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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 Thursday, September 18.
In Squiz Kids Today, Gout Gout sprints into history.
New York celebrates Rytoberfest.
Squizzy's bad news warning and a big weekend for women's footy.
That's what's making news, kids style.
The Lowdown.
Australia's teenage sprint sensation, Gout Gout, took another confident stride into the record books last night, beating some of the fastest men in the world to qualify for a semi-final in the 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Japan.
With the eyes of the world on him.
The 17-year-old from Ipswich looked a little nervous as he took to the blocks.
Understandable, given that he is the youngest man ever to be selected for a World Championships in Athletics.
And with half of Australia, a packed stadium in Tokyo and even the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, watching on.
Gaut Gaut ran third in his heat, clocking a time of 2023 seconds, winning for himself automatic qualification for the semi-finals tonight.
Speaking after the race, the kid from Queensland said being on the biggest athletic stage in the world was a little bit nerve-wracking.
But he hoped to get a good start in tonight's semis and, and I quote, get off like a butterfly.
How poetic.
It's been a remarkable year for the sprint sensation, running a personal best or PB as the athletes say of 2002 seconds over 200 metres, earlier this year.
His main competition at these championships in Tokyo?
Well, take your pick.
It's basically a gathering of the fastest men in the world, including Olympic champion from the USA, Noah Lyles, who also qualified for the semis with a blistering fast run in his heat of 1999 seconds.
The current world record time, just for reference, in the 200 metres is 1919 seconds, set by Usain Bolt himself back in 2009.
And a shout out to fellow Aussie sprinter, Tori Lewis, who ran a PB of 2256 seconds in her 200 metre heat last night.
And, like gout gout, is through to tonight's semis.
So, I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight then.
Spin the globe.
Each day we give the world globe a spin and find a new story from wherever it stops.
And that's because a special event called Rytoberfest took place there, where people called Ryan met up to try and break the Guinness record for the number of people gathering in one place with the same name.
No news on whether they actually broke the Guinness World Record.
Exact numbers are still being counted, but there would have to have been a whole lot of Ryans in attendance to beat the existing record, which went to a gathering of Ivans who got together in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2017 and numbered an impressive 2325.
That's a whole lot of Ivans.
I wonder what the collective noun for a group of Ryans would be.
You know how the collective noun for a group of lions is a pride, or the collective noun for a group of sheep is a flock of sheep.
I wonder if it would be a gang, a swarm, or a cluster of Ryans.
Hmm, I like the sound of cluster of Ryans.
Let's go with that.
Sport time!
And it wouldn't be a Thursday in September without a Squiz Kids footy finals preview.
And what a weekend we have in store.
The NRLW finals kick off this weekend with the big-hitting women of the National Rugby League competition duking it out for a shot at the Premiership.
Saturday will see the Knights take on the Titans in the first game of the day, followed soon after by the clash between the Sharks and the Cowboys.
The winners of these two matches will go on to play the Roosters and the Broncos in next weekend's semis.
Meanwhile, for the fellas, this weekend we'll see the Raiders tackle the Sharks in the first NRL preliminary final.
Then on Sunday the Bulldogs and Panthers battle it out, with the winners of those two games winning the right to play in the semis against the Broncos and the Storm.
Meanwhile, in AFL land, all eyes will be on the MCG tomorrow night when the Hawks take on Geelong, and then again on Saturday when reigning premiers, the Brisbane Lions, face off against Collingwood.
The winners of those two games will go to the grand final on Saturday week, because too much footy is never enough.
News Hounds News Hounds.
Every Thursday, Squizzy the News Hound sticks his snout into Squiz Kids HQ to report back on fishy things he's sniffed out on the internet.
This week his nose is twitching up a treat after all the miss and disinformation that has appeared in the week since the death of Charlie Kirk.
When a big news event like that happens, there is always a spike in the amount of fake news that circulates online.
Whether people have good intentions and accidentally share information that's not true that's what we call misinformation or whether they have bad intentions and use a tragic event like this one to tell lies, to try to make the situation worse or confuse or trick people into believing something that isn't true, and that's what we call disinformation.
Both of them pop up everywhere and are spread with alarming speed on platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
Which is why we always have to have our news hounds, detective magnifying glasses handy, ready to scrutinize content we come across before we believe it.
Scrutinize is a fancy word for checking to make sure something is real.
And it's also why we should always, after a big news event stop, think And check whenever we come across a piece of content, a video, a story, a social media post.
And make sure that we're not being tricked.
Don't do it for me.
Do it for Squizzy.
Woo-hoo!
Listen to that.
Can you hear that sound?
It's the sound of holidays.
And yes, they are almost upon us.
If you're in Queensland or the NT or Victoria, tomorrow's your last day of Term 3.
Kids in the rest of Australia, soz, but you've got another week.
One thing you all have in common though, is that we're going to have a whole lot of excellent school holiday squiz, kids content just for you, as per usual.
Keep your ears out for our bumper holiday quizzes, a school holiday movie guide, a chat with kids author Annabelle Crabb, a chat with Australia's first female astronaut, brain teasers and science shorts.
There's so much content, you won't know what to do with it.
We'll keep up the daily news pod all of next week, as so many of you are still at school, but then we'll follow the NSW ACT and SA holidays and switch over to our holiday content.
And if your birthday falls between September 29 and October 12, a public service announcement for you.
Your birthday shout-out will be in the Daily Pod when we return the week commencing October 13.
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.
In which Asian city are the World Athletics Championships taking place this week?
Yes, that's right.
They're happening in Tokyo.
Question number two.
What was the name of all of the folks who gathered together at New York's Rytoberfest?
That's right.
They were called Ryan.
Question number three.
That's right.
It's Ivan.
Shout outs.
It's Thursday, September 18.
Round one of the NBL, our National Basketball League, kicks off tonight when the Tassie Jackjumpers take on Melbourne United.
It's also National Cheeseburger Day in the United States.
Yum.
I feel like maybe every day is National Cheeseburger Day in my teenage son's life.
Today is also a special day for these squiz kids celebrating a birthday today.
Annalise from Marooka, Dustin from Bald Blair, Dally from Curry Curry, Brooklyn from Rosebury, Aaron from Perth and Edie from Brisbane.
And classroom shout-outs today go to Grades 4, 5 and 6 with Miss Mirabito at Goonong Primary School.
Class 3W with Miss Walker at Viewbank Primary School.
Class 4HD with Mrs Hanley and Mr Dissent at Excelsior Public School.
And finally, a shout-out to Jimmy and Dan from Blackburn, who are homeschooling whilst they are travelling the West Australian coastline.
Sounds idyllic.
Hope you're enjoying yourselves.
Now 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 Kids vs Adults Weekly News Squiz your chance to prove who's been paying the most attention to the week that just was.
In the meantime, get out there and have yourselves a most excellent day.
Over and out.
