WeWow On The Weekend (8/12/23)

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00:41: We wow on the weekend.

00:43: We wow on the weekend.

00:45: We wow on the weekend.

00:47: Cause this is what we do on the weekend.

00:50: Talking, laughing, me and Reggie.

00:54: Singing, laughing, and then we...

00:57: Oh wait, no, I said laughing twice.

00:59: Mmm.

01:00: Ah.

01:01: Whatever.

01:01: We wow on the weekend.

01:03: Yeah, we wow on the weekend.

01:06: Clap, clap, we wow on the weekend.

01:08: Cause this is what we do on the weekend.

01:13: Hello and welcome to We Wow on the weekend.

01:17: I'm your host, Dennis.

01:20: And Reggie is my co-host, which I guess also makes some York co-hosts, I think.

01:25: This is the show where we hang out in Mother's basement on the weekend, in Chichat, and play games,

01:31: and listen to episodes of Tinkercast Podcasts, and do all kinds of other stuff.

01:35: I don't know, Reggie, all kinds.

01:38: Hmm. Well, what do you want to do first?

01:42: No, I don't want to do that. Let's play what's in the box again.

01:46: What do you mean that bit is played out?

01:50: Well, I think it's still funky fresh.

01:52: Let's do it.

01:54: I found a box down here in the basement.

01:57: And now I'm gonna find out what's in the box.

01:59: Okay, you stay here.

02:01: I'm gonna go into the crawl space.

02:03: Reggie, quiet.

02:04: I'm not gonna get stuck again.

02:06: I just gotta duck under this.

02:09: One beam.

02:10: Yeah.

02:11: Ow.

02:12: Okay.

02:13: I'm in.

02:14: I'm just gonna grab a box here.

02:17: Yeah.

02:18: Okay, I got one.

02:20: Okay.

02:21: Okay.

02:25: Okay, got a box.

02:27: Now let's open it and find out what's in it.

02:31: Ready?

02:32: What in this box?

02:38: It's baby Dennis.

02:40: Baby Dennis is back, baby.

02:44: Baby Dennis, my favorite ventriloquist dummy who looks just like me.

02:48: No, uh, big Dennis looks just like Baby Dennis.

02:53: What were you doing in the box, Baby Dennis?

02:55: The giant pigeon put Baby Dennis in here.

02:58: Roger, how could you?

03:02: Oh yeah, I guess I did leave them sitting out.

03:04: Thanks for putting him away.

03:05: But now we need to start the show over.

03:08: Because we have another co-host.

03:10: No!

03:14: Hello and welcome to WeWOW on the weekend. I'm your host, Dennis.

03:19: And I'm Baby Dennis.

03:21: Reggie, Baby Dennis is not weird and creepy.

03:25: Yeah, I'm adorable.

03:27: Hey Baby Dennis, what do you want to do on the show today?

03:31: Baby Dennis wants to review reviews.

03:35: Great idea, Baby Dennis.

03:37: Reggie, you know what reviews are.

03:40: Yeah Reggie, reviews are the comments people write on Apple podcasts or Spotify or whatever

03:46: and they give us stars and we print them out and read them out loud.

03:51: That's right, very good baby Dennis.

03:53: Tee hee.

03:55: Okay, here we go.

03:57: Ahem.

03:58: I'm reading Rip those ees.

04:00: For me, for you, there's we got us some dosis.

04:03: So let's read.

04:05: Reveals.

04:09: Tastes all right. Let's get the first review see here

04:14: This one's from user name

04:16: Uh-oh

04:19: I can't read that. Oh is it something naughty?

04:23: No, it's not naughty. I just don't know what all these symbols are underscore six

04:30: Sir come flex open bracket close brackets or come flex again. I'm not reading all these symbols

04:38: The title says, questions for Dennis.

04:41: The message says, Mr. Dennis.

04:44: Ooh, I like being called Mr. Dennis.

04:47: He he he.

04:50: Mr. Dennis, I have five questions for you.

04:53: Five.

04:55: Question one.

04:56: Who do you think is Static Man?

05:00: And then, um, that's it.

05:03: Well, the rest of the questions.

05:05: Mr. Dennis, Mr. Dennis!

05:08: Yes?

05:09: Baby, Dennis knows who Stannickman is.

05:13: Rrrr.

05:13: Ah, ha, ha, ha.

05:14: Well, that's just a...

05:16: Stannickman is Mr. Dennis!

