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Speaker 1: Welcome to Lively Lewis Stories.

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Speaker 2: Buckle up because you're about to join Levi and Ivy

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Speaker 2: on an adventure.

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Speaker 1: All you need is your imagination, and off we.

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Speaker 3: Go revey larous stories.

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Speaker 2: One day, we were all at home when a terrible

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Speaker 2: thunderstorm rolled into town and knocked out the power.

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Speaker 1: As the storm went on, we were sitting in the

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Speaker 1: dark with a few flashlights in an electric lantern, trying

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Speaker 1: to decide which board game to play together. As we

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Speaker 1: looked through the game closet, I said, when I was

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Speaker 1: your age and the power went out, we would play charades.

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Speaker 2: I said that we played card games, drew pictures or

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Speaker 2: red books, and we didn't know it just then, but

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Speaker 2: those simple little comments would lead to a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: of questions about our childhoods and just how different they

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Speaker 2: were from Levi and Ivy's.

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Speaker 1: So when the power went out, were there any games

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Speaker 1: that you could play on your iPads without Wi Fi?

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Speaker 2: Could you play any games or watch videos on your

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Speaker 2: cell phones until the battery ran out? There were no

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Speaker 2: iPads when we were kids, and.

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Speaker 1: Cell phones didn't have big screens for watching video games

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Speaker 1: or playing games. They were used as get this, actual

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Speaker 1: phones what when were you two born again? Nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 3: You were born in the nineteen hundreds. How old are

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Speaker 3: you too, said Ivy.

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Speaker 1: Well, technically yes, we were born in the nineteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: but way way at the end, it was only about

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Speaker 1: thirty years ago.

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Speaker 2: But so many things have changed that it does sometimes

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Speaker 2: feel like one hundred years ago. However, the nineties were

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Speaker 2: when a lot of the things you loved today, Levi

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Speaker 2: and Ivy got their start.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, We had video games when we were your age,

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Speaker 1: but they were nowhere near as detailed and complex as

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Speaker 1: the ones you have now.

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Speaker 2: We watched television, but we didn't have DVRs or streaming services.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't grab your remote, press a button, say the

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Speaker 2: name of your favorite show you wanted, and have a

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Speaker 2: pop up on the screen. You had to wait for

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Speaker 2: your favorite show to come on and then you could watch.

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Speaker 1: It, And if you missed it that day, then you

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Speaker 1: just had to wait until tomorrow to watch it, or

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Speaker 1: maybe even next week. What said Levi, you have to

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Speaker 1: be kidding. I just watched eight episodes of my favorite

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Speaker 1: cartoon today before the power went out.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine not being able to watch my favorite

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Speaker 2: shows whenever I wanted to. The nineties don't sound like

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun, said Ivy.

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Speaker 3: No way, The nineties were so much fun.

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Speaker 2: We wore radical neon clothes and had totally awesome haircuts.

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Speaker 1: We had toys like little electronic pets on digital key chains,

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Speaker 1: and handheld black and white video games were the best

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Speaker 2: We'd bounce around on springy shoes that made you feel

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Speaker 2: like you were walking on the moon. Or we'd wrap

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Speaker 3: Those are the best toys ever.

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Speaker 1: You've gotta be kidding me. Key chain pets, black and

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Speaker 1: white video games.

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Speaker 2: Spring shoes, and jumping over plastic I don't think we

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Speaker 2: need any of those toys.

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Speaker 3: There must have been something else you did when you

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Speaker 1: Well, of course there was. We'd be outside all the time,

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Speaker 1: not like kids today. Everyone just runs home and jumps

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Speaker 1: on their computer. When we were kids, yes, we loved electronics,

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Speaker 1: but they were second to the great outdoors.

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Speaker 2: I agree with your dad. I grew up in a

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Speaker 2: small farm town. I would camp a lot with my grandparents,

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Speaker 2: even sleeping in caves sometimes. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: I also loved swimming, climbing trees, and going on wonderful

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Speaker 1: My childhood was a little different because I grew up

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Speaker 1: by the ocean in Orange County, California. I was always

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Speaker 1: playing sports. If it wasn't basketball games at the park

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Speaker 1: surprised right now, Mom, you slept in a cave.

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Speaker 2: Actually, it was always so exciting to go camping with

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Speaker 3: And Dad, you used to surf.

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Speaker 1: I could hang ten with the best of them when

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Speaker 1: grew up in different places, we both loved being outside.

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Speaker 2: This is making me think that we should get outside

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Speaker 2: more as a family.

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Speaker 3: We could go on a camping.

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Speaker 1: Trip or head to the ocean and get you two

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Speaker 1: on some surfboards. I think you'd love it. That all

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Speaker 1: sounds really fun. But can we get Wi Fi at

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Speaker 1: the beach? I definitely want to record all of that

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Speaker 3: That would be awesome.

