WeWow on the Weekend: Sound Effects, Compliments, and Dinosaur Backbones! (Encore)

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1:02That's tinkercast.com slash contest. And now for a quick at break and then back to the show. One Ninjago. What's your hero story? Remember when families used to have spontaneous living room dance offs or those moments when everyone ends up in tears of laughter over something silly. Next playground brings that effortless shared joy back into your everyday routine. It plugs right into your TV and transforms the room into an active motion controlled game space. Your body powers the play so there are no controllers or wearables needed. You can play with characters from blueie, Barbie, Gabby's dollhouse, Dora, how to train your dragon, cup of pig and more. And it's designed to be kids safe with no ads, in-app purchases or mature content.

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3:07I'm your host Dennis. And Reggie's here too. Welcome to the show where we chit chat and answer questions from listeners and listen to episodes of Wow in the World. Why do I sound so weird? Well, turn your back right this minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back, put it back. Put it back, put it back, put it back. Okay. Is it normal again? Don't do that, Reggie! What if my voice accidentally stayed that way? Well, I'm gonna learn how to work the microphones one day and make you sound like a ghost! Alright, let's get into the show and answer some questions with a Kiw and a segment! Ah, I'm the Kiw and a segment! Ah! Alright, let's just get the all-answering machine pulled up here!

4:10Okay, here we go! Hi, you've reached Dennis from We Wow on the Weekend! That's me! Do you have a question? Well, I do too! Lots of them! And who's gonna answer all my questions? You? Probably not! But I guess I can answer yours. Leave me a message! What's your question? Or you? I'm Colin, by the way, from We Chim... Hi, Colin! I'm Dennis, by the way! And what question do you want to ask the most? Bye! What question do I want to ask the most? Good question! I think one of my favorite questions is... How? No, that's it! Just how? Oh, I also really like asking what? You know, like, what? You know, like that! And I also like asking how dare you and who do you think you are? And... Oh, a common question for me is...

5:10How could you? Oh, yeah, no, these are all rhetorical questions. Isn't that what Colin is wondering? Woo! Oh, actual real questions like... What questions do I want to answer on the show? Woo! Huh, I never thought about it before. Um, maybe something like... Dennis! Where did you get your cool clothes? They're so fashionable! Huh! Huh! Well, you're right, that's more of a compliment. Okay, how about... Dennis, how do you make your hair look so good? Ah, no, that's another compliment. Huh! Yeah, maybe I should change my request from... Colin asked me a question to... Colin, give me a bunch of compliments. Huh! Now, you're right. That would get boring. Colin, give me a bunch of compliments, please. What? I didn't say anything! Next compliment! I mean, next question! Hi, Dennis. My name is A.Z. And my question for you is... Is Peter Peck's a Peck of Pickle Peppers? How many pickled peppers did Peter Peck pick?

6:10I guess the thing is... It says he picked the Peck of Pickle Peppers. But how much is a peck? How much is a peck? Okay, there's four pecks and a bushels, so that would mean that a peck is maybe like the size of two or three gallons of milk or a small basket or a small grocery bag, maybe? And then, the amount of pickled peppers that can fit in a peck would depend upon what kind of pickled pepper we're talking about. Big buzz, Reggie. Peppers are different sizes. Are we talking about jalapeno? Are we talking about bell peppers? Are we talking about pepperachini? And another thing, how is Peter Piper picking peppers that are already pickled? No, Reggie. First you pick the peppers, then you pickle them. They don't grow in already pickled. That's preposterous. So, the amount of pickled peppers in a peck depends upon the proportion of the pepper. And if the pepper's Peter Piper is picking

7:11are already pickled, he should probably not pick them. All right, them. Next question. Hi, Dennis. This is Issy. Hi, Issy. Do you want to hear a riddle? Oh boy, do I? I blow out the world while staying in the corner. What am I? Oh, what's in the corner? Well, it's in the corner. A house plant. No. A grandfather clock. No, no, no, no, mother got rid of that. Oh, a lamp. No way. A naughty little Dennis who broke the lamp. A stamp. A stamp. Oh, a stamp. I get it. Because it's in the corner of the envelope. I was so close. Guess I was, Reggie. lamp rhymes with stamp. Thanks for the riddle, Issy. And thank you, everyone. Are you? Oh, Issy wasn't done. Sorry, Issy. How do people get hiccups? Bye. How do people get hiccups? Well, I don't know how people get hiccups,