05:18: Rrrr.

05:19: Rrrr.

05:20: Rrrr.

05:22: Okay, that's all right if you don't know, baby, Dennis.

05:25: Rrrr.

05:26: We're all the way that Stannickman is probably someone really strong and really capable,

05:32: and really mysterious, and really good at gardening.

05:35: Next question!

05:35: That's it, man!

05:36: It's me!

05:38: No!

05:38: No, no, no, no, no, next question!

05:40: Woo!

05:42: Okay, this one is from username T-T-G-B-B-J-N-K.

05:47: The title says, chicken.

05:50: And the message says, chicken, chicken, chicken emoji.

05:54: Huh.

05:55: Well, my response to you is, uh, I don't know.

06:01: Baby Dennis, how do we respond?

06:03: Pigeon, pigeon, pigeon emoji.

06:07: Ooh!

06:07: Ha, ha, ha!

06:08: Oh!

06:09: Next pigeon, I mean, next review-sy.

06:12: All right, this last review-sy.

06:15: Oh!

06:15: I know, I know.

06:17: My printer ran out of ink, sorry.

06:19: Woo-hoo-hoo!

06:20: This last one is from Username, LROs9.

06:24: The title says, this is for Dennis and his reviews.

06:28: Ah, they're called reviews.

06:30: Yes, thank you, baby Dennis, calm down.

06:32: And the message says, I would rate it a 15 out of 10.

06:37: Oh, and then there's a whole bunch of thumbs up emojis.

06:41: Ooh, how many?

06:42: A lot.

06:43: Ah!

06:44: And gold smiley faces and gold medals and gold trophies and gold ribbons.

06:49: Hooray!

06:51: Re-witch!

06:52: Thanks, Eleoros.

06:54: Yes, and thank you, everyone, for all your reviews.

06:58: Keep them coming.

07:00: If you leave a comment on Apple Podcast or Spotify,

07:03: I just might read it on WeWOW on the weekend.

07:06: BEE-BEE!

07:07: Five stars or more, please?

07:09: BEE-BEE!

07:10: Baby Dennis, don't be ridiculous.

07:12: Obviously, we want five stars or more.

07:14: BEE-BEE!

07:15: Okay, now should we listen to a TinkerCast podcast?

07:19: BEE-BEE!

07:20: Baby Dennis is ready!

07:21: Perfect, because next up is a little segment I like to call

07:26: Inside TinkerCast Studios.

07:28: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!

07:29: Inside Dinkercass Studio!

07:32: This is the part where we revisit an episode

07:35: of one of my favorite Tinker Cascows.

07:38: Oh, whoa!

07:38: And today, we're listening to an episode

07:41: of Wow in the World from season one, episode eight.

07:44: This is Baby Dennis' favorite episode called Let's Flamingo.

07:50: All right, let's get the episode ready here.

07:53: Baby Dennis, what do you want to put to the button?

07:55: No, big Dennis wants to press the button.

07:58: No! Baby Dennis wants to push the button because Baby Dennis is a baby!

08:04: But that's not fair!

08:08: Okay, fine. Baby Dennis can push the button.

08:11: Array!

08:12: Teehee! Press!

08:15: We will be right back.

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09:16: That's it, now back to the show.

09:23: Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

09:25: I do believe it.

09:28: I do believe it's true.

09:31: Yeah.

09:32: Oh, oh, oh.

09:35: Whoa.

09:36: Whoa.

09:38: Hey, you got it.

09:41: Do something about that door guy, Ros.

09:43: It really blocks the entry to get inside your house.

09:46: Did you just run right through it?

09:49: Don't worry, I'm finally if you scratch it.

09:52: My beautiful door.

09:54: Well, you're ready for a day at the zoo?

09:56: Am I ever?

09:57: I've checked off just about everything on my safety spreadsheet.

10:01: Let's see, sunscreen.

10:03: I got my first day in kids, some bubble wrap, some toilet seat covers.

10:09: I got a shovel to dig you out of trouble, maybe.

10:12: Yeah, I'd say we're all set for an accident free day at the zoo.

10:15: Right.

10:16: So in that case, I brought along some bright reflective clothing for you to wear.

10:22: And just in case there are hunters or something.

10:25: Hunters?

10:26: Yeah, or if we get separated in a crowd of people and I need to find you more easily,

10:31: you should definitely have these bright clothes on.

10:33: Well, normally I'm not really one for flashy clothing.