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Speaker 2: We could do a whole series where we try all

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Speaker 2: these different things you used to do as kids, like

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Speaker 2: playing really simple video games and looking after our.

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Speaker 3: Key chain pets.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, don't make fun of our toys. If

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Speaker 1: those things didn't exist, you wouldn't have the video games

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Speaker 2: Or computers, or cell phones or lots of other things

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Speaker 1: Some pretty cool things happened in the nineties, like the

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Speaker 1: launch of Google. Who would answer all your questions if

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Speaker 1: Google never existed? I guess you're right, dad.

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Speaker 2: And how about Harry Potter. You love Harry Potter. That

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Speaker 2: book series started in the late nineties. Thank you very much. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I guess there were some cool things that happened in

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Speaker 3: You bet there was.

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Speaker 2: And we haven't even talked about some of the cool dances,

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Speaker 1: Here're welcome.

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Speaker 2: We'll save the dancing for another day. I have more questions.

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Speaker 2: So my favorite toys are my squish mollos. What kind

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Speaker 2: of stuffed animals did you have in the nineties. That

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Speaker 3: Be answered in two little words, beanie babies.

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Speaker 2: They were small stuffed toys made to look like different

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Speaker 2: animals in all different colors. They were amazing and so

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Speaker 2: just display them in these little plastic cases. So stuffed

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Speaker 3: Got it?

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Speaker 1: No, thank you, Dad. You said you were into sports.

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Speaker 1: What fun sports toys were there in the nineties. That's

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Speaker 1: a great question. I'd have to say. My favorite sport

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Speaker 1: toy from the nineties was the Velcro catch and toss.

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Speaker 1: They were plastic plates that were covered in velcrow on

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Speaker 1: tennis ball and it would stick to the velcrow. Pretty cool, huh.

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Speaker 1: Crumb plates on your hands really belchrome like the kind

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Speaker 1: that Ivy has on her shoes. Did they not know

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Speaker 1: what toys were in the nineties?

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Speaker 3: Our toys were great.

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Speaker 2: Just because they're not the toys you have today doesn't

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Speaker 3: Now, let's get back to television.

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Speaker 2: When you were kids, you really could only turn on

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Speaker 3: And hope that something you wanted to watch would be.

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Speaker 1: On, And if you really like something you were watching,

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Speaker 1: you had to go to the bathroom or get a snack. No,

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Speaker 1: definitely not. That's what commercials were for bathroom breaks and

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Speaker 3: What are commercials?

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Speaker 1: Oh? No, they'll never know what it was like to

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Speaker 1: be a kid in the nineties. We can only hope

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Speaker 1: that as their parents, we can help them to see

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Speaker 1: what a fun time that was to be a kid.

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Speaker 2: I know something we can do now that doesn't require

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Speaker 3: We can make friendship bracelets.

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Speaker 2: My friends and I loved making them in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: We even made them to sell at my school.

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Speaker 1: You know what I love to do the first week

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Speaker 1: of school every year? Decorate my book covers. Dad, What

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Speaker 1: do you mean, decorate your book covers? You used real

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Speaker 1: books in school, not laptops, and they let you draw

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Speaker 1: and no we couldn't draw on them. We'd cover them

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's like you lived on a totally different planet

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Speaker 2: than us. But I will say it does sound pretty fun.

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Speaker 2: I think if I had to go back to the

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Speaker 1: Me too. I think I could get into this Belcrobe

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Speaker 1: plate game. And I like video games enough that even

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Speaker 1: if they were only in black and white, it would

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Speaker 3: Just then the lights came back on.

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Speaker 2: The computer, iPads and video games systems flashed back to life,

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Speaker 2: and Levi and Ivy shouted with excitement and quickly hopped up.

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Speaker 1: And what they did next we didn't expect.

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Speaker 2: They ran over, shut off the computer, turned off their

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Speaker 2: iPads and video games, flipped off the lights, and ran

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Speaker 2: back over to us. We were wondering if you could

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Speaker 2: tell us a little bit more about what it was

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Speaker 2: like growing up in the nineteen hundreds, she.

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Speaker 1: Means nineteen nineties, Mom and dad. We'd like to learn

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Speaker 1: a little more about how rad they.

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Speaker 2: Were, and we wouldn't want to hear about it from

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Speaker 2: anyone else, but you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, kids, that really means a lot.

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Speaker 2: Now, sit back while we tell you about some truly

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Speaker 2: radical clothes we used.

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Speaker 3: To wear and what Saturday morning cartoons were like.

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Speaker 2: Did you learn a lesson from this story? A fact?

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Speaker 3: What was it?

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Speaker 1: And parents, do your kids have a story idea?

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Speaker 2: join Levi and Ivy on their next adventure. Until next time,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, Come back for more