8:12but I do know how to get rid of them. Guess I do, Reggie. First, you cut a lemon in half, sprinkle it with vinegar and sugar, and then sit on a chair, and then pull your legs up to your chest, and lean forward a little, and then you pull on the tongue, and squeeze your nose. Yeah, that's it. That's all you have to do. Just don't fall off the chair. Bunch of lemons. Lose it. No. See? No hiccups. I know I didn't have hiccups before. This method also prevents hiccups. Thanks for your calls, everyone. If you've got a question for me, call and leave me a message. The number is 1-888-7-1-1-1-1. I just might answer your question on WeWOW on the weekend. Okay, that takes care of that. Oh, right. Next up is a little segment I like to call,

9:13Inside Tinkercast Studios. Inside Tinkercast Studios. This is the part where we revisit an episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast shows. And today, we're listening to WeWOW in the world season one, episode six called, Dinosaurs Puzzling Backbones. Huh, that's kind of a weird title. What's it about? Dinosaurs, sure. And backbones, right. I guess I could have figured that out. Okay, okay, let's just get to the episode. Here we go. And play. Wow, in the world, we'll be right back. Grown-ups, this message is for you.

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12:18but then I decided, you know what, let's spice things up a bit. So I had the horse ride on my back and... You did well. Yeah, I know. I should have put a saddle on first, but sometimes you just got a lot of things the hard way. Uh, okay, I don't recommend that activity, but you know Mindy, as we humans get older, it's not unusual for us to get back pain because the bones that support our back, our spine and back bones are constantly carrying our bodies around, that's a lot of weight and a lot of work. I know, you should hear my backbone and spine. They're always complaining and fighting with each other over who's pulling the most weight. Okay, back bone, I have literally been carrying her around since she can walk upright. Oh, well, why need that? Where were you when I was dragging her around? Or did she decide to wolf down 14 chimichangas all in one day, huh?

13:22Well, I literally... Oh, I just got a little... Okay, spine, back bone, stop fighting. There's enough of me to carry around, you guys. Interesting. Well, anyway Mindy, the average American man weighs about 191 pounds, and the average American woman weighs about 159 pounds. Now, imagine being a giant sorrow pod, you know, one of those giant dinosaurs with a long neck and body, like a padisaurus or a brachiosaurus. Those dinosaurs could weigh as much as 170,000 pounds. Mindy, imagine the back pain those dinosaurs had to deal with. Wow, that's a lot of Tylenol. Well, of course, animals don't use medicine like Tylenol to help with their pain. And besides, there was no Tylenol back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but you have to wonder, Mindy, how did those dinosaurs

14:22carry their massive bodies around without just collapsing? Or maybe they did just collapse, and that was the real end of the dinosaurs. Or maybe they got around on wheels somehow. Yeah, maybe they wore giant roller skates to roll around. That's what I would have done. Well, you would have to build the world's most powerful roller skates to help keep a sorrow pod moving, but even then, it wouldn't answer the question, because those giant plant eaters had to carry all of that body weight around, even if they did have giant roller skates. So how are these gargantuan dinosaurs able to even grow that big in the first place? Mindy, that's a great question. Now, imagine for a moment that you lived in the United States in the late Jurassic period, so about 160 million years ago. Okay, I'm imagining it. Now I'm running, I'm screaming my brains out.

15:24Now, I'm wondering where I can find some ice cream. Maybe some friends to hang out with. Don't be run from these dinosaurs. And just to be clear, there were absolutely no humans on the planet at that time. In fact, our earliest hominid ancestors, they only appeared on planet Earth about 145 million years after the sarapods were long gone and extinct. What? No humans at all? So no friends? Okay, all right. So I'm imagining that I'm here on Earth in the late Jurassic period, dinosaurs roaming all around, but no friends, and I'm getting a little lonely and a lot scared. Mindy, you're doing just fine. Nothing to worry about. Now, imagine seeing an apathosaurus. These creatures were 14 times bigger than the biggest elephant on Earth today. So take one elephant, invite 13 more elephants to join that elephant,

16:28and ask those elephants to pile on top of each other, and you get the picture. Wow, that's a big one of elephants. Or roughly the equivalent size of an apathosaurus. And for a long time, scientists who study dinosaurs, paleontologists, have been trying to figure out how they got to be so big. So what do they think? Well, one theory or guess based on scientific evidence is that these sarapods had very thick legs, kind of like giant tree trucks, and those legs helped to support their weight. So maybe, you know, you've seen a building with pillars? Yeah, like the US Capitol building. That has a lot of pillars. That's exactly right. Or ancient Greek and Roman temples also had pillars, those strong tall poles that were often made from stone that support the weight of a roof, for example. And sarapods' legs acted as sort of pillars for the dinosaur's body.

