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Speaker 1: Hello friends, It's mister Jim and welcome back to kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Guess what, It's Saturday, which means there's an

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Speaker 1: awesome Kid's Animal Stories adventure waiting for you after today's

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Speaker 1: Episode's That's what I'm gonna go listen to in a

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Speaker 1: couple minutes. But right now, I am so excited for

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Speaker 1: the legend of the Moon Eater. Have you heard this

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Speaker 1: legend before? It is one of my favorite stories to tell.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys ready for the Legend of the Moon Eater?

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Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go. One day, Derek was sitting in

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Speaker 1: our backyard. Derek, my son loves to sit outside and

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Speaker 1: look at the stars and the moon. And one day

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Speaker 1: something pretty crazy happened. He was laying out on the

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Speaker 1: trampoline and looking at the stars and this moon in

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Speaker 1: the sky. Have you ever seen like when the moon

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Speaker 1: gets super duper big. Yeah, it looks almost like a

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Speaker 1: street light in the sky. It's amazing. Well, that is

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Speaker 1: what he was looking at. And as he was ah

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Speaker 1: just starting to calm down for the evening, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden he blinked his eyes and the moon it

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Speaker 1: got a bite taken out of it. It just happened

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Speaker 1: like right there in front of his eyes, the moon

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Speaker 1: went from being one bright circle into looking like someone

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Speaker 1: had chomped a bite right out of it. Derek sat

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Speaker 1: up from the trampoline. He rubbed his eyes because he

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Speaker 1: wasn't sure if what he saw was real. But it

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Speaker 1: was very real. What in the world did I just see?

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Speaker 1: Said Derek. Was that the moon eater that Dad always

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Speaker 1: talks about. I thought that was just a joke, but

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Speaker 1: holy smokes, Derek couldn't believe it. He hopped down from

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Speaker 1: the trampoline and was walking towards the house when all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, he heard a giant splash. He turned

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Speaker 1: around and it definitely came from the river. Are you

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Speaker 1: kidding me? Derek thought to himself. I've got to check

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Speaker 1: this out for myself. He started walking towards the river,

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Speaker 1: and it was getting dark at night. It wasn't totally

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Speaker 1: pitch black dark, but the sun was setting and he

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Speaker 1: could barely see the river up ahead. As he got

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Speaker 1: closer and closer, his feet crunched through the leaves and

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Speaker 1: the sticks. Would you be as brave as Derek is?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I would, Holy smoked, He's very brave.

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Speaker 1: Hello back there, Hello, I heard a splash.

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Speaker 2: What was that?

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Speaker 1: Shouted Derek. He waited and waited and waited, but nothing

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Speaker 1: made a peep. Pretty soon a long time that had

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Speaker 1: passed and it was time for Derek to go to bed.

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Speaker 1: He yawned and went back to the house and everybody

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Speaker 1: went to sleep. The next morning, when he woke up,

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Speaker 1: he decided that he was going to figure out if

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Speaker 1: that was real or not. All right, tonight, when it

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Speaker 1: gets dark, I'm totally gonna see if it takes another

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Speaker 1: bite of the moon, and then maybe I can take

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Speaker 1: a picture of it as it jumps back into the river,

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Speaker 1: said Derek. The day seemed to crawl by as he

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Speaker 1: anxiously awaited the evening when the moon would come out.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like when you're waiting for something

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Speaker 1: to happen, time just goes by so slowly. Well, that

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Speaker 1: is exactly what Derek was feeling. After what felt like

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Speaker 1: an attorney it was the evening, and Derek grabbed a

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Speaker 1: bag of popcorn, which is his favorite snack, and went

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Speaker 1: out to the train Pauline to stare at the moon.

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Speaker 1: All right, I wonder if he's going to take another

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Speaker 1: bite of the moon tonight, Derek thought to himself. He

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Speaker 1: was waiting there for about ten minutes when all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, another piece of the moon was missing. Derek

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Speaker 1: the act of splashing back into the river, or else

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Speaker 1: maybe he wouldn't be able to see if the moon

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Speaker 1: eater was real or not. As he knelt at the

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Speaker 1: edge of the river waiting for the creature, he turned

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Speaker 1: on the camera and waited and waited, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, splash. Hi, hold there, I got it. I

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Speaker 1: got it on camera. Derek was so excited. Hey, mister mooneater,

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Speaker 1: are you in there? Is that really you? He shouted

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, he is real. Bah, Derek shouted as loud

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Speaker 3: There what seems to make you scream so much?

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Speaker 1: It is very loud. Please don't eat me, shouted Derek. Ah,

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Speaker 1: I'm only a kid, Please don't eat me.

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Speaker 3: Oh what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: I only eat the moon.

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Speaker 1: Not little boy. As Derek watched the creature step up

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Speaker 1: like I said, eight glowing green eyes, five legs, and

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Speaker 1: really big ears, kind of like an elephant's ears. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it. It looked like

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Speaker 1: rocket booster blaster on his feet. Oh, that's probably how

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Speaker 1: he flies up to the moon. Okay, okay, okay, mister

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Speaker 1: mister monster.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, mister monster is my dad's name.

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Speaker 1: You can just call me mooneater? Okay, uh a moon eater,

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Speaker 1: mister moon eater. So my name's Derek. And can I

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Speaker 1: take your picture? Oh? I'd rather not. I don't like

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Speaker 1: the publicity and attention that pictures brings. Okay, well, I

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Speaker 1: just have one question. Are you really taking a bite

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Speaker 1: of the moon? Like, why are you eating the moon?

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Speaker 2: Well? I took a little bit of a bite, but

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Speaker 2: it is very tasty and huh, I don't know why,

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Speaker 2: It's just something I do. But then, how does the

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Speaker 2: moon come back? Said Derek.

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Speaker 3: Well, that part I'm not sure about. But I've heard

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Speaker 3: a legend of somebody that plants a moon seed in

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Speaker 3: the sky, but that is not a.

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Speaker 1: Part of my job. I just eat the yummy moon.

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Speaker 1: Derek couldn't believe it. He had really met the real

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Speaker 1: mooneater and he was actually a lot nicer than he

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Speaker 1: thought he might be. Okay, mister Mooneater, it's been super

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Speaker 1: great meeting you, but it's actually time. I need to

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Speaker 1: get to bed. But maybe we can hang out again sometime.

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Speaker 2: Ok, Doky, you later.

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Speaker 1: And that is the day that Derek met the moon eater.

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Speaker 1: And wait, what was he talking about? Somebody with moon

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Speaker 1: seeds that plants them in the sky. I think that

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Speaker 1: is another legend for another day. The end. Great job,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you

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Speaker 1: know what time it is. It's time for Kid shout out,

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Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to you. Carson from Texas,

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Speaker 1: Lucas from Toronto, Canada, Archie from Melbourne, Australia, Charlie and

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Speaker 1: Cameron from Colorado, Tia and Dash from Australia, Sam from Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. And Griffin from Idaho. I'm so glad that

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Speaker 1: you're all in the Kid Short Stories family and on

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Speaker 1: our spy team. We could not stop doctor Stinkybreath and

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Speaker 1: his crew. Without you, my friends. Will you have a

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Speaker 1: super duper day. I'll see you over on the Kids

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Speaker 1: Animal Stories podcast. Bye m