WeWow on the Weekend

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Hello and welcome to Super Wei Wow on the Super Weekend! I'm your host, Super Dennis! And that's my sidekick, Reggie. Oh, sorry, I mean Super sidekick, super Reggie! This is the show where we And masks and fly round Superpowers and we're all like, stop right there, baddies! And the baddies are all like, oh no, and and then we're all like, Raj, I was getting to that.

The show where we listen to old special superhero-themed episodes of Wow in the World that I totally forgot about. Yeah, I found a two-part episode! It's called All Natural Superhero. And I thought we could have a whole superhero weekend. Isn't that fun? First, we're gonna need superhero names to hide our sacred identities. Okay, what's my superhero name gonna be? Rajie! Not super dentist. That still has my name in it. It's not secret enough. Let's see. My super. Name is Megadenno.

No, wait, that still has my name in it. Um, oh, I know! Ultra Dennis! What's your superhero name, Reggie? The extraordinary Reggie! Ah, we can do better than that. Let's pick something else. No, you can't be ultra Reggie. I'm already Ultra Dennis. How about Pigeon Man? Okay, fine. How about. Bird boy. How about kook kook a champion? Ah, fine. You can be ultra reggie. ULTRA DENIS And host a podcast. Okay, let's get into the super QA segment.

Alright, 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. I'm Cordelia from Massachusetts. Hi, Cordelia. Are you static man? I think you are. Static man? What?

No, I'm Ultra Dennis. Everybody knows that. Reggie, shhh! Static man's secret identity is a secret! Not even I know who he really is. No, I don't! Next question! Hi Dennis. My name is Luke from North Carolina. Hi Luke. My question is, why did you become static man? I'm not static man! Reggie! Tell Luke I'm not static man! Reggie! I'm not static man! I'm ultra dentist! Next question! Dennis, I know you're static man. No, you don't. Next. Dennis is static man. Uh-uh! Dennis is ultra Dennis! Next!

Is that it's so aesthetic man? Why'd you hide that you're static man? I'm a hundred percent sure you are static man. Bye. I love your show. Mm uh

I think we've had enough Qs and A's for today. Yeah, everyone's just a little distracted about the secret identity of Static Man. And this weekend's episode of Wow in the World is not even about Static Man. No, it's about superheroes of a different kind! Well, let's get into it! 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.

Called All Natural Superheroes Part 1. Yeah, remember? It's a two parter. Well let's see. Part episode: Mindy and Guy are on the lookout for animals with superhuman powers. I know! So excited! Put it on, put it on, put it on, put it on! Alright, I put it on. Okay, here we go. And play. We Wow will be right back. Grown-ups, this message is for you!

I've learned a lot on my time-traveling adventures over the years, like what to pack when you're traveling to Victorian England, or the must-traveling. 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. You can listen to my new bite-sized episodes in the Who When Wow Podcast. 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, And we've kept it going through part 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 additional help. And that's because every episode you Is hand crafted 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. If you can. Just visit Tinkercat. com slash support to see the thank you packages that we've put together for your support.

You can visit Tinkercast.com slash support and we'll put all this information in the podcast show notes. Thanks for helping to power the WOW at Tinkercast, and now let's get on with That's it! Now back to the show! You haven't seen the last of me, Revengers? I think we have Mindy! Mindy, wake up! The the the movie's over! Mindy, you fell asleep. Why do you drag me to all these movies if you're just gonna

fall asleep. I was not asleep guy, Roz. I was just watching it with my eyes closed. Well we better get out of here, Mindy. They're they're starting to clean up this theater. Anyway, Reggie's about to run out of time on the parking meters. Okay, well let me just pack up all my stuff here and Can you Did you really need to bring a suitcase full of snacks? Do me a favor and just sit on it here so I can try to latch it shut. We didn't eat as many as I thought we would.

There we go. Perfect. Alright, let's go. So, what did you think of the movie? You know, I was a little skeptical about a ninth sequel in the Revengers series, but This one really seemed to hold up a really inspiring story. I know, right? I am so so inspired now to put together our own pack of superhero revengers. Well, that's not the kind of inspiration I was thinking about, but

I'm thinking we could get my great uncle Godfrey to be our super sniffer, since he's always got a runny nose. And then maybe Grandma Jeep Force could be our super, super, since she loves soup so much. Er wain a minute. Well hang on, Mindy. We don't have to go and recruit all of your relatives if we want to put together a team of superheroes. We don't? Well, you know, there are actually amazing natural superheroes all around us.

