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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the family.

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Speaker 1: We are the podcast that turns your ideas into an

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Speaker 1: amazing adventure every single day. You know, we couldn't even

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Speaker 1: exist without imaginations from kids.

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Speaker 2: Just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Lucille and Ruth love to grow

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Speaker 1: old plants in their garden. In their backyard. Their garden

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Speaker 1: was full of the most amazing, different selection of many

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Speaker 1: different plants. They loved putting the seeds in the soil

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Speaker 1: and taking care of them and watering them and watching

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Speaker 1: them pop right out of the soil with their very

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Speaker 1: first leaf. But as they are about to wake up

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Speaker 1: for the day and go check on their gardens, you

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Speaker 1: have to know what happened yesterday. You see, yesterday their

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Speaker 1: one of their grandparents gave them, they said, a very

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Speaker 1: special seed that came from a very special place. Lucille

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Speaker 1: and Ruth didn't know exactly what this seed would grow into,

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Speaker 1: but this morning they're about to find out that it

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Speaker 1: was truly a magical seed. Ruth, are you out, said Lucille.

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Speaker 2: Oh I am now I was sleeping.

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Speaker 1: But oh, looks like it's a beautiful day, said Ruth

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Speaker 1: as she stretched her arms above her head. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: go check on the plants and see if that one

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Speaker 1: seed is sprouted at all, said Lucille. There's no way

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Speaker 1: it's sprouted already. We just planted it yesterday, said Ruth.

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Speaker 1: As they walked out of their bedrooms and towards the

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Speaker 1: back door. Immediately it caught their eye through the window.

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Speaker 2: What in the world is that thing? Shouted Ruth. What

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Speaker 2: it can't be. Come on.

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Speaker 1: Lucille was the first out the door, with Ruth close behind.

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Speaker 1: Holy smokes, where this thing come from? They were looking

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Speaker 1: at some kind of giant, normous sunflower. It had grown

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Speaker 1: overnight up through the soil, taller than their house, and

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Speaker 1: all the way to the clouds. Both of them had

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Speaker 1: their mouths hanging wide open. WHOA what kind of seed

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They think they said there's some kind of magic seed.

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Speaker 1: But remember we didn't believe them. We thought they were

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Speaker 1: tricking us. But I think it really was a magic seed,

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Speaker 1: whispered Ruth. I wonder if we can climb up all

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Speaker 1: the way to the top, said Lucille.

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Speaker 2: What what are you talking about.

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Speaker 1: That thing goes so high it's I don't even see

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Speaker 2: It's somewhere in the clouds, said Ruth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but look how the branches and the leaves are

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Speaker 1: to just climb up to the top. I don't know

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Speaker 1: about that, Lucille, I don't know if that's a good idea,

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Speaker 1: said Ruth. Come on, Lucille jumped and grabbed onto the

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Speaker 1: first branch. It was, you know, just a stem that

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Speaker 1: it was like a branch.

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Speaker 2: There. I'm up.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Ruth, grab my hand, Come on, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: guess I'll come with, said Ruth. She grabbed onto Lucille,

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Speaker 1: and Lucille pulled Ruth up onto that branch. They began

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Speaker 1: their journey upward. You see this ginormous sunflower that had

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Speaker 1: grown like this. The main stem of this sunflower was

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Speaker 1: bigger than the biggest tree I've ever seen. It was

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Speaker 1: so big around that you couldn't even wrap your arms around,

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Speaker 1: not even close. And so as they got higher and

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Speaker 2: How did they get here so fast? Said Ruth. Oh?

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Speaker 1: Why, hello little raccoons, said Lucille as she waved inside

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Speaker 1: of their home. Oh my, they're very talkative, said Lucille.

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Speaker 1: As they pulled themselves higher and higher up this ginormous sunflower.

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon it was getting very windy. Uh, Lucille, pretty

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Speaker 1: sure about this. We're getting really high up. Uh what

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Speaker 1: exactly are we going up here for? Again, asked Ruth.

