Who Smarted?

Who Smarted? comes from the same creative minds behind Brain Games and Brainchild on Netflix, and you can tell. The show uses a character called Trusty, the Trusty Narrator, to guide kids through science, history, and trivia topics with the kind of pacing and energy that keeps fidgety listeners locked in. Each episode feels like a mini-documentary mixed with a game show, and the production values are noticeably high for a kids' podcast. The catalog is enormous -- over 1,100 episodes -- with four new ones dropping every week. That output is partly because the show runs multiple formats: regular educational episodes, Smarty Q segments answering listener questions, and Trusty Trivia games. Topics bounce from the origin of hamburgers to the science of service animals to how rockets work. The variety means there's almost always something that'll grab a particular kid's interest. Parents and teachers have latched onto this one hard, and for good reason. It works in the car, at bedtime, and in classrooms equally well. The show holds a 4.6-star average from about 4,500 Apple ratings, and the optional Who Smarted Plus subscription adds ad-free listening and bonus content. What sets it apart from other educational kids' shows is the storytelling approach -- information gets woven into narratives rather than delivered as lectures, which means kids absorb it without realizing they're learning.