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Hey, Wowzer fans, Mindy here.
And before we start the show, I gotta let you know that this November, with a special new episode featuring our friends at Circle Round and Terrestrials on Radiolab for Kids,
And don't miss when Elmo from Sesame Street stops by Wow in the World to make us all belly laugh on November 24th.
Oh, but that's not all, Reg.
On December 1st, we are sharing our 250th episode of Wow in the World with all of you.
We think this one is going to be music to your ears.
Literally.
Did I mention it's a musical?
And if you're a member of the World Organization of Wowzers...
Oh boy, do I have a surprise for you.
You can listen to our 250th episode early with me and other members from around the world on Saturday, November 22nd, at 7 pm.
Eastern.
That's right, we are throwing another listening party.
Join us as we dance along to our new songs.
React to the episode with other members in the chat and more.
Grownups.
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Slash wow.
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Well, you can find the link and password to join the event when you sign in at Tinkercastcom.
Slash wow.
That's it.
It's going to be a November to remember.
But for now, let's get on with the show.
Woo on the weekend.
We 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 uh whatever, we wow on the weekend.
We wow on the weekend.
We wow on the weekend because this is what we do.
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...
Oh, man.
Oh, you're right.
We better keep the show rolling.
Let's answer some questions with a Q&A segment.
The Q&A segment.
All right, let's just get the old answering machine pulled up here.
Okay, here we go.
That's me.
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.
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?
Because 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.
Next question.
Hi, Dennis.
This is Arjun.
I live in Ohio.
My question is, why do you start WeWOW on the weekends?
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.
Yeah, so I decided I would do it.
We wow 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. 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.
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.
WeeWow will be right back.
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Hey, grownups.
It's Mindy and Guy Raz here from Wow in the World.
Mindy and I have some brand new Wow in the World toys out in the world just in time for the holidays.
Made for the kids who love science and for the ones who don't yet.
From our 100 experiments that WowKid created.
To the telescope and astronomy kit.
Our Wow in the World toys help your Wowzer learn about their world through play.
That's it.
Nope.
Hey, Mindy, do you remember that show, The Jetsons?
Oh, yeah.
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... We're 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!
I mean, just imagine it, Guy Raz.
No speed limits, no red lights, no stop signs.
People could just fly around like 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 gonna need a lot of supplies for this, but good news, I've been keeping a list.
Well Alright, we're gonna need 45 turkey basters, 200 AAA batteries, a pig that can lay eggs and 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.
You're telling me that flying cars are coming?
Well... Everybody duck!
Run for your lives!
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?
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 drone, guy Roz.
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.
Uh 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.
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!
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, 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 phone, You know those apps that give you directions.
Oh yeah.
I use them all the time to help me get lost.
Well, they're supposed to tell you how to get to where you need to go.
No.
But the principle is the same, except that, instead of telling a human to turn left or to turn right, the app tells a computer what to do.
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.
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 man, that sounds so awesome and I can't wait to ride one.
But why does Dubai get it first?
Look at 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 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.
Oh, really?
Sweet.
Where to, pal?
Okay, I gotcha.
Yes, sir.
Right away, sir.
Walk, walk, walk, walk.
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.
Walk to Dubai, walk to Dubai, walk to Dubai.
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