The Island of Explained

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Come with us to the magical Island of Explained, where we’ll climb trees and venture into caves to answer kids’ biggest coronavirus questions. Go to vox.com/todayexplainedlearning to find supplemental activities, from testing how far snot travels to coloring in a map of the Island of Explained. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Boop-boop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop-doop. Explain.
0:04.7	Hey, it's Sean, usually at this point in the episode, I'd give you a bunch of news about the pandemic,
0:09.0	but I'm not gonna do that today because today's episode is for kids.
0:12.5	Today explain producer, reporter Noam Hasenfeld has been working on a very special episode for the young ones.
0:19.0	Noam, what do you got?
0:20.2	Yeah, I've actually been working with Vox Podcast producer, Bird Pinkerton.
0:23.9	And, you know, everyone's been stuck at home a lot lately, so we thought this would be a good time to take people somewhere magical.
0:30.2	So, we're going to an island.
0:31.7	An island?
0:32.5	Yeah, the island of explained.
0:34.7	The island of explained.
0:36.7	How is it that we've made 550 episodes of this show, and though it's ever invited me to the island of explained?
0:43.6	It's always been there, Sean.
0:45.2	You just have to believe.
0:46.9	Okay, well, I'm gonna put on my believe shirt, and we're gonna head there after a quick break.
0:54.8	The following episode is intended for young audiences, like really young audiences.
1:01.2	Listener discretion is advised.
1:06.6	Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's try something a little different.
1:11.4	Today, explain.
1:14.6	What's today?
1:16.6	Oh, explain.
1:18.6	Okay.
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