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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is a

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Speaker 1: new kind of story that we're gonna be doing about

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Speaker 1: science and discovery. Who likes science and discovering things? Me too? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Science is kind of like the discovery of all the

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Speaker 1: fun things around us inside and outside and all kinds

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Speaker 1: of cool things. And so we're introducing a new character

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Speaker 1: into our stories. His name is Mr Jim the Science Guy,

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Speaker 1: or you can call him side guy, and Mr Jim

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Speaker 1: will take you on an awesome adventure discovering all kinds

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Speaker 1: of new science things. And so, if you have a

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Speaker 1: fun idea for a science discovery, send it to our

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Speaker 1: Instagram page Kids Short Stories or go to kids short

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Speaker 1: Stories dot org. Maybe we'll turn your discovery into an

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Speaker 1: awesome adventure. Are you ready for this one? Me too?

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Speaker 1: Let's go. One day, Malachi was about to go play outside.

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Speaker 1: He was so excited because it was a beautiful day.

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Speaker 1: The sun was out and it wasn't too hot and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't too cold. He put on his shoes and

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Speaker 1: it was fall. Do you guys know what fall is, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's the season that's right after summer. So when it's

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Speaker 1: really hot outside that summertime and in the fall is

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Speaker 1: hot anymore. So he put on his favorite jacket and

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Speaker 1: went outside. He was so excited. Wait a second. As

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Speaker 1: he ran outside, he looked around and everything looked very different.

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Speaker 1: Something had happened. Oh no, malanch I said, something happened

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Speaker 1: to the trees. The trees are not green anymore. All

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Speaker 1: the leaves have been painted all these colors. Some are

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Speaker 1: yellow and red and brown. And oh no, this is terrible.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what in the world is going on,

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Speaker 1: but something is wrong. I gotta call the side guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. And so malick I ran back inside and

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Speaker 1: asked his parents to call the side guy, and they

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Speaker 1: called him and he answered, yes, Mr Siguy, are you there?

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, Malichi, how are you doing well? Malch I said, hi,

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Speaker 1: I was doing great, but I went outside to go

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Speaker 1: play and something happened. It's terrible. Someone painted all the

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Speaker 1: leaves in the backyard and they're not green anymore. It's

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Speaker 1: that must. I don't know if there's a bad guy

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Speaker 1: or what's going on, but I thought you would know,

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Speaker 1: And so can you come over here and help me

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Speaker 1: paint all these leaves back. Sage I laughed, Oh, Malick I,

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Speaker 1: I would love to come over and show you exactly

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Speaker 1: what happened. I'm pretty sure I know, but let me

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Speaker 1: come over and double checked just in case. And so

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Speaker 1: just like that, Malick I. He felt so much better

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Speaker 1: knowing that Mr Jim the sage I was coming over,

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Speaker 1: because that would make everything better. One thing that was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool about the side guy is he had a teleporter. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what a teleporter is? Yeah? It gets

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Speaker 1: It's so cool. He can send people places so that

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Speaker 1: I think Mr sag I lived really far away, but

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Speaker 1: somehow he could just poof. He could just kind of

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Speaker 1: And so just like that, I think he's there. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Malchi and his parents raced over to the front door,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, there he was Mr Jim Sigi here

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Speaker 1: I am so glad you're here. Can you come to

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Speaker 1: let's go, And so Malchai and Mr Sigui walked to

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Speaker 1: the backyard. They started to look everywhere, and and Maliki,

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Speaker 1: he was very nervous. He said, sig do you see everything?

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Speaker 1: so I know it looks like someone painted all these leaves,

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Speaker 1: but actually it's not paint. Let's go take a closer look.

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Speaker 1: So side guy pulled one of the branches down close

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Speaker 1: so that they could get a closer look. Do you

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Speaker 1: see what I see? Uh? What are you looking at? Well?

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Speaker 1: I don't see any paint on these leaves. So, m

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Speaker 1: what do you think happened? Uh? I don't I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maliki said, um do you do? They can they like

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Speaker 1: change color like camouflage. Well, you're getting closer, sig I said,

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Speaker 1: you see leaves, they're actually this color. So they were looked.

