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KIRBY: This is gonna be sweet!

CHARLIE: Hey, guys. Charlie here, you know my sister Kirby.

KIRBY: Hey guys. CHARLIE: We seem a little excited.

KIRBY: Like we're freaking out a little bit.

CHARLIE: Weird but true, on average the human heart beats 100,000 times a day,

but today, I'm so amped up I just might double that.

KIRBY: So stoked. CHARLIE: Ready? KIRBY: Yep!

PILOT: Here we go. CHARLIE: This is amazing!!

BOTH: It's time for Weird But True!

(theme music plays)

KIRBY: Alright Charles, let's try one more from the top.

CHARLIE: Cool. Cool.

Hey guys, Kirby and I are just practicing for this weekend's science fair.

Check it out!

KIRBY: You have thirty seconds.

And, go!

CHARLIE (off-screen): In the shadow of an active volcano, a family of Mobster Robots

attacks a local village.

ROBOT: Affirmative.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Youz guys better POMPEII us our monies.

Beep bop beep, bada bing, bada boom.

And just when all hope seems lost, Neil deGrasse Tyson descends from

the stratosphere to evacuate the local town.

But is there enough time before the volcano explodes?

(screams)

(Charlie makes battle sounds).

KIRBY: And, time!

CASEY: That's your science presentation?

CHARLIE: Hey guys. Yeah! You better believe it!

KIRBY: It's got dinos and robots and astrophysicists with mustaches!

So it's science fair gold!

PATRICK: Where's the science?

CASEY: Yeah, I mean like what kind of volcano is that anyways?

CHARLIE: Trick question!

There's only one type of volcano.

Deadly!

CASEY: Guys, there's all kinds of volcanoes and different eruptions,

even different kinds of lavas.

PATRICK: And isn't Neil deGrasse Tyson focused on like, space?

KIRBY: I mean, If we're being nitpicky I guess.

CASEY: You guys are the crafty siblings.

I'm the brains of the family.

PATRICK: Three-time defending science fair championship brains of the family!

CASEY: That's right!

And Patrick's the craft muscle.

And, the muscle-muscle too.

CHARLIE: When did this happen?

PATRICK: And this is gonna win us our fourth championship!

"The Theoretical Distribution of Planetary Objects in the Unobservable Universe."

KIRBY: You guys are going to build that?

PATRICK: Yes, ma'am.

CASEY: C'mon Pat, let's go perform a fractional distillation in the kitchen.

Have fun with your, crafts.

KIRBY: What the heck?

The crafty ones?

CHARLIE: I mean, I guess they had a point though, right?

If we want to beat them in the science fair, we really gotta step up our science game.

KIRBY: I'll do whatever it takes.

CHARLIE: Okay, I guess you know what that means?

KIRBY: Of course. CHARLIE: Today, we're unraveling the world of...

BOTH (off-screen): Volcanoes!

CHARLIE: Cool, cool, so volcanoes!

Nature's nostrils.

KIRBY: Blowing red hot snot rockets all over land and sea.

CHARLIE: The problem is, we can make a super sweet volcano diorama.

KIRBY: But we kind of know nothing about 'em.

CHARLIE: We're gonna need some help, Kirb.

KIRBY: Well we're in luck! Check it out.

I was online and look at this video I found.

CHARLIE: Are you looking for heaps of adventure?

Does the smell of sulfur in the morning getcha goin'?

Are you willing to risk your life and the life of those you love to hellie over

every volcano known to man?

Well I reckon you've come to the right place!

Willie Moore's Volcano Tours flying you better than ever over all volcanoes.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Like this type!

Some call 'em ash cones. I call 'em ashies.

They get their name from the shape that's made when lava is hurled from the vents

and cools on the sides.

KIRBY: It's beautiful!

CHARLIE: Next up is a dead-set-rippah.

Composite volcanoes, otherwise known as stratovolcanoes.

Mt. Fuji, Mount Rainier, both Straties.

CHARLIE: They typically have vents and fissures that release magma and gas,

but beware, these ones go bonkers and explode!

KIRBY: Amazing!

CHARLIE: And for those who think they can really handle the jandle,

we have shield volcanoes.

These ones look just like that.

And the bigger ones take over a million years to form!

CHARLIE: Hold onto your hats!

CHARLIE: What was that guy talking about?

KIRBY: That there are a few different types of volcanoes like ash cone,

composite, and shield.

