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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. I was just reading through this five star

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Speaker 1: review from Beckham, Olivia and Millie says, you're so grateful

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Speaker 1: for a new story every day. The whole family enjoys

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Speaker 1: listening and we love the conversations that stemmed from the episodes.

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Speaker 1: Even our eighteen month old has an evil laugh she

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Speaker 1: does whenever doctor Sinky Breath has mentioned that's hilarious. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending that review. Are you

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Speaker 1: guys ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. It

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Speaker 1: was a very rainy day in the jungle as our

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Speaker 1: friend Archie the pygmy Hippo was walking along squishing and

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Speaker 1: squashing in the mud. Archie, as a pygmy hippo, was

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Speaker 1: a very small hippopotamus, so small in fact, that he

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Speaker 1: was often afraid of many other things. He had to

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Speaker 1: look around everywhere he went and keep his eyes open

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Speaker 1: just to make sure that there wasn't anything scary up

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Speaker 1: around the next corner. But today, something pretty amazing would

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Speaker 1: happen to Archie as he would need to choose to

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Speaker 1: be brave to help out a new friend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I just love a good rady day. It makes

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Speaker 2: it so great to splash it splash in the mud.

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Speaker 2: I just I love it? What what?

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Speaker 1: What? What? With each step he took, it squished and

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Speaker 1: all in between his toes. Wait a second, do hippos

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Speaker 1: have toes? Oh, of course they have toes. And so

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Speaker 1: as he squished and squashed his way through the mud,

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Speaker 1: his toes got very muddy, raw raw. Archie turned around

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Speaker 2: They were in the world. Did that terrifying noise come from?

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Speaker 2: Must be someone trying to eat me.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here. Archie, the pygmy hippo

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Speaker 1: started running as fast as he could, which was not

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Speaker 1: very fast because he had very short legs. His four

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Speaker 1: little feet tried to go as fast as they could,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he tripped and fell

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Speaker 1: and slid right in the mud. What help me? It

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Speaker 1: was in all the pandemonium that he had actually started

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Speaker 1: running towards the big noise, not away from it. He

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Speaker 1: closed his eyes and pushed his face deeper into the mud.

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Speaker 1: I think he was trying to hide from whatever terrible

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Speaker 1: he scary creature that was really close to him. Somebody there,

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Speaker 1: I need help. I got stuck in all of this mud,

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Speaker 2: It's gotta be a trap. There's no way I'm picking

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Speaker 2: my head up out of the mud. It's gotta eat me.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a crocodile.

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Speaker 1: Said Archie. Well, maybe I'll just take a little peek.

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Speaker 1: Archie poked his eyes up out of the mud and

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Speaker 1: blinked them to wipe the mud off. Blink, blink. As

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Speaker 1: he scanned the horizon that was in front of him,

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Speaker 1: towards a lake that was right there, and right in

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Speaker 1: front of him was a ginormous crocodile. But that crocodile

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Speaker 1: had sunk down very deep, deep deep into the mud

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Speaker 1: and looked like it couldn't move an inch. Archie, the

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Speaker 1: pygmy hippo, raised his head up out of the mud

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Speaker 1: to take a better look. So, uh, how'd you get

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Speaker 1: stuck in the mud like that? Ah ooh you scarred me, oh,

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Speaker 1: said the crocodile. Yeah, I uh, I got stuck in

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Speaker 1: And now my tail can't even move and I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what to do. I thought someone could help me,

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Speaker 1: but just a little hippo like you. There's no way

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you want to see me tray, said Archie. Ha,

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Speaker 1: there's no way. Archie was always up for a challenge,

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Speaker 1: and so because the crocodile thought that Archie couldn't do it,

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Speaker 1: it kind of made Archie want to prove him wrong.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like that before? Someone ever told you, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's no way you can do that, and it deep

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Speaker 1: inside maybe you feel like, ba, second, I totally can

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna prove it to you. Step aside. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what Archie, the pygmy hippo felt inside. He

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Speaker 1: wanted to prove that crocodile wrong. You should have seen

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Speaker 1: how fast Archie could move around in that deep, wet mud.

