Forever Ago and Brains On have each recently released episodes about whale communication. Join the hosts of both shows, Joy Dolo and Molly Bloom, as they get stuck in Elevator. The only way out: to play a whale of a game!
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ELEVATOR: Now entering Brains On headquarters.
[BEEPS]
[SMOKE BLOWING]
JOY DOLO: Whew. Another episode of Forever Ago in the can.
SMARTY PAL: Nice work, Dolo.
JOY DOLO: Oh. Hey, Smarty Pal. Joy Dolo, host of Forever Ago, here after taping an episode all about whales. I'm about to head to my favorite juice bar for a cool cup of guava mango bliss.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
ELEVATOR: Going down.
MOLLY BLOOM: Joy! Can you hold the elevator? I forgot the show snacks in my car!
JOY DOLO: [GASPS] Oh no. This is an emergency. Elevator, to the parking garage!
ELEVATOR: What are the magic words?
JOY DOLO: Oh, sorry. Pretty please.
ELEVATOR: Wrong. It's whale quiz.
MOLLY BLOOM: Wait. What's happening?
ELEVATOR: In honor of Forever Ago and Brains On both having episodes about whales, I'm springing a whale quiz on you.
MOLLY BLOOM: But there's no time to spare! My cottage cheese is curdling!
ELEVATOR: Sorry, not sorry. In order for me to take you where you want to go, you must answer three whale questions.
JOY DOLO: Are you sure this isn't just a fluke in your programming?
ELEVATOR: Nice pun and nice segue. Question one, whale tails are called flukes. What are the two sides of the flukes called? A, feet, B, lobes, C, barneys, D, toes.
JOY DOLO: Their tails are called flukes, so it's got to be toes, no? What do you think, Molly?
MOLLY BLOOM: So we're talking about the things pointing on the tail?
JOY DOLO: End, right? So that seems like--
MOLLY BLOOM: Toes.
JOY DOLO: --it would be toes.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah, because--
JOY DOLO: Unless they're feet.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh. The tail-- is the tail the foot of the whale or the leg of the whale?
JOY DOLO: And the-- oh! Have you seen SpongeBob SquarePants?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: And the whale person that's Mr. Krabs' daughter?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: She's standing on two whale feet flukes. Final answer, feet.
MOLLY BLOOM: Agreed.
ELEVATOR: This sounds a learning opportunity for you. Like the brain, whale flukes are divided into a left and right lobe.
MOLLY BLOOM: I object.
JOY DOLO: Molly, you were wrong.
[LAUGHTER]
ELEVATOR: Going down.
MOLLY BLOOM: Whoa.
JOY DOLO: OK, OK, OK, one floor closer.
ELEVATOR: Question two. Like cows, whales have multiple stomachs. How many stomachs do Baird's whales have? A, 2, B, 12, C, 30, D, 13.
JOY DOLO: Hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm.
JOY DOLO: Hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm.
JOY DOLO: Let's see. So they have two fluke lobes.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS]
JOY DOLO: So they have two lobes. I doubt they have two stomachs. And whales are huge.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: Right? So they got to have more than two.
MOLLY BLOOM: 30 seems like too many.
JOY DOLO: Yeah, but 12 doesn't seem like quite enough.
MOLLY BLOOM: So 13!
JOY DOLO: 13! We're so smart. High five.
MOLLY BLOOM: Let's do it. Yes.
JOY DOLO: [CHUCKLES]
ELEVATOR: Correct. Baird's whales have 13 stomachs. Each is used in digestion.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Going down.
JOY DOLO: We are the smartest people in the elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Uh, uh, uh.
JOY DOLO: [HUMMING] Oh, goodness. Oh, good, we're almost there. Come on, Molly. Do it for the cottage cheese.
MOLLY BLOOM: Aye-aye, Joy.
ELEVATOR: Question three, phones down. Spell six different words using the letters in baleen.
JOY DOLO: Six different words?
MOLLY BLOOM: What is this, spelling bee?
