Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids
Leela Sivasankar Prickitt, Lyndee Prickitt
Newsy Pooloozi is a weekly, world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults, covering science, animals, space, tech, culture, entertainment, sports… and even politics! The family friendly podcast is presented by a British-Indian-American mother-and-daughter duo, covering the world in a fun and engaging way. Newsy Pooloozi also has kid correspondents from all over the world — Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The New York Times calls us a "news variety show." We're also on the NYT's Top 30 Podcast For Kids list (under our former name, Newsy Jacuzzi)! We are a proud Kids Listen member too. @newsypooloozi www.newsypooloozi.com
Episodes
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Aug 5, 2020 • 22min
New covid school rules, SpaceX landing, Indian asteroid discovery, Salzburg music festival, and 3D dinosaurs
We explore the likely “Covid Code of Conduct” when school reopens, hear the show goes on in Austria, how private space travel is making history, about the two Indian schoolgirls who discovered an asteroid and how you can get 3D dinosaurs in your living room, really!
Jul 29, 2020 • 20min
Back to school (or not!), Facebook's TikTok, Olympic hope, digital chicken nuggets and fart-free cows
Hear us volley (with a real tennis ball!) the pros and cons about going back to school or not, muse over the cotton candy iPhone Photo Awards and Facebook's "reel" competition for TikTok, plus KFC are digitally printing chicken nuggets (yumm?!) and Burger King think they have the answer to making cows fart less.
Jul 22, 2020 • 20min
Promising vaccine, college sports on hold, NEOWISE comet, no noisy windows, Canada's drive-in art and England's shocking pub
Hear about the race to find a COVID19 vaccine and how US college sports are on hold, also how to spot the biggest comet of your lifetime, never mind block your noisy neighbors. Find out about Toronto's drive-in art gallery and an English pub that goes to shocking lengths to maintain social distancing.
Jul 15, 2020 • 24min
Brink of extinction, mapping Mars, gaming console wars, France’s floating cinema and cycling’s Everesting craze
Find out why some lemurs and whales are almost extinct, why NASA needs your help, the big fight in video game consoles, the best socially distant event EVER and how the world’s highest mountain is inspiring a cycling craze that's getting a boost because of the pandemic.
Jul 8, 2020 • 17min
Corona Poo Fighters, New Dog Years, Liverpool FC, Green Melodies and Monkey Menace
Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Jul 1, 2020 • 18min
Corona resurgence, Japanese taste pops, glacier mice, Baby Shark and baseball!
Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Jun 30, 2020 • 3min
Newsy Jacuzzi - The Beginning!
Newsy Jacuzzi is a whirlpool of news and information for smart kids and curious adults! Hear how it all began when a certain half-Indian-half-American kid was stuck at home during the pandemic. Leela Sivasankar Prickitt is bubbling with curiosity about the world. Good thing her journalist mom, Lyndee Prickitt, is too. Together they produce a weekly world news podcast with the help of kid correspondents all over the globe. Great family entertainment and education! New podcasts out every Wednesday. Subscribe, rate and review! Fab music ("Father Time, Mother Earth" by the talented David Gywn Jones) and some sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com - thanks y'all!
