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Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Who built the mysterious Stonehenge, and why?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Atomic Entertainment Group LLC

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What is Stonehenge? What purpose might it serve? Where did the giant rocks come from & how were they stacked Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pse, hey, Smarty Pants, it's so funny running into you out here in the English countryside.

0:07.0

I'm just backpacking through the fields looking for a scenic backdrop for my next selfie.

0:12.0

Ooh, there's a cool looking spot up ahead.

0:15.0

Let's head over there and...

0:16.0

What the heck?

0:17.0

Is that what I think it is?

0:19.0

See if you can guess what it is, Smarty Pants.

0:21.2

It's a large circle of giant rectangular stones

0:24.5

standing up on end,

0:26.1

with other giant stones lying flat on top of them.

0:29.7

It certainly doesn't seem random.

0:31.7

What do you think it is, Smarty Pants?

0:33.5

If I didn't know better, Smarty Pants,

0:35.7

I'd say we just happened upon the world-famous monument known as Stonehenge.

0:42.1

I guess that would make sense.

0:50.2

Stonehenge is in England.

0:52.0

Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, to be exact.

0:59.7

Uh, do you hear that, smarty pants? It's coming from right behind this enormous stone.

1:05.3

Oh, hi, don't mind me.

1:08.1

Oh, hi, I'm the trusty narrator, and you are? Dr. Cheryl Middleworth, archaeologist at your service. I'm just doing a little research on this amazing monument. Really? What kind of research involves pulling a gigantic stone across a bunch of logs? The kind that might finally help us understand

1:28.3

how whoever built Stonehenge transported all these massive stones here.

1:37.8

One guess is they pulled him on top of rolling logs like this.

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