Psst, hey, Wowzer fans!
Mindy and Guy Raz here, and before we start the show, it's almost summertime.
And you know what that means.
It's almost time for my annual summer rewatch of the 26 -hour long docu -series on the history of whales?
Uh, sure, Guy Raz. But I was actually thinking about summer road trips.
Oh, that's right. Wowzers, if your family has some summer road trips coming up, take a pit stop to find some wow.
We've teamed up with our friends at Geocaching HQ, the Aspen Institute and The Nature Conservancy to create Planet Wow, an epic geocaching eco -adventure that shares the wows of places on our Earth and encourages curious kids like you to become the next generation of climate crusaders.
We've sent out Planet Wow trading cards to members of our world organization of Wowsers to plant in a geocache near them.
And you can check and see if one of those cards are in a geocache near you at tinkercast .com Planet Wow.
There you can also find the location of our official Planet Wow geocaches.
And if there aren't any trading cards nearby your route, print yours at home and plant them in a geocache along the ride.
We have printable cards available on our website, tinkercast .com Planet Wow.
We can't wait to hear what you find on your ego adventure this summer!
Leave us a video or audio message about places in your world that wow you for a chance to be featured on an upcoming episode of Wow in the World!
That's it, and now let's get back to the show.
We Wow on the weekend.
We Wow on the weekend.
Cause this is what we do on the weekend!
Talking, laughing, me and Reggie, Singing, laughing, and then we - Oh wait, no, I said laughing twice.
Whatever! We Wow on the weekend.
Yeah! Wee wow on the weekend Me 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 this is my co -host, Reggie the Giant Pigeon Scooby dee doo, yeah!
This is the show where we chit chat Skit scat, kit cat, nih nah Reggie what?
I was just trying something Well you know I love musicals!
I just thought I'd bring some razzle -dazzle to the show!
Carne.. How dare you!
It's not fair! I was born for the stage!
What's that, Reggie?
I'm being dramatic?
Aww, thank you! That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me!
Okay, let's get into our first segment!
Reading Refuses! I'm reading revusies for me and for yousies.
We've got us some doozies, so let's read revuuuuuuuusies!
This is the part where people write us comments on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever, and I print a bunch out and read them aloud.
This first revusie comes from username Dial 7.
Now, Razzy, the username is Dial 7.
Rrrr! Rrrr! What?! Reggie!
Stop it! Stop dialing seven on the phone!
It's just a name! Rrrr!
Rrrr! Okay, and the number of stars they give us is 5!
Yay! Five stars! Rrrrr!
And the title says, Beans.
Huh. Rrr. And the message says, I like beans.
Beans are cool! Rrrrr!
Okay, well Dial Seven, I agree!
Beans are cool. And they're the musical fruit!
H -h -h -h. What do you mean they're not a fruit?
H -h -h -h. Legume? Beans can't be the musical legume, Reggie.
It ruins the rhyme.
H -h -h. The rhyme, Reggie.
The rhyme. The one that goes, beans, beans, the magical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
H -h -h -h. The more you toot, the better you feel.
So eat your beans for every meal.
H -h -h -h. And I do. Now, today goes by that I don't have a side of beans with my meals.
H -h -h. Yes. Especially with my morning porridge.
What's a bowl of porridge without beans?
Pffftt. Oop, sorry, I had a lot of poias this morning for breakfast. Pfft. Oop, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Next reviewsy. This next reviewsy comes from username Teagan B.
The title says, The Best. Hurray, we're the best. And the number of stars is, 5.
Yay, we're the best again.
And the message says, I think this podcast is great, but you never talk about pigeons besides Reggie.
Frowny face emojis, thumbs down emojis, feather emojis!
Well, I'm sorry, Teagan Bee!
Reggie's the only pigeon I know on a first -name basis!
Don't you dare agree with Teagan Bee, Reggie!
You don't talk about pigeons either!
Well, fine then, let's try a new segment called Pigeon Talk.
Haha! Talkin' about pigeons and singin' about pigeons And thinkin' about pigeons, it's Pigeon Talk!
Yeah! Alright, hit it, Reggie.
Brrrrrrr. Brrrrr, brrrrr.
Uh -huh. Brrrrrrr. Uh -huh.
Brrrrr. Brrrrr, brrrrr.
Brrrrr. Brrrrr. Brrr.
Your cousin, Curly.
Brrrrr. Oh, your cousin, Shirley.
Brrrrrrr, brrrrr. Oh, wow.
Brrr, brrrrr. Iridescent neck plumage, cool.
Brrrrr. And then what?