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Speaker 1: King had a leaf that was bright yellow, and sage

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Speaker 1: mal like I said, you're tricking me. These leaves are

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Speaker 1: always green. You're right, they like during most most of

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Speaker 1: have something living inside them. What there's something living inside

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Speaker 1: this leaf? Kind of well, you see, I brought my

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Speaker 1: science gear and I have a special uh, some special

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Speaker 1: headphones that when we put them on, we can talk

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Speaker 1: would you like to talk to this tree right here?

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Speaker 1: Are you wait? Was that a joke or are you serious?

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Speaker 1: Like I said, Oh no, I'm very serious. You see,

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Speaker 1: we can put these headphones on and then we can

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Speaker 1: talk to the tree, and I bet he can teach

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Speaker 1: us all about these leaves because they're It's actually pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: And so both of them, Maliki and the side guy,

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Speaker 1: both put on these special headphones and I don't hear anything,

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Speaker 1: malc I said, Well, first we have to knock on

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Speaker 1: him that we're here. Mr Tree, Hello, are you there? Why?

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Speaker 1: Hello there? What? Malick? I couldn't believe it. It actually worked.

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Speaker 1: The tree was talking. Can I help you on this

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Speaker 1: beautiful fall day? Oh? Hey there, Mr Tree, said the

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Speaker 1: side guy. You see Maliki here, He had a really

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Speaker 1: important question for you, because he got pretty kind of

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Speaker 1: worried because your leaves changed color overnight, and he was,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was worried that, you know, someone was

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Speaker 1: painting your leaves, which that's not good. And I knew

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Speaker 1: that you would be really good at explaining how all

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Speaker 1: this works. Do you mind telling us what happened? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Of course I can. You see, Malachi, my leaves are

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Speaker 1: like a special grocery man that gets all my groceries

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Speaker 1: and my food. You're you're what your leaves are like

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Speaker 1: grocery man? A kind of You see, my leaves work

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Speaker 1: very hard for me because they have something inside them

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Speaker 1: called chloroplasts. What's a what's a chloroplast? I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of that before. Yeah, you see, a chloroplast is a

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Speaker 1: really special thing that turns sunlight, water and air into

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Speaker 1: food so that I can eat it. Your leaves make

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Speaker 1: you the food. Wow, I didn't know that, Malick, I said, yes.

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Speaker 1: And can you guess what color a chloroplast is? Um is?

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Speaker 1: It's probably either yellow or green, but I'm gonna guess green. Ma,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, you got it. You see, chloroplasts, they

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Speaker 1: have the job inside the leaves while it's nice and

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Speaker 1: warm during spring and summertime. They do all the hard

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Speaker 1: work to collect the food, and then when fall comes,

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Speaker 1: goes away because the chloroplasts are not working anymore. And

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Speaker 1: that's why the leaves changed color because the chloroplasts stopped working.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, is there something wrong? Oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. Remember, I am a tree that needs lots

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Speaker 1: and lots of sleep because I'm very busy during the

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Speaker 1: summer creating oxygen. But that's another story. And so when

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Speaker 1: chloroplasts their jobs are done. And then guess what what,

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Speaker 1: malick I said, The chloroplasts they come back in the

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Speaker 1: spring in my new leaves, and they helped make my

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Speaker 1: food yummy again. Wow. What is what's the food called?

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Speaker 1: It's called chlora phil It is delicious. It tastes like sugar.

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Speaker 1: Oh I like sugar, male, I said, Wow, Mr Tree,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for explaining it to me and

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Speaker 1: telling me that the leaves they change color in the fall,

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Speaker 1: and it's not because something's wrong, but it sounds like

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Speaker 1: they're just getting ready for a big long sleep during

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Speaker 1: the winter. Exactly. It's good seeing you, Siguy. We should

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Speaker 1: hang out again sometime. It's been a long time since

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Speaker 1: I've seen you. Oh yeah, Mr Tree, it's been a

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Speaker 1: long time, but it's yeah, we should hang out sometime.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we could um go eat some dinner together sometime,

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Speaker 1: that would be great. All right, well, I gotta get

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Speaker 1: back to you know, making oxygen and getting ready for

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Speaker 1: my sleep. I'll see you guys later. Boy. Wow, Mr Saga,

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Speaker 1: that was so cool, Malka. I said, all right, Malachai,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get back to the lab. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time. Bye. And just like that, the Saga was gone.

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Speaker 1: He had solved this amazing mystery, and Malachai learned a

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Speaker 1: lot about trees. What an awesome discovery. We'll see you

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