Grownups, Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Wow in the World early and ad-free right now.
Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or Wondery Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts.
Hey, everyone.
It's Mindy and Guy Raz here from Wow in the World.
And guess what?
What, Mindy?
We've got new toys coming to a shelf near you.
That's right.
Grownups, does your Wowzer love traveling back in time with dinosaurs?
Or swimming with sea creatures?
Or maybe your Wowzer likes to test out new science experiments.
Or search for planets in the night sky.
With our new Wow in the World stem toys, there's something for everyone.
And you can pre-order our new Wow in the World toys today or find a toy perfect for your wowzer that's available now.
Visit Amazon.com slash Wondery Kids to shop the wow now.
That's Amazon.com slash Wondery Kids.
Hey grownups, if you're planning on taking a family trip to Orlando this summer to be transported to magical universes well, you should know there's one portal you don't want to miss.
Your portal to the original universe Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where they have flying dragons too.
It's about science, where no spells are required.
Walk beneath a towering Falcon 9 booster, touch a real moon rock and come face to face with Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Plus, take a behind the gates bus tour for an exclusive look at NASA's legendary launch sites and the future of space exploration.
Visitors also have the chance to meet an astronaut.
Talk about a core memory in the making.
And get this.
Our friends at Kennedy Space Center have offered our listeners $7 off admission.
Just use code WOW at checkout.
With missions to Mars, rocket launches and deep space exploration.
No trip to Orlando is complete without landing at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Discover something real.
Wee-wow on the weekend.
Wee-wow on the weekend.
Wee-wow on the weekend.
Because 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.
Wee-wow on the weekend.
Yeah!
Hello and welcome to Wee Wow on the Weekend!
I'm your host, Dennis!
And that's my co-host, Reggie!
Hey Reggie, guess what I found?
Nope, guess again!
No, it's my old karaoke machine.
Yeah, it was under a bunch of old yearbooks and fossilized Halloween candy.
I think it still works.
Let's find out.
Here we go.
And... Okay, okay, I got it, I got it.
But you can take me too.
Ah, man!
Oh, you're right.
We better keep the show rolling.
Let's answer some questions with a Q&A segment.
Ahem.
The Q&A segment.
Ta!
All right, let's just get the old answering machine pulled up here.
Okay, here we go.
Hi, you've reached Dennis from WeWow on the weekend.
That's me.
Do you have a question?
Well, I do too.
Lots of them.
And who's going to answer all my questions?
You?
Probably not.
But I guess I can answer yours.
Leave me a message.
Hi, Dennis.
My name is Ellie, and I live in Ambler, PA.
I don't have a question, but I have a riddle.
Oh, yay!
I love riddles.
Let's hear it, Ellie.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Wait, I've heard this riddle before.
It's a joke riddle, right?
Why'd the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.
No, Reggie, that's how the joke goes.
I know Ellie said it was a riddle.
All right, Mr. Smarty Pigeon, why do you think the chicken crossed the road?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Okay, you think the chicken crossed the road to get to the ice cream man, but the ice cream man was out of ice cream for the day.
Reggie, I don't think that's what Ellie was going for, but let's play the answer.
Okay, Ellie, why did the chicken cross the road?
So he was trying to get to the ice cream man because the ice cream man was too fat for him.
Bye.
Love your show.
Wow.
You got really close, Reggie, but you were still wrong.
Brr.
Next question.
Hi, Dennis.
This is Arjun.
I live in Ohio.
My question is, why do you start Rebound on the weekend?
And why is Reggie working with you, too?
Good question, Arjun.
I started WeWow on the weekend because Wow in the World.
Posts on Mondays.
Who Win Wow posts on Wednesdays, How to Be an Earthling posts on Thursdays and Two What's in a Wow posts on Fridays.
And no one was posting a show on the weekend for the weekend about the weekend.
Woo-hoo!
So I decided I would do it.
We well on the weekend, baby!
What?
Oh, yeah.
Tuesday.
No one's posting on Tuesday.
Huh.
Yeah, we well on Tuesdays doesn't sound very good.
We well on the weekend is way better.
And I'm working with Reggie because he knows how to set up the microphone.
And the website.
And the RSS feed.
What's that?
Actually, you know what?
I don't want to know.
Next question.
My name is Q and I'm five years old.
Which one was invented first, the spoon or the fork?
Great question, Q. I've never thought about that before.
Sometimes I forget things need to be invented in the first place.
Forks and spoons have always just been here, in the drawer.
You know?
And now that I think about it, there are forks and spoons for eating with, and there are forks and spoons for cooking with.
Right, I don't eat with those really big spoons and forks used for cooking.
I eat with the littler ones.
Which ones of those came first, the big ones or the little ones?
Ah, right.
I bet the big cooking forks and spoons came first, because first you cook the food and then you eat it.
