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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, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids 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 Ready or not? Here I come.

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Speaker 1: Stella and Eden were playing hide and seek in their

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Speaker 1: backyard and Stella was it do you love playing hide

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Speaker 1: and seek? Oh, that is such a fun game to

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Speaker 1: play in the backyard. And Stella took her hands off

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Speaker 1: her eyes and started to scan her surroundings. Hmmm, treehouse, slide, garden, hmmm,

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Speaker 1: Sella was listening off the things that she could see

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Speaker 1: in the yard interesting places to hide, but none of

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Speaker 1: them being Eden. A bush started to wiggle in the distance,

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Speaker 1: and that is an awfully important clue if you're playing

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Speaker 1: hide and seek, because bushes don't wiggle. Stella ran at

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Speaker 1: the bush, pouncing around the other side, saying, gotcha, squeaked

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Speaker 1: the startled squirrel on the other side. O sorry, squirrel,

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Speaker 1: laughed Stella. It swished its tail at her before sprinting

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Speaker 1: up a tree. Oh yeah, I forgot about squirrels. They

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Speaker 1: can wiggle bushes too, so okay, keep looking. Stella walked

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Speaker 1: further into the trees in the backyard, peeking around bushes

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Speaker 1: and tree trunks. She walked through the taller patches of grass,

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Speaker 1: not seeing any sight of Eden. The long grass tickled

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Speaker 1: her ankles, but her giggles turned into a screech when

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Speaker 1: the grass stopped brushing up against her and something grabbed

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Speaker 1: her ankle instead. A Stella heard Eden burst into laughter,

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Speaker 1: but she didn't see her. Stella down here. Eden's head

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Speaker 1: popped up again from under the tall grass, this time

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Speaker 1: to wave at Stella. What in the world who? Stella

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Speaker 1: was very scared after her foot got grabbed and started

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Speaker 1: to part the grass and saw eat In had found

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Speaker 1: the best hiding spot. She was standing inside of a

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Speaker 1: giant tunnel hidden beneath the long, tall grass. Aiden, how

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Speaker 1: did you find this place? Stella gasped as she jumped in. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it actually found me, replied Eden. I was

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Speaker 1: when I saw this patch of grass that was glowing

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Speaker 1: like really, it was bright green, so obviously I went

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Speaker 1: to look at it, and this all appeared cool, said Stella.

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Speaker 1: But Aiden, this isn't just a hole. It's a tunnel. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen where it goes yet? Eden smiled at her. Nope,

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to find me so we

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Speaker 1: could find out together. Come on, let's go. He didn't

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Speaker 1: grab Stella's hand, and the two girls headed through. Stella

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Speaker 1: thought it would have gotten darker as they left the

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Speaker 1: entrance to the hole because the sunlight wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to reach them, but it didn't get dark at all. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it became more colorful. The dirt walls were lined with

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Speaker 1: glittering stones of blues and purples that glowed softly wow,

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Speaker 1: while the ground beneath them became fluffier like yeah, you

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Speaker 1: heard me right, fluffier with every step. It wasn't squishy

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Speaker 1: like mud. It actually felt kind of like cotton balls.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the farther they went along the tunnel, it

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Speaker 1: actually began to look like they were being surrounded by clouds.

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Speaker 1: The dirt walls and ceiling above them were no longer brown.

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Speaker 1: The fluffy material all around them began to part where

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Speaker 1: the glowing stones were and were by sunbeams shining through. Stella,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're underground anymore. Stella nodded in agreement.

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were in the sky. A boop blue.

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Speaker 1: Stella and Eden swiveled their head in the direction of

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Speaker 1: that sound. Floating ahead on one of the clouds was

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Speaker 1: an alien. It was a yellow creature with a fluffy

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Speaker 1: cloud face and a very thin body that made it

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Speaker 1: look like cotton candy on a stick. Stella and Eden

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Speaker 1: both waved slowly at the alien, unsure of what it

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Speaker 1: zipped right over to them, floating around them, right in

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Speaker 1: front of them. Bloop, sweep, blue peep. It tried again.

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Speaker 1: Bippity boo, responded Eden. The alien looked confused. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 1: said Stella. Oh, we don't understand what you're saying. The

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Speaker 1: aliens swirled around in a circle and three clouds raced

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Speaker 1: formed around it like a seat. It looked at Stella

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Speaker 1: and Eden, waiting for them to do the same. Stella

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Speaker 1: and Eden held hands as they each stepped one foot

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Speaker 1: very carefully into their own clouds. I would be pretty

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Speaker 1: afraid to step on a cloud, would you. I feel

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Speaker 1: like my would fall right through it. But they didn't

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Speaker 1: both feet. Beepy boo boo, shouted the alien as it

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Speaker 1: bounced up and down. I think it wants us to

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Speaker 1: sit down, said Eden. She looked at Stella and they

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Speaker 1: both sat down at the same time. The cloud formed

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Speaker 1: around them like a seat, just as it had for

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Speaker 1: the alien, and a fluffy steering wheel popped out in front. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: is this like a cloud car? The alien rev its

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Speaker 1: cloud engine and shouted back at them bloo bloop before

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Speaker 1: it sped off. I think it wants to play with us.

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Speaker 1: Maybe e race our cloud cars, said Stella, So her

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Speaker 1: and Eden rev their cloud cars and darted after the alien.

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Speaker 1: The three of them raced all throughout the cloud world.

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Speaker 1: They soared over blue cloud mountains and under green cloud trees.

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Speaker 1: What this wasn't even their same world? This was a

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Speaker 1: totally different old Everything was made of clouds. The game

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Speaker 1: of chase turned into a game of hide and seek

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Speaker 1: tag whoa, with Stella, Eden and the alien taking turns

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Speaker 1: being it. They hid behind clouds until someone popped up

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Speaker 1: through them and tagged them. They played until the girls

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Speaker 1: grew tired. Oh wow, oh, I think this is why

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Speaker 1: I found their tunnel. Oh, yawned Eden. I think the

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Speaker 1: alien saw us and wanted to play too, me blue

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Speaker 1: bleop peep, said the alien, sounding like it agreed. The

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Speaker 1: girls thanked the alien for inviting them to their cloud

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Speaker 1: world and explain the best they could that they were

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Speaker 1: sleepy and had a head home. It took a lot

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Speaker 1: of yawning and fake snoringsh, but the alien finally understood it.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty funny if if you were trying to talk

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Speaker 1: to an alien that the understand you, and you're trying

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Speaker 1: to tell it that you needed to go to sleep,

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Speaker 1: how would you do? Would you act it out or

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Speaker 1: make oh Yeah, you could put your hands over your

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Speaker 1: next to your cheek like you're laying down. Yeah, make

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Speaker 1: snoring sounds. And finally the alien understood them. It showed

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Speaker 1: them back to the tunnel and waved goodbye. Wow that

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Speaker 1: was so fun, said Stella, as the girls pop back

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Speaker 1: through their side of the tunnel, back into their world. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Eden agreed. I can't wait to find out where the

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Speaker 1: other tunnels go. Other tunnels, said Stella. She chased after Eden. Hey,

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Speaker 1: wait for me, I want to see the other tunnels. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this may be the end of our story, but what

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Speaker 1: about those other tunnels? Huh, well, I think our imaginations

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Speaker 1: are gonna have to continue the story of what happened

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Speaker 1: in the next tunnel when Stella and Eden crawl inside.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think they'll wind up next? I'm not sure,

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Speaker 1: but I can't wait to see what your imaginations come

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Speaker 1: up with.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end,

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Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Well, you have a super duber day and

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