0:01

Hi, I'm Lindsay. And I'm Marshall,

0:03

and welcome to the 150th episode of Tumble.

0:07

Woo! To celebrate

0:09

this, we're doing a quiz show. So here's

0:11

how it's going to work. We're

0:13

going to have four of

0:16

our biggest fans play Tumble

0:18

Trivia with questions from all

0:20

nine seasons of Tumble. So,

0:23

I hope you all listened up because some

0:25

of these get pretty into the deep cuts.

0:27

It's a deep cut. There we go. We're

0:30

about to meet Zoe, Kai, Eleanor,

0:32

and Avery, who are all Tumble

0:34

patrons, so you might have heard

0:36

their names before in the birthday shout outs, assuming you

0:38

listened all the way to the end. Getting

0:42

the chance to be on the show is just

0:44

another perk of being a patron and supporting our

0:46

show. So, while these four

0:48

Tumble fans got to play along

0:50

with us live, you can play

0:52

along at home as you listen.

0:54

In the episode description, you'll find

0:56

an online quiz form that you

0:58

can fill out as you listen

1:00

and will tell you how many

1:02

you got right at the end.

1:05

And there will be a prize for

1:07

our first three winners. Or

1:10

you can just shout out the answers with your

1:12

friends and family and see who's the biggest Tumble

1:14

fan in the car or room or whatever. Or

1:18

who's just the best at guessing science

1:20

trivia. Could be that, too. So,

1:23

before we start the quiz, we're going to

1:25

get to know our contestants, Zoe, Kai, Eleanor,

1:27

and Avery. We've asked them

1:29

to do three things. First, share their favorite

1:31

episode. Second, tell

1:33

us something fun or weird about themselves.

1:36

And third, to create a special sound to

1:38

buzz in. So, let's get started. My

1:43

name is Zoe. My

1:46

favorite episode of Tumble is

1:48

the Journey to the Batcave. Awesome

1:51

episode. I really love it. And

1:53

what's one weird fact about yourself?

1:56

I don't like ketchup. Sacrilege.

2:01

She doesn't like ketchup.

2:04

This is the most shocking piece of information I've

2:06

ever learned ever. So now

2:08

we have to have you create

2:11

a unique buzz in sounds. Zing!

2:14

Alright, so when we hear the zing

2:16

that Zoe trying to answer a question.

2:19

Zing for Zoe. Alright, let's

2:21

hear our next contestant. My

2:24

name is Pi. My favorite

2:26

episode of Tumble is the Science of

2:28

Thunder. Alright, so what's something

2:31

fun or weird, a weird fact about

2:33

yourself that you don't mind sharing with

2:35

everybody who listens to Tumble? I

2:37

like making weird noises. Oh,

2:41

can you give us an example of one and maybe

2:43

that'll be your buzzing sound? No. No.

2:48

No. No. No.

