"If you cut your finger off, do you put it in the green bin?"
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That's just one of the many questions children have asked in a new pilot TV version of podcast Kids Pod.
The brainchild of author Aimee Chan, Kids Pod began during COVID isolation in April last year.
The podcast which allows children to ask experts anything they want has just reached 135 episodes and more than 18,000 downloads.
It has featured a high calibre of guests from Lauren Jackson to Steph Alexander and Susan Carland.
Now, Dr Chan is hoping Kids Pod will be picked up and made into a show similar to the ABC's You Can't Ask That.
The pilot TV show, funded through an Albury City community cultural grant was made on the NSW-Victorian border and focuses on the Halve Waste initiative.
Unlike other TV pilots, there was no script for Kids Pod TV.
Instead, Albury Waste Management Centre's Mason Brogan and waste educator with Halve Waste, Penny Collis, faced questions about everything from whether anyone has fallen into the rubbish pile, to whether you put your finger into the green bin if you cut it off.
(No, and no, you should take it to the hospital.)
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Dr Chan said the unique and engaging questions from children were what made the podcast work so well.
"The kids are completely unfiltered, they can say whatever they think, in fact they're encouraged to go there and ask outrageous questions that we all want to know but as adults are too embarrassed to ask," Dr Chan said.
"As an adult it fascinates me, they're often things I want to know but would never ask."
Dr Chan is hopeful an investor will be interested in developing the concept into a fully-fledged series.