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Speaker 1: Hey Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids

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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 stem 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 stinking 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 pigmy hippo was walking along, squishing and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: to Archie, as he would need to choose to be

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Speaker 1: brave to help out a new friend. Oh I just

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Speaker 1: love a good rady day. It makes it so great

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Speaker 1: to splish it splash in the mud. I just I

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Speaker 1: love it. What? What? Why? With each step he took,

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Speaker 1: it squished and all in between his toes. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: do hippos have toes? Oh, of course they have toes.

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Speaker 1: And so as he squished and squashed his way through

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Speaker 1: the mud, his toes got very muddy. Raw, raw. Archie

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Speaker 1: turned around and looked in the world that terrifying noise

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Speaker 1: come from? must be someone trying to eat me. I

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Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. Archie the pigmy hippo, started

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: slid right in the mud. o. It was in all

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Speaker 1: the pandemonium that he had actually started running towards the

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Speaker 1: big noise, not away from it. He closed his eyes

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Speaker 1: and pushed his face deeper into the mud. I think

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Speaker 1: he was trying to hide from whatever terriblely scary creature

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Speaker 1: that was really close to him. Somebody there. I need hope.

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Speaker 1: I got stuck in all of this mud and I

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Speaker 1: could really use a hand. It's gotta be a trap.

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Speaker 1: There's no way I'm picking my head about the mud.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta eat me. It sounds like a crocodile, said Archie. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'll just take a little peek. Archie poked his

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Speaker 1: eyes up out of the mud and blinked them to

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Speaker 1: wipe the mud off. Blink, blink, as he scanned the

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Speaker 1: horizon that was in front of him, you realize that

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Speaker 1: he had slid all the way back towards a lake

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Speaker 1: that was right there, and right in front of him

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Speaker 1: was a ginormous crocodile. But that crocodile had sunk down

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Speaker 1: very deep, deep, deep into the mud and looked like

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Speaker 1: it couldn't move an inch. Archie, the pigmy hippo, raised

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Speaker 1: his head up out of the mud to take a

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Speaker 1: better look. So how did you get stuck in the

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Speaker 1: mud like that? Bah, you stirred me, said the crocodile. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got stuck in the mud. My feet just sunk

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Speaker 1: right into the mud and now my tail can't even

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Speaker 1: move and I don't even know what to do. I

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Speaker 1: thought someone could help me, but just a little hippo

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Speaker 1: like you. There's no way you could help me get

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Speaker 1: out of here, said the crocodile. Oh Yeah, you want

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Speaker 1: to see me try, said Archie. Ha, there's no way.

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Speaker 1: Archie was always up for a challenge, and so because

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Speaker 1: the crocodile thought that archie couldn't do it, it kind

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Speaker 1: of made archie want to prove him wrong. Have you

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Speaker 1: 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 inside,

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Speaker 1: maybe you feel like a second, I totally can and

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

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Speaker 1: exactly what Archie, the pygmy hippo felt inside. He wanted

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

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Speaker 1: fast archie could move around in that deep at 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: tossed into a deep pool of mud and you had

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Speaker 1: to swim around. Oh, that would be so disgusting. But Archie,

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Speaker 1: he 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: different situation. But thankfully archie was outside of the belly,

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

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Speaker 1: my on my belly, said the crocodile. All right, at

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Speaker 1: out of the mud. Are you ready? Of course I'm ready,

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Speaker 1: but you're not gonna be able to push me out

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Speaker 1: of the mud, said the crocodile. Archie breathed in deep

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Speaker 1: to gather all of his strength and all of his

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Speaker 1: 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. Were

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Speaker 1: you the second? What is going on? I'm I'm turning

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Speaker 1: up out of the mud. How did you do that,

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Speaker 1: little guy? said the crocodile. All right, we'll just keep moving,

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Speaker 1: I can't Holdie forever. Just step up out of the

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Speaker 1: mud and get back out of the water, said Archie. Oh, Oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, squish, squash, squish, squash. The crocodile picked up

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Speaker 1: each step and squashed it back into the mud and

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Speaker 1: slid right back into the lake. Oh Wow, you got

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Speaker 1: a big belly there, Mr Crocodile. Wow, you're pretty strong

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Speaker 1: for a little fellow. Oh, what's your name? My Name's Archie.

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

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Speaker 1: is Lenny, but, uh Huh, I've never been friends with

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Speaker 1: a pigmy hippo, but today is a new day and

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Speaker 1: you happen to help me get unstuck from the mud.

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Speaker 1: Would you like to come on over to my house

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Speaker 1: and I can make you a delicious dinner? Um, do

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Speaker 1: you mean have me for dinner or make me a dinner?

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Speaker 1: Oh No, no, I'm I don't eat hippopotamus is. I

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Speaker 1: would love to have you over and make you something

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Speaker 1: delicious to eat. Please, it's it's my pleasure, said Lenny

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Speaker 1: the crocodile. And that was the day that Archie, the

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Speaker 1: pigby hippo, who used to be very afraid of a

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Speaker 1: lot of things, learned to be brave and it was

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Speaker 1: all stems from when Lenny the crocodile told him that

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Speaker 1: he didn't think he could do it, but archie proved

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Speaker 1: him wrong. And so, even though this is the end

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Speaker 1: of the story, maybe you can prove somebody wrong. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you'll be like Archie one day and help a crocodile

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Speaker 1: up out of the mud. Well, maybe not exactly that,

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Speaker 1: but maybe, just maybe, you'll find something amazing that you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to do. The end right job. You listened

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Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and you know what

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Speaker 1: timing is. It's time for kid shoutouts. I want to

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Speaker 1: say to Ali from Georgia, I sleeve, Brooklyn and Luna

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Speaker 1: from Alberta, Canada, Evelyn from Massachusetts, fielder from Colorado, Harper

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Speaker 1: from Brisbane Australia, Dude from Illinois, eight in from Montreal,

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Speaker 1: Alexandra from Romanian Alex and abby from s Paul, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on the kids, George

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Speaker 1: Stories family and Don the spy team. We could not

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Speaker 1: stop doctor sticky bread that his crew without you, my friends.

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Speaker 1: Will you have a super duper day. And now I'll

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Speaker 1: see you next time. Bye,