CHARLIE: Our volcano diorama doesn't look like any of those so we're definitely

gonna have to change the outside of it.

KIRBY: And what about the inside?

CHARLIE: I think we got something back here, uh, ha.

Boom!

"Classic Volcano Anatomy for the Artist" by Madame Eruption.

KIRBY: How specific and convenient.

Let me see that.

KIRBY: Bonjour, I am Madame Eruption!

And this is my assistant from America, how do you say your name?

CHARLIE: Hank. KIRBY: Honk. CHARLIE: Hank.

KIRBY: Honk. CHARLIE: Hank! KIRBY: Hank.

CHARLIE: Sure.

KIRBY: So most people think volcanoes are hollow like a, hollow baguette.

To them I say, "You silly Americans, there is a world of beauty inside!"

Inside the passionate belly of the beast.

Inside the, what is this, this name here?

CHARLIE: It's a magma chamber.

KIRBY: The magma rock is under great pressure and when given the chance,

will rise to the surface, come on, filling these tubes, which we call, the tubes?

CHARLIE: Dikes.

KIRBY: Some will continue on, greeting the surface, forming.

CHARLIE: Secondary vents.

KIRBY: Now, the magma is ready to follow through zee, this here, this here?

CHARLIE: Main vent. KIRBY: Pirouetting past the...

CHARLIE: Throat.

KIRBY: This volcanic symphony rising to a crescendo as it flies through the air like

an eagle taking wing!

CHARLIE: Awesome.

KIRBY: The magma then rains down, turning to cinder.

Tres magnifique!

CHARLIE: Le magmafique!

KIRBY: Charles, I think this book could really help us make a sweet volcano.

Charles? Charles?

CHARLIE: Kirb! Come check this out!

KIRBY: Whoa, Charles! CHARLIE: Not bad, right?

KIRBY: Not bad!

It looks like a real composite volcano!

CHARLIE: I'm thinking this is just the start though.

KIRBY: Totally!

Cause you know, science fairs aren't just about cool crafts!

CHARLIE: Totally! We need some cool science in there too!

KIRBY: Totally! So now, we gotta go see an eruption!

CHARLIE: Totally, wait, what?

KIRBY: Yeah, I want to see the power, the carnage, the force!

CHARLIE: Oh boy.

KIRBY: Guys, we're gonna go see an erupting volcano!

Let's go.

CHARLIE (off-screen): When your sister wants to come face to face with an erupting

volcano, there's only one place to go.

Hawaii!

The 50th state is a big chain of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and home to

some of the most active volcanoes in the entire U.S.!

KIRBY (off-screen): Weird but true, sharks have been found living inside

an active underwater volcano!

CHARLIE: Hey, guys, we just got here to the Jaggar Museum at

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big island of Hawaii where we're gonna

talk to an expert on the subject, Ranger Newman.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Michael Newman grew up in Hawaii around volcanoes

and even kept a volcano reference book under his pillow.

RANGER NEWMAN: Weird but true, the Hawaiian Islands are actually moving one to two

inches every year north-northwest, over the Hawaiian hot spot.

RANGER NEWMAN: Aloha, Charlie and Kirby.

This is Mauna Loa.

What we call a shield volcano.

It's a very broad and elongated volcano.

It's the largest active volcano on earth.

CHARLIE: Whoa!

You say it's an active volcano, but it's not erupting now?

RANGER NEWMAN: It's not. CHARLIE: Okay.

So it has the potential to erupt.

RANGER NEWMAN: Has the potential to erupt.

CHARLIE: At any time. RANGER NEWMAN: Yeah.

CHARLIE: But it's not right now.

CHARLIE: If it finally erupted, what would it look like right here?

RANGER NEWMAN: Oh, it'd look spectacular.

You'd probably see a massive glow emerging out of the summit of the volcano

from a caldera.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Cool science word, caldera.

That's the spot at the top of the volcano that looks kind of like a bowl.

It's formed when the magma chamber collapses as the volcano erupts.

RANGER NEWMAN: When the magma comes out of the ground it becomes lava.

Here in Hawaii we have very effusive lava flows.

We have large fountains, rivers of lavas, and you'll see remnants of old lava flows

all the way down the flanks of this volcano.

One that particularly shows out is a large a'a flow,

that very dark lava, it's very clinkery and jagged.

KIRBY: A'a. CHARLIE: A'a lava? RANGER NEWMAN: A'a, yeah.

If you touch it you might go "Ah, ah!" It's very sharp.

