WeWow on the Weekend

Hey, Wowzer fans, Mindy and Guy Raz here, and before we start the show, we've got a little surprise for you. Reggie, cue the fanfare. Starting this week, we've got brand new episodes of Wow in the World. Yep, that's right. Starting right here on our Wow in the World podcast feed and also our YouTube channel, WowTube. You can watch now at Tinkercast.com slash YouTube. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get back to the show. Laughing And then we Oh wait, no, I said laughing twice Uh, whatever Wee Wow on the weekend Wee Wow on the weekend Wee Wow on the weekend Cause this is what we do on the weekend Hello and welcome to Wee 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 hang out and chit-chat and do whatever we feel like doing because it's the weekend. So Reggie, what should we do? We could do anything. What? Nothing? Reggie, why nothing? You're tired from last weekend? What happened last weekend? Dizzyland? Reggie, you went to the amusement park without me? Reggie, how could you go to Dizzyland, the dizziest place on earth without me? Oh, right. I have a lifetime ban from Dizzyland for cutting in the line. And going down the water slide backwards. And barfing into no-barf zone. And heckling the mascots. And filling up one of the teacups in the teacup ride with actual tea. Well, you still could have invited me. Now I have FOMO and I can't focus on the show and everything's ruined. What? Really? You brought me a present back from Dizzyland? Reggie! What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? Oh, it's a pin shaped like Dizzy Dingo. So cute. Okay, I forgive you. Yay, presents. Okay, let's get into our first segment of the day. Reading Reviewsies. I'm reading Reviewsies for me and for you, Zs. We've got us some doozies, so let's read reviews. Reviews. Z's. This is the part where I find reviews that people write to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts or whatever and print a bunch out and then... Oh, Reggie, you've already printed a bunch out. Well, look at you. What a prepared little pigeon. Sorry. Prepared humongous pigeon. Okay, let's see what we've got here. This first reviewsie comes to us from username Chocolate Yellow Red Velvet Black Forest Uh Reggie These aren't reviewsies This is a list of cakes What? This list of cakes is from the comment section Oh yeah A couple months ago I asked my devoted listeners to tell me what cake to make On Dishing It Up With Dennis And then I forgot all about it But here they are The cake suggestions Okay, forget about reading reviewsies today We're doing a cooking segment Ahem Dish it up on a dish Anything that you wish Take a bite, that's delish Dishing it up With Dennis and Reggie Okay, today we're making a cake So let's take a look At this list Our devoted listeners have suggested The following cakes Chocolate, Black Forest, Red Velvet. There's another vote for chocolate. A vote for cheesecake. Oh, wow. Triple layer chocolate cake. Rainbow cake. Triple layer fudge with espresso. Yikes, that's a lot of cakes. Which one should we make? Well, we can't do the espresso cake because I already had two cups of coffee this morning and I'm out of my single origin super special ultra rare espresso beans. But maybe we can do a few of these other cakes all mixed together Okay, it looks like a lot of people want the cake to be chocolate Which is perfect because I have an old mug of hot chocolate right here No, Reggie, it's not hot, it's old Which means it's also cold It's old cold chocolate Okay, the next ingredient we need is flour Oh, Reggie, give me your toast Well, would you rather have toast or cake? That's right, good choice Okay, just gonna crumble this into the hot chocolate Give it a little stir And... Ta-da! Cake batter! Yeah, it's a little watery So what? Okay, now let's get to the rainbow cake How about we add some of these rainbow sprinkles? Fine. They're not so much sprinkles as they are jelly beans. No, Reggie. We'll just tear them into tiny bits like this. See? Sprinkles! Those go into the batter. And finally, I think someone wanted a cheesecake. And I just so happen to keep a slice of American cheese in my pocket at all times. Why? Because it feels smooth and it comforts me. It's my emotional support cheese. Just gotta unwrap it and put it on top. There. Yeah, I don't know why you put cheese on a cake, but anything for my devoted listeners. Okay, that is a good-looking mug of stuff that should become a cake, right? And now it's time to bake. Let me go get my oven. I have been waiting, just waiting to get this thing back out. It's from my childhood. Mother bought it for me so I could bake my own birthday cakes. Aha! Here it is! Get ready to be impressed, Reggie. Ta-da! It's the Cakey Bake Junior! Yeah! Check it out! Let me