Hello, but wireless nurse. Today's episode is a little bit different. We recently answered

your questions about electricity in a live call-in hour on the radio, on our home station

Vermont Public Radio. Today we're bringing you the first half of that program for your

podcast feed. We hope you enjoy it.

Hello, I'm Jane Lindholm. Normally, Vermont Public Radio listeners are used to hearing

Vermont edition at this time of day. But today we're going to do something a little bit different.

Today, instead of Vermont edition, we're bringing you a special live version of, but why?

A podcast for curious kids. Vermont edition has graciously allowed VPR's Kids Show to occupy

this hour. In case you're outside the age range of about 3 to 11 and you're not deeply familiar

with but why, we take questions from kids all over the world on anything they're curious about.

And my co-producer Melody Bo-Det and I help find answers. We've been making this program for

more than three years now. And in that time, we've gotten nearly 5,000 questions from kids

in all 50 states and more than 50 countries. And we have made episodes on everything from how

babies are made to why flamingos stand on one foot to who invented the idea of a president.

Today, we're going to focus on an area that perhaps not only kids have questions about,

electricity. We've been getting a lot of audio files from kids like this one from 5-year-old

Izzy who lives in New York. And my question is, how would electricity

be made? How do electricity get made? How do you make electricity? My name is

Micheal and I live in California, San Diego. And my question is, how does electricity get made?

You also heard from Jude in Portland, Oregon and Luke in Chino, California there. And those are

just four of the many more questions we've gotten. As many as 80 came in before we even solicited

questions for this show. So today, we're going to spend the whole hour learning more about how

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