Hey WowsR fams, Mindy here, and before we start the show, guess what? You can join me every Friday for two What's in a Wow people who wow edition. In this Getting to Know You game show, I'll be visited by some of the world's most fascinating people to get the wows and the what's of their lives. From cartoonist and graphic novelist Rana Telgemeier of the Smile series to everyday extraordinary kids just like you. And that's not all. With this new season of Two What's in a Wow, there are now two ways to wow. What am I talking about? Well first, you can listen to episodes right here in our Wow and the World podcast feed. Or… and this is a big Or. Yeah, you're right Reg. That doesn't have the same ring to it. Okay, now where was I? Oh, yeah. As always, you can listen to new episodes in your favorite podcast player or you can watch these episodes with your eyeballs on YouTube. I know, I should comb my hair or something. We are so excited for you to listen and watch our new season of Two What's in a Wow, People Who Wow Edition, starting this Friday. So make sure you're subscribed to our podcast feed and our Wow Tube channel on YouTube so you don't miss out. That's Two What's in a Wow, People Who Wow Edition coming this Friday. And now a quick ad break and then we'll get on with the show. Oh wait, no I said laughing twice. Whatever! We Wow on the weekend. Yeah, we Wow on the weekend. We Wow on the weekend. Cause this is what we do on the weekend. Hello and welcome to We Wow on the weekend. I'm your host, Dennis. And that's my co-host, Reggie, the Giant Pigeon. This is the show where we talk and laugh and do stuff and answer questions from our fans and listen to TinkerCast podcasts. And today we're gonna, what's that Reggie? It's a special day today. Really? Well what day is it? Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me. Mother's Day! The day we celebrate mothers and grandmothers and guardians and other special grown-ups in our lives. Well this is terrible! Fake odds Reggie, I forgot to do something special for my mother. Oh, she's probably upstairs wondering why oh why I haven't made her breakfast or given her a gift or even remembered what day it is. I gotta figure something out quick. Oh, that's a great idea Reggie. I'll make mother a card. And so you know what that means. That's right, it means our first segment is Crafter Noon. Pancakes are for eating and rivers are for rafting. And Broadway is for my one man show, but afternoons are for crafting. Crafter Noon. Today on Crafter Noon, we're making Mother's Day cards. I've got a big box of art supplies here. In case I ever run into an art emergency like the one I'm having right now. Let's see, we've got paper and markers and scissors and glitter and all kinds of stuff. Do you want to make a card for Mama the Giant pigeon Reggie? Let's do it! Here we go. So Reggie, what's your favorite thing to do with your mom? What? You play basketball together. Oh, bird's skit ball. How do you play that? Uh huh. And then you have to get the ball in the other team's hoop. Oh, coop. You get the ball in the other team's coop. Got it, got it. Well, my favorite thing to do with my mother is when we have our mother Dennis Spaday's. Yeah, we do a 19 step skincare routine and put cucumber slices on our eyes. Oh, I don't know why we put cucumber slices on our eyes. It's just a spa thing. Yes, Reggie, it has to be cucumber slices. No, not lemon slices. Never lemon slices. Or jalapeno. That would be bad. Yeah. How's your card coming along? Wow! You made a pop-up card of mama and Reggie pigeon. That's so cool. And mine's going well too. See, I wrote I love you, mother, in macaroni. What do you mean? Why is it dripping? It's macaroni. Well, I didn't have dry macaroni, so I typed some leftover cooked macaroni and cheese I had sitting on my desk. Well, whatever. Now, if mother's hungry after she reads the card, she can have a snack. Exactly. It's the perfect card. Great job, Dennis. Okay, let's move on. Next up is a little segment I like to call Inside Tinker Cast Studios. Inside Tinker Cast Studios. This is the part where we revisit an episode of one of my favorite Tinker Cast shows. And today we're listening to Wow in the World Season 9, Episode 5, called Yay for Octomoms. Oh, hey! We're