Let's see, bring our pot to a boil, check.

Pinch of coconut.

Check.

Add humans.

Double check.

Wait, you aren't actually going to cook us?

I'm a cannibal, it's what I do.

You're making a big mistake.

I don't think I'd be all that tasty and she's all gristle.

Hey!

Look, you're both a little scrawny but you're the best I could find on short notice.

Wouldn't like to enjoy some "Kid Stew"?

Exactly.

You're kids and you're about to be stew.

No, no, no.

"Kid Stew" is a show, by kids, about kids, and for kids.

It's about books, and art, and creativity, and fun.

Fun?

Then I know nothing of "Kid Stew".

(pot sizzles) Ow!

Well, hold on chief.

'Cause we do!

(electricity crackling) ♪ Go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ There's a world ♪ ♪ for me and you ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ A lot of things ♪ ♪ to see and do ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Every day is something new ♪ ♪ It's "Kid Stew" ♪ ♪ It's "Kid Stew" ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ So laugh and learn ♪ ♪ enjoy the view ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Jump right in ♪ ♪ and join the crew ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ It's "Kid Stew" ♪ ♪ It's "Kid Stew" ♪ (electricity crackling) [Informant] Funding for "Kid Stew" is provided in part by, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation and Michele and Howard Kessler.

[Robot] "Kid Stew" (plates rattling) What now?

Sorry chef, table nine sent back the shark fin soup.

The shark fin soup?

But that is piece de resistance.

A true delicacy.

Everybody loves my shark fin soup.

(slurping) Not table nine.

Who is this inconsiderate brute?

("Jaws" theme music) Sacre bleu!

Monsieur has a problem with the shark fin soup?

What do you think?

But it's been a favorite for centuries.

The shark fin boosts energy, improves the skin, and rejuvenates the body.

That's a load of hogwash.

I could say the same for a matzo ball.

Yeah well sharks eat people, so it's payback.

So it's only fair.

Fair?

Sharks eat about six people a year, mostly by mistake.

It's not our fault you look like seals.

And from what I hear, you don't even taste that good.

You know how many sharks get put into a soup every year?

Um-- Millions!

Does that sound fair to you?

That does sound a bit one sided.

You know who hurts more people than sharks every year?

Cows!

Perhaps we could add some more soups to the menu.

We could go cruelty free.

Pee soup, minestrone, French onion, gazpacho.

Keep talking.

Lobster bisque?

Well, sorry, that's cruel to lobsters.

(grunts) Next time I come in here, I want to see shark fin soup off the menu.

Are we clear?

Absolutely, done.

I'll see to it personally.

Otherwise, somebody might be sleeping with the fishes.

(electricity crackling) (chip tune) (beeping) ("Jaws" theme music) (chip tune) ♪ Baby shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Baby shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Baby shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Baby shark ♪ ♪ Mommy shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy shark ♪ ♪ Baby shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Shark ♪ ♪ Mommy shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Daddy shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Shark ♪ ♪ Shark ♪ ♪ Shark ♪ ♪ Grandma shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Grandpa shark ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa ♪ (chip tune) (electricity crackling) Hey Madison.

What are you doing?

My phone booth time machine has a little leak.

Just patching it up.

You think it still works?

I hope so.

But of course, there's only one way to find out.

Does that mean-- Test drive.

♪ I'm at a payphone ♪ ♪ Trying to call home ♪ ♪ All of my change ♪I spent on you ♪ Fingers crossed, we don't get wet.

(time machine whirring) (time machine whirring) Whoa, look at this.

Finally, we ended up in a nice vacation spot.

♪ My lover stands on golden sand ♪ ♪ And watches the ships ♪ (dramatic music) Wait, who's that?

Jacques Cousteau, maybe?

From the look of this suit, I'd say you're about a century off.

Oh, bonjour.

Hi there, we're Madison and Luke.

Time travelers.

Oh magnifique.

I am Jules Verne, stockbroker.

Jules Verne?

The Jules Verne, a stockbroker?

No, no, no, you're a world-famous author.

Well, I do a little writing on the side, but I have to pay the bills.

Hold on, Monsieur Verne, you seem to love the ocean.

Mais oui, it is so beautiful under the sea.

Like say, 20,000 leagues under the sea?

Well, that would be quite a voyage.

Also, quite a book.

Great beach reading.

Do you mean, I could combine my love of science and my love of storytelling?

That would be your niche.

Yes, you have inspired me.

I must begin my research immediately.

So long, Monsieur Verne.

[Madison] Bon voyage!

("Under the Sea" music) Don't touch the turtles.

