me just put on some cool workout tunes, and that's good. Reach down, touch a touch! Reach down, touch toe! Whoa, toesy, wowsy woos. Now make your elbows kiss. Now make your album. Ow! Just right on the funny? Ah, nobody make your elbows kiss. It's a bad exercise. Yeah, I'm gonna cross it off my exercise idea list real quick.

And also this idea where you kick yourself in the face. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, Reggie. Fine, let's move on and do a little QA segment. All right, let's just get the old answering machine pulled up here. Okay, here we go. Hi, you've reached Dennis from Wee Wow 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. Hey Dennis, I'm Moshe from Tom's River, New Jersey. Hi Moshe, what's going on? I want to know what's your favorite mocha flavor? Mind to catch up. Ketchup? Mausha, you put ketchup in your milkshake? Reggie, is it good? Have you had a ketchup milkshake before? Well, me neither. We should try it right now. I know we just started the QA segment, but I want to do a Cooking segment now! Let's change gears! Hooray! Cooking segment!

And Reggie! Okay, first we need ketchup. Uh check that drawer over there. No, not that one! The one with the rubber bands and the dead batteries. Yeah, grab all those ketchup packets and bring them over here. Okay, now we need milk. Milk, milk. Oh, I have half a bowl of apple cinnamon cereal here! Let me just uh Finish the cereal. It will be fine, Reggie! Warm apple cinnamon cereal flavored milk will be so good with ketchup, I'm sure of it. Okay.

the ketchup package to the milk. There we go. And then what else do we need for a milkshake? Just shake it? Are you sure? Okay. we go and shake shake shake shake shake ah Reggie look what you did well you told me to shake it In a blender? Reggie! Now our milkshake is everywhere. It's all over my hair and my face and Hmm. Well that's not bad. No, I'm lying. It's horrible. Let's just move on. Okay, next up is a little segment I like to call Inside Tinkercast Studios.

Tinkercast Updates and Support

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 2, Episode 15. SMARTBOS. Yeah, we really could have used a smart bot just a second ago. But say lovey. Okay, here we go. We Wow will be right back. Grown-ups, this message is for you! Carly Q from Who When Wow Mystery Edition. Big news to share. I've learned a lot on my time traveling adventures over the

Like what to pack when you're traveling to Victorian England, or the must-try foods when you're visiting the Viking Age. Spoiler alert, the food is pretty good, but they don't have pie yet. Which is a bummer. I can't wait to share my time travel tips and tricks with you all. You can listen to my new bite-sized episodes. When Wow Podcast feeds starting next week. Looks like lunch break is over. Now let's get on with the show.

Hey grown-ups, it's Mindy and Guy Ross, and we have an important message to share with you. For nine years, WoW in the world has been free for every family, teacher, Curious kid and grown up who listens. And we've kept it going through partnership. sponsors, distributors, and honestly, a whole lot of scrappy ingenuity.

But the truth is, the media industry has changed a lot since we launched this show in 2017, and it's becoming a lot harder to financially sustain a show like WoW in the World without. And that's because every episode you hear is handcrafted by an entire team. Of real humans. So for the first time ever, we are asking our listeners, you, to support the show. If your family values what we create, if you've laughed or learned something new.

Or if the show has inspired curiosity in your home, we're asking you to consider making a contribution. Your support goes directly to paying our team and keeps WOW in the world free for everyone who listens to it. Just visit Tinkercast. Slash support to see the thank you packages that we've put together for your support. Once again, you can visit Tinkercast.com/slash support.

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Robots Try Stand-Up Comedy

World. Welcome to Roco Ho Ho Ho, the premier robotic comedy club. Now is the time to activate. Applause servos and execute welcome protocol for the human Mindy. Thank you, thank you. Um Hi everyone. Um Can you hear me? Hang on. Whoa, whoa! Hi Micah. Um okay, great. Uh well, it's great to be here at the Robo Ho ho ho. How are we all doing tonight? Okay. All right, tough crowd. Um Okay, you bots ready to laugh her!

I don't know. Um, process some auditory humor? Anticipation sensors running at twelve percent. Okay, um, all right, how about a joke? Um, why was the robot angry? Processing. Huh? Punchline unknown. Because the programmer kept pushing his buttons! After a couple sensors detect terrible jokes. Okay, alright. Well there's more where that came from. Um Why did the robot Go back to school. To collect valuable information. Because he was a little rusty.

Fuck me. You get it? Please contact your system administrator. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I got another one. You're gonna like this one, I promise you. Um Uh what do you call a pirate droid? My mother was a pirate droid. R2 D2. Yeah, I'm not fun shot. Um Mindy? Are you okay? I could hear you from all the way over at my house. Yeah, I'm fine, Gyroz. I was just trying out some new robo humor in my head, and needless to say, it was not.

