The Island of Explained: Escape from Boredom

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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After hearing from kids around the world who are grappling with serious boredom, Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton venture deep into the belly of a whale to learn how to have fun in quarantine. Go to vox.com/todayexplainedkids for some laugh out loud activities that will help you say goodbye to boredom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Needa Manzor's new movie is part team comedy, part Bollywood drama and part
0:06.2	martial arts action film, which makes for some really interesting scenes.
0:10.5	Every time you go for any sort of ridiculous body hair removal,
0:13.8	this is like akin to torture. I need a waxing torture scene and I need a villain
0:18.9	just chewing the scene or anything. This is why I want to be a filmmaker to make
0:22.2	this specific scene. Needa Manzor on her new movie,
0:26.3	Plyte Society. This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.
0:56.6	Plyte Society.
1:03.6	No, I'm... what day is it?
1:06.4	It's Saturday. What are we doing here?
1:09.5	We're here for the kids, Sean. Oh, like today explained summer camp?
1:13.6	Got it. Okay, well anything for the kids. What's up on the island of explained?
1:17.0	Well, we've had a lot of kids telling us that they're grappling with all kinds of
1:20.6	difficult emotions during the pandemic. So producer, bird, pinker, dine and eye.
1:24.7	We're going to go to the island. We're going to rent a canoe and take it right off the island
1:28.9	onto the emotion ocean. The emotion ocean? Yeah, the emotion ocean. It can be a fun place, a scary
1:35.6	place, but you know, it's also a place where you can learn how to process difficult emotions.
1:40.5	All right, well DC doesn't have a lot of ocean, just two dirty rivers and a bunch of pools that
1:44.2	are shut down for the Rhona. So I'm stoked to listen in.
1:47.0	It is so nice to go out of my bedroom again. Holy smokes.
1:59.2	Yeah, and I think you're going to love it out here on the emotion ocean.
2:02.2	It's where I go when I'm feeling something really deeply.
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