10:36: You can still wear your wool pants and tweed blazers.

10:39: Put this stuff on top, okay?

10:41: Well, okay, but only for safety reasons, Mindy.

10:44: What other reasons could I possibly have?

10:48: Errrr...

10:49: Here, put these on first.

10:51: Hot pink leggings?

10:52: Uh, okay.

10:53: Yep, just please, mom.

10:55: Right over your world trousers.

10:57: Mmm, looking great.

10:58: It seems a little weird.

11:00: Just remember, we're doing this for safety.

11:03: Right, uh, that's...

11:04: Now just climb into this hot pink unitarred.

11:07: Errr...

11:08: Easy doesn't.

11:09: Got it!

11:10: Okay, hold it right there.

11:13: So what is this all about?

11:16: Okay, remember how you once said that you would do anything for science?

11:21: Yeah, pretty much anything, I guess.

11:24: Well, would you go into a dark cave filled with bats?

11:28: Sure.

11:29: Would you spend a year living with a pack of wild wolves?

11:33: Sure, especially if they listen to Prokofiev.

11:35: Well, I am asking you now, if you believe in science.

11:40: Okay.

11:41: I need you to dress up like a pink flamingo.

11:45: Ah, now I get it.

11:47: Huh?

11:48: Okay, but I am absolutely drawing the line at the beak.

11:52: Oh no worries, I can just paint your nose to look like one.

11:54: Okay, if you're sure this is gonna help science.

11:58: Come here, we got a squeezy window this pinkly-attired.

12:00: Ah!

12:01: Here!

12:02: Ah!

12:03: Oh!

12:04: Oh!

12:06: Oh!

12:07: Oh!

12:09: Ah yeah, that's the stuff.

12:10: All of this pink spandex is starting to feel a little tight.

12:17: It's just doing its job, GuyRaz.

12:19: Now for the final touch, I just need to glue all of these

12:22: to you, so stay really, really still, okay?

12:25: Pink feathers.

12:26: Remember, this is for science.

12:28: Uh, okay, now hand me that crazy glue and turn around.

12:31: I gotta get the back.

12:32: Are you sure about this, Mendy?

12:33: Do I not look like I know what I'm doing?

12:35: Hey, hey, hey, what are you gonna wear?

12:37: Wow, I'm just gonna wear a sensible, tailored pant suit.

12:40: To the zoo?

12:41: Yeah, people already think I'm ridiculous,

12:43: so this is gonna show them a serious side.

12:46: I have no idea what's going on anymore.

12:48: Okay, let me just glue one last little feather

12:51: to your forehead and we are done.

12:55: Gaira's the look is complete and you are one fabulous flamingo.

13:02: Okay, now grab your safety sack.

13:03: It is time to go to the zoo.

13:06: We got to hurry though, because there's something I want to investigate once we get there.

13:09: Investigate?

13:10: Come on!

13:11: Let's go!

13:12: My carrier pigeon is waiting outside and we charge it by the minute!

13:15: Okay, saddle up and get ready for takeoff.

13:18: Because here we...

13:19: Yeah!

13:20: Yeah!

13:21: Yeah!

13:23: Yeah!

13:24: Yeah!

13:25: Yeah!

13:26: Yeah!

13:27: Yeah!

13:29: Yeah!

13:30: Yeah!

13:31: Yeah!

13:32: Yeah!

13:32: your carrier pigeon moves fast. I still can't believe you trained him to carry you everywhere you

13:37: want to go. Hey, I believe we made it to the zoo in one piece. Mindy, are you sure that all this

13:42: pink feathered spandex was a good idea? I feel like everyone's staring at me weird. Oh, well if

13:49: that's what you're worried about, then I know a place where you will fit right in. Oh no.

13:55: Come on, let's go!

13:56: Oh, it's okay.

13:58: Okay, here we are.

14:00: Ah, the flamingo pen.

14:03: Really, Mindy?

14:04: With your bee-keld hive, I want you to march right on into the middle of that block.

14:09: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

14:10: I want you to start to flamingo, okay?

14:12: What?

14:13: Why is everyone taking my picture?

14:14: Make a Ros, look at me.

14:16: Look at me.

14:17: Ah.

14:18: You are the most beautiful and unique flamingo in the flock.

14:24: There is literally no other flamingo like you.

14:27: So own it, okay?

14:29: Okay.

14:30: Now just follow my directions.

14:32: Uh.

