Podcast
Newsy Jacuzzi
Newsy Jacuzzi 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 Jacuzzi 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...more
Episodes
World news “Quick Dip” plus guest episode
Jul 28 2021
Last of our slim summer “quick dips” into world news, followed by a guest episode from the Curious Kid Podcast (Curious About Sharks)!
"Quick Dip" of world news plus guest episode
Jul 21 2021
So we're slimming down for summer this July, but since the news doesn't stop we're giving you a "quick dip" of world news, followed by a guest episode from the Cool Facts About Animals podcast (Mega Plastic episode)!
July special - weekly "Quick Dip" of world news
Jul 14 2021
Hear our "quick dip" of world news, as we slim down for summer, followed by a guest episode from The Dorktales Storytime podcast - a "Hidden History" about native American engineer, Mary Golda Ross!
TOP FIVE stories of Newsy Jacuzzi's first year!
Jul 07 2021
Hear the top five stories our loyal listers nominated as their favorite covered on Newsy Jacuzzi during our first year!
Newsy Jacuzzi is one year old!
Jun 30 2021
We've produced a year's worth of weekly world news podcasts for kids (and quite a few adults too)! Hear us reflect back on the past year and play the top stories nominated by our listeners. And play the best (or worst!) of our bloopers as well!
Trees talk, new bamboo bat, calling all Bo-Peeps, Swedish embrace rain
Jun 23 2021
A major Hollywood movie is in the works about the Canadian “tree talk” pioneer, there's a new bamboo bat for cricket, a Spanish shepherdess school is calling all Bo-Peeps and a Swedish city embraces its rain
Hangry fruit flies, clean air breakthrough, Spain’s robot chef, “sky pool” scares
Jun 16 2021
British scientists discover fruit flies get hangry (who knew!), a New Delhi teen creates affordable air purifiers, Spain’s robot chef creates a stir and London’s sky-pool gives onlookers the heebeegeebees!
Mega space news, Sri Lanka plastic spill, EV batteries, “Hero Rat” retires
Jun 09 2021
Mega space news from new missions to Venus, fly-by of Jupiter moon, worms head space and kites on Mars, plus a cargo ship fire leads to plastic pollution for Sri Lanka, EV battery recycling break-through and Megawa, the mine-sniffing "Hero Rat," retires .
Floating island city, TV space race, cicadas stink, slimy soap
Jun 02 2021
Hear how the Maldives will create a "floating city" in hopes of combating rising seas that could wipe the archipelago out, how Russia and the US race to get dramatic in space, the latest on the swarms of stinky and tasty (oh, really?!) cicadas in the eastern part of America and one Frenchman's secret, snotty ingredient for soap!
UFOs are official, burger day for earthlings, dramarama craze, crazy word dispute
May 26 2021
The US finally - openly - investigates UFOs, international burger day for earthlings (but maybe aliens too?!), dramarama online theatre workshops are all the rage and the quaint English take to croquet to battle out a word dispute.
Taiwan drought, gas hack, UK hugs, Oz mice plague, "centibutt" sea worm
May 19 2021
Hear how Taiwan lives through its worst drought in 56 years, plus we explain the US gas ransom hack, how Brits trade their stiff-upper-lip for hugs, how Australia's overrun by mice and the discovery of the many-butted marine worm we like to call the "cetibutt!"
Happy Eid, COVID kindness, biggest plane, butterfly back, sheep-V-lawnmowers
May 12 2021
A quarter of humanity celebrates Eid, COVID is making us kinder, biggest plane on path to rocket launch, Duke of Burgundy butterfly flutters back from brink of extinction and which is better for urban lawns? It's sheep versus lawnmowers. All that and more on this week's episode! Thanks to Eestends for the music: Travis Scott RODEO X Kanye Type Beat used in the Sheep V Lawnmower story.
Swarming cicadas, germ warrior, cookie meltdown, book club craze, ugly fish
May 05 2021
Get ready - the cicadas are coming to the US! Also, bacteria fights microplastic, Girl Scout cookie meltdown, bookworms get crazy for book clubs, lamprey bloodsucker fish fights extinction in Australia. (This week's art is courtesy of Yule Liu!)
India’s COVID crisis, world dance day, virtual Olympics, Asian dog holiday
Apr 28 2021
As India buckles under a COVID crisis, we hear from our kid correspondent who’s recovered from the virus, plus an episode full of distraction hacks from dancing, to Olympic "gaming" (yes, gaming), a civics lesson in US trials plus pet love in Central Asia
Epic US verdict, NASA makes history, soccer Super League, spider talk
Apr 21 2021
Hear why Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict is important for America, how NASA makes space history with the first-ever flight on another planet, soccer's Super League skirmish and MIT researchers translate spider "talk." All that and more on this week's episode! And a huge thank you to Yule Liu for her delightful artwork rendition of NASA's Ingenuity.Courtroom sketch is Reuters/Jane Rosenberg.