2:57

I think the real challenge is going to

2:59

be can you do that the same way

3:01

twice? So up next, who is our next contestant

3:03

in the Lovely Red Bow? My

3:05

name is Eleanor. My favorite episode of

3:07

Tumble is How Toilets Work. That's

3:11

great. And then

3:13

what's something fun or weird about you? I

3:16

love mustard. Well,

3:20

so we got like a no catch

3:22

up, yes mustard. Eleanor,

3:24

what do you want to choose as your

3:26

buzz in sound? Rawr! That

3:30

was perfect. So up next. My

3:32

name is Avery. My favorite episode

3:34

of Tumble is Why Do Cats

3:36

Purr? Why do cats purr? That's

3:38

a great one. I really love that one. Okay,

3:41

so Avery, tell us something

3:43

fun or weird about yourself. I

3:45

can touch my tongue to my nose. For

3:51

those who cannot see, she just

3:53

demonstrated. Marshall is almost doing it. I

3:56

can almost do it. I'm pretty sure

3:58

I can. I got like here. Like

4:00

right at the base of my nose. I

4:02

can almost I am so far from being

4:04

able to do that. Yeah Does

4:08

that help when you have a runny nose? Extra

4:13

flavor down there All

4:31

right we

4:33

have had nine seasons as

4:35

I mentioned previously and Our

4:39

first game is going to cover

4:41

the early years of tumble So

4:44

has everybody listened to all of

4:46

the episodes? Not

4:49

every single one Most

4:53

of them I think most of

4:55

them. Okay, we have not

4:57

listened to some of these episodes in

5:01

Many many years so we're going

5:03

to help everyone out by giving

5:05

you four potential answers And if

5:07

you haven't heard the episodes you

5:10

might be able to guess the answers, too

5:13

Okay, so our first

5:15

question is about our

5:18

very first episode What

5:21

is the name of the

5:23

salamander that was featured in

5:25

the first ever episode of

5:27

tumble? Was

5:29

it a the

5:31

African Grey salamander be

5:35

the blind cave salamander? see

5:39

Larry or D the

5:41

Barton Springs salamander and please

5:44

use your unique buzzing sound

5:46

to buzz in things Okay,

5:49

that's thing for Zoe. Is it

5:52

D? D the Barton

5:54

Springs salamander is correct Great

5:58

job Zoe. Okay Second

6:00

question, in the cave of

6:02

the upside down bat, which

6:05

piece of exercise equipment did

6:07

scientists use to study bats?

6:10

Is it A, an elliptical

6:12

trainer, B, a

6:14

treadmill, C, tiny

6:17

little dumbbells, or

6:19

D, running shoes? I

6:23

think I heard Kai's weird

6:26

sound. The cooing of a dove,

6:28

almost. That was Kai's. Ooh,

6:31

C, tiny dumbbells. That

6:34

is not the correct answer. Does anybody

6:36

else want to buzz in? Oh,

6:39

wait, I heard a meow. I heard a

6:41

meow. That's Avery's

6:43

special sound. All

6:46

right, Avery, which one do you think it is? Elliptical

6:49

trainer, treadmill, tiny dumbbells, or

6:52

running shoes? Is it

6:54

running shoes? I love

6:56

the image of bats wearing running

6:58

shoes. That is also

7:01

not correct. That is unfortunately not correct. Zing.

7:05

Oh. Wait, I think I heard Eleanor's

7:07

sound. B, treadmill,

7:09

yes, that is the correct

7:12

answer. In

7:15

the voyage of the ocean trash,

7:17

we learned that there are small

7:19

beads of plastic that get melted

7:21

down into toys, but

7:23

can become microplastics in the

7:26

ocean. What are they called?

7:29

Is it A, Nurdles, B,

7:33

Boingy Beads, C, Kekals,

7:35

or D, Weekals? Zing.

7:39

All right, Zoe. Is

7:41

it A? Yes, A,

7:44

Nurdles is the correct answer.

7:47

And I remember we called each other Nurdles

7:49

for a long time after we learned that

7:51

word. Are you all

7:53

ready for the next question? In our

7:55

episode, The Tower of the

7:57

Vomiting Robot, scientists build a...

8:00

robot to study the distance

8:02

that viruses travel when vomited.

8:05

What was the robot's name? Was

8:07

it A, Vombot, B,

8:10

Vomitron 5000, C, Vomomatic, or D, Larry? No.

8:18

Oh, that's definitely Avery, no question.

8:21

Was it the last

8:23

one? Yes, it

8:25

was Larry the Vomiting Robot.

8:30

He looked like the top half of a guy and

8:33

his only job was to vomit. What's

8:38

that name? He threw up. Throw

8:41

up. Throw him down. He was

8:43

a robot for throwing up. That'd

8:47

be disgusting to clean up.

8:50

That was the whole point. All

8:57

right. And are we ready for the next question, everybody?

9:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

9:02

In the science of poop, we learned

9:05

about pooping in space. What

9:07

is the technical term for a space

9:09

diaper or what

9:11

astronauts wear under their spacesuits in case

9:14

they have to go and they can't

9:16

take their spacesuits off? Is it

9:19

A, an undersuit? B,

9:22

a personal waste containment

9:24

mechanism? C, a

9:27

waste collection garment? Or

9:30

D, Astro undies? Zing.

9:37

All right, I heard the zing first.

9:40

I honestly don't know the answer to this, so

9:42

I'm really curious what that we think it is.

9:44

C? Yes, it is C,

9:47

the waste collection garment. That

9:49

is, you'll find an official

9:51

NASA space manual. And

9:54

that is incredible. When

9:56

I came up with Astro undies, I really liked

9:59

that. That's what I

10:01

was going to say. It is

10:03

the best name. Yeah. You're right. I'll

10:09

submit that to NASA. Okay,

10:11

next question. In the episode

10:14

Dinosaur Poop Part 2, the

10:16

Copperlight Queen, which

10:18

famous female scientist

10:21

named Mary is the Copperlight

10:23

Queen? Is it A.

10:25

Mary Leakey, B. Marie

10:28

Curie, C. Marie

10:31

Tharp, or D. Mary

10:33

Annung? Meow. Oh,

10:36

wow. That

10:38

was the fastest meow I've ever heard. And

10:41

I've heard some fast meows, let me tell

10:43

you. Okay, Avery, which

10:45

is the answer? Marie Curie?

10:47

I can't say her name. That

10:49

is such a good guess. Marie

10:51

Curie is the woman who discovered

10:53

radium. She's an amazing scientist, but

10:55

she was not into dinosaur poop.

10:57

Hey. Oh, Eleanor

11:00

for the steal. Mary

11:02

Annung. Yes. It

11:05

was Mary Annung the

11:07

Copperlight Queen. So, Zoe,

11:10

a question for you. Which would you

11:12

rather eat, ketchup or dinosaur poop? Ketchup.

11:15

Ketchup. That's

11:20

good to know. All right. Are

11:22

you guys ready for the next question? Yes.

11:25

All right. Okay. In the cave

11:27

of the underground astronauts, which

11:30

is not one of the parts

11:32

of the cave that the archaeologists

11:34

have to crawl through to get

11:37

to the very tiny

11:39

Pinoletti chamber? A,

11:42

the bone slide. B,

11:45

Superman's crawl.

11:47

C, dragon's back. Or

11:49

D, leap of faith. And we're looking for

11:52

the one that is not a true part

11:54

of the cave. Meow.

11:57

So what do you think, Avery? I think it's the

11:59

Superman one. Oh, that is

12:01

one of the parts of the cave. That

12:03

was actually a part. That was the part where they had to

12:05

get through the thing. Hey, hey,

12:08

hey. I

12:11

was in the middle of making a

12:13

point when Kai interrupted with his noise.

12:17

Okay, what do you think? Oh,

12:19

yes. The

12:23

part that was not part

12:25

of the cave is

12:28

the bone side. Yes. Imagine

12:31

you were on a playground and

12:33

for Halloween they just covered it

12:36

with bones. Would

12:39

the bone side be a slide made out

12:41

of bones or a

12:43

slide that caused your bones to

12:46

fly out of your body? Oh my God.

12:48

A bone side? A bone side? A

12:50

bone side? It would be a bone side.

12:55

I was thinking of it as a slide into the

12:58

bone chamber, but I like your options better. The bone

13:00

side? That was a bone

13:02

side. Yes.

13:05

So in the tale of

13:07

the hungry koala, what is the name

13:09

for this special kind of poop that

13:11

baby koalas eat from their mom's butts?

13:15

Is it A, poo-ala,

13:17

B, freconium, C,

13:21

pap, or D,

13:23

ee-jesta? Zing!

13:27

Zing! Zing! Zoe

13:29

with the zing. What

13:33

was the last one? Ee-jesta.

13:37

Is it the last one, D? No.

13:40

Ee-jesta? No, it is not. Oh.