Also, what counts as a cooking fork?
Like, what about the stick I used to cook marshmallows over the campfire?
Is that a fork?
Because pointy sticks were invented a long time ago.
Oh yeah, my fingers kind of do look like little forks.
I suppose I don't really need a fork to eat most things like spaghetti.
So maybe spoons were invented first because it's really hard to eat soup with your hands.
Yeah, that's my final answer.
Eating spoons came before the eating fork.
Thanks for your calls, everyone.
If you've got a question for me, call and leave me a message.
The number is 1-888-7-WOW-WOW.
I just might answer your question on WeWOW on the weekend.
Okay, that takes care of that.
All right, next up is a little segment I like to call Inside TinkerCast Studios.
Inside TinkerCast Studios.
This is the part where we revisit an episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast shows.
This weekend we're listening to a story from Wow in the World, Season 1, Episode 14, called It's a bird.
It's a plane!
It's a flying taxi!
Yeah, that title is an old superhero reference.
Oh, I don't remember.
Uh...
Super Dude.
No, no, no, no.
Super Manager.
No, Super Manifred.
Yeah, yeah, that sounds right.
Super Manifred.
No, Reggie, this episode is not about superheroes.
It's about flying cars.
I know, in Dubai.
I know, we should go to Dubai someday.
Okay, let's play the episode.
All right, there we go.
And play.
Wee Wow will be right back.
Grownups, this message is for you.
That's it.
Now back to the show.
Hey, Mindy, do you remember that show, The Jetsons?
Oh, yeah, I know The Jetsons.
It was that cartoon from the past that took place in the future and basically predicted most of what we have today.
Right, you remember?
Meet George Jetson.
His boy, Elroy.
I don't know the rest of it.
And Mindy.
For kids who haven't heard of it, The Jetsons was a cartoon that a lot of your parents probably watched.
It was about a family living in the future.
They had a robot maid.
Oh, Rosie!
And the coolest thing they had, Mindy?
A dog treadmill.
Uh... No, that is not... The flying car?
Yup.
And Mindy.
Back when the Jetsons was on TV, a lot of people thought that by the year 2017 we'd all be flying to work and to school in our flying cars.
But alas...
Still stuck here in traffic on the ground because... I don't even know why.
Because it would be pretty dangerous, right?
I mean, could you imagine flying cars flying all around, all over the place?
I mean, that would not be safe, right?
No, it would definitely not be safe.
It would be awesome!
Imagine it, Guy Raz.
No speed limits, no red lights, no stop signs.
People could just fly around like maniacs.
I don't know.
Oh, yep.
And so the dream of flying cars was really just that, a dream.
But if it's a dream, it could still happen, right?
Mindy, you said the magic word, the D word, dream.
And a dream is like an engine inside your body, except it powers ideas.
And guess what, Mindy?
You're about to make my wildest dreams come true?
Surprise!
Okay, you're going to need a lot of supplies for this, but good news, I've been keeping a list.
Maybe um, That's not what you Well, Mindy.
The dream of flying cars is about to become a reality, and it will start this summer.
What?
You're telling me that flying cars are coming?
Well... Everybody, stop!
Uh, well...
Kind of freaking out, Guy Raz.
You should be okay, Mindy.
I mean, they are coming.
And this summer in the city of Dubai, which is a small little city on the Arabian Peninsula.
Oh, yeah.
Dubai is known for having the largest, tallest, and biggest of a lot of things.
So what's next?
Dubai will be the first place to have flying taxis.
What?
So you're saying that, just like in the Jetsons, people will be able to fly from their house to their friend's house, or to a restaurant or to school?
Well, eventually, yes.
But this summer, when the flying taxis are ready for customers, they will only go to a few places.
And that's because they will be programmed to fly to just those spots where they can land safely.
So how will this work?
Well, Mindy, you've heard of drones, right?
Oh, yeah.
I have a drone, Guy Raz.
It's like a little remote control powered robot.
And I use it to drop glitter and mayonnaise on my neighbors when they forget to invite me to their barbecues.
Here, watch this.
So the first thing I do is I take one balloon and I dump a bunch of glitter inside of it until the whole thing is full of glitter.
Great.
Okay, now hand me that other balloon over there.
Now I take this other balloon and I shove a bunch of mayonnaise inside of it.
Then I'm going to attach both of these balloons to the bottom of my drone.
And then get my remote control over here.
All right.
Power this thing up.
And there it goes.
It's going up, up, up.
Oh, look.
My neighbors are having a barbecue and they forgot to invite me.
Let's see if we can get this mayonnaise to drop on their hamburger buns.
Am I right?
All right.
Here we go.
Ready?
Bombs away.
Whee!
Mayonnaise in my eye!
Glitter in the mayonnaise!
No, the humanity!
Who keeps doing this?
