Hello! And welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast and happy new year. We hope that

2026 is going to be your best year yet. This marks the ninth year that we've released episodes

of Curious Kid podcast, starting with our very first episode all the

way back in 2018.

Just think about how much your life has changed since 2018.

You can probably think of a bunch of things that have changed in all that time.

Well, one thing that hasn't changed is that we've been releasing episodes of Curious Kid Podcast every Sunday,

and we're so happy that you're here to join us for the Learning Journey. Because this is the

season 14 premiere episode, and because it's the start of our ninth year of releasing episodes,

we want to make this an absolutely epic episode. That's why we're getting

curious about the one topic that's been requested by more listeners than any other topic we've

ever covered. Mailbag!

Mail bag! Mail bag.

Listen, I'm going to be honest with everyone.

If I were to read all of the wonderful messages we received requesting this topic,

we would have to devote about 30 minutes just to reading all the messages.

So instead of reading through all the messages,

we are simply going to thank all of the listeners that requested we get curious about

black holes. We want to thank Leonardo from Lima, Peru, Sujay from India,

Benjamin and Jude from Chesapeake, Virginia, Madeline and Audrey from Houston, Texas, Jamie

and Rainey from Evans, Georgia, Eli from Playa Vista, California, Colton from Winnipeg, Minnetoba,

Roxy from Thruel, Australia, Alfie from Canberra, Australia, Ada from Massachusetts, Leo from Sacramento, California, Harrison from the Cedar, Georgia, Henry, not sure where you're from, Olivia, Alice and Amelia from Gatineau Canada, Alex from Minnesota, Hunter and Carson from Arnold, Maryland, Jack and Frank from Burnaby, British Columbia, Marcus from St. Louis, Missouri, Avery, Ellison, and Marlowe from Batha, Washington, Olivia from Harvard, Massachusetts, Varage from Delhi, India,

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