Another type of lava is something called pahoehoe.

Pahoehoe is very fluid, very smooth, and it forms a thin crust.

CHARLIE: So, the main difference between 'em is how thick it is.

RANGER NEWMAN: Yes, exactly.

CHARLIE: There are uh two different types of lava that uh occur on land.

That are different based off their uh viscosities.

Viscosity is a term that refers to how uh thick something is.

CHARLIE: For example, honey is uh very viscous so thicker than uh maple syrup or water.

Pretend that these cupcakes are uh volcanoes.

CHARLIE: As the magma is under intense heat and uh pressure it uh rises

up to the earth's surface.

CHARLIE: Thicker lava that is uh more viscous is called uh a'a.

Thinner lava that is uh less viscous is called uh Pahoehoe.

And they dry differently too.

(Ding).

CHARLIE: A'a dries very uh sharp and spiky,

but pahoehoe dries very uh nice and uh smooth.

Ooh! Ah! Ooh, ooh!

CHARLIE (off-screen): Ranger Newman has another surprise form of lava to show us.

RANGER NEWMAN: This right here is called Pele's hair.

What happens is molten lava is ejected up into the air skyward and the heat

and gases causes that droplet of lava to extend out into a long glass fiber.

If you look all on the ground here you'll see all these fragments of volcanic

glass that's blown all over this area.

CHARLIE: It's like kind of soft like hair but it's like a little crinkly.

It's not sharp like glass at all though.

RANGER NEWMAN: Feels like sharp cotton candy.

KIRBY: Yeah. CHARLIE: Yeah. KIRBY: Sharp cotton candy.

CHARLIE: Oh man. KIRBY: That's what it is.

CHARLIE (off-screen): The volcanic glass we found comes from the nearby

Kilauea Volcano where we're headed next.

CHARLIE: What is this? Right here?

This is huge!

RANGER NEWMAN: It's a crater that's filled with molten lava,

it's a lake of lava that churns and surges.

CHARLIE: If this is the shield volcano, right?

RANGER NEWMAN: Yes. CHARLIE: All the way right here.

Where are we right now?

RANGER NEWMAN: We are right here on the top.

CHARLIE: That's so wicked!

RANGER NEWMAN: In the Kilauea Caldera, we have an Halema'uma'u Crater.

And it's within that crater that we have our current active eruption.

KIRBY: Wow. CHARLIE: Trying to get that right, Kirb.

How, what is this name?

RANGER NEWMAN: Halema'uma'u. CHARLIE: Halema'uma'u.

RANGER NEWMAN: There you go.

CHARLIE: How hot does it get right next to the lava lake?

RANGER NEWMAN: The lava lake is around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit,

so it's very dangerous.

And every now and then we'll have massive explosions.

KIRBY: Yikes.

CHARLIE: So if we can't get much closer to this one, what's the best way to

get close to lava?

RANGER NEWMAN: Well one place you can go is to check out our Pu'u O'o lava flows.

CHARLIE: Alright guys, we're gonna figure out how we can get as close as possible.

Ranger Newman, thank you so much for your help today.

RANGER NEWMAN: Nice meeting you. KIRBY: Thank you.

RANGER NEWMAN: See you, Kirby. CHARLIE: We really appreciate it.

CHARLIE: Alright guys, we're taking to the sky to check out some volcanoes.

KIRBY (off-screen): Meet Scott Jorgensen, volcano tour guide.

He spends his days flying over erupting volcanoes.

How cool is that?

SCOTT: Weird but true, there was a Hawaiian king that actually won a battle because

of a volcanic eruption.

SCOTT: Alright, here we go.

We are up and cruising folks.

What I want to do to start things off is take us off shore to Kilauea Volcano.

What you're really seeing is, literally, the birth of the youngest land

on the entire Earth.

CHARLIE: So did all of this land come from the volcano?

SCOTT: Absolutely.

In fact, you can't step anywhere on the island without being on one

of the five volcanoes.

CHARLIE: That's absolutely crazy.

That's awesome.

Is this a'a or pahoehoe?

SCOTT: This is an excellent example of a very long pahoehoe lava flow.

CHARLIE: Are there different kinds of eruptions?

SCOTT: There are.

The two major kinds of eruptions are called pyroclastic explosions,

which is really typical with stratovolcanoes like Mount Saint Helens,

and effusive eruptions, like what we commonly see here, very long,

lasting, oozy lava flows, that cover the surface of the volcano,

rather than a huge cloud of hot ash and mud and gas.

