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We wow on the weekend we wow on the weekend we wow on the weekend cuz this is what we do on the weekend.
Talking, laughing, me and Reggie singing, laughing, and then oh wait no I said laughing twice.
Whatever we wow on the weekend we wow on the weekend we wow on the weekend cuz 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.
We're here in my mother's basement with an incredibly special guest.
No quiet not yet. I need to play the guest segment song.
Oh sorry. Okay. Uh -uh -uh.
Guest segment the segment with the guest.
A guest comes on the show and just like the title suggests we bring them out and then we stop stop stop stop stop.
Is everything alright?
Yeah just that the song is long and kind of awful and it's making me a little nauseous.
Oh right yeah. Anyway my guest today is the all important all knowing all delivering post office mail carrier.
Welcome post officer.
My name is Jen. I'm sorry did you say your name is Jared?
No my name is Jen. Chad?
Jen my name is Jen as in Jennifer.
No your name is Jelly Bird?
Can you not hear very well?
Jelly Bird is the cutest name I've ever heard.
Wonderful I'm thrilled for you.
Welcome post officer Jelly Bird.
Hooray! Thank you. Hey Reggie.
Wait you two know each other?
Yeah I'm a mail carrier.
I know everyone. Oh wow.
Hey Reggie we still on for Thursday night?
Nice. Wait what's on Thursday night?
Oh uh we play cards.
Oh really? Just the two of you?
Oh no there's there's a few other guys.
I know a guy. Guy Roz.
Actually I shouldn't have said guys.
I meant people. There are a few other people who play with us.
But also Guy Roz. Oh I want to play.
You can come if you want.
What game do you play?
Euchre. Oh no ew I want to play Peanutcle.
No. Fine nevermind I don't want to come.
Alrighty. So post officer Jelly Bird please tell us about what it's like to deliver the mail.
Well the first thing you gotta do is sort the mail.
Oh hear that Reggie?
She sorts it. And then what?
Then I put it all in my truck.
Oh a truck? Can I drive your truck?
No. Can I pretend to drive your truck?
Negative. Can I sit in the passenger seat?
Uh uh. Can I look at your truck while you drive it?
Yes. Hooray! Okay what happens after the truck is all loaded with mail?
Then I deliver them to the corresponding addresses.
Wow corresponding. You're so well spoken.
Thank you. And I notice you have a key on a long chain.
What's that about? Uh yeah.
This is called an arrow key cause it's kind of arrow shaped.
Oh yeah I see. And I use this key to open up the mailboxes.
Wait. All of them? Yup.
That's the most amazing key I've ever seen!
A key that can open anything in the world!
Well not anything. Can it open a house with 15 locks on the door?
No. Can it open a treasure chest full of jewels?
No. Can it open a spaceship and then turn on the spaceship and you can fly around?
No. Just the mailboxes.
Wow. Just mailboxes.
Okay. Next question post officer Jelly Bird.
Alrighty. We are now in the digital age.
Do you also deliver all the emails?
What? No. You don't carry them around in your email bag and put them in everyone's computers?
I do not. Oh wow. That's a little disappointing.
Okay, next question.
This is a weird interview.
Post officer Jelly Bird.
The question on everyone's mind is, what's in the mail?
Well, there's letters, postcards, the odd parcel, packages.
Right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
But what's in everyone's mail?
What are people writing to each other?
Well, I can't go around reading other people's mail.
Uh -huh. There are rules about that.
Yeah. Laws. Oh, for sure, for sure.
Ordinances. Various regulations that absolutely forbid me or anyone else from opening other people's mail.
Oh right. Not open it but you can look at the outside of it.
Exactly. And I do have some of yours here if you want to take a look -see.
Oh, my mail delivered live on the show.
This is so exciting.
What did I get? What did I get?
Okay. You got a catalog from a clothing store called Super Villain Outfitters.
Oh, that's an old subscription.
And a static electricity bill.
It must be the wrong...
And the rest are letters addressed to someone named Static Lane.
Okay, thank you so much, post officer Jelly Bird.
This has been a terrific interview but I believe that's all the time we have for today.
Yes, it is, Reggie.
Is he always like this?
Reggie, I am not always nervous and sweaty.
I'm just excited to move on to the next segment is all.
So that's the end? The guest segment is over.
But next is a little segment I like to call Inside Tinkercast Studios.
Inside Tinkercast Studios.
Do you want me to stay?
Yes. Oh. 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 1 Episode 17 called Brain Freeze.
