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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by one of our listeners, Reese. Hey Reese,

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Speaker 1: he sent us an awesome idea on our Instagram page,

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Speaker 1: and you can too. If you want to turn your

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Speaker 1: idea into an awesome story adventure, just go over to

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Speaker 1: your Instagram page Kids Short Stories and leave us your

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Speaker 1: idea as a comment or a message. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: your parents know how to do that, because they're pretty smart.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this story? Me too? Let's go.

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Speaker 1: One day, Reese was playing in his backyard with his dog, Eskr,

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Speaker 1: and they were having so much fun playing fetch together.

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Speaker 1: And Reese was really good at throwing a ball or

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Speaker 1: a frisbee or a stick, and his dog would run

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Speaker 1: and chase and grab it and bring it back. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever played fetch with a dog before? Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: it's really fun. You throw it as far as you

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Speaker 1: can and then the dog runs and chases it, picks

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Speaker 1: it up in his mouth and runs it back to you.

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Speaker 1: It's a fun game. That's what they were doing. When

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Speaker 1: Reese's spy Kids phone, all of the starter started buzzing.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what is this. He looked at it

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Speaker 1: and Sure enough, it was a message from headquarters that said, Reese,

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Speaker 1: there is a robot who goes by the name Mr. Squiggles,

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Speaker 1: and he's turning everyone into cartoons. Done, done, done? What cartoons? Like?

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Speaker 1: They're turning real people into cartoons. That is kind of

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Speaker 1: crazy and probably really bad because what happens, like do

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Speaker 1: they go and do like the TV or like into

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Speaker 1: the phone? Oh my gosh. The whole message said that

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Speaker 1: exactly what happens when Mr Squiggles turned a person into

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Speaker 1: a cartoon. It popped him into a movie on TV

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Speaker 1: and they were stuck inside the TV. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I gotta figure out what and where and why he's

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Speaker 1: doing this? Are there any clues? And the spy Kids

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Speaker 1: Headquarters sent him three clues. One he said he really

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Speaker 1: liked the color red. Okay, that's interesting. Second clue he

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Speaker 1: said he smelled like bubblegum okay. And the last clue

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Speaker 1: said his favorite cartoons or Mickey Mouse. Oh my gosh, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's got to be helpful. Let's start looking. And so

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Speaker 1: he started looking everywhere. But mm hmmm, where do you

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Speaker 1: think someone like Mr Squiggles who wants to turn everyone

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Speaker 1: into cartoon? What do you think he would do? Where

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Speaker 1: do we start? Yeah, the Reese got an idea, Let's

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Speaker 1: go to the library and read some cartoon books because

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Speaker 1: I bet there's a clue in there. And so Reese

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Speaker 1: got to the library as fast as they could and

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Speaker 1: went over to the cartoon books section. Oh, man, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot Wait a second, but all the red Wait,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of books missing. It looks like all

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Speaker 1: the red ones are gone. There's all these other different colors,

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Speaker 1: but not a single red book is here. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: do you think Mr Squiggles came here and took those books?

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Speaker 1: Me too. Let's go ask the librarian if they have

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Speaker 1: a camera here, and maybe we can see if Mr

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Speaker 1: Squiggles was here in codmon camera. Let's go. So Reese

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Speaker 1: ran over to the library very quietly, because you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be quiet in a library, I remember, and said him,

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Speaker 1: Mrs Librarian, do you have a security camera of the

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Speaker 1: kid's books area? And she said, oh, why yes, we do.

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Speaker 1: Would you like to see it? Yeah? He said, can

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Speaker 1: you show me how it works? And can you show

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Speaker 1: me how it works from yesterday at like yesterday afternoon? Sure?

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Speaker 1: And then she showed him how the video worked, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough, there was this thing taking all the red

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Speaker 1: books out of the cartoons section. What is that thing?

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Speaker 1: It looked like a cartoon. Like what it looked like

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Speaker 1: a cartoon, but like walking around in real life. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, maybe he switched out of the cartoon world

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Speaker 1: and trying to bring everyone into the cartoon world. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, Mr Squiggles. We gotta stop him, thanks, Miss Librarian.

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Speaker 1: And then Reese ran out the door, knowing exactly where

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Speaker 1: to go next. Reese ran back to his neighborhood and

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Speaker 1: started to look everywhere, and sure enough, there it was.

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Speaker 1: On the ground were drawings of cartoon characters. He saw

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Speaker 1: them earlier, but it didn't make sense, But now it does.

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Speaker 1: You see, I think Mr Squiggles he draws pictures of

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Speaker 1: people on the ground with chalk, and then that's how

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Speaker 1: it turns him into a cartoon. Oh my gosh, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of drawings of people. Do you think all

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Speaker 1: these people have been turned into cartoons? Yeah, we gotta

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Speaker 1: save them. And sure enough, down the street, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I think that's Mr Squiggles. He's drawing something right now,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Reese ran down the street as fast as

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Speaker 1: he could. Hey, Mr Squiggles stop. Mr Squiggles looked up

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, it was definitely a cartoon and he

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Speaker 1: started running. But cartoons are not very fast, and so

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Speaker 1: Reese caught up very quickly said, hey, Mr Squiggles stop,

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Speaker 1: you gotta stop turning people into cartoons. And Mr Squiggles said, well,

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Speaker 1: you'll see. I'm I'm actually a cartoon and I'm still here,

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Speaker 1: and I've been trying to figure out a way to

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Speaker 1: get back, but I guess I keep accidentally sending other

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Speaker 1: people back to the cartoon world instead of me. Oh what,

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Speaker 1: Reese said, Well, I'm a cartoon and I used to

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Speaker 1: be in the cartoon world, but now I'm stuck here.

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Speaker 1: Can you help me? Oh my gosh, you see the

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Speaker 1: spine Kids team, We had it all wrong. Reese couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe it. This guy, Mr Squiggles was not a bad guy.

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Speaker 1: He lives in the cartoon world, but he accidentally transported

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Speaker 1: into the real world here. He's been trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out a way how to get back, and he's been

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Speaker 1: accidentally sending other people back to the cartoon world. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he said, yeah, why don't I draw a picture of

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Speaker 1: you with this chalk and I bet it will send

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Speaker 1: you back into the cartoon world. Would you do that

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Speaker 1: for me? Oh? Totally yeah, I'm actually pretty good at drawing.

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Speaker 1: Said what color would you like? Mr Squiggles said, oh,

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Speaker 1: definitely read. I love the color red. And so as

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Speaker 1: Reese started to draw Mr Squiggles on the ground on

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk, he could see he was starting to vanish.

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Speaker 1: Mr Squiggles looks so happy. Thank you so much, Reese.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you later by And just like that, as

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Speaker 1: Reese finished the drawing, Mr Squiggles disappeared. He had gone

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Speaker 1: back into the cartoon world. And now we got to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to get all those people back. M hm.

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Speaker 1: Reese had an idea, what if we like erase these drawings,

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Speaker 1: maybe those people will come back. How do you erase

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Speaker 1: chalk with water? Reese ran back to get a water

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Speaker 1: bottle and started to pour the water over the drawings,

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Speaker 1: and just like that, the people started to come back. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Reese has saved the day. Not only did he stop

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Speaker 1: Mr Swiggles from sending all these people back, but he

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Speaker 1: also saved those people and sent Mr Swiggles back into

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Speaker 1: the cartoon world. What an amazing day. Great job Reese

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Speaker 1: The End by