Ancient city found, Georgia voting, baguette love, Lego thieves, Candy Land
Apr 14 2021
Hear about the discovery of Egypt’s lost “golden city," Georgia’s debate over a new voting law, the French love for French-bread, Lego larceny (stop thief!) and the real (ish) Candy Land in California and more this week!
Shipping chaos, portable space center, Mississippi mud and mummy march
Apr 07 2021
Hear about the cargo ship chaos, space center on-the-go, how The Mississippi River got clean, Nat’l Poetry Month and Cairo's march of the mummies
Five crazy spring stories - Easter to candy to Mars - one will April Fool you!
Mar 31 2021
Happy Holi, Happy Easter and April Fools'! Hear about Spring celebrations, Spain's 4-day week, the cotoneaster pollution-eating plant, NASA's breath box on Mars and crazy Easter candy! Five unbelievable stories - four are totally true, but one will April Fool you!
Pandemic pet craze, happiest country, sushi name-change, Rubik’s Cube shock
Mar 24 2021
The craze for pets during the pandemic takes effect! Find out which country is happiest, what people will do for free sushi and stunning Rubik’s Cube moves in India - all that and more in this week's Newsy Jacuzzi!And for more of what you heard...See the list of the UK's most popular pandemic pet names here: UK’s most popular lockdown pet names revealed - CBBC NewsroundCheck out the Rubik's cube moves here: 8-year-old from Bengaluru solves 3 Rubik’s Cubes using his hands and feet. Watch | Hindu...more
Clean wings, ice music, singing ban lifted, lost walrus, self-beheading snail
Mar 17 2021
Water and solar powered planes, instruments made from ice, Afghan girls singing ban lifted, raccoon friend, lost walrus and the snail that severs its own head! All that and more on this week's dip in the whirlpool of news and information! Some links of items covered on our show...The Dodo - Raccoon Brings Her Baby To Meet Her Human Best Friend | FacebookMinor Swing Django Reinhardt by Ice Music Sweden | Free Listening on SoundCloudhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/playing-it-cool...more
Newsy Jacuzzi Trailer!
Mar 11 2021
Newsy Jacuzzi is a weekly world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults - it's a whirlpool of news and information! Or as the New York Times put it, "a news variety show" for kids by kids - one of their "30 best" podcasts for kids, in fact. It's great family entertainment (and, shhhhh, it's educational too!). New podcasts out every Wednesday. Subscribe, rate and review!
Women’s day, cashier-free shop, electric oranges, cat rescue
Mar 10 2021
How did International Women’s Day begin and where’s it going, Amazon shakes up shopping with cachier-free shops, oranges spark electricity and a “purr”fect rescue of four cats at sea in Thailand. All that and more in this week's episode! The art for this week's episode is thanks once again to Edie Cizeika Bower.
Clever plastic solutions, “spider slug,” new Van Gogh, snoring Imam
Mar 03 2021
From bricks to clothes – clever plastic waste solutions, a slug dangles like a spider, a new Van Gogh painting surfaces, world's most expensive video and the snoring Imam - all that and more!
Rover on Mars, cloned ferret, flying car, Stonehenge moved, foul fatberg
Feb 24 2021
Stunning videos show Perseverance landing on Mars, an endangered ferret is cloned, flying cars ready for take-off, second-hand Stonehenge, rowing teacher triumph and foul fatberg clogs London sewer!
Year of the Ox, US snow storms, Finnish snowflake art, ancient conch
Feb 17 2021
What the Year of the Ox means and how it’s celebrated, winter storms grip US, Finnish artist makes humungous snowflake (out of snow?!), teenager gives away car and a 17,000-year-old conch is played - all that and more!This week's art is courtesy of Edie Cizeika Bower.
Space tourism, sea-grass balls, purple island and cactus smuggler
Feb 10 2021
Tourism to the cosmos takes off, Spain’s sea-grass balls eat plastic, South Korea paints an island purple and New Zealand’s cactus smuggler is caught - all that and more in this week's Newsy Jacuzzi whirlpool!
Dog news, bubblicious concert, wombat poo, Prince’s earth charter
Feb 03 2021
How dogs went from predators to pets, app translates dog-talk, Flaming Lips bubble gig, wombat poo mystery solved, Prince Charles' terra carter plan and more!Special thanks this week to artist Edie Cizeika Bower for the fab cover art!