Brrr. She was pigeon -holed?
Brrr. And pigeon -toed?
Brrr. So that's why they call them Pigeon Ps.
Hrrp, hrrp. Wow. Well, there you go, Teagan B.
Hope that satisfies your craving for Pigeon talk.
Hrrp. Next, revusee.
Hrrp. This next revusee is from Username GGUTYJGTU.
Uh. Reggie, how do you pronounce this?
Hrrp. Do you think they maybe fell asleep on their keyboard when writing their username?
Hrrp, hrrp. OK. Well anyway, this review is titled, FFCCV uh ?— Oh no, maybe they did fall asleep.
Reggie we gotta wake him up!
With loud noises, obviously!
No, not that, it's not loud enough.
No, louder Reggie. This has to get all the way through the internet!
Brr, brr, brr. Brr, brr.
Oh! A cowbell perfect!
Brr, brr, brr. Brr, brr, brr.
And I'll switch to the drum setting on my keyboard. He, he, he.
Brr, brr, brr. OK, ready, go!
Brr, brr, brr, brr, brr.
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! OK, let's see if it worked.
Brr, brr. It did! The message says, I love Wee WoW on the weekend.
And it says, you can have 1 million stars.
Wow! Yay! We did it!
OK, that's enough reviewsies for now.
Thanks for all your reviewsies, listeners.
Keep them coming. If you leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, I just might read it on Wee WoW on the weekend.
Five stars or more, please.
Think us, Reggie. The more stars we have, the more star power we have. Get it?
Whatever. 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 3 episode 11 called bored out of your bonker balls?
Why having nothing to do can be good for you.
Huh. I don't know, Reggie.
This one sounds kind of boring.
Well, should we skip it and do something else instead?
I don't know. We could bang that cowbell some more.
And I think there's a gong around here somewhere.
What? That would not be boring.
Oh, annoying. Yeah, probably.
OK, fine. We'll do the non -annoying thing and play the episode this time.
OK, here we go. And play.
Brrr. Wee -Wow will be right back.
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That's it. Now back to the show.
Okay, let's see here...
five, five, five, five...
five, five, five, five… four.
Hello? Oh, hi, um yeah, I wanted to purchase the BTN package please?
Oh yeah, sure, I've got my credit card right here.
Ugh, why is it so sticky?
Ugh, is this maple syrup?
Mindy? Yeah, oh yeah yeah, I'm still here, sorry.
Um, so the name on the card is – Guy Rozzie!
Mindy? No, no, sorry, the name on the card isn't Mindy, it's Guy Rozzie, I mean Guyrozz!
The name on the card is Guy Rawes.
Oh, okay, great. Thanks so much!
I gotta say, Guy Rawes, it's a little rude for you to be on the phone when I burst through your door uninvited.
Mindy, what are you doing here?
Well, I heard you loudly sighing from next door.
I thought you might have found the sea monkeys I left in your toilet.
What? Nothing, just don't flush.
No, no, Mindy, I wasn't trying to be rude.
I was on the phone trying to order a subscription into the BTN and then I found this.
Mmm, yum. What? Mindy, what is my credit card doing covered in maple syrup?
OK, well technically it's maple flavored syrup.
Huh? Way stickier than the real stuff.
So what did you need my pancakes syrup applicator for?
Mindy, this is my credit card. It's not a pancake syrup applicator.
Hmm, that's funny because it sure looks like one, with all that maple flavored syrup dripping off of it.
Mindy, this is my credit card. And I was using it to buy a subscription to the BTN.
The BTN. Oh, the Bears and Teddy Network.
Oh, man. I love that one.
They had this one show on there called Beer Devil, where these bears, they just. No, no, Mindy, I am not talking about the Bears and Teddy Network.
I'm talking about the boring television network.
Uh, the Boring Television Network?
Oh, yeah! It's got all the classics.
Check it out. It should be connected right now.
Ah, great! Here we go!
And now here's the news, delivered to you, as always, by a British man in a monotone voice.
Ahem. Hello, I'm Nigel Britwhistle.
And here are today's sports headlines.
In Newcastle, the Flighting Flompers flunked the Southwhole Swandler's 32 farming to 21 blongers.
Ugh, it's so boring.
Make it stop. Make it stop.
Oh, and then there's the Music Channel.
Coming up later on Billboard Music, a bass guitarist practicing scales for seven hours.
But first, an interview with minimalist ambient musician Tired Sloth.
Oh -ho -ho, I'm so excited!
Nope! Aww! Welcome back to the Paint Drawing World Championships.
Paint Drawing World Championships?