Going well. Robo humor? Yeah, you wanna see? Uh no, I'm I'm okay. No, really, let me just pop the top of my head here. No, no, Mindy, stop. You know it freaks me out when you do that. No, I'm just gonna bend down here so you can take a quick peek from the top. Uh okay. Let me just see here. Uh are those scrambled eggs? Whoop, no! They're poached. Okay, please close it up. I can't take it anymore. You're right, Mindy.

It's pretty rough in there. Yeah, I know, right? Nobody's laughing at my jokes. I'm getting to work on my timing or get a new audience. Well, why were you trying out your Computational comedy anyway. Well, I was inspired by these researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. They actually created a robot that

Tell jokes. Wow, well, if that robot comedian is so funny, why don't you tell me one of its jokes? Okay, but you better hold on to your humorous for this one. Uh, you do know the humorous bone has nothing to do Okay, so here's one that the robo comedian told. You ready? How do you stop a baby astronaut from crying? You rocket. You get it? Uh. You rocket?

Rock it like a baby? Uh yeah, yeah. Not bad, huh? Yeah, that wasn't really that funny. Okay, so maybe the robo comedian humor bot might not know how Out of the park like I can, but it's still like 16% funny. 16%? You put a percentage on funny. Okay, well, so those same scientists at the University of Edinburgh, they were able to quantify or measure just how funny this robo comedian humor bot was.

And then they compared it to real live human comedians. But how were they able to measure the different levels of funny? Yeah, so these researchers took fifty jokes. Some written by human comedians and some written by the robocomedian HumorBob. And then they asked people in the audience to judge whether the jokes were funny or not. Huh. And of the human jokes, thirty-three percent or about one-third of them were considered funny, whereas the Robo Comedian HumorBots jokes

were only considered funny about 16% of the time. So basically you could say that the robot was about half as funny as a human. That's pretty interesting, Mindy, and you know a prime example of artificial intelligence.

Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Yeah, artificial intelligence. Hearing that term everywhere I go, but I don't know exactly what it means. I mean, is it like fake cheese but for your brain? Or well, I'm not entirely sure, but as far as I understand, Mindy, artificial intelligence is an area of computer science that tries to make And in fact, we're surrounded in our everyday lives by examples of artificial intelligence. Really? Like what? Well, let's see. Uh oh here, here, my my phone. Your phone. Modern-day smartphone.

Packed full of artificial intelligence like Aha, see this Mindy? This is the last time I used my GPS. And it was able to check the traffic in my neighborhood and tell me the fastest way to get to my favorite kombucha bar. Wait, you have a favorite kombucha? Let's see what else we got. Oh okay. This is an app that I use to translate my into another language. Wow in the world. Who is on the monde? These two things on my phone are both examples of artificial intelligence.

I don't know, Gyros. My GPS once led me into the middle of a cake at a one-year-old's birthday party, so I don't know if I really trust its intelligence. Well, this kind of artificial intelligence is known as narrow AI. And that basically means that it's pretty good at performing specific task. Create an artificial intelligence that's good at performing lots of different tasks. Just like a human can. And that sort of artificial intelligence is called general AI or strong AI.

AI, Artificial Intelligence. Okay, but for the meantime, I guess we're gonna have to settle with robots that can track our pizzas and beat us at check.

AI Beats Human Chess Champion

Beat us a chat? Oh yeah, in fact... Um follow me, Gyroz. I gotta show you something. This is gonna blow your mind. Well M Mindy Come on Mindy, where are we going? To the archives. Do you have an archive in your gingerbread house? Uh gingerbread mansion. Just added an indoor marshmallow pit. Oh right. Anywho, I have to show you something. Let me just get the door to- Here. You got even more books than the last time I was in here. Wait, is that an entire shelf of

Why do you have all my baby photo albums? Okay, now I just need to remember which book to pull so we can open the secret door. Secret? Door? No, it's not that one. No, that's not it. Oh, here it is. How do you know? Oh, because it says it right here in the title. See? Uh. This book opens the secret door by Dr. Pull Here. Go ahead. Pull the book. See what happens. Whoa. Okay, now where did I put it? Might be in this filing cabinet.

These cats. Okay, now let me see here. What do we have? Newspaper archives. Yes, okay. Let me see here. Giant mysterious pigeon spotted over Washington. Nope. Um Plex scientist No, it's not that either. Oh here it is Deep Blue Crowned World G. Champion nineteen ninety six. Deep blue. Yeah, well if you think that's odd, you might want to consider the fact that I'm not sure.

