Children can ask adults anything at all - and they do - in a new Border podcast that has made the best of this month's social isolation.
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Kids Pod, available on most major podcast platforms, promises nothing is too rude to ask as youngsters fire questions at older people with a range of different jobs and experiences.
Episodes discuss subjects both light and serious, like giving birth in a car, being diagnosed with cancer, making ice cream and what the teachers are really thinking.
Interviewees have included Victoria Great, who cycled the Arctic Circle, and New York entertainment reporter Josh Wigler.
A voluntary project created by Albury's Aimee Chan, Kids Pod mixes Border participants and those from further afield, with present restrictions requiring separate recordings.
Albury's Mabelle Strauss, 9, recorded introductions and endings to many of the episodes from her home.
She also asked questions of Todd Heery, who lives in Antarctica, learning he didn't live in an igloo and "the penguins especially are very curious, is what he said".
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And the scripts sometimes mention bodily functions.
"I kind of laughed in one of the takes for the teacher one when I said the fart phrase, it was really funny," Mabelle admitted.
Albury osteopath Kate Johnson's episode explains what it's like to be a twin and that no, she doesn't get confused by it.
"I thought that was a really nice question because I've never really thought of it in that way, I mean I'm sure we confuse a lot of people but not so much the other way around," she said.
"The way kids think about different situations and circumstances and just their innocence around the way they look at things, they're happy to ask anything really, nothing's off the table."
Ms Johnson praised Kids Pod's broad range of topics.
"Some of them are a little bit more confronting than I probably would have thought you could talk to little kids about, but it's great that you can see that they can still have those conversations and think about those things," she said.
Mabelle's mother Niki said the project introduced the children to interesting people and different skills.
"From a parent's point of view it's really been great, especially while the kids have been in isolation," Mrs Strauss said.
"It's been really educational for them to do something that's a little bit out of the box."
Mabelle has a particular wish for a future episode.
"To be honest, I would really want to talk to the girl who played Hermoine in Harry Potter," she said.
For more information, go to aimeechan.com