Hello, I'm Nicholas and welcome back to "Kid Stew Ewws!"

The news show where the truth is always gross.

I'm reporting from a special island location, where the conditions in the water are totally disgusting.

Our first story today, is on the lion's mane jellyfish, eight feet across with tentacles the length of a football field.

Ew!

World's grossest wide receiver, am I right?

(audience laughs) In a related story, the striated frogfish inhales it's food in six milliseconds.

Ew!

That's faster than Ozzie could down dog biscuits.

And now a message from one of our unscrupulous sponsors.

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People go nuts, for coconuts.

♪ Put the lime in the coconut ♪ Ow!

♪ Put the lime in the coconut ♪ ("Under the Sea" music) Our final story comes from down under, underwater that is where studies have shown that starfish eat their food by pushing their stomachs out through their mouths.

Ew!

Disgusting, but a real time saver.

(audience laughs) And that's it, for this edition of "Kid Stew Ewws!"

Until next time, keep it real and keep it gross.

Can I get a little coconut oil here please?

("Under the Sea" music) ♪ Sail away ♪ ♪ Sail away ♪ ♪ Sail away ♪ Hi everyone, I'm here with Trish at the UM Shark Research Program.

So Trish, tell us a little bit about this program.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thanks for joining us today, Satine.

Sharks are actually facing a number of threats around the world.

Shark populations are in serious decline and some populations have declined over 99 percent in the past few decades.

What we're doing right now is, our team is actually cutting bait right now, that's going to be put on the end of these special hooks, their called circle hooks.

We're using these circle hooks, because they're actually safer for the sharks, they're better for them, and they reduce stress.

We leave those lines out in the water for about an hour's time.

We'll pick up those lines and hopefully they'll be a shark on the end.

We are finding different types of sharks, and measuring them and finding their blood samples to see if their healthy and tracking them down.

Today we're collecting fin clip samples, we're tagging sharks, we're measuring sharks, we're collecting blood samples, so we can learn about the sharks immunology, about their growth, about their genetics, and even about where they move.

(music) So we're trying to make our work up nice and quick, so that we can get all off our data and keep the sharks calm.

We keep them cool by showering them with water.

Some research has actually shown that sharks can come under stress if their being heated too much by the air, when they're exposed to air for too long of time.

If I wanted to do marine biology, how would I start that process?

Yeah, so if you are interested in marine biology you're doing a great job by being out here today with us, first of all.

Definitely study very hard in school.

Focus on math, focus on science, try to get as much hands-on you know, experience as you can in labs and class.

And when it comes time for you to apply for college, start thinking about programs that have marine science, and there's plenty of other opportunities out there as well.

♪ Sail away ♪ ♪ Sail away ♪ ♪ Sail away ♪ Well, thanks for letting us join your trip today.

Thanks for coming out.

You know what my favorite thing is?

A baby shark.

Back to you guys.

(music) (electricity crackling) (techno music) Hey Milena, what's that?

Did you bring me a vegetable smoothie?

Hi Really Big Brain, actually I'm not sure what it is.

I found it while I was paddle-boarding in the ocean.

Hold it up, so I can do a quick spectro analysis.

(laser sound) Bingo!

What you have in your hand is a little sample of red tide.

Red tide?

Sounds like a super hero.

Not exactly.

Red tide comes from an over abundance of algae, which gives water a reddish tint.

It's kind of pretty.

Pretty gross actually.

Red tide is really harmful to fish, dolphins and manatees.

Not great for people either.

Where does it come from?

It's a natural occurrence, but man-made pollution probably makes it worse.

Hey, what was red tide's favorite course in school?

I give up.

Algae-bra.

Get it?

Algae?

Algebra?

I get it.

Um, I'm just going to leave this right here if you don't mind.

Hey, red tide in the mornings, swimmers take warning.

Yeah, I should copyright that.

(electricity crackling) ♪ Flying ♪ ♪ Hard to describe it ♪ ♪ My God ♪ ♪ I'm breathing under water ♪ ♪ Something like freedom ♪ ♪ Freedom ♪ ♪ My God ♪ ♪ I'm breathing under water ♪ Wow, that show was incredible.

What does it take to be a mermaid?

It's amazing to be a mermaid.

It is just like no other job in the world.

It's so much fun everyday to get up and go swimming in the spring.

I look forward everyday to performing for our audience and training.

Training is definitely difficult and it takes months, but it's worth it once you get to that level of mermaid status eventually.

[Madison] Tell me about Weeki Wachee?

[Hannah] Well, Weeki Wachee State Park has been here since 1947.