JOY DOLO: OK. Bale, B-A-L-E. That's one.
MOLLY BLOOM: Lean.
JOY DOLO: Lean! L-E-A-N.
MOLLY BLOOM: That's two.
JOY DOLO: That's two. Enable. Enable!
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Joy.
JOY DOLO: That's really good.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very impressive.
JOY DOLO: Listen, everybody. I was in my sixth grade spelling bee, and I didn't win. But right now, I feel like I've won.
MOLLY BLOOM: You've won.
JOY DOLO: I've won.
MOLLY BLOOM: Able?
JOY DOLO: Able. Four. Very good, very good.
MOLLY BLOOM: I just coasted off your victory there. Ale, like the beverage.
JOY DOLO: Ale. That's right. I'm thinking of spelling bee, and it can only be four-- [WHEEZES]
Eel, E-E-L.
MOLLY BLOOM: Eel!
JOY DOLO: Eel!
MOLLY BLOOM: We did it!
JOY DOLO: We did it. Elevator, did you hear that? Eel, eat that.
[DINGS]
ELEVATOR: I'll admit, that was impressive. Skip two floors.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
JOY DOLO: Whoa!
MOLLY BLOOM: [SQUEALS]
ELEVATOR: Question four, blue whales are the largest animal to ever live on Earth. What is the second largest whale? A, sperm, B, beluga, C, baby blue, D, fin.
MOLLY BLOOM: Huh.
JOY DOLO: Does baby blue seem like it's too obvious?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: Like the second largest is baby blue?
MOLLY BLOOM: And it's also a baby, so it's counterintuitive.
JOY DOLO: It can't be it. Yeah.
MOLLY BLOOM: Beluga, famous whale from the Raffi song.
JOY DOLO: Yes. Is the sperm whale-- is that from the Moby Dick? Wasn't it a sperm whale?
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't-- you're so much more learned than I am. I don't know!
JOY DOLO: Because I feel like that was a pretty big whale too.
MOLLY BLOOM: I think sperm whales are big. I think they have the biggest brains, maybe.
JOY DOLO: Oh! Maybe they have 12 stomachs.
MOLLY BLOOM: And 13 brains.
JOY DOLO: [LAUGHS]
I don't know what a fin whale is--
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't either.
JOY DOLO: --if I'm completely honest.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm going to go with sperm?
JOY DOLO: Let's go with sperm whale, Elevator?
ELEVATOR: This sounds a learning opportunity for you. Fin whales can grow as big as 88 feet--
MOLLY BLOOM: [GASPS]
JOY DOLO: Oh.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh.
ELEVATOR: --a little longer than a tennis court.
JOY DOLO: Listen here, Elevator. I don't like your attitude.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
ELEVATOR: Lobby level.
MOLLY BLOOM: One more stop.
ELEVATOR: Question five, blue whales consume about 16 metric tons of krill per day. How many liters is a blue whale's average bowel movement? A, 200, B, 1,000, C, 60, D, none. Whales don't follow the metric system.
JOY DOLO: I think my dog's bowel movements are a liter to two liters.
MOLLY BLOOM: So a liter is like a pop container?
JOY DOLO: Oh, like a can, or like a bottle?
MOLLY BLOOM: Like a big bottle of-- the party size bottles?
JOY DOLO: Yep. Mm-hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: I mean, whether or not whales follow the metric system, you could still measure their poop in liters.
JOY DOLO: Yes.
MOLLY BLOOM: So it's sort of a moot point.
JOY DOLO: Yeah, Elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Come on.
JOY DOLO: You know, the other elevator I was in just played jazz music. What's going on with this one?
MOLLY BLOOM: That would be more relaxing on the way to my cottage cheese.
JOY DOLO: [INAUDIBLE] quiz. Yeah, I'm starving. OK. So they're eating a bunch of krill.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: And so only a portion of that is turned into--
MOLLY BLOOM: Poopy.