14:32: First, squat down like you're going to sit on an invisible chair, like a toilet or something.

14:38: Uh, like this?

14:39: Now, with your back straight, use your hips as a hinge and push your butt backward.

14:45: This feels weird.

14:46: Right, that means you're doing it right.

14:47: Now, stay steady.

14:49: Don't lean forward.

14:51: Your knees and ankles should be at a 90 degree angle.

14:55: Okay.

14:56: Yeah, you're doing great.

14:58: Now try it with just one leg and close your eyes and try to fall asleep, okay?

15:03: Mindy, I'm not true at the point of all this is.

15:06: Easy does it.

15:07: Now without losing your balance, switch over to the other way.

15:11: I am not understanding the science here.

15:14: Oh, well, for that I have a really good explanation.

15:17: Okay, this better be good.

15:19: Okay, Roz, remember how I told you

15:20: that I wanted to come to the zoo today

15:22: to conduct sort of an investigative science experiment.

15:26: So there is a scientific reason why I'm standing here

15:29: in a flock of flamingos dressed in pink feathers?

15:32: Of course there is.

15:34: Sort of.

15:35: This better be good.

15:35: OK, so yesterday I read this crazy study led by two scientists in Georgia,

15:41: Linatine, a biomedical engineer at Emory University, and young Wade Chang, a neuro-machineist at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

15:50: So I know that a biomedical engineer is a scientist

15:54: that helps doctors invent new devices and tools

15:57: to help them do their jobs better,

15:59: but I'm not as familiar with neuro-machinist.

16:02: It sounds like maybe someone who works with machines and the brain.

16:06: Well, yeah, sort of.

16:07: So the way I understand it is a neuro-machinist

16:10: is a scientist who works with prosthetics, meaning like artificial arms and legs

16:16: for people who have either lost them or were born without them.

16:19: Wow, so how did their study lead me

16:21: to standing here in the middle of a zoo in a homemade flamingo suit?

16:25: Well, it didn't really, technically I led you here.

16:29: But what these scientists noticed

16:31: was that flamingos can stand for a really, really long time

16:35: on one leg, so long they even sleep while standing on one leg.

16:41: Yeah, but don't lots of birds stand on one leg?

16:43: Yeah, they do, but flamingos make it look effortless.

16:46: I mean, they can stand on one leg for hours at a time,

16:50: whereas most birds have to ship from one leg to the other after a while,

16:54: or just give a ball together and use both legs.

16:57: I'll say I am definitely not cut out for flamingo.

17:01: Like this one leg thing is a workout.

17:03: Well, that's the thing.

17:04: So when we humans and even other birds stand on one leg,

17:07: takes a lot of muscle strength to hold us up and help us keep our balance.

17:11: But with flamingos?

17:13: These scientists discovered that they used almost no forest at all.

17:18: The baby flamingos just slept there on one lag like nobody's business.

17:22: Wow, so how did they discover this?

17:25: So the first thing they did was go to the zoo just like us.

17:29: Were they dressed as flamingos?

17:30: Like, no, that would be ridiculous.

17:32: They're respected scientists, GuyRos.

17:34: Oh, right.

17:35: So they went to the zoo.

17:36: And with the help of the zookeepers, they got eight baby flamingos

17:40: and they put them on this measuring device called a forest plant.

17:44: And what's it look like?

17:45: Well, a force plate is like a little flat square

17:48: that looks sort of like a tiny dance floor,

17:51: and it's used to measure things like balance and whatever standing on it.

17:55: And I guess in this case, baby flamingos.

17:58: Right, and so they fed the babies, put them on the force plate,

18:01: and then they waited for them to get sleepy.

18:05: This is starting to sound really cute.

18:07: Oh, you have no idea, GuyRaz.

18:09: Anywho, once the baby flamingos started to fall asleep,

18:13: They used the force plate to measure how much force they were using to keep their balance

18:18: as they slept there on one leg.

18:20: And what did they discover?

18:22: They discovered that they used almost no force at all.

18:26: The baby flamingos just slept there on one leg like nobody's business.

18:31: So how is this possible?

18:32: I mean, when I stood here on one leg and closed my eyes, I almost fell into that pond over there.

18:38: That's because when we humans start to lose our balance, our brains freak out and start shouting things like, beige, beige, to our muscles

18:46: so that they tighten up and start doing their jobs.

18:48: But don't flamingos have the same signals

18:51: running between their brains and their muscles?

18:54: Very little.

