GT141 - Hemma and the Kites of Lahore

Which Goop is your kid? Take the free 60-second quiz: gooptales.com/quiz?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Free Goop Kit: help your child create their own Goop. Get it here: gooptales.com/kit?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Burpalot is the cheerful Goop who burps the loudest burps in all the land. When he enters Goop World's first Big Shine Contest, he gulps a whole can of grape soda, and his burp is so big it blasts him into the sky. He lands inside a giant airplane where everyone floats, and he discovers he isn't the only stowaway on board. Kids will learn about the real Weightless Wonder, nicknamed the Vomit Comet, which flies out of Houston, Texas, near where NASA trains astronauts. They'll find out how the plane climbs and dives to create about twenty-five seconds of weightlessness, sometimes sixty times in one flight, and how scientists tested whether cats can land on their feet with no floor to push against. Along the way, Burpalot learns that the thing that makes you different can be exactly what connects you to someone new. Visit gooptales.com?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes to see the Goop drawings, and send us your own Goop ideas! Goop Tales Adventure Pack Vol 1: go.gooptales.com/adventure/ (code GOOP10 for $10 off) Click here to send Maria a voice message Follow us on Social Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@gooptales https://www.instagram.com/gooptales

Which Goop is your kid? Take the free 60-second quiz: gooptales.com/quiz?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Free Goop Kit: help your child create their own Goop. Get it here: gooptales.com/kit?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Gemarina can't stop collecting gems, every glint, every shimmer, every fleck of quartz she spots before anyone else, and she believes the only way to keep something she loves is to hold onto everything else too. Armed with an overstuffed pouch that never stays tied, she tumbles from Goop World straight into a hidden Highland gem cache in Scotland, a secret pocket of cairngorm, the smoky quartz so prized that a queen once had it set into her jewelry, where the stones shift under her feet, a golden eagle circles overhead, and an ancient creature called a Ghillie Dhu is watching every grab she makes. This audio story for kids is packed with jaw-dropping real-world facts, genuine edge-of-your-seat danger, and one wildly unexpected moment where Gemarina's tightest grip turns out to be exactly the thing she has to let go of. Goop Tales Adventure Pack Vol 1: go.gooptales.com/adventure/ (code GOOP10 for $10 off) Click here to send Maria a voice message Follow us on Social Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@gooptales https://www.instagram.com/gooptales

Which Goop is your kid? Take the free 60-second quiz: gooptales.com/quiz?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Free Goop Kit: help your child create their own Goop. Get it here: gooptales.com/kit?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Wrestler can't stop wrestling everything around him — pillows, doors, hedges, the wind — and believes every single win belongs to his homemade tinfoil WORLD CHAMP belt, not to himself. Armed with a cardboard championship belt and an undefeated record, he tumbles from Goop World all the way to a golden mud pit in Kolhapur, India, where wrestlers train every morning in earth mixed with ghee, buttermilk, and turmeric — and the best young wrestler in the akhara is already waiting for him in the pit. This audio story for kids is packed with jaw-dropping real-world facts, genuine edge-of-your-seat danger, and one wildly unexpected moment where Wrestler's most stubborn belief turns out to be exactly the thing he has to let go of. Goop Tales Adventure Pack Vol 1: go.gooptales.com/adventure/ (code GOOP10 for $10 off) Click here to send Maria a voice message Follow us on Social Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@gooptales https://www.instagram.com/gooptales

Which Goop is your kid? Take the free 60-second quiz: gooptales.com/quiz?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Free Goop Kit: help your child create their own Goop. Get it here: gooptales.com/kit?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Spirit is the quietest Goop around — so quiet she can disappear into her own thoughts without ever leaving the room. The moment she touches her smooth river stone, she's gone, lost in a daydream nothing can reach. But when that stone pulls her straight into the warm, golden waters of Jellyfish Lake in Palau, surrounded by millions of gentle, harmless jellyfish, Spirit discovers a world more astonishing than anything in her imagination. With the help of a small fish named Mechel, she learns the lake's hidden rules — and when a massive saltwater crocodile rises from the mangroves, it's the very stillness that gets Spirit into trouble at school that just might save her life. This episode explores Palau's remarkable jellyfish lake, a Palauan creation legend, and what happens when the thing we think is our flaw turns out to be exactly what we need. Goop Tales Adventure Pack Vol 1: go.gooptales.com/adventure/ (code GOOP10 for $10 off) Click here to send Maria a voice message Follow us on Social Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@gooptales https://www.instagram.com/gooptales

Which Goop is your kid? Take the free 60-second quiz: gooptales.com/quiz?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Free Goop Kit: help your child create their own Goop. Get it here: gooptales.com/kit?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Mocker is a Goop boy with a habit he simply cannot switch off -- whatever voice goes into his ears comes straight back out again, pitch perfect, not one tiny bit wrong. It's funny, mostly. Until he mimics his best friend Spirit's strange and beautiful sound at the old stone wall at the edge of Goop World, and the wall swallows him whole. He lands in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, tiny and alone at the base of the Flaming Cliffs -- ancient orange rock filled with oval shapes sealed inside the stone for eighty million years. With only a wild Bactrian camel for company and something moving beneath the sand that no one wants to get too close to, Mocker quickly discovers that copying the wrong voice at the wrong moment can land you somewhere very difficult to get down from. Will Mocker find a way to use his most embarrassing habit to silence the thing beneath the sand? And where in the world has Spirit disappeared to while he was gone? Goop Tales Adventure Pack Vol 1: go.gooptales.com/adventure/ (code GOOP10 for $10 off) Click here to send Maria a voice message Follow us on Social Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@gooptales https://www.instagram.com/gooptales