Lynn Hickernell
The Good Words Podcast
The Good Words Podcast is for kids and grown-ups to delight in hilarious, fascinating, wonderful words while we all learn together to use words better, and use better words.
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Episode One: S1, E1 – INEFFABLE (GWP earpetizer)
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Created by: Lynn Hickernell
Started: May 28th, 2018
Status: Inactive, 50 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
S1, E9 – AUDACITY (encore)
28:18 | Season: 1 | Episode: 9 | May 11th, 2020
This encore episode (originally released in September 2018) focuses on the word, “audacity.” It includes an excerpt from Kat Shepherd’s book, The Shadow Hand, a “Do Over” discussion about, “The Invention,” and concludes with Miss Lynn’s song, “A Bit Shy.”
S3, E4 – UNORTHODOX
34:13 | Season: 3 | Episode: 4 | April 27th, 2020
This episode celebrates Autism Acceptance Month with the word, “unorthodox.” Miss Lynn talks with family therapist Bonnie Witmer about feeling out-of-place among her 5th grade classmates in, “Do Over: The Lunch Box,” and discusses making unconventional theater with Yellow Finch Project creators Tara O’Boyle and Patrick Denny. The episode concludes with autistic poet Benjamin Giroux reading his poem, “I am odd, I am new.”
S2, E11 – EDIFYING (encore)
29:01 | Season: 2 | Episode: 11 | April 6th, 2020
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://www.patreon.com/posts/35340687.
S3, E3 – COMESTIBLE
14:28 | Season: 3 | Episode: 3 | March 23rd, 2020
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.”
S3, E2 – OBSTREPEROUS
26:15 | Season: 3 | Episode: 2 | March 9th, 2020
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.”
S3, E1 – ULTRACREPIDARIAN
29:22 | Season: 3 | Episode: 1 | February 24th, 2020
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.
S1, E17 – UPROARIOUS (encore)
09:37 | Season: 1 | Episode: 17 | February 3rd, 2020
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?!?!?”
S2, E21 – RETROSPECTIVE (GWP Earpetizer)
11:41 | Season: 2 | Episode: 21 | January 20th, 2020
Host Lynn Hickernell welcomes the new year with a Kids Listen Sweeps episode of the Good Words Podcast about the word, “retrospective.” Featured in this bonus episode: a “Say What?!?” segment about the expression, “Hindsight is 20/20,” a poem by Emily Dickinson, a reprise of favorite jokes from past episodes, and, “Clear,” from Miss Lynn’s song cycle, “Bottle Builder.”
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Created by: Lynn Hickernell
Started:
May 28th, 2018
Status: Inactive, 50 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