The founder is Newton Perry and he envisioned having girls swim under water and doing underwater ballet, originally.

I heard the Florida Springs are pretty cold.

Is it cold when you do the performances?

Well our spring is 72 degrees year-round.

It is cold when you jump in, it never gets any better but once you're moving around down there, you're not thinking about how cold you are.

You're just thinking about performing.

How deep is the water?

Well our expert divers that have gone into the mouth of the spring, they've gone down to 400 feet and they haven't found the bottom.

So we don't really know.

So, where does the water come from?

So it comes from our underground aquifer, and the caves and caverns run all beneath the highway and our spring pumps out 117 million gallons of water everyday.

So it's really a magical place here.

Well, thank you so much for having us.

It was really great to see the show.

Well, thank you so much for coming.

We're always happy to perform for you guys.

♪ Knows who you are ♪ ♪ You know ♪ (mythical music) Wow, that was a great mermaid show.

Tobie Easton, welcome to the "Kid Stew" interview.

Thanks, I'm excited to be here.

So what did you think about the mermaid show?

I loved it.

It was so much fun to really see mermaids in action, you know what I mean?

Because you read so much about them or you see movies about them and it's different when they're right there in front of you and their swimming and you get to see them in the water.

I thought it was magical.

Do you have a favorite mermaid movie?

I think "Splash".

I really loved that movie when I was a kid and then also I love watching all the different versions of "Peter Pan", because any version of "Peter Pan" you see there's always like a mermaid part and I like to see how they do those differently in every movie.

What was the original story of "The Little Mermaid"?

Well, the original story is actually a lot darker than the one that most people are familiar with because "The Little Mermaid" it was actually really painful for her when she had her legs and then the prince actually falls in love with somebody else.

He falls in love with a human princess and the original story, spoiler alert, but she dies.

It's actually really sad, it ends in this pretty sad way which was actually the jumping off point for my books, because I started 200 years afterwards and these books deal with the descendants of "The Little Mermaid" and they're kind of trying to figure out how to live a successful life in the aftermath of a curse that started at the end of "The Little Mermaid".

So what do you think makes mermaids so interesting?

You know, I've always loved mermaids.

I think they're so interesting because every culture in the world has some kind of wonderful mermaid myth and so it's really fascinating to read all of those and dream about what could be in the ocean.

So tell me about your main character, Lia.

Well, Lia is a young girl who is really finding herself because she's grown up on land but she's a mermaid and she lives in a secret community of mermaids and she has a lot of rules that she has to follow to keep that secret.

And she's having a lot of trouble following all of those rules and figuring out which ones make sense to follow and which ones are hard for her and maybe don't gel with her own walls.

How has Lia grown throughout the series?

Lia's grown a lot.

She started out as someone who was really sheltered and hadn't seen much beyond her very closed community in Malibu.

On land.

And then throughout the course of the book, she's able to explore more under water.

She also really answers a lot of questions for herself about what she wants to be doing with her life, when to make certain decisions.

She has a lot of questions about right and wrong, and kind the gray area in between and how to navigate that as she's growing up.

So she grows a lot.

She becomes, I think, a much better person over the course of the three books.

In all of your research, what have you learned about the ocean?

That we, as humans need to do a lot more to protect it.

One thing that everybody can do is, if you're going to an area especially a natural area, like these natural springs or if you're going into the ocean, take a look online and look at what the requirements are for that area, so if it's an area that says you shouldn't be using certain cosmetics, don't right.

Make sure you're respectful of the environment because we can do a lot to help.

Thank you so much.

I can't wait to read more of your books.

Thanks Madison.

Let's see what's next on "Kid Stew".

(electricity crackling) If you're interested in people with super powers like the Incredibles or Wonder Woman or Black Panther, you'll love this book.

"Savvy" by Ingrid Law.

It's about a family where everybody gets a special ability called a 'Savvy' on their 13th birthday.

One brother can control weather and another brother can generate electricity.

When their little sister, Mibs, gets her power it turns out to be strange and unusual.

I won't tell you what it is, but the way she figures it out is pretty cool.

"Savvy" by Ingrid Law.

Trust me, it's super powerful.

(electricity crackling) (flutes blowing) (gentle guitar music) About seven percent of the biodiversity of the world is in Costa Rica.

My name is Orlando Pacheco and I'm the headmaster of the Cloud Forest school.

Escuela creativa in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

We need to go back and learn about many species that are endangered and we have lost and we have to recuperate it.

That's a big theme in Costa Rica.

And here at the Cloud Forest school we help students to learn about that.

They also learn how to deal with the environment in an appropriate way.

How not to damage the environment.