Oh yeah, keep it on this one, Mindy.
This is the whole reason I bought the channel's subscription in the first place.
What is it? It's the World Championship of Paint Drawing.
My favorite team is playing!
Uh, your favorite paint drying team?
Yeah, the LA Boars.
The LA Boars, huh. Oh, you mean boars like the pigs.
I got it. Yeah, they're going up against their arch rivals.
The Kansas City Sleapers?
Yeah, they're the underdogs.
I thought they were the sleepers.
What? Never mind. Oh, wait, it's about to start.
The team captains shake hands and return to their opposing sides, a freshly painted arena.
This promises to be the most exciting, wall watching exhibition of the past decade.
What in the wow are they doing?
They're watching paint dry.
The last team to fall asleep from boredom wins.
Uh, huh. And they're off.
Look at that concentration back straight eyes unblinking very very strong start from the LA boards wait a minute guy Ross I don't get it why would anyone want to be bored well Mindy it turns out that being bored can actually be really good for you yeah like putting vegetables and Brownie's good for you well cuz if that's the case I'm gonna take a pass on the old paint -drying World Championships.
No really, Mindy. Recent research has shown that boredom can be really useful when it comes to creative problem -solving.
And that signals the end of the first round.
Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back after these messages.
Do you have an interest in the uninteresting?
Huh? Are you curious about the incurious?
What? Then maybe you should come visit us at IB, the Institute of Boredom.
The Institute of Boredom?
Shh! Ever since inventing TV static in 1953, we've become the world leaders in boredom, apathy, and monotonous research. So, if you like watching paint dry, cheering a snail race, or staring at a pot of water slowly coming to a boil, visit us at our grand opening today from 11 a .m to four p .m. Wow.
Ahhh. Excuse me. And we're back once again at the World Championships of Paint Drying.
Mindy, Mindy, did you hear that?
What? Yeah, I had no idea the TV static was an American invention.
No Mindy, the opening day at IB, the Institute of Boredom.
Oh, yeah. It sounds, you know, it sounds really boring.
Oh, no, Mindy. It's anything but.
You said but. The Institute of Boredom is the place that ran those studies I was telling you about earlier.
You mean the ones that said that boredom could help with creative problem solving?
The very same ones.
Oh, OK. Well, what did they find?
Well, why don't we find out?
I mean their opening day is today.
I think we should still be able to make it there on time.
Let me just check. Hey Zoodle!
Oh boy. What time is it now?
The time is currently 4 .30.
See, Mindy? A .M. in Vientiane, Laos.
Garroz, it's 1 .30. How did you know?
Well, I mean there's an actual clock on the wall behind you.
Oh, yeah. You know what that means, right?
Maybe it's time for me to dumb down my smart home?
Yes, but it also means that the grand opening is still going on!
We could probably still check it out if we hurry.
I was just thinking the same thing, Mindy.
Oh, and I believe I may have just witnessed one of the Kansas City Sleepers blink.
This does not bood well for them.
Before we go, did you want to record the paint drying World Championship so you can watch it when we get back?
Uh, nah. I should be fine.
You know, these games usually run for, uh, you know, three or four days.
Three or four days?
Man, what's next? The grass growing world championships?
Up next, the grass growing world championships as the Winnipeg wait lists take on the Toronto software updates.
Oh. OK. Let's go. Yes.
Reggie! Hey Reg. You think you could drop us off at the new Institute of Boredom?
Bl -brrr -brrr! Yeah, I think it's right by there.
Right next to what, Mindy?
Oh, the dry cleaners.
He's got some clothes to pick up.
Bl -brrr. But Mindy, um, um, Reggie doesn't wear any clothing.
I never said they were his clothes, Guy -Roz.
He's helping out Thomas Fingerling.
Aw, what a stand -up bird!
Bl -brrr. Good for you, Reg.
Bl -brrr. OK, come on, Guy -Roz.
Hop on! Okay, I'm ready!
Good. Because here we...
You'd think I'd be used to those landings by now.
Thanks Reg! Yep. The Dry Cleaners is just over there.
Hmm. All right, Mindy.
I think the Institute of Boredom is just across the road over there.
Let's just wait for this last car to pass.
And cross. Crossing, crossing, crossing, crossing.
Hey, Guy -Ros. Yeah?
Why did the Guy -Ros cross the road?
Oh, Mindy. To get to the Institute of Boredom's grand opening.
Look, there it is. Wow.
Wow, Mindy. Get a load of this place.
It's massive. And so boring.
Impressively boring.
Yeah. Look at this place.