Natural superheroes all around us? Like that guy? Can I help you, sir? Yes, I'm gonna do the colossal size Coke, please. But can I do half Coke? Half nacho cheese. No, I'm talking about animals with extreme superpowers like Like Reggie, for instance. Reggie? Yes, Mindy, our pigeon Reggie is a superhero. Well he does swoop in to save the broccoli when it gets stuck between my teeth. Well, that is true, but Mindy, I I'm talking about how homing pigeons like Reggie

have some really incredible natural abilities that to us humans can seem like superpowers. Like what? Well for starters, Pigeons like Reggie are amazing navigators. That's true. I've never seen him pull up Google Maps or even stop and ask for directions. Well, Mindy, this amazing sense of direction that pigeons have.

Well, it's the reason why they are such reliable messengers. Yeah, pigeons are basically just email with wings. Well, uh not exactly. You see, long before the internet or cell phones People used to communicate with each other over long distances by sending teeny tiny letters that were attached to the feet and legs.

Talk about a footnote. So would these pigeons just deliver the messages from one place to another? Yeah, in fact, humans have been working with pigeons for thousands of years, from ancient Mesopotamia up until as recently as World. Where pigeons would dodge bullets to deliver important messages from the front lines of battle. Oh, that must have been bonker balls. So

How are these bird brains able to find out where they're going if they don't even have a map? Well, no one knows for sure, Mindy, but scientists from Of Auckland in New Zealand, believe that pigeons are able to detect or feel the Earth's magnetic field and use that as a sort of

Encompassed and nowhere to go. Earth's magnetic field. Oh, you mean that invisible force field that comes from deep in the center of the Earth? Exactly. Earth's magnetic field is like a giant magnet that helps to protect our planet from ultraviolet radiation and It also helps animals like Reggie know up from down and north from south. Oh that's so wow. It's like these pigeons have a built-in GPS system or something. And you know

Reggie isn't the only one with superpowers. He's not? No, the animal kingdom is full of amazing. Creatures with remarkable ability. and most of them are just living among us in plain sight. Really? Let me just see here. Hey, little ant, what's your superpower? Well, I would guess his superpower is. Power of cooperation. Have you ever seen how ants work together so Uh yeah, they did a great collaborative job eating the deck off my gingerbread mansion last week. Team Alpha.

You will be taking out the choices here and here. You got Mindy uses diagonal sway bracing, so the assault team will focus at these junctures here. Once we secure the what in the hey you aw! You better spin out that just right now! Man, where am I gonna barbecue now? Yeah, anyway, like I was saying, Mindy. There are animal superheroes all over the place. He here, look, we're we're almost at my house. I'll show you. Ooh, this is exciting. Just need to punch in the code and

Opening up archive. Whoa! Kai Raz, what? What is this? What's going on? I didn't know you had this secret door. Well, this is my vault where I keep my archive. You know, for the past few years, Mindy, I've been putting together a team. Wait, you've already been putting together a team? Yes, can you believe it? Great minds think alike, Mindy. I was thinking about remote. Uh putting together a team of animals with extraordinary abilities.

You stole my revenger's idea that I stole from you without knowing it yeah the animal revengers wait you keep the team of animal revengers in this vault well uh there are no actual animals in this vault. Whew, because I was gonna say, wait, then what is in this vault? Inside this vault is All of the information I've collected on some of the most extraordinary animals in the world. And uh I think it's about time we started recruiting.

Yes, I'm in. So where do we start? Well, uh according to the archive we Uh rainforests of South America. Okay. You hear that, Reggie? We're going to South America. Come on, let's go. Hold on. Don't you think we should pack some sunscreen first? It's all in my adventure toolbox. And for the rest, we'll just Fly by the seat of our pants. But I thought we were gonna fly on Reggie. Here? We? Yeah, I just need to lock up the house here.

Whoo, alright. I'm all set. No, come on, Guy Roz, Clap on Reggie, we gotta go! Here we Nice work avoiding those branches, Reg. And congratulations on the Superpower as I just heard. Oh, stop being so modest. Alright, now go fly free and we'll call you when we're ready to be picked up, okay? Okay, Gyros. Got my spy goggles on, and I'm ready to recruit. So, who are we looking for?

If you look up just there in those trees, you might be able to see him, though he's probably already seen, or rather felt, our presence. I don't see any Gyros? It sure is, Mindy. It's a pit viper. A pit viper? So what makes this animal sick? Super. Something known as heat vision. This Viper has small sensors on the side of its face.

Allows it to see infrared radiation. Ah, and infrared radiation is the kind of energy that living things give off as heat, right? That's right. And from there, the snake is able to make a picture of What's around it using this heat information? Kinda like built-in heat seeking goggles. And not only that, but These sensors. Also send signals to the snake's brain, or rather, the somatosensory system in the brain. Wait, the slow-mo tomato what?

In the what? The somatosensory system. It's the area of the snake's brain that's responsible for its sense of touch. And that means that the snake can literally feel the heat coming off of its prey or from the animal it's about to eat, even when that animal is several feet away. Wow, that is a Furious superpower. Okay, so do you want to ask her to join our team of revengers, or I guess I could do it. Well, my snake communicating abilities are a little rusty, so Okay, I got this. Excuse me?

