The Good Words Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Miss Lynn produced this year's Kids Listen Summer Sampler, featuring short bites of eleven different Kids Listen member podcasts for kids!

Learn more about Kids Listen at https://www.kidslisten.org/

Featured in this episode:

Girl Tales: www.girltalespodcast.com
Book Club for Kids: http://www.bookclubforkids.org
Like You: www.likeyoupodcast.com
Power Dog Adventures: https://www.powerdogadventures.com/
Unspookable: www.soundsingtonmedia.com
Stoopkid Stories: https://stoopkidstories.com/
Peace Out: www.peaceoutpodcast.com
What If World: http://www.whatifworldpodcast.com/
Newsy Pooloozi: https://www.newsypooloozi.com/
Dorktales Storytime Podcast: http://dorktalesstorytime.com
Fina Mendoza Mysteries: http://finamendozamysteries.com

Kids Listen audio transitions by Dan Saks of www.noodleloafshow.com
Summer Sampler artwork by Jodi Murphy of http://dorktalesstorytime.com
KL Summer Sampler 2023 produced by Lynn Hickernell of http://goodwordspodcast.com

In this final episode of the Good Words Podcast, Miss Lynn discusses the word ephemeral with an explanation of the expression, "ships that pass in the night" and a passage from H.W. Longfellow, a "Do Over" about The Camp Friend, two poems by Stephanie Pepper and some jokes and riddles in GET IT?!?!?

Thanks to all the contributors to this episode:

Ari Kelly of At Your Level
Leela of Newsy Pooloozi
Grady of Cool Facts About Animals
Eric O'Keeffe of What If World
Dr. Chris Kukk
Tara Bahna-Outman
Stephanie Pepper

Stephanie Pepper's two poems that close the episode are:
Beautiful Splinter
A Singular Performance

You can find more information about the expression "ships that pass in the night" at these two links:
https://knowyourphrase.com/ships-passing-in-the-night
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ships_that_pass_in_the_night

In this episode, specially updated in spring 2020 with content related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Miss Lynn talks about, "edifying." Includes recurring segments, "Ads that Subtract," "Say What?!?" about the expression, "A rising tide lifts all boats," and a "Do Over" discussion with family therapist Emily King about, "The Special School." The episode concludes with the song, "I Contact." Complete show notes for this episode are available at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/edifying-the-good-words-podcast.

Food is front and center as Miss Lynn takes a look at the word, "comestible"! Includes a discussion of the phrase, "Don't yuck someone else's yum," 15-year old Nathaniel's experience living with food allergies, and some funny foodstuffs in, "GET IT?!?!?" The episode concludes with Miss Lynn's song, "Sweet Treat."

Complete show notes for this episode at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/6258931/comestible-the-good-words-podcast.

The Good Words Podcast celebrates Women's History Month with the word, "obstreperous"! Host Lynn Hickernell explains how activists, like suffragette Christabel Pankhurst, were forced to break rules in order to get women the vote. Host of new Kids Listen podcast "Activist, You!" Lindz Amer tells about why modern-day activists like Greta Thunberg need to be uncooperative, and family therapist Bonnie Witmer helps think about how to cope with an unruly little brother in a "Do Over" called, "The Board Game." The episode concludes with Stephanie Pepper's poem about some obstreperous felines, "Catfight."

Complete show notes for this episode at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/6242472/obstreperous-the-good-words-podcast.

In this first episode of the third series, host Lynn Hickernell discusses the word, "ultracrepidarian." Includes a passage from Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, "Do Over" about The Doctor (featuring Book Club for Kids host Kitty Felde), "Embrace Vulnerability," and "GET IT?!?!?" Concludes with a new adaptation of the Alexander Pushkin poem, "The Shoemaker," read by What If World's Eric O'Keeffe.

Complete show notes for this episode at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/6225504/ultracrepidarian-the-good-words-podcast.

In this bonus "earpetizer" of The Good Words Podcast (originally released in 2019), host Lynn Hickernell features an excerpt from Dickens's A Christmas Carol, the poem "The Bells of Shandon" by Francis Sylvester Mahony read by Una Clancy, and a special listener-submitted edition of, "GET IT?!?!?"

Complete episode notes are available at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/uproarious-gwp-earpetizer.

In this encore episode, host Lynn Hickernell explains the word, "euphonious" with some information about the brass instrument called a euphonium, and lots of examples of things that sound pleasing to different people, both because of the sounds themselves and because of what the sounds signify.  Concludes with the Lewis Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky."

Complete show notes for this episode at https://misslynn.com/good-words-podcast/blog/6154163/euphonious-encore