Ah, listen to them squealing with glee.
Just a little neighborhood joke we have.
That's only fun as long as I'm the only one with a drone and they can't get me back.
That's right, drones are now much, much, much more common and much easier to make.
And these flying taxis are basically bigger versions of the small drones that you can buy in a toy store or a hobby shop.
So what do these flying taxi drones look like?
The flying taxi looks a little like a flying egg, except it has eight propellers to keep it steady and stable.
And it doesn't have a pilot.
It has just one seat inside.
So it can only take one passenger at a time.
Wait a minute.
So if there's no pilot, then how does the drone know where to go?
Well, by using very sophisticated technology inside the drone taxi.
There's a computer that is connected to satellites floating up in space.
And these satellites are able to send signals to the drone taxis to tell them exactly where to fly.
It's a little bit like using a navigation app.
Like, you know, Mindy, when you use Google Maps or Waze on your...
Oh, yeah.
I use them all the time to help me get lost.
No.
And that is also why these drones don't crash into anything, because they are programmed that way.
But Mindy, in case you are wondering, each and every drone taxi will be monitored by a human sitting at a computer on the ground.
Just in case something goes wrong.
Then the human can quickly reprogram the drone and send it to a safe place.
Wow, that's so cool.
So how much would a ride cost on one of these flying drone taxis?
Well, the company that is offering this service isn't saying how much a ride will cost.
But what we do know is that these little drones will probably be able to drop you off high up in the sky.
So, for example, do you know where the tallest building in the world is located, Mindy?
Same place known for having the biggest, longest, largest, tallest of things?
I'd say Dubai.
Yeah, exactly.
It's also in Dubai.
It's called the Burj Khalifa, and it stands 2,722 feet.
That's about a half a mile, Mindy, and guess what?
Chicken butt.
What?
That little drone taxi will be able to fly as high as 11,000 feet.
So say, you have a meeting on the top floor of the Burj Khalifa building, you might be able to get dropped off right at the top instead of at the bottom and then having to take the elevator up.
Oh, Oh, man, that sounds so awesome, and I can't wait to ride one.
But why does Dubai get it first?
They get all the cool stuff.
Well, Mindy, it's because Dubai wants to become the most modern city in the world.
So, for example, the city already has a metro train system that works without a conductor or a driver.
But if this experiment does work in Dubai Mindy, I have no doubt that we will all be traveling in little air taxis in a few years from now.
But the future is tomorrow.
We've got no time to wait.
So, Guy Raz, hop inside this balloon.
I've already greased it up with some mayonnaise.
I'm going to attach you to my drone and fly you overhead.
Ready?
Whoa!
Reggie, did you hear what I heard?
No, Reggie, not that part.
The part where Mindy flew her drone copter with mayonnaise and glitter over to her neighbor's house and glitter bombed them.
Reggie, I think that was me.
I know.
I cannot believe that I, Dennis... was in the first season of Wow in the World!
It's almost as cool as a flying taxi!
Speaking of which, do we have flying taxis yet?
We don't.
Oh.
But they're hoping to have them soon?
Well, how soon?
2026?
But Reggie, I want to fly to the destination of my choice now.
All right, I guess you are like a flying taxi.
Can you give me a ride to the grocery store?
50 bucks?
Reggie, I'll give you a ride on my back for 10 bucks.
Hmm.
Oh, really?
Sweet.
Where to, pal?
Okay, I gotcha.
Yes, sir.
Right away, sir.
Whack, whack, whack, whack.
No, Reggie, I can't take you to Dubai.
That's too far.
Ooh, $100?
Well, why didn't you say so, sir?
Next stop, Dubai.
What?
Grownups, if you like Wow in the World, you can listen early and ad-free right now on Wondery Plus.
Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Wondery Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts.
Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
And before you go, tell us about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey.
Thanks for joining us for this edition of WeWow on the Weekend.
Our show is written by Ruth Morrison and Jed Anderson.
Original sound design and production is done by Henry Moskal and Marian Lozano, with help from Jed Anderson and Tyler Thull.
Original music for WeWow on the Weekend is composed and performed by Tyler Thull.
Special thanks to Steph Sosa, Rebecca Caban, and all of the other tinkerers at Tinkercast HQ.
There's still time to share your WeWow Crafternoon challenges with us.
Grownups.
You can upload pictures and videos of your projects to us at Tinkercastcom slash, share or call us at 1-888-7WOW-WOW.
Our website is Tinkercast.com.
There you can learn more about becoming an official member of the World Organization of Wowzers.
Learn about upcoming events, shop our shop and pick up a copy of the latest edition of our number one New York Times bestselling book series.
Wow in the Wild.
Thanks again for thinking, tinkering, experimenting, and exploring.
Wow in the World was made by Tinkercast and sent to you by Wondery.