No trees, no flourish.
Just a nondescript, gray rectangle concrete building.
Oh, is that a sculpture of the Institute's founder?
Roger Board O, inventor of TV static, and purveyor of fine waiting rooms. Huh, sounds like a real hoot.
Well, come on, Guy Raz, let's go inside.
Hello, and welcome to the Institute of Boredom.
Are you being helped at all?
No, we just arrived.
It's a lovely place you have here.
Yeah, it's super boring.
Can I uninterest you in some of the activities we have going on today?
Super! Just over there by the front yawn.
Ahh. I'm sorry. Did you say the front lawn?
No. I said the front yawn.
It's a concrete patch in the front of the library that's dedicated to yawning.
It's super boring. Anywho, over by the front yawn we have the sign up for our regional varsity board game team.
Ooh. And over in the long -winded movies with no robots or explosions building, we have a special powerpoint presentation...
on powerpoint presentations.
Oh no thanks, I can't have powerpoints after midday.
They keep me up all night ruminating.
Oh wow, that's really boring.
Well then in about three minutes inside our state -of -the -art Homework Memorial Lecture Hall We have a speaker presenting on some of the scientific studies we're currently conducting here at the Institute.
We love scientific studies!
Seriously, it seems like it's all we talk about sometimes.
Mmm, well, then all you need to do is head down this beige hallway, take a left at the room where the grown -ups are telling stories about how hard it was back when they were your age, and then it's the third door on the right.
Great! Thanks. Ooo, problem.
Have an uneventful day.
This is great, Mindy.
Maybe they'll mention those studies that I was telling you about earlier.
Oh, you mean the ones that said that boredom can actually help with creative problem solving?
Yeah. I sure hope so.
Otherwise, I'm just going to hang out by that cheese board for the rest of the afternoon.
Uh. Oh. Cheese board. I just got it.
So I said to Mabel, I said, back in my day, that would have cost us 20 shillings.
Of course, we didn't have to work 20 back then.
All right, this must be the room with the grandparents telling back when I was your age story.
So we turn right and 1, 2, 3, ah!
Here we are, the Homework Memorial Lecture Hall.
It looks like it's about to start.
Let's grab some chairs in the back.
Roger that, buddy. Excuse me, sorry.
Coming through, just trying to grab a seat here.
Hi. Ooh, nice pouch. OK, so I love the sparkles.
Thank you. Oh, sorry, just squeezing through.
And there we are. Shh.
Since the dawn of time, man has periodically become uninterested and disengaged with the world around him, but why is this?
Well, we here at the Institute of Boredom are working around the clock to uncover exactly why this is and what potential benefits it might hold.
Yes, I knew they'd cover this.
Over the past decade, we've conducted several experiments to answer these questions.
And today we'll be looking at one of our most recent studies, a study conducted by our colleagues over at the University of Lancashire in the United Kingdom, conducted by researchers Sandi Mann and Rebecca Cadmon. Oh, this is it, Mindy, this is the study that I was telling you about.
So what was it about?
Well, the experiment took place over two separate experiments.
And in the first experiment...
a group of participants were asked to complete an incredibly boring task.
Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!
Pick me! Pick me! Indy, I don't know if this is the kind of lecture where you can ask questions.
Uh... I'm sorry, is that a question?
Um... Yes... Sorry.
Was it doing chores?
What? Was it doing chores?
You know, the incredibly boring task you just mentioned?
What?! No! Was it ...
waiting to see the doctor?
No, no, no, was too— Wait, nope!
I got it. I got it.
Was it when the internet gets really slow and you can't download anymore cat pictures?
No! It was copying out phone numbers from a phone book.
Well, yeah. I guess that is pretty boring.
In any case, as I was saying, these participants performed this boring task for 15 minutes before taking a creativity test. A creativity test?
That's right, Mindy!
The participants of this study, after writing out phone number, after phone number, after phone number, were asked to list off different uses for a cup.
Different uses for a cup?
Like the kind you drink out of?
That's right. So, for example, you could use a cup for drinking.
Yeah. But another person could say you could wear it as a hat.
Or another might say you would string two cups together and use them as a phone.
Exactly. Anyway, when they looked at the results of the group that had been performing the boring task beforehand, the researchers found that this boring group was able to come up with way more examples of things you could do with a cup than a different group that hadn't done boring stuff before.
Ah, yes, so they were better at divergent thinking.
Divergent what? Divergent thinking, Guy Raz, it's the type of creative thinking you do when you're trying to come up with a bunch of ideas.
Huh. I was always told I was a very divergent thinker.
