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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories Today. Story comes to

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Speaker 1: us from one of our friends, Ben Hey, Ben Peace

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Speaker 1: awesome adventure. And you know what dominate is It's time

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Speaker 1: to Origin from Dallas, Luna from Virginia, Leo from Australia,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. I'm so glad that you're all on the

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Speaker 1: spike At team and a part of the Kids Short

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Speaker 1: Stories family. We could not do this without you. Guess what.

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Speaker 1: At the end after the story, I have more kids

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Speaker 1: shout out, so make sure you listen all the way

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Speaker 1: to the end. Are you ready for today's adventure? Me too,

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Speaker 1: Let's go. That was the sound of Ben driving his

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Speaker 1: monster truck all the way around the race course. He

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Speaker 1: was practicing for the huge championship match this weekend. He

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Speaker 1: had been practicing for a very long time to make

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Speaker 1: sure that his monster truck was ready for this big race.

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Speaker 1: He had ginormous tires that would dare through the mud

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Speaker 1: and wow was he fast. You see, his monster truck

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Speaker 1: was an electric monster truck, which was kind of rare.

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Speaker 1: I think he was one of the very first ones.

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Speaker 1: And his monster truck needed to collect its energy from

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Speaker 1: the sun. Yeah. Did you know that that the sun

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Speaker 1: when you put a solar panel out and the sun's

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Speaker 1: energy gets transfer through the solar panel and turns into electricity,

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Speaker 1: then it can power Ben's monster truck. As he slammed

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Speaker 1: on his brakes and slid through the mud, Ben was

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Speaker 1: really happy with his monster truck. That was a great practice.

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Speaker 1: It's been hopped down and squished in the mud with

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Speaker 1: his boots. He walked on over to check with his team,

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Speaker 1: and his team said Ben, that was a great run,

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Speaker 1: but we have some unfortunate news. What what are you

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Speaker 1: talking about? Unfortunate news? What's going on? Said Ben? Well,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately this weekend for the championship game, it looks like

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Speaker 1: it's going to be very cloudy. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Said Ben? Cloudy? Then, how are my solar, Benels get

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Speaker 1: gonna get all charged up for the big race exactly, Ben,

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Speaker 1: that seems to be the problem. Um, we can definitely

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Speaker 1: charge up the batteries, but we're not sure if the

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Speaker 1: batteries will have enough electricity for the entire race. You see,

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Speaker 1: this monster truck race was going to be three hours long,

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Speaker 1: which easy needed to have a lot of electricity charged up.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna work. We might need

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Speaker 1: to get extra batteries or Oh man, what are we

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Speaker 1: gonna do. One of the crewmen on his team walked

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Speaker 1: over to Ben and said, Ben, there's one way that

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Speaker 1: I think you can maybe make this work. What's that?

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm open to anything, said Ben. You see, have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of an electric eel before? Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: heard of like electric eel? Those are those are dangerous. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've heard that in the Amazon Rainforest there is a

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Speaker 1: certain kind of electric eel that they're actually pretty friendly

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Speaker 1: and if you can talk and talk them into helping out,

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Speaker 1: I think they could provide enough charge for the whole

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Speaker 1: race and then we wouldn't need the sun anymore. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: we're running out of time. That's a great idea, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna fly to the Amazon and I'll hopefully be back

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Speaker 1: in time for the race. But you guys keep trying

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Speaker 1: to think of ideas, and I'll try and find us

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Speaker 1: an electric eel. Wow, that is a very creative solution

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Speaker 1: to a big problem like this. But Ben hopped on

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Speaker 1: a plane and off he flew to the Amazon. The

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Speaker 1: Amazon is that ginormous rainforest in the middle of South America.

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Speaker 1: there whose name was Pablo. Hey, Pablo said, Ben Bad,

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you made it. So what can I

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Speaker 1: do for you today? Ben looked over to Pablo and said,

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Speaker 1: me here because we're in the need for an electric eel. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You see, I have a big race with my electric

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Speaker 1: so you want to find an electric eel, said Pablo. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pablo showed Ben a trail that went into the depths

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Speaker 1: But it was absolutely beautiful, flowers everywhere, and all kinds

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Speaker 1: lots of noisy monkeys. As they swung through the trees.

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Speaker 1: Ben was just in heaven. He had never been to

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Speaker 1: a place like this before. But pretty soon Pablo said,

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Speaker 1: all right, Ben, this is the river where my friend

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Speaker 1: Edgar lives. Oh who's Edgar? Oh? Edgar is the trick

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Speaker 1: eel that I think could help you out pretty well? Oh? Perfect.

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Speaker 1: As Ben and Pablo walked down to the river, they

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Speaker 1: called out for Edgar. Edgar, are you here, shouted Pablo,

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Speaker 1: and immediately a giant electric eel came shooting out of

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Speaker 1: surprised at how big this electric Eel was Wow, Hey Edgar,

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Speaker 1: this is my friend Ben and he's needing some electric help. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's going on Ben? My name's Edgar. Hey Edgar, Um, Well,

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Speaker 1: you see, I have a monster truck that needs electricity.

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Speaker 1: What monster truck that is totally radman? If I think?

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Speaker 1: Edgar was really excited about this monster drug. And Ben

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Speaker 1: explained the problem and how Edgar could help out with

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Speaker 1: go for it. Let's go, go go. Edgar and Ben

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Speaker 1: race was. It was the morning of the big races.

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Speaker 1: When they arrived, Ben, We're so glad you made it,

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Speaker 1: did you? Whoa? His whole monster truck team was amazed

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Speaker 1: at how big Edgar was, Wow, I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: thing is going to be able to give us enough

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Speaker 1: electrical power that we need. What's your name? Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: my name's Edgar, and I'm totally pumped for this amazing ride.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Ben wasn't totally sure how this

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Speaker 1: was gonna work, but somehow we needed to find a

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Speaker 1: way to route all of the electrical power inside Edgar

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Speaker 1: to power the monster truck, and so his team designed

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Speaker 1: this amazing thing that Edgar could hold onto and then

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Speaker 1: all that electricity would go right into the batteries of

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Speaker 1: the monster truck three two one. As the race began,

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Speaker 1: Ben and Edgar became an incredible team. Edgar the electric

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Speaker 1: eel was having the time of his life while this

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Speaker 1: is amazing love. He was very excited and Ben was

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Speaker 1: after three hours of racing, they won the championship and

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Speaker 1: the crowd goes wild. Wow, Edgar, I'm so glad that

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Speaker 1: you saved the day with all this electrical energy that

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Speaker 1: we needed for the monster truck. Ben, I'm eternally grateful.

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Speaker 1: Can you please invite me out every single ride. I'd

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Speaker 1: love to give you all the electrical energy that you need. Bra.

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Speaker 1: And that is the end of the story, but the

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Speaker 1: beginning of a great friendship. Ben and Edgar became the

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Speaker 1: most world famous monster truck racing duo, and I think

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Speaker 1: they're in for quite a ride ahead the end. You

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Speaker 1: know what, Tom it is I got some more kid

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Speaker 1: Rowan and Tristan from Texas, Billion West from Minnesota, Dean

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Speaker 1: and Jack from Aruba, Nadia from Canada, and Willa and

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Speaker 1: Holden from Toronto, Canada. I'm so glad that you're all

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