JOY DOLO: --poopy. I want to say 60, but my gut is saying 200.
MOLLY BLOOM: I feel like this is a gut-related question. And if your gut is saying 200--
JOY DOLO: Yeah?
MOLLY BLOOM: --we should go with your gut.
JOY DOLO: Should we? Oh, my gut's been wrong before.
MOLLY BLOOM: I mean, I think it's right. Let's do it.
JOY DOLO: Let's trust our gut.
MOLLY BLOOM: Gut, gut, gut.
JOY DOLO: Gut. 200. Elevator, what do you say?
ELEVATOR: Correct.
JOY DOLO: [GASPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: Gut is right!
JOY DOLO: The gut is always right. You hear that, kids? Follow your gut.
ELEVATOR: Blue whale poop is said to smell similar to dog poop and shaped like breadcrumbs.
MOLLY BLOOM: So many questions about that.
[LAUGHTER]
Shaped like breadcrumbs? So it's like--
JOY DOLO: Kind of like llama poop? I don't know if you've ever seen--
MOLLY BLOOM: I haven't.
JOY DOLO: --llama poop before.
MOLLY BLOOM: Does it look like that?
JOY DOLO: It looks like beans, but I guess you could say it's like crumbs, but it's like little, tiny, little pellets.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh my gosh.
JOY DOLO: Why do I know so much about poop?
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't know.
JOY DOLO: I like a good poop. What can I say?
ELEVATOR: Next stop, parking garage.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Parking garage. Have a whale of a good day.
JOY DOLO: Woo! We made it.
MOLLY BLOOM: Thank you! Finally.
JOY DOLO: Thank you, Elevator. I'm sorry I was snappy with you. I was just hungry. You did a good job, Elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah. Thanks, Elevator.
JOY DOLO: You are worthy of love.
[THEME MUSIC]
This Smarty Pass episode was made by Aron Woldeslassie. Our executive producer is Beth Pearlman, and the executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith. Buh-bye!
MOLLY BLOOM: Thank you. I'm so excited to eat my cottage cheese.
[THEME MUSIC]
[BEEPS]
[SMOKE BLOWING]
JOY DOLO: Whew. Another episode of Forever Ago in the can.
SMARTY PAL: Nice work, Dolo.
JOY DOLO: Oh. Hey, Smarty Pal. Joy Dolo, host of Forever Ago, here after taping an episode all about whales. I'm about to head to my favorite juice bar for a cool cup of guava mango bliss.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
ELEVATOR: Going down.
MOLLY BLOOM: Joy! Can you hold the elevator? I forgot the show snacks in my car!
JOY DOLO: [GASPS] Oh no. This is an emergency. Elevator, to the parking garage!
ELEVATOR: What are the magic words?
JOY DOLO: Oh, sorry. Pretty please.
ELEVATOR: Wrong. It's whale quiz.
MOLLY BLOOM: Wait. What's happening?
ELEVATOR: In honor of Forever Ago and Brains On both having episodes about whales, I'm springing a whale quiz on you.
MOLLY BLOOM: But there's no time to spare! My cottage cheese is curdling!
ELEVATOR: Sorry, not sorry. In order for me to take you where you want to go, you must answer three whale questions.
JOY DOLO: Are you sure this isn't just a fluke in your programming?
ELEVATOR: Nice pun and nice segue. Question one, whale tails are called flukes. What are the two sides of the flukes called? A, feet, B, lobes, C, barneys, D, toes.
JOY DOLO: Their tails are called flukes, so it's got to be toes, no? What do you think, Molly?
MOLLY BLOOM: So we're talking about the things pointing on the tail?
JOY DOLO: End, right? So that seems like--
MOLLY BLOOM: Toes.
JOY DOLO: --it would be toes.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah, because--
JOY DOLO: Unless they're feet.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh. The tail-- is the tail the foot of the whale or the leg of the whale?