just turn it on. Cakey bake, cakey bake, cakey bake, cakey bake, cake! And now we put our cake batter inside. Then close it up and press this button. Yay, it's working! I love you, Cakey Bag Junior. When our delicious cake is done Cakey Bag Junior will go Ding What Honk It supposed to go ding What's a honk mean? Reggie, a honk does not mean it's a bad cake. Well, let's find out. Come here, my sweet confection. Ooh, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Okay, time to taste. Let me just get in there with the spoon. Mmm! Oh, sounds delicious! Yeah, it is really good! I'm just gonna spin it out real quick, though. Wow! Thanks for all your cake suggestions, listeners! And thank you, Cakey Bake Junior! Stop honking! Okay, let's move on to a little segment I like to call Inside Tinkercast Studio! Ahem! Inside Tinkercast Studios! 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 37, called The Dinosaur with Dandruff. Oh no! Dandruff? Reggie, I have a terrible secret. I have... Dandruff! No, I know it's not a big deal, but my scalp gets all itchy and flaky, see? Oh, got it all over the cake. Well, I hope there's an answer to my dandruff problems in this episode. I need to get rid of it. Okay, here we go. And wait. Wee Wow will be right back. Grownups, this message is for you. 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I can't wait to share my time travel tips and tricks with you all. You can listen to my new bite-sized episodes in the Who When Wow podcast feed now. Looks like lunch break is over. That's it. Now back to the show. Okay, a little tuna. A few sardines on there. Hmm, what else do I need? Ooh, maybe a little jelly to keep it all together. It's open! Now, where did I put the sprinkles? Oh! Oh, hey, Guy Raz! Hey, you! What? Mindy, what is going on here? Um... It smells like a fish market in here. Oh, I'm just about to go feed my Rex. Your Rex? Yeah, my T-Rex. T-Rex? Mindy, what are you talking about? My T-Rex, Gyros, as in Tyrannosaurus Rex. Looks like somebody needs to brush up on their dinosaurs. I know what a T-Rex is, Mindy. Then why are you pretending like you don't? What? Anywho, what's going on? Oh, nothing much, really. I just wanted to see what you were up to. What I'm up to is wondering what you're doing scratching your nog so much. Cut it out before you've got nothing left. Oh, sorry about that, Mindy. I don't know what's gotten into me. Ever since I started using this new hair wax last week, my head has been itching nonstop. Well, your hair does look a little more slick than usual. Even if you do mess it up every five seconds with your... Scratching! Guy Raz, you gotta stop! I can't help it! Okay, I got an idea. Um, here, why don't you just put on this awesome hat? It says cheeseburgers in paradise. Forget all about that itchy little nog of yours. Come out and help me feed the big guy. Feed who? Rex! My T-Rex, Guy Raz? T-Rexes have very serious appetites. Uh, sure. Let me just put this hat on. Ah, it's a little small for me. Mindy, is this hat made for one of those stuff-a-bears? Uh-huh. Okay, I need you to hold this bag of food. Okay. I'll follow behind you with... with this one. Uh, wait a minute. What's in this bag, Mindy? Organic corn seed mix? Yep, a T-Rex's favorite meal. Wait, so if this is for your pet T-Rex, Mindy, then what's with this big old bucket of fish? Oh yeah, that? I just got a little hungry. Come on, Guy Raz, this way! Coming! Huck, huck, huck, huck. Whoa. Mindy, these walls must be like 20 feet tall. Well, yeah, they're supposed to hold in T-Rexes. Huh. Now I need you to stand back while I open the coop, okay? Um, are you sure this is a good idea? How else are we supposed to feed them? Well... Vocal identification required. Ahem. It's raining tacos from out of the sky. Voice confirmed. Tacos. Don't even know why. Please stop singing, please. Just open your mouth and close your... Whatever. Oh, hey, look, it worked. Mindy I not sure about this Oh come on Guy Raz It just a T Here Rexy Rexy Rexy Rexy Rexy Here Rexy Rexy I got some food for you Num num num Don call for it Mindy Rexy is not an it. It's a he. And second of all... Who's that? Oh, that's probably him. Rexy, who wants some corn kernel? Come on out, I know you're hungry. Here he comes, Sky-Roz. My big old chicken. Chicken? Hey there, Rexy. Who's a good little dinosaur? You are. Yes, you are. You want some food? You got a hungry little birdie there. Wait, wait. This is Rexy? Where's your pet T-Rex you were talking about? Oh, well, this is him. Aren't you, buddy? Aren't you just the little teeny tiny T-Rex? Aren't you a little baby T-Rex? Bimby, I hate to burst your bubble here, but that is clearly a chicken. Okay, well, maybe technically speaking, he's a chicken. But he comes from a proud dinosaur dynasty, Gyros. Dinosaur