{"podcast":{"title":"What’s Happening Inside Me?","slug":"what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354","podcast_index_feed_id":7235354,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6614698/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/what-s-happening-inside-me--6614698","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d5bae5ccd24e44b651145b58e28e3358.jpg","author":"Audra Tobin","episode_count":29,"summary":"Welcome to What's Happening Inside Me—the ultimate medical podcast for kids who love to learn! Designed for curious minds ages 4–12, this fun and engaging podcast makes anatomy, physiology, and medicine exciting and easy to understand. Hosted by an Emergency Room PA-C with a background in education and co-hosted by her curious 8-year-old daughter, What's Happening Inside Me? turns learning about the human body into a lively adventure for the whole family. Together, they explore fascinating facts, share kid-friendly explanations, and connect medicine to the real world in ways that spark curiosity and wonder. Parents—if you're looking for an educational podcast that goes beyond the basics and keeps your child entertained while learning, this is it! Perfect for road trips, bedtime, or screen-free enrichment. Subscribe now and help your whole family explore the amazing world of medicine, one episode at a time!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354"},"episode":{"title":"Ep25 | Heart Part 1 - The Basics","slug":"ep25-heart-part-1-the-basics","published_at":"2026-02-06T05:05:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354/ep25-heart-part-1-the-basics","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep25-heart-part-1-the-basics--69785944","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69785944/ep25_heart_basics.mp3","summary":"❤️ What’s Happening Inside My Heart? Valentine’s Day is coming up, and that means hearts are everywhere! 💕 But… have you ever wondered what a real heart actually looks like—and what it really does? In this episode of What’s Happening Inside Me? , Audra is joined by Sloane and new co-host Ransom to talk all about the human heart. Together, they discover that real hearts don’t look like Valentine’s candy hearts at all—and that the heart is actually a pretty amazing double-pump machine! Using fun comparisons like stomp rockets and Hot Wheels tracks, kids learn how the heart pumps blood all around the body and why it has a right side and a left side that don’t mix. This episode focuses on big ideas made simple—perfect for curious kids and the grown-ups learning alongside them. 🫀 In This Episode, Kids Will Learn: What the heart really looks like (spoiler: it’s not Valentine-shaped!) What the heart’s main job is How the heart pumps blood all over the body Why the heart is like two pumps stuck together What “right heart” and “left heart” actually mean How blood travels in two separate tracks through the body 🎧 Helpful to Know This episode builds on ideas from Episodes 9 and 10 about blood vessels Listening to those episodes first can make this one even easier to understand (and you’ll get to hear the catchy vascular system song again!) 🖼️ Bonus Resource Want to see what a real human heart looks like? Ask a grown-up to visit WHIMpodcast.com to download: A kid-friendly coloring picture of the human heart An extra learning pages to help visualize the heart’s parts and pathways 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Perfect For: Kids ages 4–12 Curious families Classrooms and school nurses Valentine’s Day learning with a science twist Join us next time as we dive deeper into the heart and explore the two tracks…","meta_description":"❤️ What’s Happening Inside My Heart? Valentine’s Day is coming up, and that means hearts are everywhere! 💕 But… have you ever wondered what a real heart a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":988,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354/episodes/ep25-heart-part-1-the-basics/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-inside-me-7235354/ep25-heart-part-1-the-basics.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}