13:44

Kai. Kai with the steel. See?

13:47

Pap. Yes, it is Pap.

13:50

I'm disappointed nobody chose poo-ala.

13:54

But yeah. I think that's what it

13:56

is, a baby's voice. I want

13:58

it to be that way. I'm getting

14:00

it back. I know. I'm getting it

14:02

back. Hungry, mom. Hungry, mom.

14:05

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15:45

our last round, we had

15:47

multiple choice and now it's just

15:49

guessing the answer. We're

15:52

going to ask a bunch of questions. If you know the

15:54

answer, buzz in. And if

15:56

you don't get the answer, somebody else

15:58

can buzz in and steal. So

16:00

are you ready? Yeah! Okay,

16:04

and we're gonna try to do these as fast

16:06

as we can. Here we go. In

16:08

the science of butts, what creature has

16:11

a sometimes butt? Me! No!

16:14

Avery, what is it? A worm? Oh,

16:17

you're so close! Kye! Kye,

16:21

what is it? A comb jelly. Yes!

16:23

It's a comb jelly! It

16:26

is a comb jelly. In

16:28

the dinosaur asteroid, where did

16:30

scientists find the impact crater?

16:34

Wow! Kye! I

16:36

think that was Kye first, so Kye. I'm

16:38

pretty sure it's like in

16:40

Mexico. Yes! It's

16:43

in the Yucatan Peninsula and

16:45

we will take Mexico. Alright,

16:48

in our mini-series Life Lab,

16:50

we featured a company that

16:52

uses synthetic biology to make

16:54

fabrics from what type of

16:56

silk? Meow! Meow! Meow!

17:00

Meow! Meow! Meow!

17:03

Avery! Avery got her mirror in. Spider,

17:05

yes! Yes! Okay,

17:07

in the tomb of the animal mummies, an Egyptologist

17:09

described finding more than 8 million

17:11

of what type of animal mummy?

17:14

Wow! Wow! I think that

17:16

was Kye again. A dog?

17:19

Yes! Yes! Okay, in

17:22

Do Aliens Exist?, what did we

17:24

learn is the name for the

17:26

zone around a star where life

17:28

could exist? Meow! Oh,

17:31

that's definitely Eleanor. Eleanor! I'm

17:33

going for a planet? A

17:37

planet? Oh, good guess! Meow! Oh,

17:41

Avery to steal. Um, the

17:43

Goldilocks Zone? You would be right!

17:45

Ding, ding, ding! That is it! That's

17:48

it! Oh! Well done, Avery!

17:51

Okay, in the

17:53

dinosaur's burp, what

17:56

is a bottom burp? Meow! Ding!

17:59

Oh, wow! That was a tie between

18:01

Avery and Kai. Rawr!

18:04

Zing! Hmm. Avery, I'll

18:06

give you first chance since Kai has more points.

18:09

Alright. Um, a fart?

18:12

Yes. And

18:15

we have a follow-up question. What is

18:17

a top fart? Yeah,

18:19

wow. Zing! I

18:22

think that one was Avery and Kai tied, but I'm

18:24

going to give it to Kai this time just to

18:26

be fair. Um, a burp?

18:29

Yes. Yes. Okay.

18:31

In the mind control cat parasite,

18:33

what is the name of the

18:36

parasite that infects cats and sometimes

18:38

humans? Rawr! Oh,

18:41

I think that was Zoe by a hair.

18:43

Toxoplasma! Yes!

18:46

Alright, good job. Yeah, that's totally

18:48

correct. Alright, and this is our

18:50

last lightning round question. How

18:52

did the sloth scientist in YR

18:54

Sloth Slow study sloths? Now!

18:57

Zing! I definitely heard

18:59

the meow. What is

19:01

the answer? Um, I

19:04

forget. What? I'm

19:07

afraid of Zing! Oh my

19:09

goodness. So that was a tie

19:11

between Zoe and Kai. Alright,

19:13

let's give it to Zoe because Kai does have

19:15

more points. Um,

19:18

a backpack. Yes. Because

19:21

it sloths with backpacks falling out of

19:23

trees. Exactly. I remember

19:25

how you were laughing so hard.

