Mindy Thomas (4:07)

What?

Dennis (4:09)

You changed your mind? Fine. You're right. They're questions and we're gonna answer them. So they belong in the Q and A segment. Ah, ahem. The Q and 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. 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. Oh, hey, hey. This next one is from username Ezra. And Ezra, why are bagels bagel emoji so good? I love them. Am confused. Good question, Ezra. And the answer is. Because they're round, Reggie. Think about it. All the best foods are round. Pizza, doughnuts, cookies, um, oranges. No, Reggie, those are spheres. Next question. Okay, this next one is from username JL&JL, 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.

Reggie (5:54)

Boo.

Dennis (5:56)

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-NWOW. 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 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.

Mindy Thomas (6:58)

Wow. Will be right back. Grown ups, this message is for you. That's it. Now back to the show.

Dennis (7:08)

What in the world?

Guy Raz (7:12)

Mindy, did you ever find really cool shapes in the clouds?

Mindy Thomas (7:16)

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.

Guy Raz (7:27)

Hmm, I must have missed that one.

Mindy Thomas (7:30)

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.

Guy Raz (7:37)

Uh, yeah, yeah. Cool. You've got a great imagination, Mindy.

Mindy Thomas (7:41)

What imagination, Guy Raz? I saw a piece of giant cauliflower topped with shaving cream in the clouds. It was real.

Guy Raz (7:49)

Uh, 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.

Mindy Thomas (8:03)

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.

Guy Raz (8:12)

Mindy, Saturn does not have one moon.

Mindy Thomas (8:15)

Well, you just said it did.

Guy Raz (8:17)

Well, I said one of Saturn's moons. Saturn has. Are you ready for it? Saturn has at least 62 moons and probably as many as 150. But we've only been able to see 62.

Mindy Thomas (8:30)

Wow, that's crazy. So this means that if the book Goodnight Moon was written about Saturn, it would be titled Good Night.

Reggie (8:36)

Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Moon. Mindy. Mindy.

Guy Raz (8:43)

Mindy.

Reggie (8:44)

Moon. Moon.

Guy Raz (8:46)

We get it.

Mindy Thomas (8:48)

Moon man. Sorry, Guy Raz. I don't know what just happened there. I think I might have left out a moon. Anyway, you were saying?

Guy Raz (8:54)

Well, astronomers have noticed that one of Saturn's closest moons, called Pan, has a very, well, unusual shape.

Mindy Thomas (9:04)

So what's the shape?

Guy Raz (9:05)

Well, it looks like an empanada.

Mindy Thomas (9:09)

An empanada?

Guy Raz (9:11)

An empanada.

Mindy Thomas (9:12)

Empanada.

Guy Raz (9:12)

Yup. An empanada.

Mindy Thomas (9:14)

Empanada.

Guy Raz (9:15)

An empanada.

Mindy Thomas (9:16)

Wait, what's an empanada?

Guy Raz (9:17)

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.

Mindy Thomas (9:41)

Okay, now I'm hungry. Let's take a snack break.

Guy Raz (9:43)

Nuh.

Mindy Thomas (9:50)

Mm mm. Guy. Raz, you were right. Those empanadas were delicious. I told you, they look like little giant raviolis.

Guy Raz (9:58)

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.

Mindy Thomas (10:10)

And astronomers have just figured this out?

Guy Raz (10:13)

Yes. And Mindy, the reason why is because they recently got some really great photographs of Pan from a space camera called Cassini.

Mindy Thomas (10:22)

Wait a minute, wait a minute. There is a camera flying around up in outer space?

Guy Raz (10:27)

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. Huh.

Mindy Thomas (10:42)

Okay, I need Mars. I need Venus. I need faces towards the sun. Jupiter. Lose the pouty face. I want to see some teeth, honey.

Guy Raz (10:51)

And then they send those photos back to Earth in a kind of an email to scientists who are working at NASA, the US Space Agency.

Mindy Thomas (11:00)

And just to be clear, there's no one on these spaceships, right?

Guy Raz (11:04)

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.

Reggie (11:15)

Oh.

Mindy Thomas (11:16)

And that's how they realized that Pan isn't just a moon, but an actual empanada.

Guy Raz (11:24)

Well, it is a moon, actually, not an empanada. And it's made of mostly rocks and ice.

Mindy Thomas (11:30)

So no beef and cheese. No man. So why do they call it Pan anyway?

Guy Raz (11:36)

Oh, 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 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.

Mindy Thomas (12:22)

But what does the God of shepherds have to do with Saturn?

Guy Raz (12:25)

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 themselves shepherd moons.

Mindy Thomas (13:01)

Wow, That's a pretty cool explanation for how it got its name. Anyway, guy Raz, I'm gonna head on down to the farmer's market, and like a good shepherd, I'm gonna herd some empanadas right into my belly. You want one?

Guy Raz (13:13)

Be careful, Mindy. You know what they say.

Mindy Thomas (13:16)

Yep, 12 empanadas a day keeps the doctor away or something like that.

Dennis (13:22)

Reggie, we should make empanadas. Okay, hurry. Let's do a quick cooking segment. Ahem, ahem. 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. Now, 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 gonna scrape off the cream cheese. Okay, next is the. 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. Just going to 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? Okay, 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.

Mindy Thomas (14:58)

Ee.

Dennis (14:59)

Bye.

Mindy Thomas (15:02)

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