HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids

In Michigan, a school board election got decided by somebody reaching into a bin and pulling out a slip of paper. Two candidates in Mount Clemens got exactly the same number of votes: 3,496 each. a perfect TIE. that's WILD. Michigan law decides ties like that "by lot," so a coin toss picked who drew first, then a…

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The very first house in Chicago had paintings on the walls, and the man who built it was born in Haiti. That house sat right where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan, back in the 1780s. Hold up, skyscraper Chicago? Deep-dish pizza Chicago? That Chicago. Welcome back to HootPODS, where today we meet the man who…

Hosted by Atlas (Gen X Anchor) and Nova.

HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts with the HootPODS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hootpods/id6758534435

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A grown man in Germany spent five years memorizing words that don't even exist, like ZOF and QAX, completely on purpose. His name was Hermann Ebbinghaus, and those fake words explain why you forget almost everything you study. Great, so my science grade is being destroyed by QAX. Kind of, yes. Welcome back to…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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The man who wrote the Headless Horseman story also wrote the most famous book about Columbus. And some of the most famous parts of it were made up. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today, one thing to remember: famous stories can be changed over time. A story can be changed?! Quietly, and by someone with a good pen. So a…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts at hootpods.com.

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There's a woman who sat at her kitchen table and made ribbons by hand, one at a time, and she handed them out at grocery stores. And the color wasn't pink. It was peach. Peach?! So how did we end up with pink everywhere? Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're finding out why October turns pink.

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts at hootpods.com.

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The most powerful man on Earth is sitting in a freezing army tent, and he's writing himself a note that says, be nicer to the annoying people. Not a speech. Not an order. A note to himself, by lamplight, with a hundred and forty thousand soldiers camped outside. A hundred and forty THOUSAND?

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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A free Black man, in 1791, sent a letter to a slaveholder — and used that slaveholder's own words to call him a hypocrite. And the slaveholder was Thomas Jefferson. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Secretary of State. he wrote BACK?! He wrote back. Welcome to HootPODS — today we're talking about Benjamin…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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In 1503, the Spanish invited eighty Taíno chiefs to what they called "peace talks" — and then set the building on fire. The boy who survived that day grew up to make the entire Spanish Empire negotiate with him. hold up. Welcome back to HootPODS. His name was Guarocuya — and the Spanish would come to know him as…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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There's a temple in India carved out of a single mountain, and the most amazing thing about it is everything that ISN'T there anymore. We're talking about the Kailasa Temple at Ellora — one hundred feet tall, the largest single-rock structure on earth. And the internet has quietly decided humans couldn't possibly have…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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There is a bronze head of the most powerful man in the world sitting under a temple floor — so that everyone who walks in has to step on his face. The man is Emperor Augustus. The person who put it there is Queen Amanirenas of Kush. And she beat him. she BEAT the Roman Empire? Welcome back to HootPODS. Negotiated a…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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Somebody says something mean to you in the hallway — what you do in the next three seconds decides everything. And it's not what most kids think it is. it's definitely not throwing a punch Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're talking about one of the most skill-based things you'll ever have to do — and nobody teaches…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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Eight hundred years ago, an emperor gathered his people after winning a war — and instead of just dividing the land, he declared that every single human life was a life. That line became the founding law of one of the largest empires on earth. wait, he wrote that DOWN? He didn't write it at all — and that's where the…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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There's one thing you own that no army, no thief, no bad day can ever actually take from you. And the Romans figured this out so early they put it on their coins. wait, on COINS? Welcome back to HootPODS. A handshake in ancient Rome wasn't a greeting — it was a contract.

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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There are over 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every single day. That's more than four songs every second, around the clock. wait but HOW — like, who's uploading all of that? Welcome back to HootPODS. That question has a genuinely strange answer.

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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Before electric lights existed, people used to wake up in the middle of the night on purpose. Not because of a nightmare. It was just — normal. They called it their "first sleep" and "second sleep." wait, so sleeping through the night is actually the weird version? Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're figuring out…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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A teacher once looked at a kid and said, out loud, that he was "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." That kid was Albert Einstein. WAIT. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're talking about something that might be stressing you out right now — your grades.

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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There's a kid at almost every school who everyone is a little afraid of — and here's the thing nobody tells you about that kid. They are probably more afraid than anyone in that building. wait, that can't be right. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're going somewhere most people don't bother looking — inside the head…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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A guy who lived 2,300 years ago figured out your friendship problems before you were born. Aristotle. Ancient Greece. And turns out, he was onto something most people still get wrong. wait, Aristotle? The toga guy? Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're cracking open what friendship actually is — not what it looks like…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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A four-year-old got stung by two bees and ended up selling lemonade in Target. Not just selling it — the company has pulled in over eleven million dollars in distribution deals. wait. FOUR years old. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're talking about what happens when a little kid's worst week becomes the seed of…

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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So there's this guy who died in 1790 and he's STILL making money. Benjamin Franklin left four thousand dollars to two cities with one rule — don't touch it for two hundred years. wait he made them WAIT two hundred years? Because he wanted to prove something wild about money and time.

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HootPODS is the screen-free audio platform for curious kids. Create your own custom podcasts on any topic at hootpods.com.

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