

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
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Jun 8, 2022 • 30min
Quick Dip of world news and Cool Facts About Animals episode swap
In kid news this week we give you a Quick Dip of world news - from parties and politics in the UK, to Japan's food waste cement and the cheese rolling in Gloucester - as well as Cool Facts About Animals episode swap!

Jun 1, 2022 • 22min
Kid News This Week: Gun debate, sprouting moon soil, robot surgeons, football microchips, sinkhole oasis
This week, we gently decode the US gun debate by understanding the view points of the gun lobby led by the NRA, Congress, legislators on both sides, and also a quick peek into the US Constitution's Second Amendment. In other news, we start with the World of WOW, aka science news, on how scientists are working on space sprouts from the moon. Then we move on to robot-assisted surgery and VR medicine, Aussie football microchips, China’s sinkhole oasis - all that and more!Want to get the complete transcript of this episode? Then check out our website.Like this episode? Awesome! We have a teeny-tiny request — please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.If you wish to be a kid podcaster on Newsy Pooloozi, or just drop in to say hi, email us at contact@newsypooloozi.com.To get the latest on Newsy Pooloozi and see what our co-hosts Leela and Lyndee are up to, follow our social media handles:Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewsyPoolooziInstagram: @newsypooloozipodcast

May 25, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Looking back and forward for 100th episode with special guest, Mindy Thomas!
OMG – we reached 100 episodes! This special episode we look back and forward for our 100th episode with super-duper guest, Mindy Thomas of Wow in the World, helping us celebrate!

May 18, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: NATO woes decoded, UK’s post-drone, microchip in footballs, jail for dumbest thieves
Kid News This Week: Russia furious at NATO’s Nordic expansion while Turkey says no-no, UK’s post-drones take off, possible microchip in Aussie footballs, jail for dumbest thieves

May 11, 2022 • 18min
Kid News This Week: Reptiles at risk, rocket catch-and-carry, lunar art, longest glass-bottom bridge
Kid News This Week: 20% of reptile species risk extinction, rocket booster caught mid-air by helicopter, heartful art heads to the moon and longest glass-bottom bridge opens in Vietnam - all that and more!

May 4, 2022 • 19min
Kid News This Week: Indian heatwave, Mother’s Day backstory, 10-armed octopus, whisky biofuel
Kid News This Week: The Indian subcontinent is in the grip of a heatwave, Mama mia! Mother’s Day sweet history revealed, 10-armed octopus fossil found, whisky waste becomes biofuel and much more!

Apr 27, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Celebrating Eid, ants repair trees, Japan’s salty chopsticks, Spain’s smelly art
Kid News This Week: Celebrating Eid around the world, Azteca ants repair “trumpetrees” in Panama, Japan’s latest taste-tech, Spain’s smelly high art

Apr 20, 2022 • 24min
Kid News This Week: Earth Day, India’s seaweed machine, UK’s forest eye, eco-bouncy castle
Hear when and why Earth Day started and what we can do now, about India’s seaweed combine-harvester breakthrough, UK’s forest art keeping an “eye on climate” and an ingenious bouncy carbon-buster for kids!

Apr 13, 2022 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Easter lowdown, digitally unwrapped mummy, swimming dinos, rickshaw garden
Kid News This Week: Hear the lowdown on Easter, all about the digitally unwrapped mummy, the swimming Spinosaurus, rickshaw's rooftop garden, the stuck temple thief and more!

Apr 6, 2022 • 21min
Kid News This Week: Saturn loses its rings, who is Ketanji, Finnish treasure hunters, Spain's ghost village
Kid News This Week: Saturn loses its rings - but how, low-down on Ketanji B Jackson, Finnish treasure hunters get ready for last push to booty and Spain's abandoned village appears in dried-up lake - all that and more.