dynasty? What do you mean? What I mean is that even though Rexy here might not technically be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Rexy's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents very well could have been. Ah, of course. So what you're saying is that chickens like Rexy here evolved from dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Exact-oritos, Skyros. And in the same way that we humans began to evolve from other primates millions and millions of years ago. Well, I can understand how humans are related to other primates. I mean, we kind of look similar. We have similar facial structures, similar hands, and a pretty similar sense of humor. Hey, hey, it's so great to be here tonight. Flew in this morning and boy are my arms tired. So, why do monkeys like bananas? Because they're so appealing. But a chicken and a T-Rex, Mindy? I can't think of two animals more different. So, what makes you think these two animals are actually related? I feel it in my bones. Huh? Or maybe I should say that Rexy here feels it in his bones. Hmm, what do you mean? His great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy was a T-Rex. It's all in his bones. In Rexy's bones? Yeah, so a group of paleontologists... Which are the people who do study dinosaurs and other prehistoric life? That's right. A group of paleontologists from North Carolina State University were studying a 68-million-year-old leg bone of a T-Rex when they found something very special. What? Wait for it. Collagen. Collagen? You mean the stuff that's in our bones? The stuff that makes our bones slightly flexible? The very same stuff. Okay, so what's so special about collagen? Well, they were able to take this little bit of dino collagen that they found and then run it through a database where they could compare it to a whole bunch of other living animals. And? And they found a match. The modern-day chicken. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. They discovered that the collagen found in this prehistoric dinosaur was almost exactly like the collagen found in modern-day chickens, like Rexy here. Wow. But it's not just chickens and T-Rexes that share something in common. It isn't? Nope. Scientists now think that all modern-day birds are in some way related to prehistoric dinosaurs. Huh, you know, now that I think about it, Mindy There are a lot more similarities between birds and dinosaurs than I thought Yeah, so what do you think? Well, for one, they both have a ferocious appetite And for two, they're both covered in feathers Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Hold the phone, Guy Raz Dinosaurs with feathers? That's right, Mindy I thought the dinosaurs were all scaly and thick-skinned like Grandma G-Force's pet alligator Ripples. Come on now, Ripple. Get in the tub and show Mama that barrel. It's time for your five-minute. I'm gonna wax you up. What? You want a rassle? Well, there definitely were dinosaurs that were scaly, Mindy. But more and more feathered dinosaurs are being discovered every day Really? Yeah, over the past 20 years or so 30 species of non-avian or non-flying dinosaurs have been found with feathers Just like birds? Some of them, yes But there are other dinosaurs who have very fine, very small feathers called proto-feathers Loco-sweaters? Proto-feathers Scientists believe that these sorts of feathers would have looked like brightly colored fuzz that would have covered the dinosaur's entire body Dino fuzz! Hey, why don't you have any dino fuzz, Rexy? Yeah, that's a good point My itchy head, it's driving me nuts You know what, Guy Raz? That just reminded me of something What? I think I know what's got your noggin in need of a scratchin' Come here, let me see that little coconut cabesa of yours Okay, Mindy, fine Let me just take my glasses off here There you go Whoa, you only have two eyes? Huh? Hmm, okay, let me just inspect here Uh... Hmm, yes Hmm Yep, just as I suspected What is it, Mindy? Well, it's this Mindy, what are you doing? Mindy, why were you shaking my head like that? I'm not a... Whoa, what is that? It looks like a small pile of snow. Uh, that's not snow, my friend. It's dandruff. Dandruff? Ugh, gross. Shh, the dandruff can hear you, Guy Raz. It's not gross. It's just little pieces of dead skin in your hair. What was all that dandruff doing in my hair Mindy Well it probably got something to do with that new hair wax you been putting through those luscious locks of yours My hair wax Well it just keeps my hair neat and tidy Yeah, but have you checked the label? It says right here, may cause radical mohawks and wicked dandruff. Mindy, where did you get a canister of my hair wax from? Oh, no, this isn't yours. This is Rexy's. You guys just use the same kind. You put hair wax on your chicken? Of course