What did she say, Mindy? She's in. As long as she gets a warm rock to sit on, three mice a week. Man, she's really pushing it. Hey, those fangs aren't gonna take care of themselves. Okay, I guess she's got herself a deal. All right, Miss Pit Viper. Now just find a way to grab your things and follow up.

Okay, Gyraz. So what's the next superpower we're looking to knock off our list? How about immortality? Immortality? You mean like... Like living forever? Yes, immortality. Because you know, Mindy, we humans live for about seventy to eighty years on average, which is Compared to an animal like the mayfly, which only lives for about five minutes. A five minute life?

What's the point? It takes longer than that to eat ice cream. Well, well Mindy, five minutes is actually just about long enough for that fly to find a mate and lay her eggs. Talk about speed dating. But compared to other creatures, our seventy to eighty. I mean the Arctic. Two hundred years. Ah, that's a lot of candles to fit on one birthday cake. The whole thing would catch on fire. And that's nothing. Five hundred and seven years old meeting. It was born in F

1899. Hello! You found me! My name is Hafrun. Nice to meet you. Tell me what day is it? It's 2006. 2006? Oh no, I'm so old now. Well tell me, is the Ming Dynasty still a thing? Wow, so what's its secret? Yoga, kill smoothies, raw water? Actually, Mindy, it's.

It's none of the above. Well then what is it? Well, the common factor among all of these long living animals is that they all live in very cold water. And scientists think that These cooler environments lower the animal's body temperature and then in turn It slows down their metabolism. Oh, and metabolism is just a scientific word for how quickly an animal can turn the nutrients from their food into energy for their body. Yep, and because of their slow-down metabolism.

Researchers believe that these animals had, amongst other things, slower heartbeats and were able to make their food last longer in their bodies. Huh. So you're saying that the secret to a long life is to basically just Chill out? I mean literally? Ha, yeah, I I guess that's probably right. Okay, so I guess we're gonna get one of these cool clams for our team of revengers? Well, reaching your 500th birthday is a pretty big deal, especially when it comes to immortality.

For our team of Revengers, Mindy. I have someone else in mind. A creature that can literally live forever. Okay, so here we are back at this living forever business. And Guy Roz, I'm really not sure I buy it. I mean, nothing lasts forever. How to learn that one the hard way when I tried to achieve my five hundredth bottomless breadstick at the olive greenhouse.

Anything more for you, madam? No bread back well. I'm sorry, what was that? My breadback wheel. Ma'am, you've had 431 breadsticks. According to the Surgeon General, I You show this bridge for bottom lift of a m- See, nothing It's true, Mindy. Oh, hold on. I I think I have a photo of the little guy on my phone here. Go for a bottomless breadstick right now. Ah, yes, here it is. Say hello to Turotopsis Dorney, or the immortal jelly. When this little guy gets injured or

is close to starving to death, he'll just transform himself back into one of his previous life stages. What? How? So it would be like you getting a cut on your finger and transforming back into a Five-year-old and just trying again. Whoa, like a big fat built-in reset button. Yeah. Okay, so I guess next stop is a visit to this incredible invertebrate. Well, actually, we don't have to because my great Great grandfather Herschel Siegfried Bartholomew Raz talked the immortal

Like 200 years ago. Wait, but we just thought of this idea like five minutes ago. So how did your great-great grandfather Herschel even know 200 years ago? I don't know, we'll worry about that later. In the meantime, I think I know a guy who might be perfect for the team. Who's that, Mindy? Oh you'll see. Okay.

Okay, so Reg, we need you to take us to come here, get closer. Mindy, where are we going? Oh, you'll see. You ready? Here? We go! Woo! Thanks for the ride, Reggie. Yeah, thanks, Reg. Uh okay, now I need you to trust me and just let me do the talking, okay? I I don't like the look of this place, Mindy. Where are we? Open this door. And walk down that hall, okay? Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk normally, guy, Roz, just normal. Keep it cool. Walk, walk, walk.

Where is Mindy taking Guy Roz? Who is this mystery animal? Will Guy Roz Learn to walk. Hey, find out in part two of this episode next week. Brought to you by Bloody Oat Cereal, the only cereal that makes you say, ooh, I don't feel good. Reggie! You know what we have to do, right? We have to make our own team of superheroes! What do you mean who will be on the team? Well you obviously and me with all my superpowers. Reggie, I have lots of superpowers.

No, not static electricity, other superpowers. We'll get into it tomorrow. Now let's wrap it up so I can call everybody I know to be on our super team. Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning in to Wee Wow on the weekend! If you have a question for me, not about Static Man, call and leave me a message at one. Seven, wow wow. That's one, eight. Seven wow wow. I just might answer your question on Wee Wow on the weekend. Okay, should we do the goodbye song? Prime fighting vigilance. Bye!