CHARLIE: Alright guys, Scott mentioned that there are two main different

kinds of eruptions, and even those types break down into even more.

CHARLIE: Alright folks, it's time for everybody's favorite

daytime volcano-based game show.

GROUP: "Name that Eruption!"

CHARLIE: I'll describe a type of eruption, and you have to name it.

And your time starts now!

This eruption type is characterized by a fluid flow of lava,

as seen here in Hawaii.

(Buzzer).

KIRBY: Hawaiian!

(Bell dings).

CHARLIE: Oh, way to go! You got it right.

This next eruption type is characterized by gas and ash which form clouds as seen here

in the Vulcan Islands.

(Buzzer).

KIRBY: Vulcanian?

(Bell dings).

CHARLIE: Alright! Correct again! Way to go.

This next eruption type: globs of lava continuously erupt skyward as seen

here at the Stromboli Volcano.

(Buzzer).

KIRBY: Uh, is it Strombolian?

(Bell dings).

CHARLIE: Correct-o! Way to go!

Final round, final question.

Enormous jets of lava blast skyward and eruption clouds rise up to the stratosphere in

this eruption type, characteristic of the historic event of Mt. Vesuv...

(Buzzer).

KIRBY: Vesuvian! CROWD: Oh! CHARLIE: Oh, incorrect.

If you let me finish, I was just about to say the historic event at Mt. Vesuvius

led to the death of Pliny the Roman scholar.

So we were actually looking for "Plinian."

CHARLIE: Ooh, so sorry.

But she answered 3 of the 4 questions correctly, which means we're sending our winner

off to Hawaii to explore some real Hawaiian volcanoes.

On...

GROUP: "Name that Eruption!" CHARLIE: Ho, ho, ho.

We'll see you guys later.

KIRBY: We've got an eruption in sight.

We've got lava and tons of smoke coming out into the water.

SCOTT: This is all from one eruption.

It started in January of 1983 and it has not stopped since.

The longest lasting volcanic eruption in all of known history anywhere in the world.

CHARLIE: Scott, I see some glowing down there.

SCOTT: When that liquid lava rock pours into the ocean, it explodes when it

hits the cold water.

It turns from liquid lava rock into micro particles of black sand.

Eventually, that black sand will become a black sand beach somewhere.

CHARLIE: Oh!

It's so bubbly!

It's gurgling in there!

SCOTT: Now that cone right there is called the Pu'u O'o vent.

This is the point of origin of the whole eruption site.

KIRBY: It looks like a volcanic Jacuzzi, tiny little waterfalls of orange neon.

Oh it's so cool!

SCOTT: That orange lava that you see splashing around inside that hole has been

hiding out in the mantle layer of the earth, 150 miles below the crust,

until just this moment.

KIRBY: Volcano breaking news.

CHARLIE: We have a new breakout up here, and we're gonna go check it out.

CHARLIE: We're chasing the lava.

CHARLIE: Oh, we see it, right down there.

SCOTT: Oh hey, that's a good example of an a'a flow.

KIRBY: It's pretty big.

CHARLIE: And this just showed up right now?

SCOTT: Well, we passed up this same way while we were heading up there and we didn't see it,

so this is brand, brand new.

CHARLIE: Oh. It's crumbling.

A'a lava flows forming right now.

KIRBY: Charles, have you seen anything like this ever?

CHARLIE: No, I've never seen giant glowing lava spill out of the earth.

This is a new one for me.

Alright guys, I think we did pretty good.

What do you think, Kirb?

KIRBY: Absolutely. We saw it all today.

CHARLIE: Now, is the final step is just to encapsulate all of it

into the best volcano diorama.

We're gonna head back to HQ and get crafting.

KIRBY (off-screen): Weird but true, there are more than 130 volcanoes in Antarctica!

CHARLIE: In conclusion, the composite volcano is just one of the many

different types of volcanoes.

Thank you.

KIRBY: And, time. That's it, right?

CHARLIE: Yeah. Hey guys. Check it out.

Our new and improved volcano diorama.

Woo.

KIRBY: We gave it a proper magma chamber, dikes, side vents, and a throat.

CHARLIE: A'a and pahoehoe lava.

KIRBY: A Plinian eruption. The most intense.

CHARLIE: A giant plume erupting from the top with ash that will rain

down from the sky.

KIRBY: And it's great. But something's off.

CHARLIE: It's missing that spice.