JOY DOLO: And the-- oh! Have you seen SpongeBob SquarePants?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: And the whale person that's Mr. Krabs' daughter?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: She's standing on two whale feet flukes. Final answer, feet.
MOLLY BLOOM: Agreed.
ELEVATOR: This sounds a learning opportunity for you. Like the brain, whale flukes are divided into a left and right lobe.
MOLLY BLOOM: I object.
JOY DOLO: Molly, you were wrong.
[LAUGHTER]
ELEVATOR: Going down.
MOLLY BLOOM: Whoa.
JOY DOLO: OK, OK, OK, one floor closer.
ELEVATOR: Question two. Like cows, whales have multiple stomachs. How many stomachs do Baird's whales have? A, 2, B, 12, C, 30, D, 13.
JOY DOLO: Hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm.
JOY DOLO: Hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm.
JOY DOLO: Let's see. So they have two fluke lobes.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS]
JOY DOLO: So they have two lobes. I doubt they have two stomachs. And whales are huge.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: Right? So they got to have more than two.
MOLLY BLOOM: 30 seems like too many.
JOY DOLO: Yeah, but 12 doesn't seem like quite enough.
MOLLY BLOOM: So 13!
JOY DOLO: 13! We're so smart. High five.
MOLLY BLOOM: Let's do it. Yes.
JOY DOLO: [CHUCKLES]
ELEVATOR: Correct. Baird's whales have 13 stomachs. Each is used in digestion.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Going down.
JOY DOLO: We are the smartest people in the elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Uh, uh, uh.
JOY DOLO: [HUMMING] Oh, goodness. Oh, good, we're almost there. Come on, Molly. Do it for the cottage cheese.
MOLLY BLOOM: Aye-aye, Joy.
ELEVATOR: Question three, phones down. Spell six different words using the letters in baleen.
JOY DOLO: Six different words?
MOLLY BLOOM: What is this, spelling bee?
JOY DOLO: OK. Bale, B-A-L-E. That's one.
MOLLY BLOOM: Lean.
JOY DOLO: Lean! L-E-A-N.
MOLLY BLOOM: That's two.
JOY DOLO: That's two. Enable. Enable!
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Joy.
JOY DOLO: That's really good.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very impressive.
JOY DOLO: Listen, everybody. I was in my sixth grade spelling bee, and I didn't win. But right now, I feel like I've won.
MOLLY BLOOM: You've won.
JOY DOLO: I've won.
MOLLY BLOOM: Able?
JOY DOLO: Able. Four. Very good, very good.
MOLLY BLOOM: I just coasted off your victory there. Ale, like the beverage.
JOY DOLO: Ale. That's right. I'm thinking of spelling bee, and it can only be four-- [WHEEZES]
Eel, E-E-L.
MOLLY BLOOM: Eel!
JOY DOLO: Eel!
MOLLY BLOOM: We did it!
JOY DOLO: We did it. Elevator, did you hear that? Eel, eat that.
[DINGS]
ELEVATOR: I'll admit, that was impressive. Skip two floors.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
JOY DOLO: Whoa!
MOLLY BLOOM: [SQUEALS]
ELEVATOR: Question four, blue whales are the largest animal to ever live on Earth. What is the second largest whale? A, sperm, B, beluga, C, baby blue, D, fin.
MOLLY BLOOM: Huh.
JOY DOLO: Does baby blue seem like it's too obvious?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: Like the second largest is baby blue?
MOLLY BLOOM: And it's also a baby, so it's counterintuitive.
JOY DOLO: It can't be it. Yeah.
MOLLY BLOOM: Beluga, famous whale from the Raffi song.
JOY DOLO: Yes. Is the sperm whale-- is that from the Moby Dick? Wasn't it a sperm whale?
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't-- you're so much more learned than I am. I don't know!
JOY DOLO: Because I feel like that was a pretty big whale too.
MOLLY BLOOM: I think sperm whales are big. I think they have the biggest brains, maybe.
JOY DOLO: Oh! Maybe they have 12 stomachs.