I think that's why I have so many crazy inventions.
Right. Oh, that reminds me.
I have to show you my new pancake syrup applicator when we get back.
Ahh. You already did, Mindy.
That was my credit card. But that was only part 1 of this two part experiment, so here comes part 2.
Oh! This is the best part!
OK. So, in part 2 of the experiment, Mindy, the researchers created a third group to see what would happen if you got people really bored?
Oh man, more boring than writing out the entire phone book?
Yeah, and this third group's task was to simply read the phone book.
That's it! Yikes! That's more boring than listening to someone tell you about the dream they had the night before.
After the first two groups completed their boring tasks, they then, along with the control group, which, as we mentioned earlier, was the group that didn't do any boring tasks beforehand, All took the same divergent thinking test that was used in the first experiment along with two more creative thinking tests Just to make sure that the first time all wasn't a fluke and Mindy.
Guess what? They found what these researchers found that the most bored group the one that had only read the phone book was able to score better than the group that performed no boring task and The phone book copying group when it came to the creative test OK, now let me get this straight.
The group of people who were the most bored out of anyone performed better on the creativity test than anyone else?
Uh -huh. Which would suggest that the more bored you are the more creative your ideas become?
Huh. All right, well, I think we've got the facts we need from here.
Let's get out of here.
I don't want to miss any more of the world championships.
Okey doke. Just try not to make a Hi everyone!
Sorry, we have to go now.
There's a show on TV we gotta watch. Try not to make a scene!
Excuse us! Sorry, sorry, sorry, coming through.
Excuse me. Sorry, I didn't mean to step on you.
Phew. Well, that coulda gone better.
You can say that again!
Well, that coulda gone better!
So, what did you think of the talk, Mindy?
Well, I would have rather been doing anything else, but I had no idea that all those days I spent just bumming around the house, poured out of my bunker balls, I was actually filling up my brain tank with creative juices.
Right? But what I still can't figure out is why does being bored help me get my creativity on?
Well, no one knows for sure, but those same researchers we just heard about, well, they think that it's something known as passive boredom.
So like the boredom that these people went through during the experiment that put their minds into like a daydreaming mode?
Exactly. When most of us get bored, we start to daydream.
And that allows our minds to open up to creative thinking and ideas.
That's so wow! Yeah.
I mean, just ask any kid Mindy.
If you leave them alone for a long time, they'll come up with some pretty creative ways to keep themselves entertained.
You don't have to tell me, Guy Raz, I was president of Imaginationland for three whole years when I was in third grade.
Uh. OK, now let me just text Reggie here to see if he can come pick us up.
After all this talk about boredom and creativity, I think I will join you in watching that paint drying world championship, Guy Raz.
Oh, really? Yeah, you know, I've been trying to think of a new design for the shrink wand and think the old imagination tank could use a little polishing.
Fantastic! I'll get the kale chips ready!
Alright, so is there anything I need to know before we start watching?
Well, I would say the first thing you have to know is that the LA Boars star players is Laboar James.
He's probably the greatest of all time.
I mean, there's some debate over it.
You know, players in the seventies and eighties.
But I mean, I'm talking really good at watching paint dry acrylics and oils and water.
W -what's going on? Whaaat?
I didn't fall asleep.
I was so listening to the episode!
It was all about shrimp and how they like to get dressed up and go to fancy parties, oh...
Yeah that might have been a dream, I guess I did fall asleep.
What was the episode about?
I'm up. Yeah good idea, we should wrap up the show so I can go take an afternoon nap.
Yes, another one. Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning into 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, let's go. So, Reggie, what are you gonna do for the rest of the day?
Sure, you can take a nap here.
It'll be like a sleepover, but during the day.
Oh yeah, what would that be called, a napover?
Wow, yeah, that's even better.
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Thanks for joining us for this edition of Wee Wow.
Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jed Anderson.
The role of baby Dennis is played by Jed Anderson.
Well then who plays the role of Big Dennis?
Never you mind, tee hee!
Original sound design and production is done by Tyler Thol, with contributions from Jed Anderson and Henry Moskal.
Original music for Wee Wow is composed and performed by Tyler and Dennis.
Tyler Thole. Special thanks to Jessica Bodee, Rebecca Caban, Dr. Natasha Crandall, Kenny Curtis, Kristyn Yang, Meredith Helpern -Ranser, Twi Mak, Jody Nussbaum, Ali Paxima, Guy Raz, Linda Rothenberg, Steph Sosa, Mindy Thomas, Anna Zagorski, and all of the other Tinkerers at Tinkercast HQ!
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