18:56: They don't even need it because their bodies

18:58: are just designed to balance on one leg like that.

19:01: Wow, so how do they find this out?

19:03: Okay, so this part is a little gross.

19:07: Gross?

19:07: These scientists used flamingo cadavers.

19:12: Duh.

19:13: Dead, full of mingos.

19:15: Who I guess donated their bodies to a science?

19:18: And I guess you could say that.

19:20: The reason they used cadavers is because they don't have

19:23: any muscles at all, because, you know, cadavers are...

19:26: Thanks I got it, they're dead.

19:28: So they took the cadavers and they sent them up on one leg

19:31: with nothing else to hold them up, and guess what happened?

19:35: They killed over and tied all over again?

19:38: Nope. they're steady, completely upright, never flopped.

19:43: And so then they decided to press their luck.

19:46: In an effort to throw the flamingo cadavers off balance,

19:49: they tilted the upper part of their bodies forward

19:52: and backward and no matter what they did, those cadavers just stood there majestically.

19:59: And what's even crazier is that because of that hinge

20:01: in the flamingo's hips, the scientists were able

20:04: to move their legs so easily that they were still able

20:08: to stand up right in a way that required almost no energy or muscle strength.

20:13: Amazing.

20:14: So in living flamingos, if they have to jump out of the mud and run for a predator or an animal

20:19: that's trying to eat it, or even just stay steady on a windy day, they can easily switch

20:24: their legs and stay upright without really having to activate any of their muscles.

20:29: That's incredible, mini.

20:31: I know, right?

20:32: You know, earlier you mentioned that Dr. Ting works with prosthetics or artificial arms and legs.

20:38: Did her discovery lead to any helpful connections between the two?

20:42: Yes.

20:43: So, Dr. Ting studies how people can start to move again after they've been hurt really bad

20:47: or lose an arm or a leg in an accident.

20:50: And sometimes this requires the help of prosthetics.

20:53: So the idea here is that if flamingos can go back and forth standing on one leg with almost

20:58: no energy, then maybe this discovery will lead to improvements in robotics or robot-powered prosthetics for humans.

21:07: just people like you who really want to be flamingos.

21:11: Mindy, I did this for science.

21:14: Gara's you did this for the crowd of people taking pictures of you.

21:18: Yeah.

21:19: Come on, you're a fancy flamingo.

21:20: Oh no.

21:21: Now give the people what they want.

21:22: Step right up, step right up, and come and get just

21:26: super-namp photos of the human flamingo boy.

21:30: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

21:33: Today, I'm coming in to save you a little buddy.

21:36: My beautiful feathers, they're ruined!

21:39: You're a good guy, Roz, but a terrible bird.

21:43: Come on, let's get you out of this pink spandex and flamingo.

21:46: Yeah, Adios flamingos.

21:48: Oh, yeah.

21:49: Yay!

21:51: Yay!

21:53: Yay!

21:56: Reggie, baby Dennis, heard you on the podcast!

22:01: You're so cool and famous!

22:04: Hey Reggie, how long can you stand on one leg?

22:07: Hmm, hmm, hmm.

22:08: What?

22:09: That's all.

22:09: Flamingos can do it for hours.

22:11: Hmm, hmm, hmm.

22:12: Baby Dennis, how about you?

22:14: How long can you stand on one leg?

22:16: Um, how long can big Dennis hold up his arms?

22:19: Ah, right.

22:20: You're a ventriloquist dummy.

22:21: Your legs are just little floppy plastic things.

22:24: Your legs are little floppy plastic things.

22:26: Hmm.

22:27: No, they're not.

22:28: Watch.

22:29: I can stand on one leg.

22:30: Hmm.

22:31: Okay, here I go.

22:32: One, two, three.

22:36: Ow!

22:37: Oh!

22:38: Ow, my Rumpus!

22:40: Stop laughing!

22:41: Stop laughing!

22:43: He's big Dennis, okay?

22:45: Yes, and big Dennis wants to wrap up the show.

22:48: Let's do the good boys song!

22:49: Woohoo!

22:50: Good idea.

22:52: Ha-ha-ha!

22:53: That's the end of the show.

22:56: Standing on one leg is surprisingly hard.

23:00: But I'll do another show tomorrow.

23:05: But for now, that's the end of the show.

23:07: Beep-ee! Bye! Say goodbye, baby Dennis.

23:10: Goodbye, baby Dennis!

23:11: Oh, you!

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