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We wow on the weekend.
We wow on the weekend.
We wow on the weekend.
Because this is what we do on the weekend.
And then we, oh wait, no, I said laughing twice.
Ah, whatever.
We wow on the weekend.
Hello and welcome to We Wow on the Weekend.
I'm your host, Dennis.
And Reggie, guess what?
I found new questions sent in from my devoted listeners.
No, they're not voicemails.
No, they're not reviewsies either.
Okay, well, they're kind of reviewsies because I had to print them out like the reviewsies, but they're not reviews.
Yeah, they're questions like the voicemail Q&A segment.
Right, and I want to answer some of these.
Well, I'm just trying to figure out which segment of the show they should go in.
Because I have to sing a song before I read them so everyone knows what we're doing.
Okay, you think we should put them in reading reviewsies?
Great.
I'm reading refusies for me and for yousies.
Reggie, what?
You changed your mind.
Fine, you're right.
They're questions and we're going to answer them, so they belong in the Q&A segment.
Ahem.
The Q&A segment.
Okay, let's take a look at what we got here.
This first question comes from username Spencer.
And Spencer asks, how many species of fish are there?
Good question, Spencer.
Okay, well, let's see.
There's tuna fish, goldfish crackers, fish sticks, fish fingers.
Uh, can you think of any more, Reggie?
Oh, right, Go Fish.
I forgot about that one.
That's a fun game.
We should play that.
Okay, how many fish was that?
Yeah, I think that's all the fish there are.
Next question.
Okay, this next one is from username Ezra.
And Ezra asks, why are bagels, bagel emoji,
So good.
I love them.
I'm confused.
Good question, Ezra.
And the answer is because they're round.
Reggie, think about it.
All the best foods are round.
Pizza, donuts, cookies.
Um...
Oranges?
No, Reggie, those are spheres.
Next question.
Okay, this next one is from username JL.
And JL asks, do you still have the Snoop sash?
Good question, JL.
Firstly...
Technically, it's not a snoop sash because Reggie spelled snoop wrong.
No one wants a sash that says biggest poop, Reggie.
And secondly, Mindy's snoop and seek robot has it.
I know.
Boo.
Thanks so much for your questions, everyone.
And if you have a question for me, you can write or leave me a voicemail 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, 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.
And this weekend, we're revisiting episodes from the very first season of Wow in the World.
Today, we're doing a story from episode 13 called A Tasty Looking Moon.
You're right, Reggie.
It is the one where they talk about empanadas.
Yeah, like half the episode is empanada talk.
Well, let's play it.
Okay, here we go.
And play.
Wee Wow will be right back.
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That's it.
Now back to the show.
Mindy, did you ever find really cool shapes in the clouds?
Yes, one time I looked up and I saw a dolphin being pushed in a baby stroller by a T-Rex.
Only the T-Rex was having trouble pushing the stroller because his baby arms were too small and he was holding a latte.
Hmm, I must have missed that one.
And this morning when I was looking up at the clouds, I saw a huge piece of cauliflower topped with shaving cream.
It looked delicious.
Uh, yeah, yeah, cool.
You've got a great imagination, Mindy.
What?
What?
Imagination?
Guy Raz, I saw a piece of giant cauliflower topped with shaving cream in the clouds.
It was real.
Okay, well, moving on.
You know, scientists who've been observing Saturn have also been noticing some pretty unusual shapes recently, especially around one of Saturn's moons.
Wait a minute.
I know we've talked about this before, Guy Raz, but just to be sure, Saturn has a moon?
Just like we have our moon for our planet Earth?
Mindy, Saturn does not have one moon.
Well, you just said it did.
Well, I said one of Saturn's moons.
Saturn has, are you ready for it?
Oh.
Saturn has at least 62 moons and probably as many as 150, but we've only been able to see 62.
Wow, that's crazy.
So this means that if the book Goodnight Moon was written about Saturn, it would be titled Goodnight Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Stop.
Stop.
We get it.
We get it.
Moon.
Man.
Sorry, Guy Raz.
I don't know what just happened there.
I think I might have left out a moon.
Nope.
Anyway, you were saying?
Well, astronomers have noticed that one of Saturn's closest moons, called Pan, has a very, well, unusual shape.
