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
S, E – Kids Listen Summer Sampler! (GWP edition)
56:02 | May 24th, 2019
Salutations, Logophiles! I am delighted to share this collaboration with a group of my colleagues at Kids Listen. This special episode features 5-minute ear-petizers from 10 KL members: What If World, Story Spectacular, Noodle Loaf, Book Power for Kids, Little Stories for Tiny People, Be Calm on Ahway Island, Cool Facts About Animals, Circle Round, The Good Words Podcast, and Girl Tales.
S2, E6 – FUNGIBLE
30:47 | Season: 2 | Episode: 6 | May 13th, 2019
In this episode, host Lynn Hickernell explains the word, “fungible” with excerpts from the book Henry Ford’s Own Story by Rose Wilder Lane, a “Do Over” about “The Popular Girls,” and concluding song, “Black Socks.” As always, it also includes, “GET IT?!?!?”
S2, E5 – ANTEDILUVIAN
27:23 | Season: 2 | Episode: 5 | April 29th, 2019
In this episode about the word, “antediluvian,” host Lynn Hickernell includes excerpts from the books The Velveteen Rabbit and The 14th Goldfish (courtesy of the folks from Book Power for Kids!), “Say What?” about the expression, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” “It Came From the Internet,” “GET IT?!?!?” and the Miss Lynn song, “Studebaker Truck.”
S2, E4 – MAGNANIMOUS
26:04 | Season: 2 | Episode: 4 | April 15th, 2019
In this episode about the word, “magnanimous,” host Lynn Hickernell features recurring segments, “Say What?” and “GET IT?!?!?” as well as stories about magnanimity from secret philanthropist Ronald Read, athlete Ivan Fernandez Anaya, author Darcey Rosenblatt’s novel Lost Boys, and Alex Manugian on donating a kidney. The episode concludes with the poem, “A.B.A.” by Louisa May Alcott.
S2, E3 – VERISIMILITUDE
33:03 | Season: 2 | Episode: 3 | April 1st, 2019
Very special Kids Listen Sweeps “April Fool’s” episode! Host Lynn Hickernell introduces the theme word, “verisimilitude.” Features an excerpt from the podcast, “How Do We Fix It?” on the topic of confirmation bias, a “Do Over” with Emily King about “The Bully,” “GET IT?!?!?” and the debut of a new segment, “Say What?!?” about the phrase, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” The episode concludes with an original poem, read by Tara Bahna-Outman.
S2, E2 – KERFUFFLE
28:14 | Season: 2 | Episode: 2 | March 18th, 2019
In this episode, host Lynn Hickernell expounds upon the theme word, “kerfuffle.” Featuring an excerpt from Kids Listen podcast “The Past and the Curious,” as well as “Do Over” segment entitled, “The Short Story,” and “GET IT?!?!?”
S2, E1 – QUOTIDIAN
18:00 | Season: 2 | Episode: 1 | March 4th, 2019
Series 2 of the Good Words Podcast kicks off with this episode about “QUOTIDIAN.” Host Lynn Hickernell explains the word’s two related meanings, with the help of an excerpt from James Boswell’s journal regarding Dr. Samuel Johnson, and also poems by Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also featuring, “GET IT?!?!?” and the song, “Toothbrush Dance.”
S1, E17 – UPROARIOUS (GWP Earpetizer)
09:50 | Season: 1 | Episode: 17 | February 11th, 2019
In this bonus “earpetizer” of The Good Words Podcast, host Lynn Hickernell features an excerpt from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the poem “The Bells of Shandon” by Francis Sylvester Mahony, and a special listener-submitted edition of, “GET IT?!?!?”
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Created by: Lynn Hickernell
Started:
May 28th, 2018
Status: Inactive, 50 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