EVs, solar motorbikes, driverless cars, cave pigs, wheelchair climber
Jan 27 2021
Electric vehicles, driverless cars, solar motorbikes are here, plus warty pig cave drawing and wheelchair man climbs skyscraper!
Cricket history, microplastics, fungi footwear, yummy mealworms
Jan 20 2021
India's cricket team makes sporting history, microplastics pollute the Arctic, Adidas fungi footwear and mealworms for dinner, anyone?
US democracy tested, Pompeii’s "dhaba," chopstick art, rice ATM
Jan 13 2021
This week hear how the storming of the US Capitol tests democracy, about the ancient café uncovered in Pompeii, how millions of chopsticks are reused and an Indian man's rice ATM. SHOW NOTES: Do check out the BEST KIDS PODCAST 2021 list we made it onto - thank you, Feedspot!Also, here is a link to the super cool Pompeii discovery and the chopstick recycler.
Vaccine relief, kids for parks, real magic wands and space sounds
Jan 06 2021
Hello and happy new year! We are temporarily reporting from London for the next few weeks - yep, lockdown central. Help us usher in the new year by hitting subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and also joining the Newsy Jacuzzi Facebook community here. Watch and hear NASA's space 'sounds' here.Plus for two really great articles on the vaccines and the virus check out:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51665497https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/well/live/life-after-covid.html
Best of Newsy Jacuzzi 2020 Animal Stories – ruff-ruff-meoooow!
Dec 30 2020
Did you know there’s a new way to track dog years? Or how to make your cat smile? And what are your pets really thinking? How about the rat who saves lives, the mice that aren't mice, or coronavirus sniffing dogs? Have a listen to the best animal stories of the year!
Best of Newsy Jacuzzi 2020 Oddball Stories and... it's Xmas!!!
Dec 23 2020
It’s Christmas! Find out what that means for our reporters around the world. Plus, it’s that time of the year when we take stock of the last twelve months and as a special Xmas treat we give you our wackiest and weirdest Newsy Jacuzzi Oddball stories of 2020!
Best of Newsy Jacuzzi 2020 Tech Stories!
Dec 16 2020
From 3D dinosaurs (in your living room!), Japan’s Norimaki synthesizer “taste pop,” the super squid bot, the revolutionary Hyperloop, H&M’s magic loom and the tech power of the… pencil!
Real face of St Nick revealed! Also Hanukkah explained, gaming is good for you, India kicks plastic
Dec 09 2020
Digital facial reconstruction of Saint Nicholas courtesy of Image Foundry.
Mysterious monolith, decking the halls, Guru Nanak, White House pets and Oz's innovative kick
Dec 02 2020
It’s beginning to look like… an alien left something in the Utah desert? Hear about the mysterious monolith, White House pets, big holiday for Sikhs, Oz girl’s kick-start and an Indian tale of perseverance.
Thankful for vaccines, violins and the super squid bot, plus India’s excess sugar and US Thanksgiving
Nov 25 2020
Gratitude for COVID-19 vaccines, but what’s it really mean? Plus hear about the violin thank you, the virus survivor who got bit by a cobra, the super robot squid, Thanksgiving in America and the strange advice to eat more sugar!
Hyperloop swooshes, broom goes "vroom," robot monster wolf, leopard pest, baseball’s first female GM
Nov 18 2020
Hear how future travel will swoosh thanks to Virgin’s Hyperloop, how brooms go “vroom” in Brazil, Japan’s monster wolf robot, India’s leopards and baseball’s first female general manager.
India's Diwali, England's Bonfire Night, H&M recycling, Finland's Dirty Daycare
Nov 11 2020
Festival season is underway in India – Happy Diwali! – while England’s bonfire night marks a big explosion that never happened. In science news clothing giant H&M turn old clothes into new yard and in Finland they prove dirty daycares are good for kids!
Record turnout in US election, windy "traffic turbines," LA city of champions, odd animal election
Nov 04 2020
Hear reports across the US as voters show up in record numbers, about dirty cars creating clean energy, the city of angels becoming the city of champions and an odd animal election that’s barking mad!
Hungry Ghosts Festival, Halloween and Day of the Dead plus the mystery of the killer whales and more!
Oct 28 2020
On our Spooky Special episode, hear about Asia’s Hungry Ghost Festival, America’s Halloween and Mexico’s Day of the Dead, which all have more in common than you think. But that’s not all, we also have the mystery of killer whales that go bump at sea and Japan’s drive-in haunted houses.