KIRBY: It needs the pizazz of the first one, but also be scientifically accurate.

CHARLIE: Hmmm, perfect, I've got one.

How about this?

CHARLIE (off-screen): Let's add a giant landslide just like the one in 1980 with the

Mt. St. Helen's eruption.

KIRBY (off-screen): Ooh, and how about some lightning in the ash clouds?

Scientists think that's caused by ash particles rubbing together.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Nice!

And adding some other weird eruptions might help.

They're caused when magma super heats other things underground.

Like...

Water turning into geysers.

Gas turning into fumaroles.

And mud turning into mudpots.

KIRBY: This is looking pretty awesome.

CHARLIE: Yeah, I don't want to stop!

But, I've exhausted all my resources. What about you?

KIRBY: Hmmm, we've read all the books, and there are no experts around.

So.

CHARLIE: But there are two people that we haven't asked yet.

KIRBY: No. CHARLIE: Kirb.

KIRBY: Not them. CHARLIE: Kirb.

KIRBY: Charles, they're our rivals!

CHARLIE: Kirb. I need more knowledge. Come on!

KIRBY: They better have some good info.

PATRICK: Spies! Get out of here!

CHARLIE: We just want your help.

We want to know everything that you guys know about volcanoes.

CASEY: Really? PATRICK: You want our help?

CASEY: What's the catch? KIRBY: No catch.

You guys are just super smart, even if that's hard to admit.

CASEY: Wow. PATRICK: You're not wrong. CASEY: I mean, we are back.

PATRICK: To back. CASEY: To back science fair champs.

CASEY: I think we can help you out.

CASEY: Hmmm. It looks good, but...

PATRICK: We're gonna need some more materials.

CASEY: Individual volcanoes exist as part of a larger geothermal network.

PATRICK: 95% of volcanoes fall along these squiggly lines,

the boundaries of tectonic plates.

PATRICK: They're basically giant pieces of the earth's crust that fit

together like puzzle pieces.

And, they're constantly moving.

KIRBY: So you're saying that volcanoes are all kind of connected,

underneath the earth's surface.

CHARLIE: That's the bigger picture you were talking about!

Right, Case?

CASEY: Yeah, if you guys incorporate this stuff in your project,

you'll have no problem getting second place!

KIRBY: We'll see about that.

CHARLIE: Alright, guys, we've got to work on our model,

but we'll see you at the science fair.

CHARLIE (off-screen): Many young scientists set out to create

unforgettable science fair projects.

Now, few remain.

Included among them: Charlie and Kirby, the crafty duo,

and Casey and Patrick, returning champions.

It's time to face the judges.

KIRBY: So, today for you all, we made a composite volcano in the middle

of a Plinian eruption.

CASEY: Kirby and Charlie.

Unlike previous competitions, this project clearly demonstrates a mastery of both

craft and science.

CHARLIE: We were fascinated by your decision to represent two different types of lava.

KIRBY: Your display of the Plinian eruption, it was a,

a good attempt.

PATRICK: But the paper lacks uh, the proper viscosity needed for

uh this type of lava flow.

KIRBY: Thank you judges.

CHARLIE: Thank you.

CASEY: Casey and Patrick.

CASEY: We used the solar system to theorize the distribution of planets in

unobservable stretches of space.

CASEY: Your experience is on display here.

CHARLIE: You took a classic, planets, and you breathed it new life!

KIRBY: Unfortunately, however, there was far too much text.

PATRICK: It's, unapproachable for the casual Science Fair attendee.

CASEY: Thank you, judges.

PATRICK: Thank you.

CASEY: And, the winner is.

Willie Moore and Madame Eruption.

CHARLIE: Wait, what?

KIRBY: What the heck? CASEY: I don't get it.

KIRBY: Le magnifique!

CHARLIE: Dead set rippah!

Oh! Hey!

CHARLIE: You know what, guys?

I kind of don't mind that we lost.

KIRBY: Our volcano's awesome, and it was fun working with you guys, too.

CASEY: Yeah!

Each of our projects on their own is pretty amazing.

You know if we really wanted to beat Willie Moore and Madame Eruption,

you know what we should do?

KIRBY: You don't mean.

PATRICK: You guys wanna form a super science fair power team or something?

CHARLIE: Alright, guys, it looks like we got a new project on our hands.

But thanks so much for stopping by.

Come by again when we discover more things that are weird.

KIRBY: But true! CHARLIE: We'll see you later.

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