17:31Yeah, but these dinosaurs were so heavy. I can't imagine that their big tree trunk pillar legs would be enough to keep them from collapsing to the ground, guys. I know, right? I mean, imagine how long their backs were. I mean, they could grow as long as 55 meters. So if you've ever been to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, that's about as tall as Cinderella's castle. That is how long some of these sarapods could grow. And for the longest time, paleontologists were wondering how these dinosaurs' backbones could hold all of that weight. But Mindy, they may be getting closer to the answer. Oh, you're about to spill some beans. Mindy, two paleontologists named John Phronomos and Jeffrey Wilson actually study this very thing. They are vertebrae paleontologists. And that means they specifically study the backbones of dinosaurs. So basically, their whole job is to uncover the hidden mysteries

18:31of dinosaur spines. That's exactly right, Mindy. And spines are also called vertebral columns. And a vertebra is one bone in the column. So if you think about a backbone or spine, think of it as sort of like a series of circular bones stacked one on top of the other. And together, they form a long column or backbone. And dinosaurs basically had the same kind of bone in their backs. Except Mindy, in dinosaurs, these vertebral columns were massive. Wait a minute. So if these giant sauropods had backbones just like ours, how were they able to carry around their giant dinosaur bodies? Well, that's a good question, Mindy, because our backbones wouldn't be able to handle that much weight. But Mindy, those two paleontologists, I mentioned, were trying to figure out the same question. And they noticed that the vertebrae, the bones that make up the backbone,

19:34the vertebrae for these sauropods had these deep zigzaggy lines along the top. And what they realized, Mindy, is that these zigzaggy lines actually connected to another bone with zigzaggy lines, almost like a jigsaw puzzle. What? So are you telling us these dinosaurs basically had puzzle pieces for bones? Well, yeah, sort of, bones that fit together exactly like puzzle pieces. And what that meant, Mindy, is that these bones, by being attached in exactly the right way, were able to handle the pressure of all of that dinosaur weight. They would never survive in my house. We're always losing the puzzle pieces. Anyway, so how did this backpuzzle deal help them to handle all of that dinosaur weight? Well, the way the bones connected, one next to the other, probably meant that the pressure on the bones was distributed or spread across the sauropods entire spine instead of just one part.

20:36And when the entire backbone was working to handle all of that weight, each vertebrae pitched in to keep the dinosaur up and moving. Think about when a bunch of grown-ups moves a heavy thing like a refrigerator, it probably takes three to four adults to do that, right? And each grown-up makes sure that they're doing their part, keeping the fridge from falling to the ground. And that's kind of how these individual bones in the dinosaurs back worked. Gaira, let's try this out. Let's go pick up your car with our bare hands and walk it around the neighborhood. We can tell everyone we're playing dinosaurs fine. I don't think that would be a good idea. Wow, that was so cool! I wish I could have lived in dinosaur times. Yeah, and right on the back of a dinosaur like a little prehistoric prince. Wait, what do you mean I already ride on the back of a dinosaur? Yeah, I've written on your back before, so...

21:36Wait, birds are dinosaurs? No, you're telling me that you, Raji, a bird who likes buttered noodles and bubble baths is a descendant of the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Oh, not the T-Rex. A smaller dinosaur probably, but still a dinosaur. I think I need to go lie down. All right, let's wrap up the show and then I can go lie down and question everything I know about you. Thanks to all you listeners out there for tuning in to Wewau on the Wig-En. But, if you have a question for me, call and leave me a message at 1-888-7-5-5-7-5-7-5-5. I just might answer your question on Wewau on the Wig-En. Should we do the goodbye song? Okay, that's the end of the show.

22:40I need to go and re-evaluate everything I know about dinosaurs and birds. But I'll do another show tomorrow. But for now, it's the end of the show. E-E-E. Bye!