1 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Before we hop into this story, I just 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: wanted to thank you. I wanted to thank you for 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: making this podcast one of the biggest kids podcasts in 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: the world. Yes, it's because of you and you telling 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: your friends about it. It just means so much to 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: me that you have loved these stories so much that 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: you listen to like one hundred a day. Right, well, friends, 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,279 Speaker 1: I am so excited to share today's story with you. 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 2: Are you ready for it? Me too? Let's go. 11 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: Today's story takes place far far away, not quite in 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: another galaxy, but definitely on another planet. 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: You see on our neighbor planet named Mars. 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: Oh. 15 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: You see, we actually learned how to grow trees. 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: Trees are the first step if we ever want to 17 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: live on Mars because trees produced oxygen. But the problem 18 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: with trying to grow trees on Mars is because. 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: Mars doesn't have the right dirt to grow the trees on. 20 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: And so we tried and tried and tried and tried 21 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 2: for many, many, many many years, and finally found the secret. 22 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: The secret the snail poop. 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: Yes, snail poop is the best ingredient for trees to 24 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: grow in. And so once we released a whole bunch 25 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: of snails onto planet Mars, bloop bloop, bloop bloop, they 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: pooped their way all the way into the tree fertilizer 27 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: and the trees started to grow. 28 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: Magic, right, I know. 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: But unfortunately that is where the story takes a terrible turn, 30 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: and our friends Spike is going to need to save 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: the day. 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 2: Beep beep beep. 33 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 4: Oh oh, good morning world, said Spike as he woke 34 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 4: up out of bed and stretched his arms. 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 2: The alarm clock had gone off. 36 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: It was very early, but it was time to get 37 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: up and check to see what the mission was today. 38 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: He checked his walking talkie and there was a message 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: from HQ SH Spike. 40 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: We need your help. We need you to fly the 41 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: planet Mars because unfortunately all the trees have begun dying. 42 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 3: We don't know what's causing it, but we need you 43 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 3: to figure it out. Good luck, sh Mars, said Spike. 44 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: I've never been to Mars before, but oh Kinoki. 45 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: After finishing a delicious breakfast, he put on all of 46 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: his SPI gear and and his spacesuit. He was gonna 47 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: need that if he was gonna fly to Mars, hopped 48 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: inside of his spaceship jet that was parked in his backyard, 49 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: buckled in, pushed the red button, and shoo. He blasted 50 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 1: off in a puff of smoke. It's a good thing 51 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: that his spaceship jet was so fast because planet Mars 52 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: is very far away, but his jet got him there 53 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: in only three and a half minutes long. What how's 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: that even possible? I can barely put my shoes on 55 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: that fast. As his spaceship jet touched down on planet Mars, 56 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: he was greeted with a nice big poof of red dust. 57 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: That red dust is pretty famous on planet Mars. I've 58 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: never been, but but I imagine it's a new color red 59 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: that I've never seen before. As Spike stepped out of 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: his space jet, Wow, this place is beautiful. 61 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: He said, Oh, don't worry. 62 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: He was wearing his astronaut suit fully equipped with oxygen breather. 63 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: Because you know, Mars wasn't totally ready for people to 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: live on. There were many trees growing, but it wasn't 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: quite ready yet. And as Spike walked over to the 66 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: first group of trees that he saw, he was very 67 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: surprised to see what is all that disgusting goo pouring 68 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: out of the side of the tree. 69 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: Said Spike. You see, he was looking at. 70 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: These trees, trees that were very tall and full of 71 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: big green leaves. Ah, that was going to produce a 72 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: lot of oxygen or all of Mars. But the side 73 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: of the tree, like the trunk part, it looked like 74 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: it was leaking out. 75 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: Ummm, I don't know. Oohey, gooey brown slime goo. 76 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: It was pretty disgusting and he didn't want to touch it, 77 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: but he had to for science. He reached inside of 78 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: his pack and pulled out a Q tip. A Q 79 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: tip would be a good thing to scoop out this 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: slime onto a beaker. 81 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: What Oh, that is. 82 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: The ooeest, gooeyest goo I've ever seen, said Spike. He 83 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: had plopped on this goo inside of his beaker so 84 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: that he could take it back to his spaceship jet 85 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: and look at it under a microscope. But on his 86 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: way back to the spaceship, he saw another thing. Not 87 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: a person, not an animal, another thing, a thing that 88 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 1: he had never seen before. We're out a got out 89 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: of that girl, said the creature. Oh hello, I'm just 90 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: taking it back to my lab inside of my jet, 91 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: I gotta inspect what's going on with these trees. The 92 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: trees seem to be dying, and the goo is strange. 93 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: So I must are little talking about the strong. 94 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 2: Spouts growing out of the mud. Strange spiky things. You 95 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: mean these trees? 96 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 3: Less? 97 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: They're absolutely terrifying, So less real, little trying rather of 98 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: them raw? 99 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: Are they not laundrels? 100 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: No, they're not dangerous. These are trees, and they make 101 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: oxygen so that people can breathe here, oh rod Lenarda. 102 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: This martian would go on to tell Spike about what 103 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: him and all of his friends had been doing ever 104 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: since the tree started growing. They were very afraid of them. 105 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: They'd never seen a tree before, and so they learned 106 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: that the snail poop is what was keeping the trees 107 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: growing and alive. So they moved the snails away from 108 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: the trees, which made the trees start to ooze that 109 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: oohie gooey stuff because they were dying. 110 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 2: My friends charm me that those trills were us on 111 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 2: our slope. Was that not true? 112 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, trees are very nice. Uh where 113 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: did you put all those snails? 114 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 3: Commerce there? 115 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: Officeler who Spike was very relieved to find all the 116 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: snails over on the other side of the hill. The 117 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: Martians had taken the snails as pets. I think they 118 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: really liked the snails. They reminded them of themselves, and 119 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: they brought the snails back to the trees so that 120 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: the snails could continue pooping on the trees. Dart so 121 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: that they could get the nutrients that they needed. And 122 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: by the end of the day, the ooey gooey goo 123 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: stopped sliming out of the trees, and Spike waved goodbye 124 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: to his new Martian friends, climbed in back to his 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: spaceship jet and blasted off towards planet Earth. 126 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 2: Woo. 127 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: Another mission well accomplished. Great job, Spike, you saved all 128 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: the trees on planet Mars and made some new Martian 129 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: friends along the way. 130 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 4: The end, Hey friends, I need your help celebrating a birthday. 131 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 4: Drum roll please, Happy birthday, James Sue's turning five years old. 132 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 4: James is a great big brother to his little sister Hannah, 133 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 4: loves play outside with his friends from the neighborhood. 134 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: And loves our podcast. 135 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 4: Woo James, I'm so glad that we got to celebrate 136 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 4: you and your big day on the show. 137 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: Happy for birthday, Great job, you listened all the way 138 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: to the end, and you know what tem it is. 139 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: It's time for kid shout out. 140 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Izzy from Vermont, 141 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: Nina from Spain, Brody in Case from Georgia, Celene from Brazil, 142 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: Jewel from Iowa, Ellis from Pasadena, Evelyn from Germany, and 143 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: Kyle from Montreal, Quebec. I'm so glad that you're all 144 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: in the Kit short Story's family and on the spy team. 145 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: We could not stop Doctor Stinkybreath and his crew without you, 146 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: my friends. Well you have a super duper day and 147 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. 148 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: Bye.