This sounds interesting.
I know! It's an episode where it's so hot out that Mindy's gingerbread house caves in.
I remember that. Her gingerbread mailbox melted too.
I had to put her mail next to a puddle of icing.
Oh, that's some good behind the scenes information.
Behind the scenes of what?
Never you mind, post officer Jelly Bird.
Would you like to do the honors of pressing play?
Alrighty. And here we go.
Wee Wow will be right back.
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Wow in the world. Oh, the dog days of summer have officially arrived.
Yup. Hotter than a jalapenos armpit out here, guy -roz.
I'm sweatin' like Richard Simmons to the oldies.
I'm sweatin' like a long -tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs.
Know what I mean? Well, oh yeah I get it because the cat doesn't want tail to get it.
No, not as funny when you have to explain it.
So what are we gonna do about the roof of your house, Minnie?
I don't know. I mean, this happens every summer.
The roof just sort of melts and then caves in.
Yeah, but it does look great during the month of December.
Yeah, but this time it's gonna take us until at least December to rebuild it.
Wait, uh, us? Well, you don't expect me to rebuild a life -size gingerbread house all by myself, do you?
Uhhh... Who's gonna help keep me from eating all the candy?
No... no. What? I was the one who advised you against living in a human -sized gingerbread house to begin with and...
What? I was the one who took you to the emergency room after you got sick from eating your own front door.
Ugh, this chocolate door sure does look delicious.
Maybe I'll just take one little bite.
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
Okay, um... I'll just take one more and just go.
And just go. Mmm. Mmm.
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
Mmm. Whoa, what happened?
Where is your front door?
Mmm. Is that the doorknob sticking out of your mouth?
Mmm. Mindy, that door was over a hundred pounds of chocolate and you ate it all?
Oh boy. Come on, we're going to the doctor.
Okay, so I did eat my entire chocolate door, but I learned my lesson.
Well, that's good. And now, I only eat the butterscotch windows.
We are not rebuilding that gingerbread house, Mindy.
I mean, it's too hot outside.
And hey, but by the way, do you have anything cold and refreshing that we can take from the freezer?
Ooh, yeah, we could bake some brown cows.
Some what? But we gotta move fast before the kitchen caves in.
Here, quick, put on this helmet.
Mindy, this is a walnut shell tied to a shoelace.
It'll adjust to fit your tiny head.
Come on, let's go. Mindy, this doesn't feel safe.
Quick, hand me the vanilla ice cream.
But I want chocolate.
Whatever, just scoop it into this bucket.
Oh, okay, like this?
Yeah, dump in these 45 bottles of root beer.
Are you sure these are the right measurements?
Ah, measurements, measurements.
Quick, grab a couple of straws.
Ah, I can't find the straws.
Then grab those pool noodles over there.
We don't have time to wait.
Mindy, we have to get out of here.
It's about to crash in on us.
Whoa, come on, let's go.
Whew, that was a close call.
Yeah, I'm gonna miss that gingerbread house.
But with a little spit and elbow grease, it'll be good as new before you know it.
Ahh. Actually, better than new, it'll be a gingerbread mansion.
Whew, I'm so hot and thirsty.
Can I take a sip of this?
By the way, what is this?
It's brown cow guy raw's ice cream and root beer.
Well, normally I would not drink something like this, because it's too much sugar and lots of food coloring, but I'm just so hot.
And why is it in a bucket?
I like things over the top.
I never would have guessed.
Here, take this pool noodle and suck it up like a straw.
Ooh, looks like someone's got a case of the old Sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia.
What? Mega brain freeze, Guy Raw's.
Ahh! You sucked up that entire bucket of brown cows so fast that you gave yourself brain freeze.
What? You know, brain freeze, that quick and tense headache you get when you guzzle down something cold too fast.
Ah, but what just happened?
Well, funny you should ask, because I was actually just reading about this.
And? Okay, so according to Dr.
Stephanie Vertries, a headache specialist and a professor at the Texas A &M College of Medicine, brain freeze is what happens when cold food touches a bundle of nerves in the back of your palate or, you know, the roof of your mouth.
Well, this must have been something different because it felt more like a quick, sharp headache.
Well, that's because that bundle of nerves called the Sphenopalatine ganglion?
That's a mouthful. Literally.
So the Sphenopalatine ganglion, or as some scientists just call it, the SPG.
That's better. Yeah, so the SPG nerves are super sensitive to cold foods, and when the cold food caves in on them, they freak out and tell the brain it's headache time.
