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I'm Bryce Corbett.
It's Monday, November 3 in Squiz Kids Today.
King Tut's golden comeback.
Dodgers win World Series.
Kangaroos win the Ashes.
And mice in space.
That's what's making news, kids style.
The Lowdown.
Egypt's most famous boy, king Tutankhamun, made a triumphant return to the world stage this weekend, when his golden casket was put back on display at a brand new museum in Cairo.
King Tut, as he's known, is probably the best known Egyptian mummy in the world, his carefully embalmed and preserved body lying inside a traditional golden funeral mask and coffin that is renowned around the world.
In ancient Egypt, when kings died, they were mummified and placed inside elaborate sarcophagi, which is a fancy sort of a coffin, and then placed inside enormous tombs, sometimes deep inside pyramids.
The boy king and his entire golden, dazzling tomb contents are back on display in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, after the opening this weekend of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is filled with more than 100000 artefacts from one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations of our time.
I can't wait to get there and see it for myself.
And closer to home.
Folks in Queensland were once again in clean-up mode yesterday after a massive supercell weather system brought golf ball-sized hail to Toowoomba and surroundings, just to the west of Brisbane.
More than 2500 homes were still without power yesterday morning after the massive thunderstorm rumbled through the state on Saturday evening.
Hot days followed by southerly busters.
Fair to say we're in definite summer mode.
Spin the globe.
Each day we give the world globe a spin and find a new story from wherever it stops.
And today we've landed in Canada, where the Los Angeles Dodgers have won the World Series for 2025.
I'm talking about baseball, people.
And for the past week, the eyes of the sporting world have been on the Canadian city of Toronto, as the big final playoffs between the home team, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the visitors, the Los Angeles Dodgers, have been playing out.
The last match between the two stretched to a record-breaking 18 innings to break a deadlock.
That now makes it back-to-back World Series championships for the Dodgers, whose team just happens to include a man considered the best baseball player in the world, Japan's wonderkid Shohei Otani.
Lots of disappointed Blue Jays fans last night.
Send them your best wishes.
Sport time!
Speaking of all things sporting, there was plenty going on over the weekend, especially if you're a sports fan who doesn't need sleep.
The Kangaroos Australia's men's rugby league team won the so-called Ashes Series in England on Saturday night, beating the English national team by 14 points to 4.
The game kicked off at 1am on Sunday morning our time.
Also in England, but having altogether less luck in their hit out against the men's English national team, who just weren't strong enough to hold off an English onslaught going down 25 points to 7.
While here at home things are hotting up in the AFLW, with Carlton Port, Gold Coast Essendon, North Melbourne and the Brisbane Lions among the winners in the first game of the final series over the weekend.
Can the North Melbourne Kangaroos win back-to-back premierships?
The grand final is only three weeks away now, and the Roos have now won more games in a row than any other professional team in the sport.
So you'd have to say they're going in favourites.
Is it just me, or do you also find it amazing that, even as you listen to this podcast, There are humans on space stations above our heads, 250km up in the sky, in orbit around the Earth?
It all got just a little bit more crowded up there at the weekend when China sent three more astronauts up onto their space station called the Heavenly Palace.
What a nice name.
The three astronauts, including China's youngest ever astronaut, aged 32, will now spend six months living on the space station in very cramped quarters doing scientific experiments.
And accompanying the three astronauts on their rocket ship into space, were get this three black mice.
And they are the first mammals to be taken to live on the space station, where they will be monitored to see how life in orbit impacts them.
On the subject of animals in space.
On this day, back in 1957, a dog called Laika was sent up into space on top of a rocket, and she became the first animal from planet Earth in space.
Good dog, Laika.
Time for the quiz.
This is the part of the podcast where you get to test how well you've been listening.
Question number one.
Which team won the World Series baseball yesterday?
Yep, that's right.
It's the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Question number two.
In which country has a new museum just opened showing off King Tut's golden burial tomb?
Yes, that's right.
It's Egypt.
Question number three.
What animals have flown into space with Chinese astronauts this weekend?
That would be three black mice.
Yay!
Shoutouts.
It's Monday, November 3.
Today is the birthday of Aussie cricketer Elise Perry.
Happy birthday, Elise.
Today is also a special day for these squiz kids celebrating a birthday today and tomorrow.
Emma from Wedworth Point, Georgiana from Exeter, Zara from Oran Park, Rianne from Perth, Lucy from Adelaide, Jacob from Pimble Tate from Currie Currie, Alice from Fig Tree Pocket, Evie from North Ryde, Yarny from Illawong, Prisha from Vermont South, Alessi from Toorak, Nikki from Wee, Jasper and Jack from Riverview.
And belated birthday shoutouts go to Victoria from Peakehurst, Samajit from Marsden Park, Jack and Evelyn from Sydney, Louis from Lugano, Nathan from Riverwood, Jake from Exeter, Beau from The Gap and Prajna from Oren Park.
And today's classroom shout-outs go to Class 6M with Ms Nunez and Mrs Laguzza at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Riverwood, to Class 4MR with Mrs Randell at Redlands College in Wellington Point, to Class 3B with Mrs Beck at Milton State School and to all the students at Tyab Primary School.
Don't forget if you've got a birthday coming up and you want a shout out, or if you're after a classroom shout out, drop us a line at squizkids at thesquizcomau, or fill out the form on our website.
Well, that's all we have time for.
Thanks for listening to Squiz Kids today.
We'll be back again tomorrow with the fourth episode of our Planet Warriors series, where we'll be going deep underground to meet Rocky, the super-connected superhero of a type of renewable energy that is bubbling away under our feet even as we speak.
In the meantime, get out there and have a most excellent day.
Over and out.
Thank you.