Weird voting, suffrajitsus, detect pet’s mood and make cats smile, Starman and space nugget
Oct 21 2020
Big thanks to some special contributions this week from fellow podcasters at the Kids Listen network: The Past and the Curious and Curious Kid Podcast. https://www.kidslisten.org/https://thepastandthecurious.com/https://curiouskidpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Toxic air, pollution solution, turtle spies, dumb art thieves and swearing parrots
Oct 14 2020
Special thanks again to Amaira and Anaira Mirza for their joint work on this week's fabulous artwork!
Martian lakes, $23 million titanium toilet, longest highway tunnel, Solely Sunshine girl, COVID-19 dogs
Oct 07 2020
Do lakes on Mars mean there’s Martian life? Also, find out why NASA sends an expensive titanium toilet to space, why India built the longest and highest highway tunnel in the world, who the Solely Sunshine girl is and how canines are sniffing out the coronavirus in Finland.
US election fight, McDonald's fancy cups, a good Spanish sport, a heroic rat and int'l podcast day
Sep 30 2020
We jump into the ring of the US presidential election. We also hear about McDonald’s embrace of the “re-use” cup culture in Britain, the Spanish athlete who takes being a “good sport” to a higher level and move over Mighty Mouse… find out how a hero rat is saving lives! Oh, and for International Podcast Day - we share our favorites!!
Notorious RBG, data at sea, Delhi’s ballet dream, the master gobblefunker and a leopard in the house
Sep 23 2020
Special thanks to Amaira and Anaira Mirza for their joint work on this week's fabulous artwork!
Wildfires explained, our “Connected” world, rooftop alphorns, loneliest elephant, shocking fly trap
Sep 16 2020
Why are fires tearing across the West Coast of America? We break it down. We also shout from the rooftops about our fav science show, Netflix's "Connected," we hear about a rooftop concert in Germany, the loneliest elephant in the world and a fly trap that goes wrong in France.
Flying cars, jetpack flyers, delivery drones, poo fighters triumph and game-on for cricket
Sep 09 2020
Hear how the skies are going to crowd with flying cars, jetpack flyers and delivery drones. Also those coronavirus poo fighters triumph in Arizona and it’s game-on for cricket's Indian Premier League.
US race tensions, mysterious blue holes at sea, Nigeria's ballet boy and the anti-lion head butt
Sep 02 2020
Hear special guests "Hey Black Child" on race tensions in the US, also about the ocean's mysterious blue holes, Nigeria's dancing sensation and the "cheeky" way to stop lions eating cows.
Glacier gloom, pencil power, drive-in fright, the US's crazy league season and Switzerland's cocoa snow
Aug 26 2020
Hear what Greenland's melting ice cap means for you, the high-tech power of low-tech pencils, Japan's answer to socially distanced haunted houses, the crazy league season in US sports and how it snowed cocoa in Switzerland.
Storm season chaos, clever hand-washing contraption and the story of the sly fox and cat thief
Aug 19 2020
The storm season is creating heavy monsoon rain in Asia and whipping up hurricanes in the Americas, also hear about a Kenyan boy's clever hand-washing contraption and the story of the sly fox and the cat thief all on this week's Newsy Jacuzzi!
OCEAN SPECIAL: spectacular sea station, SOS sailors, microbes awakened, packed beaches and a blue lobster
Aug 12 2020
In our special Ocean Episode hear the spectacular plans for an underground sea station, what woke up after being asleep at sea for a 100 million years, about lost sailors rescued from a tiny island, why Spanish beaches are surprisingly packed and the blue lobster found… at a Red Lobster restaurant!
New covid school rules, SpaceX landing, Indian asteroid discovery, Salzburg music festival, and 3D dinosaurs
Aug 05 2020
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!
Back to school (or not!), Facebook's TikTok, Olympic hope, digital chicken nuggets and fart-free cows
Jul 29 2020
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.
Promising vaccine, college sports on hold, NEOWISE comet, no noisy windows, Canada's drive-in art and England's shocking pub
Jul 22 2020
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.
Brink of extinction, mapping Mars, gaming console wars, France’s floating cinema and cycling’s Everesting craze
Jul 15 2020
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.
Corona Poo Fighters, New Dog Years, Liverpool FC, Green Melodies and Monkey Menace
Jul 08 2020
Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Corona resurgence, Japanese taste pops, glacier mice, Baby Shark and baseball!
Jul 01 2020
Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Newsy Jacuzzi - The Beginning!
Jun 30 2020
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...more