But why? You mean, why can't the brain just deal?
Well, yeah, I mean, it's hot outside and I just wanted to drink something cold and delicious as fast as I could to cool off.
Well, there's another neuroscientist, the kind of scientist that studies the nervous system.
So like the brain, the spinal cord and the nerve cells, his name is Dr.
Dwayne Godwin. And does he have the answer?
Well, he says that the one thing our brains don't like is when things change quickly and that brain freeze is there to prevent it, to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, hold it right there.
What are you doing?
It tends to happen when the weather in your body are super hot and the food touching the roof of your mouth is super cold.
Well, is there a cure for brain freeze?
Okay, so so far there's no cure for brain freeze and since they come and go lickety -split and aren't really dangerous for us, it's easier to just avoid them altogether.
So how do you do that?
Well, Dr. Vertries has some good advice that might come in handy the next time you decide to inhale a bucket of root beer and ice cream.
Interesting, and what did she say?
So she says that if you want to avoid brain freeze, to just chill out and eat cold food slowly.
That way your mouth can warm up your food and not freak out the SPG nerves in the back of your palate.
This would have been some helpful information before I sucked down that brown cow, Mindy.
Well, Guy Roz, technically your brain freeze was your body telling you to slam on the brakes and slow it down while you were slurping that brown cow up as fast as you could, but you just weren't listening.
Huh, interesting. So, Mindy, you mentioned that those nerves are located in the back of the roof of our mouths and that's right where the ice cream was hitting it.
Yeah, so Dr. Vertries also says that it's safer to keep the food in the front of your mouth because when you hit those nerves further back, they trigger the brain freeze bonanza.
But what if you get really hot and really excited and give yourself brain freeze anyway?
Like if you see a milkshake or an ice cream float and your brain just freezes and you forget everything I just told you?
Well, not necessarily.
Yeah. Look, I know how much you love your Kombucha Almond Milkshake, so I do know of one good trick.
Oh, yeah? Well, what does it all do anything to keep that from happening again?
Okay, so if you feel a brain freeze coming on...
Yes? Just put a jelly bean in your belly button.
What? Okay, wait, wrong remedy.
If you feel a brain freeze coming on, tilt your head back and press your tongue to the roof of your mouth for 10 seconds.
Okay. And with your tongue on the roof of your mouth, say, I'm a little teapot.
What? Trust me. I'm a little cape...
Nice. I'm a little cape...
You're a little teapot.
Are you sure this...
The heat from your tongue will warm up the sinuses behind your nose and then warm up the SPGs that caused the brain freeze to happen in the first place.
So Mindy, if brain freeze is so harmless and quick to go away on its own, why do these scientists even bother to study it?
Well, it turns out that understanding how brain freeze works can also help scientists to understand how some other more serious headaches work and can be treated.
Like migraine headaches?
Yeah, so those SPG nerves that we've been talking about are also responsible for migraines and cluster headaches, which can be super painful and last way longer than your typical ice cream headache.
Wow, so understanding these SPG nerves could possibly help scientists figure out different ways of dealing with other kinds of headaches?
Yeah, exactly. And in fact, according to Dr.
Vertries, some people will purposely give themselves brain freeze in an effort to break their migraine headaches.
And that works. Well, she says it can actually work, but not always for everyone.
The body and the brain do hold many mysteries.
They sure do, little teapot.
No. Hey, so now that you're all cooled off, are you ready to start helping me rebuild my gingerbread house?
No way, Mindy. No way.
Okay. Well, then I'll just have to move in on your fancy new couch.
Pass me the gumdrops and frosting.
Okay, so I'm thinking we start with a wrap -around peppermint porch and a chocolate pond and a sugarless gum diving board off the roof and I want five stories and a gumdrop drop.
Wow! That was so cool!
Whoa! Brrr! What did you think, post -officer Jelly Bird?
Yeah, that was pretty good.
Kind of made me want a soft serve or maybe an Italian ice.
Me too! Oh, we should go get ice cream!
Brrr! I'm game. Hooray!
Ice cream! Are you just going to leave all the mics on?
Yeah, it's kind of a bit we do.
Oh, okay. Brrr! What kind of ice cream do you want, post -officer Jelly Bird?
I want one of those popsicles with the gumball eyes.
Ooh, those things freak me out.
I also want a frozen candy bar.
Is that ice cream? No, but now I want to freeze everything before I eat it.
Brrr! Reggie, I am not going to get brain freeze.
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