This chess grandmaster weighed 1.5 tons. 1.5 tons? That's as heavy as a hippopotamus. Also became a world champion at just four years old. Four years old? And is so big? Entire New York City. I can Mindy are you? But a computer? Winner winner, chicken dinner. Deep blue. Is the name of the artificially intelligent robot that beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997?

Oh, I remember now, Mindy. Gary Kasparov originally beat the Deep Blue Robot the year before in 1996. Yep, and after that crushing defeat? The scientists from IBM, you know, the company that built Deep Blue, they went away and came back 15 months later with a smarter, sharper. Chess playing mastermind. Wait, check it out, Mindy. It says here that the rematch lasted more than a week. In the end, Deep Blue emerged the winner, becoming the first artificial intelligence.

To beat a grandmaster at chess. Exact Doritos, Kyroz.

AlphaGo Tackles Ancient Go

But artificial intelligence or AI has been crushing us at all kinds of board games ever since then. Like which ones? Well, for one, the game I'm thinking of is over two thousand five hundred years old. Making it the oldest board game in the world. Uh-huh. It's played on a nineteen by nineteen grid board. Okay. And it's played by more than 40 million people across Asia. Oh, I think I've got it. You're talking about the ancient Chinese board game Go.

You know it, Gyroz. You know, I remember reading about that in the newspaper here. The move over Mini. Hmm, there's not enough room. Okay, uh, let me see here. Ugh, I wish there was some sort of artificial intelligence system that could help search through all this information. Sorry, what were you saying, Mindy? Like some sort of a research. Engine? I don't know. Uh no, I uh oh wait I what No I Oh wait wait here it is Artificial Intelligence the reigning world go champion, Lee Siddhal, in epic

Seven-day Mac. Oh yes, that's one of my favorite intelligent smackdowns in all of history! And guess what, Gyras? What? I just so happen to have the hottest tickets in town. What are you talking about, Mindy? The match gyras? I've been saving these for a while. Here, check them out. Alpha Gy- Go versus Lee C doll Brain versus Bit Mindy, I think we might be a little bit late for this match.

Witnessing AlphaGo's Historic Match

Well, it's a good thing we've got a mostly functional time machine. Oh no. Oh yes. Oh, Mindy, the seats were so stiff. Took you an hour just to pull me out. What was that anyway? Oh, that was just the runoff maple syrup. Maple what? Don't worry about it, Gyroz. What you should know is that the time machine just got a new Awesome. I'm talking The front to the Oh man, just wait until you see it. Let me just open the garage door here and

So, um nice weather we're having, huh? Uh it's just um it's just gonna take another few minutes to open. Huh. Wow, you know Mindy, you may need to oil those tracks on that garage door. Ah, there we go. Whoa. Those are some cool looking decals. I know, right? You can thank Reggie for those. Designed them. Reggie designed those? Yeah, apparently he used to own his own design firm in Pasadena. Huh. Who would have guessed? No. Open the house! Still.

Jammed up, huh? Yeah, maybe I should have spent some of that decal money on fixing these hinges. Ah! There we go. After you, Gairoz! If you insist. Sorry, sorry, we gotta stop for a sec. Because I need a snack! Продолжение следует... That's why. Sure, I'll get you some crackers or something. Reggie, no, don't press play. I'll be right back. Who Reggie wanna cracker? Here you go, and one for Dennis. Ready to finish the episode? Okay, great, let's do it. Here we go.

Yep, still smells the same. Uh am I smelling bloomin' onions and maple syrup? Oh yeah, long story, but my lunch exploded in here yesterday. I better clean this up. Okay now just Gotta punch in the time coordinates. Um, what does the ticket there say? It says uh March 15th, 2016. March 15th, 2016. Alright, that should do the Oh, I thought I was going to...

A lot of turbulence through that time space continuum, but I think this must be the place. Looks like we made it, Gairoz. Gairoz? Oh boy. Um, Gairoz. Alright, little buddy. Come on. You're just gonna have to shake it off. Come on, shake it off. Whew, okay. Well um just gonna open up the hatch here and

Wow, it looks like we made it to the stadium just in time. The Go Championship is just about to start. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the South Korean sensation, the strong The current Go World Champion! Quick, come on, hurry up, Gairoz. We don't want to be late. Well, I mean, if we have to tread Oh come on, they're taking tickets over there. Well well hold on. 'cause all that time traveling made me really high.

Can we hit up the concession stand before we go in? Ugh, Gairaz, there's no time for snacks. The championship is about to start.

