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Speaker 1: two of our listeners, Lilah and Connor. Hey, guys, they

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Speaker 1: you ready for this one? Me too. Let's go. One

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Speaker 1: day at the beach, Whila and Connor. We're having a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun playing with sand castles and building all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things. And they had a special friend at

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Speaker 1: the beach they really like to play with, actually two friends.

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Speaker 1: One was a mermaid named Penelope and another was a

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Speaker 1: dolphin named Spinner. The four of them had so much

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Speaker 1: fun together. And one day when they were digging some

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Speaker 1: really big holes in the sand so that they could

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Speaker 1: make a really cool sand castle. They found something. It

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Speaker 1: was a glass bottle deep under the sand, and inside

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Speaker 1: the bottle there was a message. Oh my gosh, said

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Speaker 1: she couldn't believe it. She pulled out the map and

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Speaker 1: they unrolled it and oh my gosh, it was a

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Speaker 1: treasure map, like a real treasure man. Connor screamed, this

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Speaker 1: is amazing. What are we gonna do? All right, well,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the treasures actually underwater. Penelope, do you

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Speaker 1: try and find this treasure. We'll stay back and make

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Speaker 1: sure no one else digs in our hole, and then

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Speaker 1: you can go check and see if the treasure is

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Speaker 1: still there and then come back. Sound good, mermmaid? Penelope said,

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Speaker 1: yes absolutely, and I'll bring Spinner with and we'll be

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Speaker 1: a good team together. So the two of them, Penelope

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Speaker 1: and Spinner both dove down into the ocean. Did you

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Speaker 1: know that mermaids can uh swim really really really really

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Speaker 1: really good, kind of like a dolphin. Yeah, so the

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Speaker 1: two of them are a really good team. And then

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Speaker 1: when they oh my gosh, they were getting closer, but

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Speaker 1: what are those two crazy looking things? They got scared

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Speaker 1: and ran back to the beach, or swam back to

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Speaker 1: the beach. And when they got there, lylan Connor said,

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Speaker 1: did you see anything? Penelope said, yeah, there's these two

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Speaker 1: giant creatures. I don't know what they are, but I've

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Speaker 1: Does the map say anything about that? They looked at

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Speaker 1: the map and sure enough, it looked like where the

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Speaker 1: treasure was on a map. Do you know where to

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Speaker 1: how to find the treasure on a map? Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: an X right where the treasure is. That's how you

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Speaker 1: know on the map. And right next to the X,

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Speaker 1: they had missed this. Oh my gosh, there were these

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Speaker 1: two sea monsters, like a picture of two sea monsters

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Speaker 1: right next to the X, and oh my gosh, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is not good. It says that they're guarding the

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Speaker 1: treasure and you have to wait until the full moon

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Speaker 1: comes out, so like later tonight, when the moon comes out,

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Speaker 1: that is the only way that we're going to know

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Speaker 1: where the treasure is. Does it say how to beat

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Speaker 1: the sea monsters? Oh, it says, Oh that's funny. It

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Speaker 1: says they really like apples, so maybe you could throw

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Speaker 1: some apples and the sea monsters will go and eat

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Speaker 1: them and that will distract them, and so then you

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Speaker 1: can grab the treasure and get out of there. That

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Speaker 1: sounds like a great plan, all right. So later tonight,

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Speaker 1: when the moon comes out, we are going treasure hunting.

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Speaker 1: Done done Dune. And so later that night, when Lilah

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Speaker 1: and Connor were getting ready for bed, they saw that

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Speaker 1: the full moon was out, and they radioed over to

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Speaker 1: their friend Banellope the Mermaid, Penelope, are you there, s

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Speaker 1: there are guys. I'm here and Spinners with me too,

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Speaker 1: and we're about to go look for the treasure because

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Speaker 1: the full moon is out, and so that's the only

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Speaker 1: way we're going to find the treasure. But we need

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Speaker 1: you guys to stay close on the walkie talkies in

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Speaker 1: case we need you. Okay, all right, sounds good, Over

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Speaker 1: and out. So then Penelope and her best friend Spinner

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Speaker 1: the Dolphin started swimming back towards where those crazy sea

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Speaker 1: monsters were, but this time they brought apples, with which

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Speaker 1: we'll remember the sea monster's favorite snack. So as they

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Speaker 1: got closer there they are oh my gosh, at night,

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Speaker 1: the sea monsters eyes had a pink glow to them.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of creepy, Penelope said. And then they

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Speaker 1: threw the apples really far past the sea monsters, and

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Speaker 1: the sea monsters saw them and took off swimming after

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Speaker 1: the apples. Yes, Herry, go, go go. As Spinner and

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Speaker 1: Penelope swim deeper and deeper, closer to where the X

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Speaker 1: was on the map, they had to look for the

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Speaker 1: the glow of the moon. You see, the full moon

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Speaker 1: has light that comes off of it and shines down

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Speaker 1: all the way down to the bottom of the ocean,

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Speaker 1: and they had to follow the special glow that would

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Speaker 1: lead them to the treasure And sure enough, there it

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Speaker 1: was a real treasure chest. It looked really heavy, but

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Speaker 1: Penelope was really strong. She picked it up and spinned.

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Speaker 1: The dolphin said, uh, well, that means the sea monsters

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Speaker 1: are coming. Go. Penelope and Spinner both took off, swimming

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Speaker 1: as fast as they could, carrying the treasure box with them.

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Speaker 1: Just barely they made it to the beach as the

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Speaker 1: sea monsters growled in anger. They had gotten away and

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Speaker 1: defeated the sea monsters. Hooray. They radioed back to Lilah

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Speaker 1: and Connor, Guys, we found it, We found the treasure.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Lilah and Connor couldn't believe it. They

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Speaker 1: were so excited for tomorrow morning when they went back

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Speaker 1: to the beach to explore the treasure with Penelope and

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Speaker 1: Spinner who tonight it's gonna be it's gonna be hard

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Speaker 1: to fall asleep tonight because they were so excited. But

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Speaker 1: that is the story of Lilah and Connor finding the treasure.

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Speaker 1: The end