Squiz Kids

They’re icy, they’re fast, and they involve people willingly hurtling downhill head-first at motorway speeds.

This is your Squiz Kids Shortcut to the Winter Olympics and Paralympics — the podcast where we explore the who, what, where, when, why and how behind one of the world’s biggest sporting events.

In this episode, Christie and Bryce head back to the very first Winter Olympics in 1924, before racing forward to the most spread-out Games ever, hosted across cities and mountains in Italy. Along the way, they explain the wild winter sports you’ll see on snow and ice, from skeleton and snowboarding to the brand-new Olympic sport of ski mountaineering — plus the Aussie athletes taking part.

Listen carefully — there’s a S’Quiz at the end! ❄️🏅

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Your daily kids news podcast.

Moon mission starts its countdown; Falling iguanas in America’s big freeze; here comes Groundhog Day; and Katseye crushes the Grammys.

Astronauts are about to zoom around the Moon in the Artemis II mission—the first time humans have gone this far in over 50 years!

Florida’s beaches might get snow (what?!), and chilly weather means iguanas are literally dropping from trees!

All eyes are on one very furry weather forecaster—Punxsutawney Phil! On Groundhog Day, he pops out to “predict” if spring is on the way.

It’s music’s biggest night—The Grammys! Katseye joins stars like Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar to battle for big-time awards.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

It was the most expensive, ambitious — and disastrous —
expedition in Australian history. And somehow, it’s also one of the most
famous.

In this From the Vault Squiz Kids Shortcut, we rewind to
1860 and follow the ill-fated journey of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, who set out to become the first white explorers to cross Australia from south to north. What followed was a trail of poor planning, bad decisions, ignored advice — and heartbreaking consequences.

Listen carefully — there’s a Squiz at the end.

How many generations have lived — and how do we even count
that?

In this Squiz Kids Science Short, Christie explains how scientists use
generations to measure time, why humans have racked up around 12,000 of them, and how today’s population explosion makes our moment in history a very unusual one. A quick, mind-bending look at humanity’s place in deep time.

A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.