GT135 - Hugalina and Kissalina and the Pink Lake of Senegal
Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Maria Calanchini
4.6 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Hugalina and Kissalina are the most affectionate twin Goops in all of Goop World — Hugalina hugs everything in sight whether it asks for it or not, and Kissalina never meets anything without first reaching for her shimmering pot of vanilla lip balm. When a mysterious glowing pink rock at the edge of the meadow hums back at them, the twins do the only thing they know how to do: Hugalina wraps it in her gold-trimmed blanket and Kissalina presses her lips to its surface — and the rock pulls them both straight into its rosy center.
They land with an enormous splash in the extraordinary bubblegum-pink waters of Lake Retba in Senegal, where salt harvesters move through the shallows with flat baskets on their heads and pink pelicans stand unbothered on the shore. But when a fallen basket disturbs the living microorganisms that give the lake its color, the water turns a deep, ominous red — and something beneath the surface begins to pull.
Will Kissalina's most prized possession be enough to calm a lake that has been alive longer than anyone can remember? And what does a Senegalese salt harvester know about love that the twins are only just beginning to understand? This is a story about the most powerful force in the world — and it isn't strength, and it isn't cleverness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to Goop Tales. I am Maria Kalincini, the founder, writer, and narrator |
| 0:12.6 | of these original audio adventures. And today's Goop Tale was inspired by Viba. |
| 0:21.6 | Thank you, Viba, for your amazing messages. |
| 0:24.6 | You've been writing to me for a while and you're just so sweet in your voicemail messages. |
| 0:29.6 | I could not resist making your twin goops, hug Alina and Kissalina, who love to hug and kiss absolutely everything, whether they should or not. |
| 0:44.4 | So here is the message from Viba. |
| 0:48.2 | Hi, Maria. My name is Vibba. I'm six years old. And so I wanted to make a group called skater. She loves to ice skate. |
| 0:57.0 | And so she wears a black dress and she wears a pink bow all the time and he loves to ice skate. |
| 1:05.0 | So I, the question I was what I was going to ask you is how long does it take to make the group tell? |
| 1:10.0 | Because I've been waiting on one for a long, long time. |
| 1:14.0 | And their names are Huggolina and Kissalina and they're twins. |
| 1:19.1 | So please, please, please put out this goopoeia. |
| 1:22.2 | Bye, Maria. |
| 1:23.3 | So thank you again, Viva. |
| 1:25.5 | And make sure you stay until the end because you may have a shout |
| 1:29.8 | out if you left me a review or a voicemail. |
| 1:33.9 | Speaking of reviews, before we start, if you are listening on Apple Podcasts and you |
| 1:40.6 | haven't followed the show yet. Please subscribe and review. |
| 1:45.3 | It makes a huge difference for me helping other people find goop tales and inspiring me to create more goop tales. |
| 1:53.4 | I love hearing from you and reviews mean a lot. |
| 1:56.7 | So please do that if you haven't done that yet. |
| 1:59.0 | It doesn't take very long. |
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