in this one, Reggie. Remember? Yeah, this is the one where we had a fun beach day and then got to go on an undersea adventure. An undersea adventure, magic beneath the waves. Okay, here we go. And fight. We Wow will be right back. Grownups, this message is for you. That's it. Now back to the show. Ah, what a lovely day for a beach trip. The sun is out, my 70 SPF sunscreen is on, and Mindy is nowhere to be seen. Where is she? We're set to meet here at 10 o'clock. Okay, Reggie. Hand me that bucket and shovel, please. No, Reggie, not that bucket and shovel. The other one. The one that looks like a goldfish. No, the other one that looks like a goldfish. Reggie! Alright, G-Force, you're served. You sure you're ready for this, old man? Oh, yeah, dude. I was born ready. Well, watch out, Fingerling, because here comes the smack attack. Hey! Oh, hey, horse. I told you to watch out. Well, I'm sure Mindy will show up soon. In the meantime, I think it's about time I got started on my book. A history of elbow patches and their uses. I don't know if there's such a thing as the perfect beach read, but I think this one comes pretty close. Let's see here. Chapter one, elbow patches and the pharaohs. Wow. Oh, no! What in the... Oh, cool! The wow machine just appeared in midair. What? Oh, my sandcastle! Fine. Our sandcastle. Whatever. I'm soaked. Oh, my book. I made it! Mindy! Get Rosy! Mindy, what are you doing in the wow machine? You completely soaked my book! Oh, sorry, Guy Ros. I'm still trying to get the hang of those water landings. I can see that. But now that I'm here, we can get going. Get going? Get going where? To the nursery, Guy Ros. Why'd you think I asked you to meet me at the beach? I thought we were having a nice, relaxing day on the beach. You mean just sitting around in the sun doing nothing? Yeah. I was building a sandcastle. Rajee, you are not lead architect. Yeah, like I said, sitting around doing nothing. Well, why did you bring us all to the beach then, Mindy? Oh, I brought you to the beach for science. For science? Yeah. I'm not getting it, Mindy. You don't have to get it, Guy Ros. All you have to do is trust me completely and get into the wow machine. But... No, come on, Guy Ros. Anything for science? Anything for science. Yay! Who else is it? Hey, hey, hey, hey! I want to come! Okay, Rajee and Dennis are in. Come on, get in the wow machine. Hooray! Wow machine! Wow machine! Wow machine! Thomas Fingerling, Grandma G-Force, you want to come? Well, I gotta stay back and teach Fingerling a lesson in volleyball. What? You couldn't teach me a lesson in... I'm sorry, you were saying what, Fingerling? Nothing. Okay, well, try not to get too violent while we're away. Don't hurt each other or anything. No promises. All right, come on, Guy Ros. Hop on in. All right. Okay, everybody got their seatbelts on? Yep, yes. Great. Now let me just switch the wow machine into submarine mode here. Wow! Oh no! Mindy, there's a massive leak in the side of the wow machine. Don't worry, Guy Ros. Let me just get out my gum here. Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing. Mindy! Oh wow! That should hold it. Should hold it? Now where was I? Oh yeah, everyone, hold on to your butts. We're going down. Ooh! So Mindy, can you remind me again about where we're heading? We are heading to the nursery, Guy Ros. Oh right. A nursery? You mean like for babies? Yep, but not the kind of babies you're thinking of, Dennis. Oh really? What kind of babies am I thinking of? Uh, baby Dennis babies, small, pudgy, two arms, two legs. Those are the babies I was thinking of. Yeah, well these babies in the nursery that we're going to have eight arms, suckers, and live at the bottom of the ocean. What? Because the babies in this nursery are octopus babies. Octopus babies? Yeah, it's known as a brooding ground and it's where mama octopuses go to give birth. Really? Yeah, and there are baby octopuses as far as the eye can see. Scientists estimate that there could be as many as 20,000 octopuses down there. 