They collect specimens to analyze and to return to the forest.

My name is Kylie Jakiry Santamaria Requenez and I live here in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

We have here a lot of nature, we have beautiful animals like the pumas, the butterflies, the insects, and the coatis and agoutis, a lot of animals here.

If you see like a butterfly, like in the forest, you see the butterfly with color and then not color.

And their color is like so nice.

[Orlando] Pretty much, it's our purpose to serve and educate and train students from low-income families around the area of Monteverde.

And basically we are focused on environmental sustainability, we focus on art, hard sciences and soft sciences.

So we want to develop the students who are citizens of the globe, citizens of the world with a Costa Rican perspective.

This is a country of peace and happiness.

(music) (electricity crackling) This is my friend Kenny.

He is a yellow-throated toucan, who lives here in the rainforest.

If you want to learn more about all of the animals that live in the rainforest, just check out your local library.

(electricity crackling) What do you think?

He's cute, right?

I guess, but not my type.

Hey, I heard that.

Sorry, I'm into dark and mysterious.

You know, a guy with a lot of secrets.

Oh you want a secret?

I'll show you a secret.

(gentle chimes) Oh my gosh you're a-- That's right, a merdude.

A what?

A merdude.

Like a mermaid but a dude, merdude.

Merdude, what are you doing out of the water?

Shouldn't you be ruling your mystical undersea kingdom?

Kingdom?

More like a junkyard, thanks to your species.

Who?

Us?

What did we do?

You see that plastic bag?

I almost choked on one of those.

You know, those take 20 years to disintegrate.

That's terrible.

And your plastic water bottles, even worse.

What, this little thing?

Oh come on, we recycle.

Right, and a lot of those recylced bottles end up in the ocean where they hang around for centuries.

Look merdude, we were just out here trying to catch some radical rays and you're just bumming us out.

Sorry.

I guess snagging my flipper on a fishing net this morning got me a little sensitive.

Oh my god cute as if.

Okay merdude, if we promise to cut down on our plastic use, will you come to a party with us?

It'll be fun.

Only if there's a pool with salt water.

Absolutely.

And you promise I won't end up on a seafood buffet?

Really, you're safe with us.

Okay, I'll give you humans another chance.

Thanks merdude.

You realize you have to carry me right?

Gross.

Can't you like slither or something?

(flipper slaps) (cuban music) Hello my name is Juan Jose, I am a teacher Thomas Jefferson school.

We are cleaning up with the students, some beaches here in Casco Antiguo in Panama City and the problem with the trash here in Panama has been like a very huge problem in the nation.

Panama is bordered all way by oceans.

Panama is between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

So it's very important for this country to have clean coasts because it depends on it.

Hello my name is Adrianna.

And my name is Valeria and we are here at the beginning of the Panama Canal and we are basically cleaning up the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

I think this is a very important job, and it's just very important to keep it clean.

(unintelligible) While we fish, those fish we eat have many plastic in their system.

So when we eat it, we are consuming plastic too.

I have found straws a lot.

Like years of straws.

Normally people go to the supermarket and they buy the plates that are made of plastic and they buy the straws and they buy of this stuff.

But they don't actually know what is going to happen after they use it.

[Valeria] The abundance of plastic over in Panama it's a lot and basically what they did about banning the plastic bag, I think that's just only one step into removing plastic from the environment, but the rest is up to us.

Change it starts by one.

The economy, tourism like the Panama Canal, depends on the ocean so we have to stay strong and try to clean it up as much as we can.

"Kid Stew" Thank you.

(electricity crackling) Hello and welcome to "Kid Stew, who knew".

If you know your dinosaurs, like me, you probably have a thing for the ichthyosaurus, the plesiosaurus and the pterosaurus.

Well, a lot of what we know about them comes from the work of one person, Mary Anning.

Who started collecting fossils on the beach when she was 12.

Before long she became one of the most respected experts in paleontology, if fact, she has two prehistoric fish named after her.

Mary Anning, from amateur fossil hunter to Jurassic expert.

Who knew?

(growling) (screeches) (electricity crackling) (laughing) Wipe out!

(water splashing) (excited yells) ("Wipe Out" music) (electricity crackling) Well, we've come to the end of this episode.

Come back next time for more filling entertainment.

On "Kid Stew"!

(electricity crackling) I forgot my line.

(laughs) That's great.

(water splashing) (banging and chanting) You probably have a thing for the-- (stammers) What?

(electricity crackling) (upbeat music) [Informant] Funding for "Kid Stew" is provided in part by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation and Michele and Howard Kessler.

(soft music) (bright music)