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Fun. Free. Fresh. Hello and welcome to Squiz Kids Today, your fresh take on what's happening in the world around you.
I'm Bryce Corbett. It's Monday July 21 in Squizz Kids Today.
Ancient ice in secret lab.
Shark dancing in the Bahamas.
How maths and soccer combine and Pikachu takes on the Fantastic Four.
That's what's making news, Kids Style.
The Lowdown. And a warm welcome back to a new school term and a new term's worth of Squiz Kids content.
It's great to be back in all of your ears and we start Start this new term with news out of England, where scientists are about to defrost a block of ice more than 1 .5 million years old to discover what our planet was like way back then.
A cylinder of ice was drilled from the icy depths of an ice sheet in Antarctica months ago and has been kept in a top secret underground icy laboratory in England, ready for scientists to slowly thaw it out this week.
Over a period of the next seven weeks, in fact, as it slowly turns from ice and back into liquid, the scientists will examine the ancient dust, volcanic ash, and even tiny specks of algae that are trapped inside it.
Messengers from our ancient planet.
To understand what the world was like back then, and importantly, what the climate was like.
Specifically, what wind patterns, sea levels and average temperatures were like on Earth a million years ago.
All of that from a piece of ice.
How amazing. And in news closer to home, the state of Tasmania had an election over the weekend, which saw voters decide to pretty much not change anything at all.
The final results have not been announced, But it seems as though a Tassie government will be formed by the existing Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe.
But it will be something called a hung parliament, meaning neither side has won convincingly.
Each day we give the world globe a spin and find a news story from wherever it stops.
And today we've landed in the Bahamas.
Oh, how lovely, where a new TV show has been developed with a unique twist. You've heard of Dancing with the Stars, right?
Well, settle in this week for Dancing with the Sharks.
Yep, you heard right.
Scuba Dive is underwater, dancing with the apex predator of our oceans.
Hammerheads, tiger sharks, nerf sharks, they're all contestants in this trippy new TV show on the Discovery Channel during Shark Week this week.
And it turns out that these sharks have rhythm.
Pirouettes, spins, flips and turns are all performed in an underwater ballet with some pretty brave scuba divers.
Tell you what, I think I'll stick to dancing on the sand.
Just call me Rio. Sport time.
Maths and sport. They have nothing in common, right?
Right? Wrong! Because maths is involved in all aspects of life, including sport, as has been revealed this weekend.
Now you may have seen England and Sweden forced into a penalty shootout in their Euro 2025 soccer quarterfinal over the weekend.
Well, elite players have now revealed how they use statistics to succeed when it comes to penalty shootouts.
Those taking the shots at goals spend weeks beforehand studying the habits of goalkeepers especially how many times they dive to their left to stop the ball and how many times they dive to their right and goalies use statistics too with photos emerging at the weekend of the Swedish goalkeeper looking at a sticker on her water bottle with the names of the whole English team and beside each name a statistic on whether Whether they tended to kick to the left, the right or straight down the middle.
Now that is clever.
In a battle between the Fantastic Four and Pikachu, who do you reckon would win?
Well, you're about to find out because this week marks an epic showdown between the two.
Superhero Family, the Fantastic Four hit cinemas this week.
in their fourth big blockbuster film, starring Mr Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch and The Thing.
But it's Pokemon favourite Pikachu who will be commanding all the attention tomorrow when the Pokemon Presents livestream takes place, revealing everything coming up for the fictional creatures, from their trading card game to collaborations with big fashion houses.
A teaser photo dropped over the weekend end of pikachu and a set of dj decks prompting speculation that we could be in for a new rhythm game and for the mums dads and possibly even grandparents listening out there madonna has a hotly anticipated re -release of her ray of light album coming up later this week get your dancing pants on people q and a call out hands up if you've heard of a book called the 13 story treehouse Then you probably also know the 26, 39, 52 and all the way up to 169 Story Treehouse books as well.
And you quite possibly know the author Andy Griffiths.
Well, Andy is a great friend of Squiz Kids, and on the occasion of the impending release of his new book, You and Me and the Peanut Butter Beast, Andy has bravely agreed to take the Squiz Kids hot seat and take part in another Squiz Kids Q &A.
This is your chance to ask anything you want of one of the most popular and successful kids' authors in Australia.
How and where does he write?
How does he come up with his kooky ideas?
Who was his favourite author when he was your age?
What's his favourite ever story in the treehouses?
And why does he have a pet?
What does he do when he's not writing?
Any question at all.
and here's the fun part the 10 best questions will win a copy of Andy's new book and the best question as judged by Andy will win a double pass to see him in person like IRL at his opera house in Sydney in September so don't just sit there send in your questions already email them to squizkids at thesquiz .com .au but make sure you do it before Tuesday August 5.
Time for the SQUIZ.
This is the part of the podcast where you get to test how well you've been listening.
Question number one.
To which frozen continent did scientists go to drill a cylinder of ancient ice to slowly melt and study?
Yeah, that's right, they went to Antarctica.
Question number two.
Which two countries were involved in a penalty shootout in the Euro 2025 semifinals last week and in which a goalie used her maths to save goals?
Well done if you said England and Sweden.
Question number three.
Mr Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Thing I want you to name the missing member of the Fantastic Four superhero family.
Well done if you said The Human Torch. Shoutouts It's Monday, July 21.
The bad news? Schools back this week for NSW, Victoria, Tassie, South Australia, WA, ACT, pretty much everywhere but Queensland and NT who went back last week.
Boo. The good news?
It's National Lamington Day.
So, wrap your chops around one of those babies today.
Today is also a special day for these Squiz Kids celebrating a birthday today and tomorrow.
And a lot of you celebrated a birthday during the recent school holidays whilst the Squids Kids team were having a well -earned rest. And we don't want you to miss out on a shout -out.
So we're working our way through all of these shoutouts over the coming week.
And I reckon to help us out we're going to need the old birthday reggae tune.
Hit it. And it's a happy belated birthday to Joshua, Ginger and Oliver from Forest Lake Rossi and Sia from Vermont South Ben from Parabudu MacArthur from Lillydale Gabe from Warwick Faith from the Gold Coast Hamish and Alessandro from Exeter Vance from Dubbo Elijah from Hammond Park Jasmine from West Albury Georgia from Parkinson Layla and Ailey from Wagga Wagga Paul from Yass Bailey from Bradbury Eden from Maxville Frank from Whitfield and Tora, who's listening all the way over there in Hong Kong.
And a reminder that Classroom Shoutouts will resume next week.
Otherwise, don't forget if you've got a birthday coming up and you want a shoutout or if you're after a Classroom Shoutout Drop us a line at squizkidsatthesquiz .com .au.
Well, that's all we have time for.
Thanks for listening to Squiz Kids today.
We'll be back again tomorrow with a brand new Squiz the World episode in which we're heading to the tiny country of Luxembourg in Europe.
It's a cracker. In the meantime, get out there and have a most excellent first day back.
Over and out. Thank you.