AlphaGo's Deep Learning Process

Noodle cones, my favorites. Oh, there's our row. Um, excuse me, excuse me, coming through. Oops, oh, sorry, watch your legs. Ugh made it. And now please welcome tonight's contender, all the way from the United Kingdom, the computational commando, the processing powerhouse, Alpha! You guys have the 10 already? Shh. Uh Mindy, how long do these games usually last? I don't know, like a few hours or so? So yeah, it's yeah. It's pretty happy because.

So Mindy, if a computer was able to beat a human being at chess in nineteen ninety seven, How come it took another 20 years for scientists to build a computer that can beat a human grandmaster at Go? Well, there's just a lot of stuff for the computer to compute. I mean, in a normal chess game, there are usually 32 different moves you can make on your turn. So if you wanted to look ahead three moves, you times thirty-two by thirty-two by thirty-two.

Which would leave you with 32,768 possible outcomes, or 32,768 different ways to play those three moves. She must have a calculator in her brain. Anywho, with Go, there aren't 32 moves you can play with each turn. Huh. There are up to two hundred and fifty possibilities. Which means that there would be over fifteen million Outcomes if you wanted to look just three moves into the future. Which I suppose might be a little bit difficult, even for a computer. Right?

So AlphaGo was able to look a few moves ahead, but not nearly as far ahead as it was able to enchant. So the scientists at DeepMind, which is the computer company that invented AlphaGo, had to come up with a different technique for beating a grandmaster. So what did they do? They taught it. to play itself. They taught it to play itself? Yep. The computer scientists

programmed Alpha Go to play millions and millions of games against itself. And each time it would figure out what worked, what didn't work, and then put Put those techniques to work in the next match. Ah, of course, because in computer science, the process of having machines learn from trial and error But to the rest of us It's just called Practice Makes Perfect. So what happened? Well...

And I think this is it. Here comes Alpha Go with what will surely be the final blow. I can't watch again, watch again, watch again, watch again, watch again, watch again. That's it! Hold on your plug. Ouch! The next time that happens, I'm going to reboot you. What? Oh, shh. And there we have it, ladies and gentlemen, the all-new, all artificial Go Grandmaster!

Oh man, what a match! One for the ages. Okay, well, I hate to cut the fun short, but we gotta get out of here, Gyros. We gotta beat the crowd. Looking at my watch here, I think the parking meter is about to run out on our time machine. Oh, come on! Oh, uh excuse me, excuse me. I'm sorry. Pardon me, Stevie. Uh, sorry, pardon me. Uh, that was a tight squeeze. Come on, quick, through the turnstile! Oh look, there's a time machine right there and we've only got to

Spare, come on! Ah! Made it! Here are the keys. Just open the hatch.

Future Japan's Autonomous Vehicles

So much grunting for one day. We have to fix this hatch, Mindy. Wait a second. Why is it so slippery? Did you put Fair Trade palm oil on this? Oh Oh yeah. smeared it all over the time machine because I thought, I don't know, maybe it would help us to slip through the time space continuum a little bit more easily. I mean, you know how it is. Uh, sure. Ah! There we go. Hop onside, Gyrod. Next stop, present day. Uh, you sure those are the right buttons?

Of course, I'm not sure these are the right buttons, Gyroz! Now hold on tight, because here we Ha made it. I have to say, Mindy, that fair trade palm oil really does the trick. I know what I tell ya. Wait, that was weird. What's weird, Mindy? Um, I'm just gonna step out of this time. Machine, but I want you to stay really close by. Okay, cross your fingers. Where are we, Mindy? When are Well, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe some of that slippery palm oil? The control panel and it went.

Well it certainly doesn't look like North America in present day In In what? What year could it be? Hey look, a newspaper! Two thousand. 2020. Oh, see, I didn't overshoot by that much. Oh, Mindy, what are we gonna do? How are we gonna get back? Why don't we just.

Chillax, Skyroz. I mean, the time machine still has plenty of syrup to run on. It could totally get us back home. But in the meantime, let's just take a break. See the sights of future Japan. I mean, just think about it. We could Watch a Robo Robo sumo match or take a jet back tour of the city. Maybe visit one of those restaurants where your food is delivered by a levitating train? I mean, how often do we get to be stuck in the future? Yeah, that's not such a bad idea, you know?

And in fact I've always wanted to visit one of those bonsai gardens. You know, those tiny little trees that they grow in some Asian countries. Yeah, I know what bonsai trees are. But Gairaz, we're in future Japan. Let's do future stuff. I mean Trees are old enough to be our great great great great great great grandplants.

