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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid

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Speaker 2: Well, my friends, are you ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 3: Be?

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Speaker 2: Do you let go?

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Speaker 1: Hi? Little ants? I love it aunt hill you built,

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Speaker 1: Jonas said as he sat on the ground with his

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Speaker 1: magnifying glass raised to his eye. He watched them marching

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Speaker 1: in single file lines in and out of the large

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Speaker 1: ant hill. Some were carrying grains of sand and tossing

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Speaker 1: them out of the ant hill, and others were carrying

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Speaker 1: tiny crumbs inside to feed everyone. Jonas imagined what the

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Speaker 1: inside of the ant hill looked like as he watched it.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what's inside of an ant hill. Well,

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Speaker 1: they have maizes of tunnels, stopping off in different rooms.

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Speaker 1: In this underground ant mansion. He pictured a large room

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Speaker 1: where all the ants gathered at a long table to

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Speaker 1: feast on the crumbs they gathered that day. They would

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Speaker 1: break for lunch and then have family dinner together. Then

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Speaker 1: they would go to another large room off of the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: In games likeds and Uno Yeah, UNO's their favorite. Jonas

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Speaker 1: wasn't sure where they'd find the ant size Uno cards, though,

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Speaker 1: hm hm. He talked to the ants as he watched them.

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Speaker 1: Watch out for that big leaf, he said, as one

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Speaker 1: fell right into the ant's path. That is a giant

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Speaker 1: piece of food for such a small ant, he commented

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Speaker 1: when he saw the ant harrying a piece of toast.

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Speaker 3: That was twice its size.

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Speaker 1: After a while, Jonas moved on from the ants and

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Speaker 1: watched some other bugs, like a horned beetle on some

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Speaker 1: roly pulleys, and a long skinny worm. It was a

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Speaker 1: quiet afternoon and Jonas was having a great time until.

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Speaker 2: The aliens arrived.

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Speaker 1: A whizzing sound came from the air above Jonas. He

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Speaker 1: turned around and saw something small flying in the sky.

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Speaker 1: It was too round to be an airplane and was

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Speaker 1: flying and zig zaggy patterns. It looked tiny like a bug,

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Speaker 1: but Jonas could tell it was just very far away.

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Speaker 1: He pointed his magnifying glass toward it to get a

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Speaker 1: better look. A large round object zip through the air.

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Speaker 1: It looked like a helicopter and a beetle mashed together.

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Speaker 1: It had a shiny black shell, pinctures sticking out the front,

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Speaker 1: and six legs what the sticking out of the bottom,

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Speaker 1: but instead of wings, there was a propeller and a

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Speaker 1: pointy rotor. The whizzing sound grew louder as the flying

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Speaker 1: object zipped closer to the ground and closer to Jonas's backyard.

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Speaker 1: He jumped behind a bush. As the spaceship landed in

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Speaker 1: the grass, the door squeaked open and out came three

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Speaker 1: of the most ginormous beetles Jonas had ever seen. They

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Speaker 1: walked on two of their back legs while the other

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Speaker 1: four waved around wildly like a beetle trying to flip

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Speaker 1: back over from its back. The beetle alien in the

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Speaker 1: middle was holding a green, glowing laser. They chomped their

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Speaker 1: pincers in the air and looked around there everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Let's fine.

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Speaker 1: Then the middle beetle alien declared. They began walking around

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Speaker 1: the yard, and Jonas gulped, trying his best to stay hidden.

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Speaker 1: He watched them walk over to the ant hill he

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Speaker 1: was watching earlier. The beetle alien with the laser pointed

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Speaker 1: it at the ant hill, and the green laser beam

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Speaker 1: blasted out of it. No shouted Jonas forgetting to hide.

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Speaker 1: He was worried they were gonna hurt the ants, but

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Speaker 1: his worry quickly changed to fear as he watched the

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Speaker 2: Larger and larger, larger than the bush he was next to.

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Speaker 2: Oh dear.

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Speaker 1: The laser beam had reached five of the ants at

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Speaker 1: next to the beetle aliens. They had planned on laser

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Speaker 1: beaming more bugs, but stopped when they heard Jonas's voice.

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Speaker 3: A hugh bed.

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Speaker 1: Gross said the third beatle in disguise. The rest of

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Speaker 1: the beetle aliens made grossed out noises.

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Speaker 2: The bud get rid of it.

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Speaker 3: Ants get that human.

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Speaker 1: Jonas watched in terror as the ants scurry toward him

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Speaker 1: Jonas waved it around in front of him. The ants

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Speaker 1: approached quickly with their large mandibles snapping, but instead of

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Speaker 1: grabbing Jonas when they reached him, they formed a protective

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Speaker 3: What are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Ants?

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Speaker 3: You are bugs and he is a gross human. Don't

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Speaker 3: protect him now.

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Speaker 1: The ants menacingly snapped their mandibles towards the Beetle Aliens.

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Speaker 1: They inched forward as a group, blocking Jonas from them.

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Speaker 1: The Beetle Aliens began to back away slowly towards their spaceship.

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Speaker 3: Ramp ants, how dare you maybe get that human?

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Speaker 2: Not us?

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Speaker 1: But the ants refused. Jonas was always kind to them.

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Speaker 1: He was their friend. The ants picked up speed and

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Speaker 1: charged at the Beetle aliens. Ah richie, they screamed as

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Speaker 1: they ran back to their spaceship. They hurried inside and

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Speaker 1: whizzed off. The ant snipped at the spaceship's legs and

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Speaker 1: it took off into the sky, zipping out of sight.

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Speaker 1: Jonas walked towards the ants slowly. Hi uh hello, thank

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Speaker 1: you for saving me, but you're humongous and they took

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Speaker 2: What are you going to do now.

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Speaker 1: The five ants said nothing. I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: knew how to talk, but they got right to work.

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Speaker 1: They used their mandibles and began digging. By the end

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Speaker 1: of the day they had created a new ant hole

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Speaker 1: big enough for giant ants. Oh yeah, and Jonas he

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Speaker 1: was finally able to see what it was like inside

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Speaker 1: of an ant hill. He was excited to see that

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Speaker 1: it was also just as he imagined. Jonas in the

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Speaker 1: five ants sat around their table underground, eating dinner together.

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Speaker 1: Then they played charades and cards. The ants were very

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Speaker 1: good at Uno, but Jonas was unsure where they found

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Speaker 1: the large Uno cards. I wonder where they got those

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Speaker 1: large Uno cards?

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Speaker 2: What about you?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna have to be extra careful the next

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Speaker 1: time I'm hanging outside next one ant hill.

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Speaker 2: That would be pretty.

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Speaker 1: Wild if those ants turned ginormous in real life. This

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Speaker 1: may be the end of the story. That is only

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Speaker 1: just the amazing adventure for Jonas and his five new

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Speaker 1: ant friends.

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Speaker 2: The end.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, Tom, it is.

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Speaker 2: It's time for cod shout out.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it. Hank from Fort Mill, South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: All the spokes that's where I live.

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Speaker 1: Denise from Massachusetts, Levy from Texas, Cole and Sloan from

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Speaker 1: Saint George, Ellison Knox from Marvin, North Carolina. Wow, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty close to me. And Bennett from Minnesota. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that you're all on the Kit Short Stories family.

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Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Will you have a super Duberdean, I'll see

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Speaker 1: you on our next adventure.

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Speaker 3: Bye,