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Hosted by HootPods · kids · EN · 42 episodes
HootPODS is the podcast that makes big ideas hit different. Two hosts. Real facts. Zero boring. Every episode takes one surprising topic — ancient samurai strategy, why Roblox is designed to addict you, the thinking traps your brain sets for itself — and breaks it down in a fast, funny, dual-host conversation designed for kids aged 8–14 (and the parents who keep listening after drop-off). From history's untold stories to the science behind your screen time, HootPODS delivers the "wait, WHAT?" moment that makes curious kids want to learn more. No lectures. No worksheets. Just two hosts, one wild topic, and the kind of conversation that makes you smarter without trying. Screen-free. Kid-safe. Parent-approved. New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one — or create your own custom podcast on any topic at hootpods.com . Follow
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Contact path
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Booking probability
31%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchHootPODS is the podcast that makes big ideas hit different. Two hosts. Real facts. Zero boring.
HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids is hosted by HootPods. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Your Brain Is Deleting Your Homework On Purpose" (12 October 2026, 8 minutes), "The Ghost Story Writer Who Made Columbus Famous" (12 October 2026, 9 minutes), and "Why a Whole Month Turns Pink" (7 October 2026, 9 minutes).
HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 9 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids's contact route on record: public web form.
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HootPods hosts HootPODS: Smart Stories & Curious Podcasts for Kids, a kids show with 42 episodes published.
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Episode #34
A grown man in Germany spent five years memorizing words that don't even exist, like ZOF and QAX, completely on purpose. His name was Hermann Ebbinghaus, and those fake words explain why you forget almost everything you...
Episode #33
The man who wrote the Headless Horseman story also wrote the most famous book about Columbus. And some of the most famous parts of it were made up. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today, one thing to remember: famous stories...
Episode #32
There's a woman who sat at her kitchen table and made ribbons by hand, one at a time, and she handed them out at grocery stores. And the color wasn't pink. It was peach. Peach?! So how did we end up with pink...
Episode #31
The most powerful man on Earth is sitting in a freezing army tent, and he's writing himself a note that says, be nicer to the annoying people. Not a speech. Not an order. A note to himself, by lamplight, with a hundred...
Episode #30
Three Union warships. A pitch-black river. Confederate mines hidden underwater. And the person guiding them through? A formerly enslaved woman with a bounty on her head. June 1st, 1863. The Combahee River, South...
Episode #29
A 23-year-old man stole a Confederate warship. In the middle of the night. Sailed it past five forts. And handed it to the enemy. And the people who controlled that ship called him property. he did THAT while being...
Episode #28
A 23-year-old stole a Confederate warship, sailed it past five military forts, and handed it to the enemy — and the Confederates didn't notice until it was gone. May 13, 1862. Charleston Harbor. And the man at the helm...
Episode #27
A free Black man, in 1791, sent a letter to a slaveholder — and used that slaveholder's own words to call him a hypocrite. And the slaveholder was Thomas Jefferson. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Secretary...
Episode #26
In 1503, the Spanish invited eighty Taíno chiefs to what they called "peace talks" — and then set the building on fire. The boy who survived that day grew up to make the entire Spanish Empire negotiate with him. hold...
Episode #23
There's a temple in India carved out of a single mountain, and the most amazing thing about it is everything that ISN'T there anymore. We're talking about the Kailasa Temple at Ellora — one hundred feet tall, the...
Episode #25
There is a bronze head of the most powerful man in the world sitting under a temple floor — so that everyone who walks in has to step on his face. The man is Emperor Augustus. The person who put it there is Queen...
Episode #21
Somebody says something mean to you in the hallway — what you do in the next three seconds decides everything. And it's not what most kids think it is. it's definitely not throwing a punch Welcome back to HootPODS...
Episode #22
Eight hundred years ago, an emperor gathered his people after winning a war — and instead of just dividing the land, he declared that every single human life was a life. That line became the founding law of one of the...
Episode #21
There's one thing you own that no army, no thief, no bad day can ever actually take from you. And the Romans figured this out so early they put it on their coins. wait, on COINS? Welcome back to HootPODS. A handshake in...
Episode #19
Before electric lights existed, people used to wake up in the middle of the night on purpose. Not because of a nightmare. It was just — normal. They called it their "first sleep" and "second sleep." wait, so sleeping...
Episode #18
A teacher once looked at a kid and said, out loud, that he was "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." That kid was Albert Einstein. WAIT. Welcome back to HootPODS. Today we're talking about...
Episode #17
There's a kid at almost every school who everyone is a little afraid of — and here's the thing nobody tells you about that kid. They are probably more afraid than anyone in that building. wait, that can't be right...
Episode #16
A guy who lived 2,300 years ago figured out your friendship problems before you were born. Aristotle. Ancient Greece. And turns out, he was onto something most people still get wrong. wait, Aristotle? The toga guy...
Episode #15
A four-year-old got stung by two bees and ended up selling lemonade in Target. Not just selling it — the company has pulled in over eleven million dollars in distribution deals. wait. FOUR years old. Welcome back to...
Episode #14
So there's this guy who died in 1790 and he's STILL making money. Benjamin Franklin left four thousand dollars to two cities with one rule — don't touch it for two hundred years. wait he made them WAIT two hundred...
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