20,000? Uh huh. Oh wow. But what makes this spot on the ocean floor such a hot spot for octomoms? Well, Guy Ros, it all has to do with the temperature. The temperature? Yeah, and we should be getting to just the right depth now for me to show you what I mean. Let me just roll down the window here. Huh? Wait. Uh oh. I'm getting all wet. Mindy, you're wet in the ocean. Close that window. I just hold on one second. Just gotta wrap the thermometer off the outside of the world as she hears anything. Hurry up, we're all getting soaked. There, got it. A little wet in here. Just drain the cockpit real quick. And... Cool! Great! Now, where was I? You were telling us about the water temperature. Oh, right, yeah. So, if we take a look at this here thermometer, we can see that the water is... Can anyone tell me the temperature of the water? I don't know. I only know how to read Canadian temperatures. What? Canadian temperatures, you know. Celsius. Oh, got it. Can you read the thermometer, Guy Ross? Alright, let's see here. 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Which is 11 degrees Celsius in Canadian temperatures. That's right, Dennis. I don't understand, Mindy. What's the significance of this water being 52 degrees Fahrenheit? Well, if we just rewind this thermometer here... What in the... We can see that the temperature is dropping. Oh, yeah, look at that. The temperature now reads 35 degrees. Which is 1.5 degrees Canadian. Exacteritos. The surrounding water is much colder. But down here, it's pretty nice and warm. I don't understand, Mindy. I would have thought that the lower down you go, the further away you get from the sun, the colder it would get. Well, normally that would be the case, Guy Ross. But this place is special. You see, this part of the ocean floor is heated by underwater volcanoes. And that hot magma from the volcano running underneath here heats the surrounding water on the sea floor. You're picking up what I'm putting down, Guy Ross. And presumably, these octomoms like warmer waters for giving birth. You tell me, the octonurcery should be right over this ridge. Wow! Oh, yeah. Mindy, there's thousands of them. They look like fleshy little soccer balls with long arms and suckers. I have never seen so many octopuses before. I think this might be the most octopuses anyone has ever seen. What do you mean? Well, when scientists first discovered this fruiting round back in 2018, it was the largest group of octopuses ever recorded. Wow. So why are so many of them here? Well, because the warm water helps to shorten the octopuses' gestation time. Gestation time? I don't know what time it is at the station. Oh boy. Fine. I'll guess 5 o'clock. No, no, no. Not gestation time. Dennis, gestation time. It means the amount of time that it takes for the octopus baby to hatch out of its egg. Ah. Exactly. And these scientists found that these higher water temperatures were able to cut down the octopuses' gestation time by as much as four times. Whoa. That's so much faster. No wonder all these octomoms come here. And so I'm guessing that a shorter gestation time means that their eggs have a higher chance of hatching and being healthy too. Exactly. But do you know why? Know why? Well, it's because of a strange behavior that the octomoms do when they're waiting for their eggs to hatch. Well, what is it? What's the behavior, Mindy? Oh, is it reading? Reading? Yeah, like reading a book. How is reading a strange behavior, Dennis? Well, have you ever seen an octopus mom read before? Hmm. I guess I haven't. That's right. Oh, it's not reading. The strange behavior is starving. Starving? Yeah. For the entire time that these octopuses are waiting for their eggs to hatch, they won't eat anything. They just sit around and watch over their eggs, protecting them from predators. I know that moms are always sacrificing, but that's wild. No food for the entire time their eggs are gestating? Yeah, which is usually around four years, but it can be up to eight years. Eight years with no food? What? I can't go eight minutes without food. Speaking of which, this here and... Oh. Oh. Dennis, is that a sandwich? No, it's a hoagie. Oh, okay. How can these octopuses go eight years without food? Well, they can't. What do you mean? Well, most of these octomoms don't make it through this breeding process. They make the ultimate sacrifice for their babies. They die? Yeah, and they use their bodies to protect their eggs from predators. Oh. That's pretty gruesome, Indy. I know, right? And so