So what's the shape?
Well, it looks like an empanada.
An empanada?
An empanada.
Empanada.
Yup, an empanada.
Empanada?
An empanada.
Wait, what's an empanada?
Oh, Mindy, you are in for a treat if you have never tried an empanada.
Empanadas are these little bread pockets filled with meat or cheese or vegetables, and you can find them in countries like Argentina, Venezuela,
Chile Colombia and even in Latin American restaurants here in the United States and Mindy I can tell you from experience they are amazing okay now I'm hungry let's take a snack break no
Kairaz, you were right.
Those empanadas were delicious.
I told you.
They look like little giant raviolis.
Yeah, they're puffy in the middle and flat along the edges.
The puffy part is where you've got the yummy stuff inside.
And this moon, Mindy, pan, it looks a little like an empanada.
And astronomers have just figured this out?
Yes, and Mindy, the reason why is because they recently got some really great photographs of Pan from a space camera called Cassini.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
There is a camera flying around up in outer space?
Yeah, in fact, Mindy, there are lots of them.
Well, not exactly cameras flying up in space, but space probes or small little spacecrafts that fly around planets and do things like take close-up photographs of them.
And then they send those photos back to Earth in a kind of an email to scientists who are working at NASA, the U.S. Space Agency.
And just to be clear, there's no one on these spaceships, right?
Right?
That's right, Mindy.
These are unmanned spacecrafts, and they help scientists here on Earth understand what's going on in space by doing things like taking photos.
Oh, and that's how they realized that Pan isn't just a moon, but an actual empanada.
Well, it is a mamoon, actually.
Not an empanada.
And it's made of mostly rocks and ice.
So, no beef and cheese?
No.
Man, so why do they call it pan anyway?
Well, that's a great question, Mindy.
Pan was named after a mythological god named Pan.
Mindy, I know a lot of kids will have heard about Greek mythology.
These are ancient stories that come from the country Greece.
And way back, a long, long, long time ago, the ancient Greeks believed in many different gods, which were a little like powerful superheroes.
We don't generally believe in these gods today, and we call the stories about them myths.
But these stories were created to help humans make sense of the world around them, especially about things they didn't understand.
So there were gods of the ocean and the skies and music and even wine.
And Pan was the god of shepherds.
But what does the god of shepherds have to do with Saturn?
Ah, great question, Mindy.
Well, Pan is known as a shepherd moon because just as a shepherd makes sure that the sheep don't get too far away from the flock and, you know, stay inside a closed-off area...
The shepherd moon is generally a moon that orbits a planet with rings like Saturn or Neptune.
And these shepherd moons stay inside or very close to the rings.
They don't stray.
And so astronomers have compared these moons to shepherds, and thus they call them shepherd moons.
Wow.
Wow, that's a pretty cool explanation for how it got its name.
Anyway, Guy Raz, I'm going to head on down to the farmer's market, and like a good shepherd, I'm going to herd some empanadas right into my belly.
You want one?
Be careful, Mindy.
You know what they say.
Yep, 12 empanadas a day keeps the doctor away.
Or something like that.
Reggie, we should make empanadas.
Okay, hurry, let's do a quick cooking segment.
Dish it up on a dish, anything that you wish.
Take a bite, that's delish.
Dishing it up with Dennis and Reggie.
Okay, empanadas.
They're like a little pastry filled with cheese or meat or veggies or something like that.
No, I don't have any pastry dough, but I do have half a bagel with...
Cream cheese here.
It's pretty much the same, I think.
Just going to scrape off the cream cheese.
Okay, next is the filling.
Do we have any beef?
Oh, yeah, the beef jerky.
Oh, wait, no, I ate that earlier.
How about veggies?
What?
I thought there were some carrot sticks around here earlier.
Okay, you ate those.
How about cheese?
Cheese, cheese.
Oh, right, the cream cheese I just scraped off the bagel a minute ago.
Gonna smear that back on, and voila, a cheese empanada.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
It's just the same half bagel with cream cheese I started with.
Oh, well, almost had it.
Yeah, better wrap up the show.
Want to do the goodbye song?
OK.
That's the end of the show.
I have to go find a real empanada.
But I'll do another show tomorrow.
But for now, that's the end of the show.
Bye!