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Speaker 1: For the adventure, of course, said Lucille.

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Speaker 2: When was the last.

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Speaker 1: Time you got an opportunity to climb up a ginormous sunflower.

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Speaker 1: Never I've never had this opportunity, and I've never really

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Speaker 1: thought about it even. Yeah, I've never even thought about this,

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Speaker 1: which is exactly why we need to climb, said Lucille.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Ruth, the adventure continues. She raised her arm,

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Speaker 1: almost like a pirate who was exploring the vast seas.

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Speaker 1: It had already been several hours since Lucille and Ruth

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Speaker 2: Lucille was pointing to these things that.

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Speaker 1: Kind of looked like little berries that were stuck onto

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Speaker 1: the top of the stem. Oh, they smell so good,

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Speaker 1: said Lucille. Smelly's Ruth. Oh wow, that's the strongest, sweetest

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Speaker 1: Lucille popped a couple of the little berries off of

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Speaker 1: very large and they barely squeezed inside.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I think we're almost at the top, said Lucille.

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Speaker 1: Come on, it's just a little bit further, okay, and

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Speaker 1: then are we gonna turn back home? Said Ruth. Yeah, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on. They had reached the ginormous flower of the sunflower.

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Speaker 1: As they tried to pull themselves up, all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden they felt a very big shake in.

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Speaker 2: B ow whoa hold on, hold on, Ruth, shouted Lucille.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 1: They were both holding on for their lives as the

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Speaker 1: then it calmed down and stopped.

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Speaker 2: What was that, said Lucille.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but we should probably hit back down.

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Speaker 2: Said Ruth. And then they heard a sound up above.

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Speaker 2: What in the world is this doing here?

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Speaker 1: Ah, we got the whole blimp stuck on this giant flower.

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Speaker 1: What is a flower doing in the clowns? Lucille and

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Speaker 1: Ruth turned to each other with big eyes.

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Speaker 2: Was that the Purple Ninjas? Whispered Ruth. Eh. I think so.

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Speaker 1: Somehow they just crashed into this giant sunflower. And oh dear,

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna do, said Lucille. Smokes this ginormous

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Speaker 1: sunflower that Lucille and Ruth grew out of their garden,

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Speaker 1: you know, it went straight up into the clouds.

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Speaker 2: I think the purple stinky blimp has just.

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Speaker 1: Accidentally crashed into the flower. What in the world is

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Speaker 1: gonna happen with Lucille and Ruth. Are they gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to get out of there? We'll have to wait

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Speaker 1: and see what happens on the next episode of Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories.

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Speaker 2: Hey friend, ZIONI.

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Speaker 1: Your help celebrating a birthday, actually three of them drum

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Speaker 1: roll blues sh Happy birthday, Audrey, who's durning six years old.

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Speaker 1: Audrey loves stories and has recently learned to read. We

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Speaker 1: listened to mister Jim stories every day and when she

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Speaker 1: grows up she wants to be an author illustrator.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: She lives in British Columbia with her parents Rory and Rob.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got celebralright you on your big day, Audrey.

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Speaker 1: Happy sixth birthday, and next up we have but Happy

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Speaker 1: birthday Willem, who's turning five years old. Willem loves riding

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Speaker 1: his bike, going to karate, and mushing with his retired

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Speaker 1: sled dogs in northern Minnesota. What you that's so cool, Willem.

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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. Happy fifth birthday, and next

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Speaker 1: up we have.

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday, grand Is turning six yours old, Grant loves Pokemon,

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Speaker 3: he can draw among us Wow, and he does Parkore.

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Speaker 2: Holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate Grant and his

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy sixth birthday, Grant. Well friends,

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Speaker 1: I hope you all have a super do Berday and

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Speaker 1: I'll see you on our next adventure.

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Speaker 2: Bye.