Hey, parents. Let's talk about screen time for a second. I know, I know, but hear me out.

We all know we should cut back. But here's the problem. What's a good alternative?

Lee! Emergency! A kid just wrote a story about a shy robot who uses a time-traveling skateboard to save a bunch of talking penguins from a super volcano.

Uh, Peter, you're right.

This sounds like a job for story pirates.

I was just telling these nice people that story pirates is the number one kids and family

podcast, where we take stories written by real kids.

And turn them into absolutely epic musical comedy adventures.

Like this. Cats sit on you and sometimes they take over the school so instead of handing your kids an iPad story pirates lets you

hand them a brand new adventure every week wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, Smarty Pants, and welcome to trusty trivia Thursday.

Today, we're foraging through the fun and funky world of mushrooms.

Before we sprout any facts, a big mycelium shout out to Tristan in Lake Tahoe.

According to my sources, you have been fascinated with who smarted since the very beginning,

and that you listen to us at night and during the day.

Now that's what I call a dedicated smarty pants. Let's take a sportacular step into the world of fungi. Question one. What are mushrooms? Are they, A, plants, B, fungus, or C,

the best of all the pizza topics.

If you said C, I'm sure some of the smarty pants out there would agree with you, but if you said

B, you nailed it.

Mushrooms are fungi, and they have their own unique kingdom in biology.

Question two.

What makes the honey fungus so special?

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