19:30

It was really funny, right? Can you imagine

19:32

a sloth just put it on its little

19:34

backpack and it's just like, I'm gonna climb

19:37

up a tree. That's a

19:39

lot more. Oh yeah,

19:41

yeah. I'm

19:44

gonna climb...

19:50

Oh, a snail! And then the branch

19:52

breaks. I'm gonna climb... Ahh! And

19:54

then he falls. Oh

20:04

man, I love doing these

20:06

quiz shows so much. It

20:08

was a lot of fun. Those kids were awesome.

20:11

Yeah, and you got to share your sloth impression,

20:13

which I have tried to limit. But

20:18

the sloth impression is... All

20:20

right, we get it. We

20:22

get it. It was fun to

20:24

make the quiz and it was fun to play

20:27

the quiz is the point. So

20:30

for anyone wondering the score, Kai ended

20:32

up being our winner. So how'd

20:34

you do at home? Was it hard? Was

20:36

it easy? Was it somewhere in between? What

20:38

do you think? As we mentioned

20:40

at the beginning of the show, you

20:42

could play along with our online quiz

20:44

and it's okay to play again if

20:47

you've already listened. We'll accept

20:49

cheating. So

20:52

we definitely want to do more quiz

20:54

shows. So if you want to be

20:56

a contestant like Zoe, Eleanor, Kai, and

20:58

Avery, just go to patreon.com/tumble podcast and

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might sign up and join us. This

21:23

show was written by me and Lindsay

21:25

Patterson. That's me. And produced

21:27

by Elliot Hajaj. Plus, I

21:29

made all the music and I performed

21:31

the vital function of keeping score. Also

21:34

a very special thanks to our contestants

21:36

and their families without whom we couldn't

21:38

have made the show and they all

21:40

received tumble t-shirts for participating.

21:43

So thanks for listening

21:45

and join us next

21:47

time for more stories

21:49

of science discovery. All

21:54

right, everybody, here we are at the end of

21:56

the episode and everybody knows what that means. It's

21:59

time for Patreon. people. We got a bunch of

22:01

birthday shoutouts to give, so here we

22:04

go. First, happy birthday to Edison on

22:06

January 5th. Edison, it is so awesome

22:08

that you love science. I totally agree.

22:11

Keep up your curiosity and asking

22:13

great questions. A happy 10th

22:15

birthday on January 5th to Jasper with

22:18

love from Mommy, Mama, Kai, Noonie, Rosa,

22:20

Fiona, and Uva. That's a lot of

22:22

people you got in your life, Jasper.

22:25

To Logan, Mom and Dad want to

22:27

wish you a happy golden birthday on

22:29

January 6th to their favorite kid. You're so

22:31

special to your family and they love hearing

22:33

all of your big ideas. I wish you'd

22:35

share some with me too. To

22:37

our future scientist, Ted, Mom and

22:39

Dad love you and are so proud of you

22:41

and happy birthday on January 8th. To

22:44

Rashaan, you're an incredible six-year-old.

22:46

Always stay curious. Mommy, Daddy,

22:49

and Ari love you to the moon and back.

22:51

And happy birthday on January 9th. To

22:53

Charlotte, Mommy, Daddy, and Eloise love you

22:55

so much and happy birthday on January

22:58

11th. And another happy January 11th

23:00

birthday to Layla. Mom and Dad enjoy

23:02

watching you investigate and learn about the

23:04

world around you. Keep learning and stay

23:07

curious. Happy January 14th birthday

23:09

to Sam, who I hope is listening

23:11

to this in the car. To

23:13

Tommy, your parents love you and

23:16

happy birthday on January 15th. And

23:18

finally, to Elica, happy birthday on

23:20

January 16th. Thanks to all

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