MOLLY BLOOM: And 13 brains.
JOY DOLO: [LAUGHS]
I don't know what a fin whale is--
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't either.
JOY DOLO: --if I'm completely honest.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm going to go with sperm?
JOY DOLO: Let's go with sperm whale, Elevator?
ELEVATOR: This sounds a learning opportunity for you. Fin whales can grow as big as 88 feet--
MOLLY BLOOM: [GASPS]
JOY DOLO: Oh.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh.
ELEVATOR: --a little longer than a tennis court.
JOY DOLO: Listen here, Elevator. I don't like your attitude.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
ELEVATOR: Lobby level.
MOLLY BLOOM: One more stop.
ELEVATOR: Question five, blue whales consume about 16 metric tons of krill per day. How many liters is a blue whale's average bowel movement? A, 200, B, 1,000, C, 60, D, none. Whales don't follow the metric system.
JOY DOLO: I think my dog's bowel movements are a liter to two liters.
MOLLY BLOOM: So a liter is like a pop container?
JOY DOLO: Oh, like a can, or like a bottle?
MOLLY BLOOM: Like a big bottle of-- the party size bottles?
JOY DOLO: Yep. Mm-hmm.
MOLLY BLOOM: I mean, whether or not whales follow the metric system, you could still measure their poop in liters.
JOY DOLO: Yes.
MOLLY BLOOM: So it's sort of a moot point.
JOY DOLO: Yeah, Elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Come on.
JOY DOLO: You know, the other elevator I was in just played jazz music. What's going on with this one?
MOLLY BLOOM: That would be more relaxing on the way to my cottage cheese.
JOY DOLO: [INAUDIBLE] quiz. Yeah, I'm starving. OK. So they're eating a bunch of krill.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
JOY DOLO: And so only a portion of that is turned into--
MOLLY BLOOM: Poopy.
JOY DOLO: --poopy. I want to say 60, but my gut is saying 200.
MOLLY BLOOM: I feel like this is a gut-related question. And if your gut is saying 200--
JOY DOLO: Yeah?
MOLLY BLOOM: --we should go with your gut.
JOY DOLO: Should we? Oh, my gut's been wrong before.
MOLLY BLOOM: I mean, I think it's right. Let's do it.
JOY DOLO: Let's trust our gut.
MOLLY BLOOM: Gut, gut, gut.
JOY DOLO: Gut. 200. Elevator, what do you say?
ELEVATOR: Correct.
JOY DOLO: [GASPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: Gut is right!
JOY DOLO: The gut is always right. You hear that, kids? Follow your gut.
ELEVATOR: Blue whale poop is said to smell similar to dog poop and shaped like breadcrumbs.
MOLLY BLOOM: So many questions about that.
[LAUGHTER]
Shaped like breadcrumbs? So it's like--
JOY DOLO: Kind of like llama poop? I don't know if you've ever seen--
MOLLY BLOOM: I haven't.
JOY DOLO: --llama poop before.
MOLLY BLOOM: Does it look like that?
JOY DOLO: It looks like beans, but I guess you could say it's like crumbs, but it's like little, tiny, little pellets.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh my gosh.
JOY DOLO: Why do I know so much about poop?
MOLLY BLOOM: I don't know.
JOY DOLO: I like a good poop. What can I say?
ELEVATOR: Next stop, parking garage.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Parking garage. Have a whale of a good day.
JOY DOLO: Woo! We made it.
MOLLY BLOOM: Thank you! Finally.
JOY DOLO: Thank you, Elevator. I'm sorry I was snappy with you. I was just hungry. You did a good job, Elevator.
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah. Thanks, Elevator.
JOY DOLO: You are worthy of love.
[THEME MUSIC]
This Smarty Pass episode was made by Aron Woldeslassie. Our executive producer is Beth Pearlman, and the executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith. Buh-bye!
MOLLY BLOOM: Thank you. I'm so excited to eat my cottage cheese.
[THEME MUSIC]
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