Japan’s record-breaking 100-year-olds, and taming the AI robots.

0:00Squiz Kids, acknowledge the traditional owners of the layers on which we podcast. The Turbill and Combo Merry People. Squiz Kids! It's your daily news fix. One, free, fresh. Hello and welcome to Squiz Kids today. Your fresh take on what's happening in the world around you. I'm Bryce Corbett. It's Thursday, September 17. In Squiz Kids today, celebrating Aussie citizenship. Japan's record breaking 100-year-olds. Big weekend for AFL and NRL and Tamelly AI robots. That's what's making news. Kids style. The Low Down. As you make your way to school today or sit in your classroom, staring out the window, take a moment to have a look at your surroundings and the people around you and reflect on what it means to be Australian. That's especially important today because it's Australian citizenship day.

1:03A day to celebrate all the great things that come with being an Aussie. It's also timely, as the government will today unveil its migration policy, which is to say it will outline how and when and why people from other countries will be allowed to move to Australia. According to the organisers of Aussie citizenship day, today is a day to think about all the things that we have in common as Australians and think about all of the many things that unite us. It's also a day to celebrate our democracy. What's a democracy? It's the way of running a country where the people who live in it have the power to choose their leaders by voting for them at elections. You know those sausages you eat every now and then in your school playground on election days when your mum and dad go to vote? That's democracy in action. Today, there will be special citizenship ceremonies all over the country where migrants

2:03pledge allegiance to the Australian way of life. A way of life that includes freedom of religion, respect for the law, equal opportunity for all people no matter where they come from or who they are, and embracing the good old Aussie Fargo. According to government figures, Australia is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, with people from all different countries and cultures calling Australia home. And more than 6 million new citizens have been welcomed to Australia shores since 1949. Beauty. Spend the glow. Each day we give the world a glow to spend and find a new story from wherever it stops. And today we've landed in Japan, which has just broken a new record for old people. And by old people I mean really, really old people.

3:04According to Japan's health ministry, more than 100,000 people in Japan are over the age of 100. Someone over the age of 100 is called a centenarian. That's because a century equals 100. Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world. And get this, 88% of those Japanese centenarians are women. The oldest woman in Japan is a 114 year old from Kyoto City, and the oldest man is a 112 year old from Kumamoto. Whatever they're eating, I want some of it. And we're officially at the pointy end of proceedings in the AFL, with the preliminary finals underway this weekend to determine who will play in the upcoming grand final at

4:09the MCG. Strap yourselves in swans and docker's fans as your teams face off tomorrow night in Sydney. Will the men from free-mattle make it to the big dance, as the grand final is known, or will the home team hold out. And who will the winner meet in the grand final? Will know the answer to that on Saturday evening when the Brisbane Lions take on the Hawthorn Hawks at the fabled MCG. Can the Lions go back to back to back with a grand final appearance, or will the Hawks spoil the party? Either way, it's said to be quite the party, with none other than Aussie Popstar Kylie Minogue lined up to provide half-time grand final entertainment on Saturday week. Meanwhile, in the NRL comp, the Sydney Roosters will take on the Crannala Sharks on Saturday in an elimination final, with the winner going on to face the Dolphins. While Sunday will see the New Zealand Warriors play the Newcastle Knights, with the loser bowing out and the winner going on to play Penroth Panthers.

5:12And it's a sell-out crowd in New Zealand for that game. It's footy people, get excited. New Towns Every Thursday, Squizzy the New Town sticks his snout into Squizz Kids HQ, and reports back on fishy things he's sniffed out on the internet. And today, his nose is twitching after stumbling across an AI-generated magazine cover, predicting a future where AI has ruined the world. Yep, it's a lot. The magazine is called The Economist, and it's famous for being a reliable source of news and information. But, by using tools like Synth ID, an AI chatbot verification tool, Squizzy has been able to detect that the magazine cover, which has been shared widely on social media, is in fact a fake. What's not fake, however, is the debate that's currently going on about whether or not the

6:14company's responsible for the world's most popular and powerful AI robots need to slow down a little bit. It's a conversation that is going to dominate headlines for months to come, because it's that big of a deal. What's abundantly clear to Squizzy, however, is no matter the outcome of that debate, being able to tell what's real and what's not when you're online, and thinking critically about the content we all consume, or stopping, thinking, and checking, as Squizzy tells us to do, is only going to become more and more important in all of our lives. And to shout out to the more than 6,000 teachers around Australia, who have already understood this and have signed up to a newshounds account, and started using Squizzy's very own, very free media literacy classroom resource with their students. Check it out via squizzkids.com.au and get involved.

7:16And you hear that? The sound of seagulls. Beaches. Ah, that's because the school holidays my friends are almost here. And while we here at Squizzkids take a couple of weeks off alongside all of you, to plan some brilliant new episodes for the end of the year, there'll still be plenty happening on the Squizzkids podcast channel over the holidays. From Monday, look out for daily brain teasers and keep your eyes peeled for some crack at kids versus adults road trip quizzes. Plus of course some new science shorts and some favourites from the Squizzkids vault. So keep us in your ears over the holidays and make sure you have yourselves a cracking break. And of course if you have a birthday over the next two weeks, we'll give you a shout-out in the bumper quiz on the Friday of the week your birthday falls. Next send your request to squizzkidsatthesquizz.com.au

8:20Time for the Squizz. This is the part of the podcast where you get to test how well you've been listening. Question number one, starting with D, what's the name of the system of government in which the people in the country vote to decide who leads them? Well done if you said democracy. Question number two, if you were a centenarian, at least how old would you need to be? Yeah, that's right, you'd need to be at least 100 years old. Question number three, name the Aussie pop star lined up to provide half-time entertainment at the AFL Grand Final. Yep, it's none other than Kylie Minogue. Shout out. It's Thursday, September 17.

9:21Today is the birthday of famous Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. And tomorrow, in case you're interested and I'm not sure why you would, is National Cheeseburger Day in the United States. Mmm, Cheeseburgers. It's also a special day today for these Squizz kids celebrating a birthday today. CJ and Christopher from Dunsbrough. Drew from Glen Waverley. William from Kapalabar and Aiden from Narrowaure. And Classroom shout outs today, go to Class 4B with Mrs. Cotton at Holy Spirit Primary School in Curry Curry. Class 5W with Miss Weller at St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School in Sydney and Class 4C with Mrs. Conroy at Central Coast Grammar School in Errorna. Don't forget if you've got a birthday coming up and you'd like a shout out, or if you're after a classroom shout out, or parents if you'd like to shout out a class or a wonderful

10:21teacher, drop us a line at squizzkidsatthesquizz.com.au or fill out the form on our website. Well that's all we have time for. Thanks for listening to Squizz Kids today. We'll be back again tomorrow with the Kids vs. Adults Weekly News Squizz. Your chance to prove who's being paying the most attention to the week that just was. In the meantime, get out there and have yourselves a most excellent day over an action.