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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Mar 1, 2023 • 17min
Kid News This Week: Chatbots and ChatGPT explained, Africa’s Goliath frog, Italy’s oily coffee
Kid News This Week: People go crazy for ChatGPT – we explain what it and chatbots are (including what GPT actually stands for), Cameroons Goliath frog being saved, Italy’s oily coffee on offer in Starbucks - all that and more this week!
Feb 22, 2023 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Carnival & Lent, Kenya’s ancient tools, Australia’s new spiders, “Lord of the Ring” frog
Kid News This Week: Carnival season ends and Lent begins - we explain what it all means, plus a special report from Germany's Fasching, Kenya’s 2.9-million-year-old tools redefines humanity, Australia’s 3 new spider species, Ecuador’s “Lord of the Ring” frog and more!
Feb 15, 2023 • 16min
Kid News This Week: Sniffer squirrels, spy balloons, Turkey quake, seagulls-v-drones, bare Spaniard
Kid News This Week: Move over sniffer dogs – squirrels get in on the act of sniffing out drugs in China, more on the US-China spy balloons saga, update on Turkey and Syria’s deadly quake, Portuguese city brings in drones to help with their seagull problem – we’ll explain how – and in Spain one man decides to test the law... by baring all!
Feb 8, 2023 • 16min
Kid News This Week: Turkey earthquake, Chinese spy balloon, Beyoncé sweeps Grammys, naughty parrot
Kid News This Week: 7.8 earthquake rocks Turkey & Syria, US shoots down Chinese spy balloon, Beyoncé sweeps Grammys but still doesn’t get top prize and owner of a naughty parrot pays the price in Taiwan – all this plus the Weekly World Wrap and the Fab Fact Quiz!
Feb 1, 2023 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Chimp gestures, new dino, seaspider butt, Ticketmaster apologies, Lantern Festival, treasure hunt
Kid News This Week: Tons of nature news this week! From understanding chimp gestures to a new “duck” dinosaur discovered and seaspider that can regrow their butts! Also, Ticketmaster apologies to Taylor Swift and US Senators riff off Tay-tay’s lyrics (you gotta hear it!), a special report from Taiwan for the Chinese Lantern Festival and a treasure hunt for some ill-gotten Nazi loot leaves some Dutch villagers unhappy.
Jan 25, 2023 • 16min
Kid News This Week: Woolly mammoth return, dinosaur discoveries, Avatar breaks records, Oz "toadzilla"
Kid News This Week: Texas biotech company closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth, two dinosaur discoveries – one in India and one in the US, Avatar and its director, James Cameron break box office records and Australian park rangers discover a massive cane tone the size of a small dog, given the name “toadzilla” – all that news and more!
Jan 18, 2023 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Chinese New Year, Oz marathon marathoner, drone dog-saver, epic search for cat
Kid News This Week: Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the rabbit – what does that mean? Australia’s marathon marathoner who ran 150 marathons in a row, the English woman who uses her drone to save lost dogs and Bolivia’s epic search for a cat that went missing after taking a BOA flight – all that and more!
Jan 11, 2023 • 16min
Kid News This Week: Retired pope passes, Mars gemstone crater, England plastic ban, Argentina peso art
Kid News This Week: Grand funeral for groundbreaking Pope Benedict, now Catholics asking if Pope Francis will also retire, UK fails to launch satellites from “cosmic girl,” but NASA finds crater full of opal gemstones on Mars hinting to microbial life on the red planet, England bans single-use plastic for take-away food and Argentina’s inflation is so high one artist uses cash for canvasses – all that and more!
Jan 4, 2023 • 17min
Kid News This Week: Why we get colds, bad weather kindness, Australia’s acrylic nail ban, human hair recycled
Kid News This Week: Hear about the ground-breaking research into why we get colds and flus, plus US bad weather brings out heroic and kind acts, Australian school students banned for acrylic nails and Belgium environmentalist find use in human hair.
Dec 28, 2022 • 29min
Kid News This Week: Best big news stories of 2022!
Kid News This Week: As the year comes to a close, we look back at the biggest news stories of 2022 from Russia’s war on Ukraine to unusual protests in Iran and China, the end of an epic royal reign as Queen Elizabeth II dies, plus world population reaches new peak and all eyes on the world cup in Qatar.
