Wow in the World WeWow on the Weekend
Mar 14, 2026
A messy slime-in-the-hair comedy leads to a playful salon sketch and a weekend variety show vibe. A chaotic gingerbread mansion and a mischievous magpie cause sticky mayhem. An interstellar tale follows a trip through the asteroid belt, meeting metallic, carbon, and bright silicate rocks and discovering a retrograde interloper with an ancient, exotic origin.
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Ancient Interstellar Asteroid BZ Has Always Been Retrograde
- Guy Raz explains 2015 BZ509 (BZ) has been orbiting the sun in a retrograde path for billions of years.
- Scientists rewinded its trajectory and found BZ still moved backwards 4.5 billion years ago, implying it didn’t form with our solar system.
Dennis’s Salon Solves A Slime Hair Disaster
- Dennis creates a silly 'Dennis' Salon' segment to fix slime in his hair and demonstrates playful roleplay hairstyling.
- He mists, combs, and styles slime into spikes and a roller-coaster look with Reggie as shampoo pigeon.
Replay Episodes To Learn Through Storytelling
- Use listening and curiosity to learn: Dennis introduces 'Inside Tinkercast Studios' to listen to favorite podcast episodes.
- Sampling episodes like "An Intergalactic Interloper" shows how replays can teach science through storytelling.