Is that really how you want to spend our time here? Well, yeah. Okay, we'll do it. But remember, when we get back to the present day, you have to let me push you through the grocery store. Pretending like you're on a parade float. Now let me just tail us a hover cap.

Uh Ooh la la, that was quick. This must be one really reliable driver. Uh Mindy. Now go ahead and hop inside, Gairaz. I'm so excited. I've never met a real hover cab driver from the future before. I've never met anyone from the future before. Mindy I really think that. Um, Kunichiwa, sir. We would like to go to the Bonsai Gardens, please. Mindy, look! What? Oh! Where's the driver, Gyros? There is no driver. I've been trying to tell you that. Well, something-

Is driving this thing? This must be an autonomous vehicle. An autonomous vehicle? A self-driving car. Well welcome to the future. Well, actually, Mindy, this sort of research into self-driving cars has been going on for several years now. Yeah, that's what I thought, but But what we're seeing right here in the future

Is how much these cars will change the way we get around. Wait, so self-driving cars already exist in the present day? Well, yeah, and in fact, companies like Google and Tesla all have Research projects to build the very first fully autonomous self-driving car. So, without a driver, how exactly do these cars work? Well, they use a bunch of scientific equipment like race.

radars and lasers and GPS and even video to sense all of the things around it. Oh, and then the artificially intelligent part of the car just takes all of that information and figures out how to get from one place to another To another without bashing into buildings, people, and other cars. Exact mundo. And the cab that we're traveling in right now was developed by a Japanese company called Robotaxi, which is actually sending out a whole

Whole fleet of self-driving taxis around the city of Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Games. Whoa, the 2020 Olympic Games are getting self-driving taxis? Yes, yes, and some of the most Brilliant scientific minds in the world are predicting that these self-driving cars are gonna completely change how we travel. Well, well, in what ways? Well, for starters, self-driving cars will be much safer than normal cars. Because they're able to

So much further than our own human eyes can see. And also, Mindy, they can see in all different directions at the same time. Man, talk about having eyes in the back of your head, right? But they're able to drive a lot safer than most humans too. It can talk. Okay, Roz, maybe it can process humor too. Uh hey robotaxi! What? You wanna hear a joke? Sure. Oh no. Okay, I think you're really gonna like this one. Uh what do you get when you cross a road?

Robot and a tractor. What do you get? A transformer. Really? Nothing? He's not laughing. It's not funny. Okay, well there's a lot more where that came from. Okay, let me try one. Oh boy. What is soda pop? Favorite activity Hum, what is Soda Pop's favorite? Physical activity. Oh my now that was funny. Ha ha ha ha Fizz get it? As in CO two

Physical activity? Good one. Dirias. Well maybe it's time for scientists to stop working so hard on self-driving robots and instead invent some self-laughing ones. Maybe we just need to go back to the present-day Gyraz and work on our Well excuse me. Self-driving robocar? What? Why don't you uh hang a Yui and skip the bonsai gardens? I think we're ready to go back home. Ten four, Mindy. Here? Good.

Wow, that was so cool! Computer programs that can play games like chess and go! Do you think the computer could play my favorite game? Well I like Settlers of Cadenis and Dennisopoli and guess who? It's Dennis! Reggie, those are real games. I just tape pictures of myself to all the boxes. pieces. Well let's finish the show and then we can go upstairs and play one.

Dennis's Games and Show Outro

Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning in to Wee Wow on the Weekend! If you have a question for me, Call and leave me a message at 1-888-200. That's one eight. your question on Wee Wow on the Wii Okay, let's go. Right, so here's how you play guess who it's Dennis. First, I pick a dentist, and then you ask me questions like is he a handsome dentist or would this dentist be really good? Modeling seasonal outfits in a casual wear catalog? And then I say yes, and then you say.

Thanks for joining us for this edition of Wee Wow on the Weekend! Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jed Anderson. The role of baby Dennis is played Jed Anderson. Ah, well then who plays the role of Vic Dennis? Never you bind! THE Original sound design and production. Original music for Wee Wow is composed and performed by Tyler Thole. Special thanks to Jessica Bode. Dr. Natasha Crandall. Freilick, Kristen Yang. Meredith helping Red Henry Muskell! Jody Nusbaum! E Paksima! Kairas!

Mindy Thomas, Joanna Weber, and is a And all of the other At Tinkercast HQ. Be sure to visit Tinkercast.com where you can become an official member. about upcoming events. Shop Find our best. And learn about all the other amazing From TinkerCat. Thanks again for helping. In the basement this weekend. No, baby Dennis! We wow! Oh right! We wow! Well in the world was made by Tinkercast and sent to you by Wondery.

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