I'm guessing the shorter they're able to make their gestation period, the longer they're able to stay alive to protect their eggs. You got it. Ha! Now it makes sense why there are so many octopuses here. Warm water means less time for your eggs to hatch, and less time for your eggs to hatch means more chances for your octobabies to survive. Exactly. Oh, oh, everyone, look! Over there! What is it, Dennis? Oh! That octo-egg is octo-hatching! Where? Just there! Oh, wow! Mindy, see if you can get a bit closer. You got it, Captain. Turning, turning, turning, turning. Oh, oh, just there, Mindy. Easy, easy, and stop! Activating octopus translator? Octopus translator? Whoa! It's happening! It's happening! Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry! Oh, so cute! Oh, so cute! Dacroctobus! Yes! Yes! Wow! That was so cool! What a great episode, starring me, right, Reggie? Huh? Oh, why do I only know Canadian temperatures? Well, because when I was a young Dennis, I once went on a Snoop Scout camping trip, and I got lost. Right, and then I ended up spending five cold months in Saskatoon, wandering the wilderness, reading temperatures in Celsius. Oh, well, I eventually got directions home from a friendly moose. In fact, it was a mommy moose with her little mooselings. Yeah, just like all those octomoms taking care of all their baby octo eggs. Reggie, that reminds me, we should do something special for Mother's Day. All right, we already did. Um, well, we need to wrap up the show so I can go give Mother her card. Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning in to We Well on the weekend! If you have a question for me, call and leave me a message at 1-888-7-WOW. That's 1-888-7-WOW. I just might answer your question on We Well on the weekend! Okay, let's go. Mother's gonna be so excited! And we need to hurry up because my card is starting to smell. Oh, Mother! Before we get into the credits for today's episode, we want to give some special shout-outs and say a huge thank you to some of the Wousers whose families are powering the wow this year. We broke the names up into two batches, and here is our first batch of names. We are so grateful for your support. Owen and Aubrey from California, Saman and Ryan from California, Aureline and Esther from New York, Ella from Singapore, Lacey Elementary from North Carolina, Teddy, Silas and Emmett from Arizona, Jason from Texas, Eli and Nolan from Texas, Luke and Noel from North Carolina, Ilan from California, Emmett and Adler from Kansas, John, Katie, Ethan and Amelia from Pennsylvania, Nezla and Yaqub from Kuwait, Evelyn, Ramona and Cabatha from Nevada, John R from Wisconsin, Emery and Ila from California, Caroline from Massachusetts, Ian and Declan from Washington, Eleanor and Lucia from Maryland, Parker from Texas, Albert and Lulu from Brighton, England, Hayden, Hazel and Alley from Pennsylvania, Magnus from the District of Columbia, William and Alley from Virginia, Brendan, Jessica, David and Michael from Ohio, Bailey, Macy and Hank from South Carolina, James from Washington, Peter, Teddy and Leo from Minnesota, Paul from Rhode Island, Nuri from Washington, Violet and Will from California, Audrey and Ethan from Virginia, Alex H from Tennessee, James and Madison from Utah, and Happy Birthday to Otis from Minnesota, from the bottom of our hearts, and the tops of our brains. Thank you. Thanks for joining us for this edition of We Wow! Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jed Anderson. The role of baby Dennis is played by Jed Anderson. Who plays the role of big Dennis? Never you mind. Original sound design and production is done by Tyler Thull, with contributions from Jed Anderson and Henry Moskel. Original music for We Wow! is composed and performed by Tyler Thull. Special thanks to Jessica Bode, Rebecca Caban, Dr. Natasha Crandall, Kenny Curtis, Kristin Yang, Meredith Helper and Ranzer, Thanks again for thinking, tinkering, experimenting and exploring with me this week. Be sure to check out episodes of Wow in the World on Mondays, 2 What's in a Wow on Fridays, and We Wow on the weekend with Dennis on the weekends. And remember, Who Wow's, I Wow! Oh, baby Dennis, We Wow! All rise, We Wow! Wow in the World was made by Tinkercast, and set to you by Wundery.