I put hair wax on my chicken, Guy Raz. How else do you think he'd be able to maintain that slick and dapper look of his? Wait a minute. Do chickens get dandruff too? Not only do chickens get dandruff, Guy Raz, but so did their ancestors. You mean... Yep. I'm talking about dino dandruff. Okay, so I can guess how you found out that Rexy had dandruff I'm guessing you just Picked him up and gently shook him out, yeah But how do you know that his ancestors had dandruff? Oh, well Wait a minute Did you use the time machine to go back in time and ruffle up some dinosaurs? Hey, Roz, do I look like the type of person who would go back in time and ruffle up dinosaurs? Uh Don't answer that Then how'd you find out? Well, my friend, the answer lies in this. A half-chewed piece of gum, a gumdrop button, and three AAA batteries? Oh, sorry, wrong pocket. Take two. This. Whoa. What is that? This Skyraz is a fossilized dinosaur feather. Oh, cool. Oh, and just so we're clear, fossilization is what happens when a living organism, like a plant or an animal, gets frozen or encased in something like tar or quicksand when it dies. Yeah, and that process protects it from the elements and stops the body from decaying or rotting. Right, so where did you get a fossilized dino feather from, Mindy? Oh, it came free in my box of dandruff flakes. Huh? Cereal. Really? No, not really. My friend Maria McNamara from the University of College Cork loaned it to me. Ah, huh. And where did she get it from? She got it from China. Ah. And you'll never guess what she found on this fossilized dino feather. Dandruff. Yeah, how did you know? Well, it just kind of seemed like where the story was heading. Well, look at you with your deductive reasoning skills. Well, you're right. This fossilized feather belonged to a teeny tiny little crow-sized raptor that lived in prehistoric China 125 million years ago. Whoa, 125 million years? That's like, well, that's a really long time ago. It sure is. And you know what that means? What? That this dandruff on this fossil is, as far as we know, the oldest case of itchy head in existence. Whoa. But this little fleck of dino dandruff is way more than just another case of forgetting to use your shampoo. What do you mean? Well, dandruff is made up of dried up, dead skin cells on your scalp. Oh, right. Of course, it's how our body sheds our skin. Yeah, and so scientists thought for the longest time that dinosaurs shed all of their skin at once. Huh, like a snake or a lizard. Right, but what this little piece of dandruff proves is that at least some dinosaurs, particularly the ones with feathers, shed their skin in teeny tiny little bits. In the form of dandruff. Dandruff! Exact Doritos! And ever since my friend Dr. McNamara found this fossilized follicle, other researchers have found two more cases of dino dandruff. Which means it wasn't a one-off fluke. Nope. And when they compared this ancient dandruff to modern-day bird dandruff, they found that they were almost identical. Wow. Except for one thing. What was it, Mindy? Corneocyte Corneocyte? Yep Let me see here in my handy dandy reference guide Corneocyte, corneocyte, corneocyte Corneocytes are a type of fat that birds sweat out to try and cool down after flying Yeah, and when a bird sweats that stuff out, it usually gets collected in the dandruff But no corneocytes were found in the dino dandruff Which means that although these dinosaurs had feathers, they probably didn't fly. Again with the deductive reasoning. That's exactly right, Gyros. Ha! Well, I'm glad to know I'm not alone when it comes to my... Ugh! Itchy head. And you say that if I stop using that hair wax, then the itching should stop? Well, it did work for Rexy, didn't it, buddy? Rexy? Rexy? Uh-oh. Uh-oh? What? What's going on, Mindy? Tiny T-Rex on the loose, everyone! Run for your lives! T-Rex? Well, someone should save that chicken. Oh, I get it now. No, not the thing about fossils, Reggie. The thing about hair wax. If I stop using Guy Raz's hair wax, I won't have dandruff anymore. I just need to ditch Guy Raz's tin of hair wax and use something else waxy to style my hair. Oh, I know. What about earwax? Because it's free, and I already have a bunch. Of course earwax will work just as good as hair wax, Reggie. They both have wax in the name. How different can they be? Okay, let's wrap this up so I can go style my hair. 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 1-888-7-WOW-WOW. That's 1-888-7-WOW-WOW. I just might answer your question on Wee Wow on the Weekend. Okay, should we do the goodbye song? Let's do it. That's the end of the show. I need to go and collect all my earwax into a little jar And then use it to style my hair so I look super cool But I'll do another show tomorrow But for now, that's the end of the show Bye!