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Speaker 1: He was an expert mud swimmer. Have you ever gone

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Speaker 1: mud swimming before me? Neither. Just imagine if you were

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Speaker 1: swam and swam until he was underneath the crocodile's belly.

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Speaker 1: That's an interesting place to be. At least he's not

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Speaker 1: inside the crocodile's belly, because that would be a very

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Speaker 1: was strong enough to push and push with all of

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Speaker 1: Hey be careful down there, it's kind of ticklish on

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Speaker 1: my on my belly, said the crocodile.

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Speaker 2: All right, at the count of three, I'd gotta push

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Speaker 1: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 1: Of course I'm ready. But you're not gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to push me out of the mud, said the crocodile.

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Speaker 1: Archie breathed in deep to gather all of his strength

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Speaker 1: and all of his muscle, and on the count of three, one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: Archie pushed and pushed with all of his might on

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Speaker 1: that ginormous crocodile's belly. Even though Archie was small and

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Speaker 1: his legs were short, he was very very strong. Wait

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Speaker 1: a second, what is going on? I'm stirring up out

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Speaker 1: of the mud. How did you do that, little guy,

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Speaker 1: said the crocodile.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, just keep moving. I can't hold you forever.

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Speaker 2: Just step up out of the mud and get back

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Speaker 2: out of the.

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Speaker 1: Water, said Archie. Oh oh, yes, oh okay. Squish, squash squishes.

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Speaker 1: The crocodile picked up each step and squashed it back

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Speaker 1: into the mud and slid right back into the lake.

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Speaker 3: Hoy, Wow, you got a big belly there, mister crocodile.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you're pretty strong for a little fellah. What's your name.

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Speaker 1: My name's Archie. It's great to beat you. What's your name?

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Speaker 1: My name is Lenny. But uh huh, I've never been

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Speaker 1: friends with a big me hippo. But today is a

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Speaker 1: new day, and you happened to help me get unstuck

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Speaker 1: from the mud. Would you like to come on over

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Speaker 1: to my house and I can make you a delicious dinner?

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Speaker 3: You mean have me for dinner or make me a dinner?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I don't eat hippopotamuses. I would love

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Speaker 3: to have you over and make you something delicious.

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Speaker 1: Teat please, it's my pleasure, said Lenny the crocodile. And

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Speaker 1: that was the day that Archie the pigby hippo who

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Speaker 1: used to be very afraid of a lot of things

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Speaker 1: learned to be brave. And it was all stems from

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Speaker 1: when Lenny the crocodile told him that he didn't think

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Speaker 1: he could do it, but Archie proved him wrong. And

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Speaker 1: so even though this is the end of the story,

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Speaker 1: maybe you can prove somebody wrong. Maybe you'll be like

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Speaker 1: Archie one day and help a crocodile up out of

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Speaker 1: the mud. Well maybe not exactly that, but maybe, just

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Speaker 1: maybe you'll find something amazing that you'll be able to do.

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Speaker 1: The end. Hey, friends, I need your help celebrating your birthday.

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Speaker 1: Drum roll please.

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Speaker 4: Sh Happy birthday, Shahars turning five years old. Shahar dreams

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Speaker 4: of becoming a doctor, loves to cook and make coffee wow,

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Speaker 4: and like salt.

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Speaker 1: Color, but bink more than any of them all. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate you and your

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Shahar, Happy birthday. Wow friends,

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Speaker 1: I hope you all have a super duper day and

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Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: hold on, if you want to send me your story ideas,

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Speaker 1: I really want to see them. So John on the

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Speaker 1: show notes blow right now. Think of a really cool

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Speaker 1: story idea and send it on over to me. Love

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Speaker 1: to turn it into